Chapter 2:

We had spent hours my first night just talking. She told me about her life in Mystic Falls. It seemed like a pretty good one to me, up until the part where her parents died. She talked about how Jeremy had been acting out recently and how hard it was for them to find normal again.

"So you're from Jamestown. What was that like?" She asked, pulling her knees to her chest. We sat together on my new bed, sinking into it's comfort.

"Some people would call it mysterious." I shrugged.

"What would you call it?" Elena leaned against the headboard and looked at me.

"I guess I would call it strange." There was something there that spoke to me. It kept me going some days. "It's not a big place. There aren't many people there. It's more of a tourist trap these days."

"Fun." She rolled her eyes and we both laughed. "So you were alone?"

"I guess you could say that." Alone was not what I would call it. More like... Lost. "It has a strange history true, but it also has something else... Calm." Some nights when things were calm I would sneak out. I would walk around in the darkness and feel at home. Like for just one moment I was where I was meant to be. Things were familiar to me there. But then I would go home...

"This place is anything but calm, specially these days." Her eyes trailed towards the window and I couldn't help but wonder what she was thinking. I couldn't help but wonder why it mattered to me already after only half a day of knowing her.

"So you and Stefan..." I trailed off, not sure if I was allowed to even ask.

"Yeah I think so. He;s the first thing since my mom and dad died that makes me feel happy. I think it's good." She said back, smiling softly. She reached out to me, waiting for me to take her hand. "I noticed you don't much like to be touched."

I am sure most people would think the reason I don't like to be touched would be that my father hit me and hit me often. While this was partly true it wasn't the whole reason. Since I turned thirteen things had changed. It wasn't puberty and it wasn't normal. When I touched someone I could see things. It wasn't everyone I touched, but it was some. The ones that triggered it were the main reason I hated to be touched. So I had a no touch policy. I hadn't touched a person since.

I looked at her hand a moment before I decided to take a shot. She was my sister after all. Reaching out I took it. I regretted that almost instantly.

Faces. Faces flashed before my eyes one by one. All of them my own but none of them mine. Four faces.

When my eyes opened I could hear Elena calling my name. She wasn't touching me anymore, instead she stood over me, worry in her eyes as she tried to wake me."Lily are you alright?"

"Where am I?" I muttered, sitting up straight. I ran my hand over my forehead, wiping the sweat away. "What happened?"

"You just fell and hit the floor. I thought you might have hit your head." She had her phone in her hand as she spoke, "I was going to call an ambulance..."

"No. I'm fine, really. It happens." I told her, pushing back to lean against the wall. "Can we just get some sleep?" I asked finally, feeling exhausted. It hurt when it happened and it pulled every ounce of energy I had. She got up finally and placed the phone into her pocket.

"You got it. We can get a ride to school tomorrow from Bonnie, I can't wait to introduce you." She tapped her fingers on her thigh, "Just... Get some rest."

Lily jumped at the sound of a car horn outside. Elena smiled as she looked out at the street and turned to grin at Lily. "Bonnie's here. Ready to go?"

Ready? Lily wasn't sure she knew what ready was. "Yep." She said, grabbing her bag from the sidewalk. It was going to be very different from the school she had gone to and she worried that she would hate it.

The window on the passenger side of Bonnie's car rolled down and the girl at the wheel gave a friendly smile and a wave. "Morning!" Bonnie said in greeting.

Elena opened the door to the back and tossed her bag inside, sliding in next to it. "Morning Bonnie." Elena glanced at Lily as she stood, watching. "Go ahead, get in." She motioned to the seat in front of her, next to Bonnie.

Bonnie tilted her head at Lily. "Woah." Bonnie said, staring at Lily with a small smile. "It's seriously weird seeing two of you Elena."

"I know right?" Elena said back, moving to the middle seat so she could be part of the conversation.

"Obviously I am Bonnie." The friendly brunette said to Lily.

"Obviously I am Lily." She said back, watching as Bonnie put her hand out in a greeting. She eyed it, swallowing.

"Lily's not into touching." Elena said, tapping the car's seat. "Let's move or I'll be late for first period."

Lily hesitantly slid inside the passenger's seat, feeling awkward as she buckled up and looked out the window, avoiding eye contact with anybody.

"Sure," Bonnie nodded, starting her car up and pulling into traffic.

She tapped her pencil on her desk in boredom. There was nothing worse than this school, she was sure of that. After an entire day she knew that these people were insane.

This place gave a new meaning to the saying; school spirit. It gave her the willies. So did each and every person sitting around her. This wasn't normal, was it? To be this happy... Or this rich?

Lily jumped when the bell rang. Her pencil dropped, rolling onto the floor. She was more than glad to get out of there, gathering her books up as quickly as she could and shoving them into her backpack. She was the first out of the classroom and she stopped by her locker to empty the contents into her bag as well.

Lily pushed past all the students in the hallways on her way out, and she was thankful for fresh air and space to walk without bumping into somebody. She made a beeline for Bonnie's car.

She dropped her backpack on the asphalt and leaned against the vehicle, scanning the parking lot for Elena and Bonnie. Her eyes fell on a tall man sitting on the hood of a blue camaro.

The man's glassy blue eyes met hers and he gave her a cocky smile, one that somebody would give to someone they already know. He hopped off the car and started walking her way.

She furrowed her brow and looked in another direction. She hoped he would go away. She groaned inwardly when he stopped in front of her. "Pretending we are becoming besties?" He smirked, leaning against the fence beside her.

"Uhm..." She stammered, glancing at the man standing beside her.

"Where'd you get that little ensemble?" He gave her a smirk. Elena wasn't normally one to dress in a long sleeved CCR shirt, tight black jeans and combat boots.

"From my house?" She said, "Do I know you?" Damon glared down at her, wiping the smirk from his face.

"Damon what are you doing?" Stefan's voice came from behind the two leaning on the fence. Damon swung around, seeing Elena next to his brother, a pissed off look on her face. He looked at Lily then at Elena and back again.

"What is this?" He asked angrily, motioning between the two girls.

"This is Lily. She's my sister," Elena explained, looking at the dark-haired brother.

"You have a sister? Since when?" Damon narrowed his eyes.

"Since I was born?" Elena rolled her eyes.

"The people she has been living with aren't able to-"

Lily cut Stefan off, "I've been living somewhere else."

Damon looked between the twins. Their resemblance was uncanny, but that hadn't been the first time he'd seen someone who looked exactly like Elena.

"Bonnie is on her way, Lily," Elena said, smiling at her sister.

"Wicked. Let's get the hell out of this terrifying place." She said, ignoring Damon's strange glare. It was making her nervous. Not only was she uncomfortable she was upset because she thought he was friggin gorgeous. This hadn't happened to her before and she was feeling odd about it.

"Uhm, sure." Elena nodded her head, turning to look at Stefan and giving him a sweet smile. Bonnie jogged over to the group, slowing to a stop and waving.

"Damon." She grumbled upon seeing him.

"Witchy." He said back, eyeing her. Lily's head snapped up, looking at the two. Witchy? Was it a coincidence? She twiddled her fingers nervously.

In her short time in this town she'd had a vision of many faces that looked like her and she hadn't shrugged it off. It wasn't like anything she had seen before any of the other times it had happened to her. In fact she mostly saw fairly normal people doing fairly normal things.

She was in a daze as she climbed into the back of Bonnie's car and they drove home. But as she got out of the car she reached in and reached for Bonnie's hand. "I am happy to meet you Bonnie." She smiled.

Bonnie grabbed her hand.

"Was our family burned during the witch trials?" Bonnie's voice wafted past Lily.

"No, the girls that were persecuted in Salem were entirely innocent. You have to have more than ignorance to trap a real witch." An elderly woman said.

"How did we end up in Mystic Falls?" Bonnie asked her.

"Our family fled Salem in 1692 and relocated here. Our ancestors lived in secrecy for over a hundred years. It's important that we still do."

Lily snapped back to reality, biting her lip hard, pain searing through her. But she smiled through it. "See you tomorrow." She said through closed teeth, following her sister up the front steps into her new house.

It hadn't been a coincidence.

Were they the same? Should she mention it to Bonnie? She wasn't sure. "You alright?" Stefan asked her, and she snapped out of her thoughts.

"Why wouldn't I be?" Lily asked him, raising her brow.

Stefan knew what he had seen having seen it many times before. And very recently with Bonnie it would be hard not to miss. He was sure he saw Elena's sister read Bonnie Bennet.