The wind whipped her hair around her head and Bonnie pushed some strands behind her ears. She was a little bored but wanted to make sure that she enjoyed the bonfire her friends Caroline and Elena expected her to come to.

"Hey Bon. You okay?" Elena asked as she walked up to her best friend, upon watcher her stare into space for a while.

"Yeah Elena, I'm fine. Where's Matt?" Bonnie inquired.

"He went to get me a drink. Have you seen Caroline? She's been acting weird lately."

Bonnie quirked her eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

Elena pushed some hair behind her ears. "I mean, sometimes I'll be hanging out with Matt and I look up and see her giving us this weird look. Like she's mad at us or something." Elena looked at Bonnie for any signs that she had noticed anything similar.

Bonnie gave no such indication. "I'm sure that Caroline is just feeling a little left out because she wants a guy who loves her as much as Matt loves you." Bonnie said, trying to reassure her friend.

"Yeah, you're probably right. Hey Bon, is there any guy-" Elena was interrupted by her boyfriend sneaking up and kissing near her ear.

"Hey babe. Got you some coke. Sorry it took so long, I caught Tyler making eyes at my sister and had to set him straight. Hey Bonnie." Matt looked to Bonnie with a smile.

"Hey Matt. I was actually gonna call it a night. I'm not really feeling the bonfire right now. Just wanna curl up and go to sleep…"

Matt raised his eyebrows in that endearing way of his. "Oh are you alright?" he said with his arms wrapped around Elena.

Bonnie gave him a smile and said "Yeah, of course. I'm just a little worn out. But I'll see you guys tomorrow at school."

Elena and Matt said goodbye and waved their friend off. Then they went back to being wrapped up in each other.

As Bonnie trekked all the way back to her car, she cursed the distance between where she parked her car and where the bonfire was. Preoccupied with her inner musings, she dropped her keys. Grumbling, she bent to pick them up. Upon standing, she felt a gust of wind. She shrieked and jumped back when she realized she was facing a guy who hadn't been there before. His shirt was covered in blood and he had blood around his mouth, almost as if he were a wild animal feeding on something…

He quickly went to cover her mouth. "Ssh. Ssh. You don't have a reason to be afraid. I'm not gonna hurt you. I just wanna talk."

But Bonnie would not stop freaking out. She thought this guy was going to rape her or kidnap her or do something equally terrible like eat her like a cannibal. So she fought with all of her might.

The guy holding her got really impatient, so he looked deep into her eyes and said "You are not going to be afraid. You are going to be quiet and listen to me talk. For the rest of the night, you will be my friend and you won't run away or be afraid of me after the things I'm going to tell you. "

Bonnie stopped struggling and looked into this guy's eyes. In her mind she rationalized that this man was out of his mind and if she just sat and listened to him, he would let his guard down and she would be able to get away without him hurting her. She figured that if she could convince him that whatever jedi mind trick he was trying to pull was actually working, she could get out of this situation alive.

She just nodded and waited for him to start talking. And when he did, she was more than convinced that he was out of his mind.

"I'm a vampire and I like to eat pretty little humans like yourself."

"Why?"

"Because I'm a monster, because I enjoy it. I love feeling the blood run down my throat, feeling the terror run through their bodies as I crush them. It feels GOOD."

Bonnie fought to hide the disgust from her face and voice as she responded to this crazy man who thought he was actually a VAMPIRE.

"Don't you ever feel bad about taking someone's life?"

"Why would I? Human life means nothing to me. When you've lived as long as I have, it becomes pretty pointless to feel bad about doing something that's your nature. And my nature is to feed on humans and then kill them."

Bonnie couldn't stop her heartbeat from escalating at hearing that. He sounded serious. Which meant he was seriously crazy and she SERIOUSLY needed to get away from him.

Bonnie tried to ease her way slowly to her car. "Well, I feel sorry for you but I really should be getting home-"

Damon reached out and grabbed her hand. "Why are you in such a hurry? I thought we were getting really close, becoming friends even. Come on, don't go. We're just getting started." His smirk was less than reassuring.

Bonnie tried to talk her way out of what was becoming a very hairy situation. "I'm just tired and wanna get home-" Damon grabbed her shoulders and simply said "No."

He looked deep into her eyes and said "Don't scream." Then his eyes went black, veins spread across his face and his fangs extended.

Bonnie's eyes widened in fear as her body went into shock at what she was seeing. Her body jumped out of shock as his fangs sank into her neck. She couldn't hold in her screams of pain.