Chapter 2: Meeting the Locals
The sun came shining in the windows of the small motel, I roll over to see the clock flashing 7am. Time to get up. I shower and dress into a pair of black skinny jeans and v-neck basic baby blue tee. I throw my hair up in a tall pony tail and add a pair of simple earings.
I grab my over the shoulder bag and head out to the car. I need to start getting information on who may have seen my sister when she was here. First stop is the main part of town, then I will head out to the residental areas.
Soon I hear my stomach growl, need food. I stop at the local grocery store. Its empty with only the cashier, a pale faced young man with blonde hair dark eyes. He nods as I walk into the store. I take out a flyer and show it to him.
'Have you seen this girl here before?' I ask.
He looks bored and shakes his head.
'Thank you.' I walk to the bakery section to pick out some muffins for breakfast. They look fresh and delious.
'Blueberry is my favorite.' I jump and turn to find a strange handsome man standing behind me with a small smile on his face. He looks like he might be in his early 20s maybe younger, with short light brown hair and brown eyes.
'I'm sorry I didn't mean to startle you Miss...'
'Kate, its fine I have kind of been on edge lately.'
'I'm sorry to hear that.' He stares intently at me with that same small smile on his face. I kind of get uncomfortable and look anywhere but at him.
'Listen I am in town to try and find my sister, Kristen. She went missing a month ago and this is the last place she was before she disappeared.' I hand him a flyer and he stares at it for awhile.
'She looks like you, very beautiful, but not the same innocence about her like you have. But no I am sorry I have not seen her before.'
My heart falls, and I thank him for his time.
'Listen, I will ask the mayor Mr. Lockwood if he will be able to help you in anyway possible.'
'Oh god, that would be amazing thank you, Mr...'
'Stefan, Stefan Salvatore.'
'Well thank you Stefan, here is my phone number please call me day or night if you have any information. I am staying at the Mystic Falls Motel just on the edge of town for the rest of the week.'
'It is my pleasure Kate. Have a nice day.'
He turns to leave and I admire him from behind. Everything is chisled to perfection on this man. No time to think about boys when I have my sister to find. I pay for my muffins and head out.
It takes me about three hours to pass out flyers downtown to each of the locals and stop in at all of the businesses. I can't believe no here has seen Kristen. I am starting to slowly lose hope. I look at my phone and it shows a voicemail that was just left. I take a listen and its Stefan. He has spoken with Mayor Lockwood and has set up a meeting with him and the Sheriff of the town at 2pm today. My hope has returned and so has my appitete.
I head to The Grill where my sisters last charge on her credit card is from. The Grill seems like a nice small town bar and resturant. This place actually is crowded, mostly with younger people about my age. I walk up to the bartender, his badge says Matt. Looks like a nice guy.
'Excuse me, Matt, I am looking for my sister and I am wondering if you have seen her here at all.' I hand him a flyer.
He nods his head, 'Yeah she was drinking with a few locals here a little over a month ago. Got pretty trashed and left with the guys.'
My heart starts racing, 'Could you please tell me where I can find these two guys?'
'Yeah they are sitting on the otherside of the bar. The two guys with the girls hanging around them.'
I follow his eyes to the oppisiste end of the bar to the two guys. The first guy has dark curly blonde hair, blue eyes pale skin and the other guy has dark short hair. They look like brothers. There are beautiful women surronding them but both of the guys look very bored with themselves, sipping on their drinks.
I thank Matt order a cheese burger and fries and walk over to the gentlemen. As soon as I round the corner of the bar both of their eyes set on me. Their stare is intense. I am almost at a lost with words but soon I regain.
'Excuse me folks, I am sorry to bother you but I am trying to find my sister Kristen. The very nice bartender Matt told me she was with you two about a month ago.' I hand both of them a flyer and wait for a response.
They smile and look at each other.
'Yes. We did have the pleasure of meeting your sister but I am afriad the next morning she cut town and we haven't seen her since.' Said the curly blonde hair.
I can feel tears well up in my eyes and I quickly blink them away.
'I am very sorry we couldn't help you further' stated the dark haired one.
'Well, thank you for your time.' As I start walking away they stop me.
'Wait. My brother Kol and I would like to help you look for her if you don't mind.'
'Yes of course Mr...'
'Klaus Michaelson. My family was the first to settle here along with the Salvatores.'
'Ah yes I meet Stefan this morning. He got me a meeting with the mayor and the sherriff to see what help they can be.'
'Well isn't that something. Everyone wants to help the outsider.' This came from the long dark brown hair girl.
'Now now Elana that is no way to treat our guest. Especially one as pretty as she is.' Chiched Kol.
I can feel my face burn red and exchange numbers with the two brothers and try to excuse myself before being invited to some party at the Michealson manson tonight.
'Please join us. We can talk some more about finding your sister and it will help you relax a bit to have a little fun.'
I sigh and eventually agree with Klaus to go to the party. I say my goodbye and head back to Matt where my food was waiting.
'How did that go?' he asked.
'Ok, they haven't seen her since the night she was here.'
'Well that family along with the Salvatores own this town so they will be the best people to help you find your sister.'
'Thank you Matt.' I pay him and head over to the police station where the meeting with the mayor and the sherriff is being held.
I walk in to find Stefan waiting for me at the entrance.
'Kate, its a pleasure to see you again. I just wish it was under different circumstances.'
'It is great to see you again also Stefan.'
He gestures for me to go inside. He takes me to a large office to the back of the building. Opening the door I find a dark haired, blue eyed man sitting behind the desk, wearing a black v-neck t-shirt and dark skinny jeans. He doesn't seem like the police type. Standing next to him is a muscular, short dark hair brown eyed man dressed in a very expensive grey suit.
'You must be Kate. My name is Damon Salvatore and this here is Mayor Tyler Lockwood. We have heard alot about you. Please sit down.'
'Thank you for meeting with me.'
'Please we want to help as much as we can. Now Kate we looked through the file that was put together for your sister when we got word she went missing just after she left town here. What I can tell you is we sent out a search party to cover the surrounding woods of the town and came up with nothing. We do know from what the Michaelson brothers tell us is that Kristen spent the night at the manson but when they woke up the next morning she was gone, along with her possesions and her car.'
'I know all of this but why has her car not been found. We set it up so that the police would track her car but nothing came up. Now that has to say something.'
'Yes. It can say alot of things. Has it ever accured to you that maybe your sister doesn't want to be found?' asked Tyler.
'Why? My sister and I were very close. She called me every night, told me everything she did and then suddenly nothing. Its not like her. Another thing, her cell phone records show her last phone call came from Mystic Falls and then after that her phone has yet to be used.'
'Well what we can do is get ahold of the local police in the surrounding towns and see if they have anything on your sister and then we can set up another search party to check the woods again.' Damon gave me a reassureing smile.
'That would be great. Thank you Damon and thank you Mayor Lockwood.
'Please call me Tyler.'
'Of course. You will call me the moment you get any information.'
'Yes, the second we hear anything I will call you.'
I start to leave when Damon says, 'I look forward to seeing you tonight at the Michealson party. It should be a wonderful night.'
I just smile and close the door behind me. How did they know that? I just spoke with Klaus about it right before I went to see Damon and Tyler. I need to get changed before the party so I head back to the hotel. I didn't pack a lot of cloths but I decided to wear a nice black tunic with gold jewelry and flats. The party is supposed to start at 10pm and all I can think is this should be an interesting night.
