What is it really like being a twin with Elena Gilbert? Don't know? Well Kari does. It's been a long road. Even the road that led her to be in her twins shadow.
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Days blended into weeks.
Weeks into months.
Until hours turned into minutes.
Then minutes turned into seconds for school to start again.
A brand new year. A start of a whole new term. But, I can't help to find that my mind is plagued by the night of my parents car going off the Wickery Bridge, in the small town of Mystic Falls. You see, I was in that car with my twin sister Elena.
Elena went to a party without my parents knowledge just to break up with her then boyfriend Matt. I was in that car because mom wanted me find her when we got to where Elena called her she was.
"Greyson, what are we going to do about this? She snuck out." My mother's voice is soft in the car but you could still hear the worry and pain in her voice.
"Let's get her home and we will cross that bridge when we get to it."
Dad was the voice of reason. But that night I could see how disappointed he was in Elena. For them Elena could do no wrong. Up until they lost that trust in her.
She could have chosen any other night to break up with Matt. 'Why did she need to do it so publicly anyhow?' I ask myself this all the time. Matt was good to her. So I couldn't come up with an answer for something like this. Something you hold off for someone who cheated on you.
I'm so different compared to my twin. I'm the youngest. My name means miracle while Elena's means shining light. I've never had a boyfriend so by extension I'm still a virgin. I'm always compared to Elena. "Why can't you be more like your sister?" If I was like her then breaking hearts is what I would do.
The only people that truly get me are my girls, Bonnie and Caroline. But I have to share them with Elena too. But part of me feels like Elena only used them for popularity. She wants to be the center of attention but pulled it off as "I didn't want that attention in the first place." I'm her sister. I can see right through her. So her actions don't add up. Why can't any see what I see?
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With the thoughts of my parents I can't help but start crying. I know it's ugly for a girl to cry, but I can't help but think of the future I will never have with them. They won't see me graduate, have my first boyfriend, my first heart break, when I will find my one, or when I get married and have kids. I'm alone. And all I can do is cry for the life I wish they could see. I know Jeremy is hurting just as bad as I am. He turned to drugs to cope. While it feels like Elena is in a world of denial. Like they will come right back from their work or something like nothing happened.
