"I'm sorry that I am late Mr. Tanner," Bonnie mumbles as she stumbles into her desk, in between Caroline and Elena with Caroline in front.
"Fine, just get out your books and copy the assignment off of the board; you can find the notes which will help with the task on pages 151 to 156,"Mr Tanner instructs.
"Yes, sir," Bonnie complies. She swiftly grabs her memo pad, text book and a pen from her bag and begins copying the assignment onto her memo pad.
"Hey, Bonnie," Elena whispers chirply as she leans toward Bonnie.
"Hi…" Nonnie begins only for Elena to quickly cut her off.
"Why are you wearing my clothes?" Elena asks and, suprisingly to Bonnie as Elena wasn't known as someone who had a great ability to share, she seems to be confused and not angry.
"I slept at yours last night," Bonnie simply informs, knowing very well that Elena would misinterpret her words.
"You... WHAT!?" Elena shouts.
"Elena, Bonnie, see me after class!" Mr. Tanner instantly snaps at them.
"But, Mr..." Bonnie pleads.
"No, I don't care for your excuses, stay quiet for the next 20 minutes and perhaps you will only receive one detention!" He snaps.

"Sir, please, I can't have a detention!" Bonnie pleads as the students rush to their next lesson.
"Well then you shouldn't have been talking! You have a detention tonight, if you show up promptly then you can serve a short thirty minute detention, otherwise it is a full hour."
"Sir, that isn't fair! Elena was talking to me! I have somewhere that I really need to be after school!" Bonnie defends.
"Where would that be Bonnie? Perhaps to spend time with your boyfriend, Jeremy Gilbert?" Mr. Tanner suggests.
"Yes but there is a reason! Wait, how do you know about me and Jeremy?" Bonnie is confused, her teacher knowing such information is somewhat inappropriate.
"You know how teens are, always gossiping," Mr. Tanner explains. "So what is the reason? To stop his drug abuse?" Mr. Tanner suggests in a rude manner.
"Excuse me? That is none of your business but now that you bring it up, Jeremy doesn't abuse drugs! He is clean! Why does everyone always judge him? You don't know him, not really, you only know him when he is reluctantly sat in a classroom! THAT IS NOT THE REAL JEREMY GILBERT!" Bonnie screams in an angry attempt to defend her boyfriend's broken reputation.
"Well, whatever you say Miss. Bennett. By the way, you just earned a whole hour of detention, regardless of whether you are on time or a few minutes late, you and Miss. Gilbert shall be held for a whole hour, congratulations." he says smugly to the teen who stand before him. Bonnie storms out.
"FINE!" she screams, feeling the rage in her begin to bubble; she knew that if she didn't leave now then she would break his arm, or worse.

"Hey, Bonnie. What happened?" Caroline calls as she catches up with Bonnie, whom she waited for, as she practically ran out of Mr. Tanner's classroom.
"What do you think, Care? We got detention, me and Elena and now I have to go and tell her and then survive the day plus a detention then go and have some quality time with my boyfriend before apologizing to my father! Today just went from lovely to such fucking SHIT!" Bonnie yells, stopping to really project her curses to the whole corridor, promising herself that anyone who told her not to swear would receive a broken arm.
"Well, that does suck but I was referring to last night!" Caroline whispers. Bonnie initially feels confused but then she realizes that Caroline is talking about her and Jeremy and she is not so subtly asking about their sex life, although Bonnie knew it was more of.a lack of sex life.
"Oh, me and Jeremy. Nothing happened. He was drunk and honest, we spoke for a while and fell asleep..." Caroline interrupts Bonnie with a huff. "What's did I say to irritate the almighty Caroline?" Bonnie irritably and sarcastically asks.
"No sex!?" Caroline practically yells through the halls.
"CAROLINE!" Bonnie hushes. "What is your problem and why is everything about sex!?"
"Not everything is about sex!" Caroline defends. "Just a private long night after drinking with your damned boyfriend! That should be about sex, well in my world anyway..." Caroline retorts, somewhat offending Bonnie.
"Whatever Caroline, I don't have a problem taking it slow, it's what feels right! I'm not just going to pressure him into it..."
"Wait, what?" Caroline looks at Bonnie confused before she chuckles. "Jeremy is the one who wants to wait!?"
"Well yeah but so do I, we both do and when the time is right, we'll know." Bonnie explains.
"Well OK... That is pretty sweet!" Caroline says with a smile.
"C'mon, we'll be late for Literature if we don't hurry!" Bonnie rushes Caroline to second period.

"Jeremy, can I please talk to you," Mrs. Halpern calls to Jeremy as he walks to his desk just on time to start his lesson.
"Sure, Mrs. Halpern. What is it?" Jeremy asked his trigonometry teacher.
"I think it is best if we go and talk in the hallway." she motions to the door. "OK, class, everyone get out their text books and do the exercises on page 238 until I am back," she instructs the class as she leads Jeremy to the corridor. Shutting the door behind her she begins. "It's your first day back, right? How are you coping?"
"It is, yeah. Thanks for noticing Mrs. Halpern," Jeremy smiles as he can see that there is genuinely someone who cares. "It is going OK, actually. Surprisingly this has been a nice morning, even with Science first!" He chuckles.
"Well I'm glad to hear it. How are things at home?" she queries subtly asking if he and Elena are coping well with the loss if their parents and aunt all in one year, not to mention Jeremy's deceased girlfriend, Vicky Donovan.
"I don't know, I suppose things at home are fine. They are hard but we're coping, we really have great support foundations." Jeremy answers.
"Such as Bonnie Bennett?" Mrs. Halpern rudely enquires. A cute and wide smile forms on the teen's face, one that his trigonometry teacher hasn't seen in too long. His bliss makes her softly smile.
"Yeah, just like beautiful Bonnie Bennett. My gorgeous girlfriend," Jeremy almost collapses with his sudden laughter.
"Why are you laughing?" asks Mrs. Halpern, more than slightly concerned with her favourite student's strange behavior.
"Can you not hear how cheesy I am? Seriously, it is hilarious!" Jeremy says laughing even harder, making his teacher laugh with him.
"That was pretty cheesy!" she adds through laughter. "But," she begins to continue, gaining some composure. "That is what happens when you are inlove!" she teases the teen.
"Oh my God, shut up!" he nudges his teacher.
"OK, we should go back into the classroom, I just wanted to check that you were OK, and I'm glad that you are." she informs the student and they head into the classroom.

"Hey, Jer!" Matt shouts almost tackling his smaller, yet still impressively muscular, friend as he grabs him in a comforting embrace.
"OK, dude. Stop being so gay!" Jeremy jokes as he forces Matt off from around his body.
"Well, I missed you dude!" Matt says with a smile and a pat on the shoulder.
"OK so you missed me but forgot my birthday? This behavior is very inconsistent!" Jeremy queries with an arch of his eyebrow.
"Dude, I am totally sorry about that! I have seriously struggled with not failing classes and it simply slipped my mind," Matt offers as an apology for the awful way that he treated his best friend.
"You know what? It doesn't even matter! You remembered today was my first day back so I forgive you, man." Jeremy forgives as he pats his muscular friend, and his sister's ex, on the shoulder as he walks past toward the cafeteria.

"JER!" Bonnie screeches, running into her boyfriend's warm arms as though they hadn't seen each other in years.
"Well hello, beautiful," Jeremy greets as he kisses his beautiful, petite girlfriend. Everyone cringes at the public display of affection, apart from Caroline who smiled in approval to her friend's beautiful romance and joy. Caroline then looks away with a hurt look on her face realizing how much she misses being with Matt. She almost had the perfect life until Tyler had kissed her and damaged the friendship between he and Matt and shattered Matt and Caroline's relationship.
Caroline looks up to her ex, hoping that he still cares for her like she does for him, hoping that he is thinking of her like she was, hoping that he would meet her gaze. But of course as she looks to him he wasn't looking back, he wasn't thinking of her and he didn't care for her because this was reality, not a story, not a fairy-tale.
"EARTH TO CAROLINE!" Caroline suddenly snaps out of her thoughts as she sees a frantic hand wave in her face and screams by her ear.
"What do you want!?" Caroline snaps to whoever removed her attention from her thoughts, keeping her head still and her eyes fixed on the floor in an attempt to re-envelope herself in her mind.
"We wanted to know if you would help us with your compulsion?" Bonnie nudges her friend, noticing her distraction. As Caroline shifts her focus, she can see that Matt had left and was quite confused about how she hadn't noticed with her vampire reflexes and why he had left.
"What? Why would you want me to use..."
"Were you listening at all?" Elena snaps, clearly hurting her friend's feelings.
"No, I'm sorry... I was distracted..." Caroline trails off after her attempt to defend herself.
"Well maybe being distracted," Elena said with air quotes around the word 'distracted' "Just isn't damn good enough!" she bites off Caroline's head, figuratively speaking of course.
"Look, I'm sorry, what do you want my compulsion for, anyway?" Caroline weakly asks.
"Tyler,"
"What about him?" she bleakly asks.
"He is being a dick to me and Elena and Bonnie are trying to force you to find out what's wrong with him. Please, don't worry about using your compulsion on him, it is unethical and unnecessary." Jeremy reassures Caroline with an affectionate and somewhat comforting rub on her shoulder. Caroline silently thanked him for excusing her from this obligation by giving him a smile and patting his hand.
"Hey, gang," Stefan chirps as he approaches his friends. Upon spotting Elena he shoots her a glare but quickly smiles to the rest of the group and sits beside Caroline. "Hey," he softly whispers to his upset friend.
"Hi, Stef," Caroline whispers in reply to her equally heartbroken friend giving him a soft smile.
"So, where is Matt?" Stefan asks Caroline, unaware of their relationship's demise seeing as he had been self obsessed recently to prevent himself from going on a rampage which Caroline understands. Seeing her change in mood, Stefan nudges he softly. "Hey, Care? What's wrong? What did I say? Was it about Matt?" Caroline's eyes fill with tears and she throws her head in her heads and bites back a sob. Everyone rushes around to Caroline and tries to comfort her, only making matters worse.
"Care, what's wrong?" Bonnie prods her friend's head and begins a constricting embrace.
"Bonnie, let go of me," Caroline begs the witch, whom she envied for her loving boyfriend.
"But, Care!" Bonnie pleads. Caroline bushes Bonnie back and she trips into Jeremy's stable grip. Bonnie's heart is racing, in worry for her friend and in shock from being forced back.
"It's OK, Bon, you're safe, I promise." Jeremy eases his girlfriend up and holds her around the waste from behind and drawing circles with his finger on her stomach over her borrowed top to help her feel secure. Caroline gives Bonnie a quick apologetic look before running, as fast as she could without alerting anyone with her superhuman abilities, to the bathroom to cry in peace.
"What the fuck was that!?" Matt said as he walks back over to his friends quickly after witnessing Caroline's mental breakdown.
"I... I don't... I don't know..." Bonnie struggles. "I think she is just..." Bonnie trails off, struggling to explain. "Heartbroken..." she guiltily finishes as she looks at Matt with empathy in her eyes. ?
"So..." Matt starts with confusion across his face. "She pushed you, hard, then sprinted off without a word because I broke up with her on Saturday? four days is a late reaction, don't you think!?" Matt remonstrates. Stefan rises to his feet, stunned at the new information. For months Caroline had listened to him complain about Elena having broken up with him and when Matt and her broke up she said nothing and, worse yet, he hadn't noticed.
"Matt, I wasn't trying to..." Bonnie began to attempt to appease her old friend.
"No, Bonnie, I knew what you meant and it is fine, I understand she is just upset about it but how exactly did she suddenly become triggered from it? What the fuck happened to drag up all of that rage?" Matt says, cross-examining his ex's behaviour. Stefan shuffles and decides to speak up about his idiotic choice of words.
"I know..." he whispers, half hoping that no one would hear.
"Know what?" Jeremy inquires. Stefan huffs and feels irritation weigh his voice as he begins to speak.
"I asked her about Matt when I sat down," Stefan says as everyone gives him a somewhat bewildered look "Look, I didn't know that Matt and Caroline broke up! My only source of information was Elena," he says looking to her. "But we all know what happened there, don't we, Elena," Stefan throws an angry 'I'll eat you look' toward his ex and Jeremy jumps in.
"Look, man, Elena wanted to be with Damon and not you so deal with it and continue with your god-damn story!" Jeremy snaps to the vampire, displaying no fear.
"You're right, I'm sorry," Stefan apologizes to his ex and generally the whole group. "So I have lost my source of information for this group, leaving me with only Caroline who, for some reason, didn't want to tell me about it I guess..." Stefan trails off realizing how awfully this reflects on him. He has one friend in this town and he didn't notice when she was hurting.
"OK, that makes sense. I'm going to go and talk to Caroline. I'll talk to you later Jeremy," Bonnie says as she kisses her boyfriend deeply, latching her hands into his beautifully dark hair.
"OK, talk later, Bonnie!" Jeremy replies, his voice showing that he was jubilant.

"Care!" Bonnie yells as she jumps into the nearest bathroom. Caroline could hear sniffling and whimpering, she knew it was Caroline's from the drunken rants that the girls shared. "Caroline, C'mon out, I just want to talk to you!" The witch pleads her undead best friend. Caroline unlocks the door to her stall and Bonnie rushes over to open in and see her friend but as Bonnie tries to push open the stall door Caroline gently leans on the door, rendering it impossible for Bonnie to make the door budge without using a powerful spell - or giving her best friend an aneurysm which she could never do. "Oh, Care, why must you lock me out? You have to let people into your soul or it will die!" Bonnie encourages her friend.
When Bonnie realizes that Caroline isn't going to release, she goes to a neighbouring stall and pulls her life body over the barrier which separates the two stalls. Bonnie jumps down beside Caroline who shoots Bonnie an irritated look before crossing her arms over her chest. "What do you want, Bon?" Caroline grumpily asks her best friend.
"For you to open up to me!" Bonnie responds, agitated.
"I can't," Caroline whispers. Bonnie grabs hold of Caroline's hands and pulls a reluctant Caroline into a soothing hug.
"Why can't you open up to me, Caroline? I love you and I just want you to be happy," Bonnie assures her friend, calmly.
"Look, you and Elena are all happy and in a loving relationship and I'm not! Seeing Damon and Elena together isn't so bad as they display much more lust than love but you and Jeremy are so caring, affectionate, loving and pretty fucking perfect and it reminds me of how I feel toward Matt and how he doesn't feel towards me!" Caroline snaps.
"Woah, Care, for start me and Jeremy aren't perfect and secondly, Matt broke up with you four days ago... of course he still feels all of that, he just feels... betrayed..." Bonnie suggests. Caroline sighs as she realizes that Bonnie is right, there is no way that his love dissipated in four little days, no way.
"I suppose you are right... As always," Caroline confirms Bonnie's analysis. Bonnie chuckles and pulls her friend into another embrace.
*RING*
Bonnie jumps as the bell sounds. "Fuck, we can't be late for next period!" Bonnie rushes, allowing a laugh to escape Caroline's mouth. "Stop laughing, Caroline! Time to go grab our bags and get to lesson!" she rushes her friend again.

"Come on, class, get settled!" the art teacher bellows a few hours later. "Come on, it is the last period on a Tuesday and, unless you have football practice which your coach asked me to remind you guys about, you can go home right after art as soon as the bell rings if you just settle!" The teacher calls again, finally silencing his class. "Jeremy!?" the teacher yells as he spots his favourite student taking his seat.
"Yes, sir?" Jeremy replies with a small smile.
"I didn't realize that you were back today!" he says approaching the boy's desk.
"Yes, sir," Jeremy answers with more of a grin across his face now.
"Well it is great to have you back, no slacking though!" the teacher says pointing a finger then smiling wildly.
"Yes, sir!" Jeremy says with a laugh, grabbing his sketch pad and pencils.

About 5 minutes before the end of class, Jeremy had completed a beautiful selection of sketches of Bonnie Bennett, his perfect and beautiful girlfriend. He packs them into his sketchbook and puts his stuff away awaiting the bell. "Oi, Gilbert," a whisper comes from behind him.
"Hello, Lockwood," Jeremy replies without needing to look behind him to know who had called for him seconds ago.
"What did I tell you this morning, Gilbert?" mocks the mayor's sadistic son.
"I don't know, something like if is see you I'll fuck you up..." Jeremy tries to recall the texts that he had read this morning.
"Well, then why are you in my classroom?" Tyler growls.
"Excuse me? Your classroom? Are you fucking kidding me!?" Jeremy shouts at the top of his voice as he sparks up to his feet and spun around, squaring up to his taller and more built rival.
"Yes, since you tried to off yourself I practically claimed this class, so what are you doing here!?" Tyler hisses through gritted teeth. Jeremy tenses all of the muscles in his body, having to convince himself that throwing a punch would be an awful idea at this very moment and setting.
"I am here because I am not scared of you, Tyler Lockwood," Jeremy forces himself to voice.
"Well," Tyler begins, leaning closer to Jeremy. "You should be!" as Jeremy tries to process exactly what Tyler meant, Tyler throws a punch up into Jeremy's abdomen, causing him to collapse in on himself and almost hit the ground. Tyler turns around and begins walking away, all the while laughing madly. Jeremy snaps and charges for Tyler, pinning him to the floor, and persistently punches a shocked Lockwood in the face. Tyler thrusts his body up and causes Jeremy to fall of to the side and Tyler straddles Jeremy's small body and starts barreling down on him with his fists with such a force that Jeremy felt his lip split with a single punch. The art teacher runs over with a few class mates and pries Tyler up off of Jeremy's bruised body.

Jeremy winces every time he moves his lip. "I'm so sorry that I didn't manage to pull Tyler off sooner, I really am!" Jeremy's art teacher apologizes.
"It's fine sir, it isn't like it was you who threw the punches," Jeremy brushes his teacher's sympathy off. "Look, I have to go, the bell rang 10 minutes ago and I really do have to get home," Jeremy complains before he stands, grabs his bag and dashes from the classroom.
'Hey, baby. You are so amazing and beautiful and perfect. I care you, I always will. My body, soul and heart belong to you until death.' *Jeremy 3:56 PM*
Jeremy walks down the street, feeling every muscle ache as he moves and makes his way home on foot. Jeremy feels his phone vibrate and opens it to find that Bonnie quickly replied.
'I care about you too, baby. You are perfect too.' *Bonnie 3:57 PM*

"That's it, Bonnie, hand over your phone!" Mr. Tanner screams to Bonnie as he enters the detention room. Bonnie looks over to Elena who just shrugs and gets up handing her phone to her detention professor. "OK, you have 40 minutes until you are free but seeing as I want to go home you can serve half that if you are just behaved!" Mr. Tanner informs the detained students. May the most boring 20 minutes of silence begin... Now!

Jeremy walks through his door and checks his phone, it is 4:09. He doesn't bother shutting the front door. He chucks down his bag, removes his hoodie and heads to the kitchen. He rummages through the door until he found it. He takes it upstairs as he runs a bath. Removing his shoes and socks, Jeremy climbs into the bath, still in his jeans and vest, as it fills. When the bath reaches his bent knees, he grabs it and looks down at his arms. Jeremy presses the tip of the knife into his wrist as hard as he could. He dragged the knife down his arm. ONE. Jeremy repeats the slice across his wrist about an inch lower. TWO. And again. THREE.
"One more, just for luck," Jeremy whimpers as he again dragged the, now very bloody, knife over his wrist again. FOUR.

"OK, you can go," Mr. Tanner announces. Bonnie and Elena jump up.
"OK, I'm going to see Damon," Elena chirps. she hugs her friend and runs off to meet Damon and the grill. "Tell Jeremy I said hey!" Elena shouts as she leaves. Bonnie feels a painful twinge in her heart, like someone she loved was hurt, and she hates this feeling. Immediately her mind jumps to Jeremy. Without a second thought Bonnie pounces into the driver's seat, turns the keys in the ignition and speeds to see the Gilbert residence.

Bonnie parks her car outside when she arrives at 4:18 and is panicked by the front door being wide open. Leaping from her car, she runs to the door. "Jeremy!?" she calls, no reply. "JEREMY!" Bonnie calls again. Then she hears it, the running water. Bonnie runs up the stairs to the bathroom and she almost collapses in shock and agony. Tears flood her eyes and they rip through the air and down her cheeks with such a speed that her eyes are slightly blurry. "NO! JEREMY!" Bonnie screams as she sees Jeremy's cut up wrist sitting in the water. Blood is flowing from it fast and it is running down the side of the bath, accompanying the water which is over spilling. Bonnie grabs Jeremy from the bath, her fear granting her the strength to lift him out of the water and to the floor on her lap. "JEREMY!" Bonnie cries in agony. She sees his eyes flicker and his head wriggle to the side. "Jeremy!" Bonnie whispers to her boyfriends ear. Tears flow from his eyes as he moans to the sound of Bonnie's hurt voice. "Jeremy, baby, can you hear me!?" Bonnie whispers again. Jeremy nods softly. "Jeremy, I love you, do you hear me? I love you and I can't handle losing you! PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME!" her soft whispers against her ears turn to her screaming to the ceiling. She feels her boyfriend's body go flimsy. "Baby, no, stay with me! PLEASE!" Bonnie pleads against her ear. Reaching for her phone, Bonnie hastily dials 911.

Author notes:

OK, so I know that Tyler is in the year above like everyone, aside from Jeremy, and would therefor not be in his class but I needed a stresser to trigger Jeremy and Tyler seemed like a perfect stresser as they very much disliked eachother in the earlier seasons. I am also aware that the circumstances jump from season to season but they are the necessary circumstance I felt that I need for this story.

OK, so guys... PLEASE REVIEW! :3 Thanks for reading!

-Charley xx