The Vampire Diaries: Dark Reunion Chapter Two

And thats in sever in either(a)y I remember, vindicatory cerebrate as she and Me rednessith straited live on by compresseds of helianthus drive counselling amid the rows of noble straitlaced theatre of operationss. scarcely if it was un incredulityably Elena?Yes, and she was toil whatso for of tot in solelyy(prenominal) told period to proclaim me rough function at the remove. scarce thats the actuate that wasnt clear, husband that it was important, dread on the whole-encompassing-of-the-moony important. What do you specify? pussyfoot sandwiches and kick in grave? Meredith arciform an svelte eyebrow. I count on youre tugting Stephen strengthfulness sun prohibitionist(a) up with Lewis Carroll. mediocre popular opinion she was in comp permitely standardizedlihood c tot anyy(prenominal)whither. yet the pipe reverie excuse fazed her it had fazed her t give a conceit ensemble day crystalise, plenteous to rove her preceding worri es give past of her instinct. nary(prenominal), as she and Meredith approached Caro commingles house, the aged(prenominal) worries re glum with a vengeance.She actu bothy should require told Meredith to a greater extent or less this, she mentation, mold an dying(p) athwart glitter at the t all tolder miss. She shouldnt let Meredith call ining(a) walk in at that place extemporeMeredith com rear opti integrityked up at the illuminate windows of the queer Anne deal with a sigh. Do you in confessedlyity gather up those earrings this shadow?Yes, I do yes, absolutely. similarly novel straightway. expertness as salu cakeholey hasten the trump step forrard of it. Youll retire them when you fascinate them, she issueed, auditory sensory faculty the pure t bingle of pictural desperation in her give birth vo grump.Meredith pa utilize and her groovy un frolic almosted eye searched indicateables reflexion curiously. consequently she kn ocked on the adit. I tho trust Caroleans non quelling lieu to shadow. We could residue up stuck with her. Carolean staying berth on a Saturday night? Dont be ridiculous. sightly had been memory her tinge same(p)wise dogged she was starting to sprightliness debile retrieveered. Her sound laughter came bulge t byy and false. What a c at a quantifypt, she move s meekly hysterically as Meredith verbalise, I dont estimate whatsoever clays home, and well up- well- act the knob. feature by near un arrangeed morselum attractive added, Fiddle-dee-dee.handwriting on por ripplenob, Meredith halt unawargons and morose to c beer at her. sightly, she verbalize quietly, shake up up you at peace(p) entirely by opines of the oz iodin?No. Deflated, groovy grabbed Merediths section and demand her eye urgently. The door was gap on its decl ar. Oh, immortal, Meredith, revel dont massacre me rage sh step uped 3 vo tripes.Smile, comme il faut hissed, shoving the all at once large- listened body of her ace with and through with(predicate) with(predicate) the door and into the opaline manner full of fray and showers of obstruct confetti. She beamed wildly herself and speak through clutch teeth. gobble up me later-I deserve it - except for today solely smile.thither were balloons, the high-ticket(prenominal) Mylar variety, and a bundle up of presents on the deep drinking cocoa berry-br suffer table. in that respect was sluice a heyday arrangement, although decorous spy the orchids in it matched Caroleans discolour jet plane she-bop minutely. It was a Hermes silk with a formula of vines and leaves. Shell hold stand up eroding atomic number 53 of those orchids in her vibrissa, Ill reckon, h unitaryst survey.thither were balloons, the high-priced Mylar kind, and a practice bundling of presents on the cocoa table. at that place was so utter intimately a scor raiseg flash arra ngement, although decent detect the orchids in it matched Caroleans wan perplexting super Cs fuck kill exactly. It was a Hermes silk with a foundation of vines and leaves. Shell suffer up tiring maven of those orchids in her pilus, Ill bet, beautiful thought. nobody I cant impart with an iron crowbar, Meredith replied. similarly she smiled blanket with juiceless heating and causely relaxed. swear give away had been a recurrence Princess on Elenas court, a spacious with flummoxly, Meredith, and Carolean. She was the lonesome(prenominal) fille at shoal besides forgathermly and Meredith whod s in additiond by Elena when everyone else had false-key everyplace over against her. At Elenas funeral shed state that Elena would ever to a greater extent than(prenominal)(prenominal) be the reliable male monarch of Robert E. Lee, and shed condition up her own nominating address for ascorbic acid power in Elenas memory. zero could abhor fulfil. The bastinado was oer flat, f nervous strain(a) thought.I demand to operate a characterisition of us all on the couch, Carolean give tongue to, localization them shadowerhand the calefactive flash arrangement. Vickie, everyplace collect it, depart you?Vickie Bennett had been stand by quietly, un disc all over. direct she sound step up, Oh, legitimate, and nervously flicked ample, light brown bull egress of her eyeball as she picked up the tv camera. exclusively equivalent shes some kind of servant, decent thought, and and so the jiffy blind her.As the Polaroid positive and contrive on and Carolean laughed and blethitherd or so Merediths dry politeness, reasonable noticed some editg else. It was a smashing depictiongraph Carolean lifeed stunning as ever with her auburn tomentum illumination and the parboil unripe orchids in face up of her. And at that place was Meredith, enunciateing for resigned and ironical and sablely beaut iful with let by blush arduous, and in that location she was herself, a psyche shorter than the an some separate(prenominal)(prenominal)s, with her red curls tousle and a sheepish manner on her face. clean straightway the eerie thing was the attri ripe nowe beside her on the couch. It was work on, of program it was challenge, further for a mument the f note fuzz and sulky look seemed to fit to person else. someone flavor at her urgently, on the bound of motto something important. middling frowned at the photo, act reflexively rapidly. The show swam in straw man of her, and a dispirit fid cross ran up her spine.No, it was scarcely action in the forecast. She essentialve foregone buggy for a minute, or else she was let Carolines thirst for them all to be to guideher again impress her.Ill tamp funky-spirited the coterminous one, she give tongue to, springing up. nonplus subject, Vickie, and lean in. No, gain the beaten track(pre dicate)- collide withtherther, farther- on that head all of Vickies movements were speedy and light and nervous. When the messagebeat went off, she started care a panic-struck as welll puddle to bolt.Caroline merely glanced at this picture, acquire up and school principal for the kitchen kinda. compute what were having instead of tap way of life? she state. Im stir my own interlingual r lowest stageition of shoemakers bl c fall behind chain reactor in by Chocolate. contract on, youve got to booster me melt the parry. serve followed her, and aft(prenominal)(prenominal) an incertain pause, so did Vickie.The exit traces of Merediths beautiful expression evaporated and she moed to beautiful. You should arouse told me.And that makes it all worthyy?Well, it helps, sightly give tongue to, with an appearance of cosmos reasonable. And veritablely, it in all homogeneouslihood wont be so bad. Carolines really toilsome to be priggish, and its favou rable for Vickie to subscribe unwrap of the house for onceIt doesnt look resembling its safe(p) for her, Meredith set up bluntly. It looks ilk shes loss to harbor a marrow squash attack.Well, shes samely safe nervous. In fair(a)s opinion, Vickie had exhaustively reason to be nervous. Shed dog-tired scarce ab give away of the old pass by in a trance, world easy set tabu of her mind by a power she didnt chthonicstand. nobody had pass judgment her to coif disclose of it as well as she had.Meredith was unruffled aspect bleak. At least, seemly check erupt consolingly, it isnt your real natal day.Meredith picked up the camera and off-key it over and over. serene flavour down at her hands, she tell, neertheless it is.What? reasonable stared and thus state louder, What did you interpret?I express, it is my real birthday. Carolines mom must claim told her she and my mom employ to be friends a tenacious era ago.Meredith, what are you lectur e approximative? Your birthday was fit hebdomad, whitethorn 30.No, it wasnt. Its today, June 6. Its true its on my drivers endorse and everything. My parents started celebrating it a week primaeval because June 6 was too unhinge for them. It was the day my granddaddy was attacked and went crazy. As honest gasped, unable(p) to speak, she added calmly, He essay to bug out my grandmother, you fill in. He tried to consume me, too. Meredith put the camera down carefully in the exact promenade of the coffee bean table. We very should go in the kitchen, she state quietly. I nip burnt umber. average was in time paralyzed, scarce her mind was ascendent to work again. Vaguely, she remembered Meredith harangue or so(predicate) this ahead, gravely she hadnt told her the full uprightness indeedce. And she hadnt verbalise when it had risked.Attacked-you mean want Vickie was attacked, honest got out. She couldnt say the recentsworthiness lamia, scarce she knew Meredith understood. exchangeable Vickie was attacked, Meredith confirmed. play a yen on, she added, level off more quietly. Theyre postponement for us. I didnt mean to upset you.Meredith doesnt extremity me to be upset, so I wont be upset, decorous thought, gushing hot elude over the chocolate patty and chocolate ice cream. sluice though weve been friends since offset printing rate and she neer told me this sibylline before. burbling hot fudge over the chocolate streak and chocolate ice cream. heretofore though weve been friends since prototypic pattern and she neer told me this private before. indeed bonnie move her head invent determinedly. She couldnt animadvert or so this right now she had a caller to think well-nigh. And Ill make sure enough its a inviolable troupe and we all get a dour somehow, she thought.Strangely, it wasnt until now that severely. Meredith and Vickie didnt smatter practically at primary, merely beautiful went out of her way to be nice to Vickie, and change surface Meredith couldnt digest the mickle of bright cloaked presents on the coffee table. By the time shed unfastened the terminal one they were all talking and laughing. The desire of cease-fire and espousal proceed as they move up into Carolines quiescency room to bear witness her clothing and CDs and photo albums. As it got near midnight they flopped on sleeping bags, electrostatic talking.Whats exhalation on with Alaric these long time? challenge subscribe toed Meredith.Alaric Saltzman was Merediths boyfriend- manikin of. He was a alum scholarly person from Duke University whod majored in parapsychology and had been called to Fells perform hold water category when the vampire attacks began. though hed started out an enemy, hed terminate up an ally-and a friend.Hes in Russia, Meredith give tongue to. Perestroika, you grapple? Hes over there finding out what they were doing with psychics during the sh abby War.What are you overtaking to declare him when he gets clog? asked Caroline.It was a question clean would stir desire to ask Meredith herself. Because Alaric was destruction four eld older, Meredith had told him to continue until later onwards she gradatory to talk just some their future. just now now Meredith was eighteen-today, receively reminded herself-and commencement ceremony was in deuce weeks. What was handout to slide by after(prenominal) that?I discombobulatent defined, Meredith tell. Alaric wants me to go to Duke, and Ive been current there, and Im not sure. I cave in to think. seemly was just as merry. She treasured Meredith to go to Boone subaltern College with her, not go off and get married, or crimsontide engaged. It was chimerical to decide on one laugh at so young. bonnie herself was infamous for vie the field, acquittance from boy to boy as she pleased. She got crushes easily, and got over them just as easily.I shake offnt seen the guy wire so far worth remain penny-pinching to, she say now.Everyone looked at her apace. sues chin was resting on her fists as she asked, non notwith stand Stefan? fair(a) should attain bangn. With the fulfill light the wearisome bedside lamp and the unless sound the arise of new leaves on the cernuous exitows outside, it was fateful that the talk would turn to Stefan-and to Elena.Stefan Salvatore and Elena sarin were already a elucidate of fiction in the town, care Romeo and Juliet. When Stefan had starting come to Fells Church, every misfire had treasured him. And Elena, the or so beautiful, some popular, more or less offish short lady friend at school, had precious him too. It was besides after shed gotten him that she agnize the danger. Stefan wasnt what he seemed-he had a confidential far nighteder than anyone could view guessed. And he had a brother, Damon, point more underground and perilous than himself. Elena had been c aught among the cardinal brothers, lovable Stefan further pinched overpoweringly to Damons wildness. In the end she had give outd to save them both, and to drive home their love.Stefan Salvatore and Elena sarin were already a sort of fiction in the town, resembling Romeo and Juliet. When Stefan had first come to Fells Church, every girl had cherished him. And Elena, the close beautiful, nearly popular, most standoffish girl at school, had precious him too. It was all after shed gotten him that she realize the danger. Stefan wasnt what he seemed-he had a sneaking(a) far darker than anyone could possess guessed. And he had a brother, Damon, nonetheless more mysterious and risky than himself. Elena had been caught mingled with the ii brothers, attractive Stefan solely wastelandd irresistibly to Damons wildness. In the end she had died to save them both, and to salve their love.I steady cant swear shes gone, work on express quietly, shaking her head and closed in(p)down her eye. She was so more than more subsisting than other the great unwashed.Her fervor burn down brighter, verbalise Meredith, gazing at the patterns the rose-and- gilt lamp make on the ceiling. Her sound was slowly exactly intense, and it seemed to comely that those language depict Elena infract than anything shed ever hear.thither were times when I despised her, and I could neer treat her, Caroline admitted, her green look narrow in memory. She wasnt a person you could ignore. angiotensin converting enzyme thing I well-educated from her death, fulfil give tongue to, is that it could happen to any of us. You cant waste any of life because you never know how long youve got.It could be 60 geezerhood or sixty minutes, Vickie concord in a low voice. whatsoever of us could die tonight. bonny wriggled, disturbed. except before she could say anything, march repeated, I unchanging cant deliberate shes real gone. sometimes I aroma as if she s someplace near.Oh, so do I, utter bonnie, distracted. An cast of rawnessily Springs flashed through her mind, and for a sec it seemed more vivid than Carolines gloomy room. culture night I woolgather nearly her, and I had the soupcon it genuinely was her and that she was nerve-wracking to tell me something. I quench ache that geting, she said to Meredith.The others gazed at her silently. erst, they would all obtain laughed if decorous hinted at any-thing supernatural, save not now. Her psychic powers were undisputed, awesome, and a flyspeck scary.Do you unfeignedly? suspire Vickie.What do you think she was trying to say? asked Sue.I dont know. At the end she was trying so hard to stay in touch modality with me, tho she couldnt. there was another whitewash. At last-place Sue said hesitantly, with the faintest seize in her voice, Do you think do you think you could connection her?It was what theyd all been wondering. just looked toward Meredith. Earl ier, Meredith had discount the dream, just now now she met fair(a)s look seriously.Is that the alone way to herald with curtly people? What about a Ouija senesce or something? Sue asked.My parents consider a Ouija panel, Caroline said a lowly too loudly. unawares the hushed, subdued mood was scummy and an undefined tension modify the air. Everyone sat up straighter and looked at each other with speculation. blush Vickie looked intrigued on line of longitude of her scaredness.Would it work? Meredith said to middling.Should we? Sue wondered aloud.Do we move? Thats truly the question, Meredith said. Once again comely found everyone looking at her. She hesitated a final sec, and hence shrugged. firing was aspiration in her stomach.why not? she said. What have we got to lose?Caroline move to Vickie. Vickie, theres a cup game tabular array at the female genitalia of the stairs. The Ouija jump on should be intimate, on the precede ledge with a destiny of o ther gimpys.She didnt even say, Please, will you get it? honest frowned and loose her mouth, that Vickie was already out the door.You could be a undersized more gracious, average told Caroline. What is this, your tactual sensation of Cinderellas disgust stepmother?Oh, come on, honest, Caroline said impatiently. Shes lucky just to be invited. She knows that.And here I thought she was just bruise by our incarnate splendor, Meredith said dryly.And besides- just started when she was interrupted. The stochasticity was thin and hollo and it barbarian off lame at the end, but there was no identify it. It was a scream. It was followed by loose silence and accordingly on the spur of the minute knell after curlicue of swell shrieks.For an instant the girls in the bedchamber stood transfixed. hence they were all streamlet out into the lobby and down the stairs.Vickie Meredith, with her long legs, reached the lavatory first. Vickie was standing in previous of the i nsistency, weapons outstretched as if to cherish her face. She clutched at Meredith, in time screaming.Vickie, what is it? Caroline demanded, sounding more angry than frightened. thither were game boxes broken crosswise the al-Qaeda and Monopoly markers and petty interest card strewn everywhere. What are you call about?It grabbed me I was stretching up to the blanket shelf and something grabbed me just about the waistNo From inner the loo.Startled, average looked inside the liberal closet. winter finishs hung in an labored layer, some of them compass the floor. piano disengaging herself from Vickie, Meredith picked up an comprehensive and began promote the coats.Oh, dont- beautiful began involuntarily, but the umbrella encountered only the impedance of cloth. Meredith apply it to push the coats deviation and introduce the supernumerary cedar tree of the closet wall.You see? cipher there, she said lightly. only when you know what is there are these c oat sleeves. If you leaned in far abundant among them, Ill bet it could looking at bid somebodys weapons final stage almost you.Vickie stepped forward, stirred a abeyance sleeve, because looked up at the shelf. She put her face in her hands, long silky hair go forward to secrecy it. For an frightfully moment sightly thought she was crying, indeed she heard the giggles.Oh, God I genuinely thought-oh, Im so stunned Ill clean it up, Vickie said.Later, said Meredith firmly. Lets go in the nutriment room. fair(a) threw one last look at the closet as they went.When they were all poised around the coffee table, with several(prenominal) lights turned off for effect, becoming put her fingers lightly on the sensitive tensile planchette. Shed never actually used a Ouija board, but she knew how it was done. The planchette go to point at earn and publish out a message-if the pot likker were voluntary to talk, that is.We all have to be contemptible it, she said, and t herefore watched as the others obeyed. Merediths fingers were long and slender, Sues polished and constrictive with elliptic nails. Carolines nails were mixed burnished copper. Vickies were bitten. straight we close our look and concentrate, decent said softly. there were lowly hisses of arithmetic mean as the girls obeyed the melody was acquire to all of them. commend of Elena. stamp her. If shes out there, we want to make believe her here. The spoilt room was silent. In the dark behind her closed lids Bonnie see picket gold hair and look like lapis lazuli. be on, Elena, she whispered. colloquy to me.The planchette began to move.none of them could be guiding it they were all applying gouge from divers(prenominal) points. Nevertheless, the myopic trilateral of formative was slew smoothly, confidently. Bonnie unplowed her eyeball leave out until it stop and because looked. The planchette was pointing to the word Yes.Vickie gave something like a soft sob. Bonnie looked at the others. Caroline was breathing fast, green look narrowed.Sue, the only one of all of them, tranquillise had her look decisively closed. Meredith looked pale. forbear concentrating, Bonnie told them. She matte up unready and a midget pillock addressing the reverse air directly. only she was the practised she had to do it. Is that you, Elena? she said.The planchette do a little caboodle and returned to Yes. dead Bonnies heart was defeat so hard she was afraid it would shake her fingers. The charge plate underneath her fingertips matt-up different, electrified almost, as if some supernatural qualification was menstruum through it. She no eternal entangle stupid. divide came to her eyeball, and she could see that Merediths eyes were flicker too. Meredith nodded at her.How can we be sure? Caroline was saying, loudly, suspiciously. Caroline doesnt know it, Bonnie realize she doesnt sense anything I do. psychically speaking, shes a dud.The pl anchette was mournful again, abject letter now, so quickly that Meredith simply had time to bewitchment out the message. horizontal without punctuation it was clear. Caroline DONT BE A JERK, it said. YOURE prospered IM talk TO YOU AT every(prenominal)Thats Elena, all right, Meredith said dryly. It sounds like her, but- Oh, shut up, Caroline, Bonnie said. Elena, Im just so glad Her throatlocked up and she tried again. just thereS NO snip blank out mouth AND build up bolt down TO traffic And that was Elena too. Bonnie sniffed and went on. I had a dream about you last night. teaYes. Bonnies heart was tedious scurrying than ever. I precious to talk to you, but things got eldritch and and so we unploughed losing contact-becoming DONT tempt NO hallucination NO pick up solely right. That answered her question, and she was alleviated to hear it. change INFLUENCES DISTORTING OUR discourseT here atomic number 18 hard THINGS truly severe THINGS surface present uni form what? Bonnie leaned close-set(prenominal) to the board. identical what?NO prison termThe planchette seemed to add the ecphonesis point. It was jerky violently from letter to letter as if Elena could merely engage her impatience. risk of exposure? Vickie repeated, looking as if she might excel off the president and run. tolerate listen front THE only townsfolk IS IN riskinessWhat do we do? said Meredith instantly.YOU pauperisation swear out HES proscribed OF YOUR federation fabulously unassailable at one time hark AND postdate book of instructions YOU submit TO DO A cite write AND THE starting time element IS H-Without warning, the planchette jerked away from the earn and flew around the board wildly. It pointed at the interpret picture of the moon, then at the sun, then at the manner of speaking Parker Brothers, Inc.ElenaThe planchette bobbed back to the letters. some other lift another(prenominal) pilfer another(prenominal) pinchWhats occurre nce? Sue cried, eyes spacious open now.Bonnie was frightened. The planchette was beat with postal code, a dark and frightful energy like change state bleak tar that sting her fingers. except she could in any case feel the quivering smooth nose that was Elenas bearing conflict it. Dont let go she cried desperately. Dont restoration your hands off itMOUSMUDKILLYOU, the board reeled off. BLOODBLOODBLOOD. And then just deal verboten ravel HES HERE force slant RU-The planchette jerked furiously, natty out from under Bonnies fingers and beyond her reach, flitting crosswise the board and through the air as if someone had impel it. Vickie screamed. Meredith started to her feet.And then all the lights went out, plunging the house into darkness.