PRINCESS - tvd fan fic

Will I Ever Be Happy Again?

It had been a couple days since I found out my parents had died, but it still hurt like it was yesterday.

The Davis family let me use their spare bedroom as my own room so I could have my privacy to grieve.

I had barely spoken to anyone or come out of my room for 3 days. Not even Hannah could convince me to eat a proper meal.

I had overheard a conversation between Hannah and her mother, Carol, about how they are starting to get really worried about me because I had barely eaten anything I only got out of bed to shower.

But even then I wouldn't have to come out of my room because the bathroom was connected.

It was one day when Hannah came into my room and told me that the lawyer (Mr Shean) had been calling and asking to speak with me but Carol had been trying to hold him off as long as possible.

But she said that it was very important for me to speak with him.

It was only then I got dressed and came downstairs to see him.

"Hello Aria," he said so robotically it was painful "I understand this whole ordeal has been very difficult for you and it may take a while for you to heal, but before you leave North Carolina to go live with your aunt, I need you to box up all your family's belongings that you wish to keep and either store them somewhere in North Carolina, or get them delivered to Mystic Falls."

Mr Shean sounded so unsympathetic it made me want to cry, but I stopped myself and and just nodded my head with a small "ok".

"And I also need you to sign a couple of things for me," he explained as he reached into his briefcase lying on the floor and pull out some documents with a lot of really small writing on them.

"This one is just saying that you accept everything your parents left for you on their will; the house, money, car, etc," he pushed a sheet of paper in front of me and gave me a very smart-looking pen.

After that I signed a few more things and he left.

I was sitting on the couch staring off into space when Carol came over and sat next me.

"It's ok if your not ready to go back home yet darling," she sounded so caring I wanted to cry, but I didn't because I know if I start crying again I won't be able to stop.

I looked up at her " I want to go and pack everything up, just so I can get it over and done with".

She nodded.

"Can we go now?" I asked.

"Sure, I think we still have quite a few boxes from when we moved into this house. We will leave in about 30mins, I'll get Rob to find those boxes." She smiled at me and rubbed my shoulder as she stood up and walked away.

When we got to my house, I opened to door and immediately a wall of freezing cold air hit me and gave me the chills. I walked over to the heating system's control pad and turned it on.

The whole Davis family had come to help me box everything up, which was extremely handy because we had a lot of stuff.

Everyone went to a different room and started packing, I however decided to go to the attic and start up there. Hannah insisted she would help me because the attic was huge and we had both been terrified of it since we were young.

We were going through old photos and toys from when we were little. At one point we were reminiscing about the time Hannah fell face first into mud and threw a tantrum and I actually laughed a little.

"There it is", Hannah said softly.

"There what it?" I was confused.

"You laughed, I never thought I would hear that again". She gave me faint smile and turned back to packing.

For a minute a just sat there and thought to myself will I ever be happy again?

3 Days Later...

It only took us 2 and 1/2 days to box everything up and put it into a storage unit nearby. Of course, Mr Davis payed for the storage unit and said he would keep paying for it until I got a good job. Which I was ok with but I still felt a bit guilty.

After going through all my family's stuff, I though it would make me even more depressed but actually it did the total opposite.

I no longer spent the days hiding out in my room crying to myself. And even though I still didn't have much of an appetite, I joined the family for meals and spent time playing and talking to Hannah, Alexa and Jordan.

I started to feel like I belonged to a family and sometimes I even forgot I was a lonely orphan girl.

But I knew I only had about another week and a bit before I was shipped off to Mystic Falls to live with my aunt, whom I don't even remember.

I even went back to school for a day and attended the graduation ceremony.

Next year I would have to practically start a whole new life with no one there I knew.

The Summer break had just begun and Hannah and I had spent most of it outside by her pool relaxing. I finally started to feel as if things could get back to normal-ish.

Carol had called Mr Shean and begged him to let me spend the summer here in North Carolina with them. Reluctantly, Mr Shean had agreed to let me stay for the summer but said there would be no exceptions when the summer break was over.

I was very grateful to have the Davis family looking out for me.

Hannah and I spent the summer planning when I would come home and visit and when she would come to Mystic Falls and visit. We both decided after I turn eighteen and graduate, we would apply to the same college and live in an apartment together.

I was getting so excited about what we had planned for the future, I had almost forgotten that I was leaving in a week.

Hannah and I had already planned to call each other everyday and visit each other as much as possible.

I picked a few things from my parents' stuff to take with me to Mystic Falls; some of my mothers jewellery, my fathers old journals I had found hidden away and an old locked wooden box hidden with the journals. 

I hadn't planned of reading the journals or trying to open the wood box anytime soon, I just wanted them with me so when I wanted to I could.

But I was very curious as to see what was inside them.

On my last few days here in North Carolina, I was spoiled tremendously with gifts - even when I specifically asked them not to get me anything.

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Hi guys,

Thank you so much if you have made to this point so far, I really appreciate it!

Chloe xx