Weeping Willow

Pilot (Episode One)

Chapter One – Pilot

It was the start of the new school year again. This was obvious as all the children hustled in to the grey building, talking with their friends on how their summer was and looking at each others schedules to see if they were in any of the same lessons as one of their friends.

But one girl casually walked into the school after everyone else. Her dark brown curls bouncing slightly as she walked, with one hand on her messenger bag keeping it on her shoulder and in her other hand was a piece of toast that she hadn't had time to eat for breakfast. She soon found a trash can and dumped the toast into it, with a tired huff, not feeling hungry any more.

She sighed again and turned the corner where her locker was. Remembering her locker combination she opened it and it was still the same as last year. Not that she expected anything different or anything missing of course, but she would be furious if there was. It had all of the same things in there, pictures of her friends, some random art work that she had done spontaneously and stuck it up in there and of course there was a small poster of her favourite band Paramore on the left side of the locker.

She looked back at the photo of her friends, she loved them to pieces even though she hardly ever showed it she did. Just as she was thinking of them she saw them standing by their lockers and smiled and walked over casually, but inside she was beaming with happiness to see them again. This reason was mainly because she had been away for the last two weeks of summer to visit her annoying cousins in Maine. She really couldn't stand them and there were four of them as well! There were three boys and a girl, there were two younger boys named Cole and Jacob who spent the entire time there just annoying her, mainly by pulling her hair or trying to ride her like a pony which she did not like at all but tolerated. And then there was geeky Liam who would always talk about science and had this annoyingly high pitched laugh that sent her ears ringing. And of course who could forget the lovely Shannon, bitchy little fifteen year old who spent her time trying to desperately ruin her time there, but she would fight fire with fire and simply play the best pranks on her, something she was very good at and a reason why teachers didn't like her very much her. But the summer had mainly gone down hill after she caught her boyfriend Tyler Lockwood kissing Vicki Donovan, she yelled blue murder at him and immediately broke up with him and she hadn't spoken to him for the rest of the summer, she sighed Tyler was a bastard.

Her friend with the pin straight chocolate brown hair saw her first and immediately a smile spread across her face, and then her friend who had dark curly hair and dark mocha skin turned around curious to what her friend was staring at and just like the other girl a smile was immediately on her face.

"Willow Anderson, who would have thought you would appear on the first day of school." Said her best friend, Elena. "Well Elena Gilbert," she said copying the use of full names, while waving her hand in a dismissive manner as if it were no big deal, "today is opposite day, didn't you know?" Willow said jokingly. Elena laughed, she knew how Willow was, she wasn't one for school so whenever she had the chance she would pull pranks, damage school property (usually on accident) or ditch school all together. The other girl laughed too and rather than saying hello she flung her arms around Willow's small body and Willow as usual went stiff and awkwardly put one arm around the other girl and she'd forgotten how tough her friend was. "Ugh, its nice to see you too Bonnie, but um, could you please let go of me?" Willow said in a strained voice, she wasn't one for hugs not even from her family. Bonnie laughed and reluctantly let go of her, she had missed her dearly even though it had been two weeks, and they had spent the entire summer together, mainly comforting Elena after she had lost her parents in that horrible car crash by Wickery Bridge.

Elena smiled at her two best friends, especially Willow. She had been there from the very beginning, mainly because she had made friends with her before Bonnie Bennett and her other friend Caroline Forbes and because of the Founders Day when she was little, and them both being apart of Founding Families and the fact that Willow had stole her tuna sandwich that day too. She was the first person who was there in the hospital apart from her brother Jeremy and Aunt Jenna. Elena knew that Willow wasn't one who gave her emotions away easily, which was understandable considering what she had been through. Elena shuddered at the thought and pushed it to the back of her mind. "You okay?" Willow asked, her brow furrowing slightly and her perfect straight eyebrows knitted together in worry. "Ye, of course." Elena was glad that Willow hadn't asked the same question that everybody has been asking, "How are you?" or "Oh my God, Elena, how have you been?" She didn't know how long she would be able to keep that fake smile on and say "I'm fine".