Always And Forever | The Originals

6: Aidan Mikaelson

Life before boarding school was a lot better. I was training with my football team my coach thought I could go pro, we had scouts coming to our games to watch me. Me. I felt like I was king of New Orleans. Everyone at school was looking at me as I walked the halls and they all knew who I was what I was known as the captain of the football team Aidan Mikaelson, top dog.

I had the friends, the car, the girls, everything.

Until I was thrown into a bigger pond with a million and two more problems.

I was no longer captain of the football team or the strongest guy in school. I wasn't known, I wasn't wanted. I was a little tiny baby fish in a sea full of sharks. The wolves at the school were the athletes as such, they were the ones who trained the most, who had the pack mentality which was good for playing team sports. But I wasn't a wolf. I couldn't hang with them. I wasn't one of them and they made it clear.

I wasn't a vampire either so those who were involved in the sports team didn't really want to hang out with me either. There were a few people at the school like me. With the vampire blood running through their veins. Some well emerge into the student's others stuck out a lot. I guess I didn't get the privilege to blend all that much. Not after what happened anyway. Eyes were on me. And Ric said some of the boys in the team were threatened by me. Because of my skills, I didn't understand that it wasn't like I was competing with them...I was on their team so the only other reason I could think of was that I wasn't one of them. I guess they see me as one of the people outside the gate who just ted them, feared them even so much as hated them for being different but they didn't give me a chance to explain that I too was different.

Andrea didn't seem to care that she was different. She claimed it made it easier to do her own thing. She was 12 and running about a large school full of dangerous artefacts and magical creatures enjoying the freedom. I think it was a distraction to her. The more trouble she got in the Els's she had to think about it. Same with me. The more football I played the less time I had to dwell on the past. I had to devote my entire life to the sport like I had done since I joined my first team.

It bothered me at first but then I joined the football team, it was a mix of different people, witches, wolves and vampires. It was the team that competed against other schools. Ric was glad I wanted to join. He said it would do me some good being around others, having something to focus on though I just did it because I loved football. It was something my dad would do with me. Andrea my sister even joined the team though I believe she only joined to annoy me and sit on the bench which really doesn't surprise me. I was welcoming to her, it meant I could keep an eye on her. She'd be through enough I didn't need stupid kids upsetting her too.

Ric was glad I joined because the rest of them had to act 'human' and because I technically am human it helped their cover a lot more. This other kid on the team. Landon. He's a bird... a Pheonix. But he doesn't know how to make his power present itself so he's practically human too and because of that he's an outcast at the school. We became fast friends.

At first, I was hesitant. I didn't mind being alone it wasn't something that bothered me. But when I started hanging out with Landon I realised I had been so lonely and wallowing in self-pity because of what happened. And I was bothered I was being rejected from the rest of the school for being different. You'd think they would know how I feel. They had been different from the rest of the world their whole lives. They should know how it feels to be an outcast. But I guess at this elite school they shut the outside world and forgot about their old lives. In a way, I was doing that. But my little sister was a constant reminder of what happened to land us in this place. I couldn't just disown her she's my little sister. She was hurting too.

She joined the football team, she mostly sat on the bench and teased me the whole game but it was nice she was there supporting me. Normally on the game day, she and mum would be chatting away not really paying attention until dad told them I had the ball so they could see me do my thing. But nowadays she had no one to chat to so I got her full attention. She was mischievous and didn't really follow the rules all that much. If she was in class it was a good day, if she was missing God knows what she was up to. The number of times I had been called into the office to discuss my sister's behaviour. I'm not even that much older than her. I didn't tell her off I just told her to do better. She's always been like this. Dad said it was part of her personality. It was cute, the cheekiness when she was young but now she's older it's becoming more of a problem.