Hope's Best friend

Meeting

Lilly's pov

I remember the day Hope came to school. It was a warm spring day. Just after my 8th birthday. She showed up with her mother. Professor  Saltzman walked outside with Hope and her mother.

Hope walked over to me and my friends.

"I'm Hope." She smiles.

"Lilly." I smile at her. I push some of my curly hair out of my face. 

"Hi I'm Ruby."  The girl next to me says. She flips her perfectly blonde hair. Even as a 8 year old she was a bitch. But I didn't know any better. So I was her friend.

We talk for awhile.

Finally her mother calls her back. She smiles and says goodbye. She turns around and walks over to her mother grabbing her hand. I watch as they walk away.

"Well that was fun." Ruby says. She turns around and walks away. I just stand there.

Hope seemed so nice, but there is something about her. She didn't tell us what she was. Obviously not a vampire. She was seven. I have never met a vampire that had the physical appearance of  younger than 14. But there is still time I guess.

I watch as Ruby goes and talks to the Saltzman twins. She knows that one day they will rule this school. The last of their coven.  Probably  the strongest witches in this school.

Except me. I don't know what coven I am from. My father never told me. But I'm not just a witch. My mother was a wolf.  She belonged to the crescent wolf pack. That's right I said was.

When she fell in love with my father she was kicked out of the pack. Apparently there was a rule back than against species interacting, let alone fall In love. 15 years later I was born. My mother died 3 years later.  She died saving me from rouge vampires when I was 3. This broke my father. He resorted to drinking. When I was 6 I read online about the salvatore school for the young and gifted. I applied and was excepted a few weeks later. Mrs. Salvatore the headmaster came and got me. She saw my father and made me leave as soon as possible. My father died in a car crash 6 months later. But as we drove the long hour to the airport and sat to wait for our flight she told me a story of two brothers. They fell in love with the same girl, twice. They fought over her for years. Until one fell in love with another. The brothers became best friends and would do anything for each other. Even die. And that's what the younger brother did. He died so his brother could live and be with the one he loved.

Little did I know this was her late  husband and who the school is named after. I loved that story. Made me want a love like that.

But anyway I'll tell you more later.

At dinner I see Ruby sitting with Hope. She looks up and smiles at me and waves me over. I walk over with my tray. I sit down next to her.

"Hey Lilly right?" Hope asks. I nod. "Looks like we are bunking together." She smiles.

"That's great.  But wouldn't you want to bunk with me?" Ruby asks

"I think that's against the rules." Hope says. She grabs her plate. "I'm really tired. It has been a long day." She stands up and leaves. I watch as she throws her plate away.

I grab my plate too. I get up and walk away heading to my room.

I open the door to see Hope unpacking.

"Hey." I say in the door way.

She turns around and looks up at me.

"Hey."She turns around again unpacking.

"If you want the top bunk I'm happy to switch with you."

She shakes her head. "No no. It's okay." She begins to make her bed. Putting a little stuffed bear by her pillow.

She finally sits on the bed. I have been playing with my tablet on the small sofa.

"So do you know why they would room me with you? I mean what happened to your last roommate?" She asks.

I turn off the tablet and shrug. "I've never had one. My magic is a little out of control and they were afraid I would hurt someone."

"Oh so you're a witch?" She asks. And I nod. "Oh I am too."

"I thought that was Haley Marshall, your mom I mean. Isn't she a werewolf queen or something?" I ask.

"Yes I mean I'm both I guess." She looks down. "I know I'm a freak."

I go over to her.  "I'm both too. We just can't tell anyone."

"Well can you keep another secret?" She looks at me intently. I nod. "Well have you ever heard of the original vampires?"

"Yes. The Mikealsons. Right?"

"Well my dad is Klaus Mikealson."

"So are you a vampire too?" I ask.

"I don't know." She shrugs. "But you can't tell anyone. I'm Hope Marshall here. Just a witch for now."

"Deal. And I'm just a witch too. Until I trigger the curse." I shrug.

"Just don't kill anyone." She smiles. Making me giggle.

Hope went on to tell me her story. What little she knew. Her father was captured by a man named Marcel for years. And after they reunited they had to separate again. She doesn't really know why. Something about the evil Hollow. She told me how her dad used to consider himself the king of New Orleans. Making her a princess. This was my favorite part of the story.

From that day we became best friends. When we turned 13 they give all the teens their own rooms. So we were split up. At least at night. During the day we spent every second together. We even snuck out to mystic falls on the weekends. We were inseparable.