Dear Diary
One of the worst parts of Katherine being here is that she can come into the house at any time. Maybe I should see about getting the deed transferred into Sarah's name so we can keep unwanted vampires out of the house. The only problem was that it was a lot of power to give to a teenager. You can't give a teenager power because they're known to abuse it. I'd have to discuss it further with her first to know if she can handle it.
I then went to bed where Anna was, but I didn't exactly feel sleepy. In fact, I felt hungry. I didn't like to get blood in the sheets, so I went over to my fridge.
"So what's your favorite part of night?" I asked.
"What?" She questioned. I supposed it was a bit of a weird question.
"What do you like most about the night?" I rephrased.
"Let's go on the roof." She suggested. The two of us climbed up to the top. It was a good thing that we lived in the middle of nowhere because some people would be confused by two girls sitting on the roof in their lingerie. We both laid back on the shingles. "I've always liked being able to see the stars. The night sky is so beautiful around here. It's one of the reasons that I love small towns."
"I know what you mean." I responded. "I never really liked living in the city, even if it was a good place to get food."
"Yeah, big cities always do have a lot of people to eat." She agreed. "Though, I'm not sure that I like where this conversation is headed. I want you to know that I never turned off my humanity, even though I wanted to after my mother was captured."
"Wow, never, even I've done it once." I responded. "It was in the early 40s. World War was driving me insane and I decided that I just didn't want to feel anymore."
"How did you get it back?" She inquired.
"It's going to sound so corny." I admitted. "I was in New York and I saw this sailor kissing his girlfriend after coming home and it just warmed my heart. It made me want to feel things. Conveniently the war was over and once I had it back, I knew I didn't want to feel that way again."
The following morning, I was at school in my cheerleading uniform with Elena and Bonnie. We were setting up for this carnival at the school.
"It was so weird." Bonnie stated. "Katherine looked just like you."
"Well she is my ancestor." Elena pointed out.
"This wasn't a resemblance like with a relative. This was like she was your twin." The witch argued. "I mean how do you know that Katherine isn't out there somewhere pretending to be you?"
"I don't but if I keep worrying about it, I'll go insane." Elena pointed out. "I just want to do human things right now."
"I'll go check on Stefan." I volunteered as I went into the school. I noticed that he was talking to Jeremy. "So how is everything going with the setup?"
"I got the goldfish toss done. It's going to be epic." Jeremy remarked before he walked off.
"What's his problem?" I questioned.
"He's still upset over this vampire stuff." Stefan explained.
"So was he wearing John's ring?" I asked.
"I'm pretty sure that he was." My brother declared. At that time, Anna walked out in the cheerleading uniform that I had given her.
"I cannot believe that you convinced me to do this." She remarked.
"You look great." I told her. "That skirt looks good on you and you're the one who told me that you have never done cheerleading before."
"If I didn't love you so much, I would kill you." She stated.
"But you do love me." I remarked before giving her a kiss.
After school, I was about to take a shower and get changed for the night, but first I wanted to talk to Sarah about something.
"You got a minute?" I inquired. "I want to talk to you about something."
"What is it?" She asked me.
"There's something that I've been thinking about." I declared. "You see since you're human, you would be able to keep vampires out of the house, which means Katherine wouldn't be able to get in. I haven't talked to Stefan or Damon about it, but the house would have to be transferred to your name."
"Okay." She remarked.
"The only concern I have is that you might have to invite us in and I'm not sure if I should let you do that and I'm not going to do it unless Stefan and Damon agree." I explained.
After I was done talking to her, I went to the shower. I happened to find that Anna was already in the tub. I decided to just walk in.
"Hey." She greeted me. I didn't waste any time and kissed her. After we were done, we both stepped out wearing towels. "Somehow I don't feel much cleaner."
"Shut up." I teased. I then got dressed in a red tee that said "I Heart Taylor Swift" and a pair of shredded jeans with a leather jacket while Anna went with a gothic lace long-sleeved dress and black open-toed boots. She also wore a flower in her hair.
"So why is there a carnival tonight anyway?" She asked. "It doesn't seem like a good time. I mean Founder's Day has already passed."
"They probably just wanted to get in on it." I proposed. "I really have no idea what the purpose of this thing is, but I don't really care because it sounds like it'll be fun and it'll be perfect for a date."
"You know that we'll probably have to do some work." She pointed out.
"Yes some, but we'll also have some time to enjoy ourselves." I responded. "I want to win you a stuffed animal."
"Well you have to let me win you one too." She bargained.
"I think that's doable as long as the games aren't rigged." I responded. "You know we may be the only two teenage girls that don't have any stuffed animals."
"That's probably not true." She declared. "What about Maria?"
"She sleeps with stuffed mongoose." I answered. I wasn't sure why I told her that. "Just don't tell her that I told you because it's supposed to be a secret."
"Why does she have a mongoose?" Anna asked through her laughs.
"She hates snakes and she used to think that sleeping with a mongoose would keep the snakes away." I explained.
"That's just silly." She remarked.
"It makes sense to a 10-year-old." I argued before we arrived at the school. "So I have to go meet up with Elena and Bonnie and I'll see you later."
I went over to the two of them. I couldn't help but have a bad feeling that something bad was going to happen. It just seemed that something bad usually happened whenever we tied to have fun. I hoped that I was wrong and just being paranoid.
The first thing that I noticed was that the prizes seemed to be dwindling fast. Maybe the games were too easy.
"We also have to fix the speaker in the karaoke room." Elena declared. She then looked at me. "Do you think you can do that?"
"Sure, Oh Supreme Leader." I replied before giving a mock salute.
"Elena, this is a huge success." Bonnie told her.
"Are you sure, because Caroline's standards are extremely high?" I pointed out. That girl could be a perfectionist like no one else. People with OCD might say that she was too anal.
"Go fix the speaker." Elena told me again.
I then went to the karaoke room and once I was done with what needed to be done, I found Maria.
"So how are you?" She asked. "It feels like it's been a while since we talked."
"It was just yesterday." I pointed out.
"Well it just seems like a lot longer." She remarked. "So what do you think we should do about Katherine?"
"I really don't want to worry about Katherine tonight." I stated. "As long as she's not here, we don't have to deal with her. We can just focus on having fun and not worry about her."
"I guess that is a good way to look at it." She responded. "But what if she's pretending to be Elena somewhere?"
"We're not going to worry about that." I pointed out. "As long as she's not here, she's not our problem. So did you want to use the karaoke room or something?"
"No, I'm not much of a singer." She responded. "I did want to find out where Stefan was though."
"Well I know that he's here, so we can go look for him." I suggested before I began to walk around the school.
We ended up finding him and Damon by this arm-wrestling table. Tyler was there and Damon was staring at him.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"Damon seems to think that there's something weird about Tyler." Stefan explained.
"Well the device affected him." Damon remarked. "And we know that he's not a vampire. He's strong."
"He plays three varsity sports. Of course he's strong." I pointed out. At that point, a scruffy, muscular man walked over to them.
"Enter the uncle." Damon remarked. I didn't know that Tyler had an uncle. He looked more like an older brother. Whoever he was, he beat Tyler.
"Okay, he's the new champ." Tyler conceded. "Does anyone else want to face him?"
"My brother does." Damon remarked. Why couldn't he just do it himself?
Stefan went up and arm-wrestled him and lost.
"You didn't even try." Damon declared.
"Actually I did." Stefan stated. So he did seem to be abnormally strong. Damon then compelled a guy to get into a fight with Tyler. I had a feeling that it wouldn't end well.
"Damon, stop being stupid." I told him. I then realized it was like telling him to stop being a vampire. I didn't think he was capable of it.
You know there was a possibility that Damon was right and there was something about the Lockwoods, but it really wasn't something that I wanted to deal with tonight. Tonight I just wanted to win a stuffed animal for my girlfriend. I decided to meet her over by the games.
"What took so long?" She asked.
"I got caught up in one of Damon's crazy plans." I stated.
"You've got to get him to stop with the crazy plans." She replied. She then presented me with a stuffed rabbit. "I won it for you."
"Now you have to let me win you something." I remarked. I went over to the games and prepared to knock down some bottles when I got a text and made a bad throw because I didn't have my focus. I couldn't help but wonder who would bother me at such a crucial time. It was Damon saying that I needed to meet him in Alaric's classroom right away. I couldn't help but sigh. I really didn't want to hear any more Lockwood theories from him. I decided to take Anna with me because it was better than leaving her. I found that Stefan and Maria were with him.
"What's going on?" I asked.
"Do you want to tell them or should I?" Damon asked. Before anyone could say anything. "Katherine turned Barbie into a vampire."
"How did this happen?" I asked.
"Well I gave her some blood and Katherine obviously killed her." Damon explained. It was more of a rhetorical question. I got that was what happened. I supposed the better question was why. What reason did Katherine have to turn her into a vampire? It was just another thing that Katherine did that confused me.
"She said 'Game on.'. What did she mean?" Stefan mused.
"It means that she's playing dirty." Damon declared.
"But why Caroline?" Maria asked.
"Probably because she already had vampire blood in her system." I opined. "We just need to find her right now."
"And kill her." Damon added.
"No, we're not going to kill her." Maria declared.
"She knows who we are." Damon pointed out. "She's a liability and there's also no chance that Caroline will make it as a vampire."
"The answer is no." I reiterated.
"Need I remind you of the tragic story of a girl named Vicki Donovan?" Damon asked. "She couldn't make it as a vampire."
"We can learn from the mistakes that we made with Vicki." I countered. "We're not going to let it happen to Caroline."
"Not to mention, there's Emily's grimoire which has the spell to create a daylight ring in it." Anna pointed out.
I couldn't believe the problem that we had. Even when Katherine wasn't here, she was still causing trouble. I really hated that bitch. I hated how she thought that she could just come here and mess with everyone's lives. I had many reasons to hate her and they were all good.
Damon ran off and we decided to split up and look for Caroline and also prevent Damon from killing her. I was with Maria. Once we were outside, I began to listen and I heard noises and began to run over and tackled Damon before he could stake her. It was then that I smelled blood and noticed that Jeremy's body was in the bed of a truck. Thankfully, he had the ring on. We would still have a hard time explaining this to Elena.
"Caroline, he's going to be fine." I explained. "I know it's hard to explain, but this ring is going to bring him back to life and he'll be fine. Let's just get you cleaned up."
"She is going to die." Damon pointed out.
Well she had already died and I needed to make sure that it didn't happen again because I knew that the next time was going to be permanent. I would do my best to keep her alive. We would have to change our approach because there was no way that we could keep the sheriff's daughter in the house, but I was pretty sure that we would be able to make it work.
"She's not dying tonight." I replied.
"Yes she is." Damon replied before he grabbed the stake off the ground and charged at her. I did the only thing that I could think to do and ran in front of her. Since he was aiming for her heart and Caroline was several inches taller, the stake went into my sternum. It really hurt, but it wouldn't kill me. "Damon…we're not killing her."
"Fine, but whatever she does, whoever she kills is on you." Damon responded.
At that moment, Elena and Bonnie showed up. They saw the blood on Caroline's face and then Bonnie touched her and began to freak out. It was at that time that Jeremy began to wake up. I decided to just take Caroline to the bathroom and I got Anna to come over as I began to get a towel ready to clean her face.
"How can Jeremy not be dead?" Caroline asked as she began to wash her hands. "I know that I killed him. I'm a monster. I'm a murderer."
I almost expected her to say "Out damn spot!" there, but it was not the time or place to make that remark.
"Caroline, calm down." I told her. At that point, the veins formed under her eyes.
"Why does this keep happening to my face?" She asked in frustrating.
"Caroline, it's something that happens when you're around blood." I declared. At that point, Anna came inside. I decided to show her my own veins. "It is something that you can control and we can help you control it. Just take a deep breath and try to make them go away."
Caroline did as instructed and the veins under her eyes vanished.
"Why did Katherine do this to me?" She asked softly.
"We don't know, but we're not going to let her get away with it." I promised. I didn't know how, but I knew that she was going to pay for it.
When we got outside, we found out that Bonnie tried to light Damon on fire, but everyone else stopped her.
"I'm going to take her home." I replied.
I went out to the car and took Caroline to her house. She took out her key.
"That's not going to work." I explained. "You have to be invited."
At that point, I rang the doorbell and her mom answered the door. She looked pissed.
"Where were you?" The woman asked. "I went to the hospital to see you and they told me that you checked out tonight."
"I went to the carnival." Caroline answered.
"Just get inside." The sheriff stated. Caroline walked in and I looked her mother.
"I'm sorry. I didn't know she was supposed to still be in the hospital." I lied.
"Thank you for bringing her home, Mikaela." She declared before she shut the door.
I then went home to find that Anna was in bed. She still had my rabbit and it was at that point that I frowned.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"I never got to win you that stuffed animal that I promised you." I declared.
"You know I don't need a stuffed animal when I have you." She told me. "You're the only thing that I need to hug while I sleep."
So aren't Mikaela and Anna just adorable? Plus we got to see Sarah again. Please don't forget to review.
