Disclaimer: I Love Love Love Vampire Diaries But Sadly I Don't Own It Or Have Any Legal Rights To It :[ I Don't Own Any Of These Characters Except Miah Of Course.
Authors Note: This Story Is Actually Taking Place During, The Awakening But I Had To Return My Copy So I Don't Remember All The Details But The Gist Is Still The Same Hope Yall Like It!
Thanks To Skittles Queen743 My First & Only Reviewer Oh, & Her Friend Bella.
Chapter 1 _ Welcome To Fells Church
I stared out of the plane window past the clouds down to the crystal clear water 1500ft below. The flight attendant, Connie, came by for the third time to offer me a refill on my Coke and another bag of Cheetos. When I told her I had had enough she nodded and made her way to the elderly couple behind me. The plane ride from Paris to Virginia was a long but quiet seven hours. With the row to myself, an old couple behind me, who reminded me a bit of my grandparents, and the sleeping couple on the other side of the aisle things weren't very exciting. I watched the sun fall behind the clouds and slowly found myself drift off to sleep.
When I woke up the next morning the flight attendant, Connie was standing over me getting my carry on bag from the rack above me.
"Time to wake up kid. We're landing in about twenty minutes. Hand me that pillow over there." She said pointing to the pillow that had fallen behind my seat while I was sleeping. I picked it up, handed it to her, and asked her for a cup of coffee.
"Sure thing doll." With that she walked away. I put my blanket back in my carry on bag trying to remember when I took it out. The old woman sitting behind me leaned forward and tapped my shoulder, "You looked a little cold sweetheart."
"Oh Thanks." She sat back down with a smile and I turned around and pulled my book out of my bag and curled up against the window and waited for my coffee.
The airport was crowded; people were coming and going and the hundreds of friends and family members that came to see them off and greet them were squeezed tight in this tiny Virginia airport. But I scanned the crowed for my Aunt Judith and cousins Elena and Margaret, who Ill be living with from now on. Elena's blonde hair stood out in the crowd, next to her Margaret jumped up and down at seeing me. Aunt Judith let go of her hand and she ran towards me. I let go of my suitcases, picked her up, and spun her around, "Miss Me?"
"Yes. A lot." She said as I put her back on her feet. Aunt Judith, her fiancé Robert, Elena, and Margaret had been in Paris just last week, but I had some last minute things to take care of and I had money so flying in a week after them wasn't a problem.
"You saw me last week, silly." She grabbed my hand and led me back to Elena and Aunt Judith. I hugged them both as Robert took my suitcases and brought them to the car, "I'm going to go pull the car around. I'll meet you ladies out front." He kissed Aunt Judith on the cheek and walked away.
"So how was your flight?" Aunt Judith asked as she wheeled Margaret away from them vending machine and towards the exit. Elena who had been fixated with her phone, put it away and looked up, "Yeah how was it?"
"It was really quiet. There were like twelve people on the plane, I had the whole row to myself, no one in front of me, and the people behind me were old and quiet. But the old lady dug through my stuff to get my blanket. All my stuff was still in my bag so I guess she meant well."
"Oh well that's good, I guess. Better then our flight home." Aunt Judith mumbled.
"Yeah we had a screaming baby sitting behind us the whole way home." Elena added.
"Oh, that sucks." I said as Elena's phone buzzed from inside the pocket of her black jacket she bought last week in Paris. She had on a pair of black skinny jeans and a purple silk tank top that gathered around her stomach and hips, one that looked identical to my top that went missing last week after Elena left to come back home, "Elena?"
"Hmmmm?" She looked up and put her phone back into her pocket.
"I love that shirt."
"Don't you! I took it from my cous-… err," She bit her lip and smiled, "Sorry Miah. I'll give it back."
"You can keep it I have another one just like it in red."
The sun was bright, bouncing off car mirrors and window, including Aunt Judith's tan Accord. It was outdated and looked nothing like the cars I was used to driving around, with the windshield cracked and run down tires. Robert pulled up and Aunt Judith climbed in, Margaret climbed in the back seat and Elena and I followed. The ride home was almost as quiet as the plane ride; Elena was texting someone, and it seemed important, Aunt Judith and Robert were having a quiet conversation that I caught bits and pieces of, and Margaret asked a few questions you would normally expect from a four year old.
The street was lined with tall Victorian style houses, many of them plain and white or a light yellow. We stopped in front of a tall white house with a large quince tree in the yard. I stepped out into the street immediately flushed with fear. Something's wrong here, I thought. I scanned the yard but nothing seemed out of place, or so I thought. The branches of the quince tree moved slightly and I noticed a large black crow perched on a branch, it was like his eyes were fixed on me, and I had to look away. I grabbed my bags from Robert and I caught a glimpse of Elena out of the corner of my eye. She was watching the bird too; she shivered and quickly looked away. I rolled my bags up the sidewalk and into the living room. The window glass was wavy and the house didn't seem very modern compared to what I'm used to but it was my new home now and I'd just have to get used to it. Robert brought my bags upstairs to Elena and I's room and plopped them on a white bed with light blue sheets and a fluffy dark blue comforter, "This beds yours Miah. Your dresser for your clothes hasn't come in yet and wont be here until next week."
"Oh, it's okay. This is more then enough. Thank you again, Robert. And thanks aunt Judith." She had appeared at the door moments before. After they left Elena and I sat on my bed sorting my clothes and taking anything out of my bags that could be hung up or put in our bathroom or used around our room. I had always had my own bathroom but it was one of the things I had to sacrifice when I decided to move in. Elena and I sat up all day and half the night talking and laughing and unpacking. When I had brought up her texting all day she told me she was talking to her friends Meredith and Bonnie about a certain Stefan Salvatore. She told me about how he was new and the only boy who hadn't thrown himself at her. She told me all about her Plan A and how she would have him even if it killed her. When she and I fell asleep we were both tired and excited about school the next day, with it being my first day and all.
I walked with Elena down the hall to seventh period European History, keeping an eye out for Stefan, just like Elena asked.
"Salvatore in 3, 2, 1." Stefan walked past us without even paying attention and looking as stunning as ever in his jeans. Two boys larger then Stefan stood in the doorway talking and pretending no one else was there.
"Excuse me." Stefan's voice was smooth and confident but the two huge boys paid him little attention. "What did you say?" the bigger of the two boys asked.
"Excuse me." Stefan repeated. The two boys looked like they wanted to laugh but they held it back. A tall boy with short blond hair that I recognized as Matt Honeycutt, Elena's old boyfriend, walked up, "Is there a problem."
The two boys jumped to the side and let Matt, Stefan, Elena, and I through. The boys two stared at me and I rolled my eyes while they took their seats and I sat down behind Elena just in time for our history teacher Mr. Tanner, to walk in. I could hear Elena whispering to herself, "You can do this Elena." I wrote a note to Elena telling her to calm down but it didn't seem to do much good. After an what seemed like an hour of Mr. Tanner talking about Europe's part in WW2 the bell rang and everyone jumped up, but no one was faster then Elena. I walked around the back of the room too Bonnie's desk and Meredith followed suit.
"Oh my God Miah! Hey we missed you it's been like two years?" Bonnie hugged me and jumped up and down, her bright red curls bouncing with her.
"Yeah.'" I jumped with her until she finally calmed down, "What did you do to your hair?"
"I could ask you the same thing." She said gesturing to my shoulder length black hair and purple highlights that had been long and brown last time we seen each other.
"I like it." Meredith said popping up behind me.
"Thank you." I turned around and hugged Meredith, catching a glimpse of Elena's crushed face, "Shit." Bonnie and Meredith turned around just in time to see Stefan and Matt turning away from Elena and running off to football practice. I ran over to her grabbed her arm and took her out the back door of the classroom with Meredith and Bonnie following. When we got to Elena's locker she had shooed Bonnie and Meredith away and I thought I was going to be next.
"Miah, I want to show you something." She slammed her locker shut, grabbed my wrist, and took me to the back of the school, "We have to hop the fence." Elena looked off to the side once to see the boys trying out for football and a lot of them were cute and muscular, except for the two boys that blocked the door in Euro History they were far from cute. Matt was one of the cute boys as was Stefan and a boy Josh from my Chem. class. Elena's head shot back down to stare at the grass as she kept walking. I felt bad for her the look on her face in class had been a look of complete humiliation and I knew she just wanted to run out of there and cry. Elena climbed the fence easily; I guess she did this a lot. I, being shorter then her, found it a bit harder to get over but I did it. Elena took me past houses and through woods until we reached a cemetery. It was well kept and all the headstones looked clean and new.
"This is the new cemetery but were going to the old one." Elena said as we got to the edge of the cemetery and walked over to an old bridge. The old cemetery was just that. Old. Grass was growing over the headstones and all the headstones were sunken into the ground. The church was in ruins and only three of the walls were standing. Elena led me over to a headstone that read 'Gilbert' and she sat down in front of it.
"You miss them too?" She looked up at me.
"Elena, your mom was like a second mother to me how could I not miss her. And your dad was there for me when my dad couldn't be. I love your mom and dad I always have and I always will." I sat down next to her, "I know it's hard and I can't relate cause I haven't lost my parents but Elena I can see your mom in you. My dad had pictures of him, your mom, and Aunt Judith and you look so much like your mom. And I really don't know how else to make you feel better but it'll get easier but at least Aunt Judith left Paris and moved to Virginia to make thinks easier for you and Margaret. I mean yall can see your parents. And talk to them. When my dad goes off to wherever the hell he goes, I can't see him or talk to him, even though he's alive." My dad was a spy for the United States army and my mom and I lived in Paris while he traveled the world. We were never allowed to know where he was. He would give us hints sometimes but we barely talked to him. I miss my dad but at least he's alive, "I'm sorry Elena."
"Come on let's get out of here. I'm scared after what happened last week. Did I tell you?" She said as she got up and looked around and the reddish purple sky.
I stood up and we started walking, "No you didn't. What happened?"
"A few nights ago me Bonnie and Meredith were out here and the strangest thing happened to Bonnie; she got all pale and a voice that wasn't hers came out of her and it was like, 'Elena… Elena… Elena, someone's out there waiting for you Elena.' And then something black and smoke like started chasing us and it followed us until we got over the bridge. Then the next day Mary told us an old man had been attacked and officers found him under the bridge."
"Damn. What was chasing you?"
"I don't know Miah, but it was scary. It was black and it looked like smoke coming off the ground."
"Something like that!" Behind us was what looked like smoke but darker and it was chasing us!
"Yes Miah run!" Elena grabbed my hand and we ran screaming across the bridge and ran all the way home.
Later that night long after Elena was asleep I sat up and bed and wrote,
September 2, 1:00 amDear Diary,
My first day in Fells Church and weird
things are already happening.
The day started out normally with
a shower and some breakfast
Then school but after school Elena
and I went to the cemetery.
I got to see my Aunt and Uncle
but Elena seemed really
shaken up after Stefan turned her down. Stefan,
damn Stefan is really good looking but Elena
really likes him so he's off limits.
Then that thing started chasing us!
I mean what was that stuff. All I know is that there
aren't gunna be any more trips to the cemetery anytime soon.
Well I guess that's a good enough first day as any.
Welcome to Fells Church Miah, Welcome to Fells Church.
Miah
Well That Was Chapter One Let Me Know What Yu Think. I'm Hoping To Get To The Interesting Part Soon Enough The Beginnings Are Usually Dull Sorry, Well Hope You Like It. See You Next Chapter Loves3