Kaylee wake up! We're going to be late!" Your brother screamed through the door practically breaking it down.
"I'm up!" You yelled back from your blanket cacoon.
"You better be or I'm leaving your ass here! You have 10 minutes!" He shouted again before you heard his heavy foot steps walk away. You flipped over on your back and groaned before pulling your blankets off you and getting up.
You decided to leave your hair in your natural purple curls. And just threw on some black jeans and a hoodie with minimal make up. It was only your first day back to school and you were already over it. You pulled up some black high top vans and grabbed your back pack before heading downstairs. Being a Lockwood, a founding family or whatever your parents always expected you to look a certain way. They never agreed with your piercings. Or dying your hair purple. But honestly you didn't care anymore.
You climbed in Tyler's truck and put your headphones in. And you two drove to school in silence.
You pulled into the parking lot and it was completely deserted. Only the countless cars in the parking lot let you know anyone was even at school. But it made sense since you guys were pretty late.
You walked inside throwing your stuff in your locker and heading to your first class.
Everyone stared at you as you walked in but you didn't care and you took your seat as the teacher continued to talk. You looked to your right feeling a wave of sadness rush through you as you saw the seat still remained empty. Where Maddison Donavan once sat. You blinked the tears from your eyes and turned. It had hurt since the beginning of the year when Elena and Jeremy's parents were taking you guys home. And had just dropped you off when their car went of wickery bridge. And their parents had died. And the only one that survived was Elena. Which means you and Jeremy lost your best friend.
You felt a tug on your arm and turned, "you okay?" You nodded. Megan Forbes, the other part of your group. It had been a long time since you had seen any of them since you just locked yourself in your room all summer. Out of everyone in your group, you and Maddison were the closest. It didn't feel the same being here. Without her... You went to turn back swallowing the ball of hurt that was rising in your throat and you caught Jeremy's eye and he smiled softly. And it only made you realize how much you missed him. You all loathed Elena. You knew it wasnt technically her fault that she was the only one that got out. But it mad it easier to deal with the pain to blame someone.
"Sorry I'm late," a girl said and you looked up to find a girl who freakishly looked like Maddison. It made your heart stop.
"It's okay take a seat," the teacher said after reading the note she gave him. You gulped when you realized the only open seat was the one next to you.
She was gorgeous. She had ice white hair within pink ends. And she sat down giving you a small smile. She weirdly seemed familiar. Like you knew her.
"Are you new?" You whispered. She nodded, "Charlie Salvatore."
"Kaylee Lockwood," you greeted. The bell rang and you gathered your stuff. "What do you have next?" You asked.
"Calculus. You?"
"Same!" You smiled which felt weird. It had been awhile.
"Awesome. Im happy I'll know at least one person." She said walking closely next to you.
"I'll see you two losers at lunch," you teased over your shoulder at Megan and Jeremy. They smirked but you could tell they were happy to see you were still you despite all the pain you all went through this summer. You parted ways and they went to Spanish and you two went to Calculus.
"So where'd you move here from?" You asked not caring about fucking math.
"I came back to see my brother. I know at least one is here My parents separated when I was young. And I went with my mom and they went with our dad," she explained.
"Does your brother go here?"
She nodded seeming to not want to give away to much of her story just yet.
You nodded. "Do you have siblings?" She asked. "A brother, Tyler." She nodded and you were hoping she wouldn't take it any further.
"Have you lived here all your life?" She was a curious one but at least she picked up on the fact you didn't want to just sit here and talk about your brother.
"Pretty much. Born and raised," you laughed.
The classes were long but it made you happy that you actually had all your classes together. She was seeming to settle in quickly. And it quickly became obvious that you two had a lot in common. But finally it was time for lunch.
"How are you liking your first day so far?" You asked as you guys stood in line to get some food.
"It's pretty good everyone's been pretty welcoming." You two walked outside and you looked for Jeremy and Megan.
"Hey losers," you said sitting down next to them.
"Hey bitch," Megan grinned her silver eyes finding Charlie.
"Who's this?" Jeremy asked looking at Charlie.
"Oh shit sorry. Jeremy, Megan this is Charlie Salvatore. Charlie this is Jeremy Gilbert. And Megan Forbes," you introduced.
"It's so nice to meet you guys."
"I absolutely love your hair," Megan complimented as charming as ever.
"Aw thanks! You could look amazing with like some blue streaks or something," she suggested.
You all couldn't help but laugh, "her sister would never let her."
"What?! Why?" She asked.
"Ms. Goody goody," Jeremy snickered.
Charlie was still confused and you pointed to Caroline sitting with Elena and Bonnie.
"Makes a little more sense now," she said looking over at the 3 of them.
"She already hates that I hang with this lot," Megan laughed looking over at her sister.
"Of course my brother would be sitting with them," Charlie shook her head. You looked back over seeing a taller guy sit next to Elena. He weirdly looked familiar too.
"That's your brother?"
"Mhm."
She turned back "So you don't get along with your sister?"
"None of us get along with our older siblings," you laughed.
"Ah yes. Tyler right?"
"Unfortunately."
"And Gilbert right? Like Elena Gilbert?" You cringed at her name. "Yeah we all hate her," Jeremy added.
"Why?"
Your shoulders dropped, "another story for a different time." You got up and you all dumped your trash since you'd lost your appetite before heading off to class.
The rest of the day went by quickly and you met up with your gang behind the school like clock work.
"Charlie since you're new you probably don't know about the back to school party tonight at the falls," Megan articulated taking a long drag off the cigarette you were all passing around.
"Party?" She asked taking the cigarette from her.
"It's some back to school thing. Bonfire and booze," Jeremy laughed leaning against the wall.
"Jer!" You turned finding Vicki Donavan running towards you guys. You two had never liked each other and you and Maddison use to always make fun of her. But with Maddison dying it somehow pushed Jer right into her arms.
You rolled your eyes taking the cigarette from Charlie and you laid on your back on the picnic table taking a few long drags.
"Do you have any with you?" She asked as you listened in on their conversation.
"Don't take more than 2 in a 6 hour window," he said trying to whisper but if there was one thing he was known for it's that he can't for the life of him whisper. You sat up watching him drop 2 white pills into her hand. She glanced at you smirking before popping both of the pills in her mouth. Fucking idiot.
"Hey v. I thought I'd find you out here with the crackheads," your brother gloated as he came towards you guys.
"Oh fuck off," you laid back down flipping him the bird.
"Hey Pete wentz called he wants his nail polish back," Tyler laughed wrapping an arm around Vicki's waist.
"Pete Wentz huh? How old school TRL of you. Carson daily fan?" Jer shot back making you get up.
"Knock it off!" You shoved Tyler as he tried stepping closer to Jer.
"You two are pathetic fighting over a fucking girl? Get a fucking grip!" You shouted again looking between the two.
He finally backed off and you still stood in front of Jeremy. "Do you fucking enjoy this slut?" You glared at Vicki.
"What'd you just say to me?" She turned around.
"I said. Do. You. Enjoy. This. S l u t," you repeated spitting at her feet.
She stepped towards you again, "do something bitch." But of course your brother got in the way before she did.
"And you say I'm pathetic?" He glared at you taking Vic and walking away. "You make me sick," You hissed after them and he just shot you a quick look over his shoulder.
"Sheesh," Charlie said as you walked back taking your place on the table again.
"I swear I'm gonna beat her ass one of these days," you said through gritted teeth.
"I didn't need you to defend me," Jer scoffed taking out another cigarette and lighting it.
"Are you sure about that? Not my fault you like sluts," he shrugged looking up at the sky knowing damn well he wasn't gonna win this conversation.
You guys hung around for a couple more hours smoking and drinking a little.
"Okay. So I was gonna go over to Kaylees. Charlie do you want to come?" Megan asked as you guys started walking to the parking lot.
"Yeah why not," she shrugged.
"Jer we'll meet you there later!" You called over your shoulder before walking off with them.
You decided to just walk home since Tyler decided to leave without you. Asshole.
"Okay so what are you wearing tonight?" Megan asked as you guys finally made your way home.
"Probably just this," you pointed to your clothes you already had on.
"Boring! Come on wear something cute. Maybe you'll meet a cute boyyyyyy," she grinned walking inside. You two stopped when you realized Charlie wasn't following. "You okay? You can come inside," you said confused.
She nodded, "Sorry I feel awkward just walking into someone's house."
You shrugged off the weirdness and headed upstairs to your room.
"But yes you should wear something cute!" Charlie said as you guys walked in.
"I have something perfect," Megan said disappearing into your closet.
She came out a few minutes later with some light wash jeans, a loose maroon t shirt, and a leather jacket. "See it's not that different from what you normally wear. But still cute," she threw the clothes at you and you groaned. She went back in throwing some maroon converse on top.
You finally changed when you realized here was no way to get out of this. And you groaned when Megan insisted on doing your make up.
"Cute!" Charlie said as you walked out.
"I feel weird," you admited.
You stood in your mirror and Charlie and Megan stood next to you. Charlie has changed into black and white checkered jeans and a black crop top and left her hair down. And Megan changed into a black skirt with a red crop top and finished it off with some black fishnets and some red doc martins.
"We look hot," Megan said looking at you all in the mirror finishing off the last few touches.
"If you lot are going with me let's go!" Tyler yelled from the hall. You rolled your eyes but headed out.
The party was crazy when you guys arrived your brother heading off right away probably to find Vicki, dumbass.
You found Jeremy sitting under the covered area already a few beers in. "Drinking without us?" Megan teased sitting next to him. Charlie appeared handing each of you a beer. "Here's to new friendships," she laughed clinking your bottles with hers.
"New friendship," you and meg echoed as you downed most of your beer.
You sat on the table looking where Jeremy's eyes were and saw that they were on Vicki and your brother.
"Stop torturing yourself," you nudged his shoulder. He scoffed and chugged the rest of his beer and the 4 of you watched them stumble into the forest together.
"Nasty," You shook your head disappointed but not surprised.
You hung out with your gang after many MANY beers in and you were pretty tipsy. "Let's go for a walk in the woods?" Megan suggested.
"I'm down," you got up and locked arms with Charlie and Megan and started walking.
"Coming Gilbert?" You shouted and you heard his heavy footsteps run towards you guys.
"Tyler let go! Stop!" You faintly heardas you guys walked further into the forest.
"What the fuck?" You all whispered walking closer to the noise.
"Tyler! Jesus fucking Christ!" You ran over pulling your brother off Vicki who was very clearly trying to get away. "GO AWAY," he yelled trying to get to Vicki again his eyes flashing a bright yellow before returning to his normal brown. You shook your head thinking you just imagined it. Hoping it was just all in your head. "Tyler go. Get the hell away from me," Vicki ordered and you pushed him back in the direction of the party. "Wow Vicki donavan says no. That's a first," he shook his head stepping back and stopped.
When he still didn't move you stepped forward, "you really want to do this right here? Right now?" You hissed. You watched the anger in his eyes disappear finally realizing what he had done. He shook his head and ran back to the party.
"I didn't need you guys to save me," she hissed looking between the four of you.
"Really?" You shook your head actually kinda shocked. You even try to be nice and you still just get shit on.
"He was just drunk," she defended.
"I'm drunk. Am I throwing myself at you?" Jeremy asked.
"No. You're worse. You want to get to know me. See into my soul and screw and screw until you're done with me," you almost felt hurt by the tears welling up in her eyes.
"Is that what you think?" poor love sick puppy. God any hard feelings you had for her being upset quickly disappeared.
"It's what I know," she turned and ran into the forest. Jeremy started after her but you stopped him, "don't."
After Jeremy was done protesting you decided to head back to the party. Try to have at least a little fun. The night was still young.
You got distracted by Megan and Charlie, talking about boys. Getting to know Charlie more. It was nice seeing both of them open up more. Ah the wonders of alcohol. and you hadn't even realized that Jer had disappeared until you watched Elena Run after him and you shook your head. It was a losing battle with Jeremy. If he wanted her you weren't gonna stand in the way anymore
An hour passed and you were starting to get worried. Your eyes kept watching the forest line looking for any sign of them. You looked around until you finally found them struggling to climb out of the under brush but they were holding... a body? You and Megan ran over and it was Vicki and she had 2 deep puncture wounds in her neck and was covered in blood her white top now mostly dark and sticky.
"Matt call an ambulance!" You yelled as he finally came over. You looked around trying to find Charlie but you couldn't find her. Little did you know her and Stefan we're watching you across the fire. Careful to dodge your farting eyes. Careful to stay away from temptation. Two puncture wounds? A vampire? Another one in mystics falls? Stefan fed on animals and Charlie was strictly blood bags. Who was sloppy enough to leave someone like this?
Damon that's fucking who.