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Chapter 9

Someone knocked on the door to Elena's room. I jumped as I was pulled out of my book. "Come in." I called. Emily opened the door. I looked at the brass clock on the night stand. It read five thirty on the dot. I was surprised that time had flown so fast while I was reading. I was really enjoying the book that Emily had brought for me to read.

"Hello, Elena. Did you enjoy reading?" Emily asked.

"I did indeed, Emily. This book is rather good."

"I am glad you like it." Emily said with a smile. "Would you like me to draw a bath for you Elena?"

"Thank you Emily that would be lovely."

Emily walked into the bathroom and started the bath. She then walked out and walked over to the closet. "What dress would you like to wear to dinner Elena?"

"Which one do you think, Emily? You know the formality of dinner here better than I do."

"I think that this dark green lace dress would be a perfect dress for dinner. You want to look attractive for the Salvatore brothers and for when you get introduced to Mr Giuseppe Salvatore." Emily said as she pulled the dress out of the armoire and showed it to me.

"I love it!" I said with a smile. I then remembered what Emily had said about looking attractive for the Salvatore brothers and then also remembered that she hadn't ratted me out about dating Stefan. "Emily?"

"Yes, Elena?"

"Why didn't you tell Katherine that I dated Stefan and that I was more than just friends with Damon and Stefan?" Elena whispered.

"It was not for me to tell, Elena. I was also worried that if I told her that you were dating Mr Salvatore that she would killed you." Emily said as she shook her head.

"Thank you, Emily." Elena said sincerely.

Emily smiled and went to turn off the bath. I followed her and once again was shocked at the sheer size of the house when I looked at the bath. The bath was large enough to be a small Jacuzzi and with the bubbles that Emily had put into the bath, I was sure that I could hide in them and nobody would ever find me. This thought was very tempting to me but I then remembered that Katherine was a vampire and could easily hear my heart beat as well as smell me.

Emily pulled me from my thoughts as she asked, "Can I help you get out of your dress Elena?"

"Yes please." I said as I walked over to Emily. Emily helped me get out of me dress and went and got something to tie my hair up with so that it didn't get wet. I then got in the bath. The bath was just what I needed as it eased all the stress from the day away. I washed herself and then got out of the bath. Emily then helped me get dressed into the dark green lace dress. The dress had another corset and I soon found out that I was going to have to learn to wear the corsets. The one upside that I found to the corsets were that they gave me a much more defined waist and they pulled everything in.

Once Emily was finished doing up my corset she said, "What would you like me to do with your hair, Elena?"

"Do whatever you feel like doing, Emily. I do not mind."

"Alright." Emily said with a giggle. "You are far easier to deal with than, Miss Katherine."

"I would hope that I am nothing like her!" I said bitterly. I would never be like Katherine!

Emily finished doing my hair about ten minutes later and I gasped when I saw it. Emily had put small braids into my hair that created a simple but beautiful hairstyle.

"Emily! I love it! Thank you! It is beautiful!"

"You are most welcome Elena! Now I must go get Katherine ready before she starts with her trouble for me not being there on time. Good luck Elena! I will see you later after dinner."

"Goodbye Emily. Thank you again!" I said as Emily closed the door.

I went and sat down in the chair next to the window. I was starting to get worried about dinner tonight. I was going to meet Giuseppe Salvatore for the first time. To make matters worse, I had to watch as Katherine toyed with Damon and Stefan like they were her play things. I opened my book so that I could read to take my mind off of everything.

This was going to a very long night.