"The Girls Are Back in Town.." [Stefan]

Elena stroked her brush down her long hair one final time, before looking and smiling in the mirror. She had just set her diary down after writing a somewhat heartfelt entry in it.

Dear Diary. Today will be different. It has to be. I will smile and it will be believable. That smile will say, "I'm fine, thank you." "Yes, I feel much better." I will no longer be the sad little girl who lost her parents. I will start fresh, be someone new. It's the only way I'll make it through...

She smiled one last time in the mirror, and put her leather jacket over her red top and tied the shoelaces on her converse and smiled. For the first time in a long time, she genuinely smiled to herself. By herself.

Elena took her final steps down the stairs and smiled at her Aunt Jenna who was stressing over making breakfast and getting us ready for school.
"Toast, I can make toast!" She would say, turning to Elena hopeful. "It's ALL about the coffee Aunt Jenna" She said, smiling and taking the pot out from under the maker and pouring some into her mug. "Is there coffee?" Elena heard her brother, Jeremy, say approaching. "It's your first day of school and I'm totally unprepared." Aunt Jenna said, looking around for something as Jeremy sweetly took the mug from Elena. She gracefully smiled, "Well..." and proceeded to grab another. "Lunch money?" Aunt Jenna asked, handing two cripst 20 dollar bills to the kids. "Yeah, I'll grab it in a minute..." Elena said, pouring another amount of coffee into another mug as Jeremy took the money. "Crap. I'm meeting with my thesis advisor. Now."
"Then go! We'll be fine!" Elena told her. Jenna flashed a smile, then dashed out the front door.
"You okay?" Elena asked Jeremy genuinely, who would just roll his eyes and tell her, "Don't start..." He sipped his coffee and headed out as Elena just sighed, turned around and sip some more coffee. She was waiting for her best friend, Bonnie to come pick her up so they could face their first day as juniors together. Great!

Elena gave a wide grin to Bonnie, "God. I've missed you SO much too!" She clarified. The summer had been so lonely. First off, her parents, BOTH, had died from the car crash she miraculously was saved from. Second, Elena had been very distant from people over summer break so she hadn't interacted with people unless they were Aunt Jenna, Jeremy or her Uncle John. "You know. It's just been really lonely here, considering. I'm just so glad that school's starting back up. I'll have so many distractions."

"I'm...doing much better. Not a wreck anymore so that's always a plus." She said, giving off some humor. "Well, I kinda was gone for an eternity. Losing your two parents will do that to you." She said looking down at the dashboard, then realizing what she said could have been a little rude. "Oh, gosh Bonnie. I'm so sorry. It's just been kinda hard. Aunt Jenna's trying, but getting nowhere and Jeremy's...Jeremy."

"Good, I just don't want to be on bad terms with anyone now...Speaking of Caroline..., we better hit the road." She said laughing. Caroline and Elena are pretty much fr-enemies. Up until a few years ago they were as thick as thieves, until she started to get jealous of Elena's growing popularity. They were the best of friends, along with Bonnie. They even snuck in cigarettes when they were in 5th grade, of course they got caught because they were coughing so damn loud but that's another story for another episode.

"Please, I'd say Jenna'd whip him into shape, but he'd just laugh at her stern parenting." She said laughing. "Yeah, I was talking to people here and there during the summer but most of them were people I barely knew yapping about what great people my parents were and how much I look like Miranda." She said laughing, mocking their voices 'how much i look like Miranda'.

Elena gave a weak smile, and turned to Bonnie as she was pulling out of the grassy part they were on at first. "It's fine. I'm fine. It's all good." She told her. Elena may have said she was fine, but the moment Bonnie swerved, she could feel the accident again. Just all the fear she had as they fled off the bridge and into the river. As they got back onto the road, she turned around and noticed the black bird. It was fine and sitting on the grass staring at them. Creepy.

Elena pulled open her door and got out, smiling. "Well, the Girls are Back in town." She said, smiling and giving Bonnie a dorky high five. They locked arms as they walked together into the school and into the hallway. Elena had went to an early orientation session so she knew where her locker was and her combo. As they turned a corner, Elena but on a wide fake grin. "You ready?" She whispered to Bonnie.

Turns out, Bonnie didn't have enough time to answer and they ended up bumping into Caroline. "Elena! Bonnie." "Care!" She said to Caroline. All their circle of friends had called her Care since they were little, so at least not TOO much had to change. As soon as Caroline had noticed Bonnie, Elena saw a familar football jacket. It was Matt. Matt Donovan. Elena's ex boyfriend she had broken up with. He's a shockingly sweet guy about the whole break up, be he didn't want to really be as close of friends afterwards. Elena turned, as she followed him with her eyes. When he had finally noticed her, she gave him a smile and a shy wave. He looked up at her, with no emotion in his face, and turned away. "How do you feel?" "Um, I'm doing much better. What about you? How was your summer vacation?" "Oh, it was great," Caroline replied excited. "I got to travel a lot, so that's a plus. Shopping, new hot guys, you know, a dream vacation," then she lowered her voice. "I'm really sorry about your parents, Elena. They were great people. How's Jeremy doing?" she asked. "Yep, a dream." She said, smiling. More like a nightmare. She thought. The fact of the matter was, sure shopping's great and so are hot guys, but it's just...Caroline was probably in some foreign countries. Hot foreign countries. So mix hot weather, sweaty hot me...actually that is the dream vacation... "Yeah, they were pretty much my rock. So I had to settle for Jenna..." She said, giggling. Jenna was doing amazing, for a college student raising two teens. "Jeremy's in a phase I guess. He's been like, alright don't Tell Jenna. I think he's been doing drugs and hanging out with Tyler and Vicky..""What?" Caroline gasped. "Drugs?" she mumbled. "Well, that's what you get when you get involved with Tyler or Vicky. It's not like I have anything against them it's just...well, as you said, they take drugs, they're not very normal and..." Caroline's eyes went huge. "Oh, there he is!" she whispered. "Girls, look, the admissions office! New guy alert!" she giggled, annoyingly. Of course Caroline couldn't help it, she was naturally this way.
Elena couldn't really judge the guy's physical features...it was his back afterall.


OOC: Grr, sorry. I got a lil carried away and forgot we have a Caroline. Im sorry for Godmodding.

I walked up the lawn to the High school keeping to myself and just igonoring all the stares. Its funny how they all think I'm the new kid when really I've been here longer then them. I noticed all the girls checking me out and they guys scowling at me, it happened to every new place I was in. I headed into the school after I passed a group of girls who were really checking me out, one stood out most though. The one with the long brown hair and the big beautiful doe eyes, eyes I used to stare in with another girl. I shook my head, this wasn't the time to think about it, especially when I was back where it all started. I headed to the counselors office to retrieve my schedule, with some 'persuasion' and headed to my first class for the hundreenth time.

I was walking down the hall still ignoring the stares when I saw a girl come out of the bathroom doors. I thought she was gonna pass me and not bump into me but turns out she did. "I'm so sorry." she said. I smiled. It was the girl I noticed earlier, the one that resembled my past but she was alot more beautiful. I looked to see that she had come out of the boys bathroom instead of the girls. "Its alright, I should have watched where I was going." I told her.

OOC:I don't remember this scene very much so forgive me for the lines, I'm just winging it here. sorry

"Um, no. No. It was my fault, ya know...looking the opposite way. It's good on the road...but ya know...not so much h.."She said laughing. Noticing the awkwardness that was beginning to arise. She looked up at the sign that kinda said mens and looked back at the guy. "Oh, erm. I was just...going to first per...I was...sorry, I should erm probably go..."This is hot back boy! She flashed another, seemingly awkward smile and trying to go past him. "I'll just -- um.."

I smiled at how she was rambling. She was feeling akward. "Don't worry about it, its fine. I'm Stefan." I said holding my hand out for her to shake. She reminded me so much of her, but she was completely different. This girl here was the complete opposite and I wanted to get to know more about her.