The Vincentio II
Chapter Seven
The McDaniel Family
Val's POV…
"He's on the rebound," Elena said as she stood in the kitchen.
"Don't forget the raging family issues," I added as I sat on the lounge facing away from them.
"Why are you here?" Elena asked.
"Because you forced me into your car," I replied without turning to face her.
"Well, at least it's an ex-girlfriend," Jenna said.
"She's right," I commented.
I knew Elena would have screwed up her face. But she forced me into her car and she came here. If she didn't want me commenting on everything she said she should have dropped me off at my house.
"Wait till you date a guy with mommy issues or cheating issues or amphetamine issues," Jenna said.
The front door opened and I leant forward to see who it was, Jeremy.
Thank god, I thought as I stood.
"Jeremy," Jenna said.
As far as I could tell Jeremy went straight for the stairs as I walked towards the foyer.
"Jeremy, where were you?" Jenna asked as she stormed towards the bottom of the stairs.
I decided to avoid anything she had planned so I stayed in the sitting room. The sitting room is the room to your left when you come through the front door.
"More stoner stories, look Jenna, I get it, you were cool once and that's," Jeremy said as he stopped on the stairs. "Cool," he finished.
Jeremy turned and continued up the stairs.
"Oh, no, no, no," Jenna said before she threw the apple she had in her hand at him.
I couldn't help but smile. But that smile faded away when Jeremy turned around. I was technically on his side.
"Why? Why did you do that?" Jeremy asked.
"Listen up, quit ditching class or you're grounded, no discussion," Jenna said.
"Parental authority, I like it, sleep tight," Jeremy said before continuing up the stairs.
As Jenna headed back to the kitchen I made my way up the stairs to Jeremy's room. The door was closed and most likely locked. I tried the door anyway and it was locked.
"Jeremy if you don't open the door I will kick your ass," I said.
"You can't if I don't open the door," he replied.
"That won't stop me," I said.
I heard movement from inside the room and the next thing I heard was the door being unlocked. I opened the door and walked into his room before I closed the door after myself.
Damon's POV…
For a while I sat in my room with Val's skateboard. It was just simple black but it had been hand painted as if there was something underneath the black paint that she didn't want to look at. I didn't want to find out what it was because I didn't care that much about what she was trying to hide.
Val was different to Nicolette. Nicolette was very shy and as far as I knew, Stefan and I were her only friends, but she always liked me more. Val on the other hand was very outspoken, she would say what she thought and I had noticed she knew a lot of tricks that messed with people's head to get what she wanted. I liked that a lot.
When I realised that I was thinking about Nicolette and Val I decided to leave. I wasn't going to sit around and worry about Nicolette anymore. She was gone and I didn't care about her because I only cared about one person, myself.
Stefan's POV…
"What is Damon doing here? Why did he come home?" Zach asked.
"Because I came home, he wants to make my life miserable," I replied. "It's how he enjoys his," I added.
"Well he's putting us at risk, this girl in the hospital could talk," Zach said.
"She won't, I took care of her," I replied remembering my short trip to the hospital.
"You're sure."
I sighed as I continued to get ready for tonight.
"I'm not sure, Zach," I said. "I don't know how well it worked, I'm not as strong as Damon," I added.
"What happens if it doesn't work?" Zach asked.
"I don't know," I said. "I'll deal with it."
"Is she worth it, Uncle Stefan? This girl you came back for," Zach asked.
I didn't say anything because I wasn't sure what to say. It wasn't just Elena that I came back for. Sure at first it was but after meeting Val, I'm now staying because of both of them. Elena because I liked her a lot and Val because I missed having a friend like Nicolette and I was hoping that since they looked the same that I could sort of have that friendship again, a human friendship.
Zach didn't know about Val. What I mean is he didn't known that Nicolette and Val looked the same? Well as far as I knew he didn't know because I hadn't told Zach about her and I knew Damon wouldn't.
Val's POV…
Later that night I wanted to stay at home but my mother forced me to go to the stupid Night of the Comet thing in the town square. Apparently as a descendent of a founding family I should attend these sorts of things even though I didn't want too. Luckily I managed to find Jeremy which meant I didn't have to stay with my mother.
We were inside The Grill talking when Jeremy saw Vicki. I decided to stay at the table I was sitting, but I couldn't help notice Tyler staring at them. I was sitting close enough to hear their conversation.
"Vicki, what are you doing here?" Jeremy asked.
"Fighting with Robert about my schedule, you'd think getting ripped up by a rapid animal would merit an extra sick day," Vicki replied.
I could tell that there was something between them, I just didn't know what and I didn't want to go into that because of so many different reasons.
I remained with Jeremy for most of the night until I found myself talking with Stefan.
We were walking through the town square talking. Since I had forgotten to talk to Stefan about it at his house the first time and Elena dragged me the second time I decided now was an okay time.
"I was wondering, since you know a lot, do you know anything my family? Like back in the day," I asked hoping he understood what I meant.
"I don't know much, just what I've read," Stefan said. "The McDaniel Family was very important in this town until they disappeared."
"Why did they disappeared?" I asked.
"I don't know, no one knew. I have read the journals from that time and no one knew what happened."
"Okay," I sighed.
Stefan and I continued to walk around until Vicki's brother came up to us. I think his name was Matt I have never really had the time to find out or remember.
"Hey," Matt said.
"Hey," Stefan replied.
I decided to remain quite because I didn't know Matt that well and I'm pretty sure he had a strong dislike of me.
"Have you seen my sister?" Matt asked the both of us.
I was a little surprised that Matt had bothered to ask me. Then I realised that Vicki and I were close enough and that I should have really known where she was. But I was thinking about myself too much like normal.
"No, sorry," Stefan said.
Matt looked at me and all I did was shake my head.
"Can't find her, she's missing," Matt said.
"We'll keep an eye out for her," Stefan said as he nodded.
Stefan and I turned to leave. I wasn't sure if we were going to look for Vicki or not.
"Hey," Matt said getting our attention.
Stefan stopped walking which made me stop as well. We turned back to Matt.
"I saw you at the hospital yesterday," Matt said to Stefan.
"Did you?" Stefan asked after stepping closer to Matt in a non-threatening way.
"What were you doing there?" Matt asked.
I started to get interested. Stefan was new in town so why would he be at the hospital. I hadn't heard anything about Zach getting hurt.
"Visiting," Stefan said.
I started to get confused. My brain started to think about people he could possibly be visiting and I couldn't think of one person. Well I could but they had no name. I guessed that someone from when he was younger was in the hospital and he was visiting them. It wasn't too much of a stretch.
"Visiting?" Matt asked.
There was silence. It suddenly became very awkward.
"You know, Elena and me. We've known each other a long time and we might not be together right now, but I look out for her and I'll always look out for her," Matt said to Stefan.
I wanted to walk away at this point because it was really not my sort of conversation but I really didn't want to interrupt.
Stefan nodded and it became silent again.
"Excuse me," Stefan eventually said. "I hope we can talk more another time, Val," Stefan said before walking away.
I stood there with a confused Matt. He wasn't the only confused one of course. I was a little confused myself. Stefan just suddenly needed to leave and there was no reason why he had to leave.
Matt looked at me and I sort of awkwardly looked back at him.
"What?" I asked.
"Whatever you have planned with Jeremy…" he started.
"Why does everyone think I have something planned for Jeremy? Can't I have a friend, god," I said before walking away.
I planned to find my mother but I decided that I should just walk home because I didn't want to wait for her to stop talking to her friend. That could take hours.
I walked home because I hadn't thought about my skateboard and my mother offered to drive. As I walked I started kicking a small rock along the footpath that was until Damon found me.
"Hello Val," he said.
I stopped walking and looked up from the rock and I saw Damon standing a couple of metres in front of me.
"Damon, what are you doing here?" I asked.
For some reason I was still a little angry from earlier and I really didn't have or want the time to deal with Damon.
"I wanted to see you," he said.
"Stalker much," I asked.
"Very," Damon replied.
"Creep," I said as I started to walk around him.
I don't know if what I heard was what really happened but I swear I heard Damon growl at me. Like he wasn't creepy enough now he growls at people. I didn't turn back as I continued to walk home. Luckily when I got home my father was gone.
Damon's POV…
After messing with Stefan that night I wanted to see Val and luckily I found her walking alone. I appeared in front of her but she seemed to not notice because she was distracted.
"Hello Val," I said to get her attention.
She stopped walking and looked up from the rock she was kicking.
"Damon, what are you going here?" she asked with a hint of anger in her voice.
"I wanted to see you," I said truthfully.
It had been the truth because I had wanted to see her. I wanted to be around her. Every time I told myself that I had no emotions I would always think about Val and they would never leave. A part of me wanted to kill her because she was a weakness to me and if anyone found out they could use her against me. But there was another part, a stronger part that couldn't bring any harm to her.
"Stalker much," she asked.
"Very," I replied.
"Creep," she said before she walked around me.
I growled at her for calling me a creep and walking away from me. But when I went to grab her I couldn't, it felt like a force was stopping me but I knew it was all in my head. So I decided to go off and find Caroline.
Val's POV…
I was sitting in the living area watching the TV. My mother still hadn't come home yet and I wasn't surprised. She always ended up getting stuck in a conversation with her friends. But this meant I could get away easily which was a plus for me.
As I sat there I couldn't help think about Damon and the way he acted. There was something odd about him. Eventually my thoughts drifted to Stefan and his odd behaviour. When I told Stefan that it didn't bother me that we had that odd conversation in the cemetery at the time it hadn't. But now it was.
Everything that was going on was confusing me but that confusion faded away when I changed the channel on the TV. A movie was playing on the channel I had switched too and I quickly realised that it was my favourite movie. Well our favourite movie. My brother and I liked the same movie and as I sat there watching the movie I couldn't help but feel the tears built up in my eyes. I missed him so much.
AN: I just love the fact that no one knows what happened to the McDaniel family. Well technically there are people that know but I'm not going to tell you who, yet.
