I do not own The Vampire Diaries. I only own Tiffani.

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My hope for the day to go just as smooth completely flew out the window when I entered my history class, which I had with Matt and Caroline. I also noticed that Elena, Bonnie, and the unknown guy were in there as well. The worst part was I had to sit right between Elena and the guy.

"Help," I whispered to Matt and Caroline as I walked past them and they just laughed. Matt laughed louder than Caroline, but he tried to stop his chuckles when the teacher walked in the room.

"Mr. Saltzman," Elena called out as soon as I sat down and set down my bag.

"Yes, Elena," the teacher said in a questioning tone.

"We have a new girl. She should introduce herself, shouldn't she?" Elena said and I could just hear that bitchy undertone to her voice.

"Uh, sure, come on up," Mr. Saltzman said as he backed away from his desk and motioned for me to come to the front.

I just gave a roll of my eyes before standing up and giving everyone a smile. I walked up to the front of the class and grabbed one of the markers. I quickly wrote my first name and then spun back around to look at the other students.

"Let's make this short and sweet. My name is Tiffani. A few of you may already remember me. I'm Caroline's cousin and also the girl who gave many of the cheerleaders a black eye a few years ago. Fun day, really fun day. Anyways, nice to meet you all, let's have fun in history together," I said with a wink before giving the teacher a thumb up and going back to sit down in my chair. "Thanks for that Elena, that was fun," I told Elena with a smirk before focusing back on the teacher and the board.

The teacher gave a cough as some of the students started laughing. Obviously they remembered that wonderful day. He gave another cough before capturing the attention of the class. He started talking about one of the World Wars and everyone started either taking notes or texting on their phone.

I kept sensing either Elena's glaring, Bonnie's glaring, Caroline's smiles, Matt's quiet laughter, and the unknown guy's stares. The hour was great in terms of a history class but the staring/glaring from everyone was getting on my last nerve, especially from the unknown guy beside me. I did notice Elena giving him a death glare every time she caught him looking at me. Let's just say that it was very awkward to sit between the two of them and not want to jump out of the nearby classroom window.

"See you guys tomorrow," Mr. Saltzman said and I quickly jumped out of my seat.

I was so ready to get out from between Elena and Mr. Unknown. I went to walk out of the classroom to go to my last class, but I was stopped by the teacher. He just motioned for me to go stand by his desk while the other students left the room.

"Hello, I just wanted to welcome you to Mystic Falls," Mr. Saltzman started to say as we stood face to face.

"Thanks, but I've been here before just not in the last few years," I said with a shrug.

"Yeah about that, did you really give black eyes to most of the cheerleading team?" he asked.

I just smirked and pretended to tip a fake hat. "I definitely did. They were being crude and disgusting to me, and I didn't appreciate it so I taught them to leave me alone. Don't worry though, I'll wait until after school hours if I decide to do that again," I joked with him. I couldn't help but laugh when he gave me a shocked look. "I'm joking, just joking," I told him and he visibly relaxed. "I'll see you tomorrow, Mr. Saltzman," I said and went to leave the room, but he stopped me again.

"Hey, I know you haven't been here in the last few years, but be careful. I wish this town had a curfew, but anyways, just be careful after dark. This town isn't as safe as it used to be," he said and I just gave a nod before leaving the classroom.

"That was a little weird," I thought as I went to my last class of the day, math. It wasn't my favorite subject but having Matt in the class helped. I was a little worried that I hadn't seen his sister at all today. I was never really friends with her, but I always remember Vicki being around when I used to come visit the town and my cousin. I would just have to ask Caroline or my aunt about it later.

The final bell rang and I walked out to the parking lot to go wait in the car for Caroline. I knew she had cheer leading practice, but I didn't feel like hanging out around the field for practice to finish. I'm also sure that most of the cheerleaders didn't want to see me staring them down. I might give the scared things a heart attack.

I was almost to Caroline's car when I saw Elena and the unknown guy standing near it. Elena gave the guy a kiss before she left the school parking lot with Jeremy. I walked up to Caroline's car and looked at him, and he just stared back at me.

"So are we going to just keep staring at each other or do you think we should introduce ourselves yet?" I asked as I threw my stuff in Caroline's car and walked over to stand by him.

He just stared at me for another moment before chuckling. "I'm Stefan Salvatore, nice to meet you," he said and held out his hand for a handshake.

"Tiffani," I introduced myself while shaking his hand. "So I see you have a ball and chain," I said and motioned to where Elena had disappeared. I laughed at the look he gave me. "Oh your face is priceless," I said and motioned away a tear of joy.

"Very funny," he muttered before saying that he would see me tomorrow, and then he walked away to his own car.

"Tiffani, are you ready to go?" Caroline shouted as she ran towards the car.

"Yes, I'm starving! Let's go home and get some food," I said as I got in the car.

"Forget the house, let's go to the grill," she said and I could tell that the grill was definitely the go-to place after school for Caroline.