A/N: I'm back with chapter 7! I always try to update within a week or two so if it takes me longer than that, I apologize in advance.

Did any of you watch the season 7 premiere of TVD? DID YOU SEE THE BAMON INTERACTION? THE FEELS!

I love them so much, it's a sickness.

Caroline pulled out her cellphone and went to her contacts and pressed Bonnie's name.

It began to ring and soon after Bonnie picked up.

"Hello?"

"Hold on, I'm putting Elena on."

Caroline decided to do three way with her two selfish best friends so she could yell at both of them at the same time.

"Hey," Elena picked up.

"Bonnie, you still there?" Caroline asked.

"Yea."

"Ok good. Now, what the hell is wrong with you two!?"

"Caroline, what are you talking about?" Elena sighed.

"What am I talking about!? I'm talking about the fact that I invited you two out with me last night and the both of you bailed on me! We were supposed to be having a fun night out, remember?"

Bonnie wasn't in the mood to respond so Elena spoke up for the both of them.

"Care, we didn't mean to bail on you but you got to admit last night sucked."

Caroline scoffed. "Maybe for you two airheads but I had the best time. I know how to have fun unlike some people."

"Look, if all you're gonna do is bitch and moan at us then I can hang up right now." Bonnie threatened.

"Oh wow, you finally spoke up. I was beginning to think you had already hung up." Caroline rolled her eyes.

"You guys, can we not do this right now? There's no point in arguing over something we can't change. Caroline, I'm sorry for bailing, okay?"

Caroline sighed, "Whatever, I'm never inviting you two out with me again."

"Fine by me." Bonnie stated lowly.

"Bonnie!" Elena unintentionally laughed.

"By the way Elena, what happened between you and Stefan? I saw you two huddled in a corner. Got something you want to share with us?" Caroline already knew what happened, she was just waiting to see if Elena would fess up.

"Nothing happened…he was being irrational."

"Uh huh, and that's it?"

"Why do you keep pushing this?" Bonnie wondered. "She said nothing happened."

"She's lying, Bonnie, that's why."

Elena groaned, "Fine, we kissed!"

"What!?" Bonnie exclaimed.

"I already knew. I seen it when it happened." Caroline bragged.

"How could you kiss Stefan, Elena?"

"I don't know, Bon! It just happened! I mean technically he kissed me but I admit I kissed him back for a few seconds." Elena confessed.

"Psh, like that makes a difference, you still kissed him while you're in a relationship with his brother."

"Don't you think I know that already, Caroline?" Elena gritted her teeth. "I feel terrible."

"You should, he doesn't belong to you anymore. You made the choice to let him go, or did you think you could have them both?" Caroline's tone suddenly became bitchy.

"Whoa, why are you ganging up on me? I already said I feel bad about it." Elena defended herself.

"Yea that was harsh, Care." Bonnie agreed.

"You know you were thinking the same thing, Bonnie. And it's the truth." Caroline didn't care if she hurt Elena's feelings.

Bonnie sighed deeply. "I'm gonna go you guys, I don't really feel up for talking anymore."

"Are you all right?" Elena asked.

"Yea, I'll be fine."

"Hold up, you never told us why you left in the first place." Caroline tried to change the subject.

"Like Elena said, the night sucked. And those guys were disgusting. See ya." Bonnie hung up and both girls knew there was something she wasn't telling them.

(Bonnie's POV)

A week had passed since that awful night at the club.

Every day, for the past seven days, Damon would show up, apologize, and try to buy my forgiveness by buying me things.

It was annoying and somewhat sweet. But I would never admit that to him.

He needed to learn that he couldn't just do whatever he wanted and get away with it.

Especially not when it came to me. I didn't play that.

On the morning after the Kai situation, he had come out of nowhere and handed me a Carmel Frappuccino, which is my favorite and he knew that, and continued to bug me all the way to my class.

The next morning, he had flowers delivered to my room and attached a little note that said "forgive me" in his hand writing.

I rolled my eyes at the gesture but deep down I did appreciate that he was trying. Just not in the right way.

This little charade continued throughout the week and I was getting tired of seeing his face every morning, believe it or not.

Today was Saturday and I was grateful that I didn't have any classes so I could stay inside if I wanted to.

My phone had pinged but I ignored it as I went into the bathroom to shower and brush my teeth.

When I came out of the bathroom and looked at my phone, I seen Damon's name.

No surprise there. He's such a pest.

The first text was the same question he had been asking me all week: am I forgiven?

No, Damon. You're not.

The other texts he had sent me was to let me know he was coming over whether I liked it or not.

I don't have time for this! I mean, technically I do but I don't want to. I just want to relax today.

No Damon, no Elena, no Caroline.

My phone pinged again, he responded with a: what do I need to do for you to forgive me?

Is he serious?

Why do you care so much? I texted back.

Do you really have to ask that question?

A few minutes later there was a knock on my door.

"Who is it?" I called out.

"You know it's me." Damon said.

"What do you want?" I sighed.

"Let me in."

"No."

"Oh, c'mon, Bon, don't be like this." He begged. "Just open the door so we can talk."

"I don't wanna talk to you."

"You're talking to me right now. And this is the most I've heard you say to me in a week so that means we're making progress."

"No it doesn't. Now leave."

"Damn it, Bonnie, let me in!" He banged on my door loudly.

That's it.

I got up and stomped my way towards my door and swung it up in a dramatic fashion.

"What do you want!?" I yelled.

He walked in with a small grin, "Thanks."

I looked at him like he had two heads. "Seriously? All of that just because you wanted to be let in? You're such a child, it's ridiculous." I fussed.

"I'm a child?" he turned around to look at me, "you're the one who's bent on being mad at me after I've apologized a million times and bought you coffee for a week straight and I bought you flowers."

I scoffed. "You think you can just buy me coffee and flowers and everything will be okay? No, that's not how this works. I'm not Elena."

His expression turned serious. "I know you're not Elena. You're Bonnie and you're my best friend."

I didn't say anything to that so he continued.

He sighed and came closer to me.

"I don't want you to be mad at me anymore, I hate this. As much as I like bickering with you, I don't like you being this upset with me." He confessed.

I stared into his eyes and knew he genuinely meant what he said.

"I don't like being mad at you either, Damon." I sighed, "But what you did really hurt me."

"I know." He responded.

"No, I don't think you do. I told you how much Kai hurt me and you went behind my back just to-what exactly did you do this for? I know he must have said something to you." I questioned.

Damon bit his tongue for a second. "All right, fine, he told me that if I didn't help him talk to you then he would tell Elena about the cure."

I rolled my eyes. "Wow, it always goes back to Elena…" I shook my head.

"This isn't about Elena, this is about you and me. I want my best friend back. I'll do whatever you want me to do." He latched onto my shoulders and squeezed.

We stared at each other for a minute. Damon patiently waiting for my answer, for me to say "okay, Damon, you're forgiven." But I just couldn't do it. At least not yet.

I looked down and sighed. "I can't do this right now, can you please go?"

"Bonnie…"

"Please, just go." He nodded sadly and walked slowly towards the door.

"I'll text you later."

"Don't expect me to text back."

The door closed and I flopped on top of my bed and groaned loudly.

It didn't feel good to have to be so harsh with him but he had brought this upon himself.

I couldn't let my feelings for him get in the way of my thinking. Just because I loved him, doesn't mean I would let him walk all over me.

I would forgive him eventually. But right now he would just have to keep begging.

(Elena's POV)

I couldn't believe this. Damon had the cure all this time and he didn't tell me.

I had to hear it from Kai of all people.

I had went to the boarding house looking for Damon when I noticed Kai sitting on the sofa.

He informed me Damon had the cure and of course I didn't believe him at first but then he had told me everything that happened at the club last weekend with Bonnie.

I was so confused as to why he wouldn't tell me but then I realized he probably didn't want me to be human because there was a possibility he would lose me.

As selfish as that was, I understood where he was coming from.

I myself had some things I needed to get off of my chest. Like the fact that I kissed Stefan and ever since I've been thinking about him.

Way more than I had been previous to the kiss. It was affecting me in ways I didn't understand.

Or maybe I just didn't want to understand.

Damon walked into the house and gave me a small smile when he spotted me.

"Hey," he walked in and immediately made his way towards the alcohol.

"We need to talk," I started. "And I need you to be honest with me."

He looked confused but agreed.

I took a deep breath. "Do you have the cure?"

His eyes slightly widened and I knew that he did. "How do you know?"

"That's not what I asked you."

"Yes, Elena, I do. Now who told you?"

"Does it matter?"

"Of course it matters. If it was Bonnie, I'll strangle her." Wait, huh?

"Bonnie? No, it was Kai." I was confused. "Bonnie knew?"

"Yea she's the one who gave it to me to give to you but…I just couldn't do it." He confessed.

"And I'm gonna kill Kai." He added on.

"Yea and he also told me what you did to Bonnie, how could you do that to her?"

"Not you too," he whined. "Look, I've already heard it enough from Bonnie, I know, it was wrong."

"Damon…I think the real question here is why didn't you tell me about the cure? Why didn't you give it to me?"

He took a long drag of bourbon and stared at me until words finally came out of his mouth.

"I don't like change." He simply said.

Okay, now I'm really confused. "Damon, what the hell does that have to do with you not telling me about the cure?"

"Think about it Elena, I give you the cure, you take it and become human again and poof," he motioned his hands like magic, "you'll be back in Stefan's arms."

If I still had a beating heart, it would be beating rapidly. Just the mention of Stefan's name made me sweat.

"Damon…" I didn't know what to say but I did want to comfort him.

"Am I wrong?" he questioned me.

His icy blue eyes were so full of hidden emotion. Jealousy, pain, hurt.

"Yes, I mean…Stefan and I are….we-" What are we, really?

"Don't say you're just friends. I know Stefan still loves you, he always will. Even in his homicidal, psychopathic state he still does." He sneered.

"StefankissedmeandIkissedhimback." It came out in a rush.

Damon's nose flared as he looked at me. "So you cheated on me?"

"No! It wasn't like that, it happened so fast and I-he kissed me and I kissed him back for a second, I swear that was it."

How did this get turned around on me? Oh yeah, because I had to open up my big mouth and tell him about the kiss.

Regardless of the hurt, this needed to come out. I needed to tell him.

He deserved to know.

"Just admit it, Elena…you still love Stefan, don't you?" his eyes were starting to look glossy.

I started tearing up. "I don't know how I feel. I thought I was completely over him but after he kissed me I couldn't stop thinking about him." I was being brutally honest.

"Some things are better left unsaid, Elena." He said in disdain.

"I'm sorry," tears came down my eyes. "I thought we were past all of this but-"

He slammed his glass down and walked up to me. "I thought that too, Elena! I thought once and for all you had made up your mind, you had picked me and we would be together but-" He stopped and shook his head. "It's always gonna be Stefan, right?"

"Damon you know I love you," I whispered. "And you know how bad I want to be human." I cried.

"Why can't I just take the cure and still be with you?"

"We both know things will change once you become human again, Elena."

"…which is why I have to let you go." He strained his face.

"What? Damon-" He cut me off.

"Let's be honest, we were bound to breakup at some point. We could barely keep it together before you erased your memory."

I winced, remembering how much that had hurt him.

"I'm sorry." I choked out.

"I'm sorry too."

"I don't wanna lose you, Damon." I pressed.

"I'm already gone, Elena. I'm already gone."

And with that, he went out the door with a bottle of bourbon in his hand.

I let myself really cry after he left.

Oh my god, what have I done?

Since it was the weekend, I decided to stay up a little late and watch a movie. In the middle of the movie I heard a tiny thump near my door.

I froze, trying to concentrate on the sound when I heard it again but a little louder than the first time.

I slowly got up and made my way towards the door, ready to defend myself in case there was danger lurking.

I peeked out of the door and was surprised to see Damon sitting down, thumping his head on the wall with a bottle of bourbon in his hand.

"What are you doing here?" I whispered, not wanting to disturb the other people in the hall.

"I didn't know where else to go." The sorrow in his voice was so disheartening.

"What happened?"

"I broke up with Elena."

I should have known it had something to do with Elena. It always does.

Reluctantly, I decided to let him in. I didn't want to kick him down any more than what he was.

He came into my room and sat on my bed, continuously drinking.

I stood there, waiting for him to say something, anything, but he was silent.

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"Not really," he finally answered. "But to make a long story short, Elena found out about the cure, confronted me, and she told me she kissed my brother. So I broke up with her."

Although I was still upset with him for what he did, I couldn't help but feel bad for him.

"You don't seem surprised." He observed.

"She told me and Caroline about the kiss. As for the cure…I'm not surprised she found out. I figured she would find out some kind of way." But wait, how did she find out?

"I didn't tell her if that's what you're thinking."

"I know you didn't, Kai did." Damon said.

I hate Kai. I really do.

"I'm sorry, Damon." I don't know what I was apologizing for. All I knew was my friend was hurting and he needed somebody.

"That's exactly what she said." Damon growled.

Eventually I sat down next to Damon and put my hand on his shoulder for comfort.

"Look," I started. "I know this hurts but just give it some time. Maybe time apart will be good for you two but I'm sure you'll work it out."

"Not this time, Bon. It's over. For good." He said with certainty.

"Well whatever happens, just don't be too hard on yourself. Yes, you were wrong for not telling her about the cure but she was also wrong for kissing Stefan. I know you think Elena is too good for you but that's not true. The truth is we're all flawed. We all screw up sometimes…even the ones we love." He looked at me then, knowing I wasn't talking about Elena anymore.

"You deserve love, Damon. Just like the rest of us do. And one day you'll find a great love. A love that doesn't make you feel like you have to compete with Stefan. She'll love you unconditionally and you'll love her just the same."

"She'll be strong, feisty, stubborn, and a perfect match for you. She'll be a best friend and a lover, all in one. She'll stand with you through everything."

He was staring at me intensely. My insides were fluttering and the air between us, as well as in the room, somehow became thicker.

"That sounds a lot like you." He pointed out.

My eyes darted down and to the side, now realizing I was subconsciously describing myself.

Crap.

"I, uh…" I didn't want him to think I was trying to come onto him since he just broke up with Elena but I was at a loss for words.

His fingers lifted my chin so my forest green eyes could zone in on his oceanic eyes.

The way he was looking at me was too much. I wanted to turn away but he wouldn't let me.

The hairs on the back on my neck stood as his face began to lean into mine.

My breathing was unsteady and I knew what he was about to do.

Our foreheads were touching and he lingered there for a moment as if he were waiting on me to make the next move. To go in for the kill.

Or in this case, the kiss.

All I could hear was my heart pounding against my chest and the sounds of our breaths.

I could smell the alcohol on his.

He was so close to kissing me and believe me, I really wanted to, but I knew it wasn't right. This isn't how I wanted our first kiss to be.

So I stopped him.

"We shouldn't," I found my voice. I put my hand on his shoulder to push him back a little.

When he sat up straight and looked at me, his expression was surprisingly angry.

"Why not?" he asked in a rugged voice.

"Because you just broke up with Elena."

"Oh, so now you're rejecting me too." He pouted.

"I'm not rejecting you, I just-"

"I thought you wanted me." He said, nonexpectantly.

"I do," my tone was softer. "But not like this. I don't wanna be your rebound."

He got up then, "It's fine, I get it." He tried to brush it off like it was nothing. I think I hurt his feelings.

"Damon…" I wanted to explain myself but he wouldn't listen.

"I said it's fine, Bonnie!" he said more forcefully.

He looked like he didn't know what to do next so he headed for the door.

"Where are you going?" I asked.

"For a walk." He was gone after one blink.

I sighed loudly.

Great, now he's mad at me. I'm the one that should be mad at him!

I stayed up a little longer to see if he would come back but he didn't. So I did the only thing I could think to do. Go to sleep.

I woke up early the next morning. I checked the time to see that it was a little after seven.

I usually didn't wake up this early unless I was forced to. My body wouldn't let me go back to sleep so I got up.

I guess I was still worried about Damon.

Walking towards the bathroom, I almost tripped on something.

It was Damon. Sleeping on the floor.

I can't believe he slept on the floor.

I shook him awake and the sun coming in from my window hit his eyes, making them appear as glaciers. He was beautiful.

A beautiful mess.

He stood up and groaned as he stretched.

"Are you okay?" I couldn't help but be concerned.

"Does it look like I'm okay?" he snapped.

I didn't say anything because what good would it do?

"Sorry," he apologized. "I didn't mean to snap at you."

"It's ok."

"No, I meant for last night. I was a little…out of it." His eyes widened as he remembered the events of last night and what almost happened.

"I get it." I simply said.

We stood in silence for a few seconds before it got awkward.

"You should probably head back home if you don't want to see Elena in the hallways."

"Yeah." He agreed.

He scooped up his jacket and headed for the door. As he was closing the door, he stuck his head back in.

"Did you mean what you said last night?"

I knew what he was referring to.

"I meant every word."

A/N: Oh no, Delena broke up. I'm so sad (sarcasm)

Caroline's still...Caroline.

And Bamon almost kissed but Bonnie stopped it. Do you think she was right to stop it or should she have given in?

As you can tell, I'm trying to slowly change the dynamics to Bamon and Stelena but it won't happen just yet.

What do you think should happen with Bonnie and Damon next? Hopefully Kai doesn't come in-between them...

Please review & let me know what you think!