Better summary:
Madeline is a sarcastic 15-year old who lives in a small town on Long Island in New York. She does track and is a sarcastic asshole most of the time. She has two sisters, Rose (17) and Hannah (10), and a brother Charlie (22) who is in college. The girls live with Mom and Dad who own a garden center in town… Hmm… Wonder if there's any vervain there?
Madeline lives her normal life until one day she is spotted by someone who thinks she is someone else. That's when things start to spiral out of control.
Chapter 1
1492 England:
Klaus heard a twig crack to his left and a sharp intake of breath. When he listened closer he no longer heard breathing but a fast heartbeat. She must have started to hold her breath.
"I can still hear you Juliette. Your heartbeat is louder than ever." Klaus said in the direction he had heard her. Her heartbeat picked up and she gasped again. He heard leaves rustling as she tried to inch away from where he was standing.
Klaus knew how to move silently but she obviously didn't. There were more twigs cracking and leaves rustling as she tried to run. Klaus stood standing where he was for a while. He soon heard her fall and then sped over.
Klaus grabbed her by the elbows, pulling her off the ground and pushing her against the nearest tree. Through his anger he could feel the veins popping out from under his eyes. She looked at his face in fear and cowered away.
Klaus glared at her and then smiled. "You shouldn't have helped her Juliette."
Her green eyes widened in fear and Klaus could see them even in the darkness. She shook her head. "I didn't Klaus. I swear I didn't."
He didn't believe her. He shook his head in disbelief that she would think he was that stupid.
Juliette's heart started beating faster and she tried to push Klaus' hands off her shoulders. It was no use of course. He just pushed her back harder into the tree. She gasped in pain as her back hit the tree.
"Then how did she get away?" He asked. He grabbed her neck in his hand. She clawed at it trying to pull it away.
"I, I don't-" She choked out. She started to claw at his hand again but he just tightened it around her throat. She now had to fight to get a breath out.
"I'm never going to break the curse because of you." He said. He was angrier than he had ever been before. He had waited 500 years to break that curse.
"I swear." Juliette said. She couldn't breath. She had used her last breath on that word.
It didn't convince Klaus. "You shouldn't have helped her." He said. Her eyes widened again and showed that she was terrified.
Klaus squeezed with all his might around her neck. She pulled at his hand until she couldn't any longer. Klaus let her body fall to the ground when her heart stopped beating.
Present Day- Town of Sag Main
Long Island, New York
Maddy's POV
I walked out of school along with the swarm of kids ready to go home. It was only Wednesday, that meant there were 14 more hours that I had to stay in that building until the weekend.
That was too much time. I hate school. At least there was only a week left until winter vacation.
I stood next to the door, alone as usual playing with my phone and waited for my mom's car to pull up. People walking past me probably thought that I had no friends. That wasn't true of course, I had friends but most of them didn't go to my school. I only had a few select friends from school; I hated a lot of people. And those friends I did have either took the bus or waited around in the building until track practice. Hence, me being alone.
When my mom finally got there, my older sister Rose was already in the front seat so I got in the back of our beautiful minivan as we started to drive home.
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Rebekah and Klaus were walking past the school building in the small town as school was let out. They could hear the echoing bells even though they weren't even close to being near the building.
Right when the bell rang kids started pouring out of the school, running towards where the buses were parked.
"That's what you're missing right now in Mystic Falls Rebekah." Klaus said to her as she stared at the kids.
"Is it so wrong for me to want a normal human life?" She asked glaring at him.
"Yes Rebekah, it is. Humans are weak and worthless. By wanting to be like them you are the same." Klaus looked away from her back to the kids swarming out of the school.
After a few minutes Klaus noticed something, or someone rather, that he thought was strange. "Rebekah."
"What?" She snapped at him obviously still angry about his comment about humans. "That girl. Standing by the door." He said pointing out a tan, brunette girl with wavy hair who was standing alone and fiddling with a cell phone. "Doesn't she look familiar?"
Rebekah looked the girl over and agreed with Klaus. She felt like she had known her earlier in her life. "She does, why?"
"I don't know. I just feel like I know her." Klaus said as she walked toward a car and got in. Just as the car was pulling away Klaus realized exactly where he knew her from.
"Rebekah." He said, "We're following that car."
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Klaus and Rebekah followed the car until it came to a stop outside of a medium sized gingerbread-looking house. They watched as a woman and a teenager walked out of the car and into the house. They waited for the other girl to get out before speeding over to her.
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Right after I jumped out of the car in the driveway I felt a gust of wind behind me and shivered. I turned around and jumped when I saw a man with dirty blonde hair and woman, her blonde hair pulled back into a high ponytail, standing there.
"Hello?" I said confused to how they got there.
Unexpectedly I was thrown back in the air and I hit the ground. I got a small scream out before someone put their hand over my mouth. I looked up and saw the blonde girl glaring down at me. She grabbed me by my neck in a grip that I would not have expected from a girl and pushed me up against the back of my garage.
"Juliette." I heard from beside me. I turned my head and saw the man glaring at me. "I thought you were dead and all this time you were a vampire?"
"Wh-what?" I stammered after the girl had removed her hand from my mouth. Why had he called me Juliette and why had he said I was a vampire? Vampires don't exist.
"I killed you after you betrayed me. Who slipped you blood?" He asked striding closer to me. This guy… Freak. I'm obviously not dead. Why would he say someone killed me? The blonde girl tightened her grip around my neck and shoved me further up the wall.
"What are you talking about?" I asked him finding my voice, even though it was very faint. "Who are you?"
"You don't remember me Juliette? Don't remember the man you betrayed all those years ago?" He said coming even closer to me.
"I have no clue what you're talking about." I said to him my voice shaking and my heart beating extremely fast.
The man stepped a little closer to me and then frowned, puzzled. His eyebrows knotted together in confusion.
"Do you have a heartbeat?" He asked looking seriously confused. Now I was getting even more confused, why would I not have a heartbeat? Also, how could he even hear it?
He motioned to the girl holding me up and she let go of me. I dropped to the ground and almost fell over but caught myself.
The guy walked over to me with a puzzled look on his face. He reached up to brush the hair off my shoulder but I grabbed his hand and glared at him. He smiled at me and pushed my hand onto the wall hard. I winced because IT HURT.
"Don't touch me." He told me looking right into my eyes.
"Don't touch me!" I exclaimed back to him. He rolled his eyes and chuckled.
He leaned into my now bare neck and took a deep sniff. After smelling me creepily for a minute he gasped.
"You're human." He said facing back to me.
"As opposed too…?" I said back to him still confused.
The guy and girl looked at each other and then the guy turned his face back to mine and looked me directly in the eyes.
"Forget all of this happened. We were never here."
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My mom had left and Rose was sitting in the living room watching Tosh.0. I was left to fend for myself to find entertainment. But first, I had to finish all my homework.
I walked into my room and groaned. My desk was filled with crap so I couldn't do my remaining homework there. I looked over at my bed and saw that my cat Donald was asleep on it.
"Donald, I'm so sorry if this disturbs you." I said and then threw my backpack down on my pillow. Donald nearly jumped out of his skin and cat-glared at me.
"What?" I said and then sat on my bed crossed legged pulling my bag into my lap, "I did say sorry."
I looked over my room. It looked like a clothes bomb had exploded. There were clothes and shoes everywhere that I had to clean up.
"Ugh! I have to clean that up later." I said loud enough for Donald to hear me.
I pulled out my planner and looked at all the fun homework I got to do.
I growled and reached over to my window to pull the shades up because it was really dark and depressing in my room even with the lights on. I saw there was a car parked in the driveway across the street, at the house that had just been finished. I wondered if the owner of the house was moving in finally before I looked and saw it was a Virginia license plate.
I decided that our other neighbors had someone visiting and then looked back at my homework. I wasn't really in the mood to do work so I pulled out my book of Catcher in the Rye for English and started to read.
After about 10 minutes I finished the two chapters I had to read and walked over to my desk to get a pen. I picked up the fake quill that I got in Harry Potter World and sat back down on my bed. I scribbled English off my planner and decided to finish my 'best' subject's homework. Spanish.
After 30 minutes of using my phone as a dictionary I had finished the little worksheet we had to do. I don't have a great memory for Spanish words.
I looked up at my clock and saw that it was 3:24. I panicked when I remembered I had to go get my little sister Hannah from the bus. If I didn't my parents wouldn't drive me to track. I quickly did the math in my head. The bus gets there at 3:25; it's a 5-minute walk. 'Yeah,' I thought, 'I'm not going to make it.'
I jumped off my bed and ran to my bedroom door. I threw it open and ran through the living room to the front door.
Rose looked up from the TV questioningly before I shouted, "Hannah!" Rose nodded in understanding. I opened the front door and ran outside.
I winced a little as I ran with just my socks on over our gravel driveway. When I got onto the road I noticed the car that had been parked across the street had pulled out of the driveway. It was a little behind me so I went over to the left of the road. I was running as fast as I could to try to catch the bus.
I was just coming over the small hill on our road when I saw that Hannah was already starting to come down it. When she looked up and saw me she glared.
"Hannah I'm so sorry! I was doing homework." I said coming to a stop beside her. She huffed and looked down at my feet.
"You're wearing my socks." She said. I looked behind me and saw the car slowing down because we were in the middle of the road. I pulled Hannah by her arm to the right side so they could pass.
It was kind of creepy as they passed by us. There was a guy and a girl in the car and they were staring at me. They looked shockingly familiar and I tried to figure out where I knew them. When I couldn't remember I settled for giving them a, "What's your problem?" look and they kept driving.
"Why are you wearing my socks?" Hannah asked pointing at my feet. I looked down and saw that she was right, I was wearing her socks. You could tell because they had Hannah Montana on them. I hadn't had time to put shoes on when I had dashed out of the house so when I picked up my foot there were holes on the bottom and they were wet from the melted snow I had run through. I grimaced and looked over to Hannah apologetically.
"Sorry. I was running to get to you. I didn't have time to put on shoes." She rolled her eyes and started walking again.
"It's fine. I hate her now anyway." I looked over to her shocked. She had been obsessed with Miley Cyrus for like four years.
"Hmmm." I said. I heard a car behind us and turned around. It was the one with the creepy people from before. I pushed Hannah farther to the side of the street.
These people were really starting to creep me out. When they got like 20 feet away from us they slowed down drastically. When they got next to Hannah and me they went like one mile an hour to keep up with us. They were staring again. I turned to face the car.
"Can I help you?" I asked, pushing Hannah a little behind me.
The man in the car gave me a sly smile and I could feel my heart speed up. The lady in the car looked over to him questioningly and said something but he shook his head. He gave me another smirk before turning around and pulling away.
"What was that?" Hannah asked coming out from behind me.
"I have no idea. Probably just your regular everyday creepers." I said and we started walking again. I looked over my shoulder to make sure they weren't there again. They weren't. I sighed in relief. "Let's just get home. I'm freezing." I pointed to the snow on the ground and the goose bumps on my arms that weren't just from the temperature.
"Then why are you so creeped out by them?" Hannah asked when we started walking again.
I looked over at her and said, "Well because even regular old creepers are still freaking creepy, duh."
Wow! What a great life lesson from Maddy! Sorry if this first couples of chapters are a little slow, they're kinda just setting up the story.
Everything with Juliette and Maddy will be explained later.
Thanks for reading and please tell me what you think and how I could improve the story!
