Chapter Two

Alexandra

"Hair up or down?" Aunt Jenna asks.

"Well up, sexy stuarest." She lets her red hair down. "Down, boozy housewife. Why? Where are you off to?"

"Parent teacher conference," she responds, putting her hair up, not liking my comment about the boozy housewife. "You're unusually bubbly today." I smile at her. I am, aren't I?

"Just feeling good about the world. Where Jer? I was going to take him to the hospital this morning for a few minutes to check on Vicky."

"Should be in his room."

"Jer! Get your butt out here. We've got to get a move on so we aren't late." I pound my fist on his door as I shout at him. He opens it a minute later and glares at me. "Your lucky I'm even doing this."

"I know. Thank you."

The hospital is uneventful. I let Jer have a minute alone with Vicky before a nurse catches us. Soon we leave and head off to school. Jeremy told me she's fine but Matt was telling him last night that she was saying something about fangs and vampires. They both thought it was stupid.

Today, Tanner is extra annoyed. He talks about a special commet passing over Mystic Falls and how big of a deal it is. After class Elena walks with Stefan talking about a book and how he's a loner and how he should join the football team. He told her he'd think about it.

I caught up Bonnie and Caroline while they were talking boys.

"Feel free to conjure up the name and number for that guy last night."

"What guy?" I ask, trying to get the dirty details.

"I didn't see him. You did, Care."

"This guy was so hot. He was staring at me when Bonnie took me to The Grill to get some coffee. He's got gorgeous blue eyes, wild black hair, and a hot smirk."

"Why didn't you talk to him?" Bonnie asks.

"I don't know. I was drunk." They laugh and I walk into my next class.

Caroline, Bonnie, Elena, and I were sitting outside The Grill talking about Stefan.

"What's even going on between you two?" Bonnie asks.

"Yeah? No sloppy first kiss, no touchy feely of any kind?" Elena shakes her head. "We are your friends Elena, you are supposed to share."

"They literally just talked all night. I banged on the wall numerous times to get them to shut up." Caroline was shocked that they would just talk.

"What's with the blockage? Seriously Elena, jump his bones already. Okay, it's easy. Boy likes girl. Girl likes boy. Sex."

Elena mulls it over in her head for a minute. She gets up and drags me with her. "Caroline's right. It is easy. Let's go."

We get to the boarding house soon enough. Elena and I only know where it is because we drove Stefan home when we all went out to The Grill that night. We go up to the door and I knock. It's slightly open and I walk through.

"Don't go walking into people's houses. That's rude Alexandra!" I roll my eyes and walk in anyway. She follows behind me. "Stefan?" Elena calls out to him but no response from a human. Just a crow, cawing and flying into the house. I turn back around from the door and into the deep blues of a gorgeous man.

"Sorry for barging in," I say quickly, embarressed for trespassing. I step back with Elena.

"You must be Elena," he says, looking over my shoulder. His voice sounds the exact same as the man in the woods. She nods. "I never got the pleasure of knowing your name." He sounds exactly like that guy last night. My goodness, is it him?

"Alexandra," I say.

"I'm Damon, Stefan's brother."

"Stefan never mentioned a brother."

"He's not one to brag. Please come. I'm sure Stefan will be along any minute." He gestures to his right and we walk into the parlor.

"This is your living room," Elena asks?

"Living room, parlor, 70's auction. It's a bit kitschy for my taste." He takes a deep breath and releases it as he says, "it's about time Stefan got a new girlfriend. With the last one, I wasn't sure for a while."

"The last one?" I question him.

"Yes, Katherine. His girlfriend." Then realization hit him. "You two haven't had to awkward ex's talk, have you?"

"Nope." She answers, popping the p. She sways back and forth on her heels in awkward silence.

"Maybe he didn't want you to think he was on the rebound. We all know how those relationships end."

"You say it as if all relationships are doomed," she counters.

"I'm a fatalist." He smirks and as he is looking at us, he says, "hello Stefan." Elena and I both turn and find Stefan standing there, pissed off. Obviously there is some serious tension between the two.

"Alexandra, Elena. I didn't know you were coming over."

"I know, we should have called."

"Don't be silly, you both are welcome here anytime, isn't that right Stefan?" He strains his nod. "You know, I should break out the family photos. I must warn you, he wasn't always such a looker." He chuckles as do I.

"Thank you for stopping by."

"Yeah we should probably get going, Elena?" She nods. "It was nice meeting you, Damon."

"Pleasure's all mine," he says in a sultry voice. He takes my hand and kisses the back of it. Something felt different when he touched me. Tingles all up one arm and down the other.

Stefan moved out of our way when we wanted him to and we left.

We walked into the house just as Jenna is yelling at Jeremy. "Jeremy, where were you?" She asks sternly.

"More stoner stories, Aunt Jenna, I get it. You were cool once and that's cool." He showed her his thumbs up and started walking away.

"Oh no!" She yells. She throws the apple in her hand and it hits Jeremy in the back of the head.

"Ow! Why? Why, why did you do that?"

"Listen up, stop ditching class or you're grounded. No discussion."

"Parental authority. I like it. Night Aunt Jenna." I started laughing as soon as his door was shut.

"God Aunt Jenna, that was hilarious. You throwing that apple, his reaction." I laugh even more. A tear makes itself known but I blink it back. Jenna and Elena look at me and chuckle too. It was pretty funny.

Later that night I walk into Jeremy's room after coming back from searching for Vicky and finding out Jeremy deals drugs. Idiot. But we found Vicky, well Stefan did. He's such a nice person. I'm glad Elena found him.

"It's me," Aunt Jenna says.

"What are you doing?" I sit on Jeremy's bed.

"Jackpot. I guess the hiding places aren't that advanced now." She tossed the large brown boot back to the ground and turned to me.

"What brought this on?"

"Your ass of a history teacher shammed me good yesterday."

"You got Tannered. Been there, done that, Never going back for seconds."

" 'Discover the impossible Ms. Sommers.' Thanks like I didn't know I was already screwing up."

I came up behind her and stopped her from digging around in Jeremy's dresser. "You're not screwing up. You've got this."

"Yes I am. Because I'm not her. She made everything look so easy. High school, marriage, having you." Tears were shinning in her eyes. "I can't do it. I'm going to say or do the wrong thing and it's all going to be my fault."

"Everyone is scared Aunt Jenna, we are all just going to have to deal with it."

"Thanks."

"Course." I cross the bathroom that connects mine and Jeremy's rooms. I look in the mirror and scrunch my nose at my hair. It's a wild mess of brown curls. That's the only thing Elena and I have that are the complete same. The ony thing is that I leave mine in waves and she flat irons her hair. My eyes are two shades lighter than her's, making them golden doe eyes. We are almost the same height. I'm an inch shorter and she loves making fun of me for being the younger twin and the shortest. We have the same build, which is great.

I go to my bedroom and I get my diary out, it's a secret that I even have one. Elena is the only one who knows. I write about my day and the crazy things that happened. I also write about the beautiful blue eyes that I found myself consistantly looking at. I soon fell asleep, dreaming about life and choices and romances.