"Elena wakes up in her room, goes to school, and finds out Caroline is the popular girl after she broke her leg and Kol is her (adoring/annoying/sexy/endearing) boyfriend taking care of her and carrying her books, and Stefan is her best friend, and Damon is her ex that very few people like (Kol sucker punched him). Bonnie's into mythology. I also want Jeremy to be the kid who runs an underground cigarette cartel and hunts on the Mikaelson estate. And Rebekah has a column in the school newspaper. Finn and Sage are married. Elijah and Klaus run the a mafia branch. Mikael lives somewhere in New York. Ester runs a successful business that rivals her husband's and makes him come crawling back to her. Henrik is alive (school hall monitor) and him and Margaret (your Margaret) are a thing. can this happen? Not the best developed au but that escalated quickly." –QueenVamp

Wow, this was a fun AU to do specifically because it's so anti-Elena. If you're a big Elena fan, you shouldn't read this one. Like seriously, don't. But if you dislike her, this should be a treat for you.

Elena blinked herself awake, the vivid dream she had still fresh in her mind. She rubbed her eyes as she remembered something about vampires, werewolves, witches, dopple-somethings, and more creatures outside the realm of reality. She really needed to lay off from watching too much True Blood and say just go watch some generic romantic comedy. Preferably, it would be a staying-in kind of thing since her leg was still in a cast.

She pouted as she realized she would be wobbling on crutches for another week until her dad sawed the cast off. It didn't exactly make her a hot commodity and the kind of attention she wanted from Stefan wasn't the pitying kind. The cutesy little notes and drawings from the other cheerleaders didn't help either. She wasn't the irresistible girl in high school like she was in her dream because in real life that was Caroline.

Caroline who, Elena frowned as she made her way slowly through the hallways of the school, was surrounded by their circle of friends. Her boyfriend Kol, athlete and foreign hottie, was exchanging their usual teasing jibes with her while carrying her books for her. Caroline's best friend, Stefan, was also there talking to Caroline's other best friend Rebekah for something about her column in the school newspaper. And they nearly all walked past Elena as they made their way to Mr. Saltzman's classroom.

It was Caroline who stopped, gracious Queen Bee as she was, and greeted Elena with a way-too cheerful "Oh hi, Elena!"

Elena gave her a smile she hoped didn't look too forced. "Hi, Caroline."

"Are you getting any better?" The blonde asked, looking concerned and Elena wanted to roll her eyes.

"Yeah," She replied. "Cast should be off in a week."

"Oh, poor thing."

Caroline enveloped her in a hug and Elena returned it reluctantly as she looked at Caroline's posse who seemed impatient. Kol was outright frowning at her, having never been to hide his disliking of her. Stefan and Rebekah were engrossed in whatever they were talking about. Elena was glad when Caroline let her go and she and her friends continued towards their class.

Elena wobbled after them, feeling even worse when she heard Kol mutter to his girlfriend. "Why do you bother with her?"

"She's my friend." Caroline hissed back.

"Was your friend. Or have you forgotten what she did?"

"Kol...I-I thought you didn't even like Damon."

"True and while I am very happy you are dating me now instead of him…I saw how hurt you were when you found out he cheated on you with her." He nearly growled. "She's not your friend."

Caroline just sighed at that and Elena tried to fight the feelings of guilt. Yes, she had fooled around with Damon when he was still dating with Caroline but it had been to teach the blonde a lesson. Elena was the Queen Bee, not her and she'd been challenging Elena's status for a while now with her bubbliness and optimism that seemed to pull everyone around her into adoring her. It had been a necessary evil to put the blonde in her place.

What Elena didn't expect was Kol swooping in to save Caroline like a knight in shining armour. The English boy had only migrated last year but already became quite popular and when he and Caroline started dating everyone started fawning over them like they were some bonafide golden couple. And when Elena fell off the pyramid one practice, not only did her position as captain go to Caroline but her Queen Bee status had been snatched right from her as well. Caroline was crowned queen and Elena had been trying to crawl from the bottom ever since.

Elena scowled even more when she saw her younger brother Jeremy walk right past her and greet Kol in a manly hug. Yep, even her sophomore brother was more popular than her now. Not only was he Kol's best friend but his underground cigarette cartel gave him some clout as well. On weekends, he and Kol went hunting at the Mikaelson estate because the Mikaelsons were the richest family in town.

Though how clean some of that money was is up for debate. While Kol's parents were divorced and both ran successful legitimate businesses, his brothers Elijah and Klaus ran Mystic Falls' mafia branch. If Esther Mikaelson knew about her sons' line of work, she didn't show it, being an outstanding citizen who contributed in many charities and the like. Her success made her ex-husband keep flying from New York to Mystic Falls to get her back, a bit of family drama that Kol regularly rolled his eyes about.

Kol stopped to greet his nerdy younger brother Henrik, a freshman school hall monitor, who kept making goo-goo eyes at Caroline's younger sister Margaret. "Finn and Sage are getting back from their honeymoon tomorrow," The younger Mikaelson said. "Mum says we're having a big fancy dinner and we can bring friends."

Kol grinned at that and looked at his group of friends. "You guys up for some posh food my parents are spending on?"

Stefan looked like he wanted to decline but Rebekah pinched him in the side. "Come on, Stefan, are you really going to ditch us to spend time with your cock of a brother?"

"I promised him we'd hang out…"

Caroline smiled at him, all bright like the sun and changed his mind quickly to her bidding as was her effect with everyone. "Please, Stefan? It's not as much fun without you. Everyone's going!"

Stefan nodded his assent as Caroline clapped her hands in delight. Rebekah meanwhile wrapped her arm around Stefan's waist like she owned him. And he let her. Elena scowled more.

She turned to Jeremy. "You're coming too, Jer, right?"

At this point, Elena wanted to scream. They'd invite her younger brother but completely ignore her? What gives? Was she invisible or something?

"Is Bonnie gonna be there?"

Caroline nodded. "We have some homework to do later but since Bonnie's a total expert in mythology, we'll get it done quickly and go straight to the party."

"I could come pick you up if you like," Kol offered with an adoring smile and Caroline thanked him with a saccharine kiss.

Kol kissed her back and when it was getting heated, Rebekah threw her History book at her brother to make them stop but missed. The dark-haired boy gave her the finger before finally unlocking his lips from Caroline. He smiled at Caroline like she was the only important thing in the world. He'd picked her the moment he saw her, she didn't even have to try. Meanwhile, Elena had to practically beg for any scrap of attention these days.

"Alright, so dinner's at seven. Be there for the champagne and caviar." Kol told them right before the bell rang and they all hurried to their classrooms.

Elena remained frozen in the hallway, left all alone. She kept wondering to herself how things became like this. How could she have been abandoned so easily? And why did everyone love Caroline so much more than her?