Driving down a dark road on the way back from a concert, Brooke and Darren discuss the events of the evening. Suddenly out of nowhere, a man appears in the middle of the road. Swerving off the road, Darren still ends up hitting the man.

Telling Brooke to call 911, Darren steps out of the car to check on the victim. Slowly approaching the man, Darren is surprised when the man opens his eyes and reaches for his throat and proceeds to ravage his neck.

Having no luck getting a signal, Brooke steps out of the car to check up on Darren. Calling for him, Brooke is frightened when all of a sudden Darren’s body is dumped on the hood of the car. Running away screaming, Brooke is snatched up by the mysterious creature.

Writing in her diary, Elena tries to express that “today” will be better than the last. That she will smile more and let everyone know she is fine. She is trying to put on a brave face since her parents died in a horrible car crash that past May.

Aunt Jenna is now Elena and her brother Jeremy’s guardian. Jenna is still young herself and is finishing up her college career. Trying to be the good “parent”, Jenna offers to make them breakfast. Of course, realizing they can take care of themselves, Jenna rushes off to a meeting she’s late for on campus.

Getting a ride to school from her best friend Bonnie, Elena gets an earful on how Bonnie believes she is psychic. Bonnie had just found out that she is a descendant of a Salem witch. Stating the fact that she has made predictions that have come true, Bonnie and Elena’s conversation comes to an abrupt halt when a crow hits their car window. Freaking out, Bonnie pulls over to make sure they were alright. No one was hurt and they pull off to drive to the school “Mystic Falls High School”.

Standing next to her locker with Bonnie, Elena attempts to wave to her ex-boyfriend Matt. Not fully over Elena, Matt looks the other way. Obviously, the break-up was harder on Matt than it was on Elena.

Approaching Elena and giving her a big comforting hug, her friend Caroline just wants to make sure she’s alright. Caroline has a good heart but also has a ear for all the latest gossip.

Outside, Jeremy hands Vicki a couple of pills to take which she takes immediately. He really cares for her but she just can’t get past her own problems to see it. Coming along and breaking up the conversation is Tyler. He also wants Vicki but Jeremy knows he only wants her for one thing. Jeremy walks away upset.

Walking by the office, Bonnie and Elena stop to check out the “new” guys butt in admissions. Both of them like what they see and hope the front is just as nice. Not having the proper documents to enroll into school, Stefan soon has the office attendant seeing it his way and she proceeds to enroll him.

Seeing her brother Jeremy stagger into the boys room, Elena follows in after him. She confronts him about being “stoned” on the first day of school. Of course he denies it. He too is fighting through his grief but she thinks he’s using drugs to ease the pain. Not willing to give up on him, Elena tells him that she will always be there to ruin his “high” if that’s what it takes to help him.

Leaving the boys room, Elena stumbles into Stefan. Feeling stunned and sensing a strong connection to him. In class, she discovers he’s there too and he seems to be watching her. Of course, this makes her smile but makes Matt jealous.

On the walk home, Elena stops off at the graveyard her parents are at. Sitting by their gravestones, Elena takes out her diary and begins to write. Suddenly a crow appears and a mysterious fog develops. Spooking Elena, she tries to shoe the crow away. Sensing that she’s not alone, Elena begins to run away.

In her haste to run away, Elena stumbles but soon gets up. Out of nowhere, Stefan appears to offer her help. Feeling relieved, Elena calms down a bit. Making light talk, Elena asks him about his unique ring. He explains that it is a family heirloom. Asking if she’s hurt, Elena pulls up her jeans to reveal that she had a bloody scratch. This of course make Stefan uncomfortable and disappears as fast as he appeared.

At the diner where Vicki works, Jeremy tries to talk with her. Apparently, they had “hooked” up during the summer and he seems to care more deeply about it than Vicki does. Telling him she’s busy, she walks off.

Surprising Elena, she finds Stefan on her front door. He has brought back her diary that she dropped in the graveyard earlier. He lets her know that he did not read it. He knows how private diaries can be and lets her know that he too keeps a diary. Not wanting him to go just yet, Elena invites him out to meet her friends.

Meanwhile at the diner, Bonnie tries to explain to Matt that Elena just needs more time and not to rush her. Of course that’s all blown away when Elena walks in with Stefan. Feeling somewhat defeated, Matt steps up and introduces himself to Stefan before heading out.

Caroline, Bonnie and Elena sit Stefan down and proceed to interrogate him and get all his details .He informs them that his parents are dead and that he now living with his uncle. Noticing that he’s single, Caroline immediately invites him to a party the next night.

Arriving home later, Stefan is confronted by Zach who is not his “uncle” but who is actually his nephew. Zach is upset about the bodies of Brooke and Darren that were found mutilated. He believes that Stefan had something to do with it. Stefan tries to convince Zach that is was not him and that it was an animal attack.

Later, Stefan opens up a cabinet where he keeps his diaries. He pulls out a diary dated 1864 and looks upon the picture of “Katherine”. Katherine looks exactly like Elena.

The next night at the party, Bonnie and Elena are standing near a fire pit discussing Bonnie’s psychic abilities. Deciding to use a beer bottle as a crystal ball, Bonnie begins to tell Elena her reading. When Bonnie touches the bottle, she actually does get a vision. It is of Elena, the crow and fog. She has a feeling that it is just the “beginning” of something yet to come.

Stefan arrives just in time and pulls aside Elena so they could have a private moment on the bridge. Elena opens up about her parents devastating car crash and that she was the only survivor.

In the woods outside the party, Tyler and Vicki are making out. Tyler uses force and pressures Vicki to go farther. Vicki says “no” and struggles to get free. Thankfully, Jeremy arrives just in time. Getting rid of Tyler, Jeremy tries to explain his feelings to Vicki. Not wanting to believe him and open herself up for any pain, Vicki storms off into the woods.

Soon it becomes foggy and Vicki begins to panic. She has a feeling that someone or something is watching her. Out of nowhere, a man appears and attacks her living Vicki for dead.

On his way to refill Elena’s drink, Stefan is confronted by Caroline. Sensing that she wants to have more than a friendship with him, Stefan informs her that he wants nothing more than friendship from her. Caroline is left feeling let down.

Seeing Jeremy head out into the woods, Elena follows after him. Soon, Jeremy stumbles upon the prone body of Vicki. Seeing that she is barely alive Elena calls out for help. Vicki appears to have a viscous wound on her neck. A begins to grow around them and Jeremy notices Stefan looking on. Making eye contact, Stefan rushes off.

Arriving home, Stefan informs Zach that there was another attack tonight and he did not have anything to do with it. Opening up his bedroom door, Stefan is confronted by his brother Damon whom he hasn’t seen in 15 years. Now Stefan knows whose behind the senseless killings.

Warning Damon to stay away from Elena falls on deaf ears. Stefan and Damon begin to fight and they end up breaking through the window and landing on the hard ground below. Damon reminds Stefan that he had promised him a “lifetime of misery” and he intends to make true his threat.

During the fight, Damon somehow manages to get Stefan’s ring. Knowing that it is what allows Stefan to walk in the daylight, Damon hands him back. Making one last effort to get his threat across, Damon throws Stefan into a wall, stunning him.

At the diner, Bonnie is trying to sober up Caroline. Not having much luck with this, Bonnie listens on while Caroline complains about Elena. She is depressed that she can never get the “guy”. She feels that Elena doesn’t even have to try and she always manages to get the guy.

Having had enough, Bonnie gets up to pay the bill. Caroline soon notices a cute guy staring at her. She smiles and he smiles back. Apparently, Damon is not heeding Stefan’s warning and will be getting involved with Elena and her friends.

Back at the hospital, Jeremy watches over Vicki. She wakes up and tries to speak. Jeremy tries to comfort her but Vicki wants to speak. She finally manages to say one word….”Vampire”.

Stefan appears at Elena’s door to make sure she’s alright. Wanting to be comforted by him, Elena invites Stefan in.

What will happen next?

To know this, continue reading my novel, "The Vampire Diaries".

~To be continued

The episode starts with a couple camping in the woods, when the man gets out of the tent to get something from the car someone attacks him. The woman gets out and finds him dead, and she is killed soon after.

Vicki (Kayla Ewell) is still at the hospital after the vampire attack. Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) visits her to see how she is doing, however she rebuffs him due to her feelings for Tyler (Michael Trevino) who has started showing more interest in her.

Jenna (Sara Canning) has a meeting at the school with Mr. Tanner (Benjamin Ayres) about Jeremy and he informs her that Jeremy is missing many classes because of the drug and alcohol abuse, as well as insulting her capability in raising two teenagers. Jenna tries later to talk some sense to Jeremy, but fails.

Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Matt (Zach Roerig) talk about Vicki and Matt tells her that Vicki said it was a vampire, but he does not believe her story. Stefan (Paul Wesley) who is sat close to them overhears their conversation and immediately worries that Vicki will expose vampires. He leaves for the hospital so he can compel her to forget and make her think that it was an animal who attacked her. Matt notices Stefan at the hospital and gets suspicious but Stefan narrowly escapes out of the window before Matt can catch him. Vicki says she was attacked by an animal but she still has nightmares where she sees Damon's (Ian Somerhalder) face.

Bonnie (Kat Graham) and Caroline (Candice Accola) discuss the recent events and Caroline says that she met a mysterious guy, who turns out to be Damon, the other day but she cannot find him anywhere. Elena walks in and Caroline convinces her to move forward and give Stefan a chance, something she decides to do right away and she leaves for Stefan's house.

Elena gets to the house, but Stefan is not there and she runs into Damon who introduces himself. He also seizes the opportunity to tell Elena about Stefan's ex, Katherine, and how she broke Stefan's heart. Stefan walks in and asks Elena to leave when Damon says that he will bring out the family album where there are also photos of Katherine.

Vicki is out of the hospital and when she gets into the bar-restaurant, she runs into Damon, who she vaguely remembers. Damon follows her and attacks her once again. When Jeremy cannot find her anywhere, they all start looking for her, including Stefan, who hears her screaming from afar. Damon keeps her at the roof of a building threatening to drop her.

Stefan rushes himself to the roof asking Damon to let Vicki go. Damon antagonizes Stefan by compelling Vicki into believing that Stefan attacked her, and tries forcing Stefan to kill her so she won't reveal everything. Stefan, however, refuses to do it saying that he does not care if Vicki exposes him and people kill him, which leads to Damon compelling her again into believing that an animal had attacked her.

Back at the restaurant, Vicki is safe again and Stefan asks Caroline and Bonnie about Elena. Bonnie writes down Elena's number to give it to him but the moment she touches him she senses that something bad happened to him. She asks him about it but she realizes she was being rude so she apologizes and leaves.

Stefan and Elena meet once again at the Salvatore house where he apologizes for his earlier behavior and she also tells him how scared she is to get out to the world. While they are talking, they have their first kiss.

In the meantime, Damon stalked Caroline to the parking lot where the two of them flirt and end up at Caroline's room. But after a while, Damon bites her.

What happens next?

Will Caroline survive?

To know this, continue reading my novel," The Vampire Diaries".

~To be continued

she then discovers bite marks on her neck and tries to creep out of room before Damon hears her. She then looks back at the bed only to see it empty with Damon standing behind her and interrupts her attempt. Caroline in panic, hits Damon's face with a lamp as self-defense, then throws him the pillow with her blood making Damon thirsty and he attacks her again.

At school Bonnie tries to tell Elena to take it slow with Stefan after accidentally touching him and getting a very bad vibe. This makes Elena curious of why Bonnie is saying these things after telling Elena to go for it. Though Elena tells Bonnie that Stefan is helping her cope with every thing that's been happening.

Meanwhile, Vicki is inviting Jeremy to a concert as friends, but in his frustration, he asks if she only slept with him for drugs which she does not answer. Back to Elena, as Stefan greets Elena and Bonnie he notices Bonnie's quick exit. Stefan tells Elena that "she doesn't like me very much", in which Elena responds "she doesn't know you".

Tyler picks on Matt for his lack of action as Elena and Stefan grow noticeably closer to each other. Wanting to encourage a friendship between Stefan and Bonnie, Elena invites Stefan to have dinner at her house with Bonnie. Matt says to Tyler that Elena made her choice which he responds "let her know she made the wrong one". Tyler then throws a football at Stefan's head in an attempt to make a fool out of him, Stefan neatly catches it, surprising everyone, he then throws it back to Tyler. At the hallway Elena suggests that Stefan join the football team in order to make friends in school. Stefan expresses his love for football though he thinks that football doesn't like him because of Tyler and Matt.

Elena and Stefan flirt during History class

During History class where Bonnie is scribbling numbers on her book while Mr. Tanner asks the class when WW2 ended. Stefan then answers for Elena claiming he is good with dates, Mr. Tanner decides to test Stefan asking him the years of different historical events. When it came to the last question Mr. Tanner says that Stefan is wrong only to be embarrassed when Stefan did say the right answer. Back at the hallway Elena asks how Stefan knew all that, which he responds with to Elena that he has had years and years of crossword puzzles.

At football practice where Stefan considers joining the football team while seating on the bleachers. Elena, at cheerleading practice, insists that Bonnie come to dinner with her and Stefan, which Bonnie reluctantly agrees. Mr. Tanner ungenerously agrees to let Stefan try out for the team. Matt is then jealous and says "first my girl friend, now my team". Tyler insist that they attack Stefan. Caroline is dropped off at cheerleading practice by Damon. Which Bonnie finds out to be Stefan's brother. Elena has difficulty keeping up at cheerleading practice so Caroline tells her to "just observe today". Stefan impresses everyone with his football skills at practice, especially Mr. Tanner. Regretting his involvement in Tyler's plan to embarrass Stefan during practice, Matt apologizes. Stefan then takes of his gloves and reveals a dislocated pinky, which he relocates without pain.

Damon antagonizes Stefan by reading his journal and taunting him regarding Elena. Damon then goes off on a date with Caroline. While preparing dinner, Bonnie tells Elena that she keeps seeing the numbers eight, 14, and 22, but Elena mockingly says "maybe we should play the lottery. Elena then looks for serving spoons which Bonnie tells her "middle drawer on the left" and she was right. Bonnie then test herself by saying birthday candles and opening the drawer to find birthday candles. Dinner is awkward until Stefan tells Bonnie that her family heritage of witches is something to be proud of. Caroline and Damon arrive unexpectedly, Stefan tries to stop Elena from inviting Damon in. Stefan then bothered when Elena does invites Damon into her house.

During the evening's conversation, Damon makes a puzzling comment referencing their past with Katherine. The scene then cuts to the Mystic Grill, Matt attempts to connect with Jeremy over how difficult Vicki can be, and Tyler and Jeremy get into a shoving match over her. Back at Elena's home Elena guesses that Damon also loved Katherine by asking him "which one of you dated her first", surprising him by expressing her sympathy for him having lost her too. Bonnie then interrupts them. Stefan asks Caroline to take her scarf off though she can't after being compelled by Damon. Damon walks in on them and asks Caroline to help Bonnie and Elena with the dishes. Stefan then confirms his suspicion that Damon is feeding off of Caroline and attempts to convince him that humans are not to be used for his amusement; Damon counters by reminding him that he has been invited into Elena's house he then taunts Stefan that he'll come every night and will do whatever he wants to do with Elena. Later that night Damon invades one of Elena's dreams and turns it into a nightmare, which she wakes up from.

The next day Elena contemplates whether or not to quit cheerleading. Stefan writes in his journal There must be a shred of humanity left inside my brother, somewhere, I keep hoping, but how do I make him see it? And how do I protect her? . At the football game, Elena tells Stefan that she quit the cheerleading squad, and Stefan gives her a necklace with vervain in it. Prior to the game, Mr. Tanner gives a pep talk that highlights Stefan's talents, irritating Tyler. A fight then ensues between Tyler and a drunken Jeremy, and when Stefan attempts to break it up, his hand is cut by Jeremy. After checking on Jeremy, Elena is confused when Stefan's hand shows no sign of a wound after she clearly saw Stefan's hand get cut.

An anxious, Elena questions Bonnie about the strange feeling she got when she touched Stefan, and Bonnie tells her that it felt like death to her. Damon attempts to compel Elena, and when he tries to kiss her, she slaps him in the face and reminds him that she is not Katherine. Matt expresses his appreciation for Stefan having helped Jeremy and apologizes for his previous behavior towards him. Outside the locker room, Damon confronts Stefan and threatens to harm Elena, and in an attempt to prove his lack of humanity to his brother he kills Mr. Tanner.

After putting Tyler in his place, Matt leaves the locker room and discovers Tanner's body. As the ambulance takes the body away, Bonnie watches on in shock when she sees a sign on the building that says "BLDG 8", the number 14 on a license plate, and parking space 22. Vicki finds Jeremy under the bleachers and gives him the answer from his earlier question; that she did not sleep with him just for the drugs. Elena is confused and upset by the evening's events, and Stefan assures her that they will be fine. Stefan writes in his journal I thought there was hope. That somewhere deep inside, something in Damon was still human, normal. As the voice over continues, the then scene cuts to Damon watching Elena sleep, but leaves just as she awakens. But I was wrong. There's nothing human left in Damon. No good, no kindness, no love. Only a monster... who must be stopped.

~To be continued