Things were strange now that Jeremy seemed set on helping Juliana with her magic. She had thought it was something that she would have to do alone, but she guessed that she was wrong.

The door burst open and Elena walked in. She sniffed and coughed a little, "Who burnt the popcorn?"

Juliana looked down at the pieces of popcorn that Jeremy told her to light on fire. She said, "Sorry?"

Elena looked at them and looked at Jeremy, "I didn't see you at the party."

Jeremy shrugged, "Something more interesting came up." He glanced at Juliana as he said that.

Well, discovering that your sister really was a witch was probably a lot more interesting than drinking.

"Vicki is in the hospital, by the way," said Elena causally.

Jeremy stood up; almost dropping the bowl of popcorn he was holding. "What happened?"

"Something bit her on the neck," said Elena. "She was losing a lot of blood."

Juliana frowned at that, "That's weird."

"Did she say what hurt her?" asked Jeremy worried.

"No," said Elena.

The next day, Juliana got dressed and gathered her books for school. She considered leaving the grimoire behind, but decided to take it with her. It just felt like it was a part of her now. She got dressed and tried to braid her hair, but decided to do a small braid and bobby-pin it like she had did the previous day.

Elena swung by to put eyeliner on her, but showed her how to do it, so she didn't have to do it all the time. In a way, that kind of hurt, since Juliana enjoyed it, since it felt more like sisterly bonding.

"Maybe you should try wearing lip-gloss," said Elena, after she finished showing Juliana how to put eyeliner on.

"You're going nowhere near my mouth with any of that stuff," Juliana replied. She was content with the eyeliner and it was going to stay that way.

"Soon then," said Elena.

"Yeah," replied Juliana slowly.

Elena smiled and stepped outside into the hallway.

"Do I look adult?" asked Aunt Jenna.

Juliana looked at her aunt, "You are an adult, though."

"Yeah, but I mean respectfully parental," said Aunt Jenna.

"You are parental," replied Juliana, "but more like laid-back."

"Thank you for trying, Lia," replied Aunt Jenna.

"That's what I'm here for," replied Juliana and went into the kitchen to get some cereal. She saw that Jeremy was in there and she sighed, "You're going to see her, aren't you?"

"I'm just worried, is that a crime?" demanded Jeremy.

"Go see her, but just this once, okay?" said Juliana.

"Yeah, okay," replied Jeremy. "I told Aunt Jenna that I wanted to finish making a birdhouse in woodshop."

"There's no woodshop class there," replied Juliana confused.

Jeremy left anyway.

Juliana rolled her eyes; looks like she'll be walking to school alone again.

Juliana walked down the side and got a block away when she noticed that Damon pulled up to her, like the day before.

"Need a ride?" asked Damon.

Juliana got in with him. He took off before Juliana can buckle her seatbelt. "Thank you for the grimoire. It was very helpful."

Damon seemed to smile, "That's good to hear. Adrienne would be pleased to know that I helped."

"Who was she anyway?" asked Juliana.

"She's a close friend of Stefan and mine. She's more like a little sister to us," said Damon. "One day, she just left."

"She vanished, as if by magic," replied Juliana.

"Something like that," said Damon. "It's very complicated."

"What happened?" asked Juliana.

"Stefan and I started arguing over a girl, her name is Katherine. Adrienne and Katherine were like sisters, Adrienne got upset and started messing with dark magic. That's a big no for witches, so Adrienne vanished. Stefan, Katherine, and I assumed she realized that she shouldn't and just ran away. We were looking for Adrienne; Stefan and I, I mean," said Damon.

Juliana had a funny feeling that there was a lot more to the story than that. It didn't make sense, turning to dark magic because some idiots were fighting over a girl? That was a lot more information than she got. "Okay. I guess I can try to help by tracking her. I think I saw a spell that was about locating someone."

"Okay," said Damon. "I'll have to talk to Stefan about it and see if he has anything of hers that might help. Let me guess, Jeremy ditched you again?"

"Yeah," said Juliana. "He's visiting his...ex-lay in the hospital. She got bitten by something last night and lost a lot of blood."

"I see," replied Damon. "Well, we're here. Have a good day at school."

Juliana got out, "Thanks, you too." She got half-way up the steps before she realized what she had said to Damon.

When she got inside the school, she felt someone grab onto her arm. She turned to yell at them for daring to touch her without permission and saw that it was just Stefan.

"Juliana, I'll walk you to your locker," said Stefan.

Slowly, Juliana said, "Okay."

Stefan kept a hold on her arm as they walked down the hallway. "I saw you talking to my brother. What did he want?"

"He was just talking to me about Adrienne and Katherine," replied Juliana.

Stefan seemed to stiffen and in a low voice he said, "Did he now?"

"Yes, he said that because you and he were fighting over Katherine, Adrienne turned to dark magic and vanished," replied Juliana.

"That's some of it," replied Stefan, looking vaguely uncomfortable. "Did he give you Adrienne's grimoire?"

"Yes, I have it. Do you want it back?" asked Juliana a little fearfully.

"No, keep it. Adrienne would've wanted you to have it," replied Stefan. "He made a right choice on that aspect." He sounded bitter.

"Right," replied Juliana, a little put off. "I told him that I'll try to help locate Adrienne, since she means a lot to the both of you. He said that he'll talk to you about getting a few of her things, so don't be surprised by it."

"Right, got it," replied Stefan. "By the way, what kind of classic books does Elena like?"

"Do you mean classics like Goosebumps and Harry Potter?" asked Juliana.

"I mean like Wuthering Heights," said Stefan.

"Oh, she loves those books, but I don't think books like that are romantic in general," said Juliana. "I read it once and I found Cathy and Heath to be really horrible people, who made everyone around them so miserable that it got to the point that they rejoiced when both of them died."

"What books do you think is romantic?" asked Stefan.

"Trust me, I hate romance books, I read horror," said Juliana. "You're trying to impress my sister, not me."

"Stefan, hi," said Elena, giving Stefan a smile.

Juliana almost threw herself in her locker. Where the hell did she come from?

"Hi, Elena, I was just talking to your sister about the comet that's passing by tomorrow," said Stefan.

Even Juliana was impressed by how smooth that came from him.

"She's a very great conversationalist," Stefan continued.

"Yeah, she does have that ability to keep people locked in a conversation," said Elena with a faint smile.

The two walked off and Juliana almost shook her head. Well, that was somewhat interesting.

After science, someone grabbed Juliana's backpack. Juliana snapped, "Hey, let go of me douche—" She saw that it was Jeremy, "Sorry."

"Whatever, douchebag," replied Jeremy, but there wasn't any malice behind it.

"How is Vicki doing?" asked Juliana.

"She's resting," said Jeremy. "Lockwood didn't go see her."

"Yet," Juliana replied, "The day's not over yet. There's plenty of time."

"At lunch, meet me by the bleachers," said Jeremy. "There's something that I want to tell you."

"Okay, but don't do anything to Lockwood. He just wants to get a rise out of you," said Juliana. "Don't feed that to him."

"All right," said Jeremy. With that they went separate ways. What did he want to talk to her about that couldn't be said in the hallway? Unless he wanted to see her use magic some more, but it was still weird.

"Hey, Lia," called a voice.

Juliana turned around trying to find the source and saw that it was Bonnie, "Oh, hey, Bonnie."

Bonnie looked very excited, "I've been meaning to talk to you for a few days, but I couldn't manage to find time for it."

"What is it?" asked Juliana, almost a little warily.

"Grams says that I'm a witch," said Bonnie.

"Oh," replied Juliana, almost a little to stupidly for her liking.

"Yeah, she says that my ancestors were some of those cool Salem witch chicks," said Bonnie. "But she was kind of on some liquor at the time, so I tuned her out."

"If you don't believe her, why are you so happy about it?" asked Juliana.

"I think it's interesting," said Bonnie. "She also mentioned you."

"She did?" replied Juliana confused.

"Yeah, she said that she wants to talk to you," said Bonnie.

"I guess I'll swing by sometime after school," said Juliana.

Bonnie nodded, "Sure. If by any chance that I'm a witch, and since you think that you're one, maybe we can form some sort of witch's coven." She sounded like she was joking at that.

Juliana nodded and replied slowly, "Sure."

Bonnie seemed to brighten, "See you around, Lia."

"You too, Bonnie," replied Juliana and they went separate ways again.

This day just kept getting weirder.

At lunch, Juliana apologized to Sydney and Abigail for not being able to sit with them, since her brother had something to talk over. They understood and left her go.

So, she headed over to the bleachers with a package of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, a carton of reheated French fries, and a carton of chocolate milk. Jeremy was there already.

Juliana grimaced at the smell of weed, but pushed through it. She sat down next to Jeremy, setting her backpack beside her.

"What is it?" asked Juliana.

Jeremy looked through his backpack and took out a few papers. He passed one to Juliana. "Sometimes I look up random things when I'm high," said Jeremy. "I forgot, but that name sounded familiar and I looked it up. It took a while, but I finally found what I was looking for."

Juliana looked at the paper, which was a print out of some kind of news article. The headline read:

GIRL STILL MISSING

Juliana read the news article as she ate some fries. It boiled down to how a seventeen-year-old girl named Adrienne Ainsley had disappeared two days prior.

"So she really did disappear," said Juliana. She offered the fries to Jeremy but he declined.

"Yeah, but that girl disappeared in seventeen-ninety," Jeremy pointed out, before he took out another piece of paper. "There's this other news article that included a picture, it really caught me off guard."

"What was it?" asked Juliana.

Jeremy handed her the paper and Juliana looked at the grainy black-and-white picture of...herself?

"Huh?" replied Juliana. It had to have been a police drawing of someone else. It couldn't be her.

"Here's a family picture, apparently," said Jeremy handing her another picture. She took it and looked at the picture. There were a few people that she didn't recognize but there was a girl there that looked a little older, but the girl obviously had her face.

"But how...? They were phrasing it like she had recently gone missing," said Juliana stunned. "I mean, they're here, obviously. It just doesn't make sense. None of this does."

"Unless this Adrienne chick had a child out of wedlock and somewhere along the way, this girl, Adrienne Ainsley, was born in this century or some weird crap," said Jeremy.

"That makes sense, in a weird way," said Juliana, "but that doesn't explain why they confused me for her."

"There are look-alikes out there," said Jeremy. "Don't take to much stock in it. It'll just give me a headache."

Juliana nodded, "Right. It's just so confusing, though."

Jeremy shrugged, "Possibly. The only thing I can think of is that this Adrienne girl had a kid who married into our family and we're her descendants. Or that you're a look-alike to this Adrienne, who's ancestor is Adrienne Ainsley."

"Most likely a look-alike then," said Juliana. "The thought of having an ancestor that disappeared and we don't even know about it..."

"Do people really care about what happens to relatives that happened in the seventeen-hundreds?" asked Jeremy. "It's been more than two hundred years. If you find answers, nothing's ever going to come out of it."

Juliana sighed, "I know. This is just so...complicated."

"I suppose," said Jeremy.

Juliana had a crap load more questions to ask Damon and Stefan.

History was going to be hell, Juliana realized. That was the one class that she was dreading. Of course it didn't help that it was taught by Mr. Tanner, the meanest teacher in the school. She wasn't sure who the worst was: Lockwood or Tanner.

Lockwood had the not-so-justification of being a teenager, but Tanner had no reason to make students feel bad since he was a teacher.

When Juliana walked in, she noticed a dark haired boy.

You will be mine, was Juliana's first thought when she looked at him. She walked over and sat down at her desk, slightly glad that he was sitting in the desk next to her. Unfortunately, Mr. Tanner had placed her in the front to keep an eye on her, because her brother was apparently ditching and her sister was busy flirting with Stefan.

When the bell rang, Mr. Tanner took roll call and called for Juliana's name.

"Present," replied Juliana.

"I see that you, unlike your brother, bothered to show up," said Mr. Tanner.

Juliana felt a little embarrassed at that and had to bite back, "And you, unlike my other teachers, are a jackass."

"Let's hope that Jeremy doesn't...rub off on you," said Mr. Tanner, eyeing Juliana.

She had a feeling that he saw her hanging out at the bleachers with Jeremy during lunch and now he probably thought that she was smoking pot with him.

A few more names were called, and Mr. Tanner called, "Holloway, Corey."

"Present," said the boy that was beside Juliana.

"I see that you bothered to show up, this time," said Mr. Tanner.

"I was in the hospital," said Corey.

"For what?" replied Mr. Tanner, obviously not believing him.

"I had leukemia," said Corey. "They thought it came back, but obviously it didn't."

Mr. Tanner surprisingly stayed silent on the matter and continued with the roll call. After that, he started talking about the comet that was supposed to fly by.

When he had his back turned, a crumpled up ball of paper flew and hit her. It bounced off of her head and rolled over, right next to Corey.

Juliana didn't have to look to know what was written inside of it. She still remembered getting those paper balls thrown at her in middle school and seeing all kinds of harsh words written on them.

It was obvious that some things never changed in high school. College was going to be a different matter all together. Hopefully people would be kinder in college.

She watched as Corey picked up the paper ball and unraveled it. He read it and looked at her questioningly.

Juliana shrugged in response, hoping that he got the message that she was used to it. She looked back at Mr. Tanner. She heard Corey crinkling up the paper.

After class was over, Juliana packed up and headed to her art class. She was surprised that Corey tagged along.

"Do people really call you a nut job?" asked Corey.

As if to answer his question, a person walked into Juliana and the girl said, "Get out of my way, basket case." The girl hurried on.

"You ran into me!" called Juliana.

"Why are you a 'nut job?'" asked Corey. His tone implied that he didn't believe it.

"I claimed that I was a witch when I'm not." Juliana said, "And I almost burnt down a barn, so that obviously didn't help."

Corey smiled, "Beautiful and deadly. That's either a wonderful mix or a dangerous mix."

Juliana never considered herself the type of girl to blush at a compliment, but she did. In a way, she found it unnatural and it kind of bothered her knowing that this guy, who she didn't even know,was causing this reaction.

"Hey, you love Slipknot?" asked Corey, looking at Juliana's binder. She glanced at her binder. She had a picture of the band in there, along with a picture of her parents.

"Yeah, I do," said Juliana.

"Maybe after school we can listen to them together," said Corey.

"I would love to, but I have people to see after school," said Juliana. She really did regret it.

"Maybe some other time, then," said Corey.

"Yeah," Juliana replied, "some other time."

After school, Stefan had handed Juliana a note, telling her to swing by the Salvatore Boarding House around five so she can get a few of Adrienne's belongings to track her. The thing was that she didn't know how to use the spell. She hoped that they didn't expect her to do it at that very moment.

Juliana was surprised when Jeremy actually walked home with her. He had grumbled something and said that he could help her practice her magic when they get home. Damon had passed by, honking and waving at her as he did so. Jeremy didn't like Damon, which he made clear, because why the hell does an older guy willingly hang out with an obviously teenage girl. To be honest, Juliana wasn't sure either.

After trying the fire lighting spell, which didn't turn out so well when a pillow had caught on fire and Jeremy had to put it out with a glass of water.

When Juliana noticed the time, she stood up. "I should get going to the boarding house."

"I'll go with you," said Jeremy. "I really don't like the idea of you going to this guy's home alone. That's a recipe for you getting..." He trailed off.

Juliana had a feeling she knew what was going to say. She nodded, "Right."

"Even if you can snap a guy's neck with your mind," said Jeremy.

When they got downstairs, Aunt Jenna was there. Elena had taken off to the Grill.

"Hey, I picked up dinner," said Aunt Jenna.

Juliana walked over, "What did you get?"

"Tacos," said Aunt Jenna. "I had an urge for guacamole."

"No, I'm good, thanks," said Jeremy.

Juliana walked over and looked in the bag.

"Eat anyway, it's a ruse," said Aunt Jenna. "I want to talk."

Juliana took some tacos, "Did you get salsa for these?"

"Yes, Lia," said Aunt Jenna. She passed two small containers to her.

"I'll meet you there," said Juliana leaving.

Jeremy looked like he really didn't like the idea of her going alone, but he allowed her to go.

Juliana was surprised when she saw Elena walking up to the door.

"Lia, what are you doing here?" asked Elena.

"I was going to pick up something that Stefan got for me," said Juliana. "What are you doing here?"

"I was going to tell Stefan something," said Elena. She knocked on the door and it opened.

Juliana blinked and Elena went to walk inside, but she grabbed her older sister's arm. Juliana asked, "What are you doing?"

Elena looked at her, "I'm going inside."

"That's rude. Just pull the door close and knock again," said Juliana.

"Its fine," said Elena.

"That's how people get killed in horror movies," said Juliana.

Elena just walked in anyway.

"That's not an invitation!" yelled Juliana. She didn't understand why people did that on TV. She walked in after Elena, uneasily. "Elena, let's go. This isn't right."

Elena ignored her in favor of walking farther into the house.

It was dark inside, but it looked nicer, compared to their house. It wasn't even five-thirty yet.

It looked like the back door was wide open, so Juliana guessed that Stefan was out back doing some housework.

A crow flew at them and Juliana shrieked in surprise. She turned to look and was surprised to see that Damon was now standing very uncomfortably close to Elena.

Elena looked breathless, "We're sorry for barging in. The door was...open."

"You must be Elena," said Damon. "Juliana told me about you."

"Funny, Lia didn't tell me that's she knows you," Elena said.

"I'm Damon, Stefan's brother," said Damon.

"He didn't tell me he had a brother," said Elena.

"Strange, Juliana knows that part," said Damon. "I guess she forgot to tell you that, too." He seemed way too amused at this to be healthy.

Elena looked at Juliana, who shrugged.

"I'm sure that Stefan will be along any second," said Damon.

"Where is he anyway?" asked Juliana.

"He's out back chasing bunnies," said Damon, looking very amused by that.

"Should I go get him?" asked Juliana. "He said he was going to get me something."

Oddly, Damon seemed to soften a little, "I wouldn't. I'd rather you not see something that you don't want to see. Come on." He led them to what Juliana figured was the living room.

"Wow, is this your living room?" asked Elena.

"Living room, parlor, Sotheby's auction," said Damon. "It's a little kitschy for my taste." He looked at Elena, "I see why my brother's so smitten. It's about time. For a while there, I never thought he'd get over the last one. Nearly destroyed him."

"You said that you were fighting for her too," said Juliana.

"Yeah, there's that," replied Damon.

"Wait. What last one?" asked Elena. She looked at Juliana.

"Yeah, Katherine, his girlfriend?" replied Damon.

"That you were fighting him for," Juliana added.

"Well, she chose him, so," said Damon. He looked at Elena. "Oh, you two haven't had the awkward exes conversation yet."

Elena was looking bewildered, obviously trying to figure how Juliana and Damon knew each other. "Nope, but how do you two know each other?"

"We met in the cemetery," said Damon. "You know, town basket cases hang out in cemeteries."

Elena looked a little horrified.

"Don't worry, Juliana reminds me a lot of someone who was like a little sister to me and Stefan," said Damon. He looked over Juliana's head, "Hello, Stefan."

Juliana turned around to see Stefan, who was holding a small paper bag. How the hell were these people so quiet?

"Elena," greeted Stefan, smiling in a sort of forced way. "I didn't know that you were coming over. I wasn't expecting Juliana to bring you here."

"I didn't know that she was coming here," said Elena. "I should have called, I just..."

"Oh, don't be silly. You're both welcome here any time," said Damon. "Aren't they, Stefan? You know, I should break out the family photo albums or some home movies. But...I have to warn you. He wasn't always such a looker."

"Thank you for stopping by, Elena. It was nice to see you," said Stefan. He went over and handed Juliana the paper bag.

"Great meeting you, too, Elena," said Damon. He kissed Elena's hand and put Juliana in a very loose head lock and rubbed the top of her head with his knuckles, "Thanks for stopping by, Juliana. I hope that you got what you need."

Juliana managed to pull out of Damon's arms.

"She does, Damon," Stefan said a little harshly.

"Bye," replied Juliana, pushing Elena out the door.

Elena closed the door behind them, "What did you get?"

Juliana opened the bag and looked in. "Just some rings, a bracelet, and a map."

"Why did he give you that?" asked Elena.

"I'm...helping him and Damon with something regarding Adrienne," said Juliana.

"Adrienne?" asked Elena.

"The girl that's like their little sister," said Juliana.

"Oh," said Elena.

"Come on, I have a lot to tell you," said Juliana.

Needless to say, Elena was shocked that Juliana was a witch. Of course Juliana had to use telekinesis to make a point.

But Juliana felt bad that she couldn't be able to talk to Bonnie's grandmother yet.

It was the next day and Juliana still didn't perform the locating spell. Jeremy dragged her down to the Mystic Grill just to get her out of the house. In Jeremy's words, she was being a recluse by hiding out at home.

He was looking at the grimoire. Juliana was sure that he spent more time with it than she did.

"Have you been giving away my pills by any chance?" asked Juliana.

"Yes, but you don't need those anymore. You never did," said Jeremy. "Why do you still keep taking them?"

Juliana shrugged, "Habits die hard."

"That's what I told Aunt Jenna yesterday," said Jeremy.

"What did she want to talk to you about?" asked Juliana.

"About how she used to smoke pot in school," said Jeremy.

Juliana was surprised about that, "She did?"

"Yeah," said Jeremy. The door opened and Juliana looked to see Vicki walking in.

Jeremy looked and quickly ducked his head, muttering 'crap' under his breath. To make matters worse, Lockwood was there too.

"If you know a disappearing spell, that would be great to use on me," said Jeremy.

Juliana flipped through it, but then a shadow fell over the grimoire and she slammed it shut. She looked at Vicki, "Hi, Vicki. How are you doing?"

"Better, but I was hoping to talk to Jeremy," said Vicki.

"Oh, okay," replied Juliana. Vicki gave her a pointed look. Juliana didn't get it for a moment, and it dawned on her, "Oh, okay." Juliana grabbed their cups of soda and went to the bar for a refill. She didn't want to leave him alone with her, but maybe he needs closure to move on.

Matt was happy to get the refills for her, and Juliana watched until a hand slammed down right beside her.

Juliana almost flinched and she turned to look at Lockwood. "Hello, Richard, what are you up to?"

"Tell your junkie brother to leave my girlfriend alone," snarled Lockwood.

Juliana looked at Lockwood, "She went up to him, willingly, Richard. So how about you leave me and my brother alone before I do horrible things to you?"

Lockwood seemed to take that as a challenge and got uncomfortably close to her face. He seemed to smirk, "What type of horrible things, nut case?"

"Ty, get out of Lia's face," Matt ordered, placing two glasses on the table.

Lockwood, surprisingly, backed off, and skulked off.

Juliana looked at Lockwood and yelled, "How have you not been murdered yet?"

Lockwood gave Juliana a nice view of his middle finger.

Before Juliana could grab the glasses, Matt held onto them, "What is going on with Elena and that Stefan guy?"

Juliana almost groaned, "Listen here, she dumped you, move on. You're in high-school, there's still plenty of goddamn time in your life. You have what...eighty years to live? Move on pal. Don't be tied down to just one girl." She took the glasses and went to the table, where Vicki was now leaving.

"Hi, Lia," said Vicki.

Juliana mumbled something that she was sure didn't even sound like a language.

"What did Lockwood say to you?" asked Jeremy, glaring at Lockwood.

Juliana shrugged, "Made some vague threats about you leaving Vicki alone. I threatened him to leave you alone and he was apparently thinking with his other brain. What did Vicki what?"

"She wanted to know why I visited her just the one time, which apparently surprised her and some other things. Apparently Lockwood never even visited her and Matt was hanging around a lot."

"Well, Matt is her brother and their parents don't even give a damn," said Juliana.

She looked over at Vicki and Lockwood. They were talking and Lockwood seemed to notice them looking. He glared and snarled, "What are you two freaks looking at?"

Juliana rolled her eyes, "Go suck a dick, Lockwood!"

It was in the town square that Caroline had given Juliana a candle and took off. So Juliana was standing by, feeling awkward, until Shiela walked up to her.

"Hello, Juliana," said Sheila. She was holding a lit candle.

Juliana was surprised, "I thought Bonnie was saying that you think the comet is a harbinger of doom."

"Yes, I do, but I find it very important to talk to you about your magic, Juliana," said Sheila.

Juliana started, "I was going to talk to you, but I—"

"I know how busy teenagers can be," said Sheila. "I'm raising one after all."

Juliana nodded, "Right."

"I knew that you had magic when you were just a little girl," said Sheila. "I didn't know how. But when you started getting older, I couldn't help but notice that you are turning out like Adrienne before...."

Juliana couldn't help but nearly jerk at the mention of Adrienne. "How do you know Adrienne?"

"She's over there at the Witch Burial Grounds," said Sheila. "But never mind that at the moment, you need a proper teacher."

Juliana looked at Sheila. "Are you saying that you will teach me?"

"Yes," said Sheila. "It is important for both you and Bonnie to learn."

"I think Bonnie doesn't want to be a witch," said Juliana.

"She will accept it in her own time," said Sheila. "I know that you finally started using magic, how minimal that may be."

"Well, Elena and Jeremy are kind of helping me," said Juliana.

"'Kind of' doesn't equal to teaching," said Sheila. "You need a proper teacher from an actual witch."

Juliana nodded, "Right."

"So, be at my house tomorrow, so I can teach you," said Sheila. "If Bonnie sees you actually using magic, she'll be able to accept it faster." She looked at Juliana's unlit candle and to Juliana's surprise the wick lit up. "There you go."

"Thanks," replied Juliana slowly.

"You're welcome," said Sheila and walked away.

Jeremy walked over to Juliana, "Was that Bonnie's grandmother?"

"Yeah," said Juliana. "She wants to teach me magic."

"Elena and I are teaching you now," said Jeremy.

"Well, she said I should get taught by an actual witch," said Juliana.

"Rude," muttered Jeremy.

Juliana shrugged and looked at the sky, "When the hell is thing supposed to come by again?"

"Hell if I know," said Juliana. She looked at the time on her cell phone. "Do you want to go home and watch the Scream movies?"

"That'll be a hell lot more fun than sitting here on our asses waiting for a freaking ball of ice and dust to fly by," said Jeremy.

"Let's go," said Juliana. They started walking towards home and suddenly it felt like an ice-pick just rammed itself right in the middle of Juliana's forehead. She lurched and held onto a street-light with one hand.

"Lia, are you okay?" asked Jeremy, grabbing the candle that Juliana was suddenly strangling the hell out of. He blew the candle out and touched Julian's shoulder.

"Hey, have you two seen Vicki?" asked Matt, coming up. He was looking concerned.

"I thought I saw her heading towards the Grill," said Juliana, rubbing her forehead. The pain seemed to turning into a vicious migraine, making her feel nauseated.

"Thanks, Lia," said Matt continuing on.

"That was weird, right?" asked Juliana.

"Not as weird as whatever happened to it," said Jeremy. "Come on, let's get you home."

Juliana nodded as her whole body started tingling. She had the strange feeling that she had experienced it before.

When they got inside the house, Juliana started feeling a lot better. Aunt Jenna looked in from the top of the staircase.

Aunt Jenna hurried down the stairs and helped led Juliana to the couch.

"What happened?" asked Aunt Jenna.

"I don't know. We were walking home to watch Scream to wait for the comet to come closer and Juliana just got sick or something," said Jeremy. "She looked like she was in pain."

Aunt Jenna felt Juliana's forehead, "Cramps?"

Jeremy grimaced and Juliana shook her head, but it made the pain in her head worse.

"Well, I think whatever it was is slowly going away," said Aunt Jenna. "Do you want some soup? I can warm you up a can."

"I think that might help," said Juliana.

Aunt Jenna went to the kitchen.

"I'll set up the movies," said Jeremy, moving to the DVD player.

Juliana got a text message and she looked at it. Elena was asking if she knew where Jeremy was so she replied that she was with him back home. She figured it had something to do with Vicki going missing. She still had a migraine though and rubbed her temples.

"Hey, do you want aspirin?" asked Jeremy.

"Yeah, that might help with this migraine," said Juliana.

Jeremy got up and walked away. Aunt Jenna came in holding a bowl of soup and a cup of milk.

"Where did Jeremy go?" asked Aunt Jenna, setting the bowl and cup on the coffee table.

"He went to get me some aspirin for me," said Juliana settling in front of the coffee table.

"You should talk to him about his habits," said Aunt Jenna. "At this rate, it seems like you're the only one that can get through to him."

"What brought this on?" asked Juliana.

"Your ass-hat of a History teacher shamed me good yesterday," said Aunt Jenna.

"You got Tannered, too? I've recently been there, Elena has been there, too," said Juliana.

"Please talk to Jeremy," whispered Aunt Jenna as she went to play the movie.

"I will try, but I won't guarantee I'll remember," said Juliana, remembering how she promised to talk to Jeremy about getting high before school, but forgot.

Jeremy returned with a bottle of aspirin. "Here."

"Thanks, Jere," replied Juliana, opening the bottle.

Elena came back home a few hours later, she looked at Jeremy and Juliana, who were still sitting on the couch.

"Why are you giving Vicki pills, Jeremy?" demanded Elena.

"I told her that I wasn't giving her anymore, earlier," said Jeremy.

Elena said, "Tyler told me—"

"Of course it was him," said Juliana.

Elena looked at Juliana, "And how are you feeling?"

"I'm feeling better now," said Juliana.

"Was it a...witch thing?" asked Elena faltering on the word 'witch'.

Juliana shrugged, "Don't know. Did Matt find Vicki?"

"He came up to us in the square asking if we saw her," clarified Jeremy.

"Stefan did. He found her wandering around," said Elena. "But don't think that this conversation of your habits is over."

Jeremy looked agitated, "You and Jenna, between the two of you. Enough already! The only one that hasn't been hounding me about it, is Lia."

"We can stop if you want. Send you to a therapist where you'll be forced to deal with it or to rehab where you'll sit in a group and tell some strange how you let your life fall apart."

Juliana got up, "That's not a terrible thing you know. Getting help is not terrible. I'm all for therapy or rehab. At least he'll be surrounded by people that knows what it feels like. I sat in a group of teens that were far off worse than I was. All I had was delusions and had bullying under my belt, and surprisingly they told me that what I was going was terrible too and made me feel me better since some of them was bullied too. And if that's what he needs, then so be it. Don't talk to him like it's a terrible thing to talk to strangers about our feelings."

"It actually helped me feel better knowing that some of these strangers were nodding like, 'Same, same' when I was talking about my bullying problem. There will be people there with no judgement, no condescending, nothing like that, if that's what you're thinking about. So no more of that 'anti-therapy' bull-crap, Elena. And if Jeremy agrees to it, I'll go sit with him in the waiting room, as a sign of support which is something that he needs."

"I'll think about it, Lia," muttered Jeremy, leaving up the stairs.

Elena nodded, "You're right, Lia. I'm sorry if you took it that way. I went about this the completely wrong way. It makes sense why he's sticking to you is because you're supporting him and not being condescending about it like Aunt Jenna and me."

Juliana shrugged, "Maybe." She went to her room and saw that Aunt Jenna had opened the window was half-way and tied her blue star-patterned curtains.

She went to her backpack and grabbed the grimoire out. A crow cawed and she turned to the window to see a crow happily perched on the windowsill, staring at her. It was as if the crow was concerned and was making sure she was okay. No. That was ridiculously human and sure there were animals out there that acted human, but no, that never happens here.

"Oh, no," said Juliana. "You are not becoming a pet. That'll be very weird. Shoo." She waved her hands at the bird and the bird seemed to take the hint and flew away. Juliana closed the window and untied her curtains before pulling them closed.