A/N: I suggest you listen to 'End of Time' by Beyonce, 'Put Your Graffiti On Me' by Kat Graham (C'mon, you should've ALL heard that by now! Lol) and 'You Drive Me Crazy' by Britney Spears before you read this, since those are the songs that are used in this chapter. Enjoy!
It was crisp Friday night in Mystic Falls, and everybody knew what that meant; football. The Timberwolves were into their third game of the season, 3-0. But before the game could start, the real reason half the teenage boys came to the games had to happen: the cheerleaders.
Behind the gym, the girls were stretching, getting ready to go onto the field. Although their boyfriends had forgoed re-joining the football team again, Caroline and Elena thought it was a great idea when Bonnie suggested they go back into cheerleading for their last year in high school. Bonnie was finally happy in her life, and thought I was time to get back to the normal things they were doing before vampires and werewolves became an everyday occurrence in their lives. She was more than a bit surprised when Damon actually supported her idea, seeing as to how he usually opposed anything that cut into his time with his little witch; she suspected he just wanted to see her flaunting around in her skimpy cheerleading uniform more than an actually caring if she re-joined the team or not.
As the girls stretched with their friends, they heard the pep band starting up, meaning that their cue was coming up. All the girls hopped off the grass and began getting into line. Eventually, the band's music morphed from the school's chant to the intro beat to Beyonce's 'End of Time.' Caroline had made the mix tape herself, as well as choreographed the routine, although she couldn't quite understand why Bonnie and Elena burst into uncontrollable laughter when she'd told them she'd put 'You Drive Me Crazy' by Britney Spears on the mix tape.
Thinking about Elena, Bonnie looked over at the brunette whom she still considered one of her best friends. Things had been awkward between the two, to say the least, but Elena hadn't commented on it. And if she didn't, then Bonnie wasn't going to either, at least until she was ready. She knew she would have to broach the subject eventually, but right now she just wasn't in the mood to take it there. But I'll have to do it soon, Bonnie thought to herself, but didn't have time to think about it any further because it was time to put on a show.
Meanwhile, Damon, Stefan, Tyler, and Matt were making their ways into the stands. Even though the three highschoolers had decided to forgo re-joining the football team, they still came out to support their friends and girlfriends.
"Here we go," Tyler said excitedly, as the girls began to run across the field.
"Man, I love these things," Matt commented with a grin. The Mystic Falls Cheerleading team where known for for putting on slightly raunchy, and surely memorable routines, courtesy of slightly raunchy, and surely memorable captains like Caroline Forbes.
"Yeah, me too," Tyler replied. "Care told me she convinced Bonnie to do one of her infamous splits." The two teenagers looked at each other with conspiring looks.
"Infamous splits? What infamous splits?" Damon leaned forward and inquired, not even trying to hide the panic in his voice.
"Dude, you've never seen Bonnie at a game, have you? Man, those splits have haunted my dreams many nights." Tyler laughed at the expression on Damon's face.
"Eww, dude, that's disgusting. That's like our sister," Matt said, punching Tyler in the arm.
"What? All I'm saying is that, as a teenager, I had dreams about cheerleaders, as all teenagers do. One of those cheerleaders happened to be Bonnie. Well, not so much Bonnie, as her legs…"
Before he could finish the sentence, Damon was throwing his Timberwolves sign at Tyler's head, Stefan barely having time to duck. Tyler laughed and dodged it easily.
"Hey, both of you quit it, it's about to start." Matt yelled over the chanting and various howls, the Timberwolves' official chant.
"Ah-wooooooo!" Tyler howled with the rest of the crowd as the mascot came out to amp the crowd up before the cheer squad came out.
"Hey, Wolfy, you're a little too good at that, don't you think?" Now it was Damon's turn to laugh at Tyler's expression.
As Bonnie ran onto the field behind Caroline with Elena close behind, she felt like she was fifteen again, carefree before she'd had so much stress in her life. Her eyes immediately drifted to the stands where she saw Damon, along with the rest of her friends. She waved at them, smiling widely. She wondered what Damon was going to think of her routine, since she hadn't told him about the almost too-sexy performance Caroline had set up. She was pretty sure he would've found a way to keep her from doing it if she had.
"Ready, girls?" Caroline yelled over the crowd.
"Yeah, let's do this," Elena smiled, looking like her old self for the first time in what seemed like centuries to Bonnie.
"Remember, it's senior year, so let's go out with a bang!"
"Oh, so that's what you tell yourself to justify this stripper ass routine?"
"Bonnie, what did I tell you about that potty mouth?" Caroline laughed. Bonnie opened her mouth to reply, but it was time to begin.
Baby, come on, get up on it;
Show me that you really want it.
I wanna be the one to love you, baby let's go.
I wanna provide this loving that you're giving,
I ain't frontin' in this love;
Can you let me love you from your head to toe?
Bonnie twisted and popped at all the right times, giving Beyonce herself a run for her money. The sight of Damon's eyebrows practically in his hairline made Bonnie dance even harder. She knew he'd never seen her cheer before, and enjoyed surprising him.
The song suddenly mixed into 'Put Your Graffiti On Me' and Bonnie made a note to commend Caroline on her superb mixing skills. Bonnie watched as Caroline rocked her hips to the beat; she knew how much she loved this song. Just as suddenly, 'PYGOM' morphed into 'You Drive Me Crazy.' This was Elena's time to shine; she had insisted on leading this part of the routine.
…the room is spinning…
Elena turned in a graceful pirouette…
…but I can't feel the ground…
…and dropped at the end of the beat, with Elena and Caroline there to catch her and pull her back up as she stepped gracefully back into step. The crowd started clapping and Bonnie could see Stefan's smile from the field.
Here I go…, Bonnie thought as the music went on. It was her turn to take lead. She watched as all the girls started to slowly form a circle around her.
'…Stop!' Britney Spears yelled through the speakers, and all the cheerleaders froze with Bonnie in the middle of the girls.
You drive me crazy, baby…
The breakdown came on and Bonnie began dancing like her life depended on it, knowing all eyes were on her. The music again changed, turning back into 'End of Time.'
Boy, come to me… Let me turn your rain into sun…
You don't have to worry baby, I promise I'll set your heart free…
Even though Bonnie knew it was coming, she still felt nervous when she jumped into the air and instead of landing back on the ground, landed in Caroline and Elena's arms, who then hoisted her into the air and spun her around while the rest of the team danced around. Bonnie saw the faces of her friends, as well as various other faces in the crowd, all smiles and laughter as they watched Bonnie shake her pompoms in the air like some sort of cheerleading princess.
Okay, she thought, let's go out with a BANG!...
The music changed one last time, back to 'PYGOM.'
…Tag me!…
That was Bonnie's cue. Standing in her friends' vampire-strong hands, Bonnie flipped into the air and closed her eyes, praying to every God she could think of that they caught her and didn't drop her. As soon as she felt their arms around her waist, she let out a breath she hadn't known she'd been holding. Without missing a step, she begin to run towards the front of the field, slightly in front of the other dancing girls. Bonnie had to time it just right so that she'd end up in front of the team at just the right moment…
And as the last 'Tag me!' blared from the speakers, Bonnie gave everyone what they'd been waiting for. She pushed a tiny bit more speed into her run and sprinted right into a front flip, landing in a split instead of on her feet. The crowd went wild, and the girls were shaking their pompoms behind Bonnie, red and white confetti littering the field as the mascot began to run the field and the pep band began to play the school anthem once again. Various chants and howls came from the stands and Bonnie could see her friends standing up, clapping for her; especially Damon, whose smile was the largest of the group's.
Sweaty and more than a little out of breath, Bonnie ran back to the rear of the gym with the rest of the cheer team. To her surprise, the gang was there to meet them.
"Girls, wasn't that great? I had so much f—Tyler!" Caroline exclaimed as she jumped on her boyfriend. "What are you guys doing back here?"
"We came to tell you what a great job you did," Tyler said, smiling.
"Yeah, who knew my little witch had this whole other side to her?" Damon said suggestively as he wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Eww, no, hands off. Unlike you guys, I actually break a sweat now and then," Bonnie giggled.
"Well, with what I have planned for you later, you'll be sweating anyway, so consider this a head start," Damon whispered into her ear seductively. "Oh, and keep the uniform on," he added, nipping the bottom of Bonnie's ear, sending a chill down her spine. She bit her bottom lip, and stretched up until she was near his own ear.
"Be outside the locker rooms in five."
