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Refresher: Prior to the events that occurred in the prologue, Elena Petrova and Katherine Gilbert found out that they were identical twins that were separated at birth. Katherine was adopted by a wealthy family at a young age. But, Elena was placed in the foster care system her whole life. After her foster brother, Travis, frames her for stealing from her foster mother, Elena goes on the run and decides to meet up with Katherine. Already having leads on their birth parents, Kath wants to go to Los Angeles and find more information about them, convincing Elena to take her place for the next few days. In Kath's place, Elena manages to slightly confuse the Gilberts (although they don't suspect a thing) and break up with Kath's cheating "fake" boyfriend. Along the way, Elena meets Damon, Kath's secret boyfriend who soon figures out her secret. After Katherine mysteriously doesn't show up at their scheduled meeting place, they both agree to continue the charade until Katherine returns. Someone breaks into Katherine's room and steals her laptop. At last scene Katherine, sits in a car, listening to the radio. The car door suddenly opens and some one enters and Kath lets out a gasp.

When I wake up, I will wake up
I've been sleeping far too long
I will raise up, to clean my days up
Oh, baby good luck in coming home
Final hours, captivating,
Reaching for low light to come
So revealing for my heart beating,
There's just so much more to see

Elena wakes up in Katherine's bed, still pretending to be Katherine, when 'The City that Sleeps' bust through Kath's phone. She looks, who is calling her, then figures that it's the tone of Katherine's alarm. She waders in Katherine's room looking around at the pictures, then she heads into the closet. She is still amassed by how many things Katherine have. Her, Elena's, phone starts ringing. Elena takes it out and enters her PIN.

"You have one new message." The phone voice says.

"Hey, Elena. Travis again. Still not returning my calls. But so you know, Vegas P.D.'s still on the case." Travis' recorded voice informed Elena. Elena is suddenly reminded she can't go back to Vegas. That she can't go back to her one and only best friend she has made in her life.

"Katherine, breakfast!" Jenna shouts from the kitchen snapping Elena out of her trance she went into after hearing Travis' voice mail.

"It's such a weird feeling, someone actually breaking in." Jenna said to John, serving breakfast for everyone.

"Well, I still say it was just some kid, though. I mean, all they took was Katherine's laptops"

"Morning." Elena said entering the room.

"You sleep okay?"

"Pretty good considering." Elena, hinting to the events that took place last night.

"I have a glass guy coming later, okay? So we will get back to normal so we can now start focusing on Sunday. Unless you girls have forgotten?"

"Forgotten the father/daughter dance? That's unlikely." Laurel says, sarcastically.

"Let's see what you got, Katherine. Let's go." John said coming up in front of Elena putting one of his hand on her waist and hold her hand with the other. "All right, ready? Three, two, one." John said and starts dancing,"Now spin. Ho! There we go. Then we spin." John was directing Elena how to do it, but Elena had never Ballroom-danced so she was very clumsy at it.

"She's forgotten!" John said.

"Yeah." Laurel said sarcastically.

"I have to get ready for school." Elena said and rushed to her room, desperate to get away from here.

She closed the door behind her and took out her backpack and started putting thing in it. She put some of Kath's clothes in it. Damon hoped in through the glass door that joins Kath's room to the balcony. Elena's head shoots up when she hears the noise, but then she relaxes and continue putting thing in her backpack.

"Let me guess. You're going back to Vegas?" Damon questions a little sarcastically.

"Los Angeles to find Katherine. Something happened. I can feel it. As for Vegas, I can never go back. They'll put me in-in jail or that house with Travis if they catch me here, pretending to be my twin. Do you have any idea how hard this is? I start to think that I can actually do this, and then I am blindsided by some family tradition or Katherinism." Elena rambled.

"Katherine said she was close to finding your real mother." Damon points out, running his hands through his hair.

"She also said that she was going to meet me at the cabin last night. But while we were there, somebody broke in here. That laptop, my one key to Katherine, gone. Only thing stolen." Elena said in a bit high pitch.

"Right now you've just got to trust me on this, all right?" Damon said.

"You know, that's another thing: Why should I trust you?" Elena said. There was a flick of hurt across Damon's face but it was gone before Elena could notice it.

"Because right now I am the only person you can trust. You just can't worry about Kath, all right?" Elena crossed her arms above her chest,"That girl can take care of herself. She can handle anything." There was a knock at Katherine's bed room door. Damon rushes out of the glass door he came in from. Elena goes to open the door when she was sure Damon had left.

"Hi." Elena said, breathlessly, to John, who was standing at Katherine's bedroom door, holding a laptop in his hands.

"Hey. Thought you could use my laptop till we get a replacement. I'll use the hospital's in the meantime."

"Wow, that's really nice." Elena said.

"You okay?" John asked. A little worried.

"'Course I am. Yeah. Katherine Gilbert, she can handle anything."Elena said doing the hair-flipping thing. John satisfied by the answers left Elena to get ready for school.

"Figured I'd skip the daddy-daughter dance this year. At least that's what I told Mom." Laurel said sitting in the car. Laurel and Elena were going to school.

"What? You're kidding. No. I need you there." Elena said. She was already freaking out about the dance and if Laurel wasn't there each spotlight will be on Elena, and she was sure she would make a fool out of her - Katherine's - self.

"Did you just say 'need' you need me?" Laurel asked. She wasn't accustomed to hearing these types of words from her big sister. Elena just rolled her eyes, making a note not to use that word again.

"Okay, cool, here it is. Smack-down at the Randall house last night. Someone got you slapping Nisha." Laurel said showing Elena a video of her slapping Nisha,"Gonna be seriously viral by the time we get to school. PDR? 'Public display of rage.' I mean, that's guaranteed celebrity status."

"Great." Elena said, trying to maintain her Katherine character.

"Oh, uh Okay, sure, right, why stop for coffee like we've been doing every morning for the last two years?" Laurel said sarcastically, as Elena drove the car past a coffee shop.

"Sorry. I-I- skipping the caffeine. Just feeling a little freaked from the break-in and my laptop being stolen." Elena made up a half lie. She really didn't feel like having caffeine that was one thing but the other was she didn't know they had a ritual of having coffee.

"My guess is that they were looking for the 'lying games' or at least one in particular. You kept them on there, right?" Laurel asked Elena.

"Uh uh, yeah, I might have." Elena answered. She didn't know if Katherine kept them in the laptop. Hell, she didn't even know what the 'lying games' were.

"Translating you did." Laurel said,"Whoever it was broke in through a window. Too much drama."

"Yeah." Elena said.

When Nisha entered mystic Falls High School, she didn't expected anything to be out of ordinary. She didn't know that there were videos of her and Katherine. She was waking towards her locker when she felt all the eyes on her. She rotated her head and saw that everyone was laughing at her. First she didn't understand why everyone was laughing at her. But then she caught a glimpse of herself being slapped. The understanding hit her like thousands brick. She ran away to the cafeteria and sat on one of the empty table. There were also some students but the density was less than that of the hallways.

Elena having seen this felt sorry for Nisha. Out of the goodness of her heart she went to her and sat down next to her,"I'm really sorry about this whole video thing and that it's out there plus that it was even made."

"Uh-huh, sure, you are." Nisha said, her voice filled with sarcasm and hate.

"No, really. I'm sorry for slapping you. I kind of lost it. And it's not an excuse." Elena said sincerely.

"Okay, that's twice you've said you're sorry, which is, like, twice more than I have ever heard you say it." Nisha snapped.

"I know. It's kind of a "new leaf" thing with me." Elena replied calmly.

"Oh, and Luke was kind of a "payback" thing for me." Nisha left with this comeback. Elena was left there shell-shocked. She was trying to he apologetic and improve Kath's and Nisha's relationship, but Nisha was acting rude. She thought only small, money-minded people were like that. She never expected any of the person who is living in such a great society will be like this.

"We were one second from coming over." Bonnie said.

"We assume you have something planned?" Caroline asked,"To get even."

"Uh, like, say a lying game?" Elena said, afraid to say something wrong.

"Well, if ever there was a reason to start up again" Bonnie said.

"Forget it, Bon, she'll never go for it. Besides, we've got more important things to do, like shopping." Caroline chipped in, always her bubbly self.

"Oh. Uh, I'm gonna meet you guys later, okay?" Elena said as she saw Damon entering the school premises.

"Yeah." Bonnie said.

"Okay." Caroline said.

EPOV

"Nothing, not one word from Katherine. I tried video chat, but she's never online." I told Damon as soon as we were alone in between two buses, where no-one can see us,"I am really worried about her."

"Me too." Damon said.

"In the meantime, do you know what the 'lying games' are?" I asked him.

"I thought they were done with those." Damon said to himself before he addressed me,"They were big a few years back- it was something Katherine and her friends used to do. It was, like, um pranks and practical jokes. They would upload." Damon informed me.

"Well, that's why Laurel thinks the laptop was stolen." I told Damon, at this Damon gave me a 'Your sister's missing and you are thinking about this look',"I'm desperate." I told him.

"First chance I get, I'll go to my brother's computer at the station, and I'll look for hospital records, police reports - I'll see if anything turns up there."

"Okay. Meanwhile, I have to deal with this father-daughter dance. I have never ballroom-danced in my entire life. The second I step on that dance floor, people are gonna just know I'm a fake." I told Damon, worried like hell.

"Well, I might actually be able to help you with that one." Damon said,"Just meet me at 7:00 tonight at the Chelsea Creek Country Club." At this I gave him a 'How the fuck am to know where this place is?'"It'll be on her nav system. Don't be late." Damon answered me before garbing his bag and leaving.

Third person's POV

Both on them were unaware of a girl standing there looking to them from behind the bus, all confused. Laurel stood there surprised to see her sister there with the school's bad boy, Damon. Katherine and her circle made fun of these types of boy, not be friends with them. She just heard the last piece of their conversation, where Damon told her to meet him at 7:00 in the Chelsea Creek Country Club.

"Hey." John greeted Laurel coming up behind her. She was sitting on the couch, alone with her hand's free plugged in her ears. Jenna had told John about Laurel's decision to skip the father-daughter dance.

"Hear you're standing me up for the dance. That's okay, though. I'm, I'm okay. I'm fine." John said faking hurt. He was sad that Laurel thought to skip the dance, but he knew even if she decided to come, she may be hurt. This has always been a thing for Katherine and him. Jenna had forced him to come here.

"I'll be all right. I can handle it. It's it's nothing personal, Daddy. It's just It's always been your night with Katherine," Laurel said,"And this is coming from Mom, isn't it?"

"Don't be so smart." John said,"That's right, you are smart."

"Mm-hmm."

"We just, we want you to always remember-"

"We love you equally." Laurel quoted for her father, he always said this.

"Right. How many times have we said that?" John laughed and asked her daughter.

"It's cool." Laurel told him.

"So the part about you being the easy one and all that?"

"Get it, too."

"I want you to be there Sunday, honey. I need you there. Please?" John pleaded. He loved both his kids. Maybe love Katherine a bit more, for obvious reasons. But love them both none-the-less.

"Okay. Sure, Dad. If it means that much." Laurel agreed, halfheartedly.

EPOV

"You work here?" I asked Damon as I got out on Katherine's BMW at Chelsea Creek Country Club. Damon was standing there dressed in the uniform.

"My brother called in a favour. After juvie, I had to get on the straight-and-narrow. Job, curfew, haircuts." Damon took the car keys from me,"Ballroom's just through the garden, then to the right. I get off in, like, five minutes." Damon sat in the car and went to park it.

"Hi, Katherine." Tow old couple greeted me as I pass them. They were jogging.

"Mr. and Mrs." I said slowly as they pass me, I don't know who they were,"you." When they were out of earshot.

"Ah So, do you know anything?" Damon asked.

"Um does the chicken dance count?" I asked nervously.

"For right now, just, um don't even think about the technical stuff, okay? Just try to feel the music." Damon asked,"All right?" Damon said as he set up the radio. Soft music filled the air.

"Okay." I tell him.

"Okay." Damon said taking my hand and leading he up the floor.

"Good." Damon said as we started swaying to the music, one of my hand was resting on his shoulder and he was holding the other. His free hand was on my back, just above where the rib-cage end. "Yeah. That's good. Okay." Damon complemented me, even though I was not doing so great,"Let go. It's all right." Damon said directing me.

"Sorry. Sorry, sorry." I said as I stepped on his foot.

"It's alright," Damon said,"Other foot. Okay. Go. You're doing all right." I was looking at our feet as they moved, not wanting to step on him again,"No. Keep looking at me. Okay, we'll go side. Side. To the side." He commanded.

"Sorry." I said as I stepped again and we tripped.

"You're doing all right." We got up and he took my hand again,"No, keep looking at me. You want to trust your partner when you do this. That's the key." I looked up in his eyes but still my focus was on our feet,"Now, let me lead. Side. Well, let your father lead, you know. Back. To the side. Just And then you go through."

"Go through what?" I asked confused.

"You-you- it's a turn. All right?" Damon said. We tried a few times again, and I was still not doing good.

"Hey, come on. You have to learn this dance. If somebody figures out that you're not who you say you are, you're going back to Vegas, and that's it." Damon said, and I heard a bit of worry? Really? I might be mistaken, that's not possible. I mean c'mon, we have know each-other for what? 24 hours? Not even that.

"So I just trust him?" I asked him.

"Trust me. Okay, here." Damon said taking my hand in his once again,"Look at me." He said as I was looking down. I looked up and made contact with his beautiful blue one,"Okay, ready? That's good. To the side."

"Where did you learn to dance like that?" I asked him as we finished our dance.

"Katherine taught me." Damon answers.

"Oh."

A/N: So how was it? Did you liked it? I hope you do. Share your thoughts. What do you think will happen now? Will Elena blow their cover in next chapter? Will she dance too bad? What will happen? Comment! You know I live for them.

P.S.: The next update might take a bit long as I have exams. Sorry. :(