To be with you Forever- Damon Salvatore/OC

Chapter 3- Talking to animals

Summary: I knew he was going to kill me, This was Damon Salvatore, this could never end well and yet I couldn't stay away, the truth is, I didn't want to. Damon/OC

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I woke Monday morning, with a headache and barely rested, I had been awake all night tossing and turning, panicking, imagining all of the worst case scenarios that could befall me on this day. Of course Stefan and his friends had been very kind Saturday night and promised to meet me at the school gates and help me to settle in, there had been Elena, a petite, beautiful girl with a quick and genuine smile, a darker skinned girl named Bonnie, who was very talkative and had very interesting ancestry leading back to witches and the founding families, a small blonde girl named Caroline who didn't seem as genuine as the others and seemed quick to criticize people. The last member of the small group was Elena's younger brother Jeremy, who seemed nice enough though he didn't stay with us for very long. Even though I knew I would be meeting these people today I was still very nervous, after all, they were probably just being nice until I had gotten settled in and made friends of my own.

I was pulled from my thoughts by a soft knock on my bedroom door and I heard my father calling my name through the door.

"I'm awake dad," I replied, "I'll be downstairs in a little while."

If he replied I didn't hear, but his footsteps faded away as he made his way down the stairs. I climbed from bed and gathered my things for my shower, making my way into my en suite bathroom, something I wasn't entirely used to, back in England we had shared one bathroom between the three of us, but here our house was much larger and we had more rooms than we needed. Our recent flux of money had come from my mothers life insurance payout, though she had been very optimistic she had also be very cautious and for a while we had refused to use any of it but realised that until my father found a job over here, we would have to.

Once I had finished with my shower and dressed in the bathroom, a habit from back home, I packed my bag, a few pens and an empty writing book, and trotted down the stairs, into the kitchen.

"Hi dad," I said, pulling out a chair, dropping my bag onto the kitchen table.

"Hi, Kaye, do you want any breakfast?"

My stomach lurched, "No, thanks, I feel sick."

"You'll be fine darling" he grinned, "You always made friends fast."

I smiled and watched as he made himself some slightly burnt toast, and took a seat opposite me, chewing on the burnt bread. I grimaced, my nerves always made me feel physically sick, my mother used to sit me down and make me eat something and I was thankful that my father wasn't doing the same. A loud bang against the kitchen window made the both of us jump, heads shooting in the direction of the window, where a large crow saw, wings spread wide, almost covering the entire window, seemingly staring through the window.

"What in the world? Shoo! Shoo!" My dad said stepping towards the window, raising his voice in the hopes of scaring the creature away, but instead of flying away it tucked its large wings into its sides and stayed perched on the window sill, sleek black feathers reflecting the sunlight from above. "Shoo!" my dad shouted and again the bird stayed put.

"Stop it dad," I scalded, "Maybe it's just hungry or something?"

I pushed my seat back and grabbed a piece of bread from the counter, leaned over the counter and pushed the window open, the window opened outwards so the crow spread its wings and flew upwards, swiftly landing again once the window was fully open.

"Hey there birdie," I whispered, ignoring my dads disapproving sigh from behind me, "You hungry?"

I ripped the slice of bread in my hand, slowly inching my hand towards the huge bird, "Here we go." the birds beak opened and then closed over the bread.

"Now you've fed it, the thing will keep coming back" my dad grumbled, taking his seat once more, he added, "You might want to think about leaving soon too"

"Yeah your right" I agreed, dropping the last of the bread through the window and trying to shoo the bird away, but like when my father had tried, it didn't budge. I shrugged, "You're a weird little thing aren't you?"

I left the window and grabbed my bad, stepping into my shoes, "Dad, you'll just have to close the window when it flies off, it doesn't seem to be budging right now."

"Sure thing honey, have a good day."

"Thanks dad," I leaned down to kiss his cheek and heard the rustle of wings as I did so, when I looked towards the window I saw that the crow had flown away so, knowing that my father would more than likely forget, I closed the window myself.

It took me about ten minutes to drive to Mystic Falls High from my house, and I parked in what I assumed was the student lot, and climbed from the car, eyes roaming until I saw hands in the air, waving, I recognised them as belonging to Elena and Bonnie, and made my way over to them.

"Hey Kaye!" Bonnie said as Elena smiled widely, "So you found it okay? That's good!"

"Hi, " I grinned, as she answered her question herself.

"So, we're going to take you to the office for your schedule and stuff" Elena informed me, "Seeing as your from England and all, we figured its probably completely different for you"

"Yeah, very" I said, scanning the building in front of me, "for starters we don't have parking places on our school grounds in England."

Elena and Bonnie laughed and one of them said, "This way"

As I followed them into the building and down the halls Elena turned to me and said, "Stefan said he's sorry he's not here to help out, only he's having some problems with his brother, so he's going to be late today"

"That's okay," I said, "I hope everything's okay"

"Yeah, I'm sure it is, Stefan's brother is trouble so he has his work cut out for him"

"Makes me glad I'm an only child!" Bonnie interjected with a grin.

Once I had introduced myself to the plump lady on the reception desk and been given my schedule, Elena and Bonnie deduced that I would be in class with at least one or both of them at all times and most of my lessons were with Stefan too. I smiled, it was nice that they were comparing our schedules, maybe that meant that they wanted to be friends with me and not just show me around, I then grinned at how ridiculously desperate that sounded.

The day passed pretty much how I had expected it to and luckily none of my imagined worst case scenarios had played out. I hadn't crashed my car, or ran anybody over as I tried to park. I hadn't tripped over or dropped food over anyone at lunch and I hadn't made a complete fool of myself in class when I was asked a question. This was mainly because Stefan had arrived in third period and whispered than answers to me, the teacher seemed to be the kind of guy who liked to embarrass the students with the things they didn't know. "Thanks" I had mouthed to him and he had rolled his eyes causing Elena to giggle. That lunchtime I had sat with Stefan and the girls and Jeremy had joined us too, it had been a quick lunch where we had mostly gotten to know one and other and at times, laughed so hard that our ribs had hurt.

I had learned that Jeremy and Elena's parents had died not too long ago in an accident and Stefan had moved here not long after. I had told them that I understood and told them about my mothers illness and moving to Mystic Falls. Bonnie had explained more about her heritage and her grandmother and how sometimes she seemed to just 'know things'. Caroline had spoken mostly about her mother who she had deemed to be overprotective and Stefan had been relatively quiet, offering only that he had moved here when Elena had said and had no family other than an older brother, I decided not to mention anything that Elena had said about his brother being trouble as I noticed his shoulders visibly tensing, much as they had Saturday night, when his brother was mentioned.

"Thank you guys, for helping me out today, for being so kind" I said as we all made our way to our cars.

"It's no problem! We like you!" Bonnie answered sweetly before leaving towards the exit, Elena nodded and Stefan grinned.

"So we'll see you tomorrow?" Caroline asked, not as in genuine or mean as I had originally perceived her to be.

"Of course," I answered as I reached my car, "Thanks again!"

I saw them waving as they climbed into their own cars and threw my bag into the back seat, startled as a black crow landed on the roof of my car.

"Woah! You scared me!" I laughed, glancing around to make sure no one could see me talking to a bird, "Are you the same crow as this morning?"

I waited, grinning, "No answer? Nah I didn't think you were. Come on, off you go! I've got to be going home now!" The crow stayed motionless, and I laughed, feeling completely crazy, "I don't have any food, go get a rat or something! Please get off of my car?" The bird spread its wings and flew into the sky.

"Huh? Strange." I shook my head as I climbed into the car. Of course it wasn't the same crow as this morning and of course it hadn't flown away because I had said please, it was an animal, it didn't understand human manners!

I started my engine and glanced out of my windscreen as I heard a loud shriek, noticing the bird perched on a high tree, staring my way.

"The animals in this place are weird," I said aloud, "and I really need to stop talking to them." I laughed, "And to myself for that matter!"

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