She looked at the big house with her blue eyes.
"This must be the house" the 16 year old girl mumbled for herself as she looked down at the picture she was holding in her hand. She walked a few step closer and suddenly she felt it hard to swallow. She was so nervous. She hadn´t seen or spoke to him since she was nine years old. If only her mom was alive, Cindy thought and the tears started to come from the eyes.
Deena, Cindy´s mother, had passed away 3 months earlier in a car accident and since that terrible day Cindy had been on the run because she didn´t want to be replaced at foster home. She wanted to find her father. She had missed him so much since that day her mother kicked him out of the house without telling Cindy the reason. Every time Cindy had asked her mom she just had ignored the question or just told her that he was a dangerous man and she didn´t want Cindy to ask that question again. Now she was going to find out the truth about her father, Damon Salvatore.
She knocked on the door. Without knowing it she was shaken like a leave. The door opened and it was not Damon who stood there. The girl who stood there at the door seemed to be almost the same age at Cindy and she looked at Cindy with a little confusing and worrying face.
"Hi" Cindy said and pushed herself to smile, but failed.
"Hello. Can I help you? You not seem to feel very well." The girl said.
Cindy felt a little dizzy.
"No. I´m fine. I think I went to wrong house. Sorry." Cindy said quickly and turned around and collapse a few seconds later. The last thing she remembered was that the girl called on a guy named Alaric and that she felt the disappointment to be at the wrong house.
"I want ice cream"
"No"
"Pleeeaaasee" the 5 year old girl said and looked at Cindy with puppy eyes where she lay on the couch.
"No Mia. Wait until mum get back" Cindy said and switched channel at the TV.
When they both heard the doorbell Mia ran happily at the door.
"I open!" she said.
"Yesyes" Cindy mumbled and concentrated to watch Top Model as she also had an ear on what happened at the door
Mia opened the door and looked with two frightened eyes at two police officers.
"Hey there" one of them said kindly and posture down at Mia´s level.
"Is your sister home?" the other asked.
Mia didn´t answer. She just looked at them both with two very shy brown eyes.
"Can I help you?" Cindy said and looked a little confused at the two police officers.
"We need to talk to you if you are Cindy Stanford?"
" That´s me. Come in" Cindy answered.
The police officers stepped inside.
"Can we talk in another room" the police officer said.
"Y..Yeah" Cindy said. She felt that something was wrong and they walked out to the kitchen.
"We need to talk about your mom. She has been in a car accident."
"Wh…what! How is she?" Cindy said quickly.
The police officer looked sad and deeply into her eyes.
"No…No…" Cindy mumbled.
"She passed away the minute the truck hit the car. I´m so sorry kid"
With a scream Cindy woke up in a huge bed. She looked around and felt a little scared and was up from the bed right away and opened the door to the room and ran a little through the hall. She wanted to come out.
"Hey, you´re up" a female voice said and she turned her head and saw the girl she had met before she had passed out.
"H..hey. I need to go. Bye" Cindy said and ran down the stairs and was about to open the front door then some familiar voice said her name calmly. Slowly she turned around and saw him look at her seriously. Chocked she look at Damon. Then she took a few steps before she begins to run at him and he took her in his arms.
"Dad"
"It´s ok honey. I´m here." Damon said.