Hey guys sorry for the extremely late update. I think I mentioned this before, but I'm upping the rating to M so next week next chapter will be rated M. I'm also working on a Stefonnie One shot so look out for that. Thanks for all the reviews, and adds. I'm glad you guys enjoyed my randomness here's more...

Damon was on the verge of losing his mind. If Caroline went into another store he was going to slap someone, and preferably her. She was babbling on and on about how amazing Kol was and how cute he and Bonnie looked together, as if Damon weren't standing right next to her. Maybe, he deserved this for not seizing his golden opportunity to be with Bonnie.

Damon set on a bench outside of a boutique Elena and Caroline rushed into. Bonnie had disappeared into the bookstore next to it. "And to think you'd show your face after the horrible bet down I gave you."

"I'm not in the mood for your illusions of grandeur, Kol," Damon said looking over at him.

"I wouldn't be either if I were reduced to a poor errand boy." Damon wasn't anyone's errand boy; he was merely holding Caroline and Elena's bags out of necessity. Not that it was any of Kol's business.

"Why are you still standing here?"

"I was just going to wait for Bonnie," Kol said sitting next to him.

"She didn't come with us, she's with Stefan," Damon lied.

"Really? I can smell her all over you. Quite delicious isn't it?"

"Stay away from her," Damon ordered.

"Are you going to do something if I don't?" Kol asked with a kind smile.

"I'm going to kill you if you ever touch her again," Damon promised with his menacing gaze.

Kol stood and turned to walk away. "Our little witch has a mind of her own and she'll come to me when the time is right."

"Go to hell," Damon smiled to his back. Damon didn't like how Kol assumed Bonnie held any type of interest in him. She was drunk and felt sorry for him. There was nothing more to their encounter…Right?

"Hey was that Kol?" Bonnie asked walking out of the bookstore with a new copy of Jane Austin's Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. She sits beside him and waits for a response.

"That was him…Is he like your boyfriend now, or something?" Damon said making Bonnie blush and fidget. He didn't like her reaction, but he kept his inner commentary to himself.

"No, he's just my friend," Bonnie said getting a snort from Damon. "What was that for?"

"Guys like Kol can't be friends with girls like you," Damon said with a humorless smile.

"How would you know? Don't tell me you're one of those people that believe a girl and guy can't be friends unless something extra is going on?" Bonnie questioned. Damon didn't say anything or show any signs that he would. "I don't believe this." Bonnie shook her head at the thought.

"Look Kol and I aren't that different it's probably the reason we hate each other. He's really into you and he's not going to just be your friend."

"You're just being suspicious."

More like jealous, but Damon liked the way Bonnie put it better. It made him seem less crazy. "You're beautiful and smart, and pretty brutal when it comes to war. He'd be crazy not to want you." He brushed a strand of hair out of her face and looked into her eyes.

Caroline was the first to notice the intimate way Damon and Bonnie were looking at one another. She and Elena shared a proud glance with one another before they walked over to the pair. "So what were you two talking about?" Caroline smiled.

"Nothing," Bonnie and Damon chorused together looking as thick as thieves.

"Rights," Elena sang-song as she and Caroline took their bags and walked up the stripe to Damon's car.


Damon walked passed Bonnie's room and saw her sitting on the bed reading one of the books she got earlier. "What are you doing?" Damon questioned. Everyone was down stair ready to go back to the Branson's for dinner.

"I'm going to stay in tonight, I don't want to cause any more trouble with you and Kol," Bonnie said not looking up from her book. Damon sighed and walked over to her. He took the book from her hands. "If you lose my page an aneurysm will seem like a walk in the park compared to what I will do to you."

"Why are you going to stay here alone?"

"Your dad's here," Bonnie smiled.

"Again why are you staying here alone?" Bonnie sighed and looked into his eyes. She felt her stomach fluttering with want. She wanted his lips, his touch, his body… "Bonnie? I'm growing old here."

"I'd just rather stay here," she said pulling herself back to reality and moving a little farther from Damon. But he grabbed her hand and looked at her. Bonnie snitched her hand back, "You should get going."

"I'm gonna stay with you," Damon said making Bonnie's mouth go dry.

"You don't have to," Bonnie said looking for refugee in her book which he sat on the bed.

"Why are you acting so nervous?" Damon whispered knowing the answer.

"This book's pretty scary," she lied.

Damon laughed. "I didn't know Jane Austin could tap into her inner Mary Shelley."

"How would you know?" Bonnie questioned then she laughed. "You read Jane Austin don't you?"

"I've been alive for a very long time, there isn't much I haven't done," he smiled at the witch. "I want you in the car in fifteen minutes, and trust me you don't want to find out what will happen if you aren't."


Elena walked down a corridor she hoped would lead her to the foyer. She was amazed that she was the only one that couldn't navigate the Salvatore's house. She felt like she was in a horror movie and the closer she got to the end of the hall the farther away it seemed.

Through the tap of her heels on the hardwood she could make out singing. It wasn't half bad either. Elena followed the voice to a cracked open bathroom door. In the steam she saw the silhouette of the singing.

Stefan walked up to the mirror, towel hanging low on his waist, and cleared the fog off-starting to primp. He applied after shave to his strong jaw, and Elena closely watched as he sprayed sweet smelling cologne over his chiseled chest and abs. "You're staring," he laughed not looking at her. "It's creepy."

She laughed, "I think it's romantic." She leaned against the doorpost and openly took in his perfect frame.

Stefan raised a questioning brow at her, "You'd like to have some stranger watching you get ready in nothing but a wet towel?"

"Depends on who the stranger is I suppose. It could be flattering-or creepy."

"I guess it's a little flattering," he said turning to leave the bathroom. He walked up to her and held her gaze as they stood in the doorway together. "You get lost going to the library again? Or was this part of a plan?"

Elena just let out a nervous laugh unable to think straight. She looked down at her sweaty hands and Stefan walked away. "Aren't you coming?" he asked glancing back at her.

"Erum sure," Elena said with a smile as she followed him to his bedroom.

Lexi and Stefan stood off in a dim corner discussing the perils of life or whatever it was that they talked about. Damon and Sage were inserting witless commentary. "I killed a Bunny today," Damon said in his monotone Stefan voice.

"Really? Was he cute?" Sage said mocking Lexi.

"Adorable, I feel haunted by the memory," he choked out as they laughed hysterically.

"What devious scheme are you to planning now?" Alaric asked coming over with a glass of wine for him and Sage.

"We're trying to entertain ourselves," Sage said taking a sip of wine and smiling devilishly at Damon from behind her glass.

"I'll be right back."

Going to check on your witch?" Alaric asked.

"It's my job as the babysitter to make sure every baby has been sat on," he said going off in to the dining hall. Damon watched Bonnie flip through the pages of Sense and Sensibility; she was lost in the romance of the time. "Please tell me you aren't really into that crap?"

"Fine I won't tell you," she smiled.

Damon pulled out a huge chair from the long dining table to sit next to her. He felt a little bad that everyone was having a nice chill section while Bonnie was reading-crap at that. "You wanna play a game?"

Bonnie gave him the side eye and raised her book a centimeter. Damon had mixed feelings about her constant nonverbal communication. She turned her attention back to her book and for a moment everything went away.

"I promise you'll enjoy it," Damon said setting back and trying to seem nonchalant about the situation.

"Well that was short lived," Bonnie muttered to herself. "What game is it?"


Chapter five preview

"Okay so the objective of the game is to kiss everyone of the opposite sex once and do body shots twice"-

"This sounds like your tye of game Ty," Matt whispered to him.

"He invented it one summer," Stefan said cause Caroline to glare at Tyler, and Tyler to glare at Stefan.

"Any who Alaric is score keep and we start counterclockwise with yours truly first. You use the twister spinner to pick your victim," Damon said spinning and landing Bonnie.

The look doom on her face had everyone laughing, "I'm sure it will be quick and painless," Elena promised Bonnie.

"You know you want to," Caroline said from across the circle. Elena and and Bonnie gave her a look. "Sorry."

"Fine," Bonnie said leaning over to kiss him, but Damon put his finger to her lips. When she opened her eyes he nudged his head over to the bar.

Bonnie got up and followed after him. She hated having everyone's gaze burning a hole in her back. She swallowed knowing no matter how long she looked at the floor everyone would still be looking at her and Damon.

Damon could sense Bonnie was either extremely nervous or angry. He was going to do everything in his power to make this the most awkward moment of her life. The second she realized her life wasn't that bad the easier things could be for the both of them.