CHAPTER 4 Alex, meet Elena.

I wasn't in my 'new' room long until I heard a knock at the know the feeling you get when you have to go into your first job interview alone ? That's how I felt. My heart was beating so fast that I swear I could see it beating out of my chest. It even sounded like it was echoing throughout the plain white room that was 'mine' as if I was in Edgar Allan Poe's, The Tell-Tale Heart.

Funny that I brought that up. The day we were assigned to complete a 500 word essay on that story, was the day that I first met Stefan's older brother, Damon. He was driving in a red convertible and pulled up to the school. Stefan awkwardly introduced us because they weren't as close then. To be polite, I asked if he was going to school here also and he said that he was out of school so I then asked if he were in any colleges then. He laughed and said that he had already been a couple of times. Stefan gave him the eye. I thought that he was being sarcastic and meant he was the bad kid that never went to school but literally a 'couple' of times. I never understood what was so funny until I found out of course that they needed human blood to live and they had been alive for 178 years and had been there and done that a few times.

I know it's weird that I would be thinking about Damon and not Stefan but to be honest, he had been on my mind a lot before I was taken here. He just always seemed to be there when I was in trouble and didn't treat me like a fragile human being.

The same man as before entered my room without me saying come in. He had short brown hair and hazel eyes that made you made you just want to stare at them. He would have been pretty cute if you know, he wasn't keeping me here against my will and all.

"It's time for lunch Elena." He informed me, his eyes never leaving mine.

"I'm not hungry." I lied, forcing my eyes away from his.

"You're going to lunch anyway so you can meet some people. It might make you feel a little more comfortable here." I looked back to him like he was crazy.

"You think that meeting some people will make me feel more comfortable here after being kidnapped from my loved ones and then informing me that they think I'm dead ?" I asked rhetorically, giving him a hard look.

"Now's not the time Elena. Get up and lets go to lunch before I pick you up and take you myself." Michael informed her, his face never changing as if he did this every day.

"No." I pushed. When he started walking towards me I immediately got up.

"Okay, okay, okay !" I stopped him before he could touch me. Obviously there was no other choice but to go. Besides the more I know about this place the better chance I have of escaping.

I was starting to get the picture that this place was huge and that it would be hard to escape from being there were guards at every single door, even the ones that led into the lunch area. I felt more scared the more security measures I noticed. I followed Michael through the cafeteria doors. The tables were on a lower floor, two steps down from where the food bar was.

Michael led me to the food bar and stopped.

"Go ahead and grab a tray and take whatever you want. Nutrition is important here so you guys can perform your best." As much as I didn't want to eat to prove a point, I picked up a tray anyway. I was starving and something told me I was going to be needing some energy.

Today on the food bar there was salmon, drizzled in lemon champagne sauce with baked asparagus and green beans cooked with olive oil and an orange. It looked delicious so I took some of everything and grabbed a low fat milk at the end of the bar that was on top of ice cubes along with water and cranberry juice.

"I want you to meet somebody that I think you'll get along with." He motioned me to follow him to where all of the tables were. I did. He stopped in front of a girl with topaz eyes and light brown hair pulled back into a pony tail. She was sitting beside a guy with short blonde hair and blue eyes and in front of him there was a darker girl with pretty green eyes and medium black hair. She didn't look to friendly.

"Alex, this is Elena. Elena, this is Alex." He introduced us.

"Hey." She said, managing to pull together a warm smile. I just nodded my head.

"I want you to show her around after lunch." He told her, his hands crossed behind his back.

"Okay." She breathed before taking a small sip of her water.

"I'll see you guys later." Michael informed us before leaving. "Sit down." Alex ordered nicely. I sat down silently beside the darker skinned girl.

"This is Thom." She said, pointing to the guy beside her. "And that is Jaden." She said, pointing to the girl I was sitting beside. Thom said hi while Jaden just nodded.

"Do you have any questions ?" Alex asked, knowing how confused I looked.

"Uh…where am I exactly ?" Alex smiled looking down at her tray before answering. Probably because the question was so obvious to her, or maybe she had once asked the same thing.

"We are in a place called Division. I know the next question is why am I here. Michael doesn't really explain it that well so allow me. You are here to be trained to kill people for the government to help hide vital information that could make the people of this country go into a frenzy and not trust our government." She explained, clearly used to the idea.

I don't know why but my eyes started to get watery. Kill was the only word that I think I heard. She said 'kill' and then 'people'. Killing vampires were one thing but killing people ? I just couldn't imagine myself performing such an act cus' performing it would be.

"They don't make you kill somebody until the end of training don't worry too much." She commented, I guess seeing the expression on my face.

Authors P.O.V

Damon had been exploring the woods where Elena had died for about an hour and the only thing that he found that was suspicious was that their was no blood anywhere. He wasn't too worried though because he figured the police had to clean up after a 'messy' death for the sake of everyone.

Damon decided to go up into Elena's room instead and search for anything that would point to a murder.

So, he made his way back to Elena's house and knocked on the door. Jenna answered the door rather fast. She was probably making lunch.

"Damon, hi. What are you doing here ?" She asked, her eyes puffy as if she had just stopped crying.

"I was wondering if I could visit Elena's room."

"Why ?" Jenna asked, her voice tired. Damon wasn't expecting to have to come up with a reason.

"I wanted to show him something." Jeremy called down the stairs.

"Yeah." Damon lied.

"Oh, then please come in." She said walking back into the living room, leaving the door open for him.

Damon looked in the living room as he made his way upstairs and saw Jenna sitting on the couch, crumpled us tissues beside her.

"Are you here because you think a vampire killed Elena too ?" Jeremy asked as soon as Damon entered the top floor.

"Uh, something like that." He responded.

"So who do you think did it ?" Jeremy pushed, his anger rising.

"I don't know. I'm just trying to confirm for my own sake that it was an accident." He responded, wanting to get rid of this kid.

"How will snooping in her room confirm that ?" Jeremy asked, now a little annoyed.

"I don't know if it will or not, I just want to make sure there isn't anything that could lead me to think that it was a murder." Damon answered dully, turning to go into Elena's room.

"I already looked. I didn't find anything suspicious." Jeremy informed him as he turned Elena's door knob.

"I don't care what YOU found. I might just find something you didn't." He told him cockily as he shut Elena's door in his face.

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