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Chapter 1

When she stopped by the Grill that night, she sat down at the bar and ordered a cocktail. Even though she told everyone to be 18, she looked a little older and therefore she never needed to give her ID card. Suddenly the door opened and as she felt the cool breeze she didn't turn around as she could feel the hot boy from school coming in, but being accompanied by his girlfriend. A minute later, he suddenly stood next to her.

"Hey you. You're the new girl from school, right?" he asked her, sitting down next to her.

She inwardly rolled her eyes, as he sounded exactly like every other high school boy. She thought he would be different.

"Well, yes, my name is Ashley."

And suddenly something changed. He really made a small bow, or it seemed as he did, and looked her deep in the eyes, just like an old-school gentleman.

"My name is Stefan, Stefan Salvatore." He took her hand and kissed it. With that he noticed the ring on her middle finger.

"Nice ring, is that lapis lazuli?" Ashley just nodded and mumbled an excuse to go to the bathroom.

When she stood at the sink, she stared at herself in the mirror.

'Stefan Salvatore? How is that even possible?' she thought to herself. She saw him getting killed in 1864. And how likely is it that Salvatore is a name that occurs a second time? She splashed herself with a little water when the door opened. That girlfriend of Stefan's got in.

For the first time, she looked directly at her and she nearly tripped over her own feet while stumbling away, her eyes widening in horror.

"What…how…why are you here?" Ashley was able to bring out. The girl looked at her quizzically.

"I am sorry but I just wanted to go to the bathroom. I am Elena Gilbert and I think you're new in my class! Is everything all right? You look so pale!"

"Your name is Elena? Wow, I am sorry but I did mistake you for someone else! I'm sorry!" Ashley left and took her seat at the bar, happy to see that Stefan was gone. When she heard Elena returning from the bathroom and sitting down at a table next to Stefan, she couldn't but listen to their conversation.

"You can't imagine what happened as I talked to the new girl at the bar! I told her my name and she totally freaked out and made a head start for the bathroom!" Stefan said while shaking his head.

"Really? I met her in the bathroom and she totally freaked as she saw me and she stumbled something like why I'm here. I really think she" now she dropped her voice to a low whisper "mistaked me for Katherine!" Ashley gulped down her drink and left the bar. How could this Elena girl know about Katherine? And why the hell did she look like her? That's technically impossible!

She decided to take a walk around the city to get her head free. When she didn't look where she was going, she suddenly found herself at the old Salvatore boarding house. She looked at it and was amazed by its glory which it hadn't lost in all those years. When she was turning around to leave, she heard the front door opening. Sure, Stefan would live in his family's building. But it wasn't Stefan who was at the door, it was a very hot, very handsome guy, with dark hair and dark clothes. When he came nearer she could see the resemblance between the two guys. The handsome one came to a halt in front of her and smiled a nice crooked smile.

"Hello, may I help you? I am Damon Salvatore..."

"Well I definitely knew you would say Salvatore! I met your brother at the Grill" She added when he looked at her questioningly.
"Oh. You met the nice one" he said with a sly smile.

"Really?" she asked in a flirty voice.

"Well tonight I am not really in the mood for talking so…" he looked her directly in the eyes when continuing talking. "You don't have to be afraid…"

"Why do you think I am afraid?" she asked slowly, getting completely lost in his great dark eyes.

"I just wanted to prepare you for this" he lunged for her throat and in an instant she went into fighting mode. She turned him around and shot him forward until he was pressed against the front door with her arm in his neck.

"Don't try that again, or you'll be sorry!" she sneered while baring her fangs.

"You're a vampire?" He hissed while turning around.

"Yes. And you are a vampire? How is that possible?" Ashley asked while letting him go, still secretly admiring his eyes.

"I've been a vampire for over hundred years now!"

"I saw you die in 1864. I've attended your funeral! How could you possibly be a vampire? Oh my god, it was Katherine, right?" Ashley asked with understanding and stepping away from Damon.

"Of course it was Katherine. But who the hell are you? You were here in 1864?" Damon asked suspiciously.

"Of course I was. I'm a cousin of the Lockwood's. Well by now, I'd be a cousin of Tyler's." she replied with a sly smile.

"So you just come back here a hundred and forty-seven years and pretend to be a family member and new girl in town?"

"You're the one to talk! At least I pretend to finish senior year, but you? You just live here and get on everyone's nerves?" Ashley said, getting slightly annoyed at him while still looking into his gorgeous dark eyes.

"How could I pretend to finish school when I look like I'm in my middle twenties?" Damon said with an arrogant smile.

"I don't look like eighteen either but I just tell everyone I had missed two years in school while travelling with my now dead mom. So there's the explanation for my looks plus I get all the pity for being an orphan. No problems there, see?" Ashley said on purpose and she could see how his interest grew. He really was hot.

"Well then you technically are already over twenty. Fancy a drink with me, someday?" He said while stepping nearer to her again.

"I would love to grab a drink with you someday." She smiled up at him flirtingly.

"Well then that's settled. I'll pick you up on Friday, so you don't get problems with school" he said while smiling back at her.

"I'm staying at the Lockwood's place" she replied while turning around heading home, with a better mood than before.


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