Chapter 3: School

I.P.O.V.

I awoke the next morning thankful the only images that visited me during the night were those of Robert. More specifically the last night Robert and I were together, and when he fed from me and I from him. During the war he didn't fall for my façade and quickly discovered who I was.

It took me a second to escape from my memories and remember that I had to go to school. I got dressed and went downstairs to find Stefan and Zach talking. I walked past them and that's when Zach said, "Isabelle, when did you arrive here?"

"Last night." I replied, "Stefan ran into me on the road and helped me here with my bags."

"Did you hear about the killing that happened to occur last night?" Zach questioned, "A man and a woman I believe."

"I have but neither Stefan nor I did that. They were already dead when he got there and I think that I saw an animal walking away from there bodies. I mountain lion I think."

"Well, happen to know if Damon has come with you to this wonderful house?" Zach continued.

"Not that I know of, I don't believe that I've seen him in at least a year." I lied perfectly, "Stefan I think we better get to school or we might be late."

Then on that note we said our good byes to Zach and headed out the door to school. Stefan drove, while I walked. He got there only minutes before me.

After Stefan got out of the car he walked to the office and I followed seconds later. When he went in the small room I waited by the glass door and a girl walked up to me and began staring at my brother. "Wow, he has a hot back." She said.

"It's only a back." I replied.

"Yeah, but a hot one." She told me.

"Whatever." I said. At that moment I looked over then thought that Katherine was next to me, but she walked away to fast for me to be sure. Then I directed my attention back to the office and my brother using his compulsion to get the secretary to give him his schedule.

Then I walked in and she was about to tell me that the information needed wasn't there when I looked in her eyes and told her to look again. She did and immediately said that everything was there and gave me my schedule. Then I followed my schedule to my first period class.

Everything was normal until the last period of the day. I had class not only with the girl who did look like Katherine, but also my brother and a guy who looked like my love Robert. I quickly learned her name was Elena and the guy's name was Dustin.

Not only were the look-alikes strange, but the fact that they would put me and my brother in the same class. I spent the entire time either watching Dustin or watching Stefan watch Elena.

The bell rang after what seemed like eternity signaling the end of class and the school day. I rushed out of the room and to my locker. Then I went to Stefan's car which I realized was one of the newest ones out there. I knew that I could easily walk home, but I needed to talk to my brother about today and see if he had any ideas about what to do.

I didn't have to wait long because minutes after I got settled leaning against his car he came walking out of the door. He waked directly over to the car and didn't look the least bit surprised when he saw me. When he got over to the car he said, "They look like them." Anyone else wouldn't have known what we meant. He was talking about how Elena looked like Katherine and Dustin looked like Robert.

"She isn't like Katherine." I said, "She's different. A better person."

"How do you know?" He asked, "Do you have that Power too?"

"No," I replied. "It is a girl thing. I can tell that she is a better person. As is Dustin. He wouldn't leave me like Robert did just as I was heading into the heart of the battle. I still think that he knew that I would die."

"Izzy, that is behind us now." Stefan comforted me, "I know that he hurt you and left you to die, but he did love you."

As Stefan and I were talking Elena walked over and said, "Hey, I'm Elena. You two are new here right?"

"Um yeah." Stefan answered.

"Well, I just thought that I should invite you both to this back to school get together we always have at the restaurant." She said. "You gonna be there. I know that Dustin would really like it if you were there Isabelle."

"Ok," I said. "My brother and I will try to make it there."

Then Elena leaned over and whispered, "Now I get why you didn't think that he was hot."

"Yeah." I whispered back perfectly aware that Stefan could hear what we said, "We are really pretty much all we got besides our uncle."

"Well, we better get back before Zach gets worried, right Izzy?" Stefan said, "We'll try to get to the restaurant."

Then Stefan and I got in his car and drove home in complete silence. When we got there we quickly told Zach that we would be going to the restaurant to socialize. He seemed happy that we actually were going to get to know some people.

Thank you all for reading. Sorry for the crappy ending, but I wanted to start the next chapter with the get together. Please tell me what you all think so far. Even if you think it sucks.