On the roof of a certain Salvatore manor, what appeared to be a young man could be seen standing, lost in his thoughts.

Stefan's POV

For over a century, I have lived in secret; hiding in the shadows, alone in the world. Until now. I am vampire and this is my story. I shouldn't have come home.

I know the risk. But I have no choice. I have to know them.

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Elena's POV

Dear diary, today will be different. It has to be. I will smile and it will be believable. My smile will say 'I'm fine, thank you.'; 'Yes, I feel much better.' I will no longer be the sad little girl who lost her parents. I will start fresh, be someone new. It's the only way I'll make it through.

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Sarah's POV

"Hm, kinda hot."

The gorgeous lady who was receiving my compliment was my own reflection in the mirror— I know, a bit self-centered but hey if you didn't love yourself, who would?

For my first day back to school, the first day of Junior Year, I'd kept the ritual I'd been doing since I turned ten. I prepared my outfit the night before —a stripped, black and white short dress, with a jean vest and black high-heeled boots—, took good care of my hair and skin and went to sleep early, without forgetting my big glass of tea.

This year wasn't the same as the others, though.

This year, my glass of tea wasn't made by mom, nor did dad stay in my room, with his own glass of bourbon, keeping me company until I fell asleep—something he did ever since I was a wee little girl.

Instead of all that, this year, I made the tea in honor of my beautiful mom, and spent the night in Jeremy—my little brother—'s room, keeping him company until we both fell asleep.

This year, on top of my magic, I also had a new set of fangs to complete the whole supernatural mojo I had going on—as if being a witch wasn't challenging enough.

I became a vampire a few months ago, when I died in a freak car accident—do you hear the irony?—and woke up already in transition. Ever since then, it has taken me quite a few weeks to get used to the added element in me, as well as the added diet I now followed.

Don't get me wrong, living for eternity while also keeping my magic? I'll tell you I was the last person who would spit on the opportunity—it just took me a minute to adjust.

I still didn't know how vampire blood got in my system though. That was something I hadn't quite moved past.

Shaking off those thoughts, I turned my head around to check that my waist-long wavy hair was perfect and called it a day, taking my school bag and rushing downstairs for breakfast.

I arrived in the kitchen to aunt Jenna who was freaking out about something.

"Toast. I can make toast." She muttered, looking around the kitchen.

"It's all about the coffee, aunt Jenna." my twin, Elena, rightfully informed her.

"I second that." I added in, heading straight to the coffee machine to get myself a mug of heavenly brew before I stood next to my sister.

Twin sisters, quite a freaky affair in our little town named Mystic Falls.

Elena and I were 98 percent identical. The remaining 2 percent were my hair was waist-length and naturally wavy; and my eyes were a light green she'd always been envious of. But other than that, we were identical. Personality wise though, we were the complete opposite.

She was the righteous twin—allegedly— and I was the reckless one.

The two of us got along like twins, we were as close as sisters could be. Even if we didn't agree on... anything really.

"Is there coffee?"

I turned my head to see Jer, my little brother coming down the stairs and handed him a mug before he could steal Elena's.

My relationship with Jeremy was different than with Elena. Jer and I were extremely close—sometimes creepily so as we could read each other like no other. Sometimes it felt as though I was with him in the womb and not Elena.

"Thanks, sis." Jer whispered, kissing my temple in greeting and keeping an arm around my neck.

I could see Elena giving me some signals with how big she was making her eyes but ignored her. Chances were, she wanted to play psychologist with Jer but I, on the other hand, knew he needed this phase. If I felt as though he was getting lower, I would pull him up whether he liked it or not and he knew that.

"Your first day of school and I'm totally unprepared." Aunt Jenna sighed before she raised some bills. "Lunch money?"

"I'm good." Elena replied while Jer and I shared the money.

I didn't really need it but I was thinking that a new pair of shoes would do wonders to my mood—even though I had a serious problem with shopping.

"Anything else? A number two pencil? What am I missing?" Seeing Jenna so flustered for us warmed my heart.

Us siblings lost our parents but she lost her sister. Yet, here she was, putting her grief aside for us. Aunt Jenna was the best.

"Don't you have a big presentation today?" I reminded her.

Jenna nodded. "I'm meeting my thesis advisor at... now. Crap!"

"Then go." I playfully shooed her. "We'll be fine, aunt Jenna."

When the door closed on her back, Elena turned to Jeremy. "You okay?" She asked.

"Don't start." Jeremy muttered, putting his empty mug in the sink and walking out of the house too— to school.

Elena sighed as I washed my mug. "Why is he always like that?"

I chuckled. "Because you're always like this, Elena." I said, moving my hand up and down, encasing her frame. "Jer needs a little more time. Time you —nor I for that matter— have no right to decide."

"But—,"

"No buts." I interrupted my twin. "You know him Lena, Jer's a strong kid; he'll get through it. We'll all get through it."

Elena smiled and took my hand, squeezing it for comfort.

As my phone buzzed with an incoming text, I replied before looking at Elena. "Bonnie will be here in five."

"Do you really think we'll be okay?" Elena asked when we stepped outside to wait for our best friend.

"I know we will." I smiled sadly, not knowing who I wanted to convince more—her or me.

~•o•~

"So Gram's is telling me I'm psychic." Bonnie Bennett, our best friend since we were out of the womb was rambling in her car, with Elena in the front seat and me out back.

"Our ancestors were from Salem, which I know isn't all that crazy in this town but she's going on and on about it and I'm like, put this woman in a home already."

I quietly sighed, taking pity on Bonnie. Little did she know the 'drunken' stories of her Gram's were all true. She was indeed a witch, no matter how strongly she opposed it in her mind. But sooner or later, her magic was going to appear, and it will not be unicorns and rainbows. I remember the first time Sheila -Gram's- Bennett taught me proper witchcraft— it was hell.

Luckily for Bonnie though, she had access to a very powerful witch aka moi.

"But then I started thinking." Bonnie added. "I predicted Obama and I predicted Heath Ledger. And I still think Florida will break off and turn into little resort islands... Elena! Back in the car." Bonnie snapped my twin out of her thoughts.

"I did it again, didn't I?" Elena said, apologetic. "I'm sorry, girls. Bonnie, you were telling me that..."

"That I'm psychic now." Bonnie replied.

Looking at my sister, I could understand why her head wasn't in the car— after all, she was with my parents when they died.

I knew she blamed herself for it, and quite frankly I did too at first. After all, if she had stayed at the party with me, and waited for me to drop us home instead of calling mom and dad after her fight with Matt, maybe our parents would still be alive. But that was a lot of 'If's' and it wasn't worth falling out with my sister because of it.

"Right, okay." Elena was fully back into the conversation. "Then predict something about me, about us." She asked.

Bonnie looked focused. "I see..."

I snickered in the back at their antics. "I'm pretty sure that's not how it works." You know, speaking as a real witch.

However, as soon as my words were out, a black bird hit the car out of nowhere, making Bonnie swerve in lane and hastily park in a safe area of the road.

"What was that?" Bonnie panicked. "Oh my god, Elena, Sarah, are you okay?"

"I'm good." I replied, turning around to look at the mysterious bird that had just hit us. Its eyes looked too intelligent, and that was when I knew someone else was in control of the bird—meaning someone, a supernatural someone was keeping eyes on one or all of us girls.

But who? That was a hard question, seeing as the Bennett's and I were the only supernatural beings in this town as far as I knew.

"It's ok. I'm fine." Elena replied when I looked back up front, her erratic breathing and heart were finally calming down.

"It was like a bird or something. It came out of nowhere." Bonnie explained.

Elena smiled at our best friend. "Really, it's fine. I can't be freaked out by cars for the rest of my life."

Bonnie then calmed down too and smiled, looking between us twins. "I predict this year is going to be kick ass. And I predict all the sad and dark times are over and you are going to be beyond happy."

Her first statement I agreed with, I wanted something, someone, please, to shake Mystic Falls. The bout on the sad and dark times being over? I wasn't so sure about that one.

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"Major lack of male real estate." Bonnie complained as we walked through our school. "Look at the shower curtain on Kelly Beech. She looks like a hot— can I still stay 'tranny mess'?"

"No, that's over." Elena replied as I was too busy chuckling.

Bonnie shrugged her shoulders. "Ahh, find a man, coin a phrase. It's a busy year."

We'd now arrived to the lockers, and I began lightening up my bag as Elena waved at Matt, her ex boyfriend and our childhood friend. The latter ignored her and walked away, leaving Elena sighing sadly.

"He hates me." She muttered.

"That's not hate." Bonnie said. "That's 'you dumped me but I'm too cool to show it, but secretly, I'm listening to Air Supply's greatest hits'."

"It is hate." I cut in, laughing at Bonnie's words before I turned to my twin. "In this little town of Mystic Falls, you were his forever kind of girl Elena, and you dumped him with a 'I need space' generic excuse instead of telling him you didn't love him anymore. He is allowed to hate a little bit." I told her before I lightly kissed her hand to alleviate my harsh words.

She knew I was right though, she chickened out from telling Matt the truth, and now poor guy was pissed but I bet he still thought she only needed 'space' and they would be back together in no time.

Elena didn't have time to reply as a blonde tornado—also known as Caroline Forbes— swooped in and tackled Elena with a hug.

"Elena, oh my god." The blonde exclaimed before tackling me into another hug. "Sarah! How are you? It's so good to see you." She said before turning to Bonnie. "How are they? Are they good?"

"Caroline I'm right here." Elena smiled. "And I'm fine. Thank you."

"Really?"

"Yes. Much better." Elena replied while secretly pinching me as I was mouthing 'liar liar, pants on fire' at her bold lie.

"And we talk everyday on the phone, Care." I told the blonde. "So you know how I am."

"I know, I know." Care sighed before bringing us into a group hug. "But still, you poor things."

Elena cleared her throat after a moment. "Caroline."

"Okay, okay!" Caroline seemed to see a friend of hers and bid us goodbye. "See you guys later!"

"No comment." Elena said as we watched our blonde best friend's back get further and further away.

"Shut up, she's doing her best... in a Caroline way." I said, jokingly pushing her shoulder.

Care could sometimes be over the top, and way too much into certain situations but I loved her nonetheless. She made me laugh.

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Twenty minutes later, we were walking past the school office when Bonnie stopped us to admire something inside. "Hold up. Who's this?"

I turned my head to see... a back. "All I see is a back." I repeated my thoughts out loud, with Elena agreeing.

"It's a hot back." Bonnie corrected.

I wasn't listening anymore as my magic was acting up, picking up something off the stranger. Vampire. I raised my eyebrow, well, apparently there was another vampire in Mystic Falls. I could feel that he had at least a century on me but strength wise, he had nothing on me.

Being the nosiest girl on earth, I listened in to his conversation with the secretary.

"Your records are incomplete. You're missing immunization records and we do insist on transcripts." The secretary was telling him.

The guy took off his sunglasses, and I assume he was about to compel his way into the school.

"Please look again. I'm sure everything you need is there." Called it, he was compelling the secretary.

"Well, you're right." The secretary said in a monotone voice. "So it is."

I observed the guy as keenly as I could without seeing his face. I didn't know if I was excited to have another vampire in town or annoyed.

Annoyed because of all the 'animal attacks' we were hearing on the news lately because it seemed that this vampire didn't know how to feed in a small town.

The need to tear him another a*hole was strong but I restrained myself—I would see what this guy brought to town before I made any kind of move.

After all, this wasn't the time to be reckless; I could protect myself just fine but a lot of my people couldn't so I would just wait and see.

"I'm sensing Seattle. And he plays the guitar." Bonnie said as we continued to watch the stranger.

"You're really going to run this whole psychic thing into the ground, huh?" Elena chuckled at Bonnie's enthusiasm.

"Pretty much." Bonnie replied.

"Jeremy, good batch man!" I heard some boy say and it seemed as though Elena had heard it too.

"I'll be right back." She said, rushing after Jeremy and into the boys' toilet.

"Shit!" I cursed, hurrying after her, as I didn't want any bloodbath between my siblings.

After I entered the bathroom after Elena, some boy exclaimed in surprise. "Again? Whoa, pants down, chick!" He told his fellow pee partners as they all put their pants back and left the restroom.

I turned around to see Elena grabbing Jer's face and looking into his eyes.

"Great. It's the first day of school and you're stoned." Elena snarked.

"No, I'm not." Jeremy said, not really caring about what she had to say.

"Where is it? Is it on you?" Elena began patting his body down to see if she could find anything.

"Stop, all right?" Jeremy yelled. "You need to chill yourself."

"Chill myself? What is that, stoner talk? Dude you are so cool." Elena mocked.

"Elena." My voice held a warning note as I called out to her. "Leave it."

"I don't need this." Jeremy said as he quickly got out of the bathroom, leaving me and my twin at a stand off.

I saw her about to say something but cut her off. "Save you saliva, Elena. I love you really, but if you tried to listen to people for once instead of blindly acting like a good samaritan , maybe you'd see that Jeremy needs this phase before he straightens up."

"Fine. He can do whatever he wants," she began, "but I'll be there each time to ruin his buzz."

"Suit yourself." I rollled my eyes, signaling the end of this ridiculous stand off.

Elena then got out of the bathroom, with me right behind her, and run into someone.

"Uh, pardon me. Uhm, is this the men's room?"

I raised my head to see Elena standing really close to the vampire stranger from earlier—both of them looking at each other as if struck by thunder.

"Yes. Uhm, I was just, uhm..." Elena was rambling and that's when I knew she really liked the guy.

I sighed, attracting the attention of the guy. "Sorry, there was something with our brother. It's a long story."

What followed was a good minute of awkward silence as the guy was looking back and forth between us, as if he was seeing someone else—someone from his past.

My nosy side steered up again but now was not the time nor the place. "Elena, let's go. We'll be late with Tanner."

The guy made way for us to pass and I could clearly hear my sister's erratic heartbeat as she kept stealing glances at him.

Ah, puppy love. I rolled my eyes as we turned the corner, heading to History.

Speaking of history, I hoped this new vampire was here to shake things—good or bad, we, no I needed something to happen in this little town; something exciting.

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