Sorry for the slow update, I've been busy with school stuff lately. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter starting from Lindsey's point of view.
On Monday morning my alarm clock woke me up. I hit the off button and climbed out of bed. I needed to shower so I tried to open the bathroom door, but it was locked.
"Dylan!" I called out while banging on the door to the bathroom that we shared.
"Almost done!" He called back.
I decided to go and eat while he finished up in the bathroom.
Downstairs, I slid into a chair at the breakfast bar. Behind it my mom was making pancakes.
"Good morning." She smiled at me.
"Blueberry?" I asked, referring to the pancakes.
"Your favorite." She grinned.
Dylan then walked into the room and sat next to me.
Mom gave us our pancakes and we started eating. When dad came into the room mom was pouring Dylan and I orange juice.
"Morning Mel, Dylan, Lindsey." He said each of our names as he smiled at us.
"Morning Dad." Dylan and I replied between bites.
"Good Morning Matt." Mom responded.
Dad grabbed an apple, said bye, and was off to work.
When I was done eating I went back upstairs, showered, got dressed, and did my hair and make up.
When picking out my outfit I made sure to wear a tank top so I wouldn't have to roll up my sleeve later when they took my blood.
Lately the Mystic Falls' hospital and blood bank were short on blood so the week before spring break they sent everyone home with forms to fill out if you wanted to donate blood at school.
It was a good idea, I have to admit that to whoever came up with the school idea. There were tons of students willing to donate blood.
When we were both ready to go Dylan and I walked to the bus stop together.
The bus came and when I got on I was thrilled to see Sara. I hadn't seen her since the Friday before spring break. After she got attacked Mr. Tyler and Mrs. Hayley were very strict about no visitors.
I asked her how she was doing, and she said much better. She then immediately changed the subject though, so I guess she didn't want to talk about it.
During the ride I noticed something strange. It wasn't about Sara like I had expected though. It was her brother. Usually him and Dylan would talk on the bus, but today Payton was very distant. He looked like he was deep in thought.
"Is Payton ok?" I asked Sara.
"I'm not sure. He's been like that since he went out to dinner with Emily the other night." She expalined.
"Did they break up?" I questioned.
"I don't think so. They've been dating for a while, so if they had broken up I think he would be more depressed, but he seems more" she paused. "What's the word?"
"Sullen?" I suggested.
"No, more like he's trying to figure something out."
"Like solve a riddle or like fix a situation?" I asked.
"Fix a situation." She responded.
"Maybe they got into a fight and he is trying to figure out how to apologize." I suggested.
"Possibly. It's not like they haven't fought before." She sighed.
"I'm sure they'll make up." I smiled.
"Yeah, they usually do."
We got off the bus and went to our first periods.
The first half of the day went by fast and it was lunch before I knew it.
I met Sara, Carissa, and Rachel by Sara's locker like normal and we walked to lunch together.
We got to the cafeteria before Emily and Chloe so we sat down at an empty table. Sara and Rachel sat across from each other, I sat to Sara's left, and Carissa sat across from me.
We started talking and I realized that all day we had been avoiding talking about what had happened Sara.
I figured that her parents were doing their best to deal with it, so we probably shouldn't bring it up.
Soon Emily and Chloe walked in. Emily sat down next to me and Chloe sat down next to Carissa.
We all started talking about simple stuff, like homework and funny things that had happened to us that morning.
Sometime during lunch Payton came over. He asked if he could sit down.
"Sure." Chloe smiled.
He sat down next to Emily and whispered something to her.
"Yeah. Ok. That works. I'll ask." She replied so we could all hear.
"Ok. Love you." He smiled and stood.
She also stood, gave him and hug, and said "I love you too."
Then he walked away.
So they obviously weren't in a fight. So why was Payton acting the way he was acting on the bus?
"What did he want?" Chloe questioned as Emily sat back down.
"What are you going to ask about?" Carissa asked.
"Who are you going to ask?" Sara added to the list of questions.
"I'll tell you guys later." Emily spoke without a smile, picked up her lunch, and walked away.
"Where is she going?" I asked.
Everyone else just shrugged.
"All morning she has been acting funny." Chloe stated.
"This morning on the bus Payton was too." I commented.
"Was he acting funny at home?" Rachel asked, the question directed to Sara.
"Yeah, ever since him and Emily went out to dinner the other night." Sara explained.
"Hang on. I'll be back in a minute." Chloe stated before standing up.
She walked off and all of our eyes followed her as she walked across the cafeteria.
She said something to Daniel and then the two of them walked over to us.
Chloe sat in her seat and Daniel sat in Emily's.
"So why do you guys need me?" He asked.
"Well we noticed that Payton had been acting funny since he went out to dinner with your sister the other night, and we wanted to know if she has been acting different too." Chloe expalined.
"Well," he started but paused to think. "I guess she didn't tell you about where we went last weekend, right?"
We all said no and he sighed.
"I suppose you want me to tell you."
We all nodded yes.
"Well remember how we went down to that secret bedroom?" He asked.
"Yeah." We all responded except Sara.
"What?" She questioned.
We quickly filled her in and Daniel went on with the story.
"Well after you guys left we kept looking. We found things that didn't make any sense. We read about this guy named Elijah."
"Wait." Chloe stopped him. "I have an Uncle Elijah."
"That's the guy." Daniel replied and then went on. "From what we read we thought Elijah could give us some answers so the next day we drove to D.C. we found him and asked him if what we read was true. Then he got a phone call-"
I cut him off. "What did you guys read?"
"Crazy stuff. Like all the adults we know are supernatural. Like Chloe, your mom is a vampire, and so is mine. And your dad is a hybrid, which is half werewolf, half something else. And Uncle Stefan and Damon are vampires. And Sara, your mom is a werewolf, and your dad is a hybrid. And Carissa, your dad is a vampire hunter. And Aunt Katherine turned Uncle Stefan and Damon into vampires. It also said that my mom envied your dad Lindsey, because he was human." He explained.
"Nothing about my family?" Rachel asked.
"Nope." He told her.
He looked like he was holding back something so I asked, "Anything else?"
"Well, uh, yeah, but it was more from conclusions, rather than it plain out said it." He eventually spit out.
"Well are you going to tell us what it is?" Chloe asked.
"We think Emily's real parents are Aunt Katherine and Uncle Damon." He whispered.
"So you aren't twins?" Rachel asked.
Sara and Carissa exchanged a glance and then Sara quickly said, "Carissa has something to tell you guys."
"What?" Daniel asked.
"Well the Friday that we got out of school I was going to go tell Damon something and-" she trailed off.
"And what?" I asked.
"I opened the door to his room without knocking and I saw Aunt Katherine and Damon kissing." She expalined.
At first we all sat there in shock.
Finally Daniel said something. "Ok well don't tell Emily that. I'm pretty sure she isn't upset about that situation but it might just make her mood even worse."
"Well what do you think she is upset about?" I asked.
"Well we went to see Elijah and he told us all the books were some project that Mom and Uncle Stefan did together in high school. It didn't really make sense, but what other explanation is there?" He paused and I thought.
It didn't really make sense, the whole supernatural thing. I mean, if all of it was true you would think that we would know by now.
Daniel then continued, "Emily seemed perfectly fine on the car ride home. That was Sunday. Not yesterday, but last weekend. Then her and Payton went out on Thursday I think, but it was Wednesday that she started acting funny. Her mood actually improved after their date, but she still has been acting funny."
"Do you think that maybe Emily found something out on Wendesday, told Payton, and then maybe was relieved when she got it off her shoulders?" Chloe suggested.
"Possibly." Daniel thought about it. "But what is it that they are keeping a secret?"
We all thought about it but no one could come up with an answer.
"It's probably nothing though. If it was something she would of told us." Daniel tried to lift out spirits. "If you find out anything though tell me."
He then walked off.
For a couple minutes we thought about what Emily could be hiding, but came up with nothing that made sense.
Eventually lunch was over and we got directed to the gym if we were going to donate blood.
They split us up by grade but the lines were still very long.
Finally I got to the front of the line. First they weighed us because we had to weigh at least 110 pounds to donate. I was glad Rachel, Carissa, and Sara weren't here because if they were they would've been like "Of course you're 110 on the dot." They were always commenting on how much I resembled a twig.
Then they measured how tall I was.
They had me sit down in a chair. They wiped down my arm, like they do before they give you a shot at the doctor. They drew my blood and told me that my blood type was B positive.
When I was done I went to my fifth period class, which was flex.
Rachel's Point of View
After getting my blood drawn, and finding out that I was A positive, the rest of the school day was pretty boring.
During last period I saw Emily in the locker room. She still wasn't talking to anyone, just like in flex and at lunch.
On the bus ride home I talked to this girl from French, Lizzy, like I always did on the bus.
Olivia, Nate, some other kids I didn't know, and I got off at our bus stop and started walking home.
When I got home I grabbed a bag of chex mix from the kitchen and then went up to my room.
I sat down on my bed, because I hated sitting at a desk, and took my homework out of my bag. I started with math, it would get done the quickest, and I ate the chex mix. Then I went on to social studies. First I colored the map, and then I did flash cards for the vocabulary. I was about to do my outline for my English paper when mom called us down for dinner.
I went downstairs and sat down at the table to see that we were having pasta and chicken. We all started eating and my parents asked each other how work was. Then they asked us how school was. We all muttered 'good' like we did everyday, whether it was true or not.
"Anything interesting happen?" Mom asked.
"We donated blood." Nate responded.
"Oh yeah, that was today." Dad realized.
"I'm A positive." I announced.
"So am I." Nate added.
"What about you, Liv?" Dad asked Olivia.
"I'm AB positive." She said.
"That doesn't make sense." Dad frowned.
"Why?" Nate asked.
"Well I'm O, and your mom is A positive, so you have to be one of those. There's no where to get a B from." He explained.
I didn't know exactly how blood worked, but my dad was usually right, so I went with it.
"They must of made a mistake." Mom smiled weakly.
"Yeah." We all mumbled in agreement.
We then went on with dinner, and Nate asked what we were having for dessert as we cleared our dishes.
"Ice cream." I suggested.
"Do we have any?" Olivia asked.
Nate opened the freezes half of the refrigerator. "Nope."
"I guess I could run to the store." Dad sighed.
"Can I drive?" Nate asked. It wasn't his birthday yet, so he was looking for every chance possible to practice driving before he took his driving test.
"Sure. Anyone else want to come?" Dad asked.
"Nope. Homework." I said.
"Liv?" Dad asked.
"Homework." She replied.
"Well bye then. We'll be back soon." He said and then walked off with Nate.
Olivia and I then started walking towards the stairs but mom stopped Olivia.
"Liv?" She called out. "It's your night to do the dishes."
Olivia sighed and then went back into the kitchen. I went upstairs.
I worked on my outline for a little bit before there was a knock on my door. At first I thought it was dad telling me that I could come have ice cream, but I realized he shouldn't be home yet.
"Come on in." I stated.
Olivia then walked into the room.
"What's up?" I asked as she sat down on the bed.
"I'm just really confused." She spoke.
"Do you want to talk?" I asked.
We had always been really close and we were able to tell each other anything.
"Not really." She replied. "What are you working on?"
"My English paper." I sighed.
She nodded and then decided she did want to talk.
"Have you ever heard something that you know you weren't suppose to hear?" She questioned me.
"No." I shook my head. "Well actually I remember one year I heard mom and dad talking and they said that they were getting me the IPhone 8s for Christmas and I was so upset because those things are like dinosaurs. It ended up being that I heard them wrong though. I was really getting the EPhone 8s. Which is a whole lot better."
"Well I hope I heard wrong." She muttered.
"Why? What did you hear?" I asked.
It took her a minute but she finally spit it out.
"Well I was walking past mom and dad's room after I had done the dishes, and I heard mom say my name so I stopped and listened." She expalined.
"Well what did you hear?" I questioned.
"She said 'Olivia isn't his. They came so close to knowing.' And then there was a pause. 'Yes I know Adam Hampton could very well be his son. I'm not stupid.' Then there was another pause. 'Yeah I still can't believe he died in that fire. Now Liv will never get to meet her dad, and he'll never get to meet his youngest child.'"
It took me a minute to figure out what it all meant, but eventually I got it.
Olivia was dating her half nephew because Mom had cheated on Dad. With Emily's and Daniel's dad's dad. And he would never meet his youngest child, Olivia, because he died in a fire.
So what do you think? Some crazy info for Olivia, and she doesn't even know what being the youngest means! Do you think she will find out? Is she in love with Daniel? Check back soon to find out! Also, I have decided to write a sequel. How many of you guys will read it? Since there is going to be a sequel to this story, the story is almost over! Also, what are Emily and Payton hiding? And will the truth about the supernatural world ever come out? Please review your thoughts! xoxo