Chapter 10

It was finally graduation day and I couldn't be more excited or ready. After the incident with Brad there was a lot of talk, but they did end up suspending him and not letting him graduate with us. I got a lot of glares from my old "friends" and heard a lot of whispers. I know they were pissed and I also know that they are the kind of people you don't want to piss off, so I did let Damon pay them all a visit and compel them not to do anything negative toward me. I told him that's all I wanted and he promised he wouldn't do or say anything else, I hope that was the case.

It was the last day that I would see most of these people, it was a sad experience but joyful all in one. More people spoke to me today then have the last 4 years, before I would have been smug about it but now I just spoke back like we had been friends. If you would have told me a couple months ago this would have been how graduation went I would have called you a liar. But I couldn't have asked for a better experience.

I couldn't help but look at Rayne and laugh, wondering how many times she had actually went through this. I found out that she was actually 17 when she was turned, so she's been this 17 year old girl for over a hundred years. We sat down one day and she told me about her life when she was still human and how both Damon and Stefan fell in love with the same girl who ended up being a vampire and turned them both. At first she wouldn't share with me how she turned but finally she did. It was an accident, her brothers didn't want to take her humanity away from her. Damon had given her vampire blood because she got hurt pretty bad and that was the best way to heal her. Then the next day Stefan was having a hard time controlling his urges and ended up attacking her, in the process killing her. She was only saved because she had Damon's blood in her system, it wasn't what they wanted for their little sister but they really didn't have a choice in the matter after that. I could tell by Rayne's tone of voice that the incident still effected them sometimes it's why they didn't like talking about it.

We all went out to eat after graduation, even though half of our guests didn't actually need food it was still a good experience having everyone together one more time. Bonnie even came up for graduation and was going to ride back with us, we were leaving in two days. We figured two days would give us just a little more time to finish getting everything and give me two full days to spend with my parents. I knew this was going to be hard on them, even harder than I had been the last few years.

I really did spend the next two days with my parents non-stop, I never thought we could have been as close as we had gotten in the last few months but I was grateful that I got the opportunity to show them how much I truly appreciated them before I left. I felt so bad about the way I treated them and the way I acted for so long, now knowing they never had to put up with any of it but they never gave up on me. I think that's where I got my inspiration from, that even though I thought I was a lost cause they knew that I never could be.

I was sitting with my parents while the guys were loading the last things on the U-Haul truck, I wanted to spend every remaining second with them until I walked out that door and headed to my new life. No one argued with me or seemed to care that I wasn't helping.

"I'm going to miss you guys so much" I gushed.

"It's going to be so different around here not having you walking the halls anymore, I'm not ready for you to be grown." My mom cried.

"I'll call every day, I promise" I told them once again.

My mom laughed, "I can see that happening at first but I bet your going to get busy there, you'll be learning a lot."

"I know but I'll never be too busy for you guys." I promised them.

"I hope so and don't forget we'll be down to visit in about a month, I wouldn't miss your 18th birthday." My mom reminded me about my upcoming birthday.

I never would have imaged that I would be all moved out of my house before the day I turned 18. I figured I'd be stuck there until at least then, then honestly I figured I'd be out on the street somewhere. It doesn't matter how much I think about what's happening now, it's still so hard to believe.

I sigh looking around my house one more time, looking at my parents. The sadness was there and I felt the tears starting to come again. I grabbed ahold of my mom and dad one last time before I headed out of the house. I walked over to Stefan and Bonnie in the U-Haul to make sure everything was ready, then headed to Damon and Rayne, climbing into Damon's car. I didn't say anything as I sat down, just looked at the house that I had grew up in. I felt the tears streaming down my cheeks. I knew this move was crucial and it was something I had to do but this place was my home, I knew no where I went in Mystic Falls would ever feel as at home as this place had. I kept my eyes on the house as we drove away, never taking my eyes off it even as it grew so small that I couldn't see it anymore.