PROLOGUE

Dear Diary,

My name is Hope Mikaelson. I'm 13 years old and living in one of the greatest cities in the world. The enchanting city of New Orleans, or as the French would say La Nouvelle Orleans. Or as my dad would say in his horrible British accent, New Orleeens…sorry, but I love poking fun at him.

So yeah there's art, music, fascinating culture, vampires, werewolves, witches, and hybrids of course… and well then me who's all of those.

Wait a minute! I may be jumping a bit too far ahead. Let me rewind.

Long story short, my then werewolf mom and my hybrid dad met in some town called Mystic Falls and well… coupled up for a short while… a month later my mom found out she was pregnant with me and since my dad apparently has a lot of witch enemies, and they wanted to use my mom and little fetus me as leverage to take down my older vampire brother Marcel, who my dad adopted when he was just a kid, but my dad thought he was dead….

I'm rambling; I'll get to the point.

So my dad has this thing where he doesn't like to be told what to do, or show weakness, and little fetus me and my mom would've been a major weakness for my dad…. so instead of initially embracing the idea of daddyhood, he kinda sorta told the witches to kill my mom and little fetus me.

And this is where it all went wrong. Now don't get me wrong, I love my dad, but he was kind of a jerk back then. But now he loves me and my mom to pieces, now that he's not scared anymore of love. I understand why, he was scared and had and still does have some issues, and I also understand why my mom and my uncle Elijah are together right now.

You see when my dad stormed off after hearing the news of fetus me, it was my uncle Elijah who was there for my mom during her time of need, and he did save us from being killed. Trust me I love my uncle Elijah to death…but he and my mom?

Not a good match.

I see them everyday and they pretend they're happy, but I see it in their eyes. It just isn't there and I think deep down they both know they aren't meant to be together.

I know it may seem weird but I just feel in my heart that my mom and dad belong together, and I think that one little encounter and my dad's fear of happiness ruined their chances of falling in love, but no worries…I'm here to make things right!

But is sure as heck won't be easy