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𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝟐, 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟏 : "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧."

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𝔖𝔱𝔢𝔣𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔢 :

𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘖𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦 𝘚𝘢𝘭𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴....

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𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑭𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒔𝒌𝒚 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒙𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑭𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔. 𝑨 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅.

In the car was three girls. Each one coming from Mystic Falls High. One a cheerleader, one apart of the marching band and another there to tag along.

"I'm telling you both ! I think David really likes me." The cheerleader Sylvie said as she drove chewing her gum still in her cheer leading uniform.

"He does not, have you seen the way he looks at Charlotte." the marching band girl Emily told her. Sylvie rolled her eyes. "What's so special about Forbes that all the guys like her ?"

Emily said "Maybe you'll get your chance, Char taking a break from dating every since Wyatt Fell."

"That's been like months ago, who knows she's been a huge party popper since he's death. She's so sensitive." as they chuckled as the one who tag along name Natasha who had been ignored them said "Both of you shut up. Have some respect for Wyatt and Charlotte."

"Whatever, let's just keep going, were close to the Grill." They all then came upon clouds of mist. The fog had gotten very thick. "What's with all this fog ?" Emily asked.

"Don't worry it will clear." Sylvie told her as she got out her pocket mirror and did her lipstick. Natasha rolled her eyes before she saw somebody in the road as she said " Watch out!"

Sylvie pressed hard on the break but it wasn't enough to stop them from running over the woman in the road.

She stopped the car. They were all shook up and breathing heavy. "Are you guys ok ?" as they both nodded. "We just hit somebody ! Omg !" Emily yelled.

"Call for help." Natasha said Emily began to dial 911.

"S-Somebody needs to go check." Natasha told the two as they shared looks before their glances landed on Sylvie. "Me ?!" she whined.

"You're the one who hit her !" as she huffed. "Fine !" as she open the door to the car. "We just hit someone." Emily cried as she struggled to dial as she muttered "Come on, come on."

Sylvie walked slowly to the body. "H-Hey ? Are you alive, please god be alive." as she saw that the eyes opened they were blue as she said "Oh my god." as the woman woke up before biting her in the neck.

"There's no signal Sylvie !" as they both heard nothing before Emily shouted "Sylvie !"

She got out of the car and began to call out to the girl. "Sylvie !, Sylvie." as Natasha got out on the other side. She was scared to. Natasha turned her back for a second which was when Emily was gone.

"Em ! Em !" she yelled looking around which is when Emily and Sylvie body both hit the ground with a loud thud, Sylvie's head missing as it dropped to the ground, Sylvie head fell as her dead eyes looked at Natasha.

Natasha paused for a second before screaming and wailing at the top of her lungs. She ran as she screamed "Help ! Help ! Help-" as she ran before getting dragged up into the sky as her screaming echo.

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𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆

𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒅. 𝑴𝒚 𝒔𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒓𝒚, 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒚.

It was a beautiful spring afternoon. Warm and pleasant. I was excited, I had forgetful all about the events of a couple of months ago. Taylor killing me, Wyatt's death. All the people I've lost, but there were also some good things.

I was safe, along with my friends and family, and I had the girl of my dreams. Nothing could go wrong ? Right ?

I sighed. My hair was tied back into a high ponytail with a braid on the side. I wore a dark denim jacket with brown heeled booties and a sunflower themed short dress.

I then figured out what I was going to say.

Dear Diary,

Today is the first time, I've written inside of you since mom gave you to me. I'm sorry about that by the way, it's just I don't know what to talk about. I could try and not talk about what happened to me, all the trouble, but I rather not. I rather talk about the good things. I had spent Spring Break with my family we had visited the Lake House and I brought Josie there with me so we could have alone time with one another. Saige, had decided to spend her Spring Break with Rafael and meet his family for the first time. They really liked her. Mackenzie had went to Washington with her father, she needed to clear her head after all she had awoke her curse so I know time with her dad would help her keep her mind off of it. Charlotte had gone to a out of town to a therapy building, since she told us about her depression from Wyatt, she's been doing all she could to get better, and she has been. I checked up on her daily to make sure she was ok, Hope understood Charlotte's decision to go and feel better even if she really wanted the two to go to New Orleans so Charlotte to could meet her other family, Ezra had been with her mom in Mystic Falls she had been busy, not just with getting stronger, but spending time with her new girlfriend Nia. Dr. S hasn't heard anything about Taylor nor Grace. Taylor kept her promise not to come back to Mystic Falls, if we healed Grace. I at first thought she was kidding, and it kept me awake most nights. I've been having nightmares of the night she killed me and nightmares of Taylor coming after me, but Josie would help me calm down and assure me she was gone, but I know Taylor. She has a Salvatore's pride and doesn't give up easily. Anyway my witch side has been domain, well aside from the night I almost blew my cover by losing control and making everything float inside my room while sleeping. I had been going over simple spells like fire and healing. Had to know the basics first. I hadn't told my parents, nor friends nor Josie. I hate lying but I can't bring myself to tell her how I'm magically a witch now. I know one thing for sure I will no longer be a push around.  I will start fresh, be somebody new. It's the only way I'll make it through the day. Head up high. Like mom said don't lose your fire.

I huffed closing my diary. I heard the door open as I saw my mom.

My mom was very pretty. She was a beauty. I had gotten plenty of my looks from her. Her short dark hair was curled at the ends with wavy and her light olive complexion, almond-shaped brown eyes shined in my lights. She wore some large overalls with a plain solid shirt, her wedding ring, her necklace and some makeup. The most now notability thing about her was her brand new 27th week baby bump. My mom was pregnant, we found out months ago. She didn't want to know she gender, but I had a feeling it was not going to be another girl. It had been hard for her, but she pushed though it. One of her hand's rested on her bump and the other in her overall pocket.

I rose my eyes at her smiling. "Hey mom." I told her as she smiled at me, "Hi sweetie." as she kissed my forehead.

I looked at her bump before kissing it saying "Hello new sibling, who I can't wait to meet." as my mom said "You're sibling, is having some strong kicks." as I asked "Can I feel ?" as she said "Of course." as I placed my hand on her stomach.

I felt them kick. "Wow." I said as she said, "Yep. Keep's going." as she sat down next to me.

She moved my hair from her face and then looked down to see her vervain necklace that she gave me years ago.

"You ready to go back to school ?"  as I pressed my lips together. "Kinda of nervous a bite, but I can handle it." as she said "Hey, I know last year was hard, but look on the bright side, it's your second half of your junior year. Junior Year is going to be great."

"Yeah, hope it will be." as my mom rubbed my shoulder. "Hey don't think about last school year, I have a feeling, it's going to be epic." as I joked, "I think my life is going to be epic."

That's when my dad walked inside.

My dad was well my dad. Damon Salvatore aka a hottie. Kids at the school ask me "who's that ?" and I tell them that's my dad. They fall out over him, sometimes it makes me sick, but I understood why. My dad is handsome. His black hair had gotten a bit longer over the months plus he wore a solid long red shirt with black jeans, matching black boots and a leather jacket.

"Hi dad." I said with a grin as he said "Hello Princess." before kissing my forehead. We both turned to my mom who held her hand out gesturing for us to help her up.

"Thanks." she told us as my dad said "Ok, I got all of your suitcases packed up. Every four one of them." as I said "Thank you dad." as my mom said, "I don't even what to drop you off."

"I know. I'm gonna miss you guys to, but I have to get back to the school." as my mom said "We know."

"Plus there's been no site of Taylor for 6 months now, so I'm safe." as my dad said "Still thinking of homeschooling you." as I chuckled.

"Come on." he said, I grabbed my dairy as we all walked downstairs. My dad held my mom's hand. I passed by some of my childhood photos such as my one's with the girls, and one with Wyatt when we were forced to play together, even if we didn't like each other.

I smiled at it though as sunlight hit the side of it which made me smile even more.

I walked outside to see my car in all of it's glorious. The same black color. I looked at my parents. They stood next to each other. I faced them. "I'm really going to miss you honey." my mom said as I added, "Mom. I'm always one phone call away."

"I know, I know. Remember, you are going to call or text every night and every morning and some in the afternoon." as I added "I will, I will." as she said "Also don't forget to go to your weekly therapy session at the school."

"I will." I added giving them both of a goodbye hug as I told my mom before getting in the car, "Don't forget to work on your breathing techniques !" before I started the car.

My mom chuckled before saying "I will." as I waved goodbye to them, as I drove off from my house as I heard my mom said trying to run after, "Put on your seat belt !"

I smirked before getting out my black shades and putting them over my eyes as I turned up my radio before listening to my music.

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𝑰 𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒂𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆. 𝑰 𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒌 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒏 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅. 𝑰 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒛𝒊𝒆 𝑫𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒂𝒏.

I had to say Mackenzie had changed since I've last seen her. She matured in a way, appearance to. She still had her hazel eyes, though her wild red hair which was straight and now in a ponytail. She wore a graphic shirt with ripped black jeans, black booties and a choker and even a bite of makeup.

"Hey." she told me as I smiled at her. When she got blucked up I hugged her tightly. She hugged me back and smiled. "Ready ?" I asked as she nodded. In her hand was a protein shake. She shaked it up before drinking some of it.

"So, how was your break ?" as I added, "It's been fine I guess. Just glad I had a couple of months of peace almost." as I did a U turn.

"You ?" as she looked at me as I asked, "How have you been handling unlocking your huntress side fully now ?" as she huffed, "I-I mean I guess it's ok. I've been-" as she stopped herself before adding, "Fine." as she gave me a smile.

"Kenz ? " as I added, "Are you sure ?" as she said "Yep, I mean why wouldn't I be ?" as I added "Ok if your sure, but-" as I held her hand adding, "If your not tell me."

She sighed before adding, "I will." as I pulled up to the Lockwood Mansion. Within a couple of seconds of me honking I saw Saige.

As in Saige Lockwood my ex girlfriend who was still my best friend. She was just as pretty as she was 6 months ago. She wore red plaid jeans with a tank top and her old soccer varsity jacket as she chewed gum, she also let her hair grow out past it former short bob.

"Saige !" Mackenzie said as Saige rose her eyes at Mackenzie. She smiled. "Hey." she said her voice was a bite deeper. I opened the truck in order for her to throw her 2 duffel bags in the back.

She then saw her dad come out. He wore his suit. Saige raced to him to hug him goodbye. He kissed her cheek and Saige did the same, she then raced to us and got inside my car.

"Well hello Saigey." as Saige looked at me in the rear view and said "Sup Stef." as she chewed on her gum.

She closed the door as we drove off. "You said Char, getting a ride to the school right ?" as Mackenzie said "Yep, should be there soon." as I nodded which is when Saige said, "Spring break was a treat."

"It was. Relaxing is the best thing on human earth." as Mackenzie asked "You guys wanna go to the back to school party." as Saige said "Yes let's go !" which was weird to me since Saige wasn't that much of a party person, only when that side of her came

Mackenzie said "It's for Mystic Falls of course, ins't the Salvatore school having one ?"

"Yeah, but it's next week." as I said "I don't know Kenz, I have a lot of unpacking to do." as Mackenzie and Saige said  "Were going." with a smile as I huffed, "Fine."

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She smiled at us, that's when we pulled up to the school. I parked into the parking spots. I saw kids all ages hugging their parents, siblings, friends, and grandparents goodbye and carrying bags inside the school.

I also looked up at the big banner that read "Welcome Back Salvatore Stallions !" in all Capital letters. Kids were happy as they went inside.

"Wow." Saige said as she folded her arms, "Lizzie went all out for this one." as I joked, "Not shocked." which is when we made our way inside.

"Ready ?" Saige asked shoving me in the shoulder playful as I said "Yeah." as I carried my suitcase as Saige carried her duffel bag.

It felt good to go back to school, well even if everybody thought I was dead. I had to go out of the back way in order to sneak to my dorm. You see people need to believe I'm dead because of Taylor.

If people think I'm dead that means there will be no Taylor, which means keeping my love ones safe.

I huffed as I successfully made it into my room not being seen. I turned on the lights. I looked around at my room which I shared with Saige. Kenz had gone off to go talk to Dr. Saltzman

I looked to see my desk with my photo of me and the others. A photo of me and Josie. A photo of the super squad. A photo of some of my baby photos with my parents and a photo of there wedding day.

Everything still looked the same, same bed, same desk, same bay window, same red light wire by my bed, same light, same fluffy pillows and bed sheets, same mini fridge which I could put my packs of blood. I smiled as I put my box on my bed as I unpacked, I put up new photos and I put up my clothes as I put my computer on my desk.

I took in a breathe of fresh air. I was home, finally home. I walked around when done unpacking.

I remembered all the good times I had in here and even all the bad, but this was still my home from home and that would never change. I went to my fridge and pulled out a blood bag as I drank it (I was still on my animal diet)

I opened my phone. I saw my lock screen which was a picture of Josie's while my home screen was one of me and my parents.

"Stef ?" I heard as I turned my head. I saw Hope Mikealson.

She smiled at me with a tiny laugh. I grew a bright smile when I saw her. "Come here !" I yelled happily as she rushed towards me before hugging me tightly. I hadn't seen here in person for months. Her auburn hair was curled and she wore light makeup with her same Mikealson family necklace. She wore a plaid dress with knee high stocks and heeled black booties.

"I haven't seen you in so long." Hope told me as I smiled, "I've miss you to Hope." as she let me go.

"I brought you these." as she pulled out a small bag of fresh beignets from Cafe Du Monde, all the way in New Orleans.

"Mmm." I said as I dug into the bag and took a bite of the powered sugar pastry, even if I did burn the roof of my mouth I couldn't' care it was that good.

"How was New Orleans ?" as she said "Great. I've spent a lot of time with my Aunts and Uncle's. My aunt Freya taught me a lot. I've also spent time with my cousin Nik, but really my Aunt Davina and Uncle Kol helped a lot. I ran through alot of spells with my other cousin Camilla, I believe the new spells will help us in the long run."

I nodded. "I just hope it won't come to anymore bloodshed." as I said "Me to."

"I don't wanna have that feeling that something's going to go wrong, but there's that thought in the back of my head that something's bad going to go wrong."

Hope put her hand on my thigh. I rose my eyes at her, "Hey don't be nervous ok, I mean we got through last year, this year hopefully will be easy."

I nodded in agreement as I said "Plus I know your going to work your Hope Mikaelson Magic." as Hope smiled and laughed at me. I smiled back as Hope said "Come on let's go." as I nodded and put my hair behind my ear.

"Even if everyone can't see you it's good for you to get out of your room." as I joked, "Your right."

"I always am." she joked back as we both went our way towards the grand hall. Hope then said under her breathe as we passed by "Invisique" as I asked 'What was that for ?"

"So nobody can see you." as I joked, "Fun." as I saw Lizzie.

She was pointing kids to their dorms as she held a clipboard. She wore a puff red shirt with matching plaid tights and slippers as her hair was in pigtails.

"Well hello Stef." she whispered said to me as I added, "Hi Liz." as I hugged her and she hugged me back.

"The prodigal daughter returns." as I said "Yeah." as Hope said Lizzie, "Has your father said anything about any deaths ?"

"Not that I've heard. I'm pretty sure Taylor isn't coming back any time soon, so we can put that nightmare behind us."

"Hopefully." I said as I caught Dr Saltzman talking to a new student, he looked down at me. I smiled at him waving, he waved back.

"Where is-" "Jo ?" Lizzie asked as I added "She should be in our room unpacking, better go there while she's unaccompanied."

I smirked, "Thanks Lizzie." as I waved goodbye to Hope. I saw MG with the Kaleb down with the vamps going over plans for future. They saw me smiled and waved. I waved back.

I then bumped into Raf on my way up the stairs.

I lost my balance about to tumble down the stairs which is when he grabbed my hand in response. I looked up at him.

"Raf !" I said to him as he chuckled at me with a pearly white grin, "Good god, I'm-"

"Clumsy ?" he told me as I chuckled before adding, "Yep, clumsy as ever still"

"How have you been ?" he asked me as I said "Fine, you ?"

"Fine." as I added "That's great." as there was silence between us for a second before I broke it saying "I'm sorry, we don't talk as much, it's just it's kind of weird being in the fact that-"

"I'm dating your ex girlfriend ?" as I said "Yeah, but I'm happy for you and Saige, always. She needs somebody like you, somebody who doesn't let there blood lust get in the way of having a good relationship." as my lips went into a straight line.

"Well, whenever you need to blow off that steam that you feel, know that I'm open for sparing."

I smiled, "Thanks." as I left waving goodbye as I made my way up the stairs to the dorms. I smiled at Wade who passed by waving to me. Hope told me only the squad could see me.

I saw Jed and the wolves to along with Landon who was talking to Hope. "Hey." he told me as I said "Hey Landon." as he asked "Are we still on to go get Milkshakes at the Grill."

"Ready when you are." as he chuckled at me as he walked by. I smiled before taking in some air.

I then made my way to Josie room. I saw Jo.

She was faced away from me as she placed a box on her bed when she turned to see me. She smiled at me as I smiled back at her titling my head. She looked beautiful. Her silky brunette hair was straighten and she wore a short navy puff sleeve sweater with a white collar blouse underneath, red strapped shoes with a denim yellow skirt.

"Stef." she said as I chuckled adding, "Hi baby."  as Josie chuckled at me as she said to me playful "I didn't miss you." as I chuckled, "You are such a lair." as I entered her room.

I picked Josie up as she giggled. "Hey, hey hey !" she said as I giggled back.

Josie kissed me as she wrapped her legs around my waist as I carried her to her dresser. Josie pulled away to move her finger to close the door. I smiled at her. I slid my hand down the right side of her body as we keep kissing as Josie jumped down before she flipped us around.

"Whoa !" I giggled as Josie said "I woke out over the break." as I said, "I like." as I now sat down on the dresser before I continued to run my hand down each side of her body.

We finally pulled away after what felt like hours, but were just minutes. "I missed you." she told me putting my hair behind my ear.

"Not true, I missed you more." as she chuckled back, "I'm so happy to have you back at school." as I said "Good to be back." as Josie asked me, "Have you figured out what to write in your diary ?"

"Yeah, it was hard at first. All of it was hard but it got easier when I looked at you." as she said "Awe." as I said "I know, I'm so lovely dovey." as we both smiled at each other.

That's when the door opened unexpectedly as my best friend Charlotte came inside the door.

"The queen is back !" she said with a huge smile on her face. Me and Josie looked at her. Her hair wasn't straight anymore, and the roots were darker and her hair was put to the side with a diamond to secure it. She wore a sleeve sleeve pink cropped shirt with spotted black and white shorts and heeled black boots.

She then noticed us. "Oh god, am I interpret something ?" as I got down from the dresser as Josie played with her thumbs. "N-No of course not." as Charlotte said "Good." as she put her bags down.

She then squealed and opened her arms to hug me. "Ooo I missed you." she told me as I chuckled and said "I miss you to Char." as I said "It's looks to me that you enjoyed your time away."

"It was very much needed." she said hands on my waist. She then saw Josie. "Hello sister."  as she went to Josie and hugged her. Josie kissed her cheek as Charlotte did the same.

"Please tell me you guys are going to the bonfire party ?" as I said "You would kill us if we didn't." as Charlotte said "Yes."

"We have alot to do, yes school wasn't the best, but we are going to make the most out of this one." as I said "That's right." as I held her hand as I swung it back and forth as she smiled at me.

The door opened as Hope, Mackenzie and Saige came. "Hope !" Charlotte yelled. Hope hugged back. "I miss you to Char." as Charlotte said "Missed you."

"Girls." she said as Saige and Mackenzie hugged her. "I feels like yesterday when we all went our own ways." as Mackenzie said "At least were back together." as Charlotte looked at her and smiled as Saige said "Yep."

"We came to get you guys for the back to school speech your dad is giving." as I said "Excited." as Saige said "Bore." as I laughed as all four of us made our way downstairs.

The new students and returning sat down. I made my way up Dr. Saltzman who was by the podium.

"Well hello." he muttered to me as I chuckled, "Hello Dr S." as he hugged me. I hugged back.

"It's good to see you again." as I said "You to." as he added, "Are you ready for this year ?" as I said, "Everyone's been asking me that, the best I can do is just have hope."

He said, "There your mom coming through." as I smirked. He then cleared his throat and turned to the students.

"Welcome Everyone ! Welcome Back To the Salvatore Boarding School, I know some years at the school are hard and not the best, but, when hast that ever stop our school from achieving."

"I can say that this will be the best year that the school has had-" suddenly the door's at the top of the stairs opened.

Everyone turned including myself. At the top was Mackenzie's father Matt Donovan aka the the Sheriff of Mystic Falls, when he was around you know something bad has happened.

"Rick, we have a problem." as Dr. Saltzman looked at me as I huffed turning to him adding, "You just had to say something." as he looked back at me eyeing me of my snarky comment...

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"𝑫𝒂𝒅, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈 ?" 𝑴𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒛𝒊𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒅.

Once we got that sign that something bad had happened we all went our way to Dr. Saltzman office. It included me, Saige, Mackenzie, Charlotte, Hope, Josie, Lizzie and the rest of the squad.

He then saw me. I folded my arms as I leaned on the side of the desk. "I don't want ruin your good mood Stefanie." as I gave a sarcastic smile adding, "Oh it's already ruined, fire away."

He then showed us photos. I picked them up from the desk. I looked at them. "Is that ?" Charlotte asked looking over my shoulder as I said "Couldn't be ?"

"It could." Mackenzie said as Saige said who were also hovering around me "It is." eyes wide

"Sylvie, Emily, and Natasha." I said as Mackenzie's dad said "One of my deputy's found their car, abandoned." as Mackenzie said "And this is what's left of them."

"Yeah, we couldn't find Natasha's body, were still looking for her." as Charlotte held her stomach adding, "I think my lunch is coming back up."

"Tell me about it." Saige agreed. I handed the file to Dr. S as he looked at it. "So you think that it was one of the kids."

"No, I don't, but I do think it was a vampire."

I was my eyes shocked as Josie said, "That's impossible, there hasn't been vampire acts for months." as Lizzie said, "Jo, what's else could do this." as Josie said "I-I don't know. A werewolf maybe ?"

"Why would they just start acting now ?" MG asked me as I said "I don't know." as Josie saw my building stress and rubbed my arm.

"You don't think it was-" as Hope said "Taylor and Grace." as she looked out the window meddling with her necklace. We all turned to look at her.

"I can feel that there still around. Trust me Taylor acts just like my dad I know how she thinks, how monsters think." as Charlotte said, "Dad wasn't all monster Hope ?"

Me and the others did a double take as we said "Dad ?"

Charlotte noticed, "Oh I never told you guys, Klaus is my father to. Me and Hope are sister." as Hope said "We were gonna tell you guys but things got to crazy, plus Char wanted to keep it on the low."

"That's were you werewolf side comes from." as she nodded, "Yep. Half wolf, half vamp, trait passed down from dear old dad." as Mackenzie said "I didn't see that coming."

"Me either." Landon said as I said "Focus kiddies. We have a problem. There is a vampire on the loose in Mystic Falls and it can be anyone we know, it can be anybody and that puts everyone in Mystic Falls in danger."

"We need to act fast." as the others nodded. Mackenzie's dad said, "I'm thinking of bringing the Town Council back, people should know what's going on."

"Warn the humans." as I huffed, "There's about to be blood pouring and it won't be any of ours."

I sighed adding, "I need to call Ezra." as Mr. Donovan stopped me, "Stefanie, there is another reason why I wanted to see you mainly."

"What is it ? Is it parking tickets ?" as he said "No, it isn't." as he added, "A girl came back the Satiation claimed that she knew who you were."

I chuckled nervously asking, "Should I be worried ?" as he added, "I understand how trusting people now is a gamble, but this girl made it clear you both knew each other. Plus she wouldn't go anywhere without talking to you."

"So I brought her here." I looked to the door of Dr S's office and with that a girl walked inside.

She had a pale ivory complexion that complimented her with round hazel eyes and plump lips. She also had natural dark hair with pink highlights. Along with dark makeup. She had a petite frame and stood approximately at 5'2 and she also had brown eyes. She wore a rocker t-shirt with black tights, with neon pink combat boots and a black and white plaid flannel wrapped around her waist. She smiled at me, it also made me forget about the black eyeliner over her eyes.

The others saw her to. I looked her up and down. "This place is so cool !" she said with a smile. She then moved her eyes back to me. "Stefanie !" she said rushing towards me as she hugged me tightly.

She gave me more of a bear hug. I couldn't breath. I slowly put one of my arm around her. "Stef you do know each other ?" as she let me go. I took in a breathe. I coughed. I looked her up and down again. She noticed my strange look.

"I-I'm sorry, but who are you ?" as she said "I didn't even tell you. My bad. I'm Annabelle. But I like Ana. I'm your cousin."

My eyes went wide along with the others in the room as she said "Now that, that's out of the way, I'm so glad that I found you after all this time ! We're gonna have so much fun together !" as she put her backpack down before hugging me again though we were swaying as I was still shocked before I said "What the-"

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"𝑶𝒌, 𝒐𝒌 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒋𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏 ?!"

Annabelle looked at me once she pulled away. "I know this is hard to believe, but it is true Stef, were cousins."

"From who ?! What bloodline ?!" as she added, "The only I have is Char back there, along with another one which makes me rethink having family members and scared of having another sibling, most notable a girl one."

"She might be lying." MG told me as I said "She is, no doubt about it !" as Dr. Saltzman said "Stefanie."

"No, no no, no no." as I huffed, "There is no way, were related." as Annabelle said "Can I talk ?" as I turned to her. "Actually there is."

"How ?" as Annabelle said "Your uncle Jeremy, he's my father."

I added, "Uncle Jeremy, what's impossible he didn't have kids. The only kid he had was my cousin Anthony who I haven't seen in years."

"He would have told us about you if you were really my cousin." I hissed at the end.

"Dad never told you about me, because I was born like years ago, plus he never visit because he's always busy worth work.

"I'm Anthony's younger sister." "Ok Stef take a chill pill." Saige said as Annabelle eyes went to her boots.

"We can do a blood test" Hope said as Annabelle added, "Works for me, it can prove it to you that were family."

"Great I'll go get it set up." as Hope put her hand on my shoulder and gave me a reassuring smile before leaving as Landon followed.

I huffed annoyed as Josie said "Stef, it's worth a try." as I rolled my eyes before Josie kissed my cheek. "Fine, but only because Josie thinks your family to me."

Annabelle smiled, "Thanks Josie." as Josie said "Your welcome." before smiling back at her. Annabelle smile as I scoffed causing Josie to mom glare at me.

Dr. Saltzman said "Annabelle right ?" as Annabelle nodded as Dr. Saltzman asked, "I can call Jeremy, and he'll confirm it, but while Hope is getting everything set up would you like anything ?"

"Totally. I'm starving, been traveling for weeks." as she added, "I'll guess I'll crash in your dorm, until were ready for a blood test."

I said rising from my seat, "Fine, but if you touch anything your dead, don't touch the lamb plush on my bed." as Annabelle narrowed her eyes, "Awe, you have a plushie, cute." as I growled.

"Ok ok, chill yourself." as she took her bag and walked away as I narrowed my eyes before looking at the others, "Chill yourself ? What does that ever mean ?" as the others hunched there shoulders just as confused.

I huffed before saying, "Just me luck. Is there anything that can go more wrong today ?" as I blew my hair out of my face.

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𝑻𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒐𝒓

𝑰  𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒙𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒖𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒆. 𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂 𝒅𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒓 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐𝒂𝒔𝒕.

It was still a beautiful day, but hot enough to want to get into the pool.

I wasn't in the pool but I was tanning. I wore sunglasses over my eyes as I also wore a gold two piece bathing suit, my hair was no longer dirty blonde but was now brown with blonde highlights along with being wavy.

My hair which use to be to my neck was now passing down my neck, but not long enough. The sounds of the water filled my eyes. I was right now in California. I had rent out a Penthouse and in said Penthouse was a pool on balcony.

I gave out a relaxed sigh. My compelled maid was next to me. I held out my lime margarita cocktail to the compelled maid who sliced her wrist and squeezed her hand allowing the blood to drip into the cocktail.

The bright drink was able to turn into another color. I took a sip of it as I smacked my lips going back to reading the paper.

Aside from compelled maids, I had compelled a private chef who was making Bruschetta with Tomato and Basil along with some Coconut Shrimp.

"Oh how I love California." I said as I smirked as I watched women and men who I compelled, go by with a smile. They all had on swim wear, each one of them having bites going up and down there body.

"I love it to." I heard before pulling my glasses down only to see Grace.

She wore a skin tight red two piece bathing suit with a skirt, her hair curled. She looked at me with a evil smirk.

She was dancing with a blonde girl as they were in the pool as she held Grace's waist in her hand as they swayed as Grace smirked before giving her a light kiss, the guy next to her touched her thigh placing his hand on it.

Grace smile before she kissed him as well, they both smiled at Grace as she asked "Wrists please." as they both held out their wrists before Grace gently took them.

She kissed them before her fangs extended down as she bite them as she drank her blood.

They smiled at her. She came up for air as she wiped her mouth off with her finger. Her daylight necklace sat on her neck. She then looked to me, I looked at her. Something was missing.

Of course you could see that I was upset I was missing something important. We had been away for six months and six months was a long time for myself. I wanted to go back to Mystic Falls.

Before I could think anymore, Grace was by me, water dripped down her things to the ground as she said "You look upset Tay Tay ? Want a drink ?" as I rose a brow at her as she gestured for a ginger girl to come over.

Grace added, "I tested her blood, she's a B-" as Grace smile to me running her finger on my arm.

"Not thirsty." as Grace said "That's not true, were always thirsty." as Grace took a piece of shrimp. She sat down on my legs as she added, "Would you like some shrimp then, cause your In a fishy mood."

I rolled my eyes at her as she said "Suit yourself." as she ate it before wiping her hands off. "What could you be thinking ? We are living the high life right now. Having everything we've every wanted at our feet. A home. Food in our bellies. Blood on our teeth."

"What more could you want ?" as I told her, "This isn't my dream Gray, this is your dream for us." as I took my sunglasses off before getting up.

Grace was shocked. She followed me inside. The inside of the penthouse was good to. The colors we had went with were red and black. To marble walls and furniture to  black chandeliers hanging around the place and a indoor gym which I wanted.

"What do you mean this is my dream, last time I check, you were the one who decided to make a deal with Saige so we couldn't go back to Mystic Falls." as I hissed, "And I did it to save your life !"

"Your the one who put it in harms way !" as Grace huffed, "We have been living peaceful for 6 months. No trouble ! No doppelgangers ! No hybrids ! No pesky teenagers !"

"This is what we wanted for one another !-" as I yelled, "No this is what you wanted for us ! I want to go back to Mystic Falls." as Grace said "Well I don't !" as I huffed, "You are infuriating and stubborn."

"Now you're making me sound like my mom, which I say thank you to."

Grace added, "Now, I don't want to hear anymore of Mystic Falls. I don't want to hear anything about hybrids ! About Charlotte or Stefanie ! Or any of them !"

"You are going to be happy in California or so god help me, I will make theses next past week of your life miserable ! So just do something for me, Shut up and stop complain." as I looked at her.

She huffed as she said "I need a drink." as she opened the door to the balcony before going out of it as she slammed it alittle as I huffed before blowing my cheeks out.

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𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒆

𝑰 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒂𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆.

She was sitting at a table wolfing down her sandwich, chips and juice.

She looked around at everything, she didn't know anything about the supernatural which is why Dr S told everybody not to do anything vampire, werewolf or witch related around her.

I smirked at Stefanie. I walked up to her before tapping her on her shoulder. "You alright ?"

She sighed, "I-I mean, I'm shocked, I never knew I had another cousin." as I asked, "What did your mom and dad say ?" as she added, "I still think she's lying. I mean why would I know anything about her."

"We both know that strange stuff can come out of nowhere, maybe you need this ?" as I looked at her, "I'm just saying Stef, maybe it's for the best that you need a cousin who you can trust and you know who doesn't want to murder you."

"Good point." she said as I added, "Just give it a few hours." as Hope said to me, "I'm ready." as I said "Oh a few seconds." as Annabelle overheard before looking over to us as she wiped her hands off.

"Come on Annabelle." Hope said. Soon, Stefanie sat down next to Annabelle. Hope rolled up Stefanie's sleeve which is when she told her, "Don't stab me." as Hope said "I would never." with a sly smirk. She gently placed the needle inside of Stefanie as she began to have her blood drawn.

I pricked Annabelle. I also pulled out the cheek swab test. I swabbed Annabelle before putting her's in a tube as I did the same to Stefanie, though once she smirked at me, I made her choke on purpose by shoving the swab done her throat, which caused her to kick me.

I chuckled before putting her's in a tube aswell. She rolled her eyes at me. Annabelle squirmed around as Stefanie asked, "Don't like needles huh ?" as Annabelle said "Never been a huge fan of them. What if the test come's back positive ?"

"What if it's negative ?" as Annabelle said "Wow, mood killer." as Stefanie chuckled before adding, "And I'm going to shove your heart down your throat for lying and putting my school in danger and wasting my time." as Annabelle said, "Hold your horses cowgirl, the results is the fun of it all." as she gave a sly smirk as Annabelle did the same.

Once the blood test was done, Josie helped Annabelle up since she was dizzy and gave her a cup of water. Stefanie looked to Josie who was acting so nice to the stranger in the school, Jo gave her a look.

She went over to Stefanie helping her up even if she didn't need it. "I can't believe your being nice to her." as Josie added, "Stef calm down, give her a chance." as Stefanie folded her arms adding, "Yeah she's failing."

Josie said "Chill yourself." as she gave her a annoyed look before Josie pinched her cheek and gave her severely kisses. "Ok, the results are in." Mackenzie said as she was next to her.

"We got the one for the swab and blood test. Both of them are 100 % positive." as Mackenzie flipped the test to show Annabelle and Stefanie. "You two are very much related."

"In your face." Annabelle muttered to Stefanie as Stefanie rolled her eyes. "So were related by-" "100 %" Mackenzie chimed in as Stefanie glared at her as she added, "Can't beat a genetic test Stef."

"Told you. We are 100 % cousin. Both of us having Gilbert running through our veins." as Stefanie said, "Ok whatever, the real question is why are you here." as Annabelle folded her arms.

"I'm here because I'm living with you." as Stefanie said "Excuse me ?" as Annabelle said, "I'm living with you, do I have to say it slower for you to get it." as she crossed her eyes and said slowly "I'm living-" as Stefanie yelled to her, "I heared you the first time !"

"Why ?!" as Annabelle said, "Because my dad has work to do, he can't take care of me so he sent me to live with you." as Stefanie said "I'm eighteen !"

"Duh, that's why he sent me to live with you, thought you would be a great influence on me his words not mine, plus your old enough, really an adult."

"How long will you be staying ?" Hope asked as Annabelle said "Couple of days, weeks, months." as Stefanie eyes went wide. "Depends on when dad want's to come get me."

"Ok screw this and you, there is no way you are living with me !"  as Annabelle said, "I am, what are you going to do kick me out ? Because if you I will tell my dad." as Stefanie narrowed her eyes, "Are you blackmailing me ?"

"You're failing for it aren't you ?" she asked phone in her hand. Stefanie huffed. "Good." as Annabelle went back to her happy humor before adding, "I'm here to stay. I'll go put my bags in your room, I'll get a mattresses in you and Saige's dorm. Peaces homies." as she walked out of the room.

Stefanie took in deep breathes as Josie wrapped her arms around the taller girl. "Stef, remember Julia told you, don't let your angry get the best of you." as Stefanie said "I'm fine, fine, fine, fine." as she grabbed one of the mini statues off Dr. Saltzman's table before she clenched it hard in her fist causing it to break from within itself.

Stefanie took in a deep breathe as she added, "Excuse me while I go make a phone call." as she put the destroyed statue back on Dr. Saltzman's desk before going away as I huffed, "Jo, I think you should-" as Josie said "Me to." as she skipped after Stefanie.

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𝑬𝒛𝒓𝒂

𝑰 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝑵𝒊𝒂 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆. 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒓. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒔.

It had been 6 months since the ritual. I had gotten stronger and so has Nia. My mom allowed Nia to stay with us, since she had nowhere to go, she just had to set some boundaries for the two of us.

I was wearing a navy print cami with blue jeans a belt and brown boots. Nia was wearing a open button orange stripped shirt with black jeans and black booties.

But we only followed them, when she was at home which wasn't right now. I kissed Nia as her finger ran through my hair. I then started to lift up her shirt. She stopped me. "Oh my god, I'm so sorry." she told me.

"No it's ok." as she sat up rubbing her lips together. I sat up. "You're not ready are you ?" as Nia sighed, "I mean we've been dating for six months and theses past months have been really cool." as she rubbed my thigh back and forth.

"But I don't know if I'm ready for that." as I said "I would never pressure you into something you are not ready for, so I understand." as Nia said "Thanks for understanding." as I nodded to her.

She helped me out of bed as we made it to the kitchen. I made myself some cereal as Nia made herself some coffee. I looked at the news. "Hey, look." as she poured some espresso.

She then turned up the TV. It was about three who were found dead. "That's not normal." she added as I said, "Yeah it's not." as Nia asked, "You don't think it has something to deal with T and G do you ?"

"Couldn't, they've been away for months why should up now ?" as I hunched my shoulders.

I then looked down at my phone as I saw I was getting a call from Stefanie. "Hey, slow down. A new cousin, that show up out of nowhere, ok, that's strange."

"I'll be over, I need to help set up for the Bon Fire Party though." as I said "K bye." before hanging up.

Nia gave me a latte as she added, "What was that about ?" as I added, "Well it was about Annabelle Gilbert, Stefanie's new cousin."

"Another cousin ?" she asked me as I nodded, "Another." as she asked, "Why am I not shocked" as I chuckled, "Hey, I'm gonna stop by at the school and help with the party, wanna come with ?"

"No, I'm good here, there's some work I would like to work on." as I said, "Ok, I'll be back." as I kissed her cheeks as she bite down on her toast, "You're going to do great !" "Thanks babe." as Nia smiled at me.

I made my way down the street as the wind blew as I accidentally bumped into a blonde haired woman. I knocked her cup out of her hand. "Oh my god I'm so sorry." I told her as she added, "No it was my fault." as I got a good look of her.

She had blonde curly hair with deep blue eyes and she wore a black jacket over a black cami, black jeans and black boots with light makeup.

I handed it to her. "I'm sorry again." as she added "Thank you for helping me." as I smiled at her, "Your welcome." as I walked away from her. Once she saw I had left she got on her phone.

"Please tell me you have found my body." as the other line said "It is hard to, none of the vampires you have sent out have found the locate yet." as the woman added "Because the only person who knows were my body is, is my daughter."

"And until she's here, you'll find the location, so as of right now get busy." as the other line of the phone said "And what will you be doing ?" as she said "I have to set up a meeting with a in law of mine." as she smirked before hanging up and counting to walk down the street.

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𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒂𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆

𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆'𝒔 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒃 𝒑𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒆. 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎.

She had pictures all around her room. She had some of Josie and other's of my Uncle Damon and Aunt Elena. I picked up one photo of her and Anthony. Stefanie and Anthony were by the lake. Stefanie's hair was in pigtails as she wore a sweater with shorts and sneakers as Anthony wore a t-shirt with shorts and sneakers. They had gone fishing with my dad.

I huffed running my finger over the photo.

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~𝟏𝟔 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐠𝐨~

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"MYSTIC FALLS,  16 Years Ago"

Stefanie was on the side of the lake. She looked inside her bucket at the small fish she was able to catch. It flapped around inside. She smiled, she then noticed her cousin Anthony had come running towards her.

"Look Stefanie !" he said happily to her as Stefanie said "What did you find Ann ?" as he pulled out a fresh stick of lip gloss out of his pocket. "Hey ! That's my mommy's lip gloss how did you get it ?" as Annabelle said "I found it on the counter in the bathroom."

"See I have some on my lips." as Anthony showed Stefanie the pink lip gloss. Stefanie snatched it back from him. "Hey !" Anthony said back.

Stefanie added "That stuff for girls." as Anthony said "No it's not !" as Stefanie said "Yeah it is !" as Stefanie and him began to go back and forth which is when Anthony's father Jeremy came with the fishing rods in his hand.

"Hey, hey hey ! cut it out." he said pulling the cousins away from one another. Anthony cried to his father as Stefanie folded her arms with a pout.

"What's going on ?" he asked as Anthony said "Stefanie was being mean to me." as Stefanie said "I was not !"

Anthony said "Was to." as Stefanie hissed at him "Was not !" as Anthony screamed "Was to !" as he said "Stop." as he faced Anthony to him only to notice the lip gloss on his lips.

"What's on your lips ?" as Anthony looked down at his feet before grumbling "Lip gloss." as Jeremy chuckled "You both are arguing over makeup ?" as Stefanie said "Stupid huh ?"

"Very." as Anthony said "That's because Stefanie said it's for girls." as Stefanie added, "Cause it is." as Anthony said "It's not." as Jeremy said "Not again." he faced Stefanie added, "Stef, the world were living is is changing, stuff that people said belonged to girls can belong to boys now."

"And stuff that people said belongs to boys can belong to girls now. But it's not ok to tease people about what they believe, and it's not right to force your opinion on someone if they're mind is made up." as Stefanie said "Yes Uncle Jeremy." as he ruffled up her hair adding "Who knows maybe when you get older your view will change."

"Sorry An." as Anthony said "It's ok." as he said "Now hug." as the cousin hugged each other before letting go as Stefanie kissed his cheek.

"Ok, now how about we take theses fishes back to the house and we get ice cream till our stomach's hurt." as Stefanie and Anthony squealed "Yah !" as Jeremy picked them both up carrying them towards the car.

Anthony faced his father, "Do you want me to take the lip gloss off daddy ?" as Jeremy said "Never." as Anthony smiled resting his head against his's.

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I sighed which is when I heard a knock at the door as I turned to see Josie. "Hey Ann." she told me as I said "Hi." as she my her way towards me. "I know we haven't really talked but I'm-"

"Stefanie's girlfriend." as Josie said "Y-Yeah that's me." as I added, "I know, you wanted me to stay here."

Josie sat down on the bed. "To be honest, I think Stefanie really needs you, she's been through alot in the last couple of months, maybe and hopefully you'll be good for her."

"Yeah, hopefully." as she asked me "Um how do you like Mystic Falls, it is difference from were you use to live." as I said "It's a mysterious town but I like the mysterious stuff, makes me feel like I'm apart of a ghost story."

"It's nice to have that kind of think of it that way." as Annabelle added "I like to look on the positive's even when the negatives get in the way."

"Do you want a tour of the school-" as I said "Josie, I know what you're trying to do. Stefanie doesn't want me here." as Josie said "What, that's not true, she does." as Annabelle said "If she did wouldn't see me touring me around the school."

Josie huffed. "I don't need you to pity me, people do that enough behind my back." as Josie looked at me "Ann I'm not pitying you-" before I cut her off saying "I'm gonna go check out the school by myself." as I got up and left leaving Josie to sigh at me.

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𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆

𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝒇𝒍𝒚𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒚. 𝑰 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒚.

I then looked over to Wyatt's old locker, some students had put some flowers and bears right there as a symbol of his and even the football team put one of the football's there.

I bite my lip looking at the picture of him. I miss him so much. I got knocked into a trance not even noticing Mackenzie. She looked at me with a smile.

"Hey." she told me as I said "Hey." with a smile as she asked "You going to the Bon Fire Party ?"

"Stef and Saige are coming to." as I said "You bet I am. It's our first squad event and the Bon Fire Party set's the bar for the whole year."

"I'll be there, want me to pick you up ?" as I said "Nah, I'll drive myself." as Mackenzie said "Oh ok." as I faced her. "Hey." as I gasped her hand. "It's just, stuff has been weird between us."

"Every since you told me you have feelings for me in all." as Mackenzie added "Yeah, forgot about that." as I added, "I know I said I'm not ready to be in another relationship, but really I find it weird."

"How come ?" as I added "B-Because we grew up together, you're like my sister in a way and I find it awkward for us to start dating."

Mackenzie's eyes dropped. "Y-Yeah." she added with a tiny voice crack as she said "I gotta go." as I asked "What were ?" as she muttered "Anywhere but here." as she fixed her backpack strap before leaving.

I huffed before blowing my cheeks out as I watched her leave.

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𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆

𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒓. 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒎𝒂𝒏'𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒆. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝑼𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝑱𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒚.

"Trust me I understand Uncle Jeremy, but I have alot of my plate now with school and everything along with the lingering doom with Taylor and Grace. I don't think it's a good environment for Annabelle to be in."

"Plus she knows nothing about supernatural beings and nothing knowing anything about supernatural is dangerous to."

"I'm just saying maybe it will be best if she stays with you and Anthony." as I folded my arms.

I sighed as he talked on the other line. "O-Okay if you think it's best for her. I'm not a role model by the way. How long do you think she's going to be staying with me ?"

"A couple of months, amazing." I said with a lower tone. "I get it. Hunter stuff is making it hard to take care of her, I'll take care of her. Your welcome. Tell Anthony I said hi. Ok. Love you bye." as I hanged up.

I groaned as I pressed my head against the window. This was suppose to be my year now it turns out it was going to be my second worst year.

I then heard "You're stuck with her aren't you ?" as I looked in the reflection to see Dr. Saltzman.

"Yep." as he told me, "You shouldn't be looking to this as a bad thing Stefanie."

I said "Yes, I should be looking at this from a blessing from above. You know this is how it's going to play a cousin walks into my life and before you know it Bam I'm dead again and my real funeral happens."

"I have to be hard on myself, I let my guard down to easy on new people. Not this time. For my snake, Josie's and everybody else in this school."

"I can't trust her. Annabelle can't be trusted." as he sighed to me. I sighed back as I messed with my ring.

"You wanna know something ?" he told me as I added, "Story time huh ?" as he said "I found a girl who was feasting on local's. Really my daughter found her. I didn't trust her at first. I thought she was a uncontrollable vampire who would have hurt everybody in the school, but eventually she grew to be a new daughter to me."

"All because I let my guard down with people and decided to trust her. Now she dates my daughter." as I faced him knowing he was talking about me.

"It's hard to trust again Stefanie, it will take time for you, but you'll get through it." as he left me alone as I huffed.

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𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆

𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒓. 𝑰 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒂 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇. 𝑴𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒅𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈.

I sighed as I snacked on cherries. I then heard a faint knock on my door. I rose my eyes to see Taylor. She leaned on my door.

She had changed into a new outfit. She was wearing a beige cropped sweater with black jeans and black combat boots.

"You still mad at me ?" she asked me as I said "You are not worth the emotions I buried being upset at you." as she said "Ouch." as she made her way inside my bedroom as I gave a soft chuckle with a slit smile before rising my eyes at her again.

She smirked to me. "What ?" I asked as she added "I think you're right." as I asked "About ?"

"Me letting go." as I rose a brow. She had her hands in her back pack pockets as she asked "May I ?" as I nodded moving my legs in order for her to sit down.

"I think it's good for me to leave who I was, love who I am, and look forward to a better future," as she took my hand adding, "And that future is living in this penthouse with you."

I smiled brightly at her. "To make up for earlier, let's go on a date." as I asked "A date, date ?"

Her nose scrunch up as she smiled. "A date date" as she added "I'll cook for you." as I said "I'm liking the sound of this date."

She said "I'm glad." as I added, "I'm going to need money to pick out a new outfit." as she asked "All those outfits you have in that closet ?" as she pointed to it.

"You've seen all those before." I told as I ate a cherry before leaning back going online shopping. "I'll get you the credit card." as she rose from my bed before making her way towards the door.

I said before "Tay Tay." as she stopped "Yes ?" as I added, "Thank you." with a smile as she grinned before closing the door.

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𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒆

𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒚𝒎. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒚 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒃𝒓𝒂 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒚 𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒌.

"Ok." I said with happiness causing my pack to turn to me. "I'm happy to be back at school and to see you all again. I know it's been awhile so to get ourselves warm up let's start with a quick jog around the gym."

I clapped my hand causing them all to take off. Jed walked up to me. "Who's the brunette in the stands Lockwood ?" as I rose a brow before turning to see Annabelle who was sitting there, sketching.

I narrowed my eyes. "That's Annabelle. She's Stefanie's cousin." as Jed said "Man. Stefanie has a hot family, even that evil cousin of hers" as I noticed him checking Annabelle out. I quickly went into big sister mode.

I looked at him with narrowed eyes. "Go jog, and remember no werewolf stuff. She doesn't know about supernaturals" I ordered as he rolled his eyes before taking off.

I rolled my eyes at him before making my way towards Annabelle. She had her earbuds in her ear.

"An." I said to her as her ignored me which is when I tapped her shoulder. She rose her eyes taking her earbud out. "Oh hi Saige." as I said "Hi." as I asked "You like the school ?"

She said "If this is the place I'm gonna have to spend the rest of life, could be worse." as I added, "The school is great, once you get use to it."

"It's gonna take me some time." as I said "I understand, where did you use to live ?" as I sat down next to her.

"Denver." as I asked "Oh, ok. You a Broncos's fan ?" as she added. "Are you kidding ? I love them." as I said "Were going to get along well." as Annabelle said "Yeah." as I looked at drawing

"You draw ?" as I said "Not a professional." as I said "Hey, I can draw stick figure, this is a masterpiece." as she chuckled. I chuckled back.

"I don't know if Stefanie has told you yet, but Mystic Falls High is having a Bon Fire Party. It can be like your welcome to Mystic Falls Party."

Annabelle said "Sure I like parties. Ok. I'll drive you there. Stefanie going to be there to, so some cousin cousin bonding is bound to happen."

"I doubt it." she told me as I said "I don't." as I heard "Saige ?" as I saw Rafael was calling out to me. "I'll be back." as I made my way back to the pack leaving Annabelle as she sighed and went back to sketching.

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𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒂𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆

𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝑴𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑭𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒕. 𝑰 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒋𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒔. 𝑰 𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒆.

I huffed. "Here it is." she said as I said "Wow." as Saige closed the door to her truck as I got out the other door. I put my hair behind my ear.

"This is the school, since you are sixteen you'll start out as a freshman." as I said "Fresh meat." as Saige said "Don't worry. Even if me nor Stefanie go to this school. Charlotte and Mackenzie will take care of you."

I looked over to the blonde haired girl and redhead girl who was standing in the field, holding signs that read "Welcome To Mystic Falls." and "Were Excited To Have You Annabelle !"

The blonde girl and redhead girl were the girls from earlier. "This is Charlotte and Mackenzie. My best friends." Saige said.

"Hello Annabelle !" she said excited as she rushed to hug me. I was confused as I patted her back. "I'm Charlotte Forbes and next to me is Mackenzie Donovan, and we are going to be giving you a tour of Mystic Falls High !"

"We are both cheerleaders here, but you are going to see so much more faculty member." as Mackenzie added, "You are going to be getting a warm welcome, come on let's go." Charlotte told me as she dragged me inside of the room.

Once we walked around I saw kids going in between classes and some standing in the hallway laughing and talking with one another. "Excuse the commotion. It's been busy since the Bon Fire is tonight, which I know Saige told you about so it would nice if you would go."

"Yeah a great way to get to know everybody." as Annabelle said "I don't know parties aren't my thing." as Charlotte said "Nonsense everybody likes to party."

"Think about it." as Mackenzie said "Back on the tour." as Mackenzie added "If you don't know Mystic Falls High is a great high school. We are commonly known as Timber wolves. We offer many subjects such as English, History-Italian" as Charlotte chimed in "My absolutely favorite being French."

"We also have a marching unit, a dance team, flag footballs and of course cheer leading."

"We also offer many student clubs such as Film Club which a couple of the students take, Cooking Club which I take for my own wants to get better at cooking. We are currently making Muffins." as Charlotte showed a basket of freshly made Banana Muffin.

I took one before biting into it as Saige took one to. "Well it's not brunt Char, unlike the last batch." Saige told her as Charlotte narrowed her eyes, "Work in progress." as I took three more.

"Ann likes them." Charlotte told her sticking out her tongue causing Saige to roll her eyes.

"I'm hungry." I said biting into them as Saige added, "Annabelle I would have stopped for breakfast." as I said "Nah you've wasted enough gas."

Charlotte added, "Why don't you go around Annabelle, while I go find your schedule." as Mackenzie added, "You can walk around and talk to the students if you want."

"Ok." I added as I left my bag with Saige as I walked off as Charlotte told me "Stay away from the pit !"

Mackenzie turned to Saige. "How'd we do ?" as Saige said crossing her arms. "She seems happy I guess."

Charlotte said "Yah A + for us !" as she faced Mackenzie holding her hand up for a high five as Mackenzie gave her a glare as Charlotte said "Oh yeah." as her hand went back down.

"You two ok ?" Saige asked as they both said at the same time "Yep." as Saige said "Ooh ok." as I said "She likes drawing like Stef." as Charlotte said "Maybe she should take Art Lessons, it will be great for her, plus Mr. Donelly is so understanding."

"Cold but nice." Mackenzie asked. "Can we see her drawings ?" as Saige said "I don't wanna go through her things." as Saige added, "I bet she wouldn't mind."as she unzipped it and pulled out the sketchbook.

She then showed Mackenzie and Charlotte. "She's good." as they saw a sketch of a eye, another of galaxy and another that they couldn't' make out just two girls holding hands.

"She's a pro. We should sign her up." as Saige smiled at them before looking down noticing how much empty bags of chips and junk food she had inside. Saige narrowed her eyes as she also looked inside to see a half eaten brownie.

She didn't want to assume because it was wrong, maybe I just had a appetite but she grimaced however.

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𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝑷𝒊𝒕, 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕. 𝑰𝒕 𝒔𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒔.

I saw kids in their flannels and converse causally puffing smoke out of their mouths and drinking and munching on Tacos, which was my go to snack.

I made my way down the steps. "Hi." I said to them a girl turned to me.

She was tall she stood around 5'9. She used black eyeliner which highlighted her green eyes. Her curly hair was a natural brown, but the ends were dyed a light red. She had several tattoos on her body and she wasn't afraid to show her figure. She was pretty. She wore ripped baggy pants with a chain belt and a cropped black top with a chain necklace with a pink and brown flannel over neath and chunky boots and hoop earring and a nose piercing.

I eyed her. She saw me looking at her. She leaned on some railings as she spoke out to me. "You flirting or starting a fight ?"

I was a bit taken back by her response as I said "Depends you offering me a drink ?" as I pointed to the bottle in her hand. She looked at me, before biting her lip. She gestured for me to come over.

"I'm Jackie." she told me "Jacqueline Vazquez, but I rather go by Jackie or Jack." as she poured me a drink in a red plastic cup. I took my gum out of my mouth before downing my glass.

"Whoever you are, you can drink and flirt." as I smirked swallowing adding, "I'm Annabelle Gilbert, but I rather go by Ann or Annie." as she said "Ok Annie. Are you new ?"

"Yeah just transfer from Denver." as the guy next to her said "Denver's  pretty far out."

"Dad sent me here." she told him as the others said "Dads." as they gave small chuckles. "He knows you touch the stuff ?" as I shook my head no. "He would kill me." as I asked for one of their vapes. They handed it to me as I started to inhale before blowing smoke out.

"I'm living with my cousin, and if she found out she would kill me to." they chuckled around me. "When's your first day ?" Jackie asked me as I told her "Tomorrow, what grade are you in ?"

"11th." as I said "Sick." as she added, "You're probably the youngest we've had out here." as I said "I like being the first." as one of the dude's shoved Jackie's shoulder.

She gave him a look. " You coming to the party." as I said "Yeah." as she said "Ok, meet me in the woods, I'll be with the others, we'll hang out." as I said "Alright." as Jackie swept my hair from my face.

"You seem like a bad girl type. I think were going to get along." as I said with a small chuckle. "So do you." as she chuckle. "See you around." as I started to spray myself before walking off back inside.

I ran into Charlotte. "Annabelle I got your  schedule !" as she held it up to me. "Where were you ?" she asked me as I said "By the Cafeteria, wanted to see what the food was all about."

"I'm telling you the salad bars are the best part here." as we both walked side by side.

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𝑻𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒐𝒓

𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆'𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓. 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆𝒔. 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 "𝑰𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒂." 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆. 𝑰 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒅.

I was wearing a elegant black pantsuit with a cape as my hair was in a lower bun as I had light lip gloss on to match with red heels.

The table had a sliver bucket that had champagne inside of it along with two empty glasses next to sliver plates, a rose and rose petals that lead to upstairs. There was were two waitress behind me each wearing a red glitter top, black mini shorts and heels with a apron.

I then heard the sounds of heels clicking as I turned to see Grace waiting at the top. I smiled at her from afar. She looked angelic even if she was a devil in disguise.

Her hair was curly as she wore a black lace dress with black heels and a gold spiked necklace. She was in awe of the candles leading to the dinner. "Taylor." she said with a smirk.

"You all did for me ?" as Taylor said "Wouldn't do it for anybody else." as Grace slowly made her way towards the table.

I pulled out the seat for her to set down in. "Thank you." she told me as I nodded. "My pleasure."

I sat down myself. "Shall we move to the first course ?" Grace asked as I said "Before we do that a toast." as I gestured for the blonde girl to come over.

My eyes faded to my hybrid ones before I bite down on her wrist and let her blood pour into the cups. I said compelling her "Thank you dear, go let that heal." as she nodded to me before going and pressing a rag to her wound.

I took a sip. "Perfectionist." as Grace did to. "I agree with that, now we can move on first course." as the lady came out with a dish as she sat it down in front of me and Grace.

It was poached shrimp salad. Grace grinned. "It smells amazing." as I said "Taste better." as Grace told me while digging in. "I have the feeling tonight is going to be thrilling." as I smirked as we both clinked our drinks against the others.

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𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆

𝑰 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒔. 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑴𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑭𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝑯𝒊𝒈𝒉 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒖𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆. 𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒈𝒖𝒚𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝒂 𝒈𝒖𝒚 𝒃𝒚 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒔, 𝒔𝒐 𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒅𝒐 𝒂 𝒌𝒆𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅. 𝑰 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒅.

I was wearing a short casual navy blue dress with a black leather jacket as my hair was curled and wedge black booties. I closed the door to my car. I noticed some students look at my car awing at it.

I smirked. Annabelle got out on other side. She wore a red cropped shirt with a black hoodie leather jacket and light washed jeans along with heeled brown boots.

Saige got out from the back. She wore flower print jeans with a gray sweater and a black leather jacket with black booties, her hair was down.

Annabelle looked around, Saige came up to me. "Oh how I missed parties." as I said "Same." as Saige then shoved me as I glanced behind to see Annabelle. I huffed. "Hey, Ann." I called out with a short eye roll.

She turned me arms folded. "What ?" as I asked, "Have you meet any cool people ?" as she said "Yeah." as I said "Oh." trying to start conversation before I added, "Are they here at the party ?"

"Yeah, can I go to them ?" as I held my hands up, "Don't let me stop. If you do drink not that much !" as she faced me nodding with a tiny grin before walking away.

I huffed before turning to Saige who looked at me. "How did I do ?"

"1.5 out of 100." as I narrowed my eyes at her. "Come on let's go get a drink." she said as we both went over to the cooler. Saige popped it open as she handed me one. I took it from her.

"Cheers." I said as she chuckled before we clinked our drinks together. I took a sip of mine as I stopped. I shook my head.

"Strong stuff." before I noticed Saige chug her can fast. That's why Saige wanted to go to the party. She let the can leave her lips.

"Woah I forget you knew how to chug like that, you were a crazy party animal back in 9th and 10 grade." Saige put her fist to her mouth before belching.

I gave her look as I pulled my eyebrows back as my nose wrinkled.

She beat on her chest and let out another belch as she said "Excuse me." She said throwing the can away .

"Whoever said that side of me left." as she took another can before popping open another and beginning to do the same thing.

Now I was worried. "Hey you ok Saige you usually don't drink this much." as she put her empty can down.

"Is something going on at home ?" as her eyes trialed off "No, I'm fine. Look I'm off to play beer pong with the football team, wanna come ?"

"No, I'm going to find Charlotte and Mackenzie." as she said "Suit yourself." as she walked off from me before I said "Don't drink a lot." as she gave a sky smirk at me as I huffed.

I made my way through the woods as I found Charlotte. She was wearing a coral pink couture puff sleeve short dress as her hair was in a bun as she wore heeled beige booties, her hair in a high ponytail.

"Stef !" she said hugging me, I hugged back. "So glad you could make it, I thought you wouldn't show based on the whole cousin revel party earlier." as I said "I made a promise and I intend to keep it."

"That's my best friend." Charlotte said as we clinked our cans together. "Hey, have you noticed anything different with Saige ?" as Charlotte who sipped her drink said "No, why have you ?" sounding worried.

"Yeah. I mean once we came, we went to go get some drinks. She started chugging it. I didn't think anything at first but I know Saige, she did the same thing twice." Charlotte rose a brow. "Two drinks at once ?"

"Two at once" as I asked, "I mean she seemed fine earlier, but I was wondering has she told you anything about her spring break ?"

"No. She hasn't told me anything out of the unoriginal. I mean she looks fine, just enjoying the party." as we shared a glare to see Saige who cheered once she successfully got a ping pong ball inside of the cup as the football team cheered behind her as she drowned the cup of beer in a split second.

I sighed. "Maybe you're right and I'm overreacting." as Charlotte put her hand on my shoulder and said "That's why you're a good friend, you always looking out for us." as I chuckled, "Kind of in my DNA."

"Is Kenz here ?" I asked as Charlotte said "I don't know. I tried calling, but she didn't pick up." as I noticed her sad expression. "Something happen between you two ?"

Charlotte huffed, "Well." as she added "I think I hurt her feelings." as I asked "How ?" as Charlotte sighed, "Well. I found out she has feelings for me." as I chuckled, "You're just now seeing them ?"

Charlotte looked at me, "You knew ?!" as I said "Yeah me and Saige knew. I mean it's pretty clear she did. The way she looks at you." as she said "She looks at me normally."

"Just friends" don't look at each other normally." as Charlotte said "I told her it would be weird for us to date. I mean were like sisters, and she respected me for not wanting to be in a relationship after Wyatt's death but it's been 6 months."

"Well you didn't technically tell her no." as Charlotte said "I didn't really tell her yes."as I asked "Do you have feelings for Mackenzie ?" as Charlotte told me with a sigh, "I only see her as a friend..well I think I only see her as a friend now, but I can't."

"Is it because of my psychotropic evil hybrid cousin that you've been thinking about ?" as I sipped my drink. Charlotte rose her eyes. "What ?! No ?!" as I rose a brow as Charlotte added, "Taylor is a monster, she's the whole reason he's dead in the first place !"

"Taylor is dead to me." as she muttered, "Can't believe I slept with her." as I said "Salvatore's can make you feel some type of way in certain situations." as she joked, "Like you and Saige once upon a time ago."

I gave her a annoyed look as she laughed at me before shoving me playful. "Haha, very funny." as she put her arm around me before we walked off to another spot.

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𝑬𝒛𝒓𝒂

𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆. 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒚 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒐. 𝑰 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒂 𝒉𝒐𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇.

I wore a cream dress with white sandals and a necklace as my hair was in a braid. I put some chill on my hot dog before turning around only to bump into a girl.

In doing so the chill wasted on me. "Oh my god, I'm sorry." as I looked at her. She was pretty.

She had natural dark hair with pink highlights and she was wearing a red cropped shirt with a black hoodie leather jacket and light washed jeans along with heeled brown boots.

"It's ok." I told her as she got some napkin for me and began to help me. I took them from her. "Thank you." I said as she said "You're welcome." as I said "I guess I should introduce myself."

"I'm Ezra Bennett." as I held my hand out she shook my hand. "I'm Annabelle Gilbert." as my eyes went wide. "You're Stefanie's cousin." as she huffed, "Yep. Stefanie's cousin." in a unenthusiastic voice.

"There's nothing wrong with that, I'm her best friend." as she said, "At least you know more about her than me." as I noticed how twitchy she was. "Are you alright ?" as she said "Fine. Just nerves. It's my first day so I'm not use to big crowds."

"That's cool. I'm going to Mystic Falls High School, are you ?" as she nodded. She then started to check me out.

"So.. you expecting somebody ?" as I was about to say something before I heard, "Yeah and shes' taken." as I looked behind and Annabelle to only to see Nia.

She was wearing a white tank top with denim jeans and heeled booties with her hair in a bun and varsity jacket over neath. She put her arm over me protectively.

"Nia, calm down this is Annabelle. Stefanie's cousin." as Nia said "Well that's explain's much. You Gilbert's like flirting with people's girlfriend ?" as Annabelle narrowed her eyes.

"Nia." I said as Annabelle smiled and said "It's ok. What's wrong Nia scared I'm going steal your girl ?" as Nia narrowed her eyes.

"Ana, that's rude." as Nia said "It's ok. Moody teenagers are normal." as Annabelle rolled her eyes before she turned to me. "It was nice meeting you Ezra." as I said "It was nice to meet you to." as she looked to Nia before looking back at me.

"You're a pretty girl. You can better." as Nia gave her a angry look as Annabelle purposely rubbed back and forth on my arm. "See you." as she grabbed a plate of wings and nachos before walking off.

Nia removed her arm from me. "What is her deal ?" as I said "I could ask you the same thing ?" as she looked at me. "Annabelle was just talking to me, no need to get jealous."

"I'm not jealous." as I smiled at her as she blushed. "No need to be jealous. You're the only person who owns my heart." as I pinched her cheek lightly before giving her a peck.

"Sorry for coming off that way." as she said "You can make it up to me with a Harry Potter Marathon." "Deal." she said as we held hands before walking off.

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𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆

𝑰 𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒐𝒓'𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆. 𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒑. 𝑰 𝒄𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒑 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆.

Taylor sipped her wine before digging in herself. "You're telling me you made all of this ?" as Taylor said "I have talents my dear Gray." as I asked "No way. This can't be this good. Who is missing their head chef ?"

She chuckled at me and I laughed back. "This is all I've ever wanted for the to of us." as Taylor looked at me. "A life away from supernatural inferences. It makes me think were just normal."

"Well. We to people are paired together, you can lose yourself in one another. All the bad you've ever done doesn't matter, because that person who you are with, doesn't care."

I smiled at her. We finished eating. I wiped my mouth off with my napkin. "I can't eat anymore. I think my dress is about to rip open." as Taylor said "Awe, but dessert is right now."

The waitress then brought a pudding parfait. "Oh Taylor could you get anymore romantic." as I grabbed my spoon before digging in. Taylor did the same. "I'm full of surprises." as I smiled at her.

Taylor took a spoonful of her parfait as she held the spoon out as I grinned before leaning forward to allow her to feed me. I licked my lips of the whip cream.

"Don't allow me." as she used her thumb to brush off the whip cream for me before she pulled away to lick her thumb clean of it. I blushed before sitting down again.

As Taylor grinned to before sitting back in her chair. "Shall we finish the night off with a drink ?" as I looked to the waitress who stood there.

"A sip." as we both grabbed a girl before my vampires eyes faded in and so did Taylor's hybrid eyes as we both bite down on their necks and began to drain them of blood.

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𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅, 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎. 𝑰 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅.

"What a amazing date. Taylor I'm shocked at you tonight ?" as she said, "Just wait, till next date night." as I turned to face her. I smiled. "Thank you for this Taylor. It's the most happiest I've been."

"Don't mention it Gray. It's the least I could have done." as I chuckled. "remember when I told you, you needed me to spicy things up you're life ?" as she said "Yeah and in return I told you "I would love you to." as I chuckled.

I then turned my back to her, hands on my hips before adding, "I don't remember, did you say you liked me in this dress ?"

Taylor grew a tiny smirk. "I did." as she asked "What's wrong, zipper stuck ?" as I said "It's really stuck, mind helping me out of it ?" as I turned to glance at her.

Taylor then closed the door locking it. She made her way towards me as she moved my hair from my beck before she put her hand on my shoulder, I took in a breathe from her touch.

She then proceeded to zip down my dress, as she began to take the top off.

She stopped for a quick second, thinking about the moment. I waited the anticipate killing me slowly before her hands moved to my waist, my body sitting perfectly in hers. "What are you waiting for?" I asked her quietly.

Taylor took in a hitch breathe when she smelled the perfume I choose. "F*ck it." she told herself before she roughly pulled me towards her allowing her to devour at my neck kissing it with passion as I leaned back to give her better accesses before I stopped to faced her. 

She looked at me.

I took in a breathe before I began to kiss her passionately. She did the same for me. I smiled at her and Taylor smiled on my lips.

Me and her stumbled before switching position as she sat down. I sat on her lap kicking off my heels in the process as she kissed me before I started to unzip her jumpsuit, wanting to be skin to skin with her after months of admiring and craving her.

She stopped me by throwing me onto the bed with her speed. I landed on the pillows.  She stood up and took it off herself. I marveld at her body and too what she choose to wear underneath. It was a black lace set, Taylor knew I loved her seeing her in black. 

My eyes didn't leave her. "Like what you see?" she asked me. "You know I do." I murmured as I sat up on my knees holding her cheeks in my hands. "But I perfer you in nothing at all." as she smirked as I let my hand trailed to her back uncliping her bra watching it fall.

 I sat back in bed removing the rest of my own dress, choosing to be dressed in my own matching set of white lace

She came towards me almost in a crawl manner as I went back as far as I could before she stopped me grabbing my legs.

 I grinned as she held me by my back and began to kiss up and down my neck.

"I want to taste every inch of you" she growled to me against my neck as I grew flustered.

 I whimpered softly using my finger to circle her already tight and hard nipple. She moaned agaisnt my chest. 

"God, you're moans are heaven." I said as she smiled, "Oh baby," she started off, even the words simply as "baby." coming from Taylor made me wet. It was so romantic. "I will bring you heaven and hell." as she roughly stuck her fingers in me. 

I let out a cry. "Tay!" I groaned.

"Mhmm? Aw we both know you take can it." as she went in a brutal pace not even allowing me to become use to it.

 "Taylor. Tay, oh my god, don't you stop." as she hit my good spot, arching my back.

 I digged my fingers into her hair, undoing her bun as her hair went down and went messy which was my favorite hairstyle on her. 

I let out nosie after nosie. 

Taylor even matching the noises too as she pulled her fingers out quickly only to remove me of my underwear for easy acess as she even remove herself of her underwear throwing both across the room. 

I smiled, urgently bringing her close as she dove back inside with her fingers as I adjust before I myself put my own two inside her as she bit her lips muttering the words, "O-ohh." with sputter moans. 

Like I said moans of a angel, who in reality was a devil.

 "Your thighs are shaking." I told her, she was red as she balled her fist on her arm for support taking in breathes as we grinned at the other.

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𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒂𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆

𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒑 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒂. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒐𝒏 𝑱𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒆'𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒔. 𝑾𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒎𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒈𝒖𝒍𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒑𝒍𝒖𝒔 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉.

The others laughed to, as high as I was. I messed around with Jackie's hair which was down. She was wearing a tank top with ripped black shorts, and thigh high stockings with a choker and a denim jacket and platform sneakers.

She sipped her drink as she looked down at me and smiled. I smiled back before she grabbed my cheeks and produced to kiss me softly and smoothly. I kissed back hand on her cheek.

"Awe look at the sweethearts." a blonde guy with spiky hair who I learned was name Trevor said. "Shut up Trevor." as I chuckled, "Yeah Trevor." as Jackie rubbed my stomach with her arm.

"Hey. I got this." as Jackie asked "What is it ?" as he held out a couple of needles. I sat up a bit. "Whoa, I never seen anything like this." as Jackie said excited, "Yes you brought it back." she produced to roll her sleeve up along with everybody else and stab themselves.

I looked around confused. "Hey, um what's this ?" as she said "Take on, there harmless." as I looked it up and down. I never took a needle before, but I knew the side effects.

I looked at her. "I'll help you." she said as she rolled my arm sleeve up and produced to stab me in the arm. I felt a rush of blood go up in my system. She pulled it out. "Ow." I said as I added, "It burns Jack."

"It only starts like that." as she kissed the mark were I got pricked. She was right after a while. I felt like I was on cloud nine. We all went back to doing our own things. "Hey." I asked her in her ear as she asked "Yeah ?"

"Wanna get out of here ?" as she smirked and said "Sure." as she nodded to Trevor as a boy said before we left. "Somebody about to get one." as we both faced him. Jackie rolled her eyes and threw her vape at him as I laughed.

We made it to the woods. Jackie rested herself on a tree as she said to me, "You're really cool Gilbert." as I put my hands on her waist. "You're really cool to." as we began to make out.

I kissed her neck as she wrapped her arms around my back. She pulled back in order for her to blow out smoke from her mouth. I inhaled it blowing it back. She chuckled at me as she kissed me back.

That's when we both heard a noise. "What was that ?" she asked me as I said "I don't know ?" as she asked "Should we check it out ?" as she said "I got it." as I said "No don't leave."

"I'll be back you big baby." as she kissed my cheek. I waited by the tree.

Jackie made her way through the woods to the source of the noise. "Hey who's there ? Hello ?" as thick fog started to descend.

A woman was standing behind her as she got attacked.

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𝑴𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒛𝒊𝒆

𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒚. 𝑰 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒔.

I was wearing a blue blue checkered polo mini dress with white slip on vans as my hair was half up half down style. I went to the food table to pour myself a drink and get a cookie.

I walked around looking for the others, before I looked to see somebody passed out on a log. I walked closer only to noticed it was Saige. I rushed over. "Saige !" I said shaking her.

She groaned. I then was hit with the smell of beer.

"Saige, have you been drinking heavy ?" as she sat up or tried to. I had to catch her. She slurred her words, "I came here after doing a keg stand, guess I passed out."

"Here, eat something fatty." I told her as I gave her a pulled pork sandwich. She ate it taking small bites. "How bad do I look ?" she asked me as I said "Well, you look like pretty wasted."

"I don't know what's wrong with me." she said as I asked "Did you break really go well ?" as she looked at me before she said "Well it was-" that's when we both heard somebody scream "Somebody help!"

We looked at each other before we sprinted off to find the source. We made it there to find Annabelle holding Jackie in her arms. She had been bitten.

"Jack ! What happened ?!" Nancy asked rushing towards her. "What happened to her?" a people in the crowd said. Me, and Saige were then joined by Charlotte, Stefanie, Ezra and Nia.

"Somebody, call an ambulance!" Charlotte yelled as Stefanie said "Everybody back up and give her some space!" as Saige said, "She's been bitten, she losing alot of blood."

"I need a rag !" Stefanie yelled out as Annabelle put Jackie on the ground as she started to press the rag to her neck. It was a trick her mom taught her. "Jackie, Jackie, come on, open your eyes, look at me."

I began to dial my Dad's number.

"I don't know what happened, we were in the woods with the others." as Stefanie said "An, you need to tell me exactly what happened." as Stefanie noticed her shakyness she was and how twitchy she was.

"Annabelle what's wrong ?" I asked her. Once she didn't respond, Stefanie grabbed Annabelle arm. "Hey !" that's when Stefanie saw the prick mark.

Her eyes went wide in shock but that soon turned into anger, it rushed through her veins. "Annabelle, what did you do ?" Stefanie hissed through her teeth as Annabelle gave her a look.

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𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆

𝑶𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍. 𝑴𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆. 𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒂𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝑫𝒓. 𝑺'𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆. 𝑰 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒎 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏.

"Don't walk away from me !" I yelled to her. Josie had overheard me. I was sure I woke the entire school. "Stef, Stef." Josie said trying to calm me down. The others had arrived inside to. Ezra closed the door behind along with putting a spell up so nobody could hear.

"God, you sound like a mom." Annabelle told me mocking me as she put her bag down along with taking her jacket off and her flower crown. "Stefanie you need to cam down." Dr. Saltzman told me.

I didn't listen. "No, I'm not going to calm down !" as Annabelle said "Guess what I don't want to hear it !" as I asked "Guess what you're going to hear me today !"

"I can't believe it. Drugs you're taking drugs. For how long ?" as Annabelle stayed quiet. She saw the look, "If you think I'm going to tell you you're dead wrong !"

"Oh that's fine, I'm sure your dad would like to find out about it." as Annabelle said panic filling her face "You wouldn't ?" as I pulled out my phone, "I would. It would be a shock to him that his sweet baby girl is killing herself by putting stuff up her nose."

"You are not my father, nor my mom. I don't have to listen to you. I'm going to see Jackie." as I stop her by pushing her away from the door. "You're not going anywhere."

"Says who ?" she asked as I said "Says me." as she asked "Who do you think your are."

I asked "Let me ask you something. Is your last name on the building of this school. I didn't think so. So show me some respect and stop whining." Annabelle stayed quiet.

"Thought so." as I slammed my keys down. "Do you have any more ?" as Annabelle said "That's none of your concern." as I asked "So you're a drug seller." as Annabelle avoided eye contact.

"I want to know what happened to the sweet girl who hugged me this morning. I didn't ask to be a babysitter to a drug seller and I surely didn't ask to be one to a whiny rude little girl who shows no respect towards others. Do you have more ?"

Annabelle stayed quiet as I said "Ok then." as she went off. "What are you doing ?" Annabelle asked with a eye roll. I put her bag down.

"You're gonna have find somewhere else to stay, because I'm not going let you stay here." Annabelle rose her eyes.

"Stefanie !" Josie said to me.

"You're just saying that cause you're mad." Annabelle asked with a small voice crack "No I'm dead serious. Out." as I handed Annabelle her bag. "Where am I suppose to go ?"

"Don't know. Don't care. Figure it out." as I opened the door for her to leave through. Annabelle breathes picked up in her chest. "Stefanie, I think you've prove your point." Mackenzie said.

"You can't kick me out." Annabelle said as I said "Just did." as Annabelle yelled putting her bag down.

"The only reason you're doing this is because you didn't even want me in the first place !"

"I didn't. There's your true." as I said "I rather have Anthony here then you know ! At least he wouldn't be causing all theses problems !" as Annabelle balled her fist as she chewed on her bottom lip as I went back to yelling at her.

The others have never seen me this angry, sure I had her angry problems, but I was in a full rage.

"Where is he anyway ?" as Annabelle looked away. She had been trying to hold back tears but her eyes were wet and she wiped her cheek every other second.

"He's gone." Annabelle said frustrated.

"What do you mean he's gone !"as Annabelle screamed out to me, tears racing down her cheeks "Because I'm Anthony !!!"

I looked at her in shock, it stopped me from yelling. The others were shocked to. Annabelle looked back at me. She was hyperventilating. "An ?" I asked.

Annabelle then brought herself back to reality. She turned to see the shocked looks on everybody faces. She then raced out of the room as I just stood there not knowing what to take away from the situation.

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𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆

𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒊𝒏 𝑻𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒐𝒓'𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆. 𝑴𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒚.

I smiled thinking about what happened between us. I turned to see Taylor who was under the blankets to. She looked so beautiful while sleeping, like a princess.

I put my hand on her cheek. I did a pattern on her thigh which was exposed. It woke her up. 

She groaned. "Evening." I said as she said "Evening." half way sleep half way awake. I then turned my back to her.

She kissed my shoulder blade. I grinned before saying "This was nice." as she said "Yeah it was." as I faced "Let's do it again." as Taylor faced me and said "Let's." with a soft murmur.

We precede to share another kiss with one another as we pulled away as Taylor looked at me smiling as I smiled back.

She grabbed my back as she we made out as my lips turned into a grin as her did aswell as she pressed a raspberry kiss on my cheek as I laughed out in happiness.

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𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆

𝑰 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒓 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒘𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏. 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒌 𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒎 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒚𝒍𝒆, 𝑰 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔.

I opened the door with a struggle as Saige groaned her arms wrapped around my neck. I thought she would want to stand but she wanted to act like a baby and make me carry her.

"Ok. I can't find the light." I said looking around as Saige slurred, "Brush your hand against the wall." as I moved it my hand until finding the light. I flipped it and found Saige's dad.

I jolted. He was wearing a button down navy blue shirt with a darker tie with black dress pants and fancy shoes. He really did look like a mayor. I sighed once realizing it was just Mr. Lockwood.

"Hey, Mr. Lockwood." I said holding Saige in my arms. Saige saw her father and narrowed her eyes.

"Hi Stefanie." he told me with a smile taking his cuff links off. "I just came to bring Saige." as Saige rested her head on my shoulder and did duck lips.

"Is she drunk ?" as Saige said "As a skunk." as he sighed. "I just got a call from Matt, what happened at the party ?" as Saige slurred, "You care about other people instead of your daughters' well being."

I cut the tension. "I'll bring her up to her room, Mr Lockwood." as he said "Thank you, I have work to get done. We'll talk in the morning." he told Saige as Saige said sarcastic, "Looking forward to it." as I walked up the stairs.

I opened the door. I hadn't been in Saige's bedroom in a while, it was different.

She had the same king size bed in a master suite with white flooring and many luxurious chairs and couches along with her giant chandelier and huge flat screen TV.

Once I got inside I helped Saige down. She stumbled before flopping onto her bed. I looked around my eyes landing on the photo of our middle school dance. My hands were wrapped around her waist as she wore a stunning green dress and me a white jumpsuit. We both smiled.

I smirked at it. Saige held her head and sat up a bit which is when she lunched forward and began to spit her guts up.

"Oooh, Saige !" I said getting a trash can for her. She took it. I held her hair for her. Once down she groaned even more.

"You ok ?" I asked her putting the trash can down. She huffed. "I feel like crap." as I said "It will pass." as she started to undress herself taking her jacket off. She rose up.

I took her bed sheet off her bed for her and put the in her washer.

"Help." she said stuck in her sweater.

I chuckled before helping her take it off. She took off her pants along with her boots and her jewelry.

She was left in her white bra and underwear. My eyes went around the room until I noticed she was in a rocker t-shirt. She flopped in her bed before going under the covers her head poking out at the top.

I said "Well you look good, I'll guess I'll go." I made my way towards the door. "Stef." she croaked out as I turned to her. "Yeah ?" as she sniffled before asking "Do you think I'm a burden ?"

I looked at her. "Saige, what no. I don't think your a burden, why would you think that ?" as she said "Because, that's just how I feel. Spring Break sucked. Me and my dad are not doing well. I don't think I'm good enough to be his daughter, probably why he doesn't spend time with me, why my mom didn't want to spend time with me."

I gave her a sad look. "Saige." as I went over towards her as I wiped tears from her eyes. "You are the toughest person I've ever know. You are not a burden, you are a gift. Your worth more than you'll ever know." as she sighed.

"If it makes you feel better. You mean everything to me." as Saige chuckled at me wiping her eyes. "Stop being snappy." as I grinned before leaving out the door.

"Please....don't leave me alone, can you stay until I fall asleep ?" I made my way towards her again before I sat in the chair across from her.

Saige put her head on the pillow as she started to dozy off as she started to fall asleep.

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𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒆

𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒆'𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒎. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒓𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓, 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓. 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒂 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒉𝒆𝒓.

"I have to be the worse person on planet earth." as Josie said "That's not true." I told her as she made her way towards me before she flopped down. I held her as I massaged her scalp.

"Hey, you lost your cool and that happens sometimes. But that doesn't mean what you were saying wasn't harsh." as she joked, "Thanks for taking it easy on me." as I looked down at her.

"But seriously, thanks. I'm glad you don't take it easy on me and you are there to give me tough love, god know I need it." as I gave a little smile and so did Stefanie. "I can't believe that Ann is transgender and I didn't catch out."

"You couldn't have known. You can't blame yourself for that." as she huffed. "You're right. It must have been horrible for her to hear me keep saying I wanted Anthony instead of her."

"I need to fix this." she said rising fulling to see me.

"But I don't know how." as I held her cheeks in my hands. "You're gonna known." as I kissed her cheek. "Now let's get some sleep today was rough."

She nodded to me as I shut off the lights as I wrapped my arms around her as Stefanie sighed letting herself fall asleep.

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𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆

𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝑫𝒓. 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒎𝒂𝒏'𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒆. 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑼𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝑱𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒚. 𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒐𝒐𝒏.

I was wearing a white button down shirt with my navy blue tie and a black pencil skirt with red Mary Jane shoes as my hair was put into a curly ponytail.

I had just made a breakfast burrito. I sat down in his fancy office chair. I heard footsteps as I saw Annabelle had passed by the door. "Anna !" I called out.

I heard her huff. She then walked into the room. "Hey." as she muttered, "Hey."

She was wearing a pink spiked choker with a plaid skirt and black combat boots with a black and yellow nirvana shirt, her hair was in a ponytail.

"Can we talk ?" as she looked at me arms folded.

"It's just us. Plus I made breakfast burrito." as I showed her the plate. I knew that burritos were her favorite. She huffed before coming towards me. She sat in the chair across from me.

I began to eat my burrito.

She picked up the sausage, bacon, cheese and egg burrito before taking a big bites. I noticed her appetite.

I then poured us a glass of orange juice. I offered it to her. Her cheeks were stuff but she took it.

"I'm so sorry about last night." she rose her eyes at me. "What I said was fully out of line. I shouldn't have told you those things or go off on you yesterday. It was wrong of me."

Annabelle swallowed before drinking her juice. "It's whatever. You only said those things because I pushed you to, if it's anybody fault it's my own." as I asked "Why do you sell drugs in the first place."

She sighed. "Do you want to talk about it ?" as Annabelle sighed, "I sell drugs for my surgery ." I rose a brow. She huffed. "I started to months ago. Dad was on board with it. I let my hair grow and started wearing bra's. Soon I started getting my own surgeries."

"First my cheek reconstruction, then my Adam's Apple reconstruction, then my breast, and my butt following."

"The only one I couldn't do was for my vagina constriction. It was the one that costed the most money. Dad had been paying for all of them out of his own pocket, each one was more expensive from the last."

"He couldn't afford that one, so I started selling. Help him out around the house. Ended up making 100 dollars a day and soon selling turned into my taking them."

"I took them because I couldn't deal with my social anxiety and my mom leaving me. They made me feel numb and I liked that." I sighed to her before I added, "Annabelle. I will personal never know what you've gone through, but why didn't you tell me."

Annabelle laughed "Because of ever transgender person's fear. Rejection. Teasing. Saying you can't change your gender. That's why I keep it hidden. You telling me you rather have Anthony then me, hurt."

I finished my burrito as I said "I was mad. I'm sorry." as Annabelle said  "It's whatever."

"Annabelle. I love you, and I would forgive you for anything, but trusting you is a whole other story, but I want you to know, I love every side of you." as Annabelle said "Stop being snappy." as I chuckled.

"But in all honest. I guess you're okay to Stefanie. I've missed you." as I grinned. "I've missed you to An." as we grinned at each other.

"Cool ?" I asked her as she said "Yeah." with a short eye roll as I rose from the seat to hug her. Annabelle patted my back, not fully embracing me though. I pulled away.

"Whatever money I earn. I'm going to help you have your surgery." as she asked "You don't have to." as I said "I don't have to but I want to." as she said "Thanks."

"Also no more drug selling." as she huffed. "Fine." as I added, "Or taking." as she said "I get it." as I held my hand out. She gave me a glare before going to her bedroom to two navy blue bags.

She gave them to me. "Thank you, I'm going to throw them away." as I put them to the side.

Annabelle sat down back in the chair. I sat down across from her. She drunk her juice. "I talk to Kenz. If you want to earn money you can work at the Grill."

"The Grill ?" she asked me as I nodded "Yeah it will be perfect environment for you." as she said "I'll think about it."

"I expect a answer by later this week." as Annabelle rolled her eyes at me.

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𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒆

𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒘𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕. 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆. 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒖𝒑𝒔𝒆𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒃𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇𝒇.

Currently there was pounding knocks on the door. I was home alone. My hair was messy as I wore a red plaid jacket over neath a black v neck crop top with black jeans and heeled black boots.

I itched my hair as I groaned, "I'm coming, I'm coming." I said as I went to the door and saw Rafael, he was holding flowers in his hand.

"Raf." I said shocked as I leaned my hand on the door, "What are you doing here ?" as he said "A man needs a excuse to come to his girlfriend's house." as Saige said "No you don't." with a smile.

I took the flowers, they were my favorite roses. "Roses, my favorite." as he asked, "Hey, let's go out spend a day together in the sun." as I asked "Why ?" as he said "Stefanie told me about last night."

I huffed, "Course she did." as he said "That's what makes her a good friend, she tells other when your hurting." as I said "I was drunk, I wasn't thinking." as Rafael grabbed my hand.

I looked him up and down. "Your my girl Saige. Whenever your down and you need me, I'll be there. I know you and Stefanie are best friend, but you can always come to me to. I need to know when this kind of stuff is bothering you."

I sighed, if I was Rafael I would be sad to, if my own girlfriend wasn't coming to me with her problems. I sighed, "Do you have a minute ?" as he leaned in to kiss me. He pulled away before adding, "I have all the time in the world for you."

I blushed brightly as I said "Let's go the Grill, and I'll tell you what's going on." as I powered off my phone so nobody could interrupt us. I walked outside as Rafael took my hand as we both walked to the Grill.

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𝑴𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒛𝒊𝒆

"𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑." 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒖𝒑 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎. 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒄 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒈𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒅𝒍𝒆𝒓. 𝑰 𝒑𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒔.

The mom thank me. I smiled at her as I heard my name at the bar. I saw Amy MacKirttick. "Hey, Amy anything you would like me to get ?" as Amy said "Pretty busy out there. I think it's good if you take a break."

I rose a brow, "Break, what no I'm good. I'm pumped." as the girl said "No I'm serious, the cute blonde girl wanted to give you this." as I looked down to see the Banana Cream Pie Milkshake.

I looked at Amy, she nodded to me with a smile taking my shift for me as I saw Charlotte sitting at the bar on a stool wearing a denim skirt with a cropped stripped shirt and sneakers as her hair was curly.

She waved at me. I looked at her as I gave her a look as she giggled at me looking guilty.

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"𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒆." 𝑰 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 "𝒀𝒆𝒔 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐." 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒌𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒆.

"You are my best friend Mackenzie. My sister." as I turned away in order to sip my milkshake. "Any apparently that still doesn't sit well with you." as I said "No it's fine, I don't care anymore."

"Well that doesn't sit well with me." as I turned to her. "I-I mean so you're not going to fight for my epic love." as I gave her a look, "Char, were not in a TV show."

"I know." Charlotte said with a sigh as she huffed, "I guess, I'm not going to try anymore." I told her.

I said "What's the point, you only see me as a sister." as Charlotte said "Kenz. Seriously, just because I-" "rejected." as Charlotte said with a huff "Rejected you, it doesn't mean I don't want to stay friends. We grew up together, losing you would be heartbreaking."

I put my milkshake down as I grabbed Charlotte's hand she looked at me. "I can't stay away from you. You're my number 1 when it comes to everything in my life." I told Charlotte with pride as she gave me a shocked look. I then realized what I said.

My cheeks glisten red. "Wow, I can't believe those words came out of my mouth." as Charlotte chuckled. "It was sweet." as I rubbed the back of my neck.

"Let's do something later tonight, just us." as I asked "What do you have in mind ?"

"Let watch a movie and make homemade pizza and cupcakes." as I said "I would like that." as Charlotte said "It's a date." as we clinked our milkshakes together before sipping them and smiling at one another.

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𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆

𝑰 𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒅, 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒆. 𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒓𝒚.

Dear Diary,

Today, I realized something. It's about change. Change is never easy, it's happens outside of your comfort zone. Annabelle made me realize that I had to change myself. I had step outside of my comfort zone and get to know her, trust her and really get to love her. I have signed the documents and as of right now I'm her legal guardian. They told me it wasn't going to be easy, but I would do it regardless. Change is inevitable, change is a process, change is hard, but it's for the best. I thought this school year was going to be different, but I slowly realized something, the attacks of many bodies drained of blood-"

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𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒂𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆

𝑰 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝑱𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒆'𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎. 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒏. 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝑱𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒈𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓.

I said "Hey Jack. I brought you a card plus I got you some real food." as I got out a bag from "Burger Falls." as I said with a smile, "A triple layer burger with a villain shake and a small frie."

I walked over, "I thought you would want some. I got myself two triple layer burgers with a chocolate milkshake with a medium burrito for later and a large bacon brisket cheese fries."

I sat down in the chair as I gripped her hand. "I wish you were here right now, I have some much I want to tell you." as I kissed her forehead. I then opened my fries and began to eat them.

That's when Jackie's eyes opened. She started hyperventilating and looking around shocked.

I put my fries down and grabbed her hand. "Jackie ! Its ok, it me." as her heart beat monitor went up.

"An." she croaked out tears falling down her eyes. "Don't try and say anything, save your strength, I'm going to go get the nurse-" she then grabbed my hand with a tight grip.

I turned to look at her. She looked at me as she spoke out one word "Vampire."

I was shocked and with that she passed back out as I looked around confused, my chest going up and down.

"Was just the beginning..."

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