Fiddling with a loose thread on the Victorian rug she sat on, Shay pouted.
"Damon I'm bored." Shay declared jumping from her seat and approaching the man who was once hers, but now seemed distant.
"Go find Caroline or Jeremy or someone then." Damon absently replied scrolling down on his computer screen.
"I was thinking you and me could have a little fun." Shay giggled jumping onto Damon's lap, placing her hands on his broad chest. Leaning in to place a kiss on Damon's soft lips, Damon leant away desperately trying to push her off his lap.
"What's wrong baby?" Shay asked standing up and placing a gentle hand on his cheek.
"Go find someone else to annoy." Damon sighed pushing her hand away.
"You're a jerk you know that!" Shay yelled flicking her hand so that he slammed into the wall, before she ran from the vampire. Damon sighed picking himself up off the ground, he didn't want to hurt Shay like that. He would have liked more than anything to have some fun with her, but he knew he couldn't. He had been with Shay before and only mucked things up, broke her heart, and he wouldn't do it again. Scrolling down on his computer again he kicked himself, saying what he had only brought up unwanted scars for the two of them. Rising from his chair he went to follow her, but was instantly stopped.
"You're still making her cry?" A familiar vampire called from the doorway.
"Bento." Damon smiled as the men approached each other, clapping each other on the back.
"It's been too long!" Bento smiled causing Damon to feel even guiltier. Damon had just hurt Bento's little sister.
"I was just going to go after Shay..." Damon told him pointing to the doorway.
"She's still going by that name? Thought she'd accept her roots by now." Bento angrily sighed pushing Damon to his seat. It was pointless going after his sister, it would only get her angrier.
"She told us all about you guys the other night, start at embracing the name isn't it?" Damon replied falling in to the computer chair.
"I guess, how has she been? Got any more enemies I mean?" Bento asked already aware of the answer. It was impossible for Shay to have no enemies in a town, girls didn't take to her that easily.
"Two plus Stefan." Damon replied a smirk flirting with his lips. They both knew that Shay would have girl enemies, but seeing Stefan fight with himself over the girl was hilarious.
"Still not admitting that he's in love huh?" Bento smirked, finding the same humor as Damon.
"He's in love with Elena now, haven't you heard?" Damon mockingly asked, it seemed as if everyone could only talk about Elena and Stefan, and he was glad to have a friend who couldn't care less about that relationship.
"I'm guessing Elena and that witch Bonnie are the two girls that hate her?" Bento asked knowing immediately it was a yes.
"You know Bonnie?" Damon asked confused, Bento wasn't a warlock anymore, it wasn't like he could find out these things.
"I had a chat with Jeremy, can't wait till Shay finds out." Bento laughed falling down on to Jeremy's bed.
"We should go find her." Damon muttered walking towards the door.
"Dude let her be." Bento sighed. Damon was too in love with Shay for any good to come of it.
"I need a drink." Shay announced sitting on a stool in front of the bar.
"Like what?" Jeremy asked while polishing a glass, he found it amusing the way Shay had dumped herself down, a huge pout on her face, and couldn't help but laugh.
"Tequila." Shay bluntly replied, at first thinking Shay was joking Jeremy laughed, but then saw how serious the girl in front of him was and stopped.
"How about a coffee? It's 11 in the morning." Jeremy sighed leaning on the bar so he was eye to eye with Shay. He couldn't help but notice the sadness and anger behind her eyes, eyes that looked as if she had just been crying.
"I guess this is what they have shops for." Shay sighed pulling herself up from her seat.
"Shay wait!" Jeremy called reaching a hand out to stop her. When his hand collided with hers he flinched pulling it back in an instant. Her skin was cold, colder than anything he had felt before, yet it seemed to burn his skin, leaving a mark on his fingertips.
"I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that," Shay stuttered staring at his fingers, "I sometimes just forget to control my powers."
"It's okay, do you want to sit down? Talk?" Jeremy gently offered noticing how scared Shay seemed to be. Looking from the seat to Jeremy's deep honest eyes Shay obliged, hands steadily shaking over the smooth bench top.
"You don't have to be scared, you're safe here." Jeremy comforted the girl, placing a warm hand on her chin, brushing her jawline with his thumb.
"You don't understand, I have everything to be afraid of! It's here, back for me. It's gonna try hurt me again, Jeremy I'm so scared." Shay spoke with a shaky voice that was close to a whisper.
"What's here for you? What's scaring you?" Jeremy asked trying desperately to understand so he could help her, he hated seeing her like this. It was horrible. From what he knew of her she was brave, outgoing, definitely one of the strongest people he knew, but seeing her like this contradicted everything he knew.
"Sorry, I'm being stupid. Now about that coffee?" Shay asked quickly brushing off the fact that anything had scared her, burring her worries deep down. She was being stupid anyway, she was Trojan Selenito, she needed to start acting like it.
"Shay..." Jeremy began, but paused seeing the pleading look behind Shay's eyes.
"The coffee. Please." Shay begged holding his hand in hers. A few awkward seconds passed as Jeremy obliged, turning his back to prepare the coffee. Shay began to twiddle her thumbs, scared of what Jeremy was going to say to the others. She knew if Jeremy told Damon and Tyler what she had just said things were going to get very dangerous very quick and she couldn't do that to the three boys. When Jeremy turned back around Shay stared him deep in the eyes, frantically searching for the conversation in his memory. When she heard it screaming in her own ears she shut it up. She may not have been able to take away the memory without causing any other memories to fade, but making sure he could not repeat that conversation made Shay feel slightly safer. Shay dropped her eyes to the coffee sitting on the surface in front of her, when had it gotten there?
"Anyway I met a very interesting person earlier on." Jeremy snapped Shay out of her daze, and Shay wondered if they had been conversing while she was in a daze.
"And?" Shay asked reverting to her normal self. Jeremy smirked noticing the slightly annoyed way the word rolled off her tongue, as if she hadn't really meant for it to slip from her lips.
"He had some very amusing stories to tell about you." Jeremy smiled seeing the suddenly alert facial on the girls face.
"Shit. Who was this person?" Jeremy laughed seeing a slight blush rise to Shay's cheeks, she already knew who it was, he was sure of that. "Please don't say who you're thinking." Shay added causing Jeremy to laugh harder. He thought Shay looked so cute that embarrassed, and the stories he had heard would cause her to be even more embarrassed.
"Don't worry, it was nothing bad...well not completely bad." Jeremy snickered as Shay went even redder.
"I hate my life." Shay cringed covering her face with her hands, "You can never repeat those to anyone okay? Promise me!"
"Not that easily babe, what will be in it for me?" Jeremy laughed placing a kiss on the girls forehead for walking down the bar to serve a newly approaching customer.