Chapter 12

Audrey opened her eyes and stared her bedroom ceiling. All that had happened was just so overwhelming she couldn't deal with all of that without a goodnight sleep. She yawned and stretched her hands.

"Time to get up sleepy head," Damon's voice called out. Audrey startled so much when she saw him smirking on the other side of the bed. She covered her face with her hands and grunted.

"Oh god," Audrey whispered. "You scared me."

"Sorry but today is Mayor Lockwood's memorial," Damon sat down on the bed and threw his legs on it. "You need to be there, remember?"

"Oh how could I forget. My ex-boyfriend's dad died and I need to be there to comfort him. And because of that doppelgänger Katherine I wasn't even able to sleep well."

"Aww, would you like me to help you to sleep?" Damon wiggled his brows. Audrey glanced at him with a tiny chuckle. He just smirked back at her and relaxed on her bed. Audrey sighed and got out of her bed. She walked over her wardrobe and lowered her top at the same time. Audrey glanced herself from the mirror next to her wardrobe. Then her eyes went to the rose colored armchair.

Audrey had laid two outfits there last night and she didn't know which one she was going to wear. The one with classy black long sleeved shirt and dark jeans with a leather jacket or the one with dark purple shirt, black jeans and a denim jacket.

"Okay I know I'm going to regret this but; which one? The one on the left or the one on the right?" Audrey asked and stared her clothes with a questioning face. She felt Damon speed next to her and measure the outfits.

"Definitely the one with the leather jacket," Damon smiled crookedly which made Audrey scoff.

"Okay so I'm going with the one you did not pick," Audrey looked at him under her brows. He shook his head playfully and crossed his arms over his chest. Audrey lowered her look and selected her next words carefully.

"So how was your kiss with Katherine?" Audrey asked and raised her eyes. Damon wasn't in her room anymore. She rolled her eyes with a tiny scoff.

"Of course," she sighed and started to take her clothes off to go to the shower. With her bra's and panties she walked to the bathroom, locked all the doors and turned the shower on. After taking all of her clothes off she stepped in. The water was warm and as it poured over her it made her skin shiver. Audrey shampooed her hair and body and let the water wash it off.

Sometimes Audrey thought that she should leave town. Maybe all the pain of losing her parents would go away. Maybe she would forget about the vampires, doppelgängers and everything. But she couldn't leave Elena and Jeremy, she would have to take them with her.

"Audrey! You ready?" She was woken from her thoughts by her little brother Jeremy.

"Yeah Jer, just a minute then I'm ready," Audrey yelled to her little brother.

Audrey sighed and closed her eyes. She didn't want to go to the Lockwood memorial, but she had to.

After she had showered she put a little bit of makeup on and dried and braided her naturally wavy hair. She put on the purple shirt, denim jacket and black jeans and a pair of boots. Audrey glanced at the clock on her night table.

"Oh shit," she whisper yelled and stormed to her wardrobe to grab her phone that was laying on it and ran out of her room. Then she stopped. Where could she get vervain? Audrey ran back in her room back to her wardrobe. It had a wooden jewelry-box on top of it. She opened it; it had jewels on the right said and a vervain flower on the left. Audrey grabbed it putting it into her pocket and left her room. She was happy to see Jenna's irritated face at the bottom of the stairs.

"Good, you're ready. We are all waiting."

Audrey smiled and got down the stairs. Jenna glanced at her with a meaningful look.

"I don't appreciate you having guests so early in the morning," Jenna raised her other brow.

"What guests?" Audrey ignored Jenna's question and walked past her. Elena and Jeremy were already in the car which made Audrey jog over to it, Jenna walking right behind her.

"Let's go," Jenna said and watched Audrey get into the car.


The Lockwood mansion looked as sad as always. In Audrey's mind it wasn't glorious, it was just sad, at least after Tyler's father died. Audrey glanced onto her left and looked at Jeremy. He seemed sad, maybe this brought up memories about mom and dad. It did for Audrey at least. As Jenna stopped the car Audrey stumbled out. She hated cars, especially when she was in them with Elena, it made it extra hard for her. Audrey heard the car doors slam open and she felt someone take her hand.

"Come on, let's get this over with," Elena's voice got to her ears and she sighed from relief.

"Okay," what came out of Audrey's mouth was a silent whisper.

"Looks like the whole town has turned out," Jenna said and walked besides Elena and Audrey with Jeremy.

"Yeah. Well he is... he was the mayor," Elena breathed.

"Why don't they save it for the funeral?" Jeremy asked. That was exactly what Audrey thought, but she guessed this was the way to let the Lockwood family know how sorry everyone was. Even though Mayor Lockwood was a complete jerk. Every time she went to Tyler's his look gave her goosebumps. Though she wasn't at Tyler's so often because Carol Lockwood couldn't stand the sight of her.

"That's what people do. The Lockwoods were here for us when we went through this. It'll be quick; we'll drop off the food and pay our respects and go," Jenna tried to be optimistic but as soon as Audrey laid her eyes on Damon, who was standing at the porch with a drink in his hand, she knew she had to talk to him and it wasn't going to be that pleasant.

"In and out? It sounds like a plan," Jeremy said with a chuckle.

"You guys go ahead, I'll be right there, okay?" Audrey said as they got up the stairs to the porch. Damon smirked to her as she started walking towards him.

"We need to talk, about the kiss," Audrey gulped and crossed her arms over her chest, staring him straight in his icey blue eyes.

"Hi to you too, I am doing great, by the way. I am walking on sunshine Audrey," Damon smiled wickedly and took a sip from his drink.

"Damon."

"Audrey."

"We should be able to talk about this. Damon I need to know what's going on in your mind. We are close enough," Audrey smiled in the end of her sentence.

"I kissed you; I thought you kissed me back. Doppelgänger hijinks ensued. How do you think I'm doing?" Damon's words were like knives. The worst part was that Audrey didn't know how to respond to that. She just stared at him, stiff. Audrey felt like she couldn't move, just stared at him.

"I think that you are hurt," Audrey uttered out. She felt like the words weren't coming from her mouth. Damon seemed amused from Audrey's attempt to see how he felt.

"What? I don't get hurt, Audrey."

"Yes you do! You just don't admit that you get hurt. You get angry and do something stupid," Audrey mumbled and avoided eye contact for a moment.

"Damon to be honest I'm confused," she continued and stroked her denim jacket.

"Why? Why are you so surprised that I would kiss you?" Damon took a step closer and narrowed his eyes on hers. She slightly shook her head and now, took a step closer to him.

"No I'm not surprised you'd kiss me," she glared Damon's face with a disappointed look. "I'm surprised you didn't recognize me from Katherine."

Now that Audrey had the last word, she glanced at Damon's ice blue eyes, turned around and walked away. His stare was burning the back of her head. She was really hurt that Damon didn't recognize her from Katherine.

Audrey tried to find Tyler, but he was no where to be seen. It was kind of sad really; she wanted to be there with him, comfort him. Carol Lockwood was happy to have Audrey's respects and sorries, so Audrey settled to that. She didn't want to force Tyler to be around her, at least the memories were still painful, to her.

Audrey walked to a waiter who had champagne and grabbed a glass. She smiled to herself as she walked into a room where were no people. The room was peaceful, laced with warm and pale colors.

"Wow I didn't really expect another one."

Audrey froze. She felt every muscle in her body tense up and her heartbeat got higher. She dropped the glass of champagne. A swoosh and she was in front of her face. Katherine Pierce's wicked smile stared at her.

"Well say something doll face."

Audrey didn't stay there; she turned around, prepared to run as far away as possible. There was just one single problem: vampires outrun humans with their eyes closed.

"Kind of rude don't you think?" Katherine swooshed in front of Audrey. Katherine smiled wickedly and ran her eyes on Audrey. She was shivering, she was scared. Katherine had her hair curled and really all black everything outfit, which reminded Audrey of the outfit she was supposed to wear.

"Why do you look at me like that?" Audrey backed two steps. Katherine snickered, sped to Audrey, grabbed her by her throat and pinned her against the wall. Katherine showed her vampire face. Her eyes turned red with veins appearing underneath. Katherine laughed low and silently.

"You make me curious," Katherine smirked with her grip tightening around Audrey's throat.

"Yeah and why is that?" Audrey barely got out. Her breathing became harder and harder.

"Two doppelgängers born at the same time, doesn't that make you curious?"

"No."

"Yeah earlier it did," Katherine giggled and let go of Audrey's throat. Audrey frowned and felt her throat taking a deep breath.

"You were the one who compelled me." It all hit to her. But she didn't know why. "But why?"

"Just for fun. You realized real quick I wasn't Elena, so. But you know what's funny, before Isobel found out I didn't know you existed."

Audrey scoffed and Katherine smirked again.

"Don't you know how to smile?"

Katherine speed to her, inches away from Audrey.

"You and I are so much a like, Audrey. You just don't want to admit it," Katherine whispered to her. She grabbed the collar of Audrey's jacket and pushed her back against the wall, again.

"We are not a like," Audrey spat out, staring daggers at Katherine.

"Oh really? Because I've seen how you look at Damon, and that look isn't as innocent as you want it to be. Never thought what would it be like to sleep with him? Never have you thought how his lips taste like?" Katherine looked at Audrey wickedly as she started to use compulsion.

"You will forget this conversation," Katherine compelled her. She realized to close her eyes and after a swoosh she opened them. Katherine was gone; the room was as empty as it had been when Audrey was there alone. Audrey glared around and started walking forward.

"I'm wearing vervain, bitch."