Jeremy awoke with a jump. Breathless and sweaty he sat up and looked at the clock next to his bed. It read 5:24am. "Damn it" he sighed. It was way too early but he would never get back to sleep now. He sat up and looked around the darkened room before throwing the blanket off his legs. He stood up, bare-chested and barefooted, and he padded into the connecting bathroom he shared with his sister Elena. He flipped on the bathroom light and took a quick peek into her room. She was fast asleep. He closed her door and walked over to the mirror and looked at himself. He looked the same, but something felt different. He felt different. Just in the matter of a year he lost his parents, and 2 girlfriends. He sighed. Anna and Vicky. He loved them. Both. Anna had help him get over Vicky. Helped him move on. Now she's gone. These past couple weeks though he'd begun to...feel better?
Tyler and Jeremy were never really friends. They both dated Vicky Donovan at the same time and Tyler had always viewed Jeremy as nothing but a drug dealing loser. Tyler was a bully he always had been. But ever since Mayor Lockwood's funeral, he seemed different. Sad, withdrawn, very un-Tyler-like. Something made Jeremy want to reach out to him, even after he found out about the werewolf curse and Elena tried to keep him from befriending the older boy. He did it anyway, and to his surprise Tyler was nice to him. Even apologetic.
Jeremy continued to look at himself in the mirror. Deep in thought. He was there for Tyler the night of masquerade party when he accidentally killed Sarah and triggered the curse. He was also there with Tyler during his first transformation. He closed his eyes and let out a breath he didn't realize he had been holding. That night in the cellar underneath the ruins of original Lockwood estate. Watching that was one of the most horrifying things Jeremy had to watch, but he stayed there for Tyler. That was three weeks ago.
Jeremy walked away from the mirror, turned off the light, and walked back into his bedroom. He looked out his bedroom window before pulling down his black and red flannel pajama pants. He slid into a pair of jeans before putting on a t-shirt, a hoodie, and a pair of sneakers. He snuck out the window.
Ten minutes later Jeremy was walking through the gates of Mystic Falls Cemetery. He slowly walked up to a grave. The stone read 'Victoria Donovan'. He'd never been here before. Never came to visit her grave. "Hey" he said barely above a whisper, before turning around and sitting with his back up against the tombstone, "I just needed somewhere to clear my head and I figured you wouldn't mind the company."
He must have fallen asleep because he was woken up quite a bit later by someone clearing their throat loudly. He looked up to see Matt staring down at him. Jeremy stood up and asked "What are you doing here?". Matt looked confused by that question and answered back, "She was my sister, Jer. I try and come here every morning before school." That wasn't what Jeremy meant and then realization hit him and he asked,"School? What time is it?" "Almost 7." Matt answered. Before Matt could say anything else Jeremy ran off out of the cemetery towards the direction of the school.
It was the last class of the day and Jeremy was sitting in Mr. Saltzman history class. The bell rang and everyone scrambled to pack up their things and start filing out of the classroom. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Tyler walk in and over to Mr. Saltzman's desk. "Jeremy could you come here for a second." Mr. Saltzman said and Jeremy walked over to were the other two where standing. "Tyler here need's a tutor and I'm assigning you the job."
Jeremy had no problem with the idea but he could see Tyler was clearly about to protest when Mr. Saltzman pointed out, "Tyler you need to bring your grades up and Jeremy is the best man for the job." Jeremy and Tyler left the classroom in complete silence.
They made it to Jeremy's house without saying a word to each other. The only time either of them had spoken was when Tyler offered to give Jeremy a ride. It was decided that they might as well start the tutoring that night. Jeremy walked in the front door followed by Jeremy. Aunt Jenna was sitting in the kitchen on the phone with someone when they walked passed. No sign of Elena, she was probably at Stefan's. When they got to Jeremy's room he was already worried. Tyler avoided him for three weeks and now they had to work together.
Soon they were sprawled out on Jeremy's bed. Textbooks and notes everywhere. Tyler seemed a bit more relaxed, more like he was before the full moon when him and Jeremy first started hanging out. Jeremy thought he even saw him smile at a dumb joke Jeremy had made. Then as Jeremy was mid-sentence, talking about some civil war battle, he realized Tyler was just staring at him. Jeremy looked over and before he knew what was happening Tyler's lips were on his and he was being kissed. As soon as it had started it was over, and Tyler got up and ran out of the room. Jeremy just sat there for a minute trying to comprehend what just happened.
Jeremy finally got up and walked downstairs where he ran into a very confused Jenna. "Why did Tyler Lockwood just bolt out the front door a few seconds ago?" she asked. When Jeremy didn't answer her she asked, "You two aren't back to beating each other up again, are you?" He just looked at her looking a little spaced out and shook his head no. That was really all he could do.