Hi. My name is Elena Elisabeth Gilbert. And this is my diary. Let's start in the begging. I am a typical 17-year-old girl from the US. I am the most popular girl in my school everybody 'loves' me. I know, this is not a completely truth, but, sometimes I have to feel like this to be good. Well, I live with my aunt Judith and my little sister Margareth. Although the tempting, Margareth and me are very close. She looks at me like I was his mother. And I'm not. Sometimes I feel so vulnerable like her. There, the prom queen, the most beautiful of the whole school. Or school. Maybe even the entire Virginia. That all said to be carved in the most precious marble. And sometimes I feel, not marble, but like porcelain, which at any moment could fall and break in a thousand pieces.

But, I have my most precious things in my life: Meredith, Bonnie and Matt. They are my best friends in the whole world. When my parents car crashed out of the Wickery bridge, here in Fell's Church, they are the people who really supported me before the accident and before I get over the hospital. Well, that is me. Elena Gilbert.