Even though it didn't take long to drive back over to the high school, it took forever to find a parking space.
"Crap," Eden muttered. It was 7:33 and the late bell had rung three minutes ago.
After finding what seemed to be the only empty space in the lot, Eden grabbed her stuff and ran to her first block. She knew that she could of gotten away with being late to any other class, but it was Mr. Tanner's history class, which was also known as hell on earth.
Every year Eden somehow seemed to get stuck in his class, and Elena usually ended up there with her. By the time she got to his classroom though, the door was closed. Great, Eden thought to herself as she knocked on the door. The whole class seemed to turn and look in her direction through the window on the door. She caught eyes with Elena, who shot her a disapproving look.
After what seemed like forever, Mr. Tanner finally opened the door to let Eden in.
"Hello Eden. I must say that I'm surprised, I at least thought that you would make it on time to class the first day." Mr. Tanner said as he opened the door to let her in as he continued, "There's a few seats in the back that are empty, go ahead and sit there."
"Thanks," Eden responded quietly, not looking her teacher in the eye as she walked into the classroom.
Before Eden even sat down, Mr. Tanner jumped right back into full on lecture mode. Instead of listening though, Eden found something more interesting to pay attention too - her sister and this man that she had never seen before. He was definitely hot, she had figured that much out on her walk to her desk. Another thing that she had noticed was him staring at Elena. Her twin kept looking back at him, trying to keep her glances at least a bit less obvious. She glanced over to see Elena's ex, Matt, giving the mystery man the stink eye. He still wasn't over her.
Surprisingly, the block was over before Eden knew it. She guessed that it had to do something with the fact that she was late, and also whatever was happening with Elena. Once Eden got to biology, she pulled out her phone and proceeded to text Elena about what had happened.
"what was happening in history?" Eden texted, trying to keep her phone hidden from the teacher.
"idk, he's really hot though right?" Elena responded after what seemed like forever, but was really five minutes.
"can we talk at lunch?" Eden replied, while getting a look from the teacher, who evidently noticed her texting.
Before she could put her phone away, it buzzed with a reply from Elena, "sure, but bonnie and caroline will be there so try to be civil."
"k" Eden quickly responded before the teacher noticed it.
Too tired to listen, Eden tuned the teacher out and began to think about her ex-friends, or frienemies, as some would call it. Bonnie, Caroline, Elena, and Eden all used to be good friends before the accident. Eden was always a little different than her three friends though. One thing was that Eden never really partied. Sure she went to them, but Eden honestly hated them. Why, she didn't know. She just simply didn't like them. Another difference was that Eden was never as popular as the three of them. She was always just more quiet and reserved, and therefor she never really stood out like they did. But after the accident was when the differences really shown. Eden just kind of shut people out. She wouldn't answer her phone for days, work as often as she could, and got out of most social events that people tried to drag her into. Eden supposed that it really was her fault that they weren't friends anymore, it's not like she could blame them for stopping trying with her. But Eden could partially blame them for the reasons that Bonnie and Caroline ignored her.
On the days that Eden did end up going to school, she would usually end up sitting next to Elena at lunch. Since Elena, Bonnie, and Caroline were still friends, Eden would usually end up sitting with them too. Caroline then started making what she seemed to think were subtle digs at Eden. And with Eden being Eden, she would shoot them right back at Caroline. For instance, one day the three of them (Elena had the stomach flu) saw this freshman named Katie as she came into the cafeteria. Katie's mom had just died of cancer, so her dad moved them back to Mystic Falls to be with relatives. Katie, who was understandably a mess at the beginning of the year, had turned herself around completely. She was probably one of the most popular freshmen. Bonnie had said something about how well Katie was doing in cheer, to which Caroline added while glaring in my direction, "Yeah, at least Katie tried to move on. After that comment, I was pretty pissed. So I shot back, "Yeah, maybe you should ask her how she does it, it would help you get over Matt," who Elena still hadn't broken up with. Caroline and Bonnie were shocked by my comment. "Wait, you like Matt?" Bonnie asked Caroline, which Caroline ignored. "Why... How do you know?" Caroline stuttered, reeling from my accusation. "Well Caroline, when you spend all of your time being a 'boring loner' as you so kindly put it the other day, you tend to become a much better listener. Now that I think about it, maybe you should try it. Maybe you could also learn how to come up with a good insult, which FYI, isn't making fun of someone and their dead parents."
Those ended up being the last words that Caroline and Eden had spoken to each other - they hadn't talked since. At first Bonnie tried to be the peacemaker, but since Caroline refused to talk to Eden, that made things difficult. Ultimately, Bonnie ended up siding with Caroline, which was understandable, but still hurt. Elena had more trouble with the fighting. She still stood with Caroline, but she didn't straight up ignore Eden either.
Eden wasn't even sure that Elena knew what the fight was about. But she didn't think Elena even wanted to know. Ignorance is bliss as the saying goes.
After second block had finished, Eden headed over to lunch - eager to learn about Elena's mystery man. She saw Bonnie and Caroline sitting at a table on the far wall of the cafeteria. Biting her lip, she walked over to the table, knowing that Elena would join them soon, but not looking forward to sitting alone with Bonnie and Caroline - even if it was just for a few minutes.
"What are you doing here Eden? I though you sat with the stoners." Caroline greeted with a malicious look in her eye. After Eden and Caroline's big fight, Eden started to sit with the stoners, but she hated it. People who were high could be really annoying.
Deciding to take the high road, Eden responded, "Caroline, I'm not here to fight. I just wanted to talk to Elena." Caroline rolled her eyes at that statement. Bonnie looked incredibly uncomfortable with the current situation, and Eden immediately felt bad. She really missed her two friends. Eden had always been friends with Bonnie, and Caroline, well she was always good friends with Caroline too. Eden wished that she could apologize, but she honestly didn't know what to apologize for. Its not like she was going to apologize for yelling at Caroline for insulting Eden's family, or at least not apologize first.
"Whatever," Caroline replied, who then turned back to her lunch due to the awkward silence that ensued.
Before it could get any worse, Elena finally walked up, with none other than the guy she was talking to in history.
"Hey Elena," Bonnie cheerfully greeted and turned to the stranger. "So whats your name?"
"He's Stefan. Stefan, this is Bonnie, Caroline, and Eden, my sister, gesturing to each of us as she went.
"Sheesh Elena, you could at least let him talk," Eden jokingly commented.
"Sorry," Elena sheepishly responded as Stefan smiled at her.
"It's alright. I'm Stefan, as Elena said before," Stefan said with that same smile.
Elena and Stefan then sat down at the table, and they proceeded to introduce themselves. Somewhere along the line, Eden tuned out of the conversation. She didn't know how much she missed, but was brought back to the conversation after Bonnie kept calling her name.
"Eden, are you going or not?" Bonnie asked.
"I'm sorry, I must of tuned out or something. What were you asking?" Eden asked, confused about what was happening.
"She was making sure that you were going to the bonfire tonight. You're still going right?" Elena responded.
"Oh, the bonfire. Shit, I forgot about that. I made plans, sorry." Eden replied, trying to skip around the fact that she was going over to Damon's house. She knew that Elena wouldn't like it, but for some reason Eden felt that she should go anyways.
"Ooh, what plans? Bonnie asked. Crap, Eden thought. This isn't going to go over well.
"Umm, well I was planning on visiting this guy I met at the Grill this morning. Eden responded, not wanting to look over at Elena, knowing that she wasn't going to like what she said next.
"So what are you going to do?" Elena asked, at the same time that Bonnie asked if he was cute.
"Yes Bonnie, he was very cute. I was going to go over and hang out at his place." Eden replied as Elena made a face.
"Is that really safe Eden?" Elena asked.
"I'll be fine, quit worrying." Eden said.
Bonnie, who was obviously trying to keep the peace, added, "So whats his name?"
"Damon." Eden responded. After she said that Stefan immediately went stiff.
"Wait, you said Damon, right?" Stefan asked.
"Yeah, his name was Damon. Bright blue eyes, dark brown hair. Do you know him?" Eden replied, confused by Stefan's response.
"I'm sorry, I have to go," Stefan quickly responded, obviously shaken by something as he bolted out of the cafeteria.
"That was weird," Caroline added, and once again returned to her lunch.
Thanks again for reading! Sorry I took so long to update, I tried to make the chapter longer this time. If you can't already tell I'm not aligning the story up with the show completely, but most of it should somewhat line up with the show. Thanks for all of the likes, follows, and reviews... and please continue! Also, if you have any questions or ideas, feel free to leave them in the comments or message me. Thanks again!