It had been a few days. Things were a little bit weird. One thing that I was sure I was going to do was go to school. I wasn't going to let my mom tell me that I couldn't go. I had actually spent the night with Elena so I could be ready for my first day. By that, I meant that I had slept in her bed, not that we had had sex. I knew that she wasn't ready for that and I was okay with waiting until she was ready. I was pretty sure that she didn't understand what sex between two girls was like. I was pretty sure most people didn't unless they had actually seen it.

Anyway, I had brought a change of clothes with me. I was pretty sure that Elena didn't have a problem with me wearing her clothes, but I liked my own clothes better. I wore a purple corset over a black sweater with a blue pleated skirt and black tights with black boots. I liked having a sense of style that was all my own. Besides, I was making a statement on my first day of school, I wondered if Elena would be okay with me holding her hand.

"Jeremy, it's time to go or we're leaving without you." Elena called upstairs. She then opened the door to reveal an older man. He seemed to be about Jenna's age. "Uncle John."

"Elena." He greeted her.

"It's good to see you." Elena said. It seemed like she was lying. "This is my friend, Anna."

I didn't like her use of the word friend, but I didn't expect her to come out and say that we were in a relationship right away, even to her family, let alone to this guy that I had never met.

"John, you made it." Jenna remarked. She seemed to be full of disdain for him.

"I said I'd be in by noon." John declared.

"Uncle John, what's up?" Jeremy replied. He didn't seem to dislike the guy.

"Now, Jeremy." Elena remarked.

Once we got to school and I was registered, I decided to talk to Elena about Uncle John.

"He's always been the black sheep of the family." Elena states. "He's an ass and no one likes him. "He's not around much and mostly off of the stock market and funds from our family's past. The Gilberts have always been fairly rich."

"That's not entirely true." I stated. "All of the Founding Families except for the Lockwoods got rich off of the possessions of the tomb vampires. That old office of your dad's: that used to be my mom's apothecary."

"What's that?" She asked.

"It's an old medicine shop." I answered. "The point is it was my mom's and Jonathan Gilbert took it from her. That's why she's trying to buy it back from your family."

"Well I don't think Jenna has any objection in selling it." Elena declared. "I wish you would let me meet your mom."

"It wouldn't go well." I pointed out. "I'm not even entirely sure that she wouldn't try to kill you."

"Are you sure that she would be that bad?" She retorted.

"I don't know." I answered. "So how's Stefan doing?"

"I haven't really seen him that much since the other day." She explained. "Do you think that he'll be okay."

"Well I wouldn't be surprised if there was some post-traumatic stress disorder involved." I stated.

"Do you think that could happen to a vampire?" She asked. I couldn't help but wonder how much she really knew about post-traumatic stress disorder.

"It could happen to anyone who experienced a traumatic event." I remarked. I would think that being kidnapped and tortured would count as traumatic, even though I wasn't entirely sure what Stefan had been through. "Though, I can't say that Stefan has that. Did he say anything at all to you?"

"He said that he needed some time to recuperate." She answered.

"Then it would probably be best to give it to him." I opined. I wasn't going to admit it, but I was still afraid of Elena leaving me to get back with Stefan. I didn't want to be burned by another girl.

That night, I was at home. Elena was trying to talk to Stefan and I figured that I should trust her. Trust went a long way in a relationship. I wasn't going to say that she couldn't hang out with her ex, especially when my housemates were the ones who did it to him. The good news was that it was just me, my mother and Harper now. Harper was different from the rest of them. He was loyal to my mother. He was a former slave and soldier, so he knew a few things about loyalty.

"So how was school?" He asked.

"It was fine." I answered.

"You know I wish I had gotten a chance to go to school." Harper admitted. "But when you grew up like I did, you didn't really get the chance."

"Well if you want, there's a college not too far from here." I offered.

"I'm not sure if I'll do that." He answered. At that point, my mom walked in the door and I could tell that she was visibly upset.

"What's wrong?" I asked her.

"It seems that the sale has been halted because another owner has objected to it," She stated. Could that be John? Well I could see why people didn't like him very much.

I decided to call Elena to see how everything was going.

"Hey." She answered.

"So did you talk to Stefan?" I asked.

"He said that he was okay, but he seemed kind of off." She explained. "When I was saving him, I had to give him some of my blood. Do you think that's what causing him to act so strange?"

"I don't know. I don't really know Stefan." I replied. "As much as you're not going to like it, I think you need to talk to someone who does."

"Don't say it." She remarked.

"Okay, I won't, but you're still going to need to talk to him." I said. "So was there anything else that you want to talk about?"

"Mr. Saltzman showed me a paper that Jeremy wrote about vampires." She explained. "Did you tell him anything?"

"I told him a few legends and gave him some facts about the town, but if you're asking me if I told that vampires exist or told him I'm a vampire, then no I did not do either of those. I don't think that he thinks vampires are real, but maybe you should just talk to him about it."

"I'm not entirely sure how to talk to him." She admitted. "We used to be a lot closer, but then our mom and dad died. I haven't even told him that I'm adopted yet."

"Well maybe that would be a good place to start." I suggested. "You don't have to tell him everything, but let him know that he can talk to you."

"I hope that's going to work." She replied. "So do you want to go the Founder's Day Kickoff Party with me tomorrow?"

"Sure." I agreed.

The next day, I woke up at 9:00. For some reason, there was no school. I was pretty sure that it had to do with the kickoff party. It seemed like there were benefits to living in a small town. A bigger city would never go for something like that.

I really didn't do much during the day. Elena was out with Jeremy and I didn't really see the need to make more friends. Out of the other people that I knew, Matt was grieving because they found his sister's body and Caroline was visiting her gay dad in Memphis.

When it came time for the party, I wore a black beaded long-sleeved dress. I tried to convince my mom to come because it would give her a chance to talk to some of the town's leaders, but she wasn't interested. For someone who wanted to take the town back, she didn't seem to want to do much.

The party was at the public Town Hall which meant that I didn't need to be invited in to attend. I was happy about that because it would be a real downer if I couldn't go in.

I walked inside and there I saw Stefan, who seemed to be kind of drunk.

"Hey." He greeted me. "If it isn't the girl who stole my girlfriend."

I blushed a little bit. Elena left him because he was dishonest with her.

"I'm just kidding. Lighten up." He remarked. "I think she's here somewhere."

I began to scan the room for Elena and that was when I saw her. She wore a black short-sleeved dress that showed pretty much all of her cleavage. She looked stunning in the dress. I wasn't sure why she did not wear dresses more often.

"Hey." I stated.

"You two should dance together." Stefan suggested.

"We can't dance to this." Elena remarked. It was basically elevator music.

"Then we'll just have to chance the music." Stefan declared before he walked over to the DJ. At that point, Matt's mom walked over to us.

"Yeah, that's not gonna work. I tried bribing him with 20 bucks and a blowjob, but he wouldn't budge." She explained. "He said Mrs. Lockwood has strict control over the music choices."

"Stefan can be very persuasive." Elena stated as we watched him compel the man before the music became some alternative song. At that point, Stefan came over and started to dance with Mrs. Donovan. At that point, several others began to follow their lead. "What are we going to do about this?"

"I don't think it's something that we should worry about right now." I commented. "I think that there is one thing we should be doing."

"What?" She asked.

"Dancing." I replied as I took her to the floor and we began to move to the music together. Did Stefan choose the playlist or something because another alternative song began to play? Maybe it was some playlist that the DJ liked to listen to.

At that point, I spun Elena and spun her a little too hard because she spun into some guy.

"I'm sorry. I'm a bit clumsy." Elena stated.

"Then get off the dancefloor." He commanded.

"Don't talk to my girlfriend like that." I ordered.

"Fuck off, Dyke." He replied. I wasn't even gay. I was bi.

"That's no way to talk to a lady." Stefan remarked.

"Whatever." The douchebag said before he tried to leave. Stefan grabbed him.

"I think you should apologize to them." Stefan compelled. The only problem was that Stefan didn't compel him to mean it.

The rest of the night wasn't particularly eventful. Elena went to talk to Jeremy some more because apparently he was asking around about Vicki's death. That left me with Damon.

"What are you looking at?" I asked.

"I'm just a bit surprised to see you in a dress like that." He stated.

"Well, I'm here with Elena, so I'm not interested in you." I told him before he walked away. Just because I was bi didn't mean that I wasn't monogamous when I was in relationships. I could sleep around but not when I was officially dating someone.

Of course something eventually did happen. Matt caught Tyler Lockwood making out with his mom and he was pissed and a fight broke out which Tyler was winning easily. I then remembered what Katherine told me about the Lockwoods and that it was a full moon and put things together. Tyler had the werewolf gene and the gene was trying to get him to kill someone to activate the curse. I always wondered what would happen if a werewolf killed someone on a full moon. Would they immediately start turning or would they have to wait until the next full moon?

I then noticed that Elena was gone. It must have been important for her to leave without telling me goodbye. I tried to call her but I got no answer. I was about to go to bed when I got a call from her and answered it.

"Hi." I declared.

"I'm sorry about of the drama tonight." She apologized. "I couldn't give you the date that you deserved."

"The date was fine." I answered. "It's hard to have a good date with so many people around. I'm just glad that you were there with me. I just hope you'll be ready to come out and say you're my girlfriend soon."

So John is here and he's going to cause some problems. On the plus side, Elanna had their first dance. Please don't forget to review.