Bonnie Secret's
Beep, Beep, It's 7:00 rise and shine get out of bed sleeply head. Beep, Beep, get of of bed it's a brand new day time let's make it divine. Bonnie reached over and hit the off button on the alarm. She didn't know what aggravated her more the Minnie Mouse voice on the alarm or the cheesy rhyme, but since her 7 year old daughter Isabelle or Izzie has she liked to be called had programmed it so Bonnie made sure to set it every night.
Isabelle Sheila Bennett was seven years old, and although she appeared to be your normal 7 year old with her mother's mocha coloring, and she was slim and scrawny like her mother, however instead of Bonnie's jade green eyes, Izzie inherited her pretty intense baby blues from her father. Also her little precocious 7 year old level of intelligence was somewhat advanced compared to other kids her age. This was the reason it was recommended she skip the first grade and enter into the third grade.
Bonnie couldn't be prouder of her daughter and encouraged her to embrace her inquisitive and curious nature. She also still made sure to tame her future geninus and make sure she treated her as the 7 year old girl she actually was. That meant enrolling her in ballet classes and now art classes because her current obsession was drawing thanks to her new interest in architecture due to binge watching Fixer Upper.
After turning off the alarm and getting out of bed, Bonnie got ready for her day. She had a big meetign this morning with a client from Ney York and still had to go over her presentation. Bonnie was an interior designer with Lockwood & St. John and this last year had seen them taking on commercial clients and working with architects designing everything from shopping malls to high rise office buildings. This morning they had a meeting with Investors who were building a 25 floor high rise in downtown Mystic Falls and if they were able to sign this contract it would be a pretty big for Bonnie whose goal was to become a 3rd parnter making the firm Lockwood, St. John and Bennett.
After dressing in a dark blue Balenciage suit with a pair of 4 inch black Manolo Blahniks she headed to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for herself and Izzie. Bonnie turned the TV on to catch the morning news as she prepared waffles and got the "I heart Mommy" mug that Izzie had made in a pottery class out of the cabinet. She turned to reach for the coffee pot when the female entertainment reporter gleefully announced, " It looks like New York's most eligible bachelor Damon Salvatore is about to lose his title. Word on the street is he proposed this weekend to his girlfriend of over 7 years Felicia Forbes. Stay tuned for details in 5".
Bonnie froze and her heart started to pound and her ears started ringing the coffee cup slipped out of her hands and crashed onto the porcelian floor, she tried taking deep breaths to regain her focus as the reporter continued detailing the romantic proposal between Felicia Forbes and Damon Salvatore. Bonnie couldn't move it was like she was in a trance, and then all of a sudden, Izzie came bouncing into the kitchen at the same time that Bonnie's cellphone started ringing and the waffle maker alarm went off and Bonnie just stood there unable to move. Izzie bent down to pick up the broken mug and said, "Oh no Mommy your favorite mug we made broke. Izzie bent down to pick up the broken cup and afraid she wojudl be cut, Bonnie snapped back to reality and grabbed Izzie hand and directed her to the laundry room to get the broom while she grabbed her cellphone to send the call to voicemail but when she saw it was her best friend Caroline Forbes from the caller ID she knew Caroline would just call back or worse be on the first flight to Mystic Falls so she went to answer the call as she headed to turn off the waffles. Before she could get out not now, Caroline was yelling, "Bonnie, Bonnie are you okay, did you hear the news, I'm so sorry, it wasn't supposed to be announced until this weekend so I was going to call you first thing this morning, but of course that bitch probably informed the media before he proposed".
As Caroline continued to ramble on about Damon giving into family pressure, Bonnie looked back at the TV Screen now showing Damon dressed in a tuxedo with a blue tie that matched his ice blue eyes, he was clean shaven, which highlighted his straight nose, and prominent angled jaw. Damon looked more like a model or heart throb movie star instead of Senior Vice President of Salvatore Industries. Bonnie again was finding it hard to breathe and focus that she didn't even see Izzie had walked back into the kitchen and was trying to sweep up the broken glass and she could still hear Caroline rambling about Damon giving into family pressure, when Izzie touched Bonnie arm and said, "Mommy did Auntie Caroline say a bad word, and who and what is a bitch?
Bonnie knew she couldn't deal with Caroline and her inquisitive daughter so told Caroline to calm down she was find and she had Izzie with her so she would call her once she got to the office. This didn't immediatley appease Caroline so Bonnie used the only thing she knew to distract Caroline and that was to put Izzie on the phone. Caroline hated being an out of state god mother so she spoiled Izzie any chance she got. While Izzie distracted Caroline by asking when she was coming to Mystic Falls to visit, Bonnie was able to clean up the mess and once she realized she didn't have time to remake the waffles she told Izzie to tell Caroline she would call her once she got to the office, because both of them needed to finish getting ready if they were gonig to make it to school and work on time after stopping to get breakfast.
After indulging in chocolate banana pancakes with whip topping, Bonnie and Izzie walked out of the Grille and headed toward Bonnie's vehicle. Izzie was skipping along singing that was the best breakfast in the whole world. Bonnie laughed and buckled her daughter into her BMW X7 and they headed toward the expensive private elementry school Izzie attended. As they pulled up to the school, Bonnie parked the car and grabbed Izzie backpack and got out of the car and went to the passenger side and was not surprised when the door wasn't open and her daughter was still sitting in her seat with a frown on her little face. Bonnie opened the door and brushed her hand over her daughter's afro puffs and said, "not ready to go in yet? Izzie was suddenly shy and even through she loved learning, she was having a hard time adjusting to her new school. Not only was she younger than most of the children, she was also small for her age which made the kids in her class even bigger and she was intimated by the older children. Most of the children had been together since pre school so even through it was just elementry school cliches had already been formed.
Bonnie unbuckled her daughter from her seat and bent down and hugged her and said Izzie you're the most bravest, couragest little girl in the whole world and you just need to show these kids all you have to offer.
Izzie just rolled her eyes and jumped out of the car and said "mommy, you have to say that you are my Mom". Bonnie stopped and bent down and hugged her little girl and said Izzie do you think I'm a good mommy? Izzie looked up at Bonnie with those blue eyes and said, "Yes you are the best Mommie ever, you take care of me, you work hard for me, and you are my hero". Bonnie smiled down at her daughter with tears forming in her eyes and said Izzie do you know how I'm the best Mom every, because I have the best daughter in the whole world.
Izzie smiled and grabbed Bonnie hand in her small hand and giggled, "Mommy you don't know every girl in the whole world, but I get it we are a team and we are the best team".
Bonnie grabbed her hand as they walked into the school, and could hear Izzie repeating to herself, "be brave show them what you have to offer" They arrived at Izzie's home room so Bonnie hugged and kissed her goodbye before turning around to head back out the door when Izzie remember her Mom's meeting and yelled, I love you Mommy, have a good day and be brave".
Once Bonnie got back into her vehicle and headed toward the office, she could no longer avoid thinking about this morning engagement announcement, it all came crashing down Damon Salvtore the guy who had broken her heart was getting married. While he had been out of Bonnie's life for over 7 years, it was hard to completely get over him when she had a instant reminder to look at every day whlen she looked at Izzie. Even without her daughter has a reminder of Damon in the back of Bonnie's mind she still wasn't able to give up on them one day being a family. Now with him set to marry Felicia that dream was no longer a possibility. Bonnie needed a chance to come to terms with this new reality and decided to go into the office, get thru this meeting then take the rest of the day off so she could make sense of what was happening before she picked up Izzie. Bonnie had made a promise that her past would never effect or hurt her daughter.
Bonnie entered the building and rushed into the elevator and before she could even enter her office she was stopped by the receptionist, "Good Morning , Mr. Lockwood wants you to go straight to the boardroom the client is already here". Bonnie ran to her office to put down her bag and grabbed her folder for the "Bamon Project" before heading toward the boardroom. All thought of Damon Salvatore was pushed to the back of Bonnie's mind as she sat down at her desk to quickly review her notes. Bonnie was glad to have this meeting with developers on this project because so far everything had been top secret. Tyler Lockwood her boss had first been contacted regarding the project and everything surrounding the complex, the investors, developers, was top secret. Even the name "Bamon Project" wasn't the name of the actual complex and Bonnie was curious to find out what it stood for and what was going on.
Bonnie gathered her stuff and walked to the boardroom and knocked on the door, when Tyler said, "Come on in Bonnie". Bonnie walked into the boardroom and saw Tyloer and Enzo seated at the table and a dark haired man standing in the corner with his back to them talking on his phone. Bonnie sat down and noticed both Tyler and Enzo appeared nervous. Bonnie knew this was a big account but their firm was pretty successful and didn't understand their concern until the man turned around and smirked and said, "Hello Bon Bon"
A/N
Sorry for any spelling or punctation errors, but wanted to get this story up before weekend was over. Ok please review and let me know what you think. This is my first story and I decided to try my hand at being an author for a couple of reasons. (1) I'm hoping that this will get an interest again in Bamon stories. I know it's been a couple of years since the series ended and alot of authors have lost interest in continuing their stories and this makes me very sad, because one of the things I've always liked about fanfiction is the oppourtunity we have to make stories that we didn't get on the actual show. These stories to me are better than the tv show, so I'm hoping that a couple of my favorite authors: venusnv80 will continue A Cup of Coffee and Gurl6 will continue Something Real, Zesty Bod Dear Elena and Astoldbylanah Secret Affairs to name a few would continue their awsome stories or at least give us at least one final chapter. In addition I wanted to thank CarlyCo for staying with All Warfare is Based on Deception (although I haven't read it in awhile because honestly never can see Bamon working out) she is 75 chapters in so Thank you. Also that anneryn7, sullivansherly, ManiQi, twitchytwain, and Lapis Love to name a few will continue to write.
(2) I also wanted to get an idea of the time and dedication it takes to write a story so I can learn to be a little bit patient when it takes time to update. I have a whole new appreciation and want to thank all authors for past and future stories. Hope to update this chapter if anyone's interested once a week.