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She walks down the street
Alone in the dark
Her head's held up high
And she's got nothing fear

As she crosses the road
She looks to the stars and asks for advice
On where to go
Where to go from here

- Jona Vark by Gypsy And The Cat

Chapter One - Delinquent

The blaring sound of an alarm was what awoke Willow from her slumber.

Willow groaned loudly, reaching a hand out of her bed and haphazardly knocked the top of the alarm clock to turn it off. She sighed and buried her head back underneath the covers. Who would care if she was late for her first day of school anyway?

Three bangs came from the otherside of her bedroom door, "Willow, c'mon! I got work to get to myself, so get up!" Her older brother, Raven, called.

Willow begrudgingly pulled her head out of the covers, immediately having sunlight cause her eyes to squint.

She sighed loudly and fell back to her bed. She was awake, so she may as well get up and go to school. What else do I have to do anyway? And Raven probably wouldn't stop his nagging. She shook her head, before pushing herself out of her bed.

Willow threw on her usual attire of washed out skinny jeans, any old shirt she could find (which was some old green and blue checkered shirt, picking a plain black vest top to go underneath it) and her usual grey high top sneakers. She never really did much with her hair, only brushed it and left it to fall into its naturally loose curls.

She applied her make-up in a quick manner too, only checking in the mirror to see how she looked once. "That'll do." She mumbled to herself. She grabbed her old denim vest before leaving her bedroom.

"Finally decided to get your ass out of that bed, huh?" Raven asked her as he took a sip of his coffee.

Willow narrowed her eyes at him, "Fuck you."

Raven chuckled, "Jeez, you gonna use that mouth on your teachers?"

Willow rolled her eyes and reached around him, grabbing the mug that was filled with coffee, "If they don't piss me off, maybe I'll be nice."

Raven sighed, "Please, Willow. Don't get into trouble today."

Willow shrugged her shoulders, "Like I said; if they don't piss me off." She took a sip of her coffee and then smirked at him, "Then again, it is fun to annoy them."

"Willow," Raven began in that same stupid tone that was used to try and warn her to not cause trouble, "It's not me who's just gonna be pissed at you if you end up in the principle's office at the end of the day. Aunt Liz isn't gonna be exactly happy about it."

Willow scoffed and put her mug down, stepping away from her brother and walking to one of the chairs in their little apartment, and grabbing her school bag. "I don't know why she freaks out over me so much."

"Because you're her goddamn niece, idiot. Then again, everything she says you ignore. Although, you do that to me too."

"Aww," Willow cooed mockingly, "You two shouldn't take it personally. I don't listen to anyone." She grinned at him as she put her hands in the pocket of her vest, feeling her cigarettes and lighter in there. She felt relief come over her at that.

Raven rolled his eyes in aggravation, "C'mon. I got work and you gotta go to school. And you know, stay there for the whole day please."

"Fuck sake, you ask a lot of me. Don't cause trouble and stay in school for the whole day." She shook her head. "That's like, child abuse."

Raven opened the front door, gesturing for her to leave, "You know what, if you do end up leaving half way through the day, do not go around "expressing" yourself."

Willow scoffed, "Now that, I don't understand what the problem is." She pulled out a cigarette from her pocket and lit it. Raven saw her do it and sighed; he'd given up trying to stop her. She did worse things other than smoking.

"You're putting graffiti on the walls of public buildings; that's the problem." He opened the door to their car, getting into the driver's side.

This argument again. She sat into the passenger seat and rolled down the window, "I'm trying to assert my talent-"

Raven scoffed as he pulled away from the sidewalk and began making the journey to the school. "You're trying to 'assert your talent'?" He shook his head, "What the hell are you even talking about?"

"You always do this!" Willow spat as she took a drag from her cigarette. She blew the smoke out of her mouth and through the open window, "This is who I am! I am an artist!"

"You can be an 'artist'," He lifted one of his hands up to make quotation marks, "by painting on a fucking easel, or, or on paper for God's sake!"

"I do!" Willow insisted, blowing smoke into her brother's face, making him cringe. "You don't even fucking look at any work I do on paper. The only way people care or notice is if I put it on the wall of the local library." She flicked the ash off her cigarette out the window.

Raven stopped at a red traffic light, "Just enough, Willow. I am so sick of all..." He gestured towards her, "this."

Willow's eyebrows furrowed together in confusion as she pondered for a few seconds on what he meant. Finally, she blinked. "What does that even mean?"

They started moving again, "It means that your Aunt and I, even Caroline for God's sake, can't handle this recreational bullshit anymore. Ever since Mom-"

"Don't." Willow interrupted immediately. Her tone was hard and her face had lost all softness to it. "Don't bring her into this."

Raven was quiet for a second before he sighed, "Y'know what? No. I will bring her into this. Because everything that you do is because of her." Willow didn't say anything, so Raven continued.

"Look, I know that you have always been a little... different. And you've always been a trouble maker, but it was never this bad." He shook his head as he came in sight of the school. "And it was after Mom... after she did what she did, that you just went completely off the rails. And you know what, I was willing to leave you to it. Let it out of your system, let you grieve in your own way. I thought it would only be a few months, a year at best. But no, four years later and you're still..." He gestured to her again.

Just as he finished his speech, he parked outside of the school. Willow was silent, her eyes boring hatefully at the school. He didn't know anything. He knew nothing of her. He didn't understand how much it hurt her, how much their mother's death had destroyed her completely.

But everything that she did now, wasn't just for her. People saw nothing but a small town delinquent now anyway, and Willow firmly believed that there was no point changing who you were if people already had an opinion of you.

Willow threw the cigarette out the window and roughly opened the door. "You don't know shit, Ray." She told him coldly, before slamming the door in his face.

She pivoted on the spot, stamping on her used cigarette as she did so, and made her way towards the school.

So as you can see, very different. Raven's in it from the start. And he's the naggy and annoying older brother. Also, you may have heard them mention Liz being their Aunt. Well, Willow and Raven are the niece and nephew to Liz Forbes, and therefore the cousins of Caroline. So very different. I didn't do it out of a whim; I actually felt it would work better for her to be apart of their family. Willow is a lovely contrast to Caroline and I'm eager to do moments with the two of them.

So as you can see, Willow is a delinquent. A major one at that. Also, Willow is not friends with Elena, Bonnie and Caroline in this story. As you can tell from her personality, she's involved in the wrong crowd. And I felt like Elena wouldn't be friends with someone like that, but Jeremy is actually the BFF of Willow, despite their age difference.

This chapter was just to establish the relationship that she has with Raven and to show the difference between my original story. I hope you enjoy this chapter. We will be getting into the first episode soon.

Also, I've made a new account on Polyvore (since I don't know how to delete my old account. If anybody knows how, please tell me, thanks). I go by the same name as I do on here, I've posted her first outfit on there.