Kiss me and The Small Bump
Chapter 3: Stray
Elena POV
I smile and hold out my hand to shake hers. She looks at me was if she is seeing ghost.
"Well, its nice to meet you, Bella and I love the name, what does it mean?"
She swallows and answers. " It actually really Bella Zoe as one name. Bella meaning Beautiful in Italian and Zoe meaning life in Bulgarian."
"Its beautiful." I said.
"Thank you. My Mother came up with it." She blushed and looked me in the eye for the first time. Her eye where so familiar.
"Yes, Yes! she does have a beautiful name but what do you want?" said Damon ,breaking my train of thought. I elbow him.
"Oh sorry! I'm here to see about getting a room. This is the Boarding house, isn't it? Not the family home right?" she said, pulling out a copy of The Mystic Falls Daily. "I saw it in the For Rent Classified. I'm not yet 18 but I'm about graduate and ive ...moved out."
"No, you got it right, this is the boarding house." I took the newspaper and skimmed, lo and behold there it was in big letters.
FOR RENT
SALVATORE BOARDING HOUSE
ROOMS FOR RENT AT $300 RATE A MONTH
CALL OR KNOCK , NO HEADS UP NEEDED BUT ROOM NOT GURARNTEED.
CAN MAKE FIRST PAYMENT AFTER FIRST MONTH
204-175-0253
It was legit. So, I showed it to Damon and he skimmed it.
"Well..." He was about to say there was no room but I took one look at this girl and suddenly had an instinct to protect this girl and after taking real look at her. She looked thin, like she had been sick with only a single backpack slung over her shoulder. She didn't have anything it seemed and just needed somebody to help her.
"We will have to talk about it." I said before he could say anything more. "Its been a long time since any offers were made but maybe we..." I pointed at me and Damon. "Can work something out. If your willing to wait?"
"Really? Of course, I'll wait." She smiled, with warmth and relief in her eyes.
She went to sit down on the steps as I closed the door, Damon staring at me. He turned to me and I folded my arms.
"Elena, what the hell was that?!" He said, pointing towards the door.
"What do you mean Damon?" I said. "I was just said we might be able to find her a room."
"ELENA,WE CAN KEEP HER!" He Stated.
"SHE'S NOT A DOG THAT WE PICKED UP ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, DAMON!" I Yelled back."SHES A KID THAT SEEMS TO NEEDS OUR HELP."
"You don't think I can see that, Elena. She looks like she has nothing but the clothes on her back and looks about a couple cheeseburgers away from being considered Anorexic. Gosh, I wanted to take her to the kitchen and just feed her what ever we have for the rest of the day. "
"So you feel it to? The instinct to help her, to protect her." I said, just so we are clear.
He looked into my eyes and began to pace, running his hands through his black hair. "Yes,Elena... And that is why she can't stay here."
"Damon, I am not going to lose control!" I said, putting my hands on my hips.
"That's not what meant! I meant with everything that's going on she might get in the middle of it and get or hurt or worse killed," He said, probably thinking of all the people we had lost. "Also what kid would come into a town alone? No parents? She has must be running from something!"
"And that's why we need to help her!" I contoured. "Maybe she's an orphan like me Damon but ether way, we can give her a chance and at least try. If it doesn't work, then will talk Liz and figure out what to do."
"Are you sure?" He said skeptical and I nodded. "Okay then 2 weeks and we see what happens."
I smiled and hugged him. "thank you and you know you would have never been able to turn her away."
"Whatever," He said, walking to the door and I followed him.
"Just to ask Why was that in the paper?" I asked.
"Maybe Zach put it in. I'm not sure I usually just check to see if the groups in there?" he shrugged.
He opened the door and we found her sitting on the porch soaking in the sun as if it where air, her bare hands spread out behind her, smiling. The smile was content but had twinge of sadness to it.
Damon spoke up. "Is that all you got for bags or is the a truck full just around the corner? Because I don't have all day to carry them in."
She turned and stood up quickly, wiping the dust of her but. "I can stay? No, this all I got. I'm sorry I don't have any money at the moment but I'm applying for a job today after school."
"Yes, you can stay." I said. "and that's fine, like it said in the paper you pay after the first month."
"Really!? Thank you, thank you and thank you!" She said smiling, her eyes where watering up.
"But before we get ahead of ourselves, you well have 2 week probation period." said Damon.
She nodded and shook our hands. "Your house, your rules! I wont let you down!" She did a little salute.
Me and Damon laughed at her eagerness.
"You mentioned something about school? I'm heading there now, you want a ride?"
Yeah, thank you." She said smiling.
"Have a great day at school,You two!" said Damon coming behind me and giving me a slight tap on the ass to get me going.
I began down the stairs and turned to wink at Damon. He smiled and waved. Me and Bella Zoe got in and headed out of the driveway. Just as Stefan's silver bike zoom past.
We arrived right as first break started and looked over at Bella Zoe..
She looked like she was just about ready to shit a brick, a big one... Like pyramid size.
"You okay?" I asked, trying really hard to not laugh at her expression.
She looked at me with wide eyes and smiled. "Little nervous... can you tell?
"Yeah, you look like you about to shit a brick." I said, matter factually.
"Pyramid size, am I right?" She looked at me and creaked up.
I began to giggle and we where off. She was holding her stomach from laughing so hard and I was crying tears.
After about a minute of wonderful inanity we stopped and I said . "Exactly. Whats got you scared?"
She looked sad. "I've never had the best record for making friends, my best friend is my cousin and there is very little numbers after that. I'm different"
Well, you all ready have friend right here. Stick with me and you can till everybody to go screw themselves if they don't like you. Never sell yourself short because you may just be the one to change the world."
She smiled and shook her head. "My mom said the same thing on my first day of school when I was five or when I got down on myself."
"She sounds like a smart women." prying ever so slightly. Maybe her answer would give her and insight to what we where dealing with.
She pulled the door handle and said. "Yeah,She was." Before opening her door and stepped out.
My heart sank for her. One parent down...Maybe. I opened my door , stepped out and slung my bag on to my shoulder.
We walked to the school office in silence and I told her where I would be when she got finished.
Bella Zoe POV
She walked away to go meet Caroline, who would be all judgey and Bonnie Who is probably high on herbs a little. I smiled as Elena went out of ear shot.
I turned to the receptionist as she looked at my ID and Medical card. She then looked at me like I was crazy.
"Okay, who put you up to this?" She said.
"Nobody." I said, smiling.
"Nobody? My dear, are you high? How in the world did you think that you could be entered into this school with this information? I mean look at this birthdate, you have ten seconds...
I looked into her eyes and she stopped, staring back at me in blank expression.
"Keep your voice down, please. Now your going to take another look at my information and it will be up to full standards and if anybody asks you are going to say you lost it. The birth date was September 23rd 1994 and you are going to have me put into the classes I asked for and there will be no problem what so ever, understand?
"Yes..." she looked down at my info again and smiled. "Everything is in order and here is your timetable my dear with all the classes you asked for."
"Thank you, have a nice day." I say takeing it smiling and walked out.
Gosh I love compulsion.
DUH DUH DUUHHH! IS SHE A VAMPIRE? SOMETHING ELSE? FIND OUT NEXT VAMP TIME AT THIS ...VAMP STORY?
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Update: Due some surprise Assignments and test I wont be able to update tell probley Monday night. Sorry!