Bonnie and Matt.

Chapter 1

Bonnie

It was the morning after the fight, the showdown, the night Elena came back to us. I still can't believe it happened; it all seems as if it was a dream. Aunt Judith nearly had a heart attack when Elena stood there on her doorstep wearing Caroline's dirty green dress and Damon's black leather jacket, when she was supposed to be about two meters underground, dead. Then, after a few minutes of gasping, clutching her chest and looking at us, she let out a scream of joy and threw her arms around Elena. After a minute, she drew us all in: Meredith, Stefan and Matt. Oh Matt. Standing there so perfectly, with his hand still holding mine long after we had danced around the clearing like idiots, but we where so happy; we were alive, and we were all together.

"Bonnie? Bonnie! There's someone here to see you!" My mum called from downstairs, breaking me out of my thoughts.

"OK, I'll be down in a minute!" I answered. I hopped of my bed and practically bounced downstairs, but I stopped when I saw who was standing there in my hallway. The person I couldn't stop thinking about all night. The one person I felt really cared for me, and the one person I prayed felt the same way about me. Matt.

"Hey," he greeted me, a big grin spreading across his face, lighting up his eyes and the rest of his face.

"Hey!" I replied, feeling my own lips turn up into a huge grin.

"Uh, I was just wondering if, um, maybe you wanna take a walk with me?" He asked, a hint of nerves showing in his eyes.

"Of course!" I agreed, making a mental reminder to try not to sound as if I've taken way too much happy gas. I wrote a quick note to my mum telling her where I was and put it somewhere she would see it. I grabbed my cardigan and pulled it on, eager to be out with Matt and to see what he had to say. We walked down to the end of my road and crossed over to the park. We sat on a bench by the pond, and for a minute we simply sat and watched the ducks swim about.

"So, you're probably wondering why I asked you out here." He implied, looking out at the pond still.

"Kinda," I agreed, but I was hoping I actually already knew.

"Well, I've been thinking, and I know, after all we've been through, especially you, that you might think it's too fast, and-"

"Matt!" I cut in, "what's wrong?"

"Well, OK, please don't laugh when I tell you this, and you have every right to be angry with me and-"

"Matt!"

"OK, well, what I've been trying to say is," He cleared his throat here and took a deep breath, "…I love you Bonnie. I've loved you ever since you came and talked to me in the cafeteria about Elena." He sat back then, as if (which was true) he had gotten some big secret off his chest.

I sat there. Speechless.

"I knew you wouldn't feel the same way," he muttered. He stood up and began walking away. He was half way down the path when my brain suddenly started working again.

"Matt!" I called. He didn't turn around. I sprang up and ran as fast as I could, not willing to let him go with an outright lie in his head.

"MATT!" I screamed, and he span around, probably wondering what had made me scream so wildly.

"Look Bonnie if you don't-" But this time it wasn't me that cut him off. It was my lips pressing against his. He stood there for a minute, swaying with surprise, but he then caught on. He put more emotion into the kiss, so much it was almost unbearable. Almost. He swung me off my feet, and laid me down on the warm, fresh summer grass. We kissed there for what seemed like forever, while my heart and my head was practically singing with pure joy; Matt loved me! He loved me! After a while, we just lay there, staring blissfully up at the clear blue sky. I felt him move his head to the side. As I did the same, I found him staring at me, a look of pure happiness on his face.

"So you really love me?" He asked, looking deeply into my eyes, as if to see some kind of truth there.

"Of course! Why do you think we've been kissing for the last half hour?" I laughed, and soon he was laughing with me. He then started to kiss me, and we picked up where we left off. The birds where singing, and I could here people laughing in the park.

Everything was perfect.