A/N: Thank you for the reviews of my last chapter. I hope that I didn't make you confuse with the beginning of the story xD I'm trying my best to keep the storyline interesting, but I really feel the need of make a introduction of the characters too. On the introduction we met Tyler as Elena's ex boyfriend and Caroline's fiancé. On the second character we met Rose, Elena's roommate, who is like a sister to her. In this chapter I'm going to try to introduce a bit about Elena's past and the most important persons in her life. Feel free to ask me any question about that, because I understand that sometimes when we have a lot of description is hard for us to follow the entire story.

I got a pm too, asking me this: "Caroline read Elena's diary? In what episode was that?" I don't know if everyone had that doubt when they read that part on the chapter one or not, but Caroline's never read Elena's diary on the tv show. That happened on the book. Caroline stole Elena's diary as revenge. She planned to read her thoughts and secrets at the Founder's Day Parade. It didn't work because of Damon. She ended up reading her own diary and was humiliated in public. With this explication I want to add that we will have characters from the book in my story too. I feel the need to add them here, because they are important and you will just understand if you read the books too (YES READ THE BOOKS! THEY ARE AWESOME lool).

I want to say sorry for the spelling mistakes, but I'm Portuguese and I'm trying my best here. Don't forget that you opinion is really important for me, so I'm opened at suggestions for this story. After all I don't build this alone…we build this together. SO READ AND REVIEWas a good reader

CHAPTER TWO: "Old Memories Part I."

Just a few old memories

Slipped in though my door

Though I thought I had closed it

So tightly before

"A few old memories" by Dolly Parton

"Didn't I tell you to not mess your dress Elena?" A brunette young woman asked when she looked down at her one year old daughter.

The pretty little girl was wearing a white lace dress that covered her knees. Her collar was round and had on the borders small silvers sequins that were sparking with the intensity of the sunlight. She looked like a princess. The white dress was simple, but perfect in every way. It made the smallest details of her features to be noticed in a surreal way. The only difference it was that her dress that in some other time looked like new, it was now full of mud.

Elena Gilbert looked like a mess.

"Elena?"Her mother called her again, trying to catch her attention.

Her beautiful brown eyes turned to look at her mother as soon as she heard her voice this time. Miranda Gilbert smiled at her daughter and she could see the small girl's eyes shining with happiness. She was for sure a very happy child. With only one year and with no idea about the future, she was fortunate innocent baby.

The door of her lake house opened suddenly and a massive golden ball of fur ran out of the door and went toward the little girl.

"Mimi." Elena yelled an incoherent word and leaned forward to hug her four-legged best friend.

Miranda Gilbert smiled at the scene right in front of her. She was the luckier mother in the world and she really couldn't find another way to express this sensation than admire the beauty of her younger daughter.

Her delicate hands moved to hold her round and very pregnant belly. Her brown eyes closed with the feeling of the motherhood. She couldn't help but slowly stroke her abdomen with a satisfied smile playing on her lips. The baby kicked slowly and she let out a softly laugh, opening her eyes to look down, whispering. "My baby…"

"Our baby." A manly voice interrupted her thoughts.

Elena stood up and tried to take four fully steps toward her father. "Dada."

Grayson Gilbert quickly moved to catch her daughter. She only gave her first steps a few weeks ago when she did four years old and he didn't want her to get hurt. Elena wasn't exactly the baby with the most balance ever. He liked to say that her little feet were always too lazy to move.

"My girl is so big." He said, holding her above his hand and spun in circles around himself. The little girl giggled with that and started to call her mothers with her small hand.

Miranda that was staring with a tender look at them, simply shook her head, hugging her belly with both of her arms. They still didn't have sure if it was a boy or a girl. Actually when Jenna called her to know if they already knew the gender, she told her that they didn't want to know. And it was truth. It wasn't her decision. It was their decision. She never thought that she could meet someone like Grayson Gilbert in her life. But one thing she was sure.

Miranda Gilbert had the perfect family ever. A loving husband. A sunshine daughter. And a desired unborn baby.

Elena walked into her bedroom and opened her wooden wardrobe. On the first drawer she had her tops and sweatshirts. On the second one she had to place her skirts and jeans. And finally on the last one from the bottom, she had her boots and shoes. The brunette girl bit on her lower lip slightly as she looked at the drawers trying to decide what she should bring with her to Mystic Falls.

Maybe a few skirts. Tyler would like that. She thought leaning forward to take a few with both of her hands, but quickly decided against that idea since she knew that probably she wouldn't be comfortable in that.

"For sure some Jeans and sweatshirts. It's cold there at this time of the year." She said to herself as she took the items from the wardrobe and walked toward her bed, placing all the clothes on the top of the colorfully blanket.

"Are you going at some party and you didn't tell me?" Rose asked suddenly and Elena jumped slightly when she heard her voice. It was a bad habit that her roommate had. She would always walk into her bedroom when she wouldn't reply to the first knock on her door. It was nothing so bad seriously, but Elena was the distracted kind of girl and she hated when Rose always did that. It was simply annoying.

"Could you just knock? That's why the door is there…for my privacy." Elena said, rolling her eyes and looked up at her.

Rose smirked slightly at her and walked toward her bed, sitting down on the edge of it. "I did. Twice actually. Do you have wax in your ears or something like that?" She teased her.

"I hate when you do that." Elena simply said after a moment as she was trying to think of something better to say. Sadly nothing brilliant appeared in her brain with be those words.

"I know." Rose mocked her and picked up a black top with a V neckline. "Oh this is hot. Going to the guys?"

Elena looked at the top for the corner for her eyes, but quickly returned to her red luggage and shook her head. "Going to Mystic Falls."

"Oh is little Elena going to fight? I like it." A evilly smile crossed her lips as she said that and placed the black top in front of her chest, standing up. The full length mirror that was right besides the wardrobe was enough for her to check her appearance on that. "Oh this is really hot." She commented and nodded her head as she was trying to convince herself about that opinion.

A softly laugh fell from Elena's lips as she turned and walked toward her wardrobe again, taking a few jackets. "I know. Caroline bought me that for me when we were in high school, after we decided to be friends again and share the same throne."

"Caroline? The Barbie girl, who loves to be the queen of everything? You have to be kidding me." Rose commented in an ironical way. Elena's best friend spent a few days with both of them before she started to date Tyler. There was no need to say that Rose and Caroline didn't really get along. Her roommate was the most perfectionist girl that she ever met and Caroline was the most clumsy person ever. They were like water and olive oil and Elena lost the count of the things that Caroline broke when she was there. Broke and tousled. Everything that she touched, she destroyed. She couldn't stay a minute quiet and Rose always said that Caroline probably knew the alphabet from A to the Z.

"Didn't least." Elena admitted, sighing deeply. "She gave up as soon as she came back to school in the next year. Gossips were around and she couldn't take that." She added, smiling at Rose when she looked up at her.

"That sounds like her." Rose whispered and threw the black top at her.

Elena caught that easier and nodded her head in agreement, putting the top inside of the luggage too. She looked around the room, trying to make sure that she wouldn't miss anything on the floor or on the bed before she closed the red bag, sitting on the top of it since it was already too full.

"Some help here, no?" Elena looked at Rose that was looking at her with an amused expression on her face.

"Oh why didn't you ask me before? I'm always here to help you." Her roommate said with a teasing tone on her voice as she walked toward the bed and sat down on the floor right besides the bed. "Ready?"

Elena pulled her legs closer to her chest to be easier for Rose to zip that and nodded her head.

The pixie girl bit her tongue slightly and pushed the closure of the luggage slowly to not break that. "Done." She finally said, locking the locker with the usually code that she already knew in her mind for the million of times that she already helped Elena with that.

"Thank you." Elena said and grabbed Rose's shoulders to be able to stand up without fall or trip on her own feet.

"Sure you don't want me to go with you?" Rose asked, this time with a serious expression on her face and easily picked up the red suitcase with both of her strong hands and placed that on the bedroom's floor.

Elena nodded her head and moved a lock of her dark hair behind her ear with her small hand. "I'm sure of that. This is something that I need to do alone." She simply said and looked up at Rose with a smile on her lips. "I will be finding Rosy."

The other woman took a minute to analyze her friend's face before she nodded her head in agreement and leaned closer to hug Elena's tighter. "Good luck kiddo."

"Thank you." Elena said as she returned the hug.

She will have to agree. She was going to miss her like hell.

"How can you be so stubborn?" Miranda asked as she walked inside of the kitchen.

A redhead girl shook her head as she was trying to keep her attention on the dishes that she was washing. It was Thanksgiving Day, but unfortunately it finished with a fight.

"Are you ignoring me?" She tried again when her sister didn't reply.

Once again that question was answered only with a silence from her youngest and only sister.

"That's enough. You can just come here and act like you are right in everything. You are not and I'm just trying to help you. Can you see it Jenna?" Miranda asked in a frustrated way as she shook her head when her husband walked into the kitchen. Grayson saw the scene right in front of him and decided that probably it was better to go away. It was never good to be in the middle of an aggressive 'conversation' between the Sommers sisters.

Jenna placed the plate inside of the sink suddenly and turned off the hot water tap.

"You know what your problem is?" Jenna asked when she turned around to look at her sister in her eyes. "You don't know how to have fun anymore. You keep here in our perfect bubble and ignore what is happening around me. Oh my God, just live a bit please." She added the last part almost desesperated as she shook her head.

Miranda kept her brown eyes on her sister and after a few instants she just nodded her head in agreement. She knew that it wasn't with another argument that she would win that fight for sure.

"So tell me, honestly. How do you want me to live my life?" She asked, trying to get some sense in her sister's head.

Jenna took a few minutes to think about that. She knew that Miranda was playing that mind game that she hated so much. Damn her logical and persuasive ways.

"Go out. Forget your kids tomorrow or some day this week and go out with your husband. Have fun. Drink. Dance. Go to the cinema. I don't care. Just live a little. Your kids won't run away, I'm here to help." Jenna said in just one breath.

Miranda tried to keep her face seriously, but it was too hard for her. She couldn't help when a laugh escaped from her lips. "What?" She asked Jenna still laughing and sat down on the chair right besides her. "I can't drink or dance."

Jenna raised an eyebrow at her when she said that and looked at her slightly confused. "Are you making fun of my face? We are not in high school anymore, perfect daughter." She said, trying to keep the sarcasm from her tone of voice.

The brunette woman shook her head and moved both of her hands to her tummy with a softly smile on her lips. "I'm pregnant."

Elena ran into the kitchen in that moment. "Don't fight Aunt Jenna. Dad brought the chocolate cake that Uncle John bought to us."

The redhead young woman tried to keep her eyes from her sister's belly, but she couldn't. They were in a fight a few minutes ago and now she was just feeling too happy to stay mad with her own sister. She was going to give her one more nephew. One more nephew for her to love and spoil with loads of presents, not only for Christmas but for any season of the year. In the same way that she always did with Elena and Jeremy.

"We are not fight, right Aunty Jenna?" Miranda asked and looked from Elena to her sister with a proud smile on her lips.

Jenna simply nodded her head and returned the smile. "No, we are not fight."

Jenna.

Elena couldn't believe that she was going to see her aunt Jenna. It's been a few months since she last saw her and she missed her like crazy. She could bet that she was huge.

Five months ago the redhead woman called her in the middle of the night to tell her that she was pregnant. She couldn't wait to see her first cousin's face. Elena was just hoping that it would be a boy or the boys in her family would be in disadvantage. And even thinking that Jenna was praying for a little girl, her husband Alaric was already telling everyone in the town that he is going to be the father of a boy.

She loved Jenna in an unconditional way. She wasn't only her aunt, she was her friend also. She was the only adult that she had when her parents died seven years ago. Jeremy had problems when he was a teenager and Jenna was there to help him. Her young sister always treated her like a mother since she was the only feminine figure on her family that she had. And for Elena, she knew that when her diary was full she could always count on her favorite aunt.

"I'm at the airport already. I just wanted to leave you a voicemail to make sure that you didn't forget that I'm coming today Jenna. My luggage is already on the basement I guess and I'm waiting in this horrible queue to get into the airplane, but the airline hostess is taking ages with the passports and the tickets." Elena said, talking on the phone. "I just wanted to say that I miss you." She added after a few second of silence. "And I can't wait to see you." She finished just in time because the robotic woman from the other side of the line started to say 'your message was sent'.

Now it was just wait and be calm.

Elena knocked at the wooden door slowly. She waited a few moments and none said anything from inside, so she knocked again but this time she rested her ear against the cold door, trying to hear her mother's voice or catch some conversation.

"Shhh…" Some child from inside of the room said and Elena stepped away from the door.

A boy with twelve years old opened the door slowly and let her in. "Mom is sleeping." He said with a grin and pointed at the figure on the king size bed.

The brunette girl walked toward her in little sheep steps and climbed to the bed, sitting down right besides Miranda. She smiled softly at her sleeping form and called Jeremy with her hand for him to come closer to them.

"Don't touch her Elena. Dad went to work and he said for us to let her sleep." Jeremy told her as he climbed to the top of the bed too and sat on the other side of her mother, looking down at her.

Elena rolled her eyes at what he said and laid down, resting her head on her father's pillow. "We don't wake her up. We are just going to sleep with her and our sister." She said, pointed at the obviously pregnant stomach of her mother.

Jeremy looked down at her belly too and grinned, nodding his head. He would have to admit that he was hoping for a little brother to play with him. He was already planning of teach him all the secrets of the American football that Matt Donovan taught him in the other day when he went to visit him with Elena. She was his best friend since first grade.

"Do you think that she can hear us?" Jeremy asked, raising his eyebrow at Elena.

His brunette sister raised her eyebrow surprised with the question for a moment before she looked down at her mother's belly and shrugged her petite shoulders. "I don't know."

Jeremy poked the belly slightly and jumped slightly when he felt something moving. "She is moving."

Elena looked quickly at her mother and leaned forward to cover her brother's mouth. "Shh you will wake up mommy."

"But she is alive inside." Jeremy exclaimed, looking at the belly again and leaned down to rest his ear against that through her top. "She is moving again. Maybe she speaks too."

Elena looked at the scene in front of her slightly curious and decided to try too. "Let me try." She quickly said in a bossy tone of voice and leaned down to rest her ear against the belly too. "Oh she is moving…"

Jeremy grinned and looked at his sister that returned the smile. "Are you here, baby?" He asked, talking with his unborn sister.

They waited a few moments but soon gave up when they didn't get any noise from inside of their mother belly.

"I think Margaret is dumb." Jeremy whispered.

Elena that heard what he said couldn't help but roll her eyes at the innocence of her brother. "She probably can't talk inside of mom's belly. Or her skin is so strong that we can hear her."

Jeremy thought about that and shook his head, keeping his ear against the belly. "I have a good ear. I can hear the ice cream's van from the other side of the street." He stubbornly said at his sister. "I still think that Margaret is dumb." He concluded.

Both of them where so distracted trying to make their sister talking that they didn't even realize that their mother was wake already. Her pretty brown eyes were focused on them and a softly smile showed up on her lips.

She had to admit…she was a happy woman with a perfect family.

The noise of a ring woke up Elena suddenly. She blinked her eyes a few times as she was trying to focus her visibility on the scene in front of her. A few airline hostesses ran to the other side of the hall and Elena sat up properly, turning off her ipod. "What's going on?"

The man, that was on the seat right besides her, looked at her and pointed at the seatbelt. "I think we are landing."

"Oh…" Elena simply said and smiled at the man before she turned her attention at the hostess that was speaking now.

"Ladies and Gentlemen. We are arriving at our destination. Please put on your seatbelts and stay calm. Thank you, it was a pleasure to fly with you." She said in a robotic way and walked toward the airline hostess's ward.

Elena put on her seatbelt and looked down at the window, with a smile on her lips. She could already see the land on the bottom and a shiver ran down her spine. She really was arriving at her destiny.

A/N: I have to admit it. This time I finished this chapter and it's only midnight. I'm proud of myself because normally it's always later when I finish my chapter of the day.

This is the last chapter that we will see Rose. Obviously that she will show up on the story again but not for the next chapters for sure, so I really hope that you will enjoy her last words. She is kind of funny in this story right? Sadly that she died on the story. I wouldn't mind her there if she didn't steal Damon from Elena.

Probably this weekend I will still write the next chapter and the continuation of the old memories. I tried to separate them in two to be easier for you to understand the two different times in Elena's life. This one is about her family and when her mother was still alive. We met a Jenna's teenager and her two siblings. You are probably wondering why two and not just one, since on the show there is only Jeremy. My answer is that I needed to include Margaret no matter what. She is the Elena's sister on the book if you don't know that.

Next chapter we will see Elena's first impression of Mystic Falls and a few memories about her high school life. Keep reading and I'm waiting for your suggestions and opinions about this chapter. Thank you (: