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Pilot part 1

Life is worth nothing, if the people you love aren't alive to celebrate it with you.

I stand in front of the mirror of my room, just staring at my reflection. The girl I see is a total stranger. She looks depressed and lost. I guess grief does that to a person.

Last Spring, my parents' car drove off of a bridge; my sister Elena was in the backseat when it happened, she survived thank God. Although no one knows how she got out of the car though. When m parents died, I buried myself in a shell, not wanting to emerge. Most days I spend in my art studio in the garage. My parents helped me turn it into a studio when they found out I was running out of space up in my room. This is the place where I come to cry, where I come to scream, where I come to grieve, and where I can let go. Art is my life, or should I say was. It was never the same after their death. Although I still like to sit and paint every now and then, I don't do it as often as I use to. And that worries people because I'm known throughout the high school as 'art girl'. Lame but I don't judge. Especially when they come to me for help on their assignments. When I do paint though, what comes out is a picture of pure rage. Looking at them, seeing them for the first time, makes me realize that I think I'm lost.

For the first few months after the funeral, people were so nice to me. Left me to my own things. Now, four months later, I know they're not going to keep giving me breaks. I'm going to have to pretend that I'm okay at least. I will smile when I have to. I will laugh when something funny is said. And I won't be sad anymore. Even though I want to be.

"Liz! C'mon we're gonna be late if you don't hurry up," I hear Elena yell from downstairs.

Looking at the mirror one last time, I finally turned away and grabbed my bag as I left my room.

Downstairs everyone was moving. Jenna was busy trying to tend to us. Elena was making coffee and then in comes Jeremy and takes her cup. She gives him an annoyed look as she refills a cup for herself. I make my way over to the pot and pour myself a cup. Jenna quickly leaves saying she's late for a meeting with her professor or something. I'm not paying attention as I go over to the rack where we hang our keys up. When I grab them I go back into the kitchen just to hear Elena ask Jer if he's okay.

"Don't start okay," he then walks pass me. I turn my head as he makes his way out the door.

"How about you Liz, you doing okay?" Elena was like mom so much, while I'm, was, more like Jenna in a weird way. I apparently used to be fun and carefree.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Ummm, I'm gonna head out now. See you at school," I try to leave so she won't try to talk to me anymore. I love my sister, truly I do, it's just I want to be left alone for now.

"Liz, I'm here for you if you ever need me. You know that right?" and this is why I will never ever replace my sister with a best friend.

"Yeah I do Elena, it's just feels too soon ya'know? And I feel like I'm not ready but I know I have to let go some time right?" She quickly pulls me into a hug which I don't hesitate to return.

After a few moments we pull away and give each other little smiles.

"Don't worry about what all the other kids think or say, you always have me,"

"I know," I quickly wipe away a small tear that's escaped my eyes. "Well, I'll see you at school; and tell Bonnie I say hi will ya?" I give a little wave and head out to my car.

Pulling out of the driveway, I make my way to school. It's about a ten minute drive from where we live so it doesn't take too long. My thoughts are preoccupied as I pull into an empty spot. When I get out of the car, I release a breath of air that I didn't know I was holding until now.

Already people were starting to stare. I don't see why they can't just mind their own business and leave me alone.

I make my way into the school and immediately head towards my locker. Entering the combo I put things away and take things out and put them in my bag. I sigh heavily as I finish and closed my locker with a slam.

School didn't start for about another couple of minutes and I found myself wondering towards the art room. Besides my own art studio, this place is what I consider my sanctuary. Here I can be me and express myself without being judged, even from my own peers and teacher. It's pure paradise.

I know I don't have time to start anything new, so I just sit on a stool and wait for the bell to ring.

Without even realizing what I'm doing, I begin to sketch on a piece of paper. What comes to life on the paper is a black crow, staring right back at me; I felt a shiver run through me as the eyes of the crow stared back at me. Pushing the paper away I stand up and grab my things.

As I leave the room, I bump into someone, knocking my sketchbook to the ground, papers flying everywhere. I bend down to pick them up, but a hand has already beaten me to it.

I watch in curiosity as a guy picks up the papers surrounding us.

"Sorry about that, I should've been watching where I was going," the voice holds a mysterious tone. My eyes look up from the mess and meet a pair of gorgeous brown eyes. The guy before me was tall, pale and wearing a black leather jacket and shirt. He was absolutely breathtaking.

"It's my fault too, I can be clumsy at times," I crouch down and start picking up my drawings too. I would've felt bad if I let him do all the work when it clearly was my fault too.

"Did you draw these," I look up and see he has my sketch of a deer in his hands. It was a plan picture really. There was a female deer in the center and surrounding her was a vast land of luscious green forest.

"Uh yeah, yeah I did. It's mostly a hobby though,"

"Well nonetheless, these are quite good. You should take advantage of this talent, I know I would," his voice holds a kind of sincerity and kindness to it. It's as though I feel safe with this guy, even though I have no idea who he is.

"Thanks and thank you for helping me again," we both rise and he hands me my sketches and I hold them closely to my chest. He gives me a nod and walks away. I can't help myself and turn around to watch him leave. Okay, he was completely beautiful. But I had this strange feeling, a feeling that worries me. The only problem is if I don't know what to make of it.

My thoughts are interrupted as the bell rings. I head over to my first period class, chemistry. To say I am awesome in the subject would be a total lie. I completely suck. I barely register the words the teacher's saying and began to doze off.

I was so use to these types of talks anyway. First day of school, what I expect of you and the class well. Like I said, I've heard this enough to know what's going on. The day progresses on slowly and soon I find myself in fourth period history with Elena and Bonnie; what surprises me the most is that the guy from before was in our class too. He kept staring over at Elena every now and then and that brought a smile to my face.

I wasn't the type to get jealous over my sister. We may be fraternal twins, but we still do look somewhat alike too. And with everything going on in our lives right now, she deserves some form of happiness.

Class flies by like that and I go through the rest of the day easily. A lot easier than I thought. The only person who came up to me and asked how I was doing with everything was a good friend of ours, Caroline. Apparently she did the same thing with Elena too. That's just the way she is though; in everyone's business as usual.

As I make my way to my car, I see a crow standing on top of the hood. It was just staring at me, looking into my soul.

"Shoo!" I called with a wave of my hand. It 'cawed' and flew away. I got into my car and drove back home. When I got there, I came to see Jenna poured all over her work.

"So how was school?"

"Surprisingly not as bad as I thought it would be," truth be told it wasn't. Though, I was expecting hell today from everyone.

"That's good, any homework?"

"Jenna, c'mon? I mean who gives homework out on the first day?"

"Well you never know,"

I go upstairs to my room my attention is instantly turned to the 'cawing'. There, on my windowsill, was the same crow from school.

"Okay and people say I'm weird. I have a crow following me." As the words escape my lips the crow flies away.

"Okay creepy much?"

I throw my stuff on the bed and sit down. I put my face in my hands and sigh. I survived.

Now if only I can go through the entire year.

I hear footsteps coming up the stairs and go out into the hallway. I find Elena, looking at little flustered.

"Oh hey Liz, do you know where we keep the first aid kit?" Weird.

"Uh yeah, in the bathroom, under the cabinet and all the way over in the back."

"Thanks," I follow her to see what happened. When she lifts her pants leg I see that it's bleeding.

"Oh wow, Elena do you need any help?" I offer politely.

"Uh no, no it's okay you don't have to,"

"I want to Elena, we're sisters, and I've seen far worse." I give a little smirk.

I begin to help her clean her cut and once it's all done we bandage it up together.

"So where were you after school? I didn't see you anywhere?" I ask.

"Ummmmm, I was visiting…. mom and dad."

"Oh okay and you somehow fell?"

"Actually yes I did,"

"Oh okay, well you're all done now get out I gotta pee," she laughs and leaves. I put the first aid kit away.

When I leave the bathroom I go back into my room. I sit on the window ledge with my sketchbook in lap and begin to draw. I usually do this when my head is too clouded with anything. On the paper, an image of a beautiful women in elegant clothes and had her hair curled back, was looking back at me.

That's strange. The person looks exactly like Elena and a little bit of me. It's like we're all triplets. I flip the page over and try to ignore what I saw.

"Hey, I'm going to the Grill to meet Bonnie, you wanna come?" Elena comes in wearing a sparkly black shirt with dark jeans and her leather jacket in her arms.

"Uh sure, give me a couple of minutes. I'll meet you downstairs."

She nods and leaves as I get ready to dress. I do my hair half up half down and leave it in its natural curls. I dress in a pair of ripped at the knee dark jeans. I wear a lacy white tank top and also take a leather jacket. I touch up on my makeup and put in hoop earrings. When I'm all done I head downstairs and I see in the front door the mystery guy from this morning.

"Hey, you're the guy from this morning aren't you?"

"It's nice to see you again Elizabeth,"

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