For You - Damon Salvatore x Reader

Chapter One

After my parents death nothing was ever really the same. Elena and Jeremy had both changed as well as me. Elena and I are twins, not identical by looks at all but twins none the less. We look quite different. While she has long hair, I have short hair. While she is of average height, I'm somewhat small (but not too small. Just shorter than her). While her eyes are always full of hope, mine are not. We're also different by the way we handle things. While she spends most of her time outside (just like Jeremy) trying to get over the death of our parents I stay inside and away from people. Aunt Jenna let me go away to stay at a 'friends' house just because I rarely left the house at all and she thought it would be good for me, but truth be told I was staying at Zach Salvatore's mansion in one of the rooms. My parents and Zach didn't know each other, but I knew the male due to me breaking into his boarding house once, just because I enjoyed the place and no one can bother me here since everyone had the idea that I had gone away for a bit and the fact that no one knew where this place was I guess.
Elena had lost interest in a lot of things that mattered to her, including her now ex boyfriend Matt, while Jeremy had turned to drugs and alcohol. I, on the other hand, had decided to isolate myself from everyone I cared for in an act of selfishness, just when they needed me the most.
As the school year started again it would soon time for me to leave the comfort of the house and 'return' home and face up to the reality that I had been avoiding. Zach told me that I'm welcome back whenever, since he claimed to have no family left besides two nephews who rarely come back to Mystic Falls. LAlthough I'm supposed to be the strongest, emotionally, I had taken up smoking as my escape root instead of drugs or alcohol which I guess showed that Elena was the strongest as she hadn't done anything destructive to get over our loss and that is something I envied in her. Her will power and how she always had faith in things and how she would never go so low as destroying herself.

"Zach, I'm off to school but I'll be back later!" My voice echoed through the mansion. A thump and a groan from Zach's room signalled that I had just woken him up. This is the first time that I would be leaving the boarding house in almost a year and he obviously didn't want to miss waving me off because he came running down the stairs, his bed head causing me to giggle slightly.

"Have you got money for lunch? Or do you want me to make you lunch to go? Please don't get kicked out for smoking on school grounds, please wait until the end of the day. Try and be nice to everyone, this is the first time they'll be seeing you since the whole thing happened and they will say the over used 'I'm sorry for your loss' but you have to be patient with them." Zach muttered in a hurried voice. He acted like my dad, and it gave me some form of closure that I just couldn't explain.

"I'll be fine, and I'll try my very best to make the best first impressions back at school, as for lunch I'll just stop by Mystic Grills before coming home. I'll text you if anything comes up." A laugh escaped my lips as I gave Zach a hug and walked out the door and towards the school. This was going to be a long day and that was something I was sure of.

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The door made a loud noise as it slammed shut while I walked in, Zach being in front of me in no time.

"You didn't go to school."

"I did not. Maybe tomorrow." I rolled my eyes, not to him but just in general. I walked towards school and looked around and the view of Jeremy smoking with his druggie friends made me sick to the stomach. The view of Tyler, Matt, Caroline, Bonnie and Elena. All made me feel uneasy and I decided against it. If I would going to be doing this, I would not be doing this alone, I guess I would just have to wait until I got back home to see my family.

"I'll be up in my room if you need me." I sighed as I made my way up the stairs towards the room that I had basically claimed as mine.

"No smoking!" He shouted after me which caused a smirk to form on my lips.