Invisible Strings ✧ Mikaelson

10. 𝓓𝓸𝓾𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓓𝓸𝓹𝓹𝓮𝓵 𝓣𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓫𝓵𝓮

        "I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date," Brie hummed, her forest-green eyes scanning the student body that crowded the halls like mismatched schools of fish. 

The image had her lips twisting into a grin that dimmed when she caught sight of Matt and Caroline huddled against a wall talking. She didn't care about their issues, in fact, Brie was operating on a don't-care attitude ever since yesterday morning when she woke up to find Katherine shacked up in her room.

"Oh, Kitty-Kat you're gonna drown when I get home," Her lips pursed and her eyes darkened at the disgusting Sunday she'd had. Instead of catching up with her twin and elder brother, or binging Disney classics, she'd been dragged to every damnable shopping store within a fifty-mile radius. 

What was even more annoying was Katherine had the audacity to wake Brie up super early, feed her pancakes and blood, and then literally crammed her into a stupid white lace sundress with a stupid washed light blue denim jacket and heels; the only saving grace was the heels were only two inches, putting her at 5'5 in height but that was the only saving grace.

With a jerk of her head, Brie snapped herself out of it and figured she'd play the normal new kid and try to find her locker. "846, oh that's just funny." She snorted, if she sharpied a one onto it that would be her and Stefan's birth year. 

After shoving her way and ignoring students and some curious football jerks she located her locker and grinned at the fact it wasn't dinged up and actually looked new compared to some of the others. As she began putting in her combination, Brie faltered before her head snapped to the right. Her eyes widened and her heart nearly drummed out of her chest. 

Their head was crammed into the locker but it didn't matter. She could still tell they were tall, nearing 5'10 in height. They were dressed in dark jeans with black converse that looked slightly worn with fraying shoelaces. They were dressed in a dark blue button-down with a plain gray jacket over and a black backpack dangling from their shoulder and cradled in their arm, open and filled with papers crammed inside.

The locker shut and forest green peered into eyes that were caught between dark chocolate and the night sky. Brie couldn't move, she didn't even know if she was still breathing as eyes that haunted and comforted her glistened with hidden emotion before the owner was making his way towards her but instinct kicked in and she made a beeline for her first class, which just so happened to be history with Ric, Stefan and just about everyone else she knew.

"Brie," Stefan caught up to his twin, his eyebrows furrowing together in worry as he saw her in a frazzled state which was hardly ever a state she was in. "What happened?" Worry laced his tone and his thoughts went to the worst possible scenarios.

Blinking, Brie spouted the first thing that came to mind. "The live-action of Alice in Wonderland is overrated, the classic was just fine as it was and don't even get me started on that horrible TV movie." She spouted, bobbing her head up and down as her thoughts focused on the movies she was talking about. 

"I mean, why do people gotta mess with a good thing, you know? Sure the colors and everything made you feel trippy but that was part of it! And the animation was great! Milt Kahl was on the project and the head swaggle while talking? His signature move? I mean,-" She was cut off by someone bumping into her.

"Hey!" Stefan caught her, shooting a look at Karl Stevens, one of the second strings to the team. "Karl, we talked about you looking where you're going, you can't just barrel through the hallways, you'll hurt someone." He explained, causing the taller and broad shoulders boy to huff and shoot a look to a girl he'd never seen.