Starry Darkness ✨ Danielle Gilbert [1]

[11]

Danielle's PoV

I stare at Caroline pretending to listen to her instruct me on what I should and should not be doing.

"Caroline," I interrupt, "I know what I'm doing."

She stands opposite me, her hands on her hips, "Okay. Then get on with it."

I smile walking over to the made up front desk for the next hour.

The chair beside me scrapes against the concrete, Elena sitting down.

"Hey," She greets.

I smile turning to the gentleman in front of me, "That'll be $20."

Elena scrunches up her eyebrows, "I saw you last night. You were talking to a friend of mine, at the Grill?"

I glare at Elena for being so forward, but then remember what she told me last night.

"Well, I--I thought it was somebody I knew," the man replies.

"Stefan Salvatore," I say in curiousity to see if my sister was telling the truth.

"Bah, it can't be. It's just my mind playing tricks on me," he says.

"Where do you think you'd seen him before?" Elena asks.

"When I first moved here, I stayed at the Salvatore boarding house," He explains.

"Oh."

"Stefan was just passing through to visit his uncle. I mean, none of us knew he was even here until the attack," He continues.

"The attack?" I question.

"His uncle got killed. Mauled by an animal in the woods," He tells us.

"His uncle, Zach?" Elena asks.

"Mm-mmm Joseph," The man replies.

"I'm sorry sir. I don't think I'm familiar with the story," I say.

"Oh, how could you? I mean, this happend years ago," He reveals.

Elena and I sit there unsure about the information. 

"Grandpa, you gotta go. Mum wants you home. Ok?" Tiki says to him.