This chapter is Elena's point of view. I hope you like it!

After Caroline and I got into the car Caroline asked, "Where do you want to go?"

"I want to go home." I said. "But I know I can't. Damon will be there." I paused. "I can't believe he did that to me. And then he lied about it. What was he thinking?"

Caroline almost answered my question but then I said, "Don't answer that. And how could I have been so stupid to not see that he was falling for Katherine?"

Caroline opened her mouth again but I said, "Don't answer that either."

"Why don't we just go for a drive?" Caroline suggested. "It'll give you some time to think."

"Yeah. That's sounds great. Thanks Car." I said.

She then drove off. While she drove I thought. My first issue that I needed to solve was where was I going to stay? But before I could think of any solutions I drifted off to sleep.

I woke up in Caroline's car that was parked in an unfamiliar parking lot.

"How long was I asleep for?" I asked.

"Three or four hours." Caroline said.

"I'm sorry Caroline. You could've woken me up. You didn't just have to sit here."

"No, it's fine. Trust me. You looked like you needed the sleep and I had my phone and a charger." She smiled.

"Thanks Car."

"Back to Mystic Falls?" She asked.

"Yeah." I said. "Where are we?"

"Whatever town is tinier then mystic falls and to the west." She laughed.

As we drove back I thought about where I could stay. I couldn't stay with Damon obviously. I couldn't stay with Caroline because she was staying with Klaus and that was so close to Katherine. Bonnie was gone. Stefan was in the same house as Damon so that was a no. Who else was there? I could ask Tyler but he was who knows where. The only person I could think of was Matt.

"Do you think Matt would be ok with me staying with him?" I asked Caroline.

"Probably." She said. "I think he's working right now but you could text him and I'll bet he'll answer on his break."

I then got out my phone and texted him, 'Hey, by any chance could I stay at your house for a little while? I'll explain later.'

Surprisingly and luckily he texted right back, 'Sure. I get off work in about an hour. Meet me at the end of my shift?'

'Sure' I replied. 'Thanks so much'.

'No problem' he texted back. 'See you soon.'

"He says I can." I told Caroline.

"Great." She said. "We'll be there in about five minutes."

The next five minutes went by very fast and we were at the grill before I knew it.

Caroline pulled up in front of the restaurant. "Thanks for driving me around Car." I said.

"No problem. If you need anything call me." She said.

"Thanks." I then got out of the car and went inside.

Matt was working the bar so I took a seat at it. "Hey Elena. So why do you need a place to stay?" When I didn't respond right away he added, "Did Damon finally break up with you and you want me back?" But he said it as a joke.

"Kind of the opposite." I said. "I broke up with him."

"Oh." He said, shocked. "I'm sorry, I wouldn't of said that if I had known."

"It's ok." I told him.

"Well my shift is over soon so we can go over to my place and talk if you want to." He told me.

"Thanks." I said.

"For now can I get you anything?" He asked.

"How about one of whatever your favorites is." I said.

"Coming right up."

As I waited I looked around the grill. There was a couple and two families but that was it. Business was slow tonight.

Matt handed me my drink and I said, "Thanks."

"Don't you want to know what it is?" He asked.

"Not really." I said.

As I drank my drink one of the families left and as they walked out Stefan walked in. What was he doing here?

He came over and sat next to me.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

"Am I not allowed to come here? It's a public place the last time I checked." Stefan said to annoy me. After ordering a drink he asked, "Do you want to talk about it?" Referring to my fight with Damon.

"With you? Not really." I said, finishing my drink.

"It'll make you feel better." He said.

Matt then handed him his drink and asked me if I wanted another.

"Could I just have a water?" I asked.

"Coming right up." He said.

Then I turned to Stefan. "Last time I checked we weren't exactly friends."

The other family walked out and as they walked out Adam walked in.

"Oh no." I said, quickly turning around.

"What?" Stefan asked.

"That guy! He has a crush on me and I am definitely not in the mood for him to come over here and flirt with me."

"Oh." Is all Stefan said.

"Here's your water." Matt said as he set a water down in front of me.

As I took a sip Adam sat down on the other side of me.

"Hey there Elena." He said.

"Aren't you a little young to be at a bar?" I asked him.

"Aren't you a little young and pregnant?" He asked.

"I'm drinking water." I said.

"Who said I wasn't going to?" He asked.

"Well why else would you sit at the bar?" I asked.

"I could be asking you the same thing." He said.

I almost said, 'I guess so' when I realized I had an excuse. "Stefan's drinking and I'm with him. This is Stefan by the way. Stefan, this is Adam."

"Hi Adam." Stefan said.

"Hi Stefan." Adam said as he looked at Stefan. He then asked, "So are you Elena's boyfriend?"

"Add and ex in there and the answer is yes." Stefan said.

"Oh." Adam said. "Then why are you guys here together?"

"Friends now." I said.

"More like future she's my future sister in law." Stefan said.

"You're marrying his brother?" Adam asked. "After you dated him?" When I didn't answer right away he said, "I'm sorry. I'm invading. You don't have to answer that."

"No it's fine." Stefan said.

"And I'm not sure about that after today." I mumbled.

Matt then came up and asked Adam what he wanted.

"I'll just have a water." He said.

"How much longer Matt?" I asked.

"About a half hour." He said.

I then turned to Adam and asked, "So how long do you think you'll be staying in Mystic Falls?"

But what happened next was all a blur. I felt someone or something behind me snap my neck and I instantly fell to the ground, unconscious.

When I was conscious again it was Adam that was saying, "Elena? Elena, are you ok?"

I sat up and said, "Yeah. I'll be ok. What happened?"

"I'm not sure. All the sudden you and Stefan were unconscious." He told me, but I was sure he was lying. Someone had snapped my neck. "Stefan's still unconscious."

"Adam? What really happened?" I asked, ignoring the fact that Stefan was unconscious. He'd probably gotten his neck snapped too, meaning he would be fine.

The look he had on his face told me it had to do with the supernatural so I said, "You can tell me Adam. I know that I should be dead right now, and you know it too, so why don't you explain to me what happened, and I'll explain to you why I'm alive. Fair enough?" Then I realized that he should still be in the hospital but I let the go for the moment.

For a minute he didn't respond, showing he was thinking about my deal. I guess he decided that it was a good deal because he said, "It was all really weird. Stefan snapped your neck all the sudden."

"Wait. Stefan snapped my neck?" I asked, confused. Then why was he unconscious?

"Yeah. And then this black smokey stuff came out of his mouth."

"Just like in my dream." I said in shock.

"You had a dream about this?" He asked.

"After that did the black smoke start to surround me?" I asked, ignoring his question.

"Yeah." He said.

I was confused. In my dream after the black smoke surrounded me I died. So why was I alive? Or as alive as a vampire could be.

"What happened after that?" I asked Adam.

"I can't explain it." He said.

"Can you try?" I asked.

"Well Stefan snapped your neck and you fell to the ground unconscious. Then the black smoke started to come out of his mouth and surround you, so I put my hand out in front of me and I thought about something good and then there was a bright light. And then when I opened my eyes after the light Stefan was lying on the ground unconscious too." He explained.

The story didn't really make sense, but it sounded like Adam somehow had stopped Stefan from killing me.

Then Stefan sat up and asked, "What happened? And why am I at the grill?" I understood why he was asking what had happened but why didn't he know he was at the grill?

Adam explained what had happened and then I asked him, "What's the last thing you remember?" I asked him.

"I was in my car heading back from the blood bank in Georgia." He said.

"Why were you at a blood bank in Georgia?" Adam asked. "And how are you alive Elena?"

"Hang on." I told Adam. Then I turned back to Stefan and asked, "What's today's date?" Because he had been going to Georgia for blood a couple days before I met Adam. And he would of been coming back the same time I had my dream.

"August 15, 2013." He said. "Why Elena?" He asked. "You're creeping me out."

"Today's the 17th." I said. Then I asked, "What's the status on my relationship with Damon?"

"You're going to have a kid together." He said.

"How many kids?" I asked.

"One." He said. "But seriously Elena. What's going on?"

Then I turned to Adam. "Could we have a minute alone?" I asked.

"Yeah. Sure. I'll just go to the bathroom." He said before walking off towards the bathroom.

"Ok listen Stefan. Today's the 17. And about twenty minutes ago we were talking about how Damon and I had a fight earlier. And since you knew about the fight then you also should've known that Katherine is having twins. That means two kids. Not one."

"So you're saying I basically missed the past two days somehow?" He asked.

"Yes." I said. "I'm staying at Matt's house. Maybe you should come over and we can figure this all out."

Adam must of just came back out because he said, "If you guys are going to figure this out I want to be there."

Stefan and I glanced at each other. The guy did deserve to know. It had to do with him. And he could probably help since he was the only one that was conscious the whole time, except for Matt who was probably still in the back somewhere. And the couple that was sitting at their table looking like they had just seen a ghost.

Wait. The couple. I wasn't sure what they saw but it was probably best if they forgot. I gave Stefan a look that said 'distract Adam'.

I walked over to the couple and compelled them to forget, leave, and go home, and while I did I heard Stefan saying to Adam, "I guess you can come."

I walked back over to them to see that Matt had come back out. We explained to Matt about what Adam had seen and that we needed to go to his house to figure it out.

"I would love to help you guys figure it out but I just have a little apartment since my mom left." He said.

"How about my place?" Adam suggested. "I mean Jamie and Ms. Wilson are there but they probably won't mind."

"Really?" I asked.

"Yeah." He said.

"Ok well if you don't mind I'm going to close the grill and go home. You don't really need me? Do you?" Matt asked.

"We'd love the help but if you want to go home then go." I told him.

"Ok, thanks Elena." He said.

"Bye Matt." I said.

"Bye." He said back.

Stefan, Adam, and I then went outside and we decided Adam would take his car and I would ride with Stefan.

As soon as we got into the car I got a text from Caroline asking how I was doing. I replied, 'Haven't really been thinking about it. Meet me at Jamie's house. Big news and big mystery. See you in ten?' She replied back that she would be there.

Stefan and I discussed whether or not to tell Adam about vampires. I mean there wasn't any other way to explain why I wasn't dead. And the guy did get attacked by one. Which reminded me to ask him why was already out of the hospital.

When we got there Caroline and Adam were already inside.

We went inside and found Caroline and Adam in the living room.

I sat down on the couch next to Caroline but Stefan said, "I'll be right back. I'm going to go say hi to Abby and Jamie."

"They're upstairs I think." Adam said.

"Thanks." Stefan said and went upstairs. I knew he was really going to go tell them that we were going to tell Adam about vampires though. We had discussed it in the car.

"Ok so what happened?" Caroline asked.

"I think we should wait until Stefan comes back." I said.

"Ok." She said. "You ok?"

"It was off my mind until you brought it up again." I said.

"Sorry." She said. "I'll stop bringing it up."

"Thanks." I said.

Then Stefan, Jamie, and Abby came into the living room and sat down.

Abby started, "Adam we need to tell you some things before we can move forward."

"Ok." He said. "What kinds of things?"

"This is going to be hard to understand Adam but we need you to listen to it all and then ask questions." Stefan said.

"Ok. I can do that." He told us.

"You also need to know that this town is special. Ok?"

"Ok." He said confused.

"You should also know this stuff has been around for thousands of years." Stefan said.

"Well I'll start the actual explaining." I said. "Everyone in this room right now except you and Jamie is a vampire. No, we do not sparkle in the sun. We turn to ashes unless wearing a special ring like the ones I, Stefan, Caroline, and Abby are wearing. We need blood to live but we do our best not to kill people. And we are immortal." I paused. "I think that pretty much covers it."

"I have something to add." Caroline said. "You become a vampire when you die with vampire blood in you. And you can die from wood on your heart."

"I'll also add something and explain something." Abby said. "Those rings that Elena was talking about, those were just ordinary rings until a witch casted a spell on them. Unlike vampires, witches do not live any longer than a normal human unless they cast a spell on themselves to live longer. And you are a witch because your mother or father was one also. Which is why Bonnie was a witch before she died."

"Because you were one?" Adam asked and Abby nodded.

"Werewolves work the same way." Stefan said. "Kind of. If one of your parents is a werewolf or has a werewolf gene then you also have the gene. With the gene you have the potential to become a werewolf. All you have to do is kill someone and on the full moon you turn into a wolf. Werewolves, like witches, live the same length as a human. If a werewolf were to bite a vampire then that vampire will die."

"Unless that vampire drinks blood from the original hybrid." Caroline said. "There is only one original hybrid, but many hybrids. The original hybrid is named Klaus. A hybrid is half vampire and half werewolf. They have the ability to not change on a full moon, unlike werewolves. To become a hybrid you must already be a werewolf. Then, instead of dying with vampire blood in your system like you do to become a vampire, you die with doppelgänger blood in your system."

Then I said, "A doppelgänger is someone who looks just like you, and you already know that probably. However when we say doppelgänger we are talking about two people. One of those people is myself, but since I am a vampire the blood in me won't work for a werewolf to become a hybrid. The blood must come from a human doppelgänger. And at the moment our human doppelgänger is Katherine. The one you saw at the grill. Not me."

"So there's not an inside joke?" Adam asked.

"Not unless you consider vampires, witches, werewolves, hybrids, and doppelgängers,"

"Oh my!" Caroline joked.

"an inside joke." I finished.

Adam just sat there for a minute, taking all the new information in.

"Wow." He finally said. "And all of this has to do with what happened at the grill?"

"Well the reason Stefan snapping my neck didn't kill me was because I'm a vampire."

"Wait." Caroline said. "Someone still needs to tell me what happened. And why Stefan snapped Elena's neck."

"Adam you explain it." I said.

"We where just sitting there at the bar. And well Stefan snapped her neck and she fell to the ground unconscious. Then this black smoke started to come out of his mouth and surround Elena, so I put my hand out in front of me and I thought about something good and then there was a bright light. And then when I opened my eyes after the light Stefan was lying on the ground unconscious too." He explained.

"And here's the weird part." I said. "Stefan doesn't remember anything since August fifteenth, which is the same night I had a dream about being chased in the woods by him. And then in the dream black smoke came out of his mouth and surrounded me, killing me."

"That is really weird." Caroline said. "I have no clue what that means."

"Do you have any clue?" Stefan asked Abby.

"No clue at all." She said.

"Well how about this." Caroline said. "I'll take Stefan to Klaus' tonight and watch him to make sure nothing weird happens again. We'll also ask Klaus if he knows anything and look through all the books he has. And then in the morning we could meet at Stefan's house and look through the books there."

"Sure Caroline. That sounds great." I said.

"Wait." Adam said. "You know Klaus? The original hybrid?"

"Yeah." I said. "And to be honest, he's a real pain in the ass."

"Hey!" Caroline said. "That's my boyfriend you're talking about."

"You're dating someone who's over a thousand years old?" Adam asked.

"We can explain the rest later." I said.

"Well I'm going to go to bed." Abby said.

"I'm going to too." Jamie said.

And with that they both went upstairs.

"Ugh." I said. "Now I have to go over to Matt's, and I'll probably have to wake him up, since that's the only place I have to go."

"You could stay here." Adam said.

"Really?" I asked.

"Yeah, of course." He said.

"Thanks." I told him. "It means a lot."

I said bye to Caroline and Stefan and then they left.

"Well I guess I should show you where the guest room is." He said. "Follow me." So I followed him.

We came to the guest room and Adam said, "Sorry about the mess." Referring to the open suitcase with clothes lying around it and an unmade bed.

"Is this where you're sleeping?" I asked. "Because I can just sleep on the couch."

"No really it's fine." He said.

"No. I will definitely sleep on the couch. I'll be fine."

After arguing for a minute I finally won and we walked downstairs.

"I'll be right back." He said.

"Ok."

While he was gone I looked around the living room. It was exactly the same as it was the last time I was here, which was with Bonnie.

He came back soon with two mugs in his hands.

"You didn't have to make anything." I said.

"No, no. It's fine." He said as he sat down next to me on the couch.

He then handed me one and said, "Besides, my hot chocolate is amazing."

"Well thank you." I said.

As we drank our hot chocolate he said, "So Caroline is dating someone who's a thousand years older than her."

"Yeah." I said. "But he looks not much older then I do."

"And exactly how old are you?"

"I was born in 1992. Probably only a year or two before you." I then explained, "I was just recently turned into a vampire."

"What about Caroline?" He asked.

"Her too."

"And Abby? And Stefan?"

"Abby- yes. Stefan- no. He was turned into a vampire in 1864 along with his brother, Damon, by Katherine."

"But I thought you said Katherine was a human." He said, confused.

"Katherine had a baby in 1492 and that's why I was born." I said. "However, Klaus wanted to kill her so she killed herself, but turned into a vampire. Recently though she took this cure to become human again."

"So you can become human again once you're a vampire?" He asked.

"No. There's only one cure and Katherine took it." I explained.

"Oh." He said. "So is there an original vampire like there's an original hybrid?"

"There were seven." I said. "But only three are still alive."

"Can you tell me about them?" He asked.

"I guess." I said. "A long time ago, here in Mystic Falls there was a family. There were all human and there were six kids. One died from an attack so their mother came up with a way to protect them from anymore attacks. This way was to turn them into what we call vampires. First she turned her husband, Mikael, who is dead now. She then turned her five children. Kol and Fin are dead now also, but Rebekah, Elijah, and Klaus are still alive."

"Two things." He said. "First, I thought you said seven. That was six. And second, I thought Klaus was the original hybrid."

"Well, recently there was a guy in town who we all knew and his wife was actually my mom. But that's besides the point. His name was Alaric and Esther, who was the mom of the original vampire family, turned him, making him an original. However he died afterwards. And as for Klaus, he is both. His mom had cheated on his dad, making him part werewolf but a witch locked that side of him. Then he had to go through this whole ritual, that I actually died in along with my aunt, to become a hybrid." I said.

"Elena?" He asked. "Can you tell me about yourself? Because you seem confusing. You said your mom was Alaric's wife. So Alaric wasn't your dad?"

"Do you really want to know about me?" I said.

"I have since the moment I met you." He said. He then leaned forward and put his lips against mine.

So? What do you think? Will Elena kiss him back? Or will she pull away? And what's up with Stefan? And what did Adam do with his hand? Comment what you thought and check back on Monday for more!