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the world stops for no one
SCHOOL HAD BECOME SOMETHING OF A PASTIME FOR ATHENA, SEEING AS IT WAS HER LAST WEEK IN ATTENDANCE. It wasn't like they had much left to do work-wise, so she didn't see any harm in slacking off or convincing her friends to, either.
She'd convinced Bonnie to ditch history, saving them the stuttering, sad mess that was Alaric in the wake of Jenna's absence. She had no interest in listening to him fumble around his words every time his eyes landed on her like he was afraid she'd strike him down right then and there if he misspoke about the 18th century or something.
It irritated her, but she'd rather him be fearful than think he had any sort of upper hand. After everything had happened, Damon had gone to Liz and sold her some story of Elena turning herself into a vampire and going on a rampage, which wasn't a lie so much as a very compressed, minimal version of the actual story, which saved them all the hassle of trying to explain why Elena was missing and to be presumed dead in a year's time when the search became 'useless'.
For about a month, Bonnie had to play the grieving friend, but it was easier to move on from people's curiosity with Jeremy not in school, and Jenna gone, too. They'd all been spared from Tyler and Matt, as the boys seemed to take Elena's death as a natural surrender. Though they still attended school together, it was much easier to pretend they didn't exist, seeing as they tucked tails and ran the second Athena came into sight.
Athena had more or less moved on from the events of the summer and instead found herself wondering what her future would hold after she graduated. She knew she would graduate high school, it was inevitable of course, but now that it was here, it felt unbelievable. Especially after the mess she found herself in last year during junior year, with Stefan and Damon's abrupt appearance in her life. Once you find out vampires are real, amongst every other thing that has happened, graduating high school became very low on the list of priorities.
It was a wonder, though, that she'd managed to come almost full circle. She'd gone from focusing completely on high school and presumably, eventually, college, to being swept up in the storm of monsters, and now she was focusing on school again, settling into the calm that came after the storm.
Well– focusing on school was a broad phrase. She was more worried about the fact that she now only had eight days to write the best Valedictorian speech her rinky-dink high school had ever heard, find a dress fit for her goddess status, along with Bonie's, and worry about Klaus getting back on time with her brother and friends.
And, on top of all of those things that could be otherwise worry-free in the long run, she had a witch she'd never met, coming to her, begging her to find the supposed cure for vampirism for her little brother, whom Athena had also never met.
