A/N: This is an AH – all the characters are human. So let's go back right to the start; Elena and Stefan have just started dating, Damon is just his annoying brother and Caroline is with Matt. Jeremy was dating Bonnie in the beginning, not Vicki, for the purpose if this story, but have now broke up.

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Dear Diary, (Fri 20th Jan)

The new history teacher started today. Now we are going to actually have to learn about history, this means saying goodbye to our lazy/ gossip period. Well I guess there is lunch. Silver lining: he is cute! Also, if I were keeping tabs on how many times I have gotten into trouble because if Care then I would definitely be approaching 20 – Elena too. Care is still yet to reach 1. Oh and of course I managed to make a fool out of myself twice; not making good first impressions today.

Not much to report in other areas =/ I didn't see Jeremy today –bonus! I decided not to go to Tyler's party the tomorrow; Jeremy is going - despite hating Tyler. I still don't even want to look at his face; I guess I'm not moving on as fast as I hoped.

[Earlier that day...]

"I'm your new history teacher." He smiles looking over the faces of his new audience.

When his eyes meet Bonnie's they seem to stay there a little bit longer than they have with anyone else, but Bonnie dismisses it as just being in her head. A small screwed up piece of paper lands on Bonnie's desk, she rolls her eyes smiling, knowing who is begging for her attention. She turns to face her bubbly blonde friend, Caroline sits one row over and one seat back, "He's cute!" she mouths approvingly. Bonnie nods and sticks up a thumb playing along with her friend's immaturity.

"Excuse me, Miss, you there, middle row third seat back."

Bonnie's eyes widen when she realises he is talking to her. She gives Caroline an unimpressed look then slowly turns back to face the front "Me?" she asks quietly.

"Yes. What's your name?"

"B..Bonnie."

"Bonnie, I promise you what I am saying really isn't that boring, so if you could please pay attention."

She nods "Sorry." She folds her arms and slouches in her chair. She looks over to Elena who is smiling, finding what just happened to be amusing.

When the bell rings to signal lunch and everybody leaves hurriedly. When Bonnie gets to the front of the class she is pulled aside by the calling of her name, nervous to realise it was Alaric.

"I'm sorry I called you out in front of everyone; it's just it's my first day and I need to show my authority before people think they can walk all over me. I didn't mean to embarrass you."

"Its fine" she smiles and backs away meeting her friends whom are waiting by the door.

Outside in the corridor the trio work their way through the crowd of people trying to stick together. "You totally want him." Is the first thing Caroline says, it's directed at Bonnie.

"Really, Caroline?" Elena says with a raised eyebrow.

"What?" she says genuinely missing the point in Elena's tone. They go outside for the quiet and fresh air and make themselves comfortable under the shade of a tree. "I was just making an observation, it was right there for anyone to see." The conversation had moved on, but Caroline couldn't resist bringing it back up. The pair looked at her confused. "Mr Saltzman..."

They both groan at her. "Will you drop it, Caroline? I do not like Mr Saltzman." She says it believingly but Caroline doesn't buy it.

"Look, there is it again, my observation, see?" She points at Bonnie's face. "You might want to tell your face to sell what you mouth is pitching...Ouch" Bonnie slaps her hand away.

"Hey, are you abusing my girlfriend?" Matt shouts walking towards them.

"She deserves it" Elena shouts back.

Caroline fake pouts leans into Matt when he sits next to her. He kisses the slapped hand and rubs it "Better?" she kisses him on the lips to say yes.

"Can I join you?" Stefan asks standing behind Elena.

"Of course you can." She pats the grass next to her.

Bonnie looks at the couples; they are all lovey-dovey and cute. She grabs her bag and stands wiping any grass from her bum. "I'm gonna go."

"What? Why?" Elena questions.

"I'm feeling like a fifth wheel. I'll be in the library if you want me."

"I'm sorry if we made you uncomfortable." Stefan says.

"No, you didn't." She walks off back into school.

The hallway is clear now with everyone either in the lunch room or outside. Bonnie walks through the corridor totally absorbed in a magazine she brought that morning. She pushes a door open with her elbow then let's is go to slam behind her. There is a thud and someone yells out in pain. She gasps and turns around quickly. Of course if it is anyone it has to be Mr Saltzman.

"I'm so sorry I didn't know you were behind me and I wasn't paying attention I would have held it if I had known I would have I'm so sorry, are you okay?" his ears can barely keep up with her.

"It's okay, just my foot; I only need it for walking." He bends his leg and rubs at his foot.

"Did I say I was sorry?" she panics feeling she is working her way into his bad books.

"Don't worry; I shouldn't have assumed you knew I was there." He looks at the magazine "But now I understand; Zac Efron can be very captivating."

She shrugs looking at the picture in the magazine "I'm a sucker for blue eyes." When she looks up she blushes seeing his eyes are blue too.

"I'll see you Monday, Bonnie." She doesn't get what he means "Class..."

"Right, of course, I knew what you meant." She is too embarrassed to look at him when he walks off. "He thinks you are totally stupid!" she says to herself.

He twists back around shocking Bonnie "Did you say something?"

"No, no...No" she tries to smile convincingly, but fails.

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Dear Diary, (Sun 22nd Jan)

So I ended up going to Tyler's party after all; but only after a lot of convincing. It was okay, for about the first 30 minutes, that's when Jeremy arrived. He seems rather cocky lately and I wanna slap it out of him! He had some girl all over him all night, I don't know if he was rubbing it in on purpose or not but he was. Elena tried to distract me I couldn't help but look. I feel bad for her; I know how terrible she feels but her apologies can't make up for a lack of one from him. Before I could tolerate him but now I hate really don't like him!

P.s. History tomorrow = me freaking out!

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Dear Diary, (Mon 23rd Jan)

Okay I have a plan, appropriately named: Avoid Alaric. (That's his first name by the way). Basically involves me not making eye contact and not speaking to him – unless in reply. I came up with it during history; I spent half my time cringing thinking about our previous encounters. I'm not sure how I am going to handle being in his class three times a week. I don't know why I can't stand to even look at him!

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Dear Diary, (Mon 6th Feb)

Avoid Alaric is going well; I am successfully avoiding Alaric. I have also resorted to dodging him in the hallway. Although one time I did an abrupt left turn and flew straight into some guy making him drop is Coke – equals one pair of ruined shoes for me. =(

Today it hit me; I like him. That is why I find it so hard to be around him after embarrassing myself. I have a crush on my high school teacher. Cringe. The worst part was that Caroline was right.

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Dear Diary, (Wed 8th Feb)

Oh my Gosh. Jeremy came up to me today. I was sitting perfectly fine by myself eating my lunch when he came from nowhere. He wanted to talk but I wasn't having any of it; I rightly stormed off. However he turned stalker and caught up with me at my locker. I could barely hear a word through my anger but I did manage to catch two. I'm sorry. He actually apologized. Still I kept face and stormed off - again. This time into the bathroom but he wasn't there when I came back out. Needless to say I couldn't stay focused in history to write any understandable notes.

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Dear Diary, (Fri 10th Feb)

Didn't do too well on the avoiding Alaric today, wound up in a 45 minute detention through no fault of my own. It wasn't that bad; I tried the no eye contact and no speaking thing for as much as I could. I am however doing well on the avoiding Jeremy front – that being how I got into detention. Vicious circle much?...

[Earlier that day...]

Bonnie sits in class watching the pencil she is tapping on her desk move up and down. So far she has ignored all of Caroline's attempts and getting her attention. Half way through the lesson her phone vibrates on the table. Naturally she picks it up and reads it.

"Bonnie, I understand why you are avoiding me. But please I want to apologize properly. Meet with me?" she starts to get angry just by reading Jeremy's reads it again and again and she doesn't hear Alaric call her name.

"Bonnie!" he says for the third time. He is standing right next to her desk and it takes her a moment to realise what is happening. She quickly closes her phone and puts it in her pocket. He holds his hand out so she takes it back out and gives him the phone.

"I'll see you after school, Miss Bennett." He states casually walking back to front.

When the day finishes she stands beside his desk waiting for him to finish wiping the board clean. She can't help but take advantage of the positioning; she hasn't seen him this close before. Her eyes explore his back, starting at his shoulders she admires how broad they are. Further down she watches the muscles in his back move and she picks up on how toned they look. Finally his bum; perfect.

When he turns around she swiftly moves her eyes away. He brings a chair over and puts it next to his desk so she is to his right. They sit and he slides her some papers.

"I need some help marking these."

"Can you do that? I think I'm supposed to do my school work, not help you with yours."

"I know, but you are up to date with everything and there is no need for improvement on it. So unless you want to clean the windows or something."

She picks up a pen and starts reading. She is slouched in the chair and has an irritated demeanour about her. Alaric keeps looking at her but she doesn't notice.

"I hope it's not too inappropriate to ask but, are you mad at me or the guy on the phone?"

She thinks about her answer for a moment "Both."

"Did I do something?" She holds her hands out and looks around the room. "Right, the detention."

"People are always on their phones and you always pretend not to notice. But the one time I look at mine you keep me behind. I hate to say it but you obviously have something against me. Is it because of your foot, because you stopped limping ages ago?"

"Bonnie I don't have anything against you, I don't want you to think that." He moves his arm across the table and gently touches her hand. Her heart flutters and she tries to keep a straight face.

"That's what it looks like."

"If anything it's the total opposite. You are the only student, in any of my classes that I don't know anything about. You don't speak at all during class and you barely even look up."

"So this is an attempt at getting to know me?"

"I guess so. I find you kids respond better if I'm not the usual boring teacher."

"How did you know it was a guy on my phone?"

"The look on your face when you read it said it all." Her face becomes sad and she looks down to the desk. "Do you want to talk about it?"

She looks back up to him laughing a little "That would be extremely weird!"

"Well its one way of getting to know you. You can tell a lot about a girl by her ex."

"Really?"

"Sounds like it would be true. Come on, what's his name?"

She rolls her eyes and gives in "Jeremy Gilbert"

"I know him, Tuesday afternoons, last row five seats back."

She looks impressed "Do you know where everyone sits?"

"Not everyone, you like to move around a lot. You though, are always middle row, third seat back."

She nods "I get a good view."

... But I think I managed to redeem myself with Mr Saltzman; he is pretty cool. I guess in a way I should thank Jeremy, not that I will. I did agree to see Jer in the end, maybe he will leave me alone. Monday after school; I'm not going out my way to see him!

P.s. Mr Saltz has the best bum I have ever seen!

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It's Monday afternoon; Bonnie is standing on the steps by the school entrance. She gets a message

'I can't make it, Mr Saltz gave me detention for the whole week. Rain check?' she groans and makes her way over to her car. When inside she calls Caroline.

"Hey, Care what you up to?"

"I'm at home, but we are going to Mystic Grill in a bit. You wanna come?"

"We?"

"Elena's with me now, we are meeting Stefan and Matt there."

"Okay, beats sitting at home."

"I'll pick you up. See you in thirty."

Back at home Bonnie is pushing her clothes back and forth along the rack. She wants to look cute; maybe she will meet a gut there and she won't have to be the fifth wheel anymore. She settles upon a pair of shorts, t-shirt and a leather jacket. She fixes her make-up and inspects her reflection; the shorts make her legs look long.

Caroline honks to inform of their arrival. Bonnie runs down the path; it had started to rain a little. They all have a good time, laughing, eating and playing some of the games there. After an hour and a half Bonnie decides she wants to leave. Maybe she would have stayed longer had there been some guys worthy of her attention.

"Do you want me to drop you off?" Caroline asks sipping her drink.

"No, you stay. I don't mind walking." She gives them all a hug good bye then heads for the door. She stands in the little foyer looking through the glass doors; the rain is coming down heavy now.

The noise from the restaurant spills into the little room when the inside door opens.

"You might be waiting a while."

She turns her head quickly in recognition of his voice. "Alaric. I mean Mr Saltz, Saltzman."

"I don't mind you calling me Alaric, Bonnie." He stands next to her, their arms almost touching.

"Is it supposed to last long?"

"Way into the night."

"Oh"

"Let me give you a ride."

"No, you don't have to, it's fine. I'll wait to see if it lightens up a little."

"Well I'm not leaving until you do, and then I will stalk you to make sure you get home safe." She laughs at him.

"Alright."

He opens the door "Ready?" she nods and they walk out. He puts his arm around her waist and tries to cover her a little with his jacket.

Inside the car she catches her breath and wipes some of the water off her face. He turns the heat up to the highest it will go to try and warm them up.

"How long were you in there?" she questions.

"About an hour."

"I'm surprised I didn't notice you, I don't know how I could have missed you."

"I saw you, you were with the blonde that talks too much."

"I don't notice how much she talks anymore; I guess I'm used to it."

"She deserves an award. I wonder how long she can hold her breath."

Bonnie chuckles, she might complain about her sometimes but those are the things that make Caroline, Caroline. There is a moment silence. Out the corner of his eye he discreetly looks her over paying special attention to her legs.

"You suck at pool by the way." He teases.

"Hey!" he playfully hits his bicep.

Jeremy comes to mind and she ponders whether to bring him up or not.

"Errm, Alaric."

"Yes?"

"Did you give Jeremy a week's detention... because of me?"

He briefly glances over to her. "Why do you think that?

"Well...you don't see him until Tuesday afternoon, which is tomorrow. So how could he have done anything to deserve detention from you; especially as you don't usually give them. And I did mention him last week."

"Now, Bonnie. It would be very unprofessional of me to punish that boy on behalf of someone else." He looks at her and winks with a cheeky grin.

"I guess it is just my lucky day then."

They arrive at her house; she unbuckles her seatbelt and, without thinking, leans over and kisses his cheek. She pulls back quickly a little embarrassed. "Thank you" she squeaks then hops out the car and runs to her door. He watches her all the way until she closes the door behind herself then pulls off.

Dear Diary, (Mon 13th Feb)

The meeting with Jer didn't happen, to my relief. It's the reason why though, it has got me thinking. Mr Saltz Alaric gave him a week's worth of one hour detentions! That has to mean something, right? He cares? I know he cares about all his students, he's cool like that, but I am suspecting he actually cares for me, properly. Am I being crazy? Maybe he likes me! Okay now I'm being crazy.

I don't think I am going to be able to look at him the same now I have see rain droplets slowly run down his beautiful face. Or now that I have seen his wet shirt cling to his sculpted abs. Oh and the biceps...mmmm – says it all. Oh dear I'm drooling!

I even kissed him on the cheek; I can still feel his stubble on my lips - one embarrassing moment I don't regret. I hope I haven't made him uncomfortable now. I should apologize, gives me reason to talk to him again.


A/N: Hey guys! I hope this was okay; it's nearly two in the morning here so my final proof read was barely practically pointless =/ But I did spell check!

More chapters coming soon; it was originally one long text but I decided to split it up. Let me know your thoughts. =)