Stefan joins the high school football team with Matt and plays the position of wide receiver. Elena decides as a member of the Student Council to show Stefan around, but he treats her coldly, which hurts her. Elena sees that she has seventh period, History of Europe, with him and Mr. Endicott, tried to get Stefan to take off his glasses, but he stated that he had a medical condition. Bonnie reveals to her that the biology teacher, Mrs. She joins Meredith, Bonnie and Frances at the lunch table, being told Stefan's name and given his schedule. At lunch, she greets Caroline, but is taken aback by the bitterness and hostility that the girl gives her. After her class, she asks another student, Frances Decatur, to get Stefan's schedule and give it to her at lunch. Halpern's trigonometry class, she thinks of a way to break the bad news to Matt that she's breaking up with him. This deeply shocks Elena, who has never been brushed off by a boy before. All of the girls within the entire school want his attention, but Stefan just brushes them off. Clarke looks somewhat dazed and pulls a form out for him to sign, then handing him a schedule for his classes. Clarke, who looks at a list until he starts looking at the secretary. As Stefan goes to the office, Elena watches him talk to the admissions secretary, Mrs. A mysterious, handsome foreign boy named Stefan Salvatore, also enrolls. Caroline promptly becomes competition with Elena for the position of most popular girl.

Elena starts her senior year of school in the town of Fell's Church with her friends, Meredith Sulez, Bonnie McCullough, Caroline Forbes, and Matt Honeycutt.

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