"A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life."
Love. It's a strange thing. It surrounds each one of us in an array of different ways; The unconditional love a parent feels for their child, the love a child feels for a parent, the love between siblings or even a love shared amongst friends. But the most confusing way in which people love is one that is in no way platonic, and this alone can come in all shapes and sizes.
To some, it is an obvious conclusion. They meet a person and there is that spark, they talk, and laugh, and date and the affection they begin to feel arrives naturally, and it is so simple. Those rare few are the lucky ones, because the flip side is that love can force it's way in out of no where. It can hit you like a lightning bolt and set it's sights on someone you would never expect. It could be a friend you've known your whole life, it could be your teacher or the guy who drives your bus to school...it could be someone you hate.
See, love is not always sincere and gentle. There is a darker side to it and while it is the complete opposite emotion to hate, they share many common attributes; it can be painful, it can make you angry and frustrated, it can force you to do things you never expected of yourself, it can make you kill for it...even die for it.
Love doesn't know when it isn't wanted, and if it does, it certainly doesn't care. And once you start to feel it, it is impossible to ignore. It blinds you, it clouds everything and forces you to act selflessly. You might try to fight it, pretend you don't feel it but eventually you will give in. In other words, love makes you it's bitch.
This unbelievably long story begins on my first day back at school when I was just seventeen. The day that my life changed forever, the day that set the wheels of so many events into motion. This is the story of how I met the Salvatore brothers, and how they turned my friends lives upside down, as well as my own. This is how I was thrown into a world of vampires, witches and werewolves and how I, along with the people I was thrown into it with, became one big fucked up family in the process. It's one with many twists and turns. One with more than it's fare share of heartbreak and sorrow, anger and betrayal, death and destruction.
At first glance, it may seem dark and depressing. You may think it's about evil wreaking havoc in my little town, about the vulnerable's fight for survival.
But first and foremost, it is a story about love.