Brooke Gilbert. There was only one word to describe her: optimist. She always put a smile on everyone's face. No one knew how she did it. Even after the tragedy of her parents death, she still managed to stay strong for her brother Jeremy, and fraternal twin sister, Elena. But what no one knew was that she was broken, internally. She would sit in her room crying silently for hours. On her first day of her and her sisters junior year of high school, she meets the mysterious new guy in town named Stefan Salvatore. No one knew how, but Stefan managed to repair her broken heart. What Brooke doesn't know is the secrets that Stefan keeps hidden. Will Stefan tell her? Or will she find out the hard way? * WARNING: If you are a STELENA shipper: DO NOT READ