EPOV
I glanced at the clock, a quarter to eight. Great. I looked around the room. Damon was lighting a match. He looked at it, then at his shoe. He set the match against it and flames lit it up. I almost freaked out until I saw him pull a cigarette and light it. Yuck.
Caroline and Bonnie were starring off into space, Stefan was reading, Matt was playing with the strings on his shirt, Tyler was napping and Jeremy...I don't even want to know.
Damon put his shoe out, put his earbuds in, then started playing air guitar. Jeremy had stopped cutting of his circulation and went to drawing.
Matt and Tyler were playing paper football.
A couple minutes later, Damon was asleep.
"You know," Caroline started, starring at Damon, "He's kinda cute when he's asleep." What the hell?
"Because he can't talk." Bonnie said. "But, yeah, he's cute." Were they both high right now? How could they find HIM cute?
"He's annoying." I said.
"He can hear you." Stefan said, not looking up from his book. "I can see the smirk. He was always been good at fake sleeping."
"WAKE UP!" Tanner yelled, pulling me from my dream. "Who needs to use the bathroom?" All hands went up.
DPOV
Ten twenty two. I got up, and jumped on the desk next to Elena. I picked up a book and started pulling the pages out mindlessly.
"That's smart." Matt muttered.
"You're right." I said. "It's wrong to destry literature." I ripped some more out. "It's such fun to read. And Molet really pumps my nads."
"Mol-yare" Elena corrected.
"I love his Work." Stefan said from beside me. I looked down at him and smirked. I tossed the rest of the book at him, then started messing with something else.
"Big deal. Nothing to do when you're locked in a vacancy."
"Speak for yourself." Matt muttered.
"You think I'd speak for you?" I asked, raising an eyebrow. "I don't even know your language." He turned away from me and looked at Elena.
"You grounded tonight."
"I dunno. My Mom said I was, but my Dad told me to blow her off."
"Big party at Johnny's. His parents are in Europe, it's supposed to be wild." I frowned. I REALLY hated this Matt guy.
"Yeah?"
"Yeah, you wanna come?"
"I don't think so."
"Why not?"
"Dude she said no, get over it." I said.
"Because if I do what my mother tells me not to do, it's because because my father says it's okay. There's like this whole big monster deal, it's endless and it's a total drag. It's like any minute... divorce..."
"Who do you like better?" I asked, putting what ever I had down.
"What?"
"Do you like your Dad better than your mom?"
"There both strict."
"No. I mean if you had to choose between them?"
"I dunno, I'd probably go live with my sister. I mean, I don't think either one of them gives a shit about me...it's like they use me just to get back at each other."
"Ha!" Jeremy yelled from his seat. That was cold, even by my standards.
"Shut up!"
"You're just feeling sorry for yourself..." Tyler said.
"Yeah, well if I didn't nobody else would." Elena said
"Aw...you're breaking my heart..."
"Sporto..." I said, getting up and walking over to Tyler. "You get along with your parents?"
"Well if I say yes, I'm an idiot, right?"
"You're an idiot anyway...But if you say you get along with your parents well you're a liar too!"
I turned away and started back toward Elena, until Tyler pushed me.
"You know something, man...If we weren't in school right now, I'd waste you!"
I points my middle finger at the floor.
"Can you hear this? Want me to turn it up?"
I flipped my hand around, giving Tyler the bird.
Stefan came over and put a hand on my shoulder
"D, come on...I don't like my parents either, I don't...I don't get along with them...their idea of parental compassion is just, you know, wacko!" I almost laughed at him. Stef had always had a way of making feel better.
"Dork..." I said.
"Yeah?"
"You are a parent's wet dream, okay?" Hell, my own dad loved him more.
"Well that's a problem!" He said. Man, I needed to teach him some stuff, then.
"Look, I can see you getting all bunged up for them making you wear these kinda clothes." I knew for a fact Aunt Clara bought Stefan's clothes for him, I'd went to the mall them once. "But face it, you're a Neo-Maxi-Zoom-Dweebie! What would you be doing if you weren't out making yourself a better citizen?"
"Why do you have to insult everybody?" Mat asked.
"I'm being honest, asshole! I would expect you...to know the difference!"
I started to walk toward Elena again.
"What's your last name?" I asked her. It'd been bugging me all day. I felt like I'd met her before.
"Peirce."
"What's your sisters name?" Please, God, Don't let her be her sister.
"Katherine."
Shit. Stefan's head shot up from his book. He closed it and started to get up.
"Well, I'm sure she cares about you as much as your parents do." After I said that, Elena did something completely shocking, She gave me the finger.
"Oh...obscene finger gestures from such a pristine girl!" I said.
"I'm not that pristine." Oh, really I got down closer to her.
"Are you a virgin?" I whispered. "I'll bet you a million dollars that you are! Let's end the suspense! Is it gonna be...a white wedding?"
"Shut up!"
"Have ever kissed a boy on the mouth?" I asked. "Have you ever been felt up? Over the bra, under the blouse, shoes off...hoping to God your parents don't walk in?"That's how things had been when I was dating her sister, maybe they werea little alike. She pulled a face that was supposed to be disgust, but it was cute.
"Do you want me to puke?"
"Over the panties, no bra, blouse unbuttoned, Calvin's in a ball on the front seat past eleven on a school night?"
"Leave her alone!" Matt said, getting up again.
I got up from where I was next to her and face matt. Well, kinda faced him. I was taller than him.
"I said leave her alone."
"You gonna make me?"
"Yeah!"
"You and how many of your friends?"
"Just me and you. Two hits, me hitting you, and you hitting the gound"
I got close to punching him in the face, but he used some wrestling bull shit to get me down.
"I don't wanna get into this wit you man!" I said. He let me go, thinking he'd won.
"Why not?" I felt my switchblade in my front pocket.
"Because I'd kill you."