Klaus lover

Meeting Elena Gilbert

Photo of what she's wearing

Hi my name is Erika Baker.
My birthday is 22nd June 1992, I am 17 years old.

It was the start of the year. It was the first day of school. I had just moved to a new town with my mother. I'm looking for my family. When I was a baby, I was adopted. I was born in mystic falls to Johnathan Gilbert and Isobel Flemming. I found out I had an aunt and uncle who still live in mystic falls. I was adopted by Ellen and Arthur Baker. They have supported me through everything. Last year my father died from a long term illness. I wanted to fine my parents before it was to late. I couldn't find anything about Isobel but Johnathan was easy to track to mystic fall.

I am standing in the parking lot of mystic falls high school. It's was a large building red and grey. Students all standing around waiting for class to start. I can feel my heart racing. I take a deep breath and close my eyes, in an attempt to calm my nerves. I step through the doors, I could feel everyone's stares as I walked through the corridor, looking for my locker. I managed to locate my locker. As I approached my locker I could hear the whispers from the people around me "she looks like Elena" "is she a Gilbert" I had no clue who Elena is. I walk to the school office to collect my things, there was two girls, this guy came out bumping into me as I walked in. I rolled my eyes at the guy and enter the office. There was a lady with white hair and glasses she was in her late 50s.
As soon as she saw me, she has a big welcoming smile on her face.
"Hello dear?" The little old lady asked from behind the desk
"I'm here to collect my things" I said a nicely as possible
"Name dear?" She asked
"It's Erika Baker" I said giving a small smile, she gathered everything I needed
"Give this to your teacher and they'll give you the text book for each class" she said giving me a small smile
"Thank you" I said with a sigh
"Good luck" the lady called as I exited the office.

The day was slow, I made one sort of friend. Caroline, she was blonde and preppy. And also kept informing me I look like Elena. But She invited me to the grill. I agreed to meet her there. She was excited.

I walk home, it takes 20-25 minutes to get there. When I get home and see my mum washing up breakfast. My mum works in a small dress shop in town.
"Hey honey how was school?" She asked turning to face me
"Yeah it was good, I'm going to meet a friend at mystic grill" I informed her, she smiled
"Okay, back before it's dark" she said kissing my forehead
"I will" I said as I walked out the door.

I walk in and see Caroline waving me over. As I approached the table i over heard Caroline say "I'm telling you bonnie she looks like Elena" bonnie Grunted to show she was irritated
I took a seat and bonnie smiled
"Hi I'm bonnie" she said holding her hand for me to shake
"I'm Erika" I said giving a small smile.
We made small talk until a blue eyed guy came over to our table. He has sad eyes.

"How's Elena doing" he asked concerned
"Her mom and dad died. How do you think? She's putting on a brave face, it's only been four months" bonnie reminded him
"Has she said anything about me?" He asked worried
"Oh no" she started saying shaking her head "So not getting in the middle. You pick up the phone and call her" she said seriously
"I feel awkward calling her" he said with his sad eyes
"Give it more time Matt" bonnie encouraged

Someone enters the grill. We all turn to see who and in walked a girl who looks like me and a tall boy, they was walking towards us Matt looked irritated by the sight in front of us.

"More time huh?" Matt asked annoyed walking towards them. I honestly thought matt was going to punch the guy, but he held his hand out "hey, I'm matt nice to meet you" he introduced himself
"Hi. Stefan" the guy replied bluntly but taking matts hand anyway
"Hey" the girl replied
"Hey" matt replied walking off

Stefan and the girl came and took a seat
"Hey this is Erika" bonnie introduced us
"Elena" she introduced giving a small wave
"So, you were born in mystic falls?" Caroline interrupt snooping for information
"Mm-hmm. And moved when I was still young" Stefan said
"Parents?" Bonnie asked
"My parents passed away" he said sadly
"I'm sorry. Any siblings?" Elena asked interest
"None that I talk to. I live with my uncle" Stefan explained
"So Stefan, Erika, if you're new, then you don't know about the party tomorrow?" Caroline asked
"What party?" I asked wanting more information
"It's a back to school thing at the falls" bonnie answered
"Are you going?" Stefan asked Elena
"Of course she is" bonnie replied for Elena, both Caroline and bonnie looked as me waiting for me to agree
"I don't know" I said unsure if to go
"Come on it will be fun" bonnie laughed trying to encourage me to go, I nodded agreeing making Caroline cheer. We all went home after the grill

We met up at school, we all had history first, Elena sat next to Stefan, bonnie behind Stefan and me behind bonnie. The teacher entered the room, nobody seemed to like him.

"The battle of willow creek took place right at the end of the war in our very own mystic falls. How many casualties resulted in the battle?" He asked he looked around the room looking for someone "ms.Bennett" he picked on bonnie. You could see bonnie had no clue but she replied with "um... a lot? I'm not sure but a whole lot"
"Cute becomes dumb in an instance ms Bennett. Mr.Donovan? Would you like to take this opportunity to overcome your embedded jock stereotype" he asked Matt without caring he embarrassed bonnie
"It's okay mr Tanner I'm cool with it" Matt laughed, Tanner wasn't happy about that reply
"Hmm. Elena? Surely you can enlighten us about one of our towns most significant historical events ever" Tanner asked his next victim
"I'm sorry. I don't know" Elena replied honestly, you could see Tanner became annoyed
"I was willing to be lenient last year for obvious reasons, Elena. But the personal excuses ended with summer break." Tanner spat at her
"There was 346 casualties. Unless your counting local civilians" a voice spoke up
"That's correct. Mister?" Tanner asked looking at Stefan
"Salvatore" Stefan said
"Salvatore. Any relation to the original settlers here at mystic falls?" Tanner asked generally interested
"Distant" Stefan replied
"Well very good. Except, of course, there were no civilian casualties in this battle" Tanner said smirking please he got it wrong
"Actually there were 27,sir. Confederate soldiers, they fired on the church, believing to be housing weapons. They were wrong. It was a night of great loss. The founders archives are uh, stored in civil hall if you like to brush up on your facts, Mr Tanner" Stefan smirked back clearly confident in his answer.
Tanner started turning red in the face.

I decided not to attend the party. Instead I decided to try and hunt down my father. Johnathan Gilbert had no known address, but his brother lived here in mystic falls. So I went to the library.

"Hello, I was hoping to see the records of any Johnathan that lived in mystic falls 17 years ago?" I asked the lady with long brown hair. Sparkling blue eyes. She was in a black suit.
"Only Johnathan Gilbert known to town isn't in town but his brother and sister in law own a house" she said With a smile
"Could I have the address please?" I asked kindly
"I need the reason why before we allow that information" she replied harshly
"I was adopted 17 years ago and Johnathan Gilbert is my Father" I said, she raised an eyebrow
"Do you have proof?" She asked rudely, I huffed and started digging in my bag to find my adoption certificate and my birth certificate. I handed them both to the lady who looked at them. She got a pen and wrote an address down for me. This address wasn't far from my home.

During school everyone was talking about a girl who was attacked by an animal last night. Matt sister. I think her name was vicki, she was in hospital with loss of blood. I've heard Elena and Jeremy found the girl in the woods.