Eat Me

Chapter 4: Raining Miseries

Raining Miseries

Elena was sitting in the dining room table between Jenna and Grandma Sommers while a pile of old Miss Mystic Falls application, local community service groups, and pictures of dresses and hairstyles laid in front of her.

It seemed crazy to Elena how committed her grandmother and mother were to some silly, old tradition, but since it was so important to them in most of the meetings, Elena at least tried to act excited and like she cared, but this afternoon however she couldn't even bring herself to act like she cared.

Elena didn't care what kind of dress she wore or if she should take dancing lessons, all she wanted to do at this precise moment was to go crawl into bed and listen to music. She didn't know why she was feeling so sick. Elena was usually healthy, but ever since this morning she had been feeling kind of funny.

She had thought at first that it had been usual school nerves, but obviously they weren't. She felt dizzy and her stomach was upset, it was the same kind of feelings she got when she had the stomach flu.

"Elena, honey are you ok?" Jenna asked as she plucked out of the pile the picture of a girl wearing a flamingo pink, fluffy dress that made her look like a walking cotton candy. "You look pale."

"Not really." Elena said weakly. "I'm feeling kind of tired, today was exhausting."

Jenna exchanged looks with grandma Sommers. "You're right dear, today was a tiring day. Perhaps we should save this for another day?"

Grandma Sommers gave an exaggerated sigh. "Oh, all right but we can't be post poning it, Miss Mystic Falls is just around the corner."

"It's still a few months off," Elena said irritably as she walked up the stairs. She hated being rude to her family, but sometimes they could be so annoying and controlling especially about Founding Family stuff like this.

Grateful, Elena plopped on her bed and caressed her cheek against the pillow. She wished that she could be with Damon right now. Her brown eyes landed on her calendar that was on her night table, she couldn't help but notice that there was a red dot on the fourth of September, she frowned that had been almost two weeks ago.

She frowned, her period was almost two weeks late, but it was never late usually. She gulped slightly remembering all the passionate summer nights that she and Damon had spent together when his parents weren't home.

What if they had an accident? Most of the time they weren't really careful even though both of them knew better. Elena clutched the calendar close to her chest as she gulped, she no longer felt sick, she felt downright frightened.

"So Lexi is your sister?" Amara asked politely even though Lexi had already confirmed it, most of all she just wanted to fill in the awkward void as Silas led her to Mr. Miller's office. It was obvious that he had only taken her because Lexi had told him too and because he had felt slightly guilty for hitting her with a soccer ball.

"Yep." Silas said not even bothering to look at her. "She's my twin."

"I have a twin too." Amara blubbered excitedly. "Well, we're triplets."

"Really?" Silas raised an eyebrow. "Triplets, those are rare, are your sisters here?"

"No, they are back home in Mystic Falls." Amara said. "I'm on a scholarship, my sisters are named Elena and Katherine, they-"

"I didn't really ask for the whole life story." Silas interrupted rudely as they stopped in Mr. Miller's office. "Well here it is."

"Um, thank you." She said, but Silas had already began walking away not even bothering to hear her thanks. "Jerk!" she murmured under her breath as she knocked on the door.

"Come on in," a balding man answered the door. "I've been expecting you Miss Pierce sit down."

"Thank you." Amara said, "You wanted to see me?"

"Yes, I like to meet all my bright, scholarship students." Mr. Miller smiled as he handed her a piece of paper. "Here is your schedule all though we do have a small problem. You haven't signed up for an extracurricular activity."

Amara looked up, she had been slightly panicking at the list of AP classes she was expected to go through, she was smart, but not that smart. "I did sign up for one the Writer's Workshop."

"No, I mean a sport activity." Mr. Miller corrected. "You need to participate in a sport to keep your scholarship, we have a number of them here at campus, soccer, golf, volleyball - "

Mr. Miller kept going on, but she didn't hear him. A sport, was he serious? A three year old could kick a ball better than Amara and she didn't really work great as a team. She gulped, perhaps this hadn't been the best idea after all.

Katherine's mind was all over the place as she walked up the stairs. Was Markos and Amanda right? Was she too fat and curvy for the modeling world? Katherine had always wanted to be a model ever since she was six years old now her dream was threatening to crumble right in front of her eyes because she was a little overweight at least according to Markos.

She stopped short when she saw Elena on her bed looking as if she was going to burst into tears.

"Are you ok?" she asked her.

"Not really." Elena replied in a chalky voice. "I'm late."

"Late? Late for what?"

Elena showed her the calendar. "Late for my period."

Katherine quickly put the pieces together, Damon and Elena had been spending quite a few nights together and Damon wasn't exactly the definition of responsible. "Oh, Elena do you think - "

Elena bit her lip, the tears were threatening to spill. "I don't know, maybe. Oh, Kat I'm so stupid, if I am, what am I going to do?"

Katherine did something she rarely did, she hugged her sister tightly. "It's ok, Elena don't cry. It's going to be ok, everything will work out."

"Katherine?"

Katherine laid back on her bed and smiled when she heard Elijah's voice. His voice made Katherine relax almost instantly, it was like his special power and it made Katherine feel like Elijah was only a few blocks away and not miles away at Whitmore college.

"Yeah, it's me, how was your day?" she wished that she could be there with him, he could run his fingers through her curls and make her feel special.

"All right, a little hectic, but all right." Elijah smiled. "And how was yours, Miss Head Cheerleader?"

"A little on the downside, but hearing your voice just made my day."

"What's wrong Katherine?" Elijah asked concerned. "Is something wrong?"

Katherine clutched her old stuffed animal, Mr. Bunny closed to her chest. "Elijah, can I ask you something, but reply honestly."

"All right." Elijah sounded amused.

"Do you think I'm fat? Do you like my body?" she bit her lip. Even though they had been dating for a while, Katherine and Elijah had never had sex with the exception of a few naughty teasing, but he always called her "lovely" and "beautiful" maybe he was lying?

"Katherine I think you're beautiful." Elijah said. "Who put such ideas in your head?"

Katherine forced a laugh. "No one, I just needed a reassurance all girls do, I guess." She hated being one of those pathetic girls that needed to have a guy's approval for everything.

"Well, you're beautiful, you're the most beautiful girl in the world." Elijah assured her. "Sweet dreams, Katherine."