Chapter two-

Ashton's POV

*In history class*

"The battle of Willow Creek took place right at the end of the war in our very own Mystic Falls. How many casualties resulted in this battle? ?" Tanner questioned.

"Um... a lot? I'm not sure. Like a whole lot." She put her elbows on her desk and put her head on her hands.

"Cute becomes dumb in an instant, Ms Bennett." She looked away from him and I shook my head. "Mr Donovan? Would you like to take this opportunity to overcome your embedded jock stereotype?" He questioned turning to Matt.

"It's okay Mr Tanner, I'm cool with it." Matt dismissed him.

"Hmm. Elena? Surely you can enlighten us about one of the town's most significant historical events?" He questioned turning to Elena with raised brows.

"I'm sorry, I-I don't know," Elena muttered and Tanner shook his head.

"I was willing to be lenient last year for obvious reasons, Elena. But the personal excuses ended with summer break." He told her and she looked down. I started to get mad and I slammed my hand on my desk cracking it as his eyes met mine. "Is there a problem Mr Gilbert? There must be if you're destroying school property." He smirked a bit.

"Hey, could you do us all a favour and just shut the hell up? You think you're funny Tanner. Well, try me and I'll show you how funny you are when your neck isn't attached to your head anymore." I snarled at him and his smirk immediately went away.

"Ashton," Elena spoke looking at me but I didn't look back.

"That sounded like a threat Mister Gilbert." He stated.

"I make promises... not threats," I responded with my eyes on him never removing them as it went silent between us both.

"Ashton stop it!" Elena grabbed my shoulder and I shrugged it off not looking at her.

"There were 346 casualties. Unless you're counting local civilians." Stefan responded. Tanner finally broke his eyes away from me.

"That's correct. Mister...?" He questioned grabbing his attendance chart.

"Salvatore," Stefan answered.

"Salvatore. Any relation to the original settlers here at Mystic Falls?" He leaned against his desk.

"Distant." Was his only answer. Not giving away too much information. Nice.

"Well, very good, Except, of course, there were no civilian casualties in this battle." He tried correcting Stefan but he was wrong.

"Actually, there were 27, Tanner. Confederate soldiers, they fired on the church, believing it to be housing weapons. They were wrong. It was a night of great loss. The founder's archives are, uh, stored in the civil hall if you'd like to brush up on your facts, Mr Tanner." I corrected him as he turned red.

"Hmm." He said and turned around to continue the lesson.

*At the party*

I stood with Elena and Bonnie as they were talking about Stefan, forgetting that I was here for a while.

¨Just admit it, Elena.¨ Bonnie gave Elena a look.

¨Oh, okay, so he´s a little pretty." Elena sighed admitting it as I took another sip of my drink and scoffed.

¨Girls.¨ I walked away and Stefan approached me the same time that Caroline approached us.

¨Hey! You guys made it!¨ Caroline smiled in our faces.

¨Elena came so, I came."I responded

¨I did.¨ Was all that Stefan responded with.

¨Well, since Ashton already has a drink... nothing new. How about we get you a drink huh?¨ She gives me a look causing me to roll my eyes and for Stefan to shake his head. I walked away as Caroline continued to push him into letting her get a drink.

¨Wait, you need a crystal ball.¨ Elena spoke as I appeared.

¨Here.¨ I handed my beer can as her fingers brushed mine. She spaced out for a while and when she came to she jumped back and away from my touch.

¨What´s your problem?" I asked.

¨That was weird. When I touched you, I saw a man... and a crow." She told me and my brows furrowed. The crow from the graveyard?

¨What?" I questioned as she shook her head.

¨A man, a cr- I´m drunk. It´s the drinking. There´s nothing psychic about it. Yeah? OKay, I´m gonna get a refill.¨ Bonnie left Elena and I alone and Elena turned around to leave me too until she jumped a foot into the air when Stefan was suddenly behind her.

¨Hi."He said and she let out a breath.

¨Hi."She answered trying to catch her breath.

¨I did it again, didn´t I?" He looked down and she laughed.

¨Yeah.¨ I rolled my eyes and went to grab another beer when I heard shouting.

¨No, Ty. I´m not having sex against a tree.¨ Vicky pushed Tyler away as I crept closer sipping on my beer in case I had to beat some ass tonight. I´m always up for a good brawl.

¨Oh, come on, it would be hot.¨ He tried pushing himself onto her again.

¨For who? No, it´s not going to happen. It´s not going to happen, not here, not like this." She tried pushing him away. ¨No. I said no! Ow, that hurts!¨ She shouted and I emerged from the woods.

¨Come on Lockwood. You aren´t that dysfunctional, are you? She said to leave her alone." I shook my head as he turned around with an annoyed look on his face.

¨You know, you-¨His words were cut off when Jeremy stumbled into our area behind me.

¨Leave her alone, Tyler!" Jeremy shouted and I sighed.

¨You know, you Gilbert´s are starting to get on my nerves." He frowned and I shrugged as Vicki moved away from the tree.

¨Just go, Tyler, get the hell away from me." She crossed her arms as Tyler chuckled.

¨Wow. Vicki Donovan says no. That´s a first.¨ Tyler spoke. See, I don´t know why it triggered me, but it did. My anger kicked in and I punched Tyler in his mouth. He automatically brought his hands in his mouth to cover and walked away without saying anything else. My breathing was still even. No matter how angered I get my breath is always even. My body just goes hot and I see red.

¨I didn´t need your help.¨ Vicki said to us and I scoffed.

¨Bullshit. Don´t be a dumbass.¨ I retorted as Jeremy hit me in the arm.
¨It seems like you did.¨ He corrected.

¨He was just drunk.¨ Vicki used excuses for this douche all the time. Who cares? It´s not my relationship or whatever it is they got going on.

¨I´m drunk. Am I throwing myself at you?¨ Jeremy questioned.

¨No, you´re worse. You want to talk to me, get to know me, see into my soul and screw and screw and screw until you´re done with me.¨ She shouted at him and I raised my brows and backed away as they kept talking. I walked over the bridge to see that Elena and Stefan were at the end of the bridge, talking.

¨I like Bonnie, she seems like a good friend.¨Stefan spoke looking down at Elena.

¨Yeah, the best friend in the world.¨ Elena smiled.

¨What about... your brother?¨ Stefan asked.

¨Hmm. Which one?¨ Elena tilted her head.

¨Um... Ashton." He spoke after a while.

¨Oh... I don´t know. He shuts everyone out.¨ She sighed and looked down as Stefan went to grab her hand I walked over.

¨Hey Ash.¨ Elena softly smiled.

¨Hello Ashton.¨ Stefan nodded at me and I just hummed and looked up to see Matt looking this way.

¨Seem like Matt can´t, uh, take his eyes off of you two.¨ I chuckled.

¨It´s not funny Ashton.¨ Elena frowned at me glancing at Matt as I snatched someone´s drink as they walked past. They frowned at me and I glared at them and the scattered. Elena turned back to Stefan. ¨Matt´s that friend since childhood that you start dating because you owe it to yourselves to see if you can be more.¨ Elena explained to him and he just looked at her.

¨And?¨ He questioned.

¨God. You two couldn´t be more nauseating.¨ I fake gaged and walked away back into the woods. I kept walking and downed the rest of the drink. I looked up at the moon feeling my bones tingle until I stumbled and fell over something. Whatever it was, it made a squishy sound. I got up and turned around and... it was Vicki Donovan with blood staining her clothes and two holes in her neck. I immediately started to panic. What the hell happened?!

¨Shit! Help! Somebody help!¨ I shouted over and over again until Stefan appeared with Elena. She gasped and ran back to the party to get help, soon, everyone was surrounding us and Matt ran over to her limp body.

¨Vicki? Vicki, what the hell?!¨ He panicked.

¨What happened to her?¨ Tyler questioned standing next to Matt.

Somebody, call an ambulance!¨ Matt shouted and people started to pull out their phones.

¨Everybody back up, give her some space!¨ Tyler shouted.

¨Oh now you really care about her? What a fucking joke.¨ I snorted and he opened his mouth to say something but I cut him off. ¨Spare me the bullshit of the words you´re going to spill to me just to please yourself. For once. Lockwood just shut the fuck up. Stay here with your fuck buddy. I´m out of here.¨ I pushed past him and everyone that was crowded around us. I took another beer and took off before the cops and ambulance came. I can tell you one thing. I didn´t spend my night at home. I went where the one person would understand me. The one person that I wasn´t even sure was listening to me.