Yesterday's movie was good, even though it ended like any other movie, she got the boy and they married. Of the second though, I only remembered the beginning, I'd fallen asleep. When I woke up, I was lying in my bed instead of the couch, probably put there by Elijah, who apparently had carried Caroline as well seeing she was lying on the matrass next to me. When she slept, she looked really weird. Her mouth was always open, a double chin was formed, her arms were spread like a butterfly spreads its wings and her legs were curled up to her stomach.
It made me wonder, how my brothers would look like if they'd sleep. It'd definitely be an opportunity to kill them. Nobody used their bed, except for Klaus and Stefan, they brought girls home, against Elijah's rules, and I don't really need to point out what they use the bed for.
Trying not to make a sound, I tiptoed to my door, avoiding the mess, opened it and closed it again, really soft. A sudden movement behind me made me turn around and in one tenth of a second, my back was pushed against a wall. Klaus was so nice to keep me in place there, not bothered about it hurting. If I had vampire strength, I'd push him back, over the railings, but yeah, I didn't.
''I know you were in my room, all my stuff smells like you.''
I smiled, he was right. Yesterday night , me and Caroline had held a kind of photo shoot in between the two movies but I couldn't find my camera so I went into his room and looked for his. I'd almost forgotten about it.
''Yeah, remember I asked you I could use your camera? Yesterday night, when you were home..'' I stopped, knowing Klaus got the point. My brother gritted his teeth and looked over his shoulder to see Elijah setting the table downstairs, who was probably listening. Klaus forced a smile and let go but not without a watch-your-back glance at me. I rolled my eyes.
''What an extensive breakfast! You've really overthrown yourself this time.''
I wondered what Klaus meant and got down after him. He was down in a hundredth of a second, I needed half a minute. We used to play tag, when we were young, I used to be faster than Stefan and Klaus, even though I was younger. Good times.
Seeing the table, I had to admit Klaus was right. There were four plates on the table, a dozen of different kinds of cheese, seven kind of drinks, the usual confectionary and even unhealthy food. I smiled, hoping he would let me eat some of the cake but I doubted it. Elijah only let me eat healthy, not that he could control me when I was at school but still, I sometimes really craved for chocolate pudding at the table or a cookie in the jar.
''Why four?'' I asked. Elijah said he wanted to make it up to me, for leaving yesterday and leaving me with Klaus and Stefan, where after he immediately got an answer at from Klaus, telling him that he and Stefan were the best brothers in town. Elijah and Rebeckah would join me and Caroline at the table. He thought that I would like that. I confirmed that I indeed would like that, announced I was going to get dressed and went back upstairs. I was a little worried that yesterday's event might get out into the open and that Elijah would be mad or rather hurt but I trusted Klaus and even Stefan. As long as they hadn't done something stupid, It would be all right. Our house was really big, it had to be if you lived in it with six.
The living room, with not much furniture and the best quality technology, and the kitchen, a very modern one with a kitchen island, were open, no doors involved. The stairs were on the right, going up to a kind of balcony where the second floor started, which was also open and big. Kind of like Damon's ego.
On the left and right were four doors, six were bedrooms with each their own bathroom and two were closets. Rebekah didn't find her bedroom big enough so she wanted another room for her clothes. The other closet was one for me but I didn't use it. Rebekah had put it full of nice clothes, like Alice had done in Twilight for Bella, but I liked dressing a little more shy. The attic was on the third floor but we never went up there, there was nothing to be seen but old rags and spiders. Thinking about it, I've never even been up there since we moved here.
And last, our basement. It was like a long hallway, with a storage room, the laundry room and an empty room that had no use. I didn't like going down because it gave me cold shivers, it was a sad place. Klaus had once told me it had been used as a prison for vampires by some evil doctor, which I didn't believe, but when I asked Damon about it, he acted so weird I didn't know what to believe anymore.
After breakfast, which was a little awkward but fun for a change, I let Caroline out. She told me, after a hug, that she was glad she had finally seen my house, that she had been curious about where I lived. I smiled and explained that she could come by as often as she wanted now that she knew where it was. She said she definitely would keep it in mind and take Bonnie with her.
We only lived here for a few months now. The fact that we didn't grow older made us move once in a while, it got people curious that you didn't age while they did. Last time, we stayed for four years but there were some neighbors, friends and a lot of other people getting suspicious so this time we would keep it to three, like we always did. But I didn't like it, especially since this was the first year that one of my friends knew about it all. Too bad, I thought. After saying goodbye, I went back in and sighed, deeply.
''Was it that bad?'' Elijah asked, raising an eyebrow.
''I can still make her forget our situation if you want me to.'' He was cleaning the table, at vampire speed, and was already done before I could answer.
''No, I'm trying to have a life, this time, you know, like normal people, where I can invite friends to come over.'' We have had this conversation already over a million times. After the 'incident', as Stefan would like to call it, Elijah's first suggestion was to erase it from her memory but I didn't want that. He tried to talk me out of it but I kept my foot put and I haven't had a single regret ever since.
There was another plus-side, besides the fact that I didn't have secrets for Caroline. Before the incident, my blond friend liked my blond brother, know that she knew the truth, she stayed away from Stefan. Caroline had some classes with him, even though he was one year higher than us, she had some advanced classes and had an immediate crush on him, God knows why. Have you ever seen him? Everything about him screams 'ego', 'superficial' and 'sex'.
I couldn't imagine my brother and best friend together and it'd be dangerous to date a vampire. Imagine Stefan getting jealous over something stupid, he wouldn't have a problem killing and Caroline would be devastated. Yeah, best case scenario. Can't even imagine the worst.
So , I decided, it was for everyone's best interest if Caroline knew about this.
It was Saturday and we all had promised a family day to Elijah. It wasn't special, it was just a day where we all did something together. My oldest brother could be a sentimental bag of tissues sometimes. Nobody really hated nor did we like it, we just gave him his pleasure. A long time ago, when psychology was starting to get known, Elijah had read that spending time as a family together, it made you closer. I just called it a TFD, it was short for The Family Day.
On the previous, we went bowling which was hilarious. Going to a normal bowling track for normal people? What had Elijah been thinking. They all had to hold back their strength, roll as soft as possible without it going hundred miles per hour. I can tell you, they sucked. Focusing on not to let the ball fly through the wall in the back, they couldn't concentrate on the orientation so it always went into the gutter. Hard to lose from.
In the beginning, Klaus had underestimated how strong he was and when he wanted to throw the ball , it was supposed to bounce a little and then go straight forward but it just went through the wooden floor and left a big black hole.
Elijah was a little bit pissed off but he could laugh with it at the end. Damon and Rebekah had rolled their eyes and Stefan had burst into laughter. The owner didn't get how we had done that but after Damon compelled him, we got another track. I insisted we gave the poor guy money to fix it.
This time, we decided to be lazy and went to the Mystic grill, a bar in town. No alcohol for me because Elijah didn't let me drink, I was only 17 years old. Do I need to say that I was 17 for over a hundred years? To my brother, it didn't matter. I did convince him to let me have a driver's license, where after I, as anyone would, expected to drive. Not on Elijah's watch apparently. He insisted I shouldn't be risking my life in traffic. Not that living with five vampires was more dangerous, not at all. If I had parents, I could at least argue with them or make an agreement, try that with a vampire. If he said no, it was no.
Me, Elijah and Rebeckah took the car, Damon, Klaus and Stefan ran. Taking the car was like crawling to your destination for vampires. Damon once put me next to a snail and said I could only follow the snail's speed. After a minute or two, I gave up and got his point.
The mystic grill was rather empty but it was only seven o' clock.
We sat down on the old wooden chairs while Klaus and Damon were discussing whether blood was more tasteful from a vein in the pulse, neck or thigh. Elijah didn't like them talking about it when I was there so he tried to shut them up. Didn't work.
Rebeckah thought it was the neck, Damon the thigh. Apparently, nobody like the pulse.
They were all trying to defend their point of view and I was just mending where I could but I soon got bored. I didn't get why they liked talking about their food so I started looking around, making up bio's about random people in the Grill. After thinking that the old man in the corner was secretly a pirate, someone caught my eye.
Behind the bar, I recognized a guy from school. After telling Elijah I was going to ask for Wifi, I went to talk with him. He was looking good today, he had a loose white shirt on with a little bit V-neck that went well with his black pair of jeans. His blond hair was messy in a hot way, not the hobo kind of way.
''Hi.'' I said while placing myself at one of the bar stools.
''Hi, you're from school, right?'' the quarterback replied with a big smile and I was surprised at how white his teeth were, they were beautiful. ''Yeah, I am Elena.''
''I'm Matt. You don't come here often.'' He stated. I shook my head as a confirmation and looked at the chart. A quick glance over my shoulder told me Elijah wasn't paying attention to me and was in the midst of a discussion with Damon. I could risk it.
''I'll have a white martini please.'' I said, excited to feel alcohol running through my veins again.
While making it, he asked me about my 'friends', the group that was loudly laughing and talking. I answered it were my siblings but closed that topic and started about something else. He gave me the martini and it tasted delicious, it was so much better than water.'
'Well, if that isn't illegal.'' Hearing his voice, I sighed and held on to the glass. Damon always needed to interfere. An amazing brother, he was.
''Do you always get seventeen year old's drunk? I'd think you, looking the way you look, would have no trouble hitting on girls, why get them wasted?'' My brother motioned him to come closer, and gave him some advice. ''That's for the ugly people, don't go there.'' Damon winked at him while showing his friendliest smile. Matt just stared at him, his face not showing any sign of emotion, except for maybe confusion. Most people felt intimidated by Damon and his charming ways, but this guy seemed self-sure. Yeah, looking at a vampire like that, you must have some balls, I thought. Even though he didn't know he was looking at the animal that could kill him in a sec.
''If you don't introduce me, I'll do. Hi, Damon.'' He held out his hand to Matt who shook it back. With his other, he took my Martini away while I thought he hadn't been looking. I had been so close.
''Matt , Matt Donovan.'' The bartender replied. After the usual ''nice to meet you'' and ''you should visit some time'' followed by a goodbye, Damon took me back to our table, drinking the martini.
Was I interested in Matt? No. What did I like about him? Nothing. Why did I fall for him? I didn't.
I rolled my eyes after Rebekah's interrogation and Elijah's lecture about how alcohol damaged my brain, I should listen to him, yadda yadda yadda. After both Damon and Klaus petted me on the head and told me to be 'a good girl' next time, they went back to talking about their previous subject, which happened to be whether a boy or a girl was easier to seduce.
After an hour, Elijah and Rebekah went away, they had some ''business'' to attend, God knows what. No, even God probably didn't know, it was Elijah we were talking about after all. And he was the guy who made us do these TFD's. Stefan too went away and not much later, Damon had seen a girl he fancied, which left me and Klaus.
We decided to sit down at the bar because it was just the two of us.
''I won't tell if you won't.'' I looked meaningful at Klaus.
''You know how I feel about that whole 'we need to protect you' thing. Do whatever you like.''
I smiled, that was the answer I had been waiting for. I ordered two martini's, a white and a red one.
''I still don't get what you like about a white martini.'' Klaus looked at in disgust where after I offered him to taste and he did but instead of swallowing, he spit it out on Matt and growled. I raised an eyebrow, this was not vampire-like.
''Vervain.'' Klaus mouthed. My eyes widened and I looked at Matt. Did he know? How could he know? Maybe he knew some vampires or was he himself a vampire! Right before I was about to ask, Klaus's hand was covering my mouth. It stunk like dead animals and was cold as ice.
''Don't.'' he said, still holding his hand there. Matt started to look worried and doubted whether to interfere or not. I clawed at his hand which didn't work, so I licked it, Klaus let go and dramatically wiped his hands on his pants.
''Why not?'' I asked.
''Because I say so.'' He looked around, put his jacket on, threw the keys of the car on the bar and left, without saying anything. I sighed.
Well, I could drive myself home this time, it had been a long time. Matt asked what that was about but I shrugged it away, said it was just a big brother thing. Fortunately, he left it at that and I kept suppressing the urge to ask him about vampires.
We talked for a while, and I came to know a lot about him and found that we had several things in common. Matt had an older sister, Vicky, who I hadn't met yet, and both of his parents were dead. He and Vicky lived on their own, in the house they grew up in. He was a good-humoured guy but he sometimes had a difficult time with the money, he had some debts. I felt bad for him and made a mental note. After two more hours, I left and went home, wondering where Klaus had gone too.
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It was Monday and there was a new kid at school, a girl named Jenna. At least, that's what Caroline told me, where after I got a very detailed description of how she looked which was okay according to Caroline's norms. The blonde always knew everything, and she was almost always right. When I saw the new girl myself, I had to say she looked exactly like Caroline had described. Ready to go after packing my stuff, I realized that a quiet girl with light brown hair was still standing in the back of the classroom while everyone else was already gone. I saw her looking doubtful at a paper she had in her hands. How had Caroline called her again? I didn't remember, damn it. Stupid brains, can't remember a name but knows the whole periodic table. It turned out the paper was a schedule of the classes she followed with all the classrooms numbers next to it.
''History is in building B, it's not far away from here.'' I said, while pointing to the B-block, and scared the girl who rapidly turned her head to me.
''I'm sorry, I didn't want to scare you. I'm Elena, you?'' I asked, trying to make her feel more comfortable. She looked like a scared rabbit, trapped in a corner.
I knew how it was to be the new girl, I knew it all too well. Always needing to get to know the school, get lost so many times, make new friends, not knowing what to do in the beginning, it was hard.
''Hi, I'm Jenna.'' The girl told me where after she gave me a shy smile. Now I remembered. Jenna, Jenna, Jenna. It's not even a difficult name for Christ sake.
I sucked at remembering names and faces, it was something I had to live with but I didn't find it so troubling as much as the people who I forgot. Most of them didn't mind and got that it wasn't personal but some got really mad and felt , well, forgotten. Don't blame me if you're not very extraordinary and you just slip out of my mind.
I suggested that I would guide her to the building because I had my next class in the room across. She seemed to doubt about it but quickly decided to agree. While we were walking, I asked Jenna, a name I found that sounded old, where she came from and why she had moved here. Jenna explained that her father had been transferred for work so she came along with him. She had no siblings, and she was glad about that but when I asked her why, she couldn't answer.
I was glad I had my siblings, sometimes. I could definitely miss a few but being an only child? I wonder how it would've been liking without Damon comforting me at night when we were little, without Rebekah giving me advice on boys. And without Stefan bullying me. I could really do without the last one, I decided.
