Hey Bonnie,

How is the summer almost over, and yet, I feel like I've got nothing done? Sounds like you're having fun traveling with your mom. I'm still not sure how I'm supposed to do this whole college thing without you. And Caroline agrees, she spent the whole summer designing the color palette for our dorm room. None of us has even seen the slightest bit of Tyler all summer, since he's away helping some wolfpack in Tennessee. Matt and Rebekah has been traveling in Europe all summer. I think it was only Europe. I'm not sure, but they've been sending postcards. I haven't read them all, because I'm jealous I didn't come with them. It sounds so much fun, don't you agree?

Oooh and did you hear the fun gossip about Kath? She tried to kill Elena, and I shoved the cure down her throat. It was meant for Elena, but she didn't want it. And I have no plans to become a vampire now or ever. No one has heard from her ever since. Who knows what trouble she may be in at the moment?

Elena however, didn't choose either of the Salvatore boys. I don't blame her, too much drama in one love triangle. She has been sending the summer with a guy named Liam. They have been traveling up to Canada, and spent a month with his family. I am sure she had a wonderful time.

I spent the summer with Damon. Stefan left on our graduation day, and no one has heard from him. He's probably recovering from losing Lexi. I hope he's ok. Damon took me to this wonderful Greek restaurant. The food was wonderful as well as the wine. No, it wasn't a date Bon Bon.

Anyway, I love you and I can't wait to see you again. When do you get back? Love, Hayley.

I re-read my mail before I clicked on send. I rested my back against Damon's bath tub. It was filled with bubbles and hot water that felt good against my skin. The summer had been long and a nice, calm bath was really needed. I sighed as I heard someone open the bedroom door.

I quickly sunk more into the tub, using the bubbles to cover the most sensitive parts of my body.

"Hey, knock!" I yelled as I saw Damon entering his room, smirking. The blood when straight up to my cheeks as I felt them get warm.

"It's my room," Damon says, inspecting the bubbles, in hope to find some skin underneath them.

"Hey, stop watching perv and give me a rope or something," I say with a grin. He throws me a towel as I stand up and wrap it around my body.

"Your sister called. She is staying with Caroline for the night and is picking you up with Caroline, 10am sharp," Damon says. I nod slowly.

"College, wooo," I say as I walk out.


"There were issues at home. Ever since I lost my parents, my aunt, I've been acting out. Drugs, drinking. I was looking for attention, so I lit my house on fire and faked my own death," Jeremy says. I told him what to say, so he could go back to school.

"Really stress the drug thing," I say as Jeremy nods, "And I'd defintely say that the fire was an accident."

"Or I could just not go considering my school already had a memorial for me," Jeremy says as I give him a stern look.

"No, you're gonna go to school mister. And you're gonna get straight A's or I'll kick your ass," I say, trying out the parental look. A honk from Caroline's car is heard from outside. A wide grin spreads across my face.

"Caroline just pulled up," Damon says as he takes down my suit case.

"Okay, well, at least Whitmore is only a few hours away. So if there's anything you need, Jer, just call me," I say as Jeremy walks up to me and wraps me in his arm tightly.

"I love you, Jer bear," I say as a tiny tear escape my eye.

"I love you too," He says as he lets me go.

"Alright, off you go," Damon says as he opens the door. I smile and walk out to join my new roomies.


Caroline, Elena and I pull up to campus along with Liz, Caroline's mom. I grin as I sigh happily. We're in College. Who knew we'd make it this far? I quickly open the car door and bounce out. We take out our stuff and starts to move towards our dorm.

Just outside our dorm, right before we go inside, Caroline stops us.

"We're in College, guys," I say with the happiest grin on my face I've had in months.

"We actually made it. We're here!" Caroline squeals as I lean on my twinnie giggling.


"You brought a panini press?" I ask. Why the hell would we need a panini press in College?

"Small appliances by the fridge," Caroline replies pointing to the mini fridge. Just as she does, our door is opened and Liz enters. She is carrying our last box of stuff.

"Okay, that's the last one," Liz says as she slightly tears up, "All right, give me a goodbye hug before I change my mind and drag you home with me."

Caroline giggles, and it's mixed with quiet sobs. They wrap their arms around each other. Elena and I share a smile. We both wanted our parents to be here, hugging us goodbye before we start our first college class.

"You can call as much as you want, you know?" Liz says as Caroline giggles more.

"Mom, we'll be fine," Caroline says assuringly. They pull back and Liz reaches out her arms to Elena and I.

"Come here, you two" Liz says as Elena and I hug her at the same time.

"This is where your dad fell in love with medicine, you know?" Liz says, "He'd be really proud to see you both here."

"Thank you," I whisper as a tiny smile spreads across my lips.

"Okay, go!" Caroline says as she pushes her mom softly out the room, "Before I change my mind and make you stay."

"Okay, I'm going, I'm going," Liz says as Caroline, Elena and I giggle, "I love you. Bye girls."

Liz leaves as we all turn around and look at each other excitedly.

"So, roomies," I say with a grin, "I think we should drink to something."

"I couldn't agree more," Caroline says opening her suitcase, "rooomie."

Caroline takes out two blood bags and a Jell-O shot for me that's red.

"Ha ha," I say sarcastically, "that's super hilarious."

They both giggle as Caroline tosses Elena one of the blood bags.

"To us, and college," Elena says with a smile, "and being functional vampires."

"And functional human," I add.

"To the next chapter in our lives," Caroline says as they smash the bloodbags together and I open the lid to my Jell-O shot. Just as they are about to drink from it, we hear a slight knock on the door and someone opens it. Caroline and Elena quickly throws the bloodbags into the suit case and shuts it close again before the person comes in.

"Hey, who are you?" Caroline asks as I shove the Jell-O shot down my throat.

"I'm Megan, your roomate," Megan says.

"Well I must look like an alcoholic to you," I whisper quietly as I sink down on my bed. Caroline and Elena both give me a stern look.


"Wait, how did that happen?" Damon asks as I speak with him over the phone about Megan.

"There must have been a mix-up at the housing office," I say sinking back into my bed.

"Compulsion," Damon says with a playful tone, "It's the unwanted roommate repellent."

"That's exactly what Caroline said," I say as I play with the end of my wavy hair.

"Right, so then just compell her ass out the door," Damon argues. I sigh loudly.

"Damon, I don't exactly have that gift, remember?" I say with another sigh, "And second of all. What's the point in going to college, if we're just gonna relive what happened at home?"

"Oh look at you," He says, as I can hear him smirking on the other side of the phone, "Giving it the old college try."

"Ok, whatever," I say, "Did Jeremy get to school ok?"

"Yup. Showered, groomed, even cut the crusts off of his PB&J myself," He says.

"Wow, so you meant what you said then, about taking care of everything back in Mystic Falls?" I ask with a surprised tone.

"Exactly. Listen, I got to.. uh, go," He says as he hungs up.

"Jerk," I snap at my phone, "I wanted to say bye too."


"You've been dreaming about Stefan?" Elena asks with a hint of jealousy in her voice. I choose to completely ignore it.

"It's more of a pit in my stomach," I say, shivering to the thought this uneasy feeling growing wider every day.

"You and Stefan are friends, but three months ago he left without saying goodbye?" Megan asks.

"Do you think I should call him?" I ask. I feel so confused. We left things in a good place, then he just left. I get that he'd be sad over Elena, but they stopped being the it couple when he went all ripper. Elena didn't have feelings for him anymore. Or I wasn't sure about that. But she did have Liam now. And you could clearly see the love in her eyes.

"No way," Megan says.

"Absolutely not!" Both Caroline and Elena says in tune. I grin as I nod.

"Do you have a boyfriend, Caroline?" Megan asks.

"I do. His name is Tyler. He had to miss move-in day but he'll be here for the first day of classes," Caroline says reassuringly. I think she was mostly trying to convince herself that.

"Assuming he registers," I say, "And picks a dorm. And buys books."

"Speaking of minding one's business," She says looking at me, "Let's talk roomate ground rules. Privacy is very imporant to me."

"Same here," Megan says.

"I have low blood sugar," Caroline says as I bite my tongue not to laugh, "My diet's finicky, so keep your paws off my stuff."

"We'll split up the shelves," Megan says agreeingly.

"And if I suddenly get up to leave, or dissapear for a while, don't follow me or look for me," Caroline says.

"Okay, sounds good," Megan says with a smile. Another student is coming towards us, he has flyers in his hands. He's kinda cute.

"Excuse me ladies," He says, "Party at Whitmore House tonight."

I look at the flyer and then quickly back up to him with a grin, "We'll be there," I say as he looks back at me.

"I hope so," He says as he leaves. I giggle and puts my arms around Elena and Caroline's shoulders.

"I love college," I say as they both chuckle at me.


We're back in our dorm, Elena was standing in front of her mirror putting in some earrings. Megan was in the shower. Caroline was panicking. I, however, was cool as a spunk. I was writing in my diary.

Dear diary,

It's been such a long time since I wrote to you. And I've missed it. But there are just not a whole lot of things to write to you right now. Nothing's happening anymore. Which is good. One more bad thing and I would have gone over the edge, probably.

Stefan's gone. Not completely gone. He just left to no mans land and no one has heard from him ever since. Bonnie is out traveling with her mom. Elena, Caroline and I have officially started college today.

So yeah, that's my life now. Making memories for life, friends, sharing a dorm with my best friends. Forgetting that we are all supernatural. But I'm trying not to, because I don't wanna live in denial.

Caroline shuts a drawer and makes both Elena and I snap out of our thoughts.

"Thanks for the heartattack," I say sarcastically.

"Did you notice how Megan's juicer takes up all the small appliances space?" Caroline asks, "She has an entire drawer dedicated to organic linen."

"What happened to privacy?" I ask.

"Well if she didn't take such long showers, I wouldn't have time to go through her stuff. How are you okay with a fourth roomate?" Caroline asks. Clearly annoyed.

"Because we'd have a fourth one anyway," I say, "Bonnie, remember her? The girl we all love?"

"We also need personal space," Caroline says, "I mean what if I suddenly get a craving and I want to eat her? Or our blood bags go bad because we can't store them in the mini fridge? And what the hell is protein water?" Caroline says. Elena shakes her head as Caroline pulls out one bottle.

"Maybe if I drink it all, maybe she'll wanna move out," Caroline says. She opens the lid as puts the bottle to her lips and starts drinking. But it doesn't last long. As soon as the water starts pouring down her throat, she starts coughing.

"Vervain," She whispers throwing the bottle away from her. My eyes widen as I jump down from the window. I rub her back as Megan comes out from her shower.

"What's going on?" She asks, "Are you ok?"

Caroline starts to straightened up as Megan walks over to her, handing her a clean towel so she can wipe the water off her.

"Yeah, she's fine," Elena says. I nod in agreement.

"What happened?" Megan asks as Elena and I share a look of desperate need for help.

"Water just went down the wrong pipe. I'm okay, really. I shouldn't have touched your stuff, I'm sorry," Caroline apologizes.

"It's fine. It just sounded like someone was dying out here," Megan says, "Well, I'm glad you're ok."

Megan goes back to her shower. Caroline looks freaked out.

"She knows who we are, she drinks vervain water!" Caroline yells.

"It doesn't mean she knows about us," Elena says.

"Seriously? We share a bathroom with this girl! What if she's a hunter, and she stakes us when we're in the shower? Or she steals our daylight rings while we're asleep and then we burst into flames when the sun comes up?" Caroline says panicking.

"Don't you think that if she was a hunter you two would be dead by now?" I ask her.

"I think we should lock her up. You know, let the vervain get out of her system, and then we compel her to forget about us," Caroline says.

"Caroline, I'm not kidnapping our roomate!" I yell, "The best way to convince her that you two are normal, is to act normal. And do, normal human, freshmen-y stuff," I say.

"Such as?" Both of them ask me. A grin spreads across my face.


We walk up to the Whitmore House as the party already has started. I've braided my hair into a fishtail, and I put on a wine red dark dress with some black heels and a silver bracelet.

"Hey, I remember you," I hear someone talk behind my back. I quickly turn around to see the guy from earlier behind me. I grin.

"Flyer guy," I say.

"Jesse, technically. But 'flyer guy' works too," He says grinning back to me.

"I'm Hayley. This is Elena and Caroline," I say pointing at them. They both say hey in tune and walks away from us, "Okie dokie then."

"Aren't you gonna go with them?" He asks.

"Aren't you gonna go to the house?" I ask him. He nods slowly, "Well then, I'm going with you."

He grins as he takes his hand out in front of me, "After you."


I slip more beer into my red cup as Jesse comes up to me.

"Hey, you," I say, "I started to think that you had forgotten about me."

"I'd never forget a pretty face like yours," He says with a grin. I feel myself blush slightly, "Do you wanna dance or should we continue this small talk?"

"Dancing sounds wonderful," I say as he takes my hand in his and leads me out to the dance floor. He dances with me slowly as I look into his eyes. Those wonderful eyes.

If college life was this drama free, I'd definitely stay here for the rest of my life. Dance with hot guys, I don't mind. I slowly push the thoughts out of my head as I feel my bra start to vibrate. Damn phone.

"I'm sorry," I say pulling out my phone, "I have to take this."

He nods as I walk out of Whitmore House. The display shows the caller ID, "Elena". Sweet.

"What do you want, twin?" I ask, "You just ruined what was one of the most amazing dances I've ever experienced."

"Megan's dead," Elena says as my face falls.

"What?!" I yell.

"Vampire attack, inside Whitmore House," She says as I look back confusingly. Jesse.


I walk into my dorm. Jesse had been ok. I couldn't spot the vampire either. I sigh rubbing my face. Elena was sitting on her bed scrolling through Megan's phone for some reason. Caroline was showering.

"Hey," I say entering the room, "You ok?"

She doesn't reply for a while. She inhales deeply. "Megan knew our dad," She says.

"What? That's impossible," I say. She turns the phone to me and shows me the picture of her and our dad. My eyes water as I cover my mouth with my hand.

"How?" I ask her.

"I have no idea. But I'm gonna find out," Elena says. "You should get some sleep, you look exhausted."

"I am. So should you," I say hugging her, "Night."

"Night," she whispers into my ear. I smile as a tear roll down my cheek.


Hi guys! I was supposed to publish this chapter last night but it slipped my mind since I hadn't finished it and I was too tired to do so. Anyway, here's season 5 premiere!

I love the reviews I'm getting! They are amazing. Thank you all so so much for the support! I'll answer some things from them, just to clarify for you.

1. No, she's not getting a love interested with an Original. I have no intention of writing the spin off, and if I choose to do a crossover it will only be a chapter or two in this story. The Kol/Hayley moment will be explained further in another episode (while Katherine is possessing her). They have a past together ;).

2. As of now, she's not gonna be together with either Stefan or Damon, but she'll kiss one of them before the mid-season finale.

3. Yes, she looks a bit like Elena. They have the same eye/hair/skin color. However, Hayley's eyes have a stash of green in them and her olive skin is a bit paler than Elena's.

Have anymore question, just ask away. And as always, review/follow/favorite!

Until next time, xoxoxoxoo