It's been a LONG two weeks since Connie found out about Elena and Caroline having Stefan compel her to forget about Damon. She hated that they LIED to her but what really hurt her was that Damon continued to let her believe that they'd never met before. He let her think that her memories were just dreams.

"Connie?"

Ignoring them, Connie went back to drinking her glass of bourbon. She was not ready to speak to any of them and she didn't know how long that was going to last. Did she miss them? Yes but she was hurting and didn't want to forgive them just yet.

"Connie, please, can we talk? I need to explain why we did what we did." Elena says.

Connie turned around on her stool and glared at Elena,"There is NO excuse for why you did what you did!" She hissed.

"Connie, please, not here." Caroline pleaded.

Rolling her eyes, Connie waved her hand, causing everything and everyone in the room to stop moving. Everyone but Connie and the people in question,"How'd you-"

"It doesn't matter. Now, what reason could POSSIBLY be good enough that you all decided to lie to me for months on end?" She snapped. She was trying not to snap at them but they weren't making it easy.

"You were out of control, Connie." Elena says,"You were bringing home different guys every night." She says.

Connie, after realizing what Elena and everyone had assumed she was doing, glared murderously at her,"Wait a minute...you all thought that I was 'SLEEPING' with all of them?" She hissed, taking a threatening step forward.

Everyone jumped, startled,"Connie, calm down." Tyler says.

"Calm down? The girl who I THOUGHT was my best friend just called me a WHORE!" She snapped,"And you want me to calm down!?"

"Connie, I didn't call you a who're." Elena says.

"No in so many words you didn't!" She spat.

Caroline looked at Elena before taking a step towards a angry Connie,"So, you DIDN'T sleep with them?"

"No! I Never slept with ANYONE! I only used them, conversation wise, as a distraction from Damon!" She yelled,"Damon is the ONLY person I've slept with!"

Damon looked from Connie to Elena who was now looking guilty as hell,"You told me -"

"I was wrong!" Elena says,"I was wrong and I'm sorry but Connie you have to see this from my point of view. You weren't acting like yourself and you were scaring us."

"So, you just assumed that I was so hurt by Damon's absence that I started screwing any and every guy in Mystic Falls?" She scoffed,"Some friend you are."

"Connie, I am your friend. I was just so worried about you. I'd never seen you act like that before and I didn't know what to do."

"So, assuming I'm some slut who slept with nearly all of Mystic Falls was your only option?" She questioned.

Elena shook her head,"No!" She cried.

"Apparently it was!" She hissed as she got to her feet and moved to stand before her,"You had Stefan compel all of damn Mystic Falls to forget something they never did!"

"Connie, please -"

"I don't go around SCREWING people whenever my feelings get hurt." She spat as she glared at a shrinking Elena,"How could you even let that become a thought in your head about me?"

"Connie, please, We weren't trying to hurt you." Caroline speaks up.

"You let me go on believing that Damon and I had never met every after you knew what he'd done to me, after everything he's taken from me." Her glare now directed at Caroline,"I gave myself to a man who's been lying to me for months. You all sat back and allowed me to become close with him when you knew the truth." She snapped rather loudly,"How can ANY OF YOU call yourselves my friends when you kept such things from me!?"

This time it was Damon who'd stepped forward. She watched him with guarded eyes as he moved closer,"If you're going to hate anyone, Connie, hate me." He says.

She scoffed,"That would be convenient for them, wouldn't it?" She spat,"Take all my anger out on the man no one believes has no feelings, on the man everyone expects to take the blame and on the man who they believe will just take whatever is thrown at him without stumbling." She laughed without humor.

"Connie, I'm the one that hurt you. I'm the one you gave yourself to and who LIED to you...not them."

She glares at him with murderous eyes,"Shut up, Damon." She threatened.

"I lied to you. Even after you told me you loved me, how much you cared about me and how my past didn't affect our future...I still lied to your face." He moved closer.

"Damon." She warned.

"Even while buried deep inside you I was still lying to yo-"

"SHUT UP!" She screamed and with the flick of her wrist, Damon went flying back into the wall. He hit the wall with a loud bang before falling to the floor with a thud.

Realizing what she had done, Connie gasped, throwing her hands over her mouth in shock before she rushed forward,"Damon!" She screams as she drops to the floor beside him. There was a price of wood sticking out of his side,"I - I "

"Pull it out." He groaned.

"What!?" She gasped.

"It hurts like a bitch. So, pull it out."

She shakes her head,"I can't."

"Connie just - ahhh!" He hissed,"Damn you, Stefan!" He snapped as he glances up to find Stefan standing over then with the price of bloody wood in his hand.

"You're welcome." He says.

Connie gets to her feet, pulling Damon with her. Once he was stable on his feet she takes a step back,"I apologize for hurting you. I didn't come here to hurt any of you." She states.

"I shouldn't have pushed you."

She nods,"No, you shouldn't have." She says before taking a deep breath,"I love you, all of you, but what you did isn't something that can be forgiven in just two weeks..believe me I've tried." She states.

"I know what I did was wrong but, at the time, the idea of losing you scared the hell out of me." He says,"Hell, it still does."

Connie nods before turning and looking around at everyone else,"I miss all of you, so much, but I can no longer trust any of." She says softly,"And I hate that. I hate where were all are at but we're here and there isn't anything that can be done about it now." She states, meeting the gazes,"The only way I see us getting back some sort of normalcy is for me to stop avoiding all of you."

"What are you saying, Connie?" Elena questioned.

Connie meets her gaze,"I'm saying...maybe we all could start over."

"How?" Jeremy asked.

"I don't know but we could start off by just...hanging out again. I may be angry with all of you but it doesn't mean I don't miss you because I do...often." She says.

"Why don't we all meet up here tomorrow say...three?" Caroline suggested.

Connie nods,"Sure, three it is." She says before turning towards Damon,"I'll see you at three." She says before walking away but not before unfreezing the entire bar.

"We're getting a second chance." Stefan says.

"Yeah, so let's not do anything to screw it up." Damon says before disappearing from sight.