So school wasn't as bad as Damon had made me believe, I wonder if he was trying to scare me to keep me from going as despite him wanting me to go to spy on Stefan, he also wanted to keep me with him as I haven't been away from him since we were reunited after he went missing for those five years in the 1950's though still hasn't told me what happened.

I knew better than to push him on it though and knew that something bad had to have happened for him to not want to tell me because he tells me everything as that is how close we are, but knew if he wanted to tell me, he will though I also wasn't going to force him to tell me either.

I was in the middle of fifth period and I had Lunch, and learned that doppelganger's sister is named Jessica Gilbert, having met her first period in History which was apparently the first year for this class, already knowing half of everything and was bored out of my mind; I could of easily skipped all the way to high school if I wanted, but that would just draw unwanted attention.

I still didn't really know how to interact with any of the kids, having never really been around any, except for my witch best friend, Castria as there weren't really that many vampire children around anymore as they are known to be dangerous so most had been killed off, but no vampire dared to come after me in fear that Damon would go after them if they tried to kill me.

Though that is probably why Damon keeps me hidden most of the time, not wanting vampire society to know about me because even though I am nine, there was still a chance that I could be labeled a vampire child and be seen as a threat or there will be some that will want to come after me because they know how my brother feels about me as Damon has a history of being a douche in the vampire society so isn't always well-liked.

I understand that he wants to protect me from anything that could cause me harm, but he can't always protect me forever because sooner or later, there is going to be a enemy of his that comes through town and will try to go after me to get to him which I know worries him every day, knowing that being a child vampire doesn't always make me the strongest out there.

There was a part of him that hates that Father would sometimes abuse me when we were human, though he abused him too for trying to protect me and why I never told Damon what he had done to me while he was away during the Civil War, he would blame myself for leaving and his hatred for Stefan will magnify, but I know I can't keep it from him forever.

I saw Stefan from afar, being a loner which sure didn't make him stand out at all, note the sarcasm, while I sat with my third grade class and watched as he stared at the doppelganger who was sitting with her stuck up friends which made him look like a perv and if it wasn't for the fact that he drank animal blood and was distracted, he might have known I was here, but was too stupid to realize his own surroundings which is something Damon had told me to always be aware of.

I phone beeped again, letting me know that Damon had texted me again as he has been doing every half hour since he dropped me off and it was slightly comforting, though also real annoying as despite how much I loved and looked up to him, my brother was starting to get on my last nerve, besides my teacher disapproved; apparently nine year olds shouldn't be allowed cell phones.

Though I did gather some information about the doppelganger sister from a popular non- founder middle school student I compelled though I could have probably gotten information out of her without the compulsion, she was way too willing to give me any information I needed before compelling her on her way, she was way too chatty for a twelve year old and not someone I would want to socialize with.

Jessica Gilbert seemed to love dance, mostly hip-hop from what I gathered and she was real compassionate but one thing she doesn't like, is her sister, the doppelganger, Elena Gilbert as apparently her parents had favored Elena over her over the years which has caused some long lasting resentment which I don't blame her for as that was almost the same kind of resentment I have for Stefan.

I got from supposed rumors that apparently Elena was only nice to her sister whenever her parents or someone respectable was around, but if it was just her friends or even her brother who just stood there, she was just awful towards her, even making her cry which is why I can understand how she feels, so maybe I will be friends with her though not because of what Damon told me to, but because she seems like she is someone who can understand me.

It makes me wonder what kind of person this doppelganger is, but she has to be related to Katherine somehow though Damon isn't really sure how just yet Elena is related to her, though it was obvious that Elena was a descendant, but it was much too risky digging into the Pierce background and much too dangerous and Damon wanted to have me keep a low profile for the time.

I glanced down at my homemade lunch that Damon had compelled the lady of the house to make for me, not liking the idea of me having some cheap school lunch, saying that he heard too many stories about school lunches and didn't like the idea of me ingesting any of the crap.

The bell rang and pretended to be gathering my things so that Stefan could leave first, not wanting him to see me yet as I'm sure that Damon's assumption might come true and he would try to claim that I was a threat to his precious doppelganger when she could drop dead for all that I care, and a part of me would want to kill her just to prove a point to him, but Damon has told me I was not to kill her even if I wanted to.

I was kind of annoyed when he said that I could toy with her all that I want, but I couldn't harm her yet and have a feeling he would go all parental on me if I was to do anything to her, not like I want anything to do with that bitch, this was more his game, not mine.

As soon as Stefan was out of sight, I went to my classroom, finding my way back towards it and hating that I had the same teacher for every class except for Photography and Art, having Language Arts and this was always one of my favorite things to study when Damon was teaching me back then and even after we became vampires, he always made time for my studies.

My phone beeped again and I really should at least turn the volume off as Damon was refusing to give me some peace as I pulled my phone out while walking to my class with the rest of the third graders, 'Hey cutie pie, just checking in. Let me know if you want to come home early,' I read before answering back as I was careful not to bump into any students.

'Relax Dami, I'm alright and school isn't so bad. I met the sister, but apparently the doppelganger is a real fake and a complete bitch and saw Stefy, he was so creepy staring at her,' I typed back to him, giving him some response so he won't worry so much and give him a laugh, but seriously who did he think he was, Edward Cullen?

I felt my phone beep as the last bell rang and was getting looks, probably because students weren't supposed to be using their phones at school, 'Creepy stalker alert. Keep me updated. Love you baby,' he texted me as I placed my phone back in my pocket ignoring the disapproving look the teacher gave me.

I mostly people watched as the teacher wasn't really teaching anything today, more going over what we were going to be learning this year and half of the stuff is things that Damon started teaching me before I was even five, Damon was right, school has definitely dumbed down.

Jessica was sitting a couple rows in front of me, but she seemed sad about something and that was when I remembered, she just recently lost both of her parents and I felt like a idiot for forgetting something like that, so of course she is sad at losing both her parents and it isn't like when my father died and I barely grieved for him, her parents probably actually deserved to be missed.

Feeling my eyes on her, she glanced back at me and smiled but I could tell that it didn't quite reach her eyes and felt for her and part of me wanted to glance inside her head to know what she was thinking, but didn't as deserved the right to her privacy and I wouldn't invade it.

I wish I knew what it was like to actually miss your parents as I was too young to miss my mother, she died when I was a three and my Father didn't deserve the right to be missed or my love, despite always trying to gain his love and took me years to realize he was never going to love me as his daughter, and had cared for Katherine, a vicious vampire than his own blood.

The bell rang as I watched her walk down the hall since we had art next as I saw her sister also known as the Katherine copy-cat and a bitch as far as I am concerned, come down the elementary hall and towards her sister, and watched as she whispered something in her sister's ear with a smirk on her face as Jessica ran towards the bathroom, ignoring the confused glances of our fellow classmates.

I watches Katherine copy-cat and her friends laugh at Jessica's expense, knowing that the copycat was fake and only pretending to play little miss innocent when she is anything but innocent and has no right to treat her sister like that with whatever she said to her, kicking myself for not listening as I walked straight up the little copycat to give her a piece of my mind.

"How can you talk to your sister like that, she doesn't deserve it, little miss I think I am so perfect and you may have everyone else fooled, but you don't have me fooled, I see you for who you are and you are nothing more than a two-faced bitch," I told her straight to her face as I saw she started to pull fake tears on her face at my response, but everyone knows that it is the truth, or they are just stupid and blind not to see this girl for who she is, and I can't believe Stefan is obsessed with her.

I walked towards the bathroom as she started fake crying while her friends comforted her as they gave me glares, being all dramatic but who was comforting Jessica when they were tormenting her as I could hear her crying in the stalls from outside, no one and I know that Damon was probably going to be upset with me for calling the copycat a bitch but she deserved it, besides it was personal as she reminds me of how Stefan treated me except worse.

I walked into the bathroom as I heard her crying in the stall as I knocked on her stall door, "Jessica, you alright," I asked, feeling compassion for the human girl and normally I wouldn't have gotten involved, but I can't stand to see someone be treated like that by your own family, it hits me close.

"I'll be fine," she said quietly when she sounded anything but fine and makes me wonder how long her own sister bullying her has been going on and now that their parents are gone, she probably has no one to protect her from her sister's bullying, but I was going to make sure she didn't bully her sister with me around, maybe give the copycat some torment of my own, Ally style.

I doubt Damon would approve, but he was too busy trying to get Katherine out of the tomb anyway and doesn't know what it is like to feel unloved by your own sibling who you have tried so hard to get them to love you and it was never good enough, but it was too late for me to make amends with Stefan, the damage has already been done and he can't take it back, I just hope it isn't too late for her.

"That was your sister, right? Hope you don't mind that I called her a two-faced bitch, she kind of deserved it and was getting too much pleasure in causing you to be upset. She is probably still fake crying as we speak and putting on a little act for everyone," I told her as I heard the door click open, looking at me with red eyes that showed that she had been crying.

"You called Elena a two-faced bitch, she isn't going to be happy about that and will try get you in trouble and make herself look like a victim. She has always been that way, even when our parents were still alive and they always took her side, favoring her over me. I still don't understand why they even had me when they already had what they wanted, a daughter and a son. Elena told me I was the reason they died because of me and that she wish I died instead," Jessica said sadly, still having tears run down her face.

"Don't listen to her, she's just a bitch and I have no reason to be scared of her and if she tries anything, my brother will go nuts, literally and doubt she is going to be able to play the victim much longer because sooner or later, people will notice," I told her as we sat on the dirty bathroom floor, feeling the coldness through my skirt.

"It was my birthday and the day was supposed to be about me but of course perfect Elena had to go out with her friends which didn't bother me as that meant I got my parents attention, but then as soon as it was time for cake and presents, Elena wanted a ride home.

I begged them not to leave me, it was my birthday but perfect Elena always comes before me even on my birthday and ignored me. My Dad even told me to stop acting like a little brat, promising me a spanking when he got home and that was the last thing he said to me.

Then the accident happened and all everyone said was poor Elena and Jeremy, I was ignored and tired of being in her shadow," Jessica said upset, ignoring the late bell and knew Damon was going to kill me.

"I know the feeling. I was only a baby when my mother got sick who died when I was around three as I was told. I never met her, Father sent her away as soon as she got sick, he blamed me, saying my birth caused it and left me to be raised by my brother, spent years being abused by him and watching as he favored my other brother over me who also hated me for apparently killing our mother, but I think he just hated me because our brother was closer to me but Damon was all that I had," I told Jessica sadly, similar to her own life though I don't think she was abused.

"I was never abused physically, it was mostly verbal and I think I would have preferred the physical, it was better than having to hear everyday why I wasn't like Elena. 'How come you can't be more like Elena?' They never cared I wasn't her and wanted to be own person, they just wanted me to be the perfect little girl in the shadows of perfect Elena and I wasn't okay with never being noticed," Jessica said and I could relate because that was almost how it was with me and Stefan, shocked their relationship is almost just as bad.

"My parents didn't want to believe me when I told her how she treated me when she wasn't around and just told me how Elena wouldn't do such a thing to her little sister and they didn't want to hear me saying anything negative about her again so suffered in silence and pushed them away for not believing in me and now it is too late," she said, letting tears fall from her face.

I was just about to comfort her when a teacher stormed in, looking over at Jessica angry, "Jessica Gilbert, how dare you tell your sister that she deserved to die instead of your parents, she is crying her eyes out. Why would you say such a thing when she has never been anything but nice to you. I will make sure your Aunt hears about this," she said, not bothering to ask her about what happened and just believing precious Elena.

I could tell that Jessica was used to this type of treatment and had a feeling this wasn't the first time that Elena has accused her doing something to make herself seem like a victim when really she has been the bully, she was not going to do it while I was around.

"Jessica didn't say that to Elena, she was the one that said that to her and made her cry. Elena is just lying, I was with Jessica and is always bullying her so no need to call her aunt when she didn't do anything wrong, it was all Elena," I said to the teacher while making sure I looked her into the eyes, compelling her without Jessica noticing what I was doing as I had a feeling no one ever stood up for her, favoring the precious copy-cat over her all the time.

"Of course, just a big misunderstanding. There is no need to call your aunt," she said in a monotone voice from being compelled that Jessica didn't seem to notice, but not like a eight year old would know anyway as the teacher walked out, leaving us on our own.

"Wow, that was a first. They usually always take Elena's word, not mattering if I was telling the truth or half the class will tell them what they saw, not even my own parents believed me unless they caught her bullying me themselves but they usually turned it on me and said how I must of instigated it somehow. I wish just once they had taken my side, and now it is too late. We should go, we're already late," Jessica said as she got up from the floor with me following close behind.

"Try not to think too much on it, my own father never so much as told me he loved me before he passed, but we don't worry so much, I can just punch her for you if you want, just let me know as long you help me cover for my brother, he won't be too happy about me punching hu..., other kids," I said, covering my slip up as I almost said humans in front of her.

For once I was glad that Damon had asked me to befriend Jessica as even though she was related to that snobby copy-cat that Stefan has taken a interest in, not knowing the kind of person she was really like, but Jessica was real nice and reminded me of myself when I was human except she doesn't have a Damon to protect her like I do and definitely someone we could be friends with.