Chapter 9

After I talked to Matt and Caroline, I went back to the boarding house. When I got there Zach was there. He was in the kitchen making dinner. I did not go into the kitchen. Even though we are related, I am aware that he does not trust me. His entire family was killed because of vampirism I feel every time he looks at me, a vampire, he thinks of how vampirism killed his family. I am a reminder to him of how vampirism can destroy people's lives.

Upon hearing Zach cooking, I went up the stairs and I went straight to my room. I walked up to my shelf and pulled out my journal from 1864. I went to the page where I wrote about the first time I met Katherine. My journal entry from the day I met Katherine started out with "Today, I met the most beautiful woman I have ever met. She has perfect olive skin. She has beautiful brown eyes. Her name is Katherine Pierce." As I was reading this entry, I could not stop thinking how she deceived me. I truly believed she was this beautiful inside and out woman, but she was not. She was a manipulative liar. I. I did not think she could be this awful being. I did not take the time to think and consider the fact that she may not be the person she pretended to be. I will not make the same mistake twice. I am going to make sure Elena is the sweet innocent girl she seems to be.

After I looked at old journal entries from 1864, I started writing in my new journal. I wrote all about what Matt and Caroline told me. I also wrote about how Elena seems to be, and how I think she may just be an innocent girl. I hope that Elena is the person I think she is. It would be a shame, if she was not.

It was finally night time. I went to bed early, since I was tired. While I was sleeping, I had a dream that was quite vivid. In the dream I was in Mystic Falls High School. I was standing by the lockers. A locker was opened. I took a couple of books and a couple of binders out of it. I was wearing a navy blue shirt and blue jeans with black boots. I looked down the hall to my right and I saw Elena wearing a black tank top, blue jeans, and black Converse shoes with her hair down talking to Caroline who had her hair in a ponytail and was wearing a white sundress with black sandals. I knew it was Elena and not Katherine in the dream, because Caroline said "goodbye Elena" when they finished talking.

After Caroline said goodbye, Elena walked toward me. When she got close to me, we faced toward each other and then Elena said "Hi, Stefan". Before I could say hi back, she kissed me. The kiss was a short kiss, but it was sweet and romantic. After the kiss, Elena said to me "Let's go to class now".

"Alright" I said and then we went into a classroom where there were a few students and a teacher already there. In the dream we went to six different classes together and we had lunch together. I was so happy. I constantly was smiling. At the end of the day, I drove me and Elena to the boarding house in my red 1963 Porsche. When we got to the boarding house, we went straight to my bedroom. We both sat on my bed and then we started kissing.

A minute after kissing, Elena pulled. She said "Do you know how easy it is to fool you".

"What are you talking about, Elena" I asked her.

"Remember when you were seventeen years old and a poor orphan girl stayed with you?"

"No", I whispered.

"Yes. I am not Elena. I am Katherine." After 'Elena' said this, I woke up.

That dream was so vivid. It makes me doubt my perception of Elena right now. I know there is a chance she might not be the person that I think she is. But I think she is the person that she seems to be. My biggest fear is that she will end up being Katherine and I will make the same mistake that I did in 1864. I cannot and will not make the same mistake twice. I will not be manipulated and deceived by Katherine again. I will find out the truth whether if it is Elena is just a sweet young girl or if she is Katherine, an evil manipulative being.