Waking up to my alarm I just want to go to sleep again but convince myself to get up and go to class. I seriously need to get better not only is Damon a psychotic vampire but there is another vampire in town who turned Logan and I have no idea who they are or what they can do. After finally being done with my classes, taking a shower and getting ready for school I'm sitting in the kitchen waiting for the coffee machine to beep. "Morning Elle. Did you make coffee for me?" Jer asks. Why does Jer have to be so cheerful I liked it when he was all emo. In response to his question I glare at him while finally taking a cup of coffee. "Why are you in a bad mood?" Jer asks again. "I'm tired and my body hurts and you're not helping." I tell him almost yelling, he just raises his hands in mock surrender to which I give him a sarcastic smile. "Do you need a ride?" I ask him after finishing my second cup of coffee. "Yeah I do. Feeling better?" Jer asks. "So much better." I tell him even though I knew he was being sarcastic. We both leave after a few minutes. "So I was hoping you would give me the Gilbert journals." Jer tells me. Huh. "Why?" I ask him. "Well I'm writing a history paper for extra credit and I know you still have some. So will you give them to me?" Jer tells me. At least he's trying. "Yeah sure I'll give you after school. And you can ask if you need help." I tell him. "Thanks Elle." Jer says. We reach school and I go to find Caroline or Matt and Tyler whoever I find first while Jer is heading towards Mr.Saltzman.

"Hey Matt, Ty." I give them both a hug when I see them at their lockers. "Hey Ari." They both greet. It's so creepy when they talk in unison. "How's Vicki doing Matt?" I ask. He didn't have bite marks and didn't call in the middle of the night so that's a good thing. "She's doing better actually. Guess Stefan did a good job at helping her." Matt replies. Guess so. "That's great. At least you don't have to be worried all the time now." I tell him. Unless she tries to kill you. "Yeah she's actually studying too. I don't know how to thank Stefan. Or you." Matt says. Me? I only put vervain in her system and I'm actually shocked she didn't kill me for that. "Why are you thanking me? I didn't do anything." I ask them. Why do they look so confused? Okay seriously what did I do? "Hey Ari, can I talk to you?" That was Stefan. Didn't he leave school? "Yeah sure. See you guys later." I tell Matt and Tyler and followed Stefan.

"Hey what's wrong? You seem very worried." I ask him as soon as we are out of the school. "I think there might be a slight problem. I think your sister is with Damon. She doesn't have vervain necklace and I think she was in an accident." Stefan says. Woah, too much information in a minute. "Wait slow down. She was in an accident? Why would she be with Damon? And how do you know she doesn't have her vervain necklace?" I ask. Was last night a joke or something? No, not important right now. My sister is with a psychopath.

"Look before coming to meet you I called her to tell her about everything and I think she took it a different way and came to meet me and saw a picture of Katherine, left and met with an accident and then Damon took her." Stefan explains. Okay? "Why does Katherine's picture matter? And is she okay?" I ask. It's too early for problems. "Katherine and Elena look alike and I don't know if she is okay." Stefan elaborates. Look alike? "How alike? Like a doppelganger or like we do?" I ask. "Like a what?" Stefan questions. Seriously? He is a 100 years old. "A doppelganger. A living double. Like identical twins. Getting the idea?" I ask. I'm not in the mood. "Yeah like that. What do we do?" Stefan asks. "Uh call?" I suggest. "Ari. I mean what do we do since she doesn't have her vervain necklace? Damon can compel her." Stefan says seriously. I was clueless. "I don't know Stef, what can we do sitting here? I mean we can call and make sure she's okay. I can't think of anything else. Wait can witches track people?" I ask him.

He just left. Of course he cares more about her. I can't believe I actually thought he was telling the truth last night. Elena probably told him to pretend to like me, she's done it before.

I'm so stupid. I'm not going to cry over some boy. I'm better than that. Ugh. "Hey Ari, you okay?" I hear and look up to see Caroline. "Hey Care, yeah I'm fine. I think I got something in my eye." I tell her. I give her a small smile to make it seem more believable. She doesn't look like she believes me. For the rest of the school day Caroline stays with me and even though she doesn't ask if I was okay again I know she was trying to be good friend. That is why we are here shopping since she doesn't want me to be alone and shopping is always the answer it seems. "Caroline can we just go home watch movies and easy ice cream please?" I ask her. "We will as soon as you tell me what happened." Care informs me. There is no winning with her I know it. "Okay of we go home I will tell you. But you have to promise no judging and we don't talk about it for the rest of the night." I tell her.

She finally agreed and we both left after grabbing ice cream and snacks. And so I tell her everything well leaving out the supernatural part. She thankfully doesn't judge me and doesn't talk about it afterwards. It was like old times, we watched movies and shows, she told me about her problems and I told her about mine. We both fangirled over the avengers and Sam and Dean. It was fun until Stefan called and told me he wanted to talk, so I told Caroline we will have a sleepover soon and then left towards home. It was a long walk and I was dreading what Stefan had to say although I had a fairly good idea, I didn't want it to be true and hoped he would apologize and things would be fine between us.

After reaching home I see Stefan sitting outside on the porch swing. "Hey." I greet him and sit down next to him. "Hey, Elena's fine. She's inside." Stefan tells me. "Okay, is that what you wanted to talk about?" I ask him. Are you back together? Was this some sort of a game? "No actually. I wanted to ask you something." Stefan informs me. That confused me. "Sure. What is it?" I ask him but I really didn't want to know. "Last night, you didn't answer my question, do you like me?" Stefan asks. Huh. I thought kiss was enough of an answer. Apparently not. "Yeah I do like you. Do you? You seemed very worried about Elena. Did you kiss me as a joke? Did Elena tell you do that?" I fire questions at him. Please say no. "What? No, I do like you. Why would Elena ask me to do that? Do you really think that low of her?" Stefan questions with disbelief. Of course I do. "What do you think she is? Some saint who would never do anything wrong? I'm sorry to inform you but she is far from a saint. And as for thinking low of her I have the right to. She's done this before. She told a guy I liked to pretend to like me. If I wasn't best friends with Tyler and Matt you don't know the humiliation I would have had to face. And if you think so saintly of her and so selfish of me go date her Stefan, because I don't want someone who is going to judge me and berate me. You should go. I was stupid enough to think you actually like me, great job tell Elena she won and stay with her." I tell him and get up and left.

I am sitting in my room trying to get my mind off of Stefan, it wasn't working. Why would I do that to myself again? Come on Ari focus on werewolves. "Come in." I say out loud when I hear a knock on the door. It was Jer. "Hey everything okay?" He asks me. Why would he ask that? "Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" I tell him with a slight smile. "Well because I saw Stefan walk into Elena's room. Did she...?" Jer trails off. He didn't need to finish the question. "I think so. Don't worry about it. I'm fine. Besides it's my own fault for actually believing him. Go to sleep." I tell him. "Okay." He says and lies down on my bed. "What? I'm not going to leave you alone. What kind of a brother do you take me to be?" He says in a serious tone when I givee him a questioning look. I laugh and lie down next to him. We didn't talk but I know he wanted to. "What is it? You can tell me." I tell him honestly. "I think somethings up with Vicki. She didn't come to school today and when I went to her house she was high I don't think it was pills she was high on though." Jer says and I sit upright at that. "What? Jer, Matt could be in danger. I should call him and Stefan. Shit this is bad." I rush out.

I start looking for my phone and immediately call Matt. "Hey Matt, are you home?" I ask as soon as he answers. "Hey Ari, no not yet. Why what's wrong?" Matt asks worriedly. What do I tell him I whisper to Jer. He just shrugs. That's helpful. "Uh no. I just wanted to ask if you could check on Tyler." I tell him. What? Please don't ask questions. "Sure, did he call you or something? Did his dad do something?"Matt asks me. Now what? "Uh yeah I called him and he wouldn't answer so I just got worried. Can you please check?" I plead to him. Just agree please. "Yeah sure. I'll call you. Okay?" Matt assures me. "Yeah. Thanks Matt. Bye." I tell him. "Bye Ari. And don't worry too much." Matt says and cuts the call. Okay that went as well as expected. Now Stefan. Hopefully he's still here.

"Oh Stefan, thank god. I really need to talk to you." I tell him when we bump into each other in the hallway. "Yeah I wanted to talk to you too Ari. You first." Stefan says. What? I'm just going ignore that. "Jeremy just came and told me that Vicki was high. How is that even possible? I didn't think vampires could get high." I practically rush out the words. He looks confused and frustrated. "Yeah, vampires don't get high on drugs easily. Wait, what about Matt?" He states. "Don't worry I told him to go check on Tyler for me. What do we do about Vicki? You aren't invited in her house." I tell him. We both look at each other and then head towards the door.

"Okay so you go in and empty a whole vervain syringe in her and then drag her out okay?" Stefan confirms the plan. This is a stupid plan, but it's the only one we have. "Yeah okay. Simple enough." I tell him. He looks at me for a minute and then kisses me. Not again. "Please be careful. And I do like you Arielle Gilbert. I didn't do it for Elena and I do want to work things out. So please be careful." He says and with that he kisses me again. "I will be I promise." I say and get out. I ring the doorbell and wait for Vicki to answer. As soon as she does I ask her, "Hey Vicki, is Matt here?" She looks like she wants to pounce on me and devour me. "Yeah he's inside. Come in." Vicki tells me. Yup she's gonna eat me. I step in and she closes the door behind us. "So how have you been? Matt's really happy you're home." I ask her since I want to prolong my possible death. "Yeah I'm doing much better. I'm happy to be home too. He's in the living room." She tells me and we both head in the direction. Just as we reach she slams me against the wall and tries to compel me to not scream. I bite down on my lip as she bites into my neck and take the syringe from my pocket into my hand and jab it in her neck. She releases me and starts staggering backwards. I hold my neck in pain and watch as she falls down. I quickly head towards the kitchen where I know the first aid kit would be. I had to be quick to dress up my wound I don't know how long she will be like that. After dressing up my wound I proceed to drag her towards the door where I find Stefan already waiting. He looks at me with worry but I tell him I am fine and put Vicki in my car. "What now?" I ask.

And that's the question that led me to stand in the Salvatore basement outside the cell I had found when looking for vervain. "So what are you going to do now? We can't just keep her here. People would ask questions." I ask Stefan while he is locking the door. I look around and hope Damon won't come and didn't hear us. "Ari, Damon isn't here. I'm going to try and help her. I think I'm going to call Lexi too. I'm sure she would be happy to help." Stefan says. That's a good idea. "What are you going to tell Matt, Ari?" He asks. "I'll just tell him I found Vicki high when I went to look for him and I thought it would be better if she was with you, since you could help her detox or whatever." I tell him while trying not to wince at the pain in my neck. "Okay, sounds like a good plan. How's your neck?" Stefan asks me. It hurts like hell. "It's fine. Doesn't hurt much." I tell him. We stare at each other not knowing what to say. "Why is this so awkward? Please just tell me if we are together or not." I ask him after I couldn't just take standing there anymore. "We are together if it's what you want. I like you very much and I told Elena today that we can't be together. I'm sorry for what I said earlier." Stefan apologizes. "It's okay. And I do want to be together. I like you very much too." I tell him and we end up sharing a few sweet kisses. That's it. He drives me home and gives me a good night kiss too.

I call Matt as soon as I reach my room but he doesn't answer so I decide to talk to him tomorrow. I change into something comfortable and change the dressing on my neck since I had done it hurriedly before and it was messy. Jer was already asleep so I just laid next to him. I couldn't believe Stefan and I were together. The little girly part of me wanted to call Caroline and tell her everything but I suppressed it and decided to try and sleep since I had to wake up early again. But I just couldn't I had to talk to someone.

So I call Caroline and tell her what Stefan said and how we kissed. She squealed, she actually squealed very loudly might I add. "Gosh Ari, I'm so happy for you. You have to tell me every little detail tomorrow." Care orders me. That was expected. "Caroline you know me well enough to know that's not going to happen." I tell her seriously. "Oh yes it is. If we think about it Stefan is your first actual boyfriend and I want to know everything and you will tell me." Care informs me. Well then I am, the thing about Caroline is she doesn't stop till she gets what she wants. So it's better not to argue. "Fine I'll try my best. But now it's your turn. What's going on between you and Matt? Are you dating?" I ask her and I hope so they both need each other. Matt needs someone like Caroline to help him get over Elena and Caroline needs someone like Matt to keep her grounded. "Uh yeah sortof. You don't mind do you? Cause I really like him. He's so nice and hot. You don't hate me do you?" Care asks. Why would I hate her? "No Care I don't hate you. I think it's amazing and I'm really happy for you. You know we seriously do need to talk. How about we have go shopping and then have a sleepover tomorrow?" I ask her and hope she says yes. I've missed her so much. "Yeah that sounds great. But tomorrow there's the school dance. Maybe day after?"Care asks. Ugh I hate dances in general. But I have to go Caroline won't just let me stay home. "So what? We can go shopping for a costume since I don't have one, then we can go to the dance together and then go back to your house. It won't be problem right?" I suggest. Please say yes. "Yeah sure. Sounds perfect. See you tomorrow?" She says. From her voice I could tell she wanted things to go back to how they used to be again. "Yeah, see you tomorrow Care. Good night." I say with a slight yawn. "Good night Ari." She says. With that I cut the call and lie back on my bed.

I take out the journals Jer wanted and kept them nearby so that I won't forget to give them to him. I take out my own journal and start writing down the information I found on werewolves. There were a lot, many different believes and other things, I shortlisted the way that trigger that part of them. The only ones I found acutely possible were a bit scary. There was one that said you would have to kill someone, then another that they would change at a certain age, they were to bitten or had to drink some sort of formula or something. The other more gore were that they would have to sacrifice a child or perform satanic ritual. After a while I couldn't keep my eyes open anymore so I text Matt to call me as soon as he can and lie back down on my bed and immediately fall asleep.