Chapter One: Welcome Home.

Sheets are swaying from an old clothesline
Like a row of captured ghosts over old dead grass
Was never much but we made the most
Welcome home

Late May 2016

Enzo lingers outside the Salvatore boarding house for what felt like an hour, staring at the front door fighting himself to knock. It's been two years since he's been home from Duke University, and the last time he was here it was New Year's Eve night. He and Damon got into a huge fight, as well as his father and Stefan over the younger man's studies and college companions. Enzo swore to himself after that night he'd never return back to this bloody town again and was actually going to spend his summer with his cousin Virginia in the Hampton with her extremely conservative parents, but Lily his step-mother asked him to stay the summer for at least a couple of weeks before her and his father's wedding anniversary party.

Enzo continues to stare at the front door until it was pulled wide open and he was facing thankfully Stefan Salvatore and not his dickhead brother. "Umm Enzo, when did you get here? And how long were you just standing there?" Stefan questioned him. Not knowing what to say Enzo just gave him a steely look as Stefan steps to the side to let him in.

His memories of the boarding house were a bit hazy since he has only been into here a few times. Lily and Lorenzo Sr. had only been married for four years, the wedding was summer of 2012 when Stefan and Enzo just graduated school, by the time his father moved in with Lily, he was off to American University as a transfer student from England where he lived with his mum.

"Lorenzo, welcome home" He whipped around to see a smiling jolly Lily with opened arms walking towards him, Enzo smiled dropping his bags and hugged Lily. She was a sweet woman who made his father the happiest he's seen in over ten years, even if he didn't like her sons he couldn't hold that against her.

"Lily, it's great to see you again" Enzo pulled away, Lily gave him one of her most welcoming smiles.

"Well if you came home more often to see us." Enzo just shrugged her comment off, after what happened couple years ago Enzo wasn't interesting in spending too much time here, just a couple of weeks for the anniversary party for his parents which Carol Lockwood the former Mayor's wife and Lily's best friend was having at her home.

Stefan gave Enzo a pat on the back, "Damon will be home tonight, he's hanging out with the Bennetts." From what his gossiping cousin tells him, the Bennett are the new royalties of Mystic Falls, Rudy Hopkins the new mayor of the town and his wife Abby Bennett-Hopkins moved into the town a few years ago after old Mayor Lockwood died, Rudy cleaned up Mystic Falls after the town's crime rate was sky high when it's Mayor died. They lived here with their daughter, Enzo never met but she was close friends with Damon, poor girl.

Lily grabbed Enzo's arm and walked him into the living room, "Lucy, our new maid will take your bag to your room, so you just relax and dinner will be at 6." As Enzo took a seat he saw a little middle age white lady with blonde hair and wearing a maid's outfit darting around Stefan to get his bags and bring up stairs. "hopefully your father arrives on time, he's so busy these days down at the armory with Dalton." Lily continues.

Dalton was Enzo's uncle and his cousin Alex and Virginia's father, he would be working for Dalton and Alex this summer at the armory learning the family business.

Stefan kissed his mother's cheek, "Well I'm going out, might not make it for dinner." Lily gave her son a disapproving look.

"And why not?"

Stefan sighed "Okay, Klaus invited me over." Enzo cracked a smile, Stefan was still hanging out with his problematic friends and against his father's wishing, Enzo was kind of proud to see this side of Stefan.

"Stefan you know how Lorenzo and I feel about you hanging out with that boy and his Jezebel sister, what about that nice girl Valerie from school what's she doing this summer?" Lily asked her son.

"Look Valarie and I are just friends, so is Klaus and Bek." Stefan tried to explain to his mother who was already over this conversation with her son. "I'll try to make it home for dinner okay." With that Stefan rushes out the house, and Lily walking out into the hallway was muttering to herself about the Mikaelson clan being deplorable people. Putting his feet up on the couch laying back, Enzo thought to himself, Welcome home.

"Okay so your step brother who I've never met by the way, is home for the summer and he for some reason you won't say hates you, and whatever you clearly did to him kept him from returning home to visit his parents" Bonnie Bennett was up in her old room at her grandmother's house putting her stuff away while Damon laid on her bed pretending to text his girlfriend.

Bonnie threw her nail clip at Damon for not answering her. "Dammit Bon, yes let's say I did something bad that a regret and ruined my relationship with him." Bonnie rolled her eyes, story of Damon's life. Damon had more enemies than friends, in fact he only had two friends, her and Alaric Saltzman, who was her history professor at Whitmore College.

Damon and Bonnie met her freshman year at Whitmore, while he was trying to make a move on her best friend Elena but then got denied. He later got with her other friend Caroline who was drunk at a party and let say their little relationship ended up on bad terms, Caroline hated Damon. Her sophomore year she ran into Damon at the tutoring center where she worked, he needed a tutor at the time and asked for her help, and they've been friends ever since.

Damon was even dating Elena now, even though they were on and off, right now on hold or something while Elena was doing some internship in New York.

"So when am I gonna meet this guy?" while Bonnie has never been charmed by Damon or his brother Stefan, in fact Damon tried to make a few move on her once at the party after his messy breakup with Caroline, which led Bonnie to throw a drink in his face. Second time was in her dorm room after the two became friends, but Bonnie saw way too much bad boy womanizer fuckboy in Damon and she wasn't setting herself up for another failed relationship, so the two just stayed friends.

Damon looked up curiously at Bonnie head tilt to the side, "Why?"

Bonnie walked from her closet, going to her door to pulled in another suitcase. "Damon, I met everyone from your family but your step brother, who you rarely speak about, I'm curious to see who he is and also what you did." It must be bad since Bonnie knew every awful thing Damon has done yet he refuse to speak about whatever he did to his brother.

Damon rolled over on his stomach tossing his phone to the side, "Elena posted a picture of her and that dude Liam." Liam who was a fellow med student and a friend of Elena was also in New York doing an internship. Damon hated the guy, purely jealous since Liam was always hanging around Elena, like tons of guys are yet this was the one dude that made Damon tick.

"Are you stalking Elena and Liam now?" Bonnie asked hands slapped her thighs disapproving of Damon's actions. "Elena and Liam are just friends, she's pretty faithful to you, and completely in love." Bonnie explains to him. Liam was no competition to him.

Damon of course had this look on his face saying he didn't believe her, "yeah okay, and come over tomorrow so you can meet Enzo, maybe break the awkward tension between us."

Bonnie grinned up at Damon, "can't wait, and here I thought I came home to another boring summer, at least give me drama and angst with a bit of romance before I have to start working this fall with teenagers" Damon just pouted at her probably still thinking about Liam and Elena.

"Sister you have no idea what you just wished for." Bonnie just chortle and jumped on the bed next to Damon.

As soon as she snatched his phone up and managed to glance at an incoming text message from someone who probably shouldn't even have Damon's number, and while he was still pouting and whispering harsh things about Liam, she gasped a bit at what she briefly saw in the message. This made Bonnie realize this summer was going to be way too exhilarating.

Okay, I'm starting a summer bonenzo romance series, next chapter Bonnie and Enzo will meet. Hope you all enjoy.