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Elena's pov
All morning I couldn't find Bonnie. We agreed to meet me by my locker cause they're so close. The first bell rung and she wasn't here yet. The halls became scattered with students getting to their first class. She and I have fifth period with Mr. Ruiz so I'll just meet her there. I took out my Calculus book from my locker along with my binder and put them both in my Jan-sport back pack before heading to class. When I walked in classroom 109 I placed my backpack in the seat next to me saving it for her, when the seating chart was passed around I wrote her name down for her. Mr. Ruiz was talking about The Antiderivative when the door opened and the room went quiet in came Bonnie a navy blue pull over hoodie hiding her features. I moved my backpack as she came to sit next to me. Before I could question her about why she is late she whispers "I'll tell you after class." I nodded my head and scooted closer to her so she could copy my notes. I couldn't wait for the class period to end.
When the bell rang I pulled Bonnie with me maneuvering through the crowd of teenagers rushing through the halls to their next class, I stopped once we reached our lockers.
"Okay. Spill. Why were you late? You hate being late." I grilled her. Bonnie has been my best friend we've known each other for a long time (not as long as Stefan and I) so I know when somethings going on.
"It's just the usual with Grams she had one to many last night so I was helping her cure her morning hangover. You know she always tells me she's going to stop and she does for a while but Elena I don't know what to do she's a grown woman but I don't want to be the adult here."
I've only once ever seen Bonnie Bennett cry and that was when her dad said that he was going into the army and her mom was going with him, so she didn't have to move from school to school she was going to stay with her grams. That was when we were eight. I have no clue on what to do to cheer her up and I don't think a corny joke will do the trick this time.
The only other thing I know to do and the same thing she did for me when my dog Scruffy 'ran away' like my parents told me. I pulled her into a tight hug letting her embrace me and let her tears stain my shirt, because my best friend needs me.
The warning bell rung and we were still hugging ignoring all the stares and suggestive looks. She pulls away her face tear stained and eyes puffy.
"You're going to be okay, I'll call off work and we'll do whatever you want to do, okay?" I give her a bright smile. She timidly nods her head while sniffling back some remaining tears.
She gets her things out of her locker and I get mine before heading to the gym. I run into a few people asking me about my shirt and I just shrug my shoulders at them.
"What happened to your shirt Elena? I know you're a slob but..." I can tell the smirk on his voice. I want to smack him hard but I resist.
"Nothing." I say knowing that Bonnie wouldn't want me to tell about her home problems to anyone even Stefan.
"Come on. I hear were playing baseball today." I say pulling him towards the gym before we go to our separate locker rooms.
While I'm dressing my mind wanders from Bonnie and Grams to Aunt Jenna (my mother's younger sister) and how she's coming to visit and we must get dressed up for her arrival. I don't see why I have to dress up Jenna knows I very much dislike the dresses my mother forces me to wear every time she visits. I wonder if I can talk her out of wearing a dress and just a girly blouse and some jeans?
"Nice catch Rodriguez." Mr. Harding shouts to Anthony who's playing out field. There two other people ahead of me some dude who's name I don't know and my best friend Caroline Forbes. Her medium long blonde hair up in a high ponytail, her burgundy gym shorts rolled up high thigh and her grey shirt tied in the side so she's showing her light tanned skin.
"So I was at my dads this weekend and he's got a new boyfriend something about meeting him in a coffee shop. I don't know I wasn't really listening." The guy who's name I didn't know went up and hit the ball far out on the field close to the fence. He walked the bases all around. 'I wonder where he learned to hit like that?' I thought to myself as Caroline kept talking about who knows what.
It was finally my turn after Caroline struck out not even making the ball over the pitchers plate.
'I was concentrating so much on the ball that when Mr. Harding pitched it, the ball hit the bat and went right back at him hitting him in the gut.'
I dropped the bat and ran towards him as he clutched his stomach folding on the floor. Someone shouted that they were going to get the nurse and we waited giving him room to breathe and asking if he was all right.
The nurse came in a golf cart with the janitor who helped him get on and they drove off. Mr. Anders the other coach let us join his class in the weight room. After P.E we were supposed to have study hall with Mr. Harding but he went home sick so the whole class was to go to the library and have study hall there.
I was sitting on one of the light brown wooden tables doing my Social Science work when a voice interrupted me.
"So I heard you hit the teacher with the baseball." I can tell in his voice that he's holding back a laugh.
I turn around with a serious look on my face. "Yeah what's it to you?" I cross my arms over my chest and raise a brow.
"Nothing just want to know if the rumors were true." I looked into his pool of Ocean Blue eyes getting drowned in them until a smile broke on my face and I had to look away.
"Well, you got your answer now what do you want?" I went back to doing my work feeling his eyes blazing into the top of my head.
"Nada. I'm just going to sit here and work on my Spanish homework if that's okay with you princesa." He jokes as he takes a seat.
We just sit there in silence doing are work. When the final bell rings signifying the end of the day and killing the silence between us. Matt walks me to my locker we talk about the usual; Family, school, sports, friends.
"I think I'm coming to your house today just so I can see you in a dress. Honestly I wait for this day every year." He laughs and I laugh along with him sarcastically because I would not let them see me dressed like that.
"Hey." Another voice interrupts us and Matt clears his throat to stop from laughing.
"What's so funny?" Stefan asks looking at Bonnie as if she knew what was going on even though they walked over together. She shrugged her shoulders a puzzled look on her face.
"Since Aunt Jenna is coming over so is Matt because he wants to see how my outfit, but thats not going to happen because if you come I'll hurt you." My voice was threatening and even though they knew I was serious knowing them they would come over any way and my mother the kind hearted woman she is will let them in.
"Don't worry we wont make fun of you." Stefan pulls me into a lock under his arm the smell of his Degree Fresh Deoderante wafting into my nose as he gives me a 'noogie'.
"Much." Matt chimes in before walking away to his sister Vicky.
I push out of Stefan's hold knowing my hair is a mess I take it out of the rubber band and fix it. Bonnie and Stefan start talking about some assignment they have while I put my books in my locker and get out what I need to do my homework.
"So, Elena what time should i come over for dinner?" He asks a smile on his features probably of the thought of my mothers cooking.
"6." I say defeated knowing theres no getting out of this.
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There's ten minutes before I must be downstairs dressed. We already picked up Jenna from the train station and she's in the guest room getting settled while I'm in my room with Bonnie who's spending the night putting off having to wear the pink floral dress my mother picked out. i wouldn't mind wearing it if 1. It wasn't pink and flowery and 2. If my two guy friends didn't have to see me in it.
Stefan's mom who is a nurse and works nights and father who is always on business trips don't have time to make him dinner so he comes over mine us being neighbors and all, and he's been coming over every night for as long as I can remember.
the doorbell rings and I groan grabbing the dress from the chair near my desk by the restroom before going in and changing.
When I come out I hear my mom shout out to my dad, 'Richard get your daughter down here, her friends are here.' I groan once more as Bonnie laughs throwing her phone on my bed as she opens the door to my father. he's in a grey button up and black slacks, with his office shoes still on, his greying hair slicked back and his face freshly shaved.
"Come down girls we don't want to keep Linda waiting you know how she impatient she is." He laughs and we just mumble a 'yeah' or 'you got that right' before exiting down stairs to the living room where everyone is residing.
The guys looked star struck and I looked at them with a weird look on my face. They were tripping over their words before Matt was the first one to find his voice.
"Wow Elena you look different. its nice seeing you in something other than a t-shirt and baggy pants." I took it as a compliment and smiled.
"Are we sure that's Elena and not Katherine?" Stefan says the small smile on my face turning into a scowl towards him. I walk away pissed at the thought of being compared to my sister even though we are twins. She wears tight short dresses, make up and is a major flirt, even though she's dating stefan's older brother Damon who she's head over heels for and would never let it go past flirting.
Stefan knows I hate when he compares us so I make it my goal of the night to ignore him. I have Matt sit to the right of me and Bonnie to the left leaving Stefan on the other corner of the long wide table next to my dad at the head of the table that has orange and yellow table cloth and is filled with different foods.
The conversation revolves around Jenna and her travels all of the states. Bonnie, Matt and I fall into light conversation about upcoming school events. I look around the table and see Stefan trying to get my attention, but I continue to look in the other direction or stare at my plate. The last time this happened we compared each other to our siblings we went a week and six days without talking until I couldn't take not talking to him and apologized agreeing to never to let it happen again.
Dinner came and went and it was time for desert. I couldn't take not talking to Stefan and the looks he was giving me so I offered to go to the kitchen and get the cake and ice-cream out of the freezer. I excused myself and walked through the double doors to the kitchen grabbing plates and forks, when the door opened.
"I'll be out in a minute i just have to get the cake tell mom." I said to whoever was walking in. i head the door close and suspected that whoever it was went back out there.
"That's not why I'm here." It's Stefan. Good thing I didn't have the cake in my hand or it would be on the floor right now.
"Um.. I-I have to get out there and take them desert. I grabbed everything in my hands before trying to go around him but he pulled it out of my hands and place it on the marble countertop.
"Elena please look at me." He crouched down moving side to side trying to get me to look at him.
I thought it would be childish to continue to close my eyes and pretend he wasn't there. I looked up with an emotionless expression.
"I'm sorry I said that I know we agreed to never do that again and… it just slipped out you know me… no filter. Please Elena just forgive me. I swear on my…" his face was stained.
"Don't hurt yourself there." I say laughing as he squints his eyes and me and just laughs along with me.
"So am I forgiven." He asks looking like a kicked puppy and I cave.
"You're forgiven. Now help me take this stuff out there." He smiled and we walked out the double doors with cake and ice-cream.