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Chapter 2 – Back to School Party

The party was to be later today. Leilani insisted on Sakura coming, she was expecting her to complain. But to Leilani's surprise, Sakura agreed to go right away, claiming to want to catch up with old friends. Leilani was, of course, suspicious of this but didn't want to ruin a good thing. Sakura actually wanted to go, because Stefan was expected to appear. She wanted to keep an eye on him, and make sure everyone else was okay. Besides, maybe she would finally have a chance to talk with him, especially considering his extensive knowledge of Mystic Falls past. No one in the class seemed to know about it's past but him. This was making her worry even more.

Sakura and Leilani head out to the party in Sakura's Impala. When they got there it was packed with their classmates. All drinking, catching up and genuinely having fun. They made their way through the crowd and found Elena and Bonnie talking. Of all things though, they were talking about Stefan,

"Where is he?" Leilani asked, as she had expected them to be with him.

"I don't know," Elena replied. "Why don't you tell me, you're the psychic one," Elena said to Bonnie.

"Oh right, I forgot. Okay just give me a sec, Grams says I have to concentrate," Bonnie said, partially mockingly.

"Wait, you need a crystal ball," Elena found a beer bottle and handed it to her. Bonnie went to grab it and her eyes went wide and she took her hand back.

"Everything okay?" Sakura sensed that she had saw something, and it wasn't good.

"A crow, fog and a man," Bonnie started to describe. It seemed as though she was describing what had happened yesterday. Sakura and Elena were freaked out and looked at each other. "I'm drunk, that's all, nothing psychic about it," Bonnie went of for a refill.

"It's like yesterday. The fog and a crow at least, but I didn't see any man. Did you?" Sakura asked Elena. Elena nodded, but she couldn't seem to gather her words.

"I'll go get a drink too," Leilani rushed to catch up with Bonnie.

"Hey," Stefan appeared out of nowhere. Sakura guessed he was waiting for her to be alone, so she left, but made sure not to go too far. She listened in on the conversation, to see if he said anything suspicious. They started to walk down a path and continued talking. Sakura followed, but left enough distance as to avoid suspicion. He seemed to be flirting and trying to find out more about her. Elena opened up about her parents and he tried to console her. They stopped on the bridge and if they looked across the way, they could see Matt, Caroline, Bonnie and Leilani. All of which kept glancing over at them, for slightly different reasons. Elena starting talking about Matt, but it didn't seem to bother Stefan. Then Elena said something weird.

"Hey, are you okay? Your eyes, they um," Elena couldn't explain it. Sakura looked out from behind the tree she was using to hide and looked at Stefan carefully. It looked like his eyes were changing colour, and veins were popping out. Sakura had seen this before, and knew what it meant. She had been right to be suspicious, he was a vampire. And she knew it. Vampires, back in Mystic Falls? As far as Sakura had heard, there hadn't been any sightings in a long time. Sakura was torn between trying to stake him with whatever she could find, or let things play out. It was rare, but there were vampires that meant well. It was always hard to tell though. There were too many people around to try to stake him, with causing a scene, anyways.

Stefan rushed away, to try to get them a drink. Sakura walked by him, up to Elena. "Are you okay? You look a little spooked," Sakura asked her.

"I'm okay, it's just…" Elena trailed off. Sakura raised an eyebrow, as if to question her and Elena waved it off. "It's nothing," Elena smiled. They walked back to the party and Elena kept looking around for Stefan. Matt approached them and asked to have a moment alone with Elena. Sakura complied and went to look for Stefan on her own.

Stefan came out of the trees and Sakura noticed him staring at Matt and Elena. "Hey Stefan, everything okay?" Sakura asked as she approached him.

"Yeah, everything is fine," he smiled at her. "Oh yeah, I wanted to asked you. You know Zack right? Were you originally from here? Your last name was Mazaki right?" Stefan asked her curiously.

"Yes it's Mazaki. That's because I'm one quarter Japanese, Leilani is one eighth Japanese," Sakura laughed a little. "We were born here, our mothers were from here. Part of the original founding families actually. McAdams and Parke," Sakura told him her mothers and Leilani's mothers maiden names. "Zack was a friend of the families, he even baby sat once in a while. He's like an Uncle to us," Sakura laughed.

Stefan was about to ask her something else when Caroline showed up. Of course though, she was drunk, and it was blatantly obvious. Caroline offered to show him around, but he didn't want to go. "Caroline, you and me, it's not going to happen," Stefan told her before walking away, leaving her dumbfounded.

Sakura pat her on the back, "There's always more fish in the sea."

"Screw you," Caroline growled and walked away.

"And I was trying to be nice," Sakura threw her arms up in surrender, even though she was alone now.

"Jeremy!" Sakura turned and saw Elena walking off into the wooded area, after Jeremy. Sakura followed Elena, rushing to catch up.

"I don't want to hear it," Sakura heard Jeremy say, followed by a thud. It seemed as though Jeremy tripped. Approaching them, Sakura saw them freaking out, with Vicki Donavan on the ground, bloody.

"Oh my god," Elena exclaimed.

"Vicki," Jeremy sounded like he wanted to cry. Why Jeremy liked Vicki was beyond Sakura. She had no self esteem. Come on, she was considered 'easy' as the guys would put it. All of a sudden, Vicki breathed in deeply, as if coming back to life.

Sakura and Jeremy lifted her up, with her arms on their shoulders, and carried her to the party. Matt came rushing over as soon as he saw Vicki. "Vicki! Vicki, what the hell?" Matt freaked out as they set her on a table. Everybody crowded around, so Tyler had to yell at them for space. Sakura looked over at Stefan, thinking that it might have been him. But he looked just as shocked as everybody else, maybe even worse.

"It's her neck, something bit her. She's loosing a lot of blood!" Elena exclaimed. Sakura couldn't help but think it was a vampires doing. But if Stefan was this freaked, could it really have been him. Or is there another vampire in the area? Matt looked up and saw Stefan. Stefan stood with his mouth open for a moment before running away.

Sakura's phone started to ring. "Hello, kinda busy at the moment," Sakura said, referring to Vicki.

"What happened? Are you alright?" Sakura heard Zack asking.

"I'm fine, it's Vicki. She was bit by something, and is bleeding really badly. Wait, how did you know something was wrong?" Sakura asked and looked around. She saw that Leilani was still around, but not Stefan. "Stefan told you I assume. That was fast," Sakura sighed.

"Yeah, Stefan told me someone was attacked. I was worried it was one of you girls," Zack sighed in relief. It was bad someone got attacked, but how bad would it be for them their first week back? Sakura closed her phone when the ambulance arrived. They took Vicki away and most of the students started to head home. Some party that was!

Elena wanted to find Jeremy to take him home when Bonnie approached them with Leilani. "I know I'm not psychic. But whatever I saw, or I think I saw, I have this feeling. That it's just the beginning," Bonnie said, spooking them out slightly.

"I'm going to have to agree with you on that one," Sakura sighed. "Something wicked this way comes," Sakura said in a sing song voice as she walked away. Leilani hugged Elena and Bonnie then followed Sakura to her Impala. They got it and Sakura sat in the car, thinking. "Be careful this year Leilani. Things are going to be tough. You're going to have to watch out for yourself, and your friends," Sakura sighed, knowing that vampires were around, wasn't very settling.

"Don't I always," Leilani laughed. Obviously, she was taking Sakura's advice too lightly.

Sakura smirked and started the car. "That you do," Sakura sighed and headed for home. While on the way there, a crow flew by the car. Sakura braked hard and the car skid to a stop, but on an angle. "That was close," Sakura sighed and looked to Leilani who had her eyes closed and hands clenched tight, held up to her. Apparently, she was bracing for impact. "It's okay Leilani, I'm just glad the street was empty. "But it was a crow again," Sakura said more to herself than Leilani. Sakura started back on her way home, thankfully though, Leilani had calmed down. It had seemed like she already forgot about it. She pulled the Impala into the driveway and they both went inside. Leilani was going to head to bed when Sakura stopped her.

"Hey Leilani, do you know how much of our old stuff Zack put into this house? If I remember correctly, the basement was unharmed from the fire. So he probably kept it at the boarding house till now. Can you help me find our box with the books, diaries and other family heirlooms?" Sakura asked.

Leilani walked back down the stairs, "Sure." Leilani smiled and head into the basement with Sakura. "Why do you want to find it though? Was it because our parents didn't let us read it, or play dress up with the jewelry?" Leilani clapped her hands together thinking back.

"No, not at all," Sakura sighed. They started moving boxes around, surprised by how much there was. "I just want to read through, I have looked at them before. Believe it or not," Sakura laughed.

"No fair!" Leilani pouted. "There it is!" Leilani pointed at a box with a pentagram on the side.

"Thanks Leilani, that's all I needed," Sakura smiled and picked up the box, to bring it to her room.

"Don't stay up too late!" Leilani pointed a finger at her with a funny, yet serious look on her face.

"I won't," Sakura assured her. She went to her room and closed the door, locking it behind her. She set the box on her desk and started to empty the contents. There were numerous diaries, most labeled through the 1800's. Underneath the diaries were booklets without any labels. Sakura opened it and at the front it read Mystic Falls Mysteries. Thinking it might be the book she was looking for Sakura sat at her desk, propped her feet up on the desk and started to flip through it.

She found various pictures from the 1860's with the founding families, they were kind of fuzzy, but you could make out some of the faces. Sakura found a picture with what looked like Stefan. She looked at the caption at the back of the picture, it was titled the Salvatore brother, Stefan Salvatore and Damon Salvatore. Sakura couldn't believe it, Damon? The same Damon from the Coffee Shop? She turned the picture back over and looked the older brother carefully. It was definitely him! It was confirmed, they were vampires, and back in town. At least Stefan was, who knows about Damon. Sakura figured after they're meeting in the Shop he was in Mystic Falls, somewhere. But if they were really vampires, how was Stefan walking in the sun? Figuring there might be more information in the book, she continued. Turning the page from the picture of the Salvatores, she found a picture of Elena? Except it was labeled Katherine?

Sakura sighed, taking in what information she could make out and kept looking. She hadn't expected to find pictures of them, but it did explain why Stefan knew so much about Mystic Falls history. She kept going and found pages with mentions for vampires and witches. They had actually hunted them. Then Sakura found it, the picture of the ring Stefan was wearing! Suddenly another crow went flying by their house. It startled Sakura and she fell back off her chair. She really shouldn't have been tilting it like that. She hit the floor with a loud thud and Leilani was knocking on her door

"Sakura? What was that? Are you okay?" Leilani freaked out.

"I'm fine, just fell off my chair," Sakura sighed and got up off the floor. Sakura opened the door and Leilani started checking her for injuries.

"Get to bed," Leilani demanded. "If you, of all people, are falling off you're chair, you are too tired," Leilani crossed her arms, demandingly.

Sakura sighed and gave in, "Fine."

"Good," Leilani went back to her room, trusting that Sakura would do as she said.

Sakura cleaned up the mess of books that had fallen with her. One book caught her eye, a grimoire?

Sorry for the Raven – Crow mix up from the last chapter!

Hope you enjoyed. Review please ;)