Chapter 1

I never wanted to be this, I actually didn't think it could be possible, to become this. I didn't even know it could be real, I always thought they were just stories we read in books or watched on TV never did I actually believe I could become one.

You're probably going crazy trying to figure out what the heck I'm actually talking about but this is it, for the first time ever in my entire life I'm going to actually say the words. I, Caroline Forbes, am a werewolf.

I know, total shocker. You probably think I'm completely crazy right now and that I should be in a hospital with other insane people but I am being completely honest. I'm a werewolf and werewolves actually exist. Just like vampires, I didn't believe any of it until I actually became one. Oh, and don't forget about the witches, I actually met a witch and we've become very close but he's no longer in town.

It's crazy because I didn't have anyone to tell me much about the whole thing or tell me what would trigger the curse. It just happened and now I'm a werewolf.

No one in my family knows, my mom doesn't know and I would never call my dad to tell him this. He would probably be the first one to pick a gun and kill me and even though I am this now and this is my future I don't want to die. I want to continue my life, I deserve to life even if I am a werewolf.

Becoming a werewolf has changed me but it's also very painful and very hard to keep a secret from my mother. The best part though, if you can consider it to be good, is my mom works a ton of hours so it's very easy to sneak out and turn and be back before my mom even realizes I'm gone.

Yes, some time I have gotten caught but I can't tell her the truth. Who'd know how she'd react and I don't have the time to find out. There are so much other things going on in my life. Like, going to high school and finishing my high school career, making sure no one in my werewolf pack gets hurt or killed and the most important one of all, not letting any one find out who I really am.

I'm actually very surprised that my mother hasn't gotten suspicious of anything and why every month I go to my best friends house but instead go out with the pack to change. In fact, I've been keeping this secret for two very long years and the fact that my mother hasn't found out makes me think it could be my father who gave me the werewolf gene.

Over the two years I've been a werewolf I've met a lot of great people and because you can't have the good with out the bad I've also met some terrible people but there's one certain person that has made a very huge impact in my life even though my friends hate me for it.

Confused? Well, I'm kind of head over heels for this guy, his name is Klaus, well every one calls him that but I get the special privilege to call him Nik, that's because he's real name is actually Niklaus. He's a both a vampire and a werewolf and if he breaks the curse, he'll be the first and only hybrid. Crazy, yes, but I've learned to live with it.

He's also crazy about turning other werewolves into hybrids once he's become one. He wasn't happy with the fact that I wouldn't tell him where my pack resides but I can't tell him. I made a promise to my pack to never tell even though I promised to help Nik with any thing he needs because I would do almost anything for him. Again, almost anything let's not forget that the man is pretty insane.

He's never here a lot but every time we get to spend together is wonderful and I care about Klaus a lot even though I've only ever told him this once. I'm just trying to survive because being a teen girl is already hard enough but becoming a teen werewolf is twice as hard.

But I should stop rambling now because it's a brand new day and I have a ton of work to do and if I want to become this year's new homecoming queen I have a lot of work to do if I want to be homecoming queen.

It's my senior year and I must win either homecoming queen or prom queen but because the year is only starting I think my best shot it to become homecoming queen. I must constantly look better than every girl in my class and I must prepare my winning speech.

I currently live in Connecticut with my mom, my parents are divorced and my dad lives in California with his new husband. I haven't spoken to my father in years and sometimes I wonder if it was he or my mom with the werewolf gene.

I don't even dare to ask because I don't want them to think I've gone mental or something and end up in an institute or talking to a psych, that I do not need.

I leave my house and arrive to school bright and early before all of the students arrive and I meet up with my best friends, Michael and Lauren, both who are also werewolves and if it wasn't for them I wouldn't have made it this far they have both literally saved me.

"I thought you would arrive before both of us." Lauren says smiling as she holds two cups of coffee and hands me one of them. I hug her and then hug Michael who's standing next to her.

"Sorry, I had to get everything organized." I explained. Lauren nodded as she looked at how much I was actually carrying and Michael took some of my things to give me a hand.

Michael was the perfect teddy bear and I understood as to why Lauren loved him. They both had been dating for about four years and they could be called our schools power couple if they actually cared about popularity, which they didn't.

Lauren was one of the most beautiful girls in our class, even though she was also the shortest that didn't stop her from always wearing a nice pair of heels that would keep her the same height as me. She was bright and very intelligent and was actually top of our class. She had dark jet-black hair with hazel eyes and a bright smile. She loved to laugh but she also yelled at both Michael and I when we were interested in other things besides homework.

Michael was the school's football quarterback and team captain and even though all the girls wanted him he only cared for Lauren and wasn't even interested in being popular what he cared about was playing for the team. He was tall, about six foot and five inches. A giant standing next to Lauren who was merely five foot one but that didn't matter to either of them.

"So where are we starting? Everyone should be arriving in half an hour." Lauren asks she looks at her watch.

"Right, let's start putting everything in the hallways and then the cafeteria since that's where everyone always is. Then if we still have any posters left we can put some outside by the lockers or something not exactly sure, classroom doors if the teachers let us. Once people start arriving we can hand out pins and the cookies I've brought." I explain.

My hands were filled with all the stuff that I had prepared for today. All including cookies telling people to vote for me, posters, ribbons, and button pins for people to wear. I was excited to hand things out to people and to get their vote. This was all I've ever wanted since freshman year and I have been working towards this day for years.

Homecoming wasn't until two more weeks so I had more than enough time to get them to vote for me. A lot of classmates all ready knew that I was one of the candidates for Homecoming queen and I was slowly making my way to getting students to vote for me but for the next two weeks nothing would matter except getting people votes.

Both Michael and Lauren followed me and together we began to post and tape the posters in the hallway walls. The more posters we tapped on to the wall I began to feel the excitement, as the days were getting closer to homecoming.

"I know tonight will be a long one but I was wondering if we could both go shopping this weekend or something?" I ask Lauren. I wanted to kill myself for actually taking so long in buying my own dress but Lauren still hadn't bought her own so we could definitely spend that time bounding together.

"Definitely, Michael has already rented his tux. It's the first time in which I'm the one not telling him to rent his tux." Lauren replies and I can't help but giggle.

"Will your parents be home tonight?" I ask.

Lauren shakes her head, "No, are you telling your mom you're spending the night at mine?"

"Yes, I don't know if she'll be working late and I just don't feel like getting in any more trouble for sneaking out since homecoming is so close." I say thoughtfully.

Almost every time there was a full moon I would tell my mom that I was spending the night at Lauren's. My mom never knew that Lauren's parents were always traveling. Neither did her parents know that she was a werewolf like me.

Lauren was actually adopted and her adoptive parents don't know about her werewolf background. The night that she turned she was home all by herself and practically destroyed her whole room but that she was lucky that her parents weren't around to find the mess the next morning. Lauren told me that the day after the first thing she did was clean her entire room and throw out everything she wrecked and replaced a few important things so her parents wouldn't know that she ruined everything she used to have.

Even though Lauren's parents were adoptive parents they still cared for her very much and most of the time they took her traveling with them but they couldn't make her go away when she had to attend school and Lauren understood her parents job was important.

Usually she just spends her time with either Michael or myself and I never did mind spending the night at her house, I actually loved it. My mom would always yell whenever she was home and never did care to spend time with me and it was one of the reasons that I missed my dad so much. He was the only one that actually was there to spend time with me unlike my mother. All she ever cares about is her job and being the best town's sheriff but she never understood that being her daughter was important too.

I shake my head of all the evil that is my mother and continue to tape posters with Lauren and Michael. I knew that Michael was actually bored and that he would rather be playing video games or getting extra sleep but he somehow became an older brother and I was very thankful for his help and I loved him very much.

"I think we're done with all the posters." Michael says as he wakes me up from my current daydream.

"Oh, good. I'll definitely have to bring more for tomorrow so that we could post them around the cafeteria. I thought I have enough for all the hallways and more but I guess I counted wrong." I reply as I look around at everything left I have to carry.

"There's still about ten posters left, we could post them in the cafeteria and bring more tomorrow for the hallway and classroom doors and in the classroom too if any teacher lets us." Lauren chips in.

"Perfect! Let's head to the cafeteria before everyone arrives for breakfasts." I demand and begin to walk away.

"Careful, Care," Michael says smiling and I shot him a look.

"You know you're having the time of your life." I add while I giggle.

Together we arrive to the cafeteria and post the last ten posters around the inside and outside. "I think that's about it."

"You're still going to help me pass out the ribbons and cookies, right?" I ask Lauren with bug puppy dog eyes.

"Definitely. We should set up where we'll find everyone." Lauren begins to plan. I knew that having a nerdy friend would always be boring but Lauren always did find a way to prove me wrong like always.

"Great, let's go, I think there's a table in front of the library we can use that table to put everything there and get people to vote. We'll also need one last poster so we can only tape 9 instead of 10." I begin to plan and leave the cafeteria.

Lauren walks besides me as Michael walks behind us and sits on the benches next to the library so he didn't have to help set up all the cookies, ribbons and pin I brought for every one to pin on their shirts. I smiled as I remembered the mess I left in my room with all the decorations and gifts I've prepared in order to win.

"And are you not helping because?" Lauren asked with her hands on her hips smiling at Michael.

"I did my good deed for the day, besides, you already know the football team is voting for Caroline." Michael replied and Lauren giggled.

"And you've done a very good job, you." Lauren replies as she walks over to where Michael is sitting and plants a soft kiss on his forehead.

"Enough love and more work!" I yell from the other side.

Michael chuckles as he hears my yelling and I finish getting everything prepared for the morning rush. "We should be resting you know." Michael says softly.

"We are." I reply quickly.

Michael scoffs, "Yeah right, you both know today is going to be a long day. By the way do you know when your boyfriend will be coming back to town?"

I shrug, "One, he's not my boyfriend and two, I have no idea. He hasn't contacted me in a few days now but I don't think he'll be coming to town any time soon and why do you ask you don't even like him."

It was true, both Lauren and Michael both hated that I was into Klaus and that I actually wanted to spend my time with him. I had been keeping a lot of secrets from both of them. I knew exactly what Klaus was up to and where he was but it was also true that we hadn't spoken in a few days. I didn't want to tell Lauren and Michael what Klaus was up to nor was I allowed to tell them.

Klaus wanted his plans to be kept secrets but he always confided me to tell me what he planned. In fact, if I were lucky I would also give him ideas. I never told my friends about the fact that every time I changed on the full moon I'd kill. I enjoy it too. The thrill that I get when I hunt someone whenever I change excites me even though people shouldn't get harmed because I've changed species. I had a twisted head sometimes, just like Klaus.

He always told me a lot of his secrets, if you were to consider them secrets. I never thought what he actually shared with me were secrets because at first he never spoke about his past. It wasn't until he trusted me that he began to tell me about his past, like the fact he has brothers and his sister and what he was like when he was a human. I've always wanted to meet his family but never did because he had daggered his entire family; but when we were alone he opened the coffins for me one night so that I could see their faces.

"So you have no idea what he's been up to?" Lauren asked.

"No, like I said I haven't spoken to him." I replied forcefully.

I hated when both of them would bring the topic about Klaus. They never understood my feelings; they never liked how I would get upset when Klaus would leave because I never knew when I'd be able to see him again. Klaus always came back for me but I hated not being able to see him a lot.

What they didn't understand was the fact that Klaus would always come back for me no matter what. The problem was how much it saddens me not being able to speak with him for so long, but Klaus always came back for me.

Lauren and Michael never understand my feelings for him. I have to keep secrets from everyone and they do understand that part about my life because both Lauren and Michael have their shares of secrets too. What they don't understand is the fact that I have to lie to everyone, including them, but with Klaus I can do and say anything my heart desires.

I still remember to this date how Klaus and I met.

"Maddox what are you doing here?" I asked my witchy friend Maddox. He never liked me calling him Maddox. He wanted every one to know that he was a warlock and not a witch but he perform witchcraft so to me he was still and always my witchy friend.

"I'm waiting for someone, come and join me while I wait." Maddox replied smiling as he was sitting in the far dark corner of the café.

"Whom are you waiting for exactly?" I wondered as I sat down and looked around the busy café and turned to watch him, "If I told you, you would never believe me." He replied simply.

"I thought I told you to be here by yourself?" A voice from behind me growled. I turned around and looked up to a tall blond man with blue eyes. He was strong and was very angry but still very, very attractive. And even though he was most certainly not smiling and I could spot his very gorgeous and attractive dimples.

I got up from my seat and smiled at him, "I'm sorry I just got here. I'll leave you two alone." I said smiling and turned to Maddox.

"I'll see you around, yeah?" I asked and he nodded smiling brightly in return.

"I still have a lot more to teach you." Maddox replied.

He was right though, Maddox knew that I was a new werewolf and that I didn't know much about the supernatural life. I wanted nothing more than to learn as much as I could about witches, vampires and werewolves and Maddox was willing to teach me. He enjoyed having someone interested in learning close to him.

When I turned around to leave I was lightly stopped. "Now hold on a second, love," I listened to the man say.

I raised my eyebrow as I looked down to where his hand was touching my arm and holding me. He chuckled and let go off me in return. "What's your name?"

"Caroline." I said simply and looked at Maddox with confusion and he only shrugged.

"Now I think you can help me." He added.

"You expect me to help a complete stranger, who's name I don't even know?" I asked seriously.

He chuckled, "Your kind don't come along too easily and I need your kind. I know you could tell me where your pack resides." He said and I rolled my eyes.

"Good luck with that. Bye, Maddox." I said as I walked away.

Our first meeting was a little confrontational but back then I still couldn't control my temper. It took Maddox months to help me control my temper and not want to kill some one to death. To this day Klaus and I are still very confrontational but we also care for each other deeply. It's hard to not get into fights when both parties are very stubborn.

"Really? I would have thought he'd told you where exactly he goes off for months leaving you depressed." Michael said softly and his voice brought me back to the real world.

"Maybe I'm not as important to him as I think I am." I replied defensively and rolled my eyes. I opened up the cookie boxes as I watched some students approaching us by the library.

Michael as usual ignored me but Lauren paid attention to every thing I said as I defended Klaus every second of my life. They didn't understand how I was capable of being okay with his lifestyle or even more how I could be in a relationship with someone I only saw once every few months.

I put on my best smile and I quickly begin passing out cookies and ribbons with my name on it. Lauren was the best help I could have asked for and I was really excited that she was just as excited as I was in helping me win. She understood how much I've wanted to be the homecoming queen and I was so grateful to have her friendship because with out her I would be all by myself and I would be confused about me being a werewolf.

I remember the night I killed someone and how it triggered the curse. The last thing I wanted was to kill some one. I didn't even know that I could trigger something so painful by killing someone.

Kayla, that was her name. We were alone walking back home from a long day of shopping. We were together just laughing and having fun while making fun of everything that we saw as we walked.

We were carrying a bunch of shopping bags filled with clothes and we were only joking. Shoving each other back and forth and at one point I pushed, I thought I had pushed her lightly but instead she fell over to the road and out of nowhere a car drove by and hit her. It was only later that we realized that car never made the stop he was supposed to and was going over the speed limit. If the driver had slowed down he would have never killed Kayla.

I was so afraid because we were just joking around and making fun of each other when out of nowhere the car comes and kills her. I never wanted to kill Kayla; she was my best friend since we were kids. We even started kindergarten together. We were just having fun and her death was my fault. In the end, it triggered the curse and I became a werewolf on the next full moon.

I didn't even know I was turning until I just started crying in aching pain. I was having dinner with my mom at the local restaurant when I began to change. I had to run out half way through our dinner. My mother yelled so much because I just got up and ran off with out telling her where I was going but I didn't want to hurt her. I knew I had to run away. It took me about five or six hours to fully change and it was the most painful experience I've ever had to go through.

It was the next day that when I finally fell asleep and got some rest that I had a dream about the night before and I realized what exactly had happened to me. Even then, the first night as a werewolf I killed people. At first I was in denial until the next full moon and the same pain I went through the first time happened for the second time. It was Maddox who explained to me what I had become. After he told he was a Warlock he taught me more about my new life.

It was about three months later when I met Nik and he told me who he was and how he was both a vampire and werewolf. At first I couldn't believe that werewolves were real it took me months to believe vampire were real and even more that there was a thing called the original vampires and Nik was one of them.

I sigh to myself as I realize that the first bell has ringed and I had to get going to class. "Come on, Care, we're going to be late," Lauren says loudly as the hallways fill with people and the big crowd forms outside the cafeteria. I no longer had any more cookies or ribbons left. Everything was gone and I was happy I had many supporters ready to vote for me in two weeks.

"All right, let's go." I say gently and begin to walk away. Lauren gives Michael a quick kiss on the lips and he leaves for his first period class.

Michael had first period Chemistry while Lauren and I had Economics in the morning. I was thankful that I had actually taken the time to do my homework last night for this class because then I would have Lauren yelling in my ear telling me how irresponsible I am and how I should focus more on homework and less on homecoming.

"Caroline, you did do the homework, right?" Lauren asks.

"Yes, I knew you'd be yelling at me so yes, I did it." I say stubbornly while I roll my eyes at the same time.

"So why are you out of it today?" Lauren wonders.

I sigh, "I really don't know." I whisper as we walk towards our class.

"Is it tonight?" Lauren asks.

"No, I'm used to this by now." I reply and I was right. I was used to every full moon by now. I've been a werewolf for two years and I was used to the pain by now. I was also used to having to lie and having to lie to my mom, always making her believe I'm sleeping at Lauren's when in fact we would meet the pack and change together.

I actually wondered what it would be like to change by myself and not be judge by all the other grown up werewolves from Lauren's pack. They hated having teenagers around so I always did my best to stay away from them. It's not like I wanted to be with them in the middle of no where and have to listen to their cries of pain as they changed or have them listen to me as I changed but that's what happens when you're an animal.

"Are you sure? You know you can talk to me about anything?" Lauren said gently as she grabbed for my hand and gently squeezed it.

"I know I really don't know why I'm out of it maybe its all the homecoming stuff. Come on, the bell is about to ring and please don't make me sit in front of the class again." I beg and Lauren laughs.

"You know I have to wear my glasses and it's just easier for me to sit up front." Lauren supports hoping that I'm okay with sitting in the front but I'm not.

"No, we got called on like fifty times yesterday because of you." I yelled in protest.

"Fine, make me get a headache because I'm half blind and need glasses to read everything." Lauren says stubbornly.

"So wear your glasses and you won't get a headache." I reply and laughing at her.

"Ow!" I yell at Lauren nudges my rib with her elbow and I have to rub myself after the pain. I continue to giggle as we get inside the classroom and sit in the middle of the class. I really didn't feel like getting picked on when I didn't read all of the material and I just skimmed through it while doing my homework.

Lauren took of her glasses from her school bag and put them on, "Now you look smart or should I say smarter." I add while I giggle. Lauren smiles and sticks her tongue out at me and we begin to laugh together but we're abruptly stopped when our teacher walks inside and begins the class.

Like always, I place my purse on top of my desk in order to hide me from not taking any notes and Lauren immediately shakes her head at me. I usually take not but I don't know why I feel so distracted.

But before I could even force myself to concentrate my phone vibrate from inside my handbag and I quickly dig in while trying to find it. I grab the phone and turn it on to read the new text message I receive and I feel my breathing stop when I realize from who it from.

"Hello, love."

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