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Here is the text I was talking about in the previous blogpost, read and enjoy!

“And what’s wrong with me,” she continued quietly, “that you can’t even look at me, but you can let Caroline Forbes fall all over you? I have a right to know that, at least. I won’t ever bother you again, I won’t even talk to you at school, but I want to know the truth before I go. Why do you hate me so much, Stefan?”
Slowly, he turned and raised his head. His eyes were bleak, sightless, and something twisted Elena at the pain she saw on his face.
His voice was still controlled – but barely. She could hear the effort it cost him to keep it steady.
“Yes,” he said. “I think you do have a right to know, Elena. He looked at her then, meetingher eyes directly, and she thought, That bad? What could be as bad as that? “I don’t hate you,” he continued, pronouncing each word carefully, distinctly. “I’ve never hated you. But you … remind me of someone.”
Elena was taken back. Whatever she’d expected, it wasn’t this. “I remind you of someone else you know?”
“Of someone I knew,” he said quietly. “But”, he added slowly, as if puzzling something out of himself, “you’re not like her, really. She looked like you, but she was fragile, delicate. Vulnerable. Inside as well as out.”
“And I’m not.”
He made a sound that would have been a laught if there had been any humor in it. “No. You’re a fighter. You are … yourself.”

This is a piece that really caught me, because this is the first time Stefan and Elena really talk to each other, and when she finally gets her answer to why Stefan won't talk to her, and to why he ignores her. It is sort of the beginning of their relationship, and I think it's a cute moment! After this part, things are really starting to happen, and the book gets even more exciting than before. Can't wait to read the rest.