Disclaimer - I in no way, shape, or form, take credit for the characters created by L.J Smith nor Julie Plec, and Kevin Williamson for the development of said characters. I do however own Klarissa. I also do not take any claim over the plot line of the series as well as not taking any claim over the screenplay and the writings of L.J Smith, Julie Plec, and Kevin Williamson.

PILOT: Part One

Dear Diary,
Something bad is going to happen today.
I don't know why I wrote that. Today will be different, it has to be. I can no longer dwell over what happened to my parents. I know it will always stay with me, but I'm so sick and tired of the looks that every person in this town throws my way. They act as though they care about us but all they do is ask the same, repugnant question - "How are you?" and when you turn your back, you can hear their hushed whispers about how sad my life must have become. This year, I will start fresh, be someone new. Even if it isn't the truth, it's the only way I'll be able to survive.

"Klary, can I borrow your silver, hoop earrings?". I stop writing in my journal only to look up and see my twin sister, Elena, standing at the doorway.

"Uh sure, they should be in my jewellery box, on my vanity table".

"Thank you! I owe you" Elena pauses before starting up again with her almost maternal questioning. "How are you feeling today? Are you ready to go back to our normal lives?".

Raising my eyebrows at my sister, I reply to her with "Are you?". Elena simply shakes her head no before turning to leave.

Right, I better pick out some clothes. Hiding my journal underneath my mattress, I stand up and head for the closet. Standing in front of my vanity mirror, I look at the photos of me with my parents. Letting out a deep breath, I headed downstairs.

"Toast. I can make toast" Aunt Jenna says whilst scrambling around their kitchen.

"It's all about the coffee Aunt Jenna" I reply to her as I walk into the kitchen, heading straight to our expresso machine.

As I pour myself a cup of coffee, my younger brother Jeremy comes in. "Is there coffee?" he asks as he takes the cup from my hand. God, he has become such a brat.

"Your first day of school and I'm completely unprepared. Lunch money?" my Aunt asks us.

"We're good" is Elena's reply, however Jeremy takes the money from our Aunt. Elena and I exchange looks knowing that the money is definitely not for his lunch.

"Anything else? A number two pencil. What am I missing?"

"Don't you have some big presentation at your college today?" I remind her.

"I'm suppose to be meeting with my thesis advisor at..." Jenna looks at the clock, "Now, crap"

"Go Aunt Jenna, we'll be fine", Elena once again speaks for all of us.

Jenna grabs her bag and rushes out the front door when Elena turns to Jeremy. "You okay?"

"Don't start" is Jeremy's reply before he leaves the house.

Looking at the television I notice a news report talking about a couple who were killed in an animal attack. Turning back to Elena I notice the look on her face. Elena means well, but our brother is still going through his 'I hate everyone and everything' phase.

"Lena, don't worry about it, it's just his way of coping with everything"

"I know, I just wish he would talk to us, you know? After everything that happened, I just" Elena pauses before speaking to her sister again, "I just wish we could all go back to normal".

"And we will, Jer will come around soon. Trust me" I reassure my twin.

A loud beep is heard from outside their house.

"That must be Bonnie" Elena concludes and we leave to get into Bonnie's car.

•••

"So, Grams is telling me that I'm psychic. Our ancestors were from Salem and all that. I know, it sounds crazy, but she's going on and on about it and I'm like, put this woman in a home already! But then I started thinking, I predicted Obama and I predicted Heath Ledger, and I still think Florida will break off and turn into tiny little resort islands" Bonnie rambles to her two friends before noticing Elena looking out the window, seemingly distracted. "Elena! Back in the car" Bonnie exclaims.

"I did it again, didn't I? I'm sorry Bonnie, you were telling me that..." Elena trails off, hoping for Bonnie to fill her in.

"That I'm psychic now" Bonnie smiles at her.

"Okay Bonnie, then predict something. About us" I but in from the back seat.

Bonnie looks at me through her revision mirror, "I see.." she starts before something hits the front window of the car, causing Bonnie to swerve her car to the side of the road, shocking all the girls. "What was that! Oh my god, Elena, Klary, I'm so sorry, are you guys okay?"

"We're fine Bonnie, it's okay" is my reply.

"It was like a bird or something, it came out of nowhere" Bonnie tries explaining.

"Seriously, Bonnie it's fine. We can't be scared of cars for the rest of our lives" Elena adds.

Bonnie collects herself before saying, "I predict, that this year is going to be kick ass. And I predict that all the dark, sad times are over and you two are going to be beyond happy".

Elena and I share a look between each other, before all three of us begin smiling at each other.

•••

Us three finally arrive at Mystic Falls High School and walk to our lockers, which are conveniently all placed together.
"Major lack of male real estate. Look at the shower curtain on Kelly. She looks like a hot, wait, can I still say 'tranny mess'?"

I laughs at my friend before replying "No, I think that's over".

"Ah, find a man and coin a phrase. It's going to be a busy year" is Bonnie's response as she trails off and looks behind Elena to see Matthew Donovan, Elena's ex-boyfriend. Elena follows Bonnie's stare to see Matt and waves at him, only for him to ignore her.

"He hates me" Elena says to the other two girls as she turns around to face them.

Bonnie gives Elena a reassuring look before saying, "That's not hate. That's 'you dumped me but I'm too cool to show it, but secretly I'm listening to Air Supply's greatest hits'".

"Don't worry Lena, he's just hurting. You know how sensitive Matt can be" I join in to reassure her.

Before Elena can reply, the school's it girl; Caroline Forbes approaches them. Caroline might come off as incredibly shallow but she has a heart of gold and we have all been best friends since we were kids.

"Elena, Klary! How are you it's so good to see you" Caroline says as she envelops my sister and I into a hug before turning to Bonnie and asking, "How are they? Are they good?".

Elena interjects Bonnie and says, "Caroline, we're right here and we're fine. Thank you". Looking at Elena, I can see the hesitance in her eyes.

"Really?" Caroline replies to her.

Before Elena can confirm, I speak up for us. "Seriously Care, we're much better now. Don't worry about us"

"Are you sure? Oh my gosh, you poor things" Caroline hugs me once more.

"Okay Care, we have to get to class" I say whilst Caroline squeezes the breath out of me.

"Oh, right. I'll see you later, okay?"

Elena and I nod our heads yes before Caroline turns away and walks down the hall.

The three of us share looks between each other before Elena says, "No comment".

"I wasn't going to say anything" Bonnie says, before we all laugh and start heading to class.

Walking past the school's office, Bonnie immediately stops when she see's a new student.

"Hold up. Who is that?" Bonnie asks.

"All I see is back" Elena replies.

Laughing again, I say, "Yeah, but it's a hot back"

"I'm sensing Seattle, and he plays the guitar"

Elena looks at Bonnie with a smile on her face, "You're really going to run this whole psychic thing into the ground, aren't you?"

"Pretty much".

Elena and I both turn their heads to see Jeremy walk into the boy's bathroom. Exchanging a look between each other. Elena says that she'll be right back, before she storms off after Jeremy. Rolling my eyes at the situation I know is about to go down, I turn my attention back onto Bonnie.

"Please be hot" Bonnie says to herself.

"I know you really want to find yourself a guy, but is standing in the entrance to the office whilst staring at a strangers back, really the way to do it?" I question her sarcastically.

"Oh stop it you know you're wishing for him to be good looking as well, it's been so long since we've had a new, good looking guy even step foot into Mystic Falls"

We giggle between us before the stranger with the 'hot back' turns around and faces them. And oh my god, this guy is way too attractive to even be real. He looks at Bonnie and I only to grace us with a warm smile before turning and walking down the hallway. Bonnie and I look at each other before sharing a silent 'oh my god', when suddenly someone bumps into my shoulder. Looking back to see Jeremy, whom I'm assuming is pissed off with Elena and her 'tough love speech'. Bonnie looks at me and I give her a quick "see you in class" before heading off towards Jeremy.

Noticing my younger brother outside the school yard, I walk up to him.

"Not you too" Jeremy groans at me, getting up to leave but before he can, I grabbed his arm.

"You know I'm not Elena, I'm not going to try and help you when you obviously don't even want to help yourself. But the thing is Jer, we do love you and whilst you may not care about yourself or anything else in the world for that matter, I do. So I'm saying this as your non-judgemental older sister, if you want to talk than I'm here for you and I promise I won't squeal to Elena or Jenna, okay? I get it Jer, I do. But the three of us, as well as Aunt Jenna are all we have right now".

Jeremy just nods his head at me before walking away. Sighing to myself before turning around to walk back into school, I notice a vintage, blue Chevy Camaro sitting in the school's car park with a man, who looks to be a few years older than me sitting in it. All I can make out is that he has jet black hair, with eyes the same colour as his car, and let's not forget that he is really, really, hot. What's with all these new, attractive strangers in town. The stranger raises his eyebrows at me before smirking and driving out of the school parking lot. Well, that was weird, I think before turning back and heading to my class.

"Once our home state of Virginia joined the confederacy in 1861, it created a tremendous amount of tension within the state. People in Virginia's northwest region had different ideals than those from the traditional deep south. Then Virginia decided in 1863 with the northwest region to join the union…" my history teacher, Mr. Tanner continues to speak about Virginia's part in the civil war but I tune out and notice the new guy and my sister sharing looks between each other. I smile inwardly to myself, I'm happy that Elena has seemingly found someone new and fresh to take an interest in, but those feelings quickly subsided when I see the look on Matt's face. Everyone knew that Matt was still in his puppy-love feelings for Elena and I almost felt bad for him, considering that Matt genuinely is a good guy. Deciding to stop worrying about the relationship drama that was currently going on, I put my attention back onto this incredibly, boring lesson.

•••

After school finished, the girls and I all decided to go to the Mystic Grill, except for Elena who told us that she wanted to change before coming, which was really code for, "I'm going to visit our parents at the cemetery whilst writing in my journal", I didn't blame Elena for wanting to go, so I just pretended like I believed her and said that she can just meet us later.

We all made it to the Grill and sat down at a table when I decided to go and order some food. As I made my way towards the bar, I was interrupted, by the one and only - Tyler Lockwood. Tyler and I had a relationship similar to Matt and Elena's, only Tyler and I broke up because he was cheating on me with Vicki Donovan. Great, just exactly what I needed when I thought everything was going well.

"Hey, Klare. How are you?" Tyler asks with some amount of genuine concern.

"I'm fine, Tyler. What do you want?"

Taken aback by my harsh tone he continues, "Look, Klare I -"

"Don't call me that" I cut him off.

"Okay, I'm sorry. Klarissa, I know that you and I aren't on good terms and I know that I messed up but I still care about you. I just want to know that you're okay".

"I'm okay Tyler, really. You don't need to worry about me anymore". Before Tyler can respond, I leave him standing there and head back to my friends, suddenly having a loss of appetite.

Returning back to the girls, I sit down and prepare for the thousand questions I know that they're going to ask, upon seeing Tyler and I speaking.

"Did Tyler really just come and speak to you as if you two are friends?" Bonnie asks me.

"Yeap, he even said the whole, 'I still care about you' speech"

"Ugh, Tyler is seriously pathetic. He cheats on you with Miss Pill Popper then expects that you two can be civil after everything" Caroline says with her blunt disgust at the whole situation.

"Honestly, you guys it's fine. I can't avoid him forever" I try to reason.

"Well don't worry about him, let's have fun tonight!" Bonnie exclaims and all the girls laugh together.

"Speaking of fun, guess what I found out today about the new hot guy" Caroline changes the subject off of Tyler.

Bonnie looks at Caroline before asking, "What?"

Caroline smiles at the two of us before stating, "His name is Stefan Salvatore. He lives with his uncle up at the old Salvatore Boarding House. He hasn't lived here since he was a kid. Military family, so they moved around a lot. He's a Gemini, and his favourite colour is blue".

"Oh my gosh Care" I laugh, stunned at my friend.

Bonnie joins in, "You got all that in one day?"

"Oh please, I got all that between third and fourth period. We're planning a June wedding". Say what you want about Caroline but that girl could seriously have a career in detective work.

Caroline ends up leaving Bonnie and I to sit by ourselves, when we see Matt walking over to us before sitting down. "Hey Bon, hey Klary"

"Hey Matty, how are you?" I ask him.

"I'm alright. Uh, how's Elena doing?" he tries to ask slyly.

Annoyed at him for asking the stupid question, I replied snarkily at him, "Our parents have just passed Matt, how do you think?".

"She's putting on a good face, but it's only been four months" Bonnie says to Matt in a much nicer tone than myself.

Ignoring the tone of my voice, Matt continues to ask us "Has she said anything about me?"

"Oh no, so not getting in the middle. You pick up the phone and call her" Bonnie says to him..

"I feel weird calling her, she broke up with me"

Feeling bad for the guy, I said "You just need to give her more time Matty".

Before Matt replies to us, he looks behind Bonnie at the entrance to the Grill to see Elena walk in with Stefan. "More time, huh?" Matt says to us before standing up and walking over to them.

"Oh god, this can't be good" I say to Bonnie, before noticing almost everyone was staring at what was going down between Matt, Elena, and the new guy.

After the awkwardness that is the Elena and Matt show, Stefan and Elena came and sat down with Bonnie and I. And once Caroline saw this, she came racing over to sit with us and as soon as she did, the questioning began.

"So, you were born here in Mystic Falls?" Caroline asks Stefan.

He replies with "Yeah, I moved when I was still young".

"Parents?" Wow, way to be blunt Bonnie.

Stefan looks at me and then to Elena, "My parents passed away".

Looking back at him Elena says, "I'm sorry, any siblings?

"None that I talk to. I live with my uncle". Stefan and Elena share another look between each other, who knew that they would have so much in common.

Realising that Stefan has all of his attention on Elena, Caroline manoeuvres the conversation so that it's back on her. "So, Stefan, if you're new, then you don't know about the party tomorrow"

Bonnie interjects, "It's a back to school thing at the falls".

Caroline's plan didn't work since Stefan just looked back at Elena, "Are you going?". Which made my sister give him a small smile.

Before she could respond to him, Bonnie does, "Of course she is", smiling at the exchange between Stefan and Elena.

Looking at the time, I decided to head home but I knew Elena would want to stay at the Grill longer in order to talk to Stefan, so like the good twin sister that I am, I stood up from my chair and said my goodbyes to everyone and before Elena could leave with me, I gave her a reassuring look and shifted my eyes from her to Stefan and then back to her as if to say "It's fine, stay and talk with Stefan". Once I knew Elena was reassured and with my friend's goodbyes, I left.

•••

Finally I had made it back to my house. I mean walking home wasn't that bad considering I only lived about ten minutes away from everything and I mean, nothing bad ever happens in Mystic Falls anyways. Walking up the stairs and into my room, I have a shower and get changed into my pyjamas. Before turning off my lights, I notice a crow sitting on the stand of my window. Well that's weird. "Hi bird" I say to it, before realising that it can't respond and I'm talking to a bird, have I completely lost my mind? Waving my arms in front of me, I shoo the bird away and shut my window before heading off to sleep.

A/N - And there is the first chapter! I hope you enjoyed it! I kind of subtly introduced Damon in this chapter, since this story is in 1st person P.O.V, it will be told from what Klarissa witnesses, so all the scenes I don't include do in fact happen, it's just that I won't be writing them if Klarissa is not involved in them. Also, if you're wondering who I imagine Klarissa looks like that would be Victoria Justice (my profile picture is who that is). Thank you for reading xx