The next morning I woke up to the shrill voice of my alarm clock. I took a shower, dressed and had Ric drive me & Jeremy to school.

School…something I really despised since Stefan was gone. His absence made the memories of the sacrifice from time to time resurface and I was barely holding it together. I couldn't wait for the summer holiday to start.

After the second lesson my phone made a clinging sound signalling that I had a message.

"Council meeting at 4pm.

Meet at the boarding house

afterwards.

Damon"

This was simply bloody peachy! Now I had at least 4 hours to pass before meeting up with Damon to discuss further the search for Stefan. One thing was for sure: I didn't want to be alone. I decided to call Ric after history lesson and ask him if we could do some training.

Next lesson was biology and I had hard time focusing since I kept staring at the empty seat next to me where Stefan used to sit.

I only snapped my head up when at the end of the lesson the teacher started to tell us about the flu-shot that we were supposed to get the following day, but everyone had to get it until next Monday. That was odd. Not only it was too early for flu-shots (it was the middle of June), but also they had never set a date until when everyone had to get vaccinated.

I grimaced. I didn't like injections the slightest bit. Especially since this entire supernatural thing started I'd started to associate injections and needles with pain.

All of us were given a piece of paper which had to be signed by our parents that they give their consent.

The following lessons passed by in a blur and Alaric agreed to train me on the afternoon.

During our training session I got another text from Damon:

" Some complications came up.

I won't be able to meet you

today. Talk to you later. Be

safe!

Damon"

I sighed. This meant that we won't continue the search for Stefan tonight. I couldn't help worrying though. What kind of complications? Had the Founding Council become suspicious about him? Was there a new vampire in town?

I got myself pretty worked up about it and Ric ended up asking what was wrong. I considered blowing him off but decided that there was a chance that he might now something so I shared my suspicions with him about the flu-shot, the council and Damon's weird text message.

"Elena, I think you are overreacting." said Alaric with a worried face "You have been through a lot lately and I admit that this seems a little strange, but I doubt that it would be anything dangerous. Damon would have told us if you were in danger. Now I think you should go home and get some rest."

I sighed. Maybe he was right. I was being paranoid. I went home and took a hot shower hoping it would relax me. It did and I felt much better after it so I decided to write into my diary. When I was finished I just lay on my bed wondering what Damon was doing. I couldn't control myself. I sent him a text.

"R U ok?"

When he didn't reply I was starting to get worried. What if those complications turned out more dangerous than he though? What if he had been captured? I was getting myself all worked up again when suddenly Damon appeared in my room and looked at me with his beautiful blue eyes.

"Elena, I need your help!"


AN.: So there you go! Here is chapter 1 :) I hope you like it! You can leave me a review if you want! Thanks for reading it! Peace out!