stanford } { the life and times of a college girl

[braveandstupid]

Most of the time, Elena has to pinch herself to believe that she's actually here.

She still doesn't know how she got in. Her grades for her junior and senior year weren't exactly stellar, but she's trying not to question it too much. Questioning things in the past two years has never gotten her anything but trouble, and she wants Stanford to be a fresh start. A clean slate where she wouldn't have to worry about Klaus, vampires, werewolves or witches. She would just get to be Elena.

She really missed being Elena.

(However, even if she just wants to be Elena, that doesn't mean she forgets everything. She still gets an apartment off campus in her name, just in case.)

Right now, however, she's wandering the campus and getting used to her surroundings. Everything about this is amazing and larger than life. It's not Mystic Falls, and there's a part of that that's completely terrifying, but also exhilarating. She's not little Elena Gilbert, the girl who lost her parents and nearly everyone else she's ever loved. She's just Elena Gilbert, freshman English major at Stanford University.

This could actually be fun.

Provided she doesn't kill someone by colliding with them on her first day. That's what she gets for looking up.

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[braveandstupid]

"Yeah," she nods. "I have no idea what I'm studying yet. Right now, I'm still kind of in shock that I'm here."

Alive and human are the caveats to that statement, but Sam doesn't have to know that. Even so, she never thought she'd get out of Mystic Falls, but still -- here she is. The whole moment is still a little surreal.

[saved]

"You and me both," Sam says, though he turns to her curiously. The sentiment obviously doesn't apply in the same way, Sam, despite your little propensity to overindentify. And obviously, there are some things Elena doesn't have to know about, either, but...

He's finally on his own. Countless of miles in between himself and Dean and his father.

[braveandstupid]

"But that's what our freshman year is supposed to be about, right? Figuring out what we want to do with the rest of our lives."

[saved]

"I hope so," Sam says, clearing his throat when he realizes how much weight he has put into those three words alone. He tries for another smile, somewhat awkwardly. He doesn't want to be off-putting when he's genuinely liking Elena, he's just... Sam. And he's awkward.

"Do you by any chance want to get a cup of coffee or something?"

[braveandstupid]

Elena Gilbert never says no to coffee. She glances over at him with a smile, before nodding. "Yeah. I'd like that."