There I was. There was no turning back now. I've made my choice and now I'm going to have to live up to it. Hopefully it won't be regretful.

But I need to see them again.

After driving up the driveway, I got out of my black Camry. I quickly went over to my back trunk and took out my luggage. It was only one suitcase and a backpack. I soon walked up the porch and knocked on the door. At least twice. I could hear movement in the house. Somebody was playing video games, while somebody else was descending down the staircase about to open the front door. In this case without even thinking much I could tell it would be my sister to open the door. Plus the fragrance gave it away.

Soon the front door opened up. I embraced myself for the worst and the millions of questions I knew I was going to be asked. I opened my eyes to look up at the person standing in front of me, with eyes identical to mine.

"Angie?" She said in shock yet uncertain. "Hey, Lena...long time no see." I told her sheepishly with a smile. Tears sprung in my sisters eyes and she didn't hesitant on leaving the doorway to hug me tight. I hugged her back. I literally haven't seen her in months. She looked different. She was the same, but she was giving off a different vibe. She was...sadder and more fragile than before.

"Hey..uh...it's getting cool outside...maybe we should go in." I told her, hoping she'd invite me in. "Yeah...y..you're right. Well don't just stand there come in here!" She told me teasingly. I grinned and slowly walked into the house making sure I could get in.

I was in.

"You okay?" She asked me concerned about my strange behavior. "Yeah...I'm fine. It's just...strange coming back home and being here...after everything." I told her. It was half-true. She bought it. Her eyes teared up more slightly. I wasn't sure if it was for joy of seeing me or for sadness for our parents. "I'm sorry. It's just I haven't seen you all summer and I really missed you so much!" Elena tried to explain but I lifted my hand up showing she didn't need to explain and I understood why she was acting the way she was. "Jeremy! Jeremy get down here!" Elena yelled to the ceiling in excitement. She was calling down our brother. But he didn't hear. "Yo Jer!" I tried, but nothing worked.

We both walked up the stairs. Elena soon entered Jeremy's room. I stayed outside hearing what they were saying. I could hear Jeremy playing video games and listening to loud rock music in his headphones. Elena was calling out his name, until she saw his headphones. She turned off the T.V and took his headphones off. Jeremy fussed as Elena encouraged him to go outside his room to see a 'surprise'. Jeremy soon got out of his room and stopped dead-end on his tracks. He looked at me dumbfounded and I couldn't help but grin a bit. His expression was completely priceless that I was actually surprised I didn't break down in laughter after seeing it.

"Ang?" Jeremy called out as if he was seeing a ghost right before him. At that point I broke out a smile and said, "Hey Jer." Jeremy looked at me shocked and stunned, but just like Elena, he didn't hesitate on hugging me to death. I hugged him back, trying so hard not to kill him with my death hug. "How are you? Where were you? Why are you here? How'd you get here?" Jeremy started to erupt with questions I knew was coming. "I'm...surprisingly, due to what happened this summer, fine. I was in Tennessee, then I went to Memphis, but I was mainly in New York... man I wouldn't mind going back to New York again. I decided that I needed to be here for you guys and that Jenna wasn't going to help you guys grieve forever so... I talked to the lawyers last week and was able to 'convince' them to let me be your legal guardian. Oh and obviously by car!" I answered all Jeremy's sudden questions. "Legal guardian?!" Both Jeremy and Elena exclaimed, wondering if they misheard me.

"Yeah... It was either me or Jenna...and I think I can manage since I knew you guys like the back of my hand." I told them. "But how can you take care of us...AND go to college at the same time. Wouldn't it be too much?" Elena asked me. I sighed slightly. "Look both Jenna and I are in college. I don't want to ruin her college years by putting the burden of two children under the age of 18 in her care. And to be honest with you, my college years pretty much sucked during the first and second year. There's really no excitement. So I'd gladly take over if that's okay with you." I told them. Eventually they agreed to it, knowing there was no other option out there.

"Just know that I won't be too hard on you guys, yet I'm not going to baby you either. I'll give you some tough love and try to make it work. I'm pretty much going to be the female version of dad, sadly." I told them. Elena nudged me slightly by the arm playfully. I smiled. "You want me to cook something or order some pizza?" I asked them. They looked at me slightly and raised their eyebrows as if it wasn't obvious. I rolled my eyes slightly and muttered, "Pizza it is." They both smiled. "I'll go unpack in my room. I'll see you guys soon, and Elena just order the usuals." I told them. Before walking off to my room, that was ironically next and close by to Elena's room. I got in and saw nothing really changed much, except for the empty closet and drawers, it was pretty much the same as I left it.

The walls were painted lavender, my bed was queen size, there was a purple circular rug on the center of the room, the dresser was wooden and painted brown like my eyes, and my window still had a flowery curtain design. I placed my luggage and backpack down and sped over to my bed. I soon plopped down on the bed. I sighed slightly. Everything was so different now. My life had changed SO much in just a short period of time. I started thinking about it and putting it in order.

I lost my parents, I left town, I met some random guy, I became a vampire, I learned so many things about the supernaturals and the world they lived in, and now I was my siblings legal guardian. What else was next? For some strange reason, I was able to handle a few things in life. Nothing was too much for me. I could always easily deal with it. After my parents died I was a wreck like Elena and Jeremy. After leaving town to go find myself, I soon got better. It was as if my parents didn't even die to begin with. Yes it was still hard, but it wasn't as strong as before. After becoming a vampire it wasn't exactly a big deal. I knew I had it coming and I accepted my fate. The only thing I didn't really like was the sensitive hearing and the constant blood lust, but other than that...it was alright I suppose. There are some other things I was able to handle in my life, but I just didn't feel like bringing them up again. For one thing, some of them were just painful, and for another, they just weren't worth remembering about.

Like my mother use to say... if something was too painful then as it still is now, it's best to forget about it if you don't want to feel the pain anymore.

She was right.

She was always right.

I didn't need to feel anything. I hadn't exactly turn my emotions off, but I just didn't have it in me to face reality. I wanted to block out the pain, for who knows how long. As long as I couldn't feel anything, especially what happened this summer, I would be just... fine.

Back to School

It was September and back to school time. So far I had everything managed out, from number 2 pencils, to setting up the alarm clocks.

"You guys want toast? I can make toast." I asked them just in case. "It's all about the coffee, Ang." Elena told me, as she poured herself some coffee. "Is there coffee?" Jeremy wondered as he strolled through the kitchen. I gave him a look, yet I didn't say anything. I knew he was on drugs yet I never confronted him about it. I understood why he did it.

We all grieve in different ways. Jeremy did drugs, Elena writes in her diary, and I became a vampire. Everyone has their own ways of grieving. Mine was a little extreme but hey, whatcha' gonna do?

"Anyone got lunch money?" I checked. "I'm good." Elena told me. "Okay you got your money, coffee, number 2 pencil...what am I missing?" I re-checked making sure everything ran smoothly. "Don't you have some classes to go to?" Elena reminded me. "Class won't start in...10 minutes...crap! Okay you guys have fun or whatever...or just study and do your best okay...look I...er..I don't know what to say, but get out there and give it your all and...ugh I suck at speeches...just go!" I started out, before practically running to my car.

"Angie!" Elena yelled out to me, before I reached the front door. "Yeah?!" I asked her. "You're still in your pj's!" She informed me, before walking out with Jeremy.

Once they were out of the house and long gone, I sped up to my room to pick out a quick outfit and went for the showers. In just seconds I was done, when usually it would take an hour for a human to do what I just did. I should know from experience. I soon ate some cereal and drank some coffee, before speeding to my college district. Forget the car, it'll only slow me down. By the time I got there I only had 2 minutes left on the clock. I sighed in relief.

After all the things I did this morning, plus getting here in just 10 minutes less, I should have earned an award or something. I soon decided to head for my classes, praying in my head that nobody would ask me how I got there so fast without my car.

After a while it was night-time. I had called Elena knowing she was at some party that they threw during the whole back to school thing.

"Hey Elena, how are you? I'm just checking to make sure you're okay." I told her over the phone.

"Hey Angie. I'm fine, I'm just at the Bonfire party. Anyway I'm fine...I'll..uh talk to you later...I'm kinda busy." She told me. From the way she was trying to quickly end the conversation I knew something was up. I was pretty much the one that invented that trick.

"Okay then...have fun. But not too much fun with mystery guy over there. We already have enough problems for this family already." I informed her. I could tell Elena was shocked that I was able to put the pieces together. I soon hung up before she even got a chance to reply. I soon started going over the mail that we had in the kitchen. Some were catalogues, but most of them were just plain junk mail. Soon I saw a newspaper article.

Its headlines read, 'ANIMAL ATTACK OF DARREN AND BROOKE' I read the rest of the article where the police had no idea of what animal did it, but whatever it was they swore to catch it before it took another innocent life. Even though it looked like some animal attack, I could tell from the way they were bitten and killed that it couldn't possibly be an animal. I couldn't even identify what kind of animal it could be. From that I knew it must have been a vampire. But what confused me was who was this vampire. But I didn't worry too much about it.

What worried me the most was how I'd protect Elena and Jeremy from him, her or worse... them.

(A/N: What you think of the intro? This story is by Angelia Gilbert's point of view at the moment. Anyway I'll just brush up some history facts about her to you...here we go...

Angelia Jessica Gilbert:

Age: 21.

Status: Undead.

Gender: Female

Family: Elena (sister/twin...ish), Jeremy (Brother/cousin), Jenna (adoptive Aunt), Grayson Gilbert (adoptive father, deceased), Miranda Gilbert (adoptive mother, deceased), John Gilbert (Uncle/birth father), Isobel Flemming (birth mother), Alaric Saltzman (Stepfather).

Relationships: Family (Gilberts, Flemmings, & Saltzman.)

Friends: (Possibly Lexi, Damon Salvatore and Alaric Saltzman).

Romance: (Logan Fell &...(*?)

Enemies: (Possibly Katherine, Sage and Rebekah.)

Bio: Is part of the Gilbert family...is 4 years older than Elena. Yet strangely enough they look like twins, except Angelia's hair is raven black as Elena's hair is brown. Her lips are naturally a darker shade of red and she is taller than Elena with or without high heels. She has a close relationship with her siblings, yet she won't push her limits. Jeremy, Elena, (and as far as we know) everyone else doesn't know Angelia is a vampire now. She plans on keeping it a secret until the time is right. It is said, that Angelia fled town after her parents death (or supposedly funeral). She had went the entire summer without seeing or contacting her siblings or other family relatives. They had no idea of her whereabouts, which explains why Elena and Jeremy were shocked to see her again in the beginning of the introduction story. Angelia is suppose to be the responsible one, yet like Jenna, she'll have a hard time adapting to being the 'parent' in the household.

She has never met either of the Salvatore brothers. As the title says, she's an Abomination, but you'll see why...and it won't be referred to as Esther had described her children, the Originals (as 'Abominations') Angelia is a different kind. You'll wait and see.

Angelia is fun, loving, has her moments to be responsible since she's the oldest, isn't perfect, has flaws: like not making good speeches and has too many painful memories that she blocks it out, even the good times. She's known for not being scared off. She handles tough situations pretty easily. Losing her parents was tough, but she moved on quicker than her siblings did. When she became a vampire she adapted easier and faster to the nature than most of the newbie vampires did, without much help. She had help, but she did most of the things herself. She dislikes the sensitive hearing and blood lust parts of being a vampire. Other than that, she's cool with it (being undead). She did things during summer that she's not exactly proud of, but most of them were great. She had a good summer, yet she refuses to remember them. If something's too painful she tends to force herself to forget. Something painful most have happened during summer to her. We'll find out why.

A/N: Anyway what you think? Love it? Hate it? Like it? :)