*Juliet's POV*

I was sitting in English class when the clock finally struck 3:00 and the bell rang. I packed my things into my bag and went to meet up with Elena in the hallway.

"Are you excited for cheer practice?" Elena asked as we walked side-by-side.

I shrugged, "Yeah I guess."

She nodded. "Come on, we need to hurry up and get to the gym before Caroline gets worried. She'll freak out if we're late." I nodded and we continued on our way.

After a few minutes of shoving past busy-body students, we finally got to the school's gym. Caroline and the other girls were putting their things down in the bleachers.

Caroline rushed over to greet us. "Hey guys." she said. The wide smile I was slowly growing accustom to stretched across her face. She looked over at me with hopefully eyes. "Are you ready?"

"Yup." I said with a smile. "Hopefully I won't embarrass myself too much today." I laughed, trying to sound more peppy.

"I'm sure you'll do fine." she assured me. She turned around to the other girls. "Alright people," she yelled, "time to get changed. Be outside in 15 minutes!" The other girls went off to the locker room to change. I followed them while Caroline and Elena stayed in the gym, talking in loud whispers. It seemed like they were arguing, but I was too far away to hear what it was they were arguing about.

Everyone filed into the locker room and started changing into their workout clothes. I set my gym bag on the bench and changed into a tank-top, shorts, and white cheer shoes. I pulled my hair up into a high pony-tail and went over to the bathroom to check myself in the mirror.

A tall blonde stood in front of one of the mirrors, applying a coat of lipgloss. I walked over and stood in front of the adjacent mirror and adjusted my pony-tail.

"You must be the new girl." she said without looking away from her reflection. She had an English accent, but hers was more posh than mine.

"Yeah." I replied. She looked away from the mirror and eyed me like she was appraising a pair of expensive shoes or a painting. "Juliet. Pleasure, I'm sure." I said, extending my hand to her.

She shook it a bit cautiously. "Rebekah." she said. "So, how are you liking Mystic Falls?"

I shrugged. "Can't complain. I mean, I'm not really used to the whole small town thing just yet. My mother assures me that I'll get used to it though. Apparently small towns are supposed to grow on you." I said, rolling my eyes at the last part.

Rebekah smirked. "Yeah, right. My family and I have been living here for a few weeks and so far this town hasn't exactly grown on me." she scoffed. "Its more the people here than the town itself though. They haven't exactly been welcoming." She seemed at little saddened by this, but quickly shook it off.

I raised an eyebrow. "Really? Everyone's been really nice to me so far. But then again, they don't know me that well yet." I said, shrugging my shoulders.

Our conversation was interrupted by Caroline yelling to everyone, "Ok everybody, time to go outside and get ready for practice!"

Rebekah rolled her eyes. "Give it a rest, Caroline. I'm sure no one enjoys you yelling all the bloody time." She shouted, putting her hands on her hips. I couldn't help but but admire her brazen attitude.

Caroline glared at Rebekah in annoyance and a hint disgust. "I'm the cheer capitan, so I have to keep everyone in line and on track." she snapped. "I'm just doing my job."

"Whatever." Rebekah scoffed. She crossed her arms over her chest and glared at Caroline.

Elena tugged on Caroline's arm, causing her to end the stare-down with Rebekah. "Come on Care, let's go." she urged.

Caroline groaned, but followed her out. I glanced back at Rebekah for a moment before following after them.

Practice lasted until 5:00, as Caroline had said. To my surprise, it was actually kind of fun. We ran a few laps around the track and went through some routines Caroline had made up. When we were done with everything, we all went back to the locker room and changed back into our regular clothes.

"So, how was your first practice?" Rebekah asked, walking over and taking a seat on the locker room bench by me.

"Fun, actually. It was better than I thought it would be." I said, looking over to her with a small smile. I shoved my cheer shoes into my bag and zipped it up.

Rebekah's phone buzzed in her hand. She rolled her eyes as she glanced down at it. "It's one of my brothers. He's here to pick me up and is being impatient, as usual." she huffed. "I better go. It was nice meeting you, Juliet."

"You too, Rebekah." I replied, waving at her as she got up and left. I gathered my bags and got up and left.

As i was walking down the front steps Elena called over to me. "Hey, do you need a ride home?"

I shook my head. "No thanks. I live pretty close to here so it shouldn't take me too long to walk there." For some reason I had decided to walk to school instead of drive this morning. It was probably because I used to walk everywhere back in London. It was just comfortable and familiar to me, unlike everything else here. "Thanks anyway." I called to her. She waved and got into her car.

I took my phone out of my bag and looked at it as I began walking. I had 5 messages from my mother, all of them asking me when I'd be home. I texted her back that I just got done with practice and would be home in half an hour. I tucked my phone into my back pocket and continued walking.

After about fifteen minutes I was walking through town. It was cloudy out and the sun was hardly visible now. I hoped that it wouldn't start raining on me since I didn't think to bring an umbrella. I was walking past an alley when a hand clamped around my mouth and yanked me behind a building, forcing me against a brick wall. I tried to scream, but couldn't. A pair of blood-red eyes stared down at me. I could see dark veins under his eyes and razor-sharp fangs. "Oh god, I'm going to die!" I thought. I closed my eyes and braced myself for my unfortunate fate. But it didn't come; I felt my attacker being pulled off me in one quick motion. My eyes shot open and I saw someone pinning him against the opposite wall.

"Now, that's no way to treat a lady, mate." a man's voice bellowed. He then reached into my attacker's chest and ripped out his heart. My hands flew up to my mouth to muffle a scream.

My attacker's body fell to the ground with a thud, desiccated and lifeless. My savior picked the corpse up and shoved it into a nearby dumpster. When he was done, he turned to face me. I couldn't help but gasp. My savior had been Kol, the Kol from my history class. His face looked like my attacker's - blood-red eyes, fangs and gray veins under his eyes. "What the bloody hell are you?" I choked out, moving my hand away from my mouth. I gripped the wall behind me in fear of loosing my balance. Terror gripped me tightly and I realized that I was shaking.

"A 'thank you' would be nice, darling." he said. Even in the darkness I could see him smirking. He took a few steps toward me. "But, to answer your question, I'm a vampire. The man who attacked you was also one."

All I could do was nod. I took a few deep breaths to calm my rattled nerves. "Was... Was he going to.." I started to say. My voice was shaking too much for me to continue.

"Kill you?" Kol suggested. I nodded. "Yes." He sighed. "I do hate the way vampires today act - no class. And subtly is just obsolete." he muttered in a disgusted manner.

Kol approached me slowly, closing the space between us. He reached out and pushed a stray curl behind my ear tenderly. I winced at his touch, though I have to admit, it wasn't exactly unpleasant. I was just afraid and unsure. Surely he wouldn't kill me. He had just saved my life.

"I'm not going to hurt you, darling." he said in a soft, almost soothing voice. "I just need to compel you to forget all of this. Enough humans already know about us in this town and I'm afraid I can't risk anyone else knowing." He looked into my eyes and his eyes dilated. "You will forget about being attacked and you will remember nothing about vampires. I saw you walking and offered to drive you home."

I stared at him, not sure what he was doing. I simply nodded, pretending that whatever vampire-mind-trick he was trying had worked. The last thing I need to do was piss off a vampire and end up on the wrong side of his fangs.

He smiled, satisfied. "Come on, it's getting late. I'll drive you home." I nodded and followed him to his car. He opened the passenger door for me, a true gentleman. I got in and buckled up as he walked around the front on the car and got in on the driver's side. He slammed his door and drove off.

After driving for a few minutes he stopped the car in front of my house. I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion. "How'd you know where I live?" I asked, looking over at him. Was he stalking me?

He smirked. "We're neighbors." he said, gesturing to the large mansion at the end of the street; it looked so out-of-place in a suburb. "I saw you here a few days ago, just after you moved in."

I nodded. "Oh." I managed, tucking a piece of hair behind my ear and looking down at the floorboard as I tried to hide my embarrassment. Could vampires sense that? "Well, thanks for the ride." I said. I looked back into his entrancing brown eyes.

He smiled, rather than smirking this time. "You're welcome Juliet." he replied. He seemed pleased that I was being polite to him. He probably thought that it was because of his charm and good looks. I wanted to roll my eyes; I was only being nice because he had just saved my life. Of course, he thought he had made me forget, so I let him think what he wanted to.

"Goodnight Kol." I said as I unbuckled my seatbelt and got out of the car.

"Goodnight." he replied. I closed the door and walked up the driveway to my house. After a quick glance back at Kol's car, I opened the door and went inside. I was still shaking a little.

My mother was in the kitchen making dinner. "Hello Jules!" she greeted, waving at me with a knife in her hand. "What took you so long? I was starting to get worried." She was always worried about me.

I sighed. "I told you I was walking home." I said. I put my bag down and walked over to her in the kitchen.

"I know. I was just overly concerned I suppose." She put the knife down and turned to face me. "So, did you like cheer practice?" she asked. A glimmer of optimism was in her voice.

I nodded. "Yeah, it was pretty fun." I said, leaning back on the wall.

"Did you make any new friends?" She was beginning another infinite string of questions.

"Yes. I met a girl on the team named Rebekah. She seems...nice, I guess." I said. Rebekah didn't entirely seem nice. She seemed a bit bitchy actually, but in a good way. I was sure we'd get along fine.

She smiled. "That's nice." She turned back to the meal she was preparing. "And how was your walk home?" she asked. I felt like I was being interrogated.

I hesitated for a moment. "Umm...it was fine." I said, trying to keep my voice level; I was still shaken up from the attack. "I didn't actually walk home all the way. About halfway a boy from school saw me and offered to drive me home."

She turned back to me with a cheeky grin on her face. "Oh, a boy you say. Is he cute?" she laughed lightly. I could hear a hint of anxiety in her voice. I didn't blame her; I hadn't exactly brought home any winners in my years of dating.

I rolled my eyes. "I guess. He's quite cheeky, well, arrogant is more like it. " I said, shifting uncomfortably. "He lives just down the road, in the big house at the end of the road." I said, pointing in its general direction.

She nodded. "That's the Mikaelson's house." she said.

"Do you know anything about them?" I asked hesitantly.

She paused, but shook her head. "No, sorry. I haven't had much of a chance to meet many people around here yet."

I nodded. "Alright then. Well, I need to go shower. Let me know when dinner's ready." I said, turning and leaving the room at a pace that was fast, but wouldn't raise suspicion.

Once I got to my room I closed the door and leaned against it. It had taken nearly everything I had to keep my composure during that conversation. I was still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that vampires were real and that I lived in a town that was probably crawling with them. Not to mention the fact that I had just let one drive me home. I couldn't shake the image of his face from my mind - his vampire face.

I closed my eyes and took another deep breath, trying to calm myself down. I was safe now and in a place where no vampires could get to me. I opened my eyes and relaxed.

I felt like I was in some sort of messed up supernatural movie. You know, where a human moves into a town full of vampires and their life suddenly goes to complete shit? "I guess that's where my life is going." I thought.

I was thankful that Kol had been there to save me. If he hadn't, there was no way that other vampire would have let me live. I wondered why had saved me. He didn't seem like an average nice guy. Honestly, I didn't really know what to think of him anymore.

I sighed and went to my bathroom to shower, thinking that it might help me to relax and forget what had happened in the past hour, though I knew it wouldn't. Part of me wished that whatever Kol had tried to do had worked - I wondered why it hadn't.

A.N.- So what'd you all think of this chapter? It took me forever to write, so I hope it's good. I'm thinking about making part of the next chapter from Kol's point of view, but I'm not sure. I want to give insight as to why Kol decided to save Juliet. Let me know what you guys think! Thank you to everyone who has reviewed, followed and favorited this story so far. It means a lot to me. I hope you guys continue to read and enjoy this story. Please review (: