Rebecca sits up in bed, drenched in sweat and her heart racing. Her fingers goes to the white stone that rests on the silver chain around her neck. It belonged to her family, each member of the family has one just like it. "Rebecca?" She turns and sees her aunt standing in the doorway.
"I'm fine, just another nightmare." She sighs as she pulls back her covers. "I'll be done in a few minutes." Jenna nods as she leaves Rebecca to get ready. Rebecca takes a quick shower before getting dressed in a dark red dress, her black leather jacket, and her black ankle leather boots. She dries her hair and leaves it down before grabbing her backpack and heading downstairs.
Rebecca walks into the kitchen just as her cousin Elena does. Rebecca's family on her father's side all died in the fire as well as her mother, but on her mother's side Rebecca still had two aunts, an uncle, and two cousins except just this summer her Aunt and uncle died leaving her with her other aunt and cousins.
"Toast, I can make toast." Jenna says as she rushes around the kitchen.
"I'm just getting coffee." Rebecca says as she fills a carrying mug for herself.
"It's all about the coffee, Aunt Jenna." Elena agrees as she fills her cup.
"There's coffee?" Jeremy asks as she walks into the room, taking Elena's cup.
"First day off school and I am so unprepared." Aunt Jenna says as Elena grabs another cup to poor coffee into. "Lunch money?" She asks as she holds up some money. Elena shakes her head, while Rebecca heads for the door and Jeremy takes it.
"Tyler's picking me up. I'll see you guys later." Rebecca says before walking out the door. She walks out just as a car pulls up in front of the house.
"Hey, dove." Tyler says as Rebecca hopes into the car.
"Hey, Ty." She smiles. Tyler always calls her dove, something that her father used to call her.
"How was your morning?"
"Wonderful." She sighs as they drive to school.
"Nightmares?"
"Always." Tyler and her had been friends since she moved to Mystic Falls. Most people think Tyler is just some jerk jock, but he's actually a really sweet guy. No one really knows how hard Tyler's life really was. His father maybe the mayor and Tyler maybe one of the founder family, who is also rich, but his father was a mean control freak. He was always hurting Tyler, treating him like shit, bossing him around. Rebecca knows that Tyler only acts tough because he doesn't want anyone to see just how sensitive he is.
"You know you can always call me, Bec. I'm willing to sit up all night talking to you until you fall asleep." Rebecca smiles and looks over at him.
"Thanks, Ty, but I'm fine. Honestly." He sighs, but nods anyways as they pull up in front of Tyler and Rebecca's other best friend's house, Matt Donovan. "Are we picking Matt or something?" Rebecca asks, but Tyler shakes his head as Vicki Donovan, Matt's baby sister, comes out of the house. "Ty?" She looks at him with a raised eyebrow. "Please tell me you're not dating Matt's sister."
"We're not dating." Rebecca groans and rests her elbow on the door, her head in her hand.
"This is why people think you're an ass." She grumbles as she almost falls out of the car as Vicki opens her door. "What do you think you're doing?" Rebecca asks with a snap.
"Sitting in the front." Vicki says as she crosses her arms in a defiant manner.
"Nice try, get in the back or you're walking."
"It's Ty's car." Rebecca got out of the car, causing Vicki to smirk, but before she could get into the car Rebecca pushes her against the car.
"And I'm Ty's best friend and I say get your fucken tight little ass into the back." Rebecca growls as she holds tightly to Vicki's arm, more than likely it'll be bruise later.
"Matt-
"Matt's my best friend. He'll understand when I explain to him why I almost beat his sister to death, do you want me to have to explain that to him or do you want to get in the car?" Vicki, realizing that she won't be getting out of this easily, nods and Rebecca allows her to move around her and get into the back.
Tyler covers his mouth trying very hard not to laugh as Rebecca shuts her door once more. "Ready to go, dove?" Rebecca smiles, her smile growing even more upon seeing the jealousy in Vicki's eyes.
"Yeah, boo." Tyler smiles and pulls out of the driveway before heading back down the road.
"So, Tyler..." Vicki smiles as she runs a hand down Tyler's chest, causing Rebecca to roll her eyes.
"Tyler, I do not want to crash because she's distracting you." Rebecca says, causing Tyler to frown and glance at her. "Anyways we are going to be at the school soon, so do try to keep it in your pants until we arrive." Tyler gave her a look, but she ignored him as they pulled up to the school. "Have fun." She smiles as she grabs her bag and jumped out of the car.
She walks into the school and headed for her locker, but she wasn't looking where she was going and ran right into someone. "Oh, sorry." She says as she looks up to see a guy standing before her. He was new, she could tell. He was dressed in a pair of jeans and a leather jacket. He was okay looking, short brown hair and deep green eyes, but he wasn't Rebecca's type.
"It's okay." He says with an easy smile. "Do you know where the office is?" Rebecca nods.
"Yeah, it's this way." She smiles as she leads him down the hall. "I'm Rebecca Hale by the way."
"Stephen Salvatore." The guy smiles.
"Any relation to Zack?"
"He's my uncle."
"He's a great guy." Rebecca tells him. Her father had known Zack for a long time, Zack was the only one who knew what Rebecca was.
"You know him?"
"My dad was friends with him."
"Was?" Rebecca's eyes fall to the ground and she frowns.
"He's been in a coma for the past eight years."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be. It was a long time ago." She says before motioning to a door. "Here it is."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome. I'll see you around." She smiles before heading down the hall and going to her locker. She opens her locker and quickly grabs her things.
"Our home state of Virginia joined confederacy 1861, it created a tremendous amount of tension within the state. People in Virginia's northwest region had different ideals than those from the traditional deep south. Then Virginia divided in 1863 with the northwest region, joining the union." Mr. Tanner, the history teacher, says as Rebecca lays her head on her crossed arms, which was on her desk. "Miss. Hale, are we boring you?" Rebecca sighs and looks up.
"No, sir. I just am getting a migraine." The class snickers as Mr. Tanner glares at her.
"After school attention, until four." Rebecca simply rolls her eyes and doesn't speak another word, causing the class to smile. "As I was saying..."
Rebecca groans as she walks out of the school, covered in chalk from banging the erasers. She hated staying for detention with Tanner, but Rebecca was a Hale. She has a smart mouth, sharp tongue, and short temper. It got her into a lot of trouble especially with Tanner.
Rebecca walks to the local teen hangout, the Mystic Grill, and enters the building. She spots all kids from her school, but heads for Tyler and Matt. Elena's friends have never been really her friends. "Hey Bec." Matt says with a smile.
"Hey, Matt." Rebecca smiles. "Hey, Ty."
"Hey."
"Apparently Ty's hooking up with my little sister." Matt grumbles, causing Rebecca to laugh.
"Yeah I had to ride to school with them." Matt looks over at Rebecca as she says that.
"You knew?" Rebecca frowns and looks down at her hands.
"I'm going to wash my hands, they're covered in chalk."
"Detention with Tanner already? It's only the beginning of the year." Tyler says, but Rebecca sighs.
"I know. I got on his bad side... again." She tells him as she stands up.
"I know. I was there. Snapping at him as always." Matt says, causing her to laugh. "Hey, Bec?" She glances over at him with a questioning look. "How's Elena-"
"Matt." Rebecca holds up a hand. "I'm not getting involved. I told you before, Elena needs time and I really don't want to get involved." Matt sighs.
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be, you love her, but if it's meant to be-
"Then it'll work out." Rebecca smiles and nod.
"It always does." Rebecca tells him before heading to the back to where the bathrooms where. She is quick to wash her hands before she freezes upon seeing her eyes. Her eyes were burning a deep gold. She places her hand on the stone around her neck before her eyes settles back to their original color. "Need to stay in control at all times." She whispers before turning and heading out of the bathroom.
She frowns as she sees her cousin walk into the building with the new guy. "Did she seriously come here with him when she knew Matt would be here?" Matt walks over to her, saying something, before he heads over to where Tyler was, playing pool. Rebecca sighs and follows after them. "You okay?" Matt sighs and shrugs. "I'm sorry." She wraps her arms around him and he sighs before wrapping his arms around her.
"It's okay." Matt sighs as he rests his cheek on top of her head. "You can't control Elena and I wouldn't want you to anyways." Rebecca pulls away and looks up at Matt.
"Just hang in there, she'll come around." From behind Matt, Tyler made a face as if to say 'She won't', but Rebecca ignores Tyler. "How about we just play pool and have a great time." She smiles.
"Sure."
"Are you going to be at the falls?" Tyler asks, causing Rebecca to look over at him.
"Of course I am. I always go."
"Cool, because Matt's going need someone to hang out with."
"Why you'll be too busy fucking his sister?"
"Seriously, Bec." Matt sighs, but Rebecca simply shrugs.
"Just a simple question." Tyler chuckles and shakes his head.
"Those are always the worst questions to answer. I mean we ask about that necklace all the time that's a simple question." Rebecca frown and places her hand over the stone.
"My father gave it to me. It's nothing more than something to remember him." The boys fall silent as Rebecca throws off waves of sadness. "I think I'm going to go home, it's a school night and I have homework."
"I'm sorry, squirt." Tyler says, but Rebecca shakes her head.
"It's fine." She mumbles before heading out the door. Even after eight years of not having her parents in her life it's still very hard for her to talk about them. Maybe one day she'll be able to once again.
When I finished this chapter my friend told me something that I didn't think about. I'm not sure yet where my story will take me, but I do plan on going through most if not all the seasons, and my friend pointed something out that I didn't think about. Klaus' sister's name is Rebekah and my main character is Rebecca. My main character can't have the same name as Klaus' sister because that would make things really confusing, so I need to have a different name from here on out. I'm not really sure what her name should be, so I'm going to let you guys vote on which of the names below should be her new name.
Atlantis or Atlanta Hale (nickname Laney)
Roxanne Hale (Nickname either Rox, Roxie, or Anne)
Anastasia Hale (Nickname Anya)