Chapter Two: Friday Night Bites Part B
"Josie, get up!" I hear my annoying brother say from next to me. Can't a girl any sleep?
"You get up." I mumbled, even though it might not have made any sense. Oh well, I can't be expected to always make sense.
"Elena told me to wake you up and I don't need to hear another lecture from her." He said as he tried to shake me awake.
"Stop smoking pot and maybe you won't get as many lectures." I advised and buried my head into the blankets.
"Fine. I guess we'll do this the hard way." I heard him walk away, so I just closed my eyes and let the feeling of sleep slowly creep over my body, but then I heard my shower being turned on. Is he seriously using my shower? Doesn't he have his own? I mentally shrugged and decided to yell at him about it later.
I was about 3 seconds from being completely asleep again, but then I felt my body being picked up off my bed and my blanket fell off my body.
"Jeremy! What the hell are you doing? I just wanna sleep!" I exclaimed as he carried me over his shoulder. Also, how the hell is he carrying me? I really need to put some weight on.
"This is what you get for being so difficult." He said and before I know it I'm in my bathroom and I'm being dropped into my bathtub. Not just that, but the freaking shower was on! So now I'm soaked and tired.
He quickly scurries away, leaving me sitting in my bathtub, wet. "JEREMY LESLEY GILBERT!" I scream as loud as I can. I quickly get out of the shower and go into my room to grab my bat. I start making my way to his room, but it was empty. Ha! He knew I would be looking for pay back. Ohhh he's dead.
I run downstairs and I see him sitting on couch and as soon as he sees me he starts laughing hysterically, that is until he sees my bat.
"Aunt Jenna!" He calls as I stomp towards him. I was only a few feet away, bat in hand, when Jenna ran in front of me.
"Wow, wow, wow. What's going on here? And why are you all wet?" She asked, earning a glare.
"He picked me up out of my bed and put me in the shower! So now if you'll excuse me, I'm about to ensure I only have one sibling to worry about." I say about to make my way to Jeremy, who was laughing again. Ha! He's laughing now, wait until I get my revenge. However, Jenna stopped me again.
"As your new legal guardian it's my job to ensure you don't murder each other, so I'm afraid you are stuck with two siblings for now. Just go back upstairs and take a shower." Jenna advises. I look at her, knowing there is no point in arguing.
"Fine." I sigh. I quickly stick my tongue out Jeremy before walking back upstairs.
After a long, relaxing, shower I decided to get dressed for the football game that was supposed to be today. I figured I mine as well get back involved with these events, now that I'm back. I got dressed in a white t-shirt that I tucked into my dark blue, ripped, jeans. I added a black belt with silvers holes on it and then my black combat boots. As always, I let my natural curly hair fall down my back. I looked into the mirror and I studied my outfit. My eyes drifted off to my necklace. It was a silver bullet. Not a real one of course.
While I was in Michigan I met this guy and he gave it to me. We were really good friends. He was the one who made me feel happy for the first time since the accident. We had a lot of fun together. Then I had to leave and come back to Mystic Falls and he gave me this necklace as a goodbye present thing. His name was...wait. What was his name? Wow I'm getting old. I'm sure it'll come to me later.
"Why aren't you wearing your cheer leading outfit?" My sister questioned as soon as she was me.
"Because I'm not a cheerleader anymore." I said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Does Caroline know that?' She asked.
"No, but I'm sure she'll get the hint when she sees me not in my cheer leading outfit."
"No! You can't quit yet. I'm quitting today. She'll kill us." No,no, no. No way I'm cheering so she can get out of it.
"Correction; she's gonna kill you. I haven't been here for three months, so I have an excuse." I pointed out.
"Come on Josie. I hate cheer leading." She begged.
"I do too. Plus, I couldn't even help you out if I wanted to. I threw away my outfit before I even left for Michigan." I told her.
"Where is your outfit?" Caroline said, coming out of nowhere. I'm definitely not getting in the middle of Caroline's wrath.
"That's my cue to go. See ya sis." I said, walking away, before Elena could pull me into her confrontation with the one and only Caroline Forbes.
"Hey, Josie." i hear a familiar voice say. I turn around and see my bestest friend Matthew Donovan standing there.
"Matty!" I yelled in excitement before launching myself into his arms and he quickly reacted by hugging me back.
"Out of everybody in this boring town I've missed you the most." I told him before pulling away.
"I've missed you too. It's been kinda boring without you annoying me all the time." He joked.
"You love me." I pointed out.
"Sadly." He shrugged.
"I heard about what happened to Vicki. Is she okay?" I asked.
"Yeah, she's all healed up, but she's still Vicki." He shrugged.
"I'm sorry." I sincerely said.
"It's fine. How was Michigan?" He asked, changing the subject.
"Fun. It was nice to see new things and meet new people." I told him, almost like it was a prepared automatic response. Weird.
"But I wasn't too pleased to come home and find out my favorite sibling turned into some sort of goth, pothead." I added.
"Yeah, I noticed that. I'm sure it's just a phase he's going through." He said, hopefully and I just gave him a weak smile.
It's night now and all the hormonal teenagers from my school are all riled up in a group listening to Mr. Tanner give some big speech about how now that they have Stefan on the team they have a chance at winning. It was obviously a lot longer than that, but not as interesting. I decided against going and cheering the team on and, instead, I sat on a truck with my brother and watched from afar. Of course, I did this after I had a long talk with him about if he ever pulled a stunt like he did today he would be waking up without eyebrows. After that we came to an understanding.
Now, I'm taking full advantage in the fact that my brother is into drugs and alcohol and I decided to drink with him. Don't judge.
"I wanna have serious talk with whoever thought Mr. Tanner was a good choice for a teacher." I muttered, taking a sip from the bottle of tequila me and Jeremy we're sharing.
"Tell me about it. By the way, you know if Elena sees us she'll kill you just as much as she'll kill me." he said.
"Hopefully I'll be too drunk to hear her." I shrugged.
"This is why you're my favorite sister. Elena is always try to get me to express my feelings and control me." He complained.
"I know Elena can be very...overbearing, but she means well." I defended my twin.
"I know. It's just irritated sometimes." He said, taking the bottle from me and taking a long sip.
"You're just gonna have to learn to love it."
Before he could even say something we saw Tyler walking towards us with Vicki holding him back. What the hell? All of a sudden Jeremy got super serious and jumped off the truck and started stalking towards Tyler.
Ugh great, my idiot brother and douche ex about to get into what looks like a fight. Just what I need.
"Jeremy. Don't be stupid." I called after him as I jumped down and walked after him.
"Don't look so down. You can have her when I'm done." Tyler taunted.
"Tyler shut up before I personally kick your ass." I said catching up to him, but as soon as he saw me he looked shocked. Oh I guess he didn't know I was back in town, but he didn't have time to react because Jeremy threw a punch, connecting his fist with Tyler's jaw. Before I knew it they were rolling around on the ground throwing punches at each other.
Ugh I hate being the bigger person. I cracked my knuckles before running over to there spot on the floor and trying to pull Tyler off my brother.
"Get your over-gelled, fake tan, douche ass off my brother." I yelled as I struggled to get him off. He easily used his arm to push me aside and send me to the ground.
I hate guys. I stood up and dusted off my pants and I was going to go and try again, but then Stefan showed up and stopped the fight.
Finally, someone willing to stop this. He definitely just earned some points. Elena has a good guy. Just not as good as Matt.
"Hey, he's down! Enough!" He yelled at Tyler, but this just seemed to infuriate him more. He even threw a freaking punch to Stefan's stomach. Such an asshole. Good thing I broke up with him.
The weird thing was that Stefan didn't even flinch. I mean it was like Tyler didn't just punch him. It was kinda weird and I'm guessing Tyler thought the same thing when his face changed to something close to fear and confusion. Then, out of nowhere, my stupid brother grabbed a bottle that broke in the process of their fighting and swung it at Tyler. Was he really so stupid?
"Jeremy!" I yelled, but Stefan saw it coming and pushed Tyler out of the way, but the broken bottle cut Stefan's hand as he was doing that. Thankfully, Elena and Matt decided to make an appearance and Matt dragged Tyler away. I ran over to Jeremy, but Elena got there before I did.
"What the hell, Jeremy? Put your head up, you're bleeding." Elena said, picking Jeremy up from the ground, clearly pissed.
"I'm fine!" Jeremy told her, pushing her off of him.
"Yeah you smell fine."
"Just stop! Okay?" He yelled.
"Elena, I got this." I ensured her. She gave me a pointed look that I just nodded my head to. She then walked away and went off to see if Stefan was okay.
"Thanks, Jo." He said thankfully, but I just shook my head.
"Just...go to Grill and clean up. I'll meet you there." I told him, wanting to grab my leather jacket first, cause it was getting cold. He nodded and started walking in the direction of the Grill.
What am I gonna do with him? I shook my head to myself before heading to my car. When I got there I quickly unlocked my car, and grabbed my jacket from the passengers sleep. I slipped it on and then closed the door. As soon as I turned around I was face to face with….Damon?
I jumped and I could feel my heart beating at a hundred miles an hour.
"Has anyone ever told you sneaking up on people is rude?" I asked rhetorically.
"I didn't intend to scare you." He stated, but the smug smirk on his face said otherwise.
"Then what exactly were you intending to do?" I asked crossing my arms.
"I was about to go see my brother play his first game, but I saw you I could resist saying hi." He told me, but I got a really bad feeling about his presence.
"Okay well you said it." I said awkwardly.
"I don't mean to make you uncomfortable." He says.
"Your entire aura screams the exact opposite." I told him, truthfully. I can't deny his good looks, but I also can't deny that I feel like he is bad news.
"My...aura?" He asked, confused.
"Yeah, um was there something you needed." I asked.
"Truth is, I'm hiding from Caroline." He replies.
"I'm pretty sure that's not what people are supposed to do in healthy relationships."
"I just don't think things are going to work out between us."
"I think you're telling this to the wrong person." I tell him, not wanting to get involved in whatever relationship they have together.
"I don't think so. I actually think you are the perfect person to be telling this too." He says, in a flirtatious way. Oh not a good sign.
"Why is that?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Because I think you're attracted to me." He stated, so confidently. Jesus this guy has an ego.
"Excuse me?" Does he not remember that has a girlfriend?
"Don't try to deny it. You find yourself drawn to me. You think about me even when you don't want to think about me. I bet you even dreamed about me." I opened my mouth, but nothing would come out. I think because on some level he was right, mostly about the dreaming part. I mean I literally just met this guy yesterday. How could he just assume all of this was true. Just thinking about the dream giving me chills. But I was, in no way shape or form, going to act on any of those thoughts for multiple reasons. The main reason being he's dating Caroline and I've been friends with her for my whole life. I know girl code.
"And right now you want to kiss me." He said as his face edged closer to mine. His lips were about an inch away from mine and I was almost tempted to... NO! Ugh have some will power woman! I put my hands up to his chest and shoved him away.
"You're dating one of best friends. I don't know about you, but I know what it feels like to be cheated on and there is no way I'll put Caroline through that. I don't know what game your playing, Damon, but I want no part of it." I tell him, making sure I'm stern and he seemed kind of shocked that I didn't kiss him. I guess rejection doesn't happen to often to him.
"And just to be clear. I am not Katherine." I added, harshly before walking away.
Authors Note: Sorry, this chapter is so short. I was just trying to wrap up the next episode. Also, I will be posting a new chapter to this story every single Monday to keep consistency. I also wanted to answer some of you guys comments from the last chapter.
Only Reviewer: Josephine is Elena's identical twin, but thank you for liking my character, Josephine.
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Guest: I can ensure you that Josephine will not be like Elena in any shape or form. I will be trying my hardest to make her her own character, but I'm happy you enjoyed my previous chapter.
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