Books piled beside her, Brie sits under her locker in the corridor while reading. A few remaining students amble their way down the hall in between periods. Brie remains transfixed by her book when Matt slowly approaches and stops to look down at her.
"What are you reading?" Matt asks as he looks down at her.
Brie glances up, startled. "Oh, hey. Just stuff for a history project" Matt drops his bag and sits next to her under the lockers.
"You have a free period?" Brie asks as she looks up from her book.
"No, I just don't feel like sitting through Chemistry"
Brie nods understandingly "Understandable. Did you want something?"
"Actually, I wanted to talk. Since Caroline didn't introduce us properly I thought I'd make the effort to do so, I'm Matt" Matt said as he put his hand out waiting for her to shake his hand.
She looks at his hand for a moment and smiles and shakes his hand "I'm Brie"
"So you ready for this exam today?"
Brie nods "Yeah Caroline got me very prepared for it" Brie picks up and shows Matt the schedule that Caroline gave her on how to study for the exam they were about to do.
Matt chuckles "That's Caroline for you" Brie agreed and was about to stand up "Here let me" Matt stands up and steps in front of Brie and gives her a hand which she takes and pulls her up from her spot.
"Thanks" Brie smiled as she leaned down and grabbed her bag and books and walked into the exam room with Matt. She walked down and saw Caroline, Elena and Bonnie already sat down in their seats waiting till the exam began. She sat in a seat next to Caroline who gave her a small smile and a mouthed good luck. Stefan follows the other students into the exam room. The moment he steps in, however, he spots Brie already seated. She gives him a brief glance, then focuses her eyes down, clearly trying very hard not to look at him. Stefan walks between the rows, heading toward her. Moving with determination.
"Brie"
Mr. Salvatore, please take a seat" With a nod, Stefan turns away and takes a seat near Elena while Mr. Tanner places a stack of Blue Exam Books at the first desk of each row. The students begin handing them back.
"You have forty-five minutes to complete the test. Twenty-five percent of your grade can be earned right now by simply putting your full name on the cover. However, as happens every year, one of you will inexplicably fail to put your name on the cover and I'll be left yet again questioning my decision to ever become a teacher. So let's get the disappointment over with and begin" Stefan gazes at the question, eyes blinking then looks over to Brie who is busily filling in her own test.
In the cafeteria after the exam Brie pulls a plastic-wrapped chocolate chip cookie from a brown paper bag during lunch. She smiles at the sticky note attached with a smiley face on it and the words: Love Stefan. Bonnie sits down to join her as she takes a bite.
Bonnie looks at her and motions her to side of her lip "You got something on your..." Brie looks up, chocolate on her lip.
Stefan walks over to the table "Here, let me" He reaches over and with his thumb, gently wipes the chocolate off her lip.
"Thanks"
"No problem" Stefan smiled as he stood the seat next to Brie.
"You want the bite?"
"What?" He glances up but she just holds out the cookie.
"You want a bite?"
"Oh. Um, no. Thanks" Stefan unconsciously slides a hand over the back of his neck
"You doing okay? I mean since the other night?"
"Yeah it was a good, you still thinking about everything that happened?" Stefan said as he put an arm and rest it on the back of her chair.
"Caroline" She glances down at him with a smile.
"Can I talk to you for a second?"
"Of course" Caroline says and she starts following him away from the crowd. He leads her into a quite corridor. "Is it about the other night? You need someone to talk to?"
"I just need to ask you something" She crosses her arms, waiting as Stefan struggles with the words.
Stefan nervously rubbed his neck as he stood in front of Caroline, who was standing there waiting for him to talk "Does Brie like me?"
Caroline chuckles "Of course, she likes you"
"Really" Stefan asks looking surprised.
"Yes, she wouldn't of snogged your face off last night if she didn't"
Stefan felt his face burn up with embarrassment "About that Care, I'm sorry you had to see that"
"It's not like I haven't seen it before, you and Elena were like Rabbits when you's were together, not as bad as her and Damon thought that's a different story" Caroline joked.
"You haven't mentioned anything to her about Damon or she hasn't met him yet?"
"Stefan, if she has met Damon I think you'd know about it"
That wasn't the answer Stefan was looking for all he wanted was a yes or no answer. He didn't want to lose another girl to Damon. Katherine then Elena and maybe Brie. He wasn't going to let Damon get near her around him.
Caroline rolled her eyes "No Stefan she hasn't met him, that is what I'm saying" Stefan just nodded.
Brie was getting changed into her pj's when a crow came onto the window ledge and sat and watched her threw her clothes into a washing basket. She sat down at her dresser and looked at her own reflection in the mirror when she jumped at the sight of the crow sat watching her from behind. She got up from her chair and walked up to the window and shooed the bird away and then closed the window when the crow disappeared into the night.
"Stupid bird" Brie huffed as she went into the bathroom and brushed her teeth. As she was brushing her teeth she heard someone enter the room. She looked up from the sink and looked to see who it was but couldn't see anyone, she just thought it was Caroline.
"I'll be out one second Care" Brie shouted as she put her tooth brush into the holder and wiped her mouth with a towel before hanging it back up. "Hey Care, sorry I was just brushing my….." Brie stopped in her tracks when she saw a tall dark haired figure standing in her bedroom. "Uh, who are you?"
"Let me introduce myself, I'm Damon" Damon said with a signature smirk.
"Salvatore? As in Stefan's brother?" Brie questioned as she thought it was weird how Stefan's brother was standing in her bedroom uninvited.
"You mean, Stefan's my brother, I'm the oldest and the handsome one" Brie rolled her eyes at the elder Salvatore who still had a cocky smile on his face that she just wanted to slap it off his face.
"Oldest, uglier, who cares" Brie rolled her eyes again, she didn't think Damon was ugly at all, she just said that to take the smile off his face. But she did think he was good looking but she thought Stefan was better.
Damon cleared his throat "Hmm not so easy are you little one" Damon said moving closer to her as Brie moved back trying to keep distance between them. "Not like your bestie Blondie, she was very easy to persuade" Damon smirked as Brie slapped him. Damon held him cheek and chuckled "Feisty, my type of girl"
"Well I am not your girl, Elena is, isn't she?" You know the girl you stole off your brother? Yeah, I know how you like stealing your brother's girlfriend's, does that satisfy you? Taking what you can't have, you thought Katherine loved you but she only used you to get to Stefan and the only reason you got Elena because she was sired to you" Brie felt guilty after saying those things as she saw Damon's lips formed from a smirk to a frown.
"Damon, I didn't mean…" Damon interrupted her.
"You're right, it's always going to be Stefan" Damon said as he sat on her bed looking down at his hands. Brie sat down beside and was hesitant to comfort him but she did as she put her hand on his shoulder.
"Elena loves you Damon, she isn't Katherine, she may look like her but she's nothing like her. She chose you because she was in love with you and she always will be by the sounds of things"
Damon looked up at Brie "I don't know, to me I feel like I'm a project, an object that needs fixed"
Brie shock her head in disagreement "No Damon, you're wrong. Elena thinks the world of you, she doesn't want to fix you. She loves you because of your flaws"
Damon looks at Brie. Does she really care? Why is she saying all these nice things to him when he basically called her best friend a whore? "You don't know half the awful stuff I've done, I've caused them all pain, I used your best friend for my pleasure, hurt my brother repeatedly, turned Elena into a vampire"
"I guess, but maybe she's forgave you for all those things because maybe you're not the man you used to be" Brie shrugs as she stood up and walked over to the dresser and Damon stands just behind Brie who holds a concentrated gaze on something in front of her.
Damon looks at the bear with a tiny t shirt on reading "Mr Bear" she was holding in her arms "Your teddy bear's name is Mr. Bear?" Damon said raising his eyebrow "That's the worst teddy bear name ever"
Brie grabs the bear off him "I was five" she shrugged as she pressed the teddy bear against her chest.
Damon notices Brie's smile gone from her face and sits down and sighed.
Damon sits with Brie on the bed putting an arm around her making Brie feel a little uncomfortable. "Hey, what's up?"
"I just don't know"
"With Stefan? Forget about him you're going to break hearts left and right. He's lucky to have gotten the little taste of Brianna Colace's world that he got"
She shot him a look, how did he know her full name "But it feels so right with him Damon"
"What about this" before she could react he kissed her. Brie quickly pulled away and moved away from him.
"What the hell was that?!" Brie shouted, looking disgusted.
"Not the usual reaction I get" Damon said trying to make a joke but Brie didn't find it amusing as he did.
"You're with Elena and I'm with…." Brie stopped as she wasn't official with Stefan, they were still at the friend's stage when she says friends stage she means friends with benefits as they haven't put a label on it yet.
"You're with?" Damon said trying to make her finish her sentence.
"Your meant to be with Elena, you can't go kissing other girls" Brie said angrily as she couldn't believe he would do that to Elena or Stefan, well she shouldn't of as she knew what Damon was capable of.
"But I thought you cared"
"That doesn't give you the right, I was just comforting you, trying to make you feel better" Brie stating as she was just trying to point out how she was only trying to make him feel better after what she said that was all.
"Brie, you showed me that you care more about me than Elena ever did" Brie couldn't believe what she was hearing "What you said made me feel like I was something"
"Damon we just met, you've known me for five minutes" Brie was stressing out she felt like she's cheated on Stefan with the kiss she shared with his brother.
Damon stood closer to her and took her hand "Brianna, come with me we can leave Stefan and Elena and start a life together"
"Damon are you hearing yourself right now, Elena is the right person for you not me, I'm better with Stefan"
"But Brie.." Brie interrupts before he can say another word.
"No Damon, but nothing I think you should leave" Brie says as she walks towards the door and opens it for Damon to leave. She stood and waited for him to move but he just stood there "GO!" She shouted impatiently before Damon zoomed out the room leaving Brie to feel guilty about betraying Stefan.
