Anastasia walks into her History class and sits down with her things just before Elena sits down. "Explain about Friday." Anastasia instantly demands.
"Blonde was Stefan's friend who came to see him for his birthday. Damon forced Caroline to throw party. Sheriff killed Stefan's friend due to Damon. No more vampires apparently in town." Elena says quickly as the bell rings and Bonnie skids in before it, taking a seat by them.
"Got it. Thanks." Anastasia smiles as a male teacher walks in.
"Good morning, everyone." Anastasia rests her elbow on the desk and her head in her hand.
"Is it bad that I miss the old teacher simply because I love pissing him off?" Elena turns and gives Anastasia a look, causing her to smile.
"Alrighty." The teacher says as he starts writing on the board. Anastasia watches as the man writes a name on the board, saying each letter as he writes. "Alaric Saltzman. It's a mouthful. I know. Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. Saltzman is of German origins. My family emigrated here in 1755 to Texas. I, however, was born and raised in Boston. Now, the name Alaric belongs to a very dead great-grandfather I will never be able to thank enough." Anastasia chuckles as he says this. "You'll probably want to pronounce it 'Ala-ric,' but it's 'A-lar-ir,' okay?" He says to them all. "So you can call me Rick. I'm your new history teacher." He tells them before they dive into class.
When the class is over Alaric holds Anastasia after class. "Hey, so, did you know that your old teacher had a jackass file?" He asks, causing her to laugh.
"Oh, am I in it? If not I'll be pretty disappointed." He chuckles and holds up a folder.
"Oh, you're in it. Pretty thick too. Half of it is about your cousin, while the other is of you."
"Well, my goal in life was to make his life a living hell, so... I guess I exceeded."
"Well, I'm all about clean slates." He tells her. "You have a great grade in this class despite the old teacher hating you."
"Look, before you give me the whole 'you seem like a great kid' let me explain some things to you. First off, I moved here when I was ten. My family got killed in a fire, my entire family on my dad's side, the only people in my family on that side is my dad, whose in a coma, and my two cousins, who one just died, while the other did something that made me hate him a lot. I have a lot of trauma issues due to the fire and I absolutely hate fire, odd huh?" The teacher stares at her a little taken back. "If you can't tell I'm really blunt and direct. I prefer to get right to the point and say whatever is on my mind and don't care for the consequences. I'm honest and I never lie unless I absolutely have to. Also I love trouble, which is why Tanner hated me. I either love you or I hate you. There is no in betweens. If I hate you then I make your life a living hell, while if I love you then I'm a total angel. I am very hot headed and have a short fuse, so it's best not to piss me off. I'll get my work done as long as you don't try to force me into situations that I don't like. In this school, I'm kind of known as the pathetic burned kid who lost most of her family, so I prefer if I didn't have to talk up in class or do presentations in front of everyone. After school, I want to travel, see the world and all that. I love the scenery and traveling. My dream is to get a postcard of every state, but of course, I want to go to each state to get it, and I also want to see every world landmark and do every cool historical thing like stand on the four corners. Once I'm done traveling I will go to school and do something in history because despite my horrid relationship with my old teacher, I love history and doing something with that makes me happy. I speak a bunch of languages, so I often like to translate old documents whenever I get the chance. Now, that's about sums me up. Any thoughts or questions... Rick?" This causes the man to chuckle.
"You're an interesting person, Miss. Hale. Very interesting. I have to say I like your... dare I say 'fire' and I like someone who stands up for themselves and speaks their mind. While it comes to history I think we'll make this class a fun time for the both of us. I respect your wishes and request as long as you try hard in my class and don't loose your temper on me without reason. If you can do all that then I'm sure we can work." This causes Anastasia to smile.
"Also, I love my name, but everyone calls me Anya, it's shorter and easier to say, so I'm sure you can manage that."
"Yes, I can."
"What about the folder?"
"I'm showing your cousin then trashing it in order for us all to start fresh."
"Okay, then, well I have to get to lunch, but see you around, Rick."
"See ya, Anya." Anastasia smiles and heads out of the room.
Later that day, she sits with her aunt and Jeremy at the Grill. Jeremy's working on his paper, while Jenna is busy eyeing Anastasia's new history teacher over. "I like a man who can dine alone. A quiet strength." Anastasia chuckles beside Jeremy.
"I can see you two together." She tells Jenna.
"I thought you were still in that whole Logan depression thing." Jeremy says.
"Oh please, that's so last week for her. This week is our history teacher." Anastasia says, causing Jeremy to laugh.
"Oh, I've sworn off men forever, but it doesn't mean I can't observe them from a safe distance." Anastasia rolls her eyes and looks at Jeremy.
"Jer, shall we?"
"We can introduce you." Jeremy agrees as he looks at Jenna. She looks at Rick then them before shaking her head.
"Fine, so what did you talk to Rick about?" Anastasia asks.
"He gave me extra credit assignment to do. A paper on any history event local and not off of wiki."
"Okay, well... that sounds like an assignment in heaven." Anastasia says, causing them to laugh.
"Well, have you picked a topic?" Jenna asks.
"No. Not yet. Like I said, it's gotta be local and non-internet research, so..."
"Well, that's easy." Jenna says. "You got all your dad's stuff."
"What stuff?" Jeremy asks.
"How the Gilberts came over on the 'Mayflower' stuff, all that family lineage from way back. Your dad really loved all that family history stuff. It's all boxed up in the closet." Jenna glances over to see Rick making their way.
"Hey ya, Rick." Anastasia smiles.
"Mr. Saltzman." Jeremy nods.
"Jeremy, what's up, man?" He says as he does some fist punch thing with Jeremy that causes Anastasia to snicker. "Anya, how you doing, firecracker?" She smirks.
"Currently plotting world dominsation."
"Fun."
"This is my awesome and totally hot aunt, Jenna." Anastasia introduces, causing Jenna's cheeks to flame up.
"Anya." Anastasia smiles innocently as Rick chuckles.
"Alaric Saltzman. It's nice to meet you."
"Jeremy was just telling us about his paper. Thanks for giving him another chance and thanks for putting up with our firecracker." Jenna says as she smiles at Anastasia who giggles.
"Firecracker? It's growing on me." They laugh as Rick nods.
"Oh, well, you know, it's was my first day. I might go harder on Anya." She just smirks.
"Love to see you try."
"In all seriousness, I wanted to make a good impression." He tells them.
"Succeeded because you're one of the most laid back and coolest teacher so far in my book." Anastasia says.
"We should ditch her... She needs a chance with Saltzman." Jeremy whispers, causing Anastasia to smile.
"Play some pool?"
"You're on." The two head for the pool table as Jenna comes back from the bathroom. They got to playing, while Jenna sighs at watching the two. She hasn't seen them hanging out together in a long time. They used to be very close and she's happy to see they're getting back to being besties.