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"People in Virginia's northwest region had different ideas than those in the traditional south..." Mr. Tanner, our history teacher was immersed in his subject.
I was at the back of the class with Bonnie, the both of us watching Elena and the new guy make gooey eyes at each other. Don't get me wrong, I would like my twin to get out there and get her happiness but I still didn't think of anything of the other vampire.
Pulling out my phone, I saw Bonnie's name displayed and raised an eyebrow at her text.
Bonnie : Elena! Hawt-E staring @ u.
I looked up to see Elena staring at us with big flustered eyes, still stealing glances at the new guy. I grabbed the opportunity to make faces at her, with an inkling of lewd smiles and gestures, at which she became even more flustered, to my and Bonnie's amusement.
The lovebirds looked at each other one last time before the bell delivered us from hell and we could all go home, at last.
••••••••
Out of school, I saw Elena go in the direction of the cemetery, to write in her diary and speak to our parents as she always did these past few months.
That was something I wasn't ready for... I was the only one in the family who'd gotten a shrink and learned to let it go, to deal with my grief, but seeing their tombs was not on my near agenda.
So here I was in the Grill, with Caroline and Bonnie as the blonde was telling us all about the mysterious vampire-boy.
"His name is Stefan Salvatore." Care informed us. "He lives with his uncle up at the old Salvatore Boarding House. He hasn't lived here since he was a kid. Military family, so they moved around a lot. He's a Gemini and his favorite color is blue."
I whistled with a sly grin. "That's my blonde stalker." I teased my best friend.
As Care playfully slapped my arm, Bonnie was also stunned. "You got all of that in one day?"
Caroline snorted. "Oh please, I got all that between third and fourth period. We're planning a June wedding."
"Psycho." I whispered, but she was a psycho that I very much loved.
And she set her sights on the same guy as my twin, which was bound to get some friction going. And tempers flaring. Most likely Caroline's as she always made a point to be in a contest with Elena—don't ask me why, she just did.
Just as we reached Matt at the pool table, I was pulled into a slight vision of Elena inviting Stefan to the Grill with us. I came out of it, a little dazed but staring at Matt and Caroline.
Oh boy.
•••••••••
"How's Elena doing?"
Matt, Bonnie and I were still at the pool tables, Care somewhere with some unfortunate guy to order around when Matt broke his Elena Silence.
"Her mom and dad died." Bonnie replied, the words choking me for a second before she continued. "She's putting on a good face but it's only been four months."
As Bonnie said that, her eyes slid to me, to let me know I didn't fool her either—which was why Bonnie was my best friend, we got each other in a way other people couldn't.
"Has she said anything about me?" Matt asked the both of us.
"Let it go, Matt." I sighed, Matt knew how I felt about their couple. As individuals, they were some of the best people I knew, but as a couple, they just... weren't.
"And so not getting in the middle of that." Bonnie added in. "You pick up the phone and call her."
Matt sighed heavily. "I feel weird calling her. She broke up with me."
"Give it more time, Matt." I knew Bonnie said the wrong thing just as the doors of the Grill ringed open.
Elena and Stefan came in together, surprising more than one of our friends.
"More time, huh?" Matt said through his teeth before he stalked to the pair.
Making big eyes at Bonnie, I hurried after him, in time to hear him introduce himself to Stefan and then stalk away. Stefan, though, had no eyes to Matt as they were on my person and he looked as though he'd seen a ghost. He kept doing that, sometimes it was with Elena but most of the time it was me that seemed to remind him of an old acquaintance I presume.
Again, being a nosy Nancy, I wanted to ask him about it but I restrained the urge. I would know sooner or later his story. Thus, restraining my curiosity, I led them to the table we were occupying with the girls.
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"So, you were born in Mystic Falls?" The girls and I were on a mission to unravel all that was Stefan Salvatore.
"Mh-mmh." Stefan nodded. "And moves when I was still young."
That must have been a long time ago seeing as he had to be at least a century old.
"Parents?" Bonnie asked.
"My parents passed away." He replied, but I was the only one who caught the slight flinch at their mention. What was that?
Elena though seemed to empathize with him, what with our parents. "I'm sorry." She said. "Any siblings?"
"None that I talk to. I live with my uncle."
So he had siblings, just not ones he was in speaking terms with. And that meant his siblings were also vampires, thus additional pains in my ass—we didn't need "animal attacks" in this town with the Council, not now, not ever.
"So Stefan, If you're new, you don't know about the party tomorrow." Caroline asked.
As Stefan shook his head, Bonnie supplied. "It's a back to school thing at the falls."
Stefan eyed me and then Elena. "Are you guys going?"
"Of course they are." Bonnie replied with a knowing smirk.
My smirk was less knowing and more annoyed. I would never touch guys my twin was interested in with a stick. Imagine being in a love triangle; then imagine it being with your twin sister... ew.
So I hoped Stefan viewed me with friendship eyes because as far as I was concerned, he was already taken.
•••••••••
"Just admit it Elena." Bonnie urged my twin.
We were in the woods, at the falls for the back to school party, with nearly the whole school.
I'd put on black high-waisted jeans with a white camisole and forgone the jacket somewhere with Caroline. My hair was in its usual state : wavy and rolling down my back and I had minimal makeup on my face. The jewelry was also few, as it consisted with only my mom's angel necklace and small diamond studs I got on my birthday two years prior.
"Oh, okay, so he's a little pretty." Elena finally caved in, talking about Stefan.
"He has that romance novel stare." Bonnie teased.
"And hair." I chuckled into my beer.
I was having a good time at this party, plus, I'd fed a lot, like I usually did before coming here so my night was set. I just hoped nothing tainted the night but I had this... feeling, as though something was going to happen. What or who was involved, I just couldn't get my finger on it.
"So where is he?" Bonnie asked, eyeing the crowd.
"I don't know." Elena said. "You tell me. You're the psychic one."
I rolled my eyes. Here we go again. Bonnie was so going to fall from heaven when she really got into all this magic stuff—she was going to love it, but it will be hard on her.
After all, like Dahl said 'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.' So the more Bonnie opposed her magic, the more it will oppose her.
"Right, I forgot." Bonnie chuckled. "Okay, so give me a sec. Gram's said I have to concentrate."
"Wait, you need a crystal ball." Elena said as she presented her empty bottle of beer to Bonnie. The latter, touched Elena's hand when taking the bottle and went into a little trance before our eyes, abruptly pulling her hand back.
"What?" Elena asked.
"That was weird." Bonnie said, shakily. "When I touched you, I saw a crow."
As Bonnie said that, I saw my sister's face get a puzzled expression. "What?" As though she knew what Bonnie was talking about.
"A crow. There was fog. A man." Bonnie added on. "I'm drunk. It's the drinking, there's nothing psychic about it. Yeah? Ok, I'm gonna get a refill."
Sensing Stefan approaching Elena, I pulled Bonnie away. "I'm coming with you."
"What? Girls!" Elena cried behind us before getting distracted by Stefan.
When we arrived at the drinks table, Bonnie put down her unfinished beer and breathed deep, shaking her head.
"Talk to Gram's Bon, and listen when she talks to you." I advised, not keen on seeing my best friend freak out but also knowing she needed to know on her time.
Bonnie must have heard something in my tone because her eyes went to me. "You know something."
"Talk to Gram's."
"No, you know something, S. What is it?"
"Talk to Gram's, B. I promise to tell you everything after, but talk.to.Gram's."
We had a mini staring contest before she sighed in compliance. "Okay. But you better tell me everything."
"Promise, hon'." She squeezed my hand in reassurance and we proceeded to make a few more shots, giving in to the festive mood.
••••••••
"You're a hard person to track." I heard behind me as I was staring at the woods— well, at nothing really, lost in my mind.
"And you are a hard person to crack, mr Salvatore." I smirked as Stefan now stood beside me. "Where's my sister?"
"With Caroline." He said. "What do you mean a hard person to crack?"
"You're mysterious." I mused. And a vampire.
"As you are." He deflected the words as our eyes met.
Green clashing with green, I'm sure we could both feel the budding friendship between us. Thus, we both smiled in understanding and clinked beer bottles. Vampire friend, check.
I decided right then and there to let him in on my own vampirism. Taking his arm, I led us a little further away, where I was sure prying eyes wouldn't wander.
"What are you—," Stefan never finished his question as he took a look at my eyes.
In a blink, he whisked us away further into the woods, trapping me against a tree.
"Katherine." He sneered. "And green lenses really?"
I was confused but not that confused that I would let someone trap me so I reversed our positions. "What are you talking about? Who is Katherine?"
Stefan seemed to realize his mistake, too late. "Sarah?"
"The one and only." My sarcasm was heavy. "If I knew you'd freak out, I wouldn't have revealed myself." I let him go and began walking back to the party.
"No, wait." He took hold of my arm and held me back. "I'm sorry, I thought you were an old friend of mine playing tricks."
"An old friend?" I asked with a raised brow. Who would look enough like me to pass as me?
"An old friend." He said, unlikely to open up to me right now, but he would soon whether he liked it or not.
"Okay." I conceded. "Anyways, what is up with the animal attacks? Don't you know how to feed discreetly."
Stefan sighed a weary sigh. "That's not me. I don't who it is but there's another vampire in town. Besides, I only feed from animals."
I only feed from animals. I only feed from animals. I only feed—
"You what?" I think my brain had a malfunction for awhile.
Stefan watched my face, his eyes alight with mirth. "Yes, Sarah, I'm a vegetarian."
"Isn't that like... against the law?"
"Against which law?" I could see he wanted to laugh so bad.
"Vampire laws." I said as though it was normal. "Like really, don't you think it's freaky to feed on animals?"
"You feed on humans." Stefan deadpanned.
"Yeah, well, at least I have less chances to feed on Bambi or baby squirrels." I sassed.
At that, he finally burst laughing and I admit I stared a bit. He was a handsome fellow.
"You should do that more often." I told him.
"What?" He asked, his eyes still shining.
"Laugh." My own perpetual smirk was back on my face. "You're got but when you smile, you're h-a-w-t."
"There's a difference?" He asked, amused.
"The first one is 'I'll get in a coffee shop with you' hot. The second one is more of a 'I'll get into bed with you hot' so yeah, there's a difference, Stef."
He continued to chuckle while sticking a strand of my hair behind my ear. "Stef." He murmured. "I like that."
I was thinking Crap, did I just get myself involved in a fucking triangle with my twin? When said twin joined us, prompting Stefan's hand to drop from my face.
"Hey guys. What are you talking about?" Elena asked as she stood next to Stefan.
I cleared my throat, rolling my eyes at myself and thinking I needed to get laid. "Life." I replied.
Stefan was going to say something when Elena and I saw Jeremy stumbling in direction of the woods at the same time.
"God! You gotta be kidding me!" Elena exclaimed.
"Tone that down, Elena." I snapped while I hurried after my brother, not without hearing Elena and Stefan.
"Who's that?" Stefan asked.
"Our brother."
"The drunk one?"
"That would be the one." Elena replied. "Excuse me."
"Need some help?"
"Trust me, you're not going to want to witness this. Jeremy!" Elena had already caught up to me as she turned down Stefan's offer.
"Jeremy, where the hell are you going!" Elena continued to shout as we followed our brother through the woods.
"I don't want to hear it!" Jer said, without turning around.
"Jer, bud, wait for us." I said, the only calm sibling in these woods.
Hearing my voice, my little brother waited for us to catch up before he turned back around but tripped and went down.
"Jer!"
"Vicki? Oh my god! It's Vicki." Jer's words were shouted at the end.
"Oh my god." Elena whispered as I ran to Vicki's body to see she had been bitten... by a vampire nonetheless.
Okay, this new vampire in town was starting to piss me off.
"No!" Jer cried as I took the scarf off a frozen Elena and applied pression on Vicki's wound.
"Jer, carry her, we're going back to the camp." I ordered. "Elena, snap out of it!"
My siblings carried my orders as we all made a run for the camp, and as no one was watching, I whispered a quick spell to stop Vicki's bleeding.
"Somebody help!" Elena cried as we stumbled out of the woods.
"Vicki, Vicki! What the hell?" Matt ran to us, Tyler not far behind him. "Somebody call an ambulance!"
"Everybody back up, give her some space!" Tyler ordered people as my gaze searched the crowd for a particular someone.
As my gaze collided with Stefan's, I saw his features change, his face morphing into his vampire, and in a blink, he was gone.
I heaved a big sigh as I lifted my eyes to the sky.
Well, I did ask for something interesting.
•••••••
3rd POV
At Mystic Falls Hospital, one Vicki Donovan startled awake in her bed, her brother Matt right beside her.
"Vicki. Hey... hey, it's okay. You're gonna be okay."
"Matt—," Vicki's voice rasped.
"Hey, don't try to talk, okay? You're fine."
"Vampire." The girl whispered before she fell into another slumber, leaving Matt with a puzzled expression.
