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Chapter Seven
"Oh my God... What the hell did you buy!" Mystic's Damon snapped as they came into the house each carrying several bags.
"Clothes for the school year" Mystic's Elena replied. "With whose money? Mine and Stefan's?" Damon glared.
"Are you mad?" Elena bit her lip and set down her bags to move closer to him.
He sighed and looked down, "no because I have about a billion bank accounts that you didn't know about and that was only one of them" Damon smirked.
"So we didn't use all of your money?" Elena smiled hopefully.
"Not a chance... I've been alive for years" He laughed.
Elena smiled, "Thanks Damon" Elena hugged him.
"You owe me" He winked, causing Elena to blush before she picked back up her bags and took them upstairs followed by the rest of the girls.
A little while later the girls joined the guys to watch a movie. Each sat near their boyfriends or by the one they liked. This left Fells' Stefan sitting beside his Elena just hoping that once, she'd reach for him instead of Tyler when she got scared.
Fells' Matt sat alone in a chair with Fells' Bonnie and Damon cuddling on the floor near his chair. Caroline was making out with Mystic's Matt during the movie, Mystic's Elena sat close to Damon burying her head in his chest at all of the scary parts.
Mystic's Stefan and Bonnie were sitting together, secretly holding hands, Bonnie squeezing it each time she got scared. Meredith and Jeremy sat close, but neither jumped, nor moved at all really, during the scary scenes
'So much for cuddling'. Meredith thought grimly.
She found herself scooting closer to Jeremy, who in turn, wrapped an arm around her with a shy smile. 'That's more like it'.
By the time the movie was finished, more than half of them were already asleep.
"Should we wake them up?" Asked Jeremy, glancing at Tyler and Elena, who, like the other time, had claimed the couch and were laying fast asleep on it.
"Or them?" He nudged Fell's Damon with his toe but he didn't even stir, only tightening his arm around Bonnie.
"And them..." He pointed to Mystic's Bonnie, who had fallen asleep on Stefan's shoulder.
"Nah, just leave them. Let's go to bed." Meredith responded with a yawn. Jeremy nodded before following her up the stairs, looking back at his sister one last time. She was asleep on Damon, like the last time.
'What does she see in him?' He thought to himself with a shake of a head.
"Wait up, guys." Fell's Matt voice called after them.
"Yeah, wait." Stefan agreed. They caught up with them and shrugged, "We're loners."
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"Wake up, wake up! First day of school!" Caroline's muffled voice came from the bathroom.
She admired her reflection for a few seconds; Her blonde hair fell in waves down her back and she was wearing dark wash jeans tucked into boots under a silky violet shirt that from one side, slid off of her shoulder.
She rolled her eyes when she received no response and busted out the bathroom door, calling, "Wake uppppp."
Elena's dark hair peeked out from under the covers and Caroline pulled them off, hitting Bonnie with a pillow in the process. She pulled the windows open and the room was bathed in sun light.
"Fine." Bonnie groaned, "Fine, we're going, Care."
An hour later, everyone was downstairs munching on cereal or a pop-tart.
"Ugh, I forgot how hard it is to wake up for school." Fell's Elena mumbled, staring off into space as she munched on a strawberry pop-tart.
"Same." The others moaned.
"Oh come on, you should be excited! There's cheerleading practice after school and we'll have a lot of classes together, I'm sure. Plus even if we don't we'll see each other back here!"
"Care, I do not understand how you can be so hyper all the time." Fells' Meredith commented as she gulped down a glass of milk, "Not even Bonnie is that hyper." But the girls still chuckled all the same and clinked glasses of orange juice and milk, whatever they were drinking.
"Girl power!"
"Girls, you ready to go?" Mystic's Stefan called from the hallway.
"Yep." The girls stood up and hurried out the door, with Fells' Stefan, both Matt's, and Jeremy following close behind.
Everyone got out of two cars they'd come to school in, the girls quickly stepping in front of the guys with linked arms. The school was buzzing with excitement and noise, from the parking lot to the football field.
"Ready to dominate?" Caroline whooped to them with a huge grin on her face.
"Let's dominate." The girls yelled before bursting out laughing.
The wind was blowing their blow-dried hair against their faces and in their new clothes they never could have looked better. A total Kodak moment, many students and teachers as well, stopped to stare at the bubbly teenage girls.
"They're so perfect." Mystic's Elena heard someone whisper about them behind her. The girls threw their heads back and laughed. That was far from the truth.
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Fells' Elena opened her locker before lunch and a slip of paper fell out.
She picked it up and read the neat scrawl across it, "The pretty maiden with the golden hair, so fair... like Honey flowing down her back, the ocean blue eyes that look to me. Oh fair maiden... Did you miss me? -Sinichi.
Elena dropped the note like it was burning her hands. She thought back to the time when Sinichi sang those weird poems that he made up and now here was another saying he was here.
Elena searched the halls looking for any signs of the boy with the scarlet tipped hair and found none. She spotted Tyler heading down the hall toward her, picked up the note and shoved it in her pocket. She needed to tell someone soon, but who? She couldn't tell Tyler, he wouldn't understand. Stefan? Yes... Stefan would know what to do. Elena thought and forced a smile as Tyler hugged her and kissed her forehead before taking her hand to lead her to lunch.
The group sat together excitedly chating about their day.
"This is great but I miss Damon" Fells' Bonnie whined.
"Don't worry Bon-Stacy... He's probably at home just missing you and waiting for you to get home!" Meredith laughed.
"I love this... everyone wants to be us... we have THE hottest boyfriends, THE best clothes... and just the best everything" Caroline beamed.
"Yeah... look at everyone who wanted to sit with us... but there are no more seats" Mystic's Bonnie laughed. Finally, the bell rang, ending lunch.
They all went to their separate classes, except Fells' Elena who pulled Fells' Stefan back with her.
"Stefan... I need your help" Elena whispered.
"What is it?" He asked immediately concerned when she used his real name.
"I got a note from Sinichi." She bit her lip handing over the slip of paper.
"How did this happen... He had to have been there hiding... It's the first day of school YOU barely knew where your locker was... This isn't good... we need to show Damon" Stefan said immediately.
"But... I don't want everyone worried... I told you because I knew you could handle it" Elena whispered.
"Elena... I... We need to find him... He's stalking us now... who knows what he'll do next" Stefan put his hand on her shoulders.
"I don't know what he'll do... but I'm afraid Stefan... he possessed people... He was going to tear Bonnie limb from limb" Elena gasped tears streaking her face.
Stefan didn't know what else to do so he just enveloped Elena in a tight hug.
"I won't let anyone hurt you" He kissed her forehead and they walked to their history class together.
When they walked into the room all eyes were on the two, "And you two are?" The sandy haired teacher asked.
"Katie Gilbert and Joseph Salvatore" Stefan said.
"Well you're late... not a great start" He glared eyeing the two, with Stefan standing almost protectively, or was it possessively, in front of Elena.
"Sorry." Elena mumbled before hurrying to a desk near the back with Stefan.
Throughout the whole class time, the teacher, Mr. Saltzman, watched them very carefully, never taking an eye off of them.
Finally, the bell rang and the two of them shot out of their seats. They were halfway out the door before Mr. Saltzman called, "Joseph? Joseph Salvatore? Can I see you for a minute?"
Elena placed her hand on Stefan's arm but he smiled at her reassuringly and she nodded.
"I'll wait for you outside." She said before she hurried out.
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"I'm glad to see at least one familiar face in this class." Fells' Bonnie said as she quickly took the vacant spot beside Mystic's Matt.
He shot her a warm smile and said, "Yeah same here." "But you've gone to this school your whole life so it's way different."
"Not really." He argued.
"Really?" She quirked an eyebrow to her right, toward a group of girls that were gushing over Matt with love-struck eyes, "you're like, one of the hotties here."
He was about to respond when a girl with a dark bob suddenly appeared in front of them.
"Hi, Matt." She said with a shy smile.
"Hey, Amanda." Matt responded casually in his husky voice. He shot her a lazy smile that was enough to make her cheeks color
"I'm having a back to school party this weekend." She said as she dropped a beige invitation on his desk, her eyes flickering to Bonnie when she added, "You're welcome to bring friends."
"Sure." He took the invitation and smiled at her again before she left. Then his smile turned to a frown and he turned to Bonnie, "A back to school party, really? Is this chick for real?"
Bonnie caught a glance of the Amanda not far away from them, a broken look on her face. She's obviously heard what he said. Bonnie pinched his leg and called after her, "We'll be there!"
"Okay." Her face brightened and she skipped away.
"You've got to be nicer to these girls or you'll lose everyone that's in your fan club."
He only laughed and said, "Mrs. McCullough, I think having a class with you will be an experience."
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"Where the hell is this class?" Meredith mumbled to herself as she continuously glanced from her schedule to the room numbers, "AB3..Is that A building or B?"
"AB3." A familiar, yet unfamiliar voice rang out from behind her, "Upstairs, third door on the right. See, AB3 stands for A building, floor B room 3."
She breathed out a sigh of relief and turned to face the one who'd saved her from a tardy, "Thank you so-" She stopped when she realized who it was.
Straightening up, she fixed the blazer she was wearing over a white button up and said quickly, "Thanks, Mr. Saltzman."
"Call me Alaric." He pressed.
"No thanks. I like calling teachers by their last names."
"Suit yourself." He shrugged and extended a hand toward the stairs, "I'll walk with you."
"No thanks-again. No need for that. You should get to the class you have to teach."
"That's what I'm doing."
"What?"
"I'm your new History teacher." He grinned down at her.
"Oh goody." She said under her breath as she made her way up the stairs.
"What's your name?"
"Meredith, Meredith Sulez."
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"Hey... what did he tell you?" Elena asked softly placing a hand on his arm.
"He just kinda asked what we were doing. Where I was from... If I was related to Stefan and I said Yes, but very distantly just like I did when he asked if you were related to Elena." Stefan gave a half smile.
"So... what did you tell him we were doing?" Elena asked curiously.
"Just told him we got lost... he said not to let it happen again" Stefan gave another half-smile.
"Okay... thank you Ste-Joseph" Elena reached up and kissed him quickly on the cheek.
"Wait El-Katie... Can we do something tonight... together...? Maybe go see a movie, get something to eat? It will give us a chance to talk about the note" Stefan bit his lip hopefully.
"That sounds great... see you then" Elena smiled and went off to her next class leaving a smiling Stefan behind her