So here is chapter 2 and I'm bringing you chapter 3, too!

Enjoy! ;)

Chapter 2

Brave New World

Two hours has passed since the three of them tried to explain what happened. Lexi, Lee and Slater didn't laugh at me or stared at me like I was going insane. Their faces were serious and sincere as they told me about the tragics.

The people destoyed the earth with their cars and their CO² emissions.

The doomsday started with the rising of natural disasters.

Big areas around the world were flooded, hurricanes destroyed million of houses. People started dying.

After two nuclear electrical powerstations exploded in Europe, the whole world stopped using their power forever.

It was too late though because the catastrophes were unstoppable.

One day the current was lost and with that everything broke apart. People were fighting for their survivals, most of them died in the process.

A lot of woods were burning because the temperatures in summer were unbearable. People even died because of the heat and a lot lost their lifes because of the fire.

Winter was getting colder so that people died again. There was no possibility to communicate anymore and there was almost nothing left to eat.

Hunger and thirst became the most dangerous problem. Time after time people were dying and those who survived were killed by vampires who were craving after humanblood.

When humans died, vampires started to collect the dead bodies and drank the last drops of blood desperately.

"We are the survivors of the end of the world or better said: the end of human being. Vampires died, too, some were burned or some died while they tried to get the last resources of humanblood. I founded this town so none of us would be alone. We need eachother, now that the world changed we need to stick together. We learned how to adjust and although we're weaker, we still can live like that. No one died because he had to drink animalblood, we have to live with this option and we succeeded.", Lexi ended her explanations.

It was way too much to take in.

It lasted 60 years until almost every human being was dead. Vampires healed quickly and they survived the catastrophes except those who were stuck in a fire and couldn't get out. The knowing that I missed so much and that I won't ever live in a world or in a time where I was born overwhelmed me, I couldn't take it. I couldn't accept this.

I've lost my family without saying a goodbye and now it was way too late. There was no going back. If I just had died while those tragedies took place, then I wouldn't have to see and feel these things.

If the council had killed me before..

But what now? All I knew was that I needed to escape, I needed to run from the truth. Maybe it was all a bad dream. Maybe I was hallucinating and maybe I laid in my bed and slept and this dream felt so real.

I ran out of the mansion as fast as I could and I didn't stop. I didn't even cared if someone was looking at me like I've lost all my sanity, I just ran like hell.

I climbed a mountain where water was falling down into a little lake. It reminded me of the falls in Mystic Falls but these were bigger.

I reached the bottom of the hill and felt weak instantly. Instead hunting an animal down, I sat down on the green grass and stared at the sun and at the beautiful view of the landscape that was presented to me.

I couldn't remember seeing such beauty before so I just sat there and enjoyed it.

I thought about everything Lexi told me. It was too much and too crazy to process it but I felt better now.

Sadly I was looking at the clouds and began to cry. I hoped that my family was looking down at me and that Jeremy and my parents reunited where ever they were. I didn't believe in any heaven, not since my parents died.

I watched the clouded sky for an eternity until bright sunlight hit my face and I smiled. Suddenly a question popped up in my head: How can I walk on sunshine?

My hand touched a necklace around my neck. I looked down at it and was surprised. I didn't know that necklace, I took it off and eyed it. The stone was blue and looked like a little rose. I've loved roses. I couldn't get enough from them.

I turned it around and saw something engraved.

Be safe Elena, it read.

And under those words there were other letters: A.,J.,J.,B.

For a minute I didn't understand what it meant. Then it clicked.

Alaric, Jeremy, Jenna and Bonnie.

So they had known. Maybe they had saved me.

I smiled relieved. At least I had something to hold on, something that showed me that even in my death my brother didn't resent me. They saved my life although I became a monster and even Bonnie has been on my side.

I needed to live. They saved me from the council and I wouldn't forget the risk they were taking. I would be very grateful and never ever take that necklace off of me. Never.

A few days has passed since I rebuilt hope. Lexi was comforting me and she allowed me to live at her mansion. A lot of vampires lived there, especially those who had no daylight ring, necklace etc.

It was hard for them but they made the best out of it and reconstructed the basement into something where they all could hang out. The crazy thing is, if I wouldn't know better I'd never think that the world changed. In the basement they had darts and kickers and even a billiard table. There were couches, gitarres, a piano and lot of other stuff. They made it as comfortable as possible.

It was huge and the thirteen vampires didn't complain. Mostly they ruled the night as far as I noticed.

The vampires with the gift to walk on sunshine had to attend the town. The houses needed to be repaired so that they woudn't fall apart.

Grass and bushes needed to be cut before they could overgrow the whole town. Timber was taken to rebuild old bookshelfs.

There were a few vampires who were able to make clothes and design them, they used old inventions from the human to do so.

Some even had an own garden where potatoes and tomatoes grew and even more.

And just like in old times horses were held in case someone had to ride far away.

I ended my entry when someone knocked on my door.

"Come on in!", I shouted as I hid my diary.

"Care to join my inspection walkaway?", Lexi asked me jokingly and I needed to smile.

"Sure, why not?"

I followed her out. Lexi became a friend to me, she helped me to process all of this and explained to me how life worked from now on.

"Hey, Lex'! When are we going to the ruins?", a vampire named Ben asked.

"Very soon. Look.."

I didn't listen to what they were talking. I looked over to a young man with messy black raven hair and pierce blue eyes. Even from this distance you couldn't miss them. He was dragging a black horse with him and stroked it.

I couldn't tear my eyes off of that man because I was taken the second I laid my eyes on him.

"You can so forget about him.", Lexi whispered.

I snapped out of my musing and looked at her questionably.

"First of all he is a real ass and he doesn't give a crap about anyone. He's bad news."

I looked back at him and suddenly his eyes met mine. He looked at me with questionable eyes before he looked back and led his horse to where it was staying.

Not really a cliffhanger, huh? But don't mind, chapter 3 is following now ;)