Reincarnated Love

Chapter 10: History Repeating and The Turning Point

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"No Stefan," Brea noted as she and Elena entered history class.

"Yeah, duh. I noticed," Elena snapped.

"Ok, snippy," Brea said raising her eyebrows.

"Sorry," Elena mumbled as she slumped into her seat.

"Good morning, everyone," the new teacher said as he entered the room. "Alrighty. Alaric Saltzman," he said reading his name out as he wrote it on the board. "It's a mouthful. I know. Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. Saltzman is of German origins. My family emigrated here in 1755 to Texas. I, however, was born and raised in Boston. Now, the name Alaric belongs to a very dead great-grandfather I will never be able to thank enough," he joked. "You'll probably want to pronounce it 'Ala-ric,' but it's 'A-lar-ic' ok? So you can call me Ric. I'm your new history teacher."

Brea's eyes widened, he was perfect. "Lena," she whispered leaning over to her sister.

"What?" she snapped.

"What do you think?" she said gesturing her head to Mr Saltzman. "Cute huh?"

"Yeah and way too old for you," she scoffed.

"No, not for me! For our lonely aunt of course."

"Oh, not bad picking. I like it," Elena said with an approving nod.

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Brenna hung back after class to talk to Mr Saltzman as everyone cleared out. "Yes, how may I uh, how may I help you?" he asked, shocked to see someone waiting for him.

"Hi, I'm Brenna Gilbert, um, Brea Gilbert, I'm just wondering if it's ok if I have a quick chat with you about my brother?" she asked. "His name's Jeremy."

"Ah Jeremy Gilbert, yes I did get an entire file on him from your old teacher."

"Ha! Oh my god really! I knew Tanner had a file on him but Jer never believed me! Look, I don't know if it was in the file, but our parents died a few months back and Jer just fell off the rails and Tanner really had it in for him when his behaviour dropped. I mean it was slightly fair, Jer was the biggest troublemaker. But Mr Saltzman, he's really trying to turn it around, I mean, he's doing homework again. He didn't even do homework before the accident. I just, I'd really appreciate if you wouldn't mind starting on a clean slate with him? Help him a fresh start," Brea asked.

"Thank you, Brea, I will make a note to talk to him. I agree with you though. I think a new teacher means a clean slate. Thank you though, for expressing your concern."

"Thank you, Mr Saltzman, I'll see you, next class," Brea said leaving with a smile.

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As Brea walked out of the school she saw Damon and Bonnie talking and Bonnie rushing into her car. Brea walked up to the car seeing as that was her lift home.

"What the hell was that?" she asked Damon who had walked toward her, meeting her in the middle of the grass.

"And what exactly would you be asking about Miss Brenna?" he smiled.

"That thing with Bonnie over there, leave her alone Damon, I mean it."

"I want my crystal back."

"You mean Caroline's necklace?" Brea asked and he nodded. "Well, you're not getting it back. Besides, it wouldn't match your eyes."

"How've you been holding up?" he asked. "Since Halloween? Your head's healing nicely," he said as he pushed some hair out of her face.

Brenna frowned, confused as to why he was nice to her, "why do you care?" she asked.