A/N: So I took this down because I felt that it wasn't doing well so, I changed bits of it and I made it better. I improved grammar and the diction. Tell me if you like it. I'm taking a break from my other two stories at the moment if readers didn't notice that I haven't updated in a long time. I just felt like this story needed my attention therefore, I'm doing this one. Review please!
Chapter One
Alexandra
"Wake up, sis." I groan and turn over. I open my eyes and find my sister sitting on my bed waking me up. "Time to get up for the first day of Junior year." My sister, Elena, is my twin. We aren't identical but we are definitely sisters. She's older by two minutes but she's the older twin. She thinks that it's her God-given honor to boss me around and I keep telling her that we are the same age and that she needs to stop bossing me around.
"What time is it?"
"Six." I nod. I didn't want to get up from my bed. It's September fourth and it's been three months since our parents, past away. No one knows how we both got out of the wreck. I guess it was our team work as twins.
Our Aunt Jenna is living with us and our little brother Jeremy. She's doing her best as our subsitiute parent but she's struggling. With Jeremy doing drugs and Elena and I almost falling off the face of the Earth because we can't shut out our depression, she's having a hard time. Elena and I are trying everything we can to help but it's not working out very well.
"Do we have to go into school today?"
"Yes." Elena has always been the stronger one, emotionally, out of the two of us. Physically, I'm strong, Emotionally, I don't really feel much. I can keep my emotions at bay ninty percent of the time.
"Alright. Get off my bed." I get out from under the covers and start getting ready for school.
The TV was on and I was sipping my fresh made coffee watching it. It showed a young couple's photos. They were found dead. Just outside of Mystic Falls. Poor people.
"Lunch money," Aunt Jenna asks us three. Before I can respond, Jeremy takes it out of her hand. "Anything else? A number two pencil? What else am I missing?"
"Presentation Aunt Jenna." I pull the hairband out of her ponytail and shove it in her purse. "Leave. You've got this. Your meeting was now by the way."
"Thank you Alexandra," she says, rushing out the door.
"What are we going to do with her?" Elena asks me. I shrug and walk out the door with her. We wait for our best friend Bonnie to arrive and when she does, Elena is hesitant about getting in the car. I'm not and I jump in the front seat, ready to take the world on.
"So Grams is saying that I'm psychic." I look at her skeptically.
"How would you be psychic? You're the most normal person in the world."
"She started blabbing about our ancestors from Salem and witches! I know, crazy! She was going on and on about it and I'm like put this woman in a home already! Although I did start thinking, I predicted Obama, Heath Ledger, and I think Florida will break off and become little resort islands."
"Then predict something about me and Elena." Bonnie was about to begin when a large crow hit the windsheild. Elena and I screamed and Bonnie veered off to the side of the road.
"Oh my God, are you two okay?"
We are both panting but Elena answers, "yeah, we're fine." Bonnie nods.
"I predict that this year is going to be kick ass and all the sad and dark times are over and you two are going to be beyond happy." Elena smiles, unsure and I love the words that come out of her mouth.
When we get to school without another incident, Bonnie, Elena, and I walk in. Caroline, our super bubbly best friend, approaches us and embraces Elena and I in hugs. I love Care, I really do, but sometimes her bubbly demeanor is a bit too much. But she was there for us, well me mostly, this summer after the wreck.
"Oh my goodness guys, how are you? It's so good to see you two." She turns to Bonnie. "How are they? Are they good?"
"Care, right here," I say.
"I'm so sorry Alexandra." She embraces me in another hug. She pulls me along to focus on the first day back to school rather than my sorrow. I greatly appreciate it.
The day blows by quickly. Jeremy gets caught hiding his drugs by Elena in the boys bathroom after she sees her ex boyfriend, Matt, at his locker staring at her with a sad look in his eyes, she also meets this new hottie, and Tanner gives both of us a hard time in class. It's not very fun but we make the most of it by going to our parents' graves.
While she writes in her diary, I look around and find a giant crow perched on one of the headstones. I looked at it with curiosity. The bird tilts it's head when our eyes met.
"I'm going to take a walk," I tell Elena. She nods and I get up. I walk closer to the bird and there's suddenly fog everywhere. I don't mind the fog but my heart does beat just a beat faster. Not in fear. In excitement and curiosity. I get closer and when I'm almost there, I see someone standing on the other side. It's only the outline and I can't tell if it's looking down or not. It's a man that's for sure. As I'm about to take another step, I hear Elena.
"Alexandra!" She shouts. I turn and see her staring at me. I turn back and find the person gone. No where to be found.
"Coming!"
When we get home Elena tells me about today and her second encounter with said hottie. His name is Stefan and she thinks he is nice and a gentleman. She always seemed to get the gentleman kind of guys.
There's a knock at the door and I get up to answer it. It's a boy, our age, blonde hair that is styled. His eyes are green and he's holding Elena's journal.
"You must be Stefan. Alexandra, Elena's twin sister." I hold out my hand for him to shake and he does.
"You two don't look like twins."
"Fraternal. 'Lena, Stefan is here," I shout up the stairs. "Was today your first day?"
"It was."
"How was it?"
"It was good." He smiles and I hear Elena come down the stairs. "Hey, you dropped your journal." So that's why he has it.
"And you didn't read it?"
"I wouldn't want someone to read mine."
Elena's face showed shocked and surprise. Yes Elena, boys have journals too. "You journal?" He nods. "Thanks. Do you want to come with us to The Grill? It's a little bar and grill in town. We are meeting some friends there."
"Sure. Thank you for the invite." I smiled at the exchange and we leave.
We end the night with talk about Stefan and talk about the party tomorrow night that we are excited for. I'm not sure if I'll go but it sounds fun.
I end up going to the party with Elena and Bonnie. I just couldn't get my mind off of it and they convinced me to go while Bonnie was driving us home from school. She suggested that me going out and possibly meeting a boy was more important that catching up with the bachelor.
I walk back up to Elena and Bonnie after getting some beer and I hear them talking about Stefan.
"Okay, so he's a little pretty."
"He has that romantic novel stare," Bonnie points out.
"So where is he?" I ask them. Elena shrugs. I get a beer glass for Bonnie to see where Stefan is, as a joke. We laugh until Bonnie grasps the bottle. She stops so I stop. She became scared and she dropped the bottle. "What happened Bonnie? Come on, talk to me."
"When I touched it, I saw a crow, and a man. There was fog. He was standing so close to you Alexandra." My eyes widen just slightly. "I'm drunk. It's nothing. I'm going to uh, get another drink." She turns and leaves. Awesome. Elena finds Stefan and I stand by myself by the bon fire.
Deciding this isn't worth my time anymore, I start up the trail to get to the makeshift parking lot to get out of the mess of woods. A guy comes up to me as I walk into the woods.
"Why are you standing here all by yourself?" There's no one around and I get nervous. He's been heavily drinking according to his breath.
"Ignoring you," I respond.
"Come on, don't be like that." He pulls me so I'm turned toward him. "Have a drink with me."
"No." He gets irritated and pushes me against a near-by tree. "Get off of me." I struggle against him and yell for help. He clasps his hand over my mouth. I try to bite his hand but it's just far enough away that I can't reach it with my teeth. It's not like I have horse teeth. He's rubbing his body over mine and I stop struggling and build up a loud scream. It ends up being a screech and suddenly, he is ripped off of me. I open my eyes and find a person in front of him, face in his neck as he is yelling. He rips a peice of his neck out and my eyes go wide. He spits it out and says something like, you don't taste very good. "My God, who are you? Better yet, what are you?" He looks my way and looks me over. Is he checking me out or making sure I'm okay?
"No one you need to know right now. He's dead by the way." He disappears in the blink of an eye.
I'm about to call the cops when I hear them already here. I run up to them. "Wait!" I say as they're about to leave. "There's a body in the woods."
"We just picked her up miss." Who?
"A dead one. Animal attack." They are on high alert again and they let me lead to where he is.
"Did you witness this?"
"No," I lied. "I found him." They make me go back to the main part and I find Elena and Jeremy sitting on a picnic table. "What a night. Who was the first one?"
"Vicky. Jeremy found her. Animal attack too."
"Two in one night, how strange." I knew the first one wasn't an animal, I just had to keep up the act. "Let's go home guys." I put my arm around Jeremy and led him off the table.
"Door, Lena!" I shouted up the stairs. I went to Jeremy's room and found him not yet asleep but not fully awake either. "Good night little brother." I kissed his forehead. "Sleep well, don't worry about Vicky. She's alright. I'll take you to the hospital tomorrow morning." He nods and I kiss his forehead again.
