All the girls swooned as Kol walked by, giving them flirty looks and playful smiles. High school was a lot more entertaining than he expected when his mother enrolled him, just to keep him out of trouble; once Kol was bored he found someone to snack on, and Esther couldn't have that. Sure he didn't look sixteen or even seventeen but with a little compulsion the desk lady couldn't tell the difference. He had plans for this place.
Kol ran out onto the football field where other boys were gathered for the football team tryouts, one of them being Matt the one he tried to kill not so long ago. Kol was stronger and faster than the rest of them, getting a place on the team would be a piece of cake for him; getting the place as quarterback would be even easier. There was no way the new coach could deny him and his skills, with or without compulsion and Kol was aiming on winning without compulsion.
Kol was equipped for the sport with all the others in the bulky helmets and shoulder gear. He knew the game and the rules. He enjoyed games especially when hitting or tackling someone was a part of it. The coach blew the whistle for the trials to start and off the boys went running and throwing the ball around, trying to score on the opposition's side. Kol hardly even broke a sweat while the others were fatigued and sweating miserably in the heat. The coach was extremely impressed with Kol.
Girls sat scattered throughout the bleaches and watched the handsome fit boys during the trials, which took place during lunchtime at school. A lot of them were watching the new boy, Kol with an eager eye. "Omg who is he?" an excited blonde girl asked aloud amongst her friends. Mia and Rebekah walked over towards the bottom of the bleaches to get a closer view of them. They had made some friends over their short time there, three human girls, one blonde and two brunettes; all on the cheer squad along with Rebekah herself who kept bugging Mia to join.
"I can see how you're related to him. You're gorgeous he's gorgeous. It must run in the family" Bree thought aloud to the whole group. She was the other blonde among them, almost an exact clone of Rebekah but with shoulder length curly ringlets instead of Rebekah's flat sleek ash blonde hair.
She wasn't as flawless either but still beautiful. Mia hadn't been paying attention until she looked out towards the field where a certain vampire with cropped brown hair and dark chocolate brown eyes. Her mouth opened wide in a round O and her eyebrows rose in shock and surprise.
Kol was at high school, the one place where she actually found some separation from him since she agreed to be his girlfriend. And now he was there too. She left her friends behind and stormed onto the edge of the field where Kol walked over to collect his bag. In front of the wound up teenage girls, he slid his red football shirt and his singlet over his head revealing a toned muscular chest. "What the hell are you doing here?" she demanded and folded her arms across her chest in fury. She kept her eyes on his, refusing to dare lower her gaze down to his torso. She didn't need to see any of his bare body, which looked as if had been carved by gods.
"You didn't hear...I'm the new quarterback" Kol told her and threw the contents of his water bottle over his head and wetting his fore head and his chest. He wasn't exhausted or hot from the heat, he knew the girls out there had their eyes on him and he only did it as a little treat. He could be so self-obsessed at times. "Sorry to burst your bubble Prince Vanity but you're in the wrong kingdom, so I'm going to have to ask you to leave the premises" Mia said sarcastically in response to the girls' shrill screams of excitement at the new incredibly hot guy.
"Come on love, I'm just having fun living the teen life" Kol joked and slipped on a spare black shirt he had in his bag, his chest being covered once again earned some annoyed grunts and groans from the girls. "You can't be here Kol. You don't even look eighteen!" Mia yelled nonchalantly at him. In return to her feistiness he pulled her in for a hug and a quick peck on the cheek. The moans from the girls were replaced by "that bitch!" kind of comments now that they knew he was possibly taken already, that they wouldn't have a chance with him; and that disappointed them.
"Um hello I'm a thousand years old, I think worrying about how I look is the least of my worries" Kol said sounding clueless. Any person could easily see how strong a relationship he had with his mirror. Mia sometimes would joke about him having make out sessions with a hand held mirror late at night when everyone was asleep. Mia would've responded with a sarcastic comment but she could tell this argument was going nowhere, he wasn't planning on leaving.
She turned her back to him and started walking back to her friends. "Where are you going?" he asked her as a few other guys on the team came up to stand behind him. They were some guys he met during the practice who had made the team just like him. They chuckled softly and smiled as Mia walked away from him with pride. "I'm...going to join the cheer squad" she told him. And from the bleaches not too far away a wide smile spread across Rebekah's face. She heard Mia say what she was hoping to hear for days.
It was after school when practice took place the following day. Mia sat in the passenger seat of Rebekah's new car, a shiny black convertible with cream coloured leather interior. She bought it earlier that week so that one of her brother's, mainly Klaus wouldn't have to drive them to school every morning. They were both dressed in short shorts and singlets like all the other girls. Mia wore black lace up chucks with red cotton shorts and a white singlet, her hair also tied up in a high ponytail. "So why did you decide to join?" Rebekah asked her while during warm up stretches. Mia was new to this sort of thing, but she was rather flexible like Rebekah, despite the fact that she laid still in a coffin for over two centuries.
"I needed a good distraction...from you know who" Mia replied, referring to Kol. "I get it; your boyfriend's driving you crazy, prince Vanity why didn't I ever think of that?" Rebekah joked, admiring the way her friend spoke with such sarcasm. It was the one thing she could never master as well as Mia. Rebekah groaned in displeasure as Caroline, Bonnie and Elena came forth to the practice.
Elena froze with fear in her path once she saw Mia and Rebekah, in fear they would attack her, "don't worry Elena. They can't do anything here in public" Caroline comforted Elena. Rebekah strode over towards them and was now face to face with Caroline; Klaus Barbie vs. Vampire Barbie. "You're late girls, you'll have to be on time next practice or you're off" Rebekah told them.
"What?" Caroline asked as if what Rebekah said was outrageous and complete rubbish to her ears. "You didn't hear, I'm new head cheerleader so you have to do what I say" Rebekah answered. It was true. Caroline hadn't been as focused on the squad as before and Rebekah was there to make things better, and after two weeks of acting head cheerleader the role was formally given to her in a vote; no compulsion necessary. She was the better Barbie than Caroline was. "And a word of warning, Elena. You'll want to start treating people a little more kindly or people will go stabbing you in the back" Rebekah warned the human girl, who looked nervously past Rebekah at Mia who sat on the grass with her legs splayed out and she smiled at Elena. It was not a happy smile but a threatening smile, a smile of caution telling you to be afraid.
Damon drove by later on that day. He stopped by and watched the girls while they practised the new routine Rebekah taught them. Mia stood in the front with Rebekah, since she was promoted to co-captain to her BFF. Elena looked to Damon with a furious frown from the middle of the group of girls. He walked over to them once Rebekah called for a five minute break. "Damon can't you leave me alone for one second of my life" Elena moaned, assuming he came there to keep an eye on her once he saw Rebekah. She stood in his pathway blocking him from reaching his destination. "Elena for once something I do has nothing to do with you" Damon said firmly and stepped past her over to where Mia stood with her water bottle.
"Hello Damon" she greeted him sweetly.
"Hello sleeping beauty" he said back at her.
"Why do you insist on calling me that?" Mia asked. He had been using that nickname ever since he met her, and she couldn't figure out why.
"It's catchy, so I wanted to ask you something" Damon said and led her away from the group of girls but still in hearing distance of the matching Barbies (Rebekah and Caroline). "What do you want?" she asked him.
"I was wondering if you'd consider having dinner with me tonight" Damon suggested. He took a strange liking to this one girl, even while she laid neutralized in that coffin; even in sleep she was beautiful; hence his nickname for her Sleeping Beauty. "I still owe you a story of my past" Damon reminded her. "I don't know Damon...I'm busy" she said uneasily. Back with the girls Rebekah was chuckling softly at the fact that Damon thought he was good enough for Mia. He wouldn't take no for an answer. She did owe him since if he and Stefan didn't steal the coffins she would still be cramped up in the dark wooden coffin with nowhere to go. "Just think about it, and answer tomorrow at the game" Damon told her. "Until next time, bye sleeping beauty" he said to her and walked away with a devilish smile that Mia found funny.
Damon was one of those cocky, arrogant young vampires and also technically like her grandson. Never in her mind had she considered anything romantic with him. She'd hate to be responsible for breaking up the petrova love triangle and ruining the fun everyone who found it funny, like Rebekah and Klaus for example. "okay girls let's take it from the top" Rebekah called out and replayed the music for another practise through the whole song for tomorrow's opening when Kol was to play and she was to cheer for him...the horror.
Mia looked at her reflection with an unsure expression. She wasn't sure of what to think about her new uniform, the one she was to wear that evening at the game, the one the rest of the girls were wearing. The cheerleader uniform consisted of a short red skirt with a black hem and a matching red thick strap shirt that ended above the belly button. Because their team was the timber wolves, in the centre of the shirt was a black and gold embroidered wolf head with its canines bared. Her hair tied up in a high ponytail like Rebekah who inspected the outfit from her seat at the end of her bed.
"Don't be modest, I think you look great" Rebekah encouraged her friend. Mia still looked uncertain of what she wore, "You're just saying that so I won't chicken out" Mia presumed and pulled on a jacket to shield her body from too much exposure in the uniform. "Yes that is true, but w don't have time for chit chat, we have a game to get to and you have a boyfriend to cheer for" Rebekah answered and dragged her friend down stairs where the other original brothers and Esther waited at the door. Kol wasn't among them since he left earlier to get prepared for the game.
"You look ravishing in that" Klaus complimented her with one of his flirtatious smirks sliding across his face. Elijah stood behind him but quiet from the angry frown on Mia's face he knew very well not to comment and keep his mouth sealed.
Author's note:
this chapter will be broken up into two chapters just a warning
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