Standing in front of the door that lead way through into the family home, Payton tapped her feet upon the wood upon the porch, her head turning round to look at her surroundings as she waited.

Within a few moments, the door opened up and she was met by the sight of Elena Gilbert, who instantly encouraged her inside, "Hey. Come in."

Offering her small smile, Payton came on through into the home as Elena closed the door behind her. She was relieved to see that she was alive and in one piece after last nights antics with Stefan kidnapping her, which resulted in Matt being the calatorel damage and Payton having to save him.

"My Dad not up yet?" Payton asked the teenager, as they walked through into the kitchen.

"No," She shook her head, as she went into the fridge and got out some water, "I did hear him moving about, so he should be up soon."

"Oh good. He did tell you I was coming, right?" Payton hopped up onto the counter sool, watching Elena grab them two glasses.

"Yeah, he did last night after I got in," Elena responded, pouring the water into the glasses, "also after I witnessed him kiss Meredith..."

"What?" She was shocked to hear this about her Dad, it was only just yesterday Damon was taunting the man about Meredith being some psycho and now he was kissing her.

"Yeah. It was awkward as hell, but kind of cute at the same time." Elena shrugged, handing her some water.

Taking the glass from her, Payton shifted on her seat uncomfortably, "I'm glad it was you than me who got to see that."

As much as she was all for her date dating and always teased him suggestively about it, Payton was really glad she had not witnessed her Dad kiss Meredith, just as much as he probably didn't want to see her be intimate with anyone.

But also, she had an uneasy feeling in her stomach about this Meredith. She liked the woman. She was definitely her Dad's type and also knew about the supernatural, what made things easier. Yet due to her Dad's past relationships and Damon's theory, Payton wanted her Dad to be careful going into this new thing.

Elena smiled over at her, before the two began to take sips out of their drinks and then Payton found herself asking the girl about the whole Stefan situation.

"What happened with Stefan the other day? It completely threw me at just how bad his behaviours got to just take you like that." Payton grumbled.

"It's crazy, isn't it?" Elena sighed, leaning her elbows on the counter, knowing her ex-boyfriend had changed so much since she first met him, "but yeah, he thought he could take me and use me against Klaus to get what he wanted."

"What do you mean by use exactly?" She asked with raised brows.

"He was going to try kill me. Because if I'm dead, then Klaus can't make anymore hybrids." Elena explained in a tired tone.

"Oh my god," Payton looked at Elena in astonishment Stefan was willing to do that to get one up on Klaus, "what a dick."

"Hmm," Elena rolled her eyes to the ground for a moment in sadness, then shook her head and looked back at Payton, "how's things with Matt?"

"What do you mean?" Payton found herself laughing nervously.

But clearly she knew what Elena was getting at.

"You know, things between the two of you have been kind of heated lately..." Elena grinned with mischief.

"Oh," She rubbed her lips nervously, feeling the colour bouncing off her cheeks now in embarrassment, "that."

It wasn't that she was ashamed of being with Matt or doing that sort of thing with him, it was more so that she wasn't so use of everyone knowing about her and what she got up to behind closed doors.

And that she was being teased about it, Payton was so used to being the one who did the teasing not the other way around.

"How did that even happen?" Elena quizzed her intrigued by it all.

"I don't know really," Payton shrugged helplessly, "it just kind of happened one day."

"Were you guys sober or..."

"Oh yeah! It was when I left town with Katherine. I went to say goodbye to him and he kind of offered it to me, he'd just broken up with Caroline and I was grieving Mason." Payton explained.

"I see," Elena's smirk still remained on her face, "have you done it anymore?"

"Yeah it's happened again..."

Before Payton could finish or Elena could ask anymore, Payton heard footsteps come to the bottom of the stairs in the hall and it wasn't long before she saw her father walking through into the kitchen looking tired, also putting a stop to their conversation about Payton's sex life.

"What's happened again?" Alaric questioned, looking over at his daughter and then Elena.

"You being you," Payton found herself saying, looking over at Elena for support, in which she nodded, "...a ladies man."

"Huh?" Alaric looked between the two girl's in confusion, then something clicked and he gave Elena a look, "Did you..."

"Of course she did!" Payton answered for the teenager, taking her glass in her hand and tapping her Dad on the shoulder, "nice work."

Alaric rolled his eyes teasingly back at his daughter, before heading over to the cupboards and looking around, "Thought we had asprin."

"In there with the vitamins." Elena informed him, pointing over to one of the cupboards.

Payton watched her Dad go over to the cupboard to find some, before her eyes rolled down to the counter top in front of her, where she saw the near empty bottle of booze and a glass beside it.

"Let me guess, you're hungover?" Payton presumed, knowing her Dad far too well.

"Yeah, sorry about that, Elena," Alaric apologised, going to take a tablet to stop the pounding in his head, "and sorry for not being up to greet you this morning, Pay. It was bit of a weird night..."

"I told you, you don't have to feel guilty about having Meredith over here." Elena reminded him.

"Yeah and you don't have to worry, Elena let me in and we had a girl talk whilst I waited for you to grace us with your presence." Payton smiled over at her father.

"And I thank the both of you for that," Alaric responded, "but I do feel a little guilty for whisky dialing Meredith at 2 in the a.m."

Payton and Elena both sighed in amusement and said "No you didn't..."

"Yes I did." He smirked in embarrassment.

"Was she cool about it?" Payton asked her father.

"As soon as these aspirins kick in and I remember the conversation, then I'll let you know." Alaric told them, causing the two of them to shake their heads still amused by his actions.

He turned away from them, before heading back upstairs to get showered and dressed, ready for the day ahead, leaving Elena and Payton alone again to continue with their girl conversation.

"So you said that it's happened again?" Elena wanted to know more about her best friend's and the girl she was growing closer to's antics, leaving Payton to nod and the teen to press further, "how many times?"

"Maybe once or twice..."

"Oh my god," The teenager exclaimed, causing Payton to feel the heat rise on her cheeks again, "so are you guy's like friend's with benefits or something?"

"I guess so," Payton thought, then shook her head, she hadn't thought of it that way and didn't want to give it a name like it was official, "I don't know, we kind of just fell into it the first two times. Then last night was different, it was arranged."

"You two, wow," Elena was still stunned about it all, "I just can't believe Matt would do something like that."

"Trust me, I didn't expect to be having sex with an eighteen year old either," Payton sighed lightly, before bringing her glass up to have another sip, "but it just happened."

There was a sudden knock at the door, cutting the girl's conversation short again, as Elena put her glass down and went to grab it. Leaving Payton to spin round on her stool and watch to see who had decided to visit.

"Sheriff Forbes, hi," Elena greeted once the door was open and she saw the sheriff, also Caroline's Mom, Liz behind it, "is everything ok?"

"May I come inside?" Sheriff Forbes asked her.

"Uh yeah, sure." Elena was confused as to why the woman was here, but knew it had to be important.

Elena lead Liz through into the home, just as Alaric returned from upstairs, after hearing the door go and Elena now talking to someone, he wanted to check everything was alright.

"What's going on?" He asked with concern in his voice when he saw the Sheriff there.

"This is an unconventional conversation we're about to have," Liz began, as they lead her through into the kitchen, where Payton was stood watching on, "so I hope you'll protect me on it."

"Of course." Alaric assured her.

"I assume you both heard our medical examiner was murdered the night of the Wickery Bridge fundraiser." Liz explained.

"Yeah. Brian Walters. Why?" Alaric was more puzzled.

"We've been investigating," Liz continued on, looking between the three of them, "someone drove this stake through his heart."

For the first time since seeing the Sheriff turn up here, Payton noticed that she was carrying something in a plastic evidence bag and also was now presenting it to them to take a look at.

Taking the bag off of Liz, Alaric examined the object and found himself frowning in confusion when he came to a realisation, "That's one of ours,"

Payton glanced over at her father in confusion, just as Elena did the same and Alaric looked up at the teenager, "I mean, this is one of a set from your parents lake house."

"That's why I'm here," Liz explained somewhat nervously, "I haven't told anyone, but forensics ran it for prints and found only one clean set,"

The Sheriff turned to look at Elena, who was already looking back at her worried, "yours."

"What?" Elena was completely thrown and confused by this, just as much as Liz was when she had found out the news herself and how Alaric and Payton were both feeling now.

Once they had cleared up the confusion, with Liz saying she'd look into it more and them agreeing that they'd look at it from their end, Liz left the home and allowed the three of them to investigate how someone could have got hold of the stake, as well as put the blame on Elena.

Elena decided to inform Damon of the strange matter, whilst Alaric gathered up the weapons he had around the house and began to lay them out on the table to check if any more were missing.

"So you're the prime suspect, huh?" Damon said after they explained the situation to him.

"She doesn't think that I did it," Elena informed him, "she's just trying to find out why somebody used one of my family weapons to kill a council member."

"Well, why don't you just ask Ric if his dirty little doctor had access to the weapons?" Damon suggested mischievously.

"You're on speaker phone, dick." Alaric spat back in annoyance.

"Yeah and his daughter is sat right here whilst you refer to Meredith as 'dirty'." Payton added.

"Why hello there, Payton," Damon greeted her, before getting back to the main matter of this call, "I'm just sayin' first suspects usually the right one. Don't get so defensive."

"Brian Walters was killed days ago, right?" Alaric pointed out, as he explained, "I didn't show Meredith this stuff until last night!"

"It wasn't Meredith." Elena agreed.

"But Brian Walters was her ex-boyfriend and Ric saw them fighting that night." Damon disagreed with them.

"It's not Meredith, ok?" Elena snapped again, looking over at Alaric, "I refuse to believe that your luck with women is that tragic."

"Who else knows about your secret little slay stash?" Damon asked.

"Who doesn't?" Alaric answered, "Got weapons everywhere, here, the school, my loft, your car."

"It's Klaus, it has to be, he's screwing with us." Damon stated.

"Annoyingly, I have to agree. Klaus is out to get everyone right now." Payton jumped in.

"Thank you, Payton." Damon responded.

"What if it was Stefan?" Elena suggested, "he was crazy that night, and you know he was trying to get underneath Klaus' skin, he was capable of pretty much anything."

"Ahh, makes me nostalgic for the time that Stefan was a bunny snacking pacific," Damon said, before he began to act weirder than usual "anyway, gotta go, you'll know more later..."

"Hey, where are you?" Alaric asked.

"Tea with an old friend." Damon responded, before hanging up the phone, leaving the three of them to frown at each other in confusion.

After they checked over the other weapons, Elena got ready for the day and then headed out, whilst Alaric made himself and Payton some breakfast, the two of them caught up with each other for the first time in a long time just them two.

Their conversation was mainly about the supernatural situation, about Payton's work, Meredith, old memories and Payton's upcoming birthday, that she was working for and Alaric promised to at least spend some part of the day with her, even if it meant having countless drinks and food with her at Grill.

Which was the place Payton was now headed to start her usual lunch time shift until early evening. After an eventful morning at the Gilberts, she was looking forward to getting stuck in with her work and distracting herself from her concerns about not only her own problems, but everyone else's in this supernatural world.

Payton was nearing the end of her second half of the shift, things had been running pretty smoothly today she was doing mainly waitressing and a few rounds at the bar, when she was heading on through to collect a few orders when she felt someone grab her waist and pull her back into the corner of the room.

If she had been a regular human, Payton would have probably freaked out and kicked this person for grabbing her the way they did without any signal they were going to do it. But Payton was a vampire, which meant she had heightened senses and knew from the minute she walked out back that it wasn't anyone to be afraid of.

"Matt!" Payton squealed, when he pushed her up against the corner and smirked down at her mischievously, "What are you doing?"

"I couldn't help myself when I saw you walk through." He grinned.

"You've gotta stop that," She giggled amused, "we said no attachments."

"We haven't got any, other than the fact I could easily make this a regular occurrence." Matt smirked suggestively.

"You'd be so lucky." Payton teased him.

"I can change your mind.." He leant down, before pecking her lips a few times and feeling her respond back.

After a while of closed mouth kissing, Payton found herself beginning to feel silly and also worried they'd get caught, so she pulled away and wrapped her arms around Matt's neck.

"We can't do this here," She laughed, looking behind him to check no one was coming, "we could so easily get caught."

"It makes it that much more exciting." Matt replied softly.

"You're so naughty, seriously," Payton tapped his chest, making him lean back up and allow her to walk past him, "you weren't like this when we first met."

"Exactly! Look what you've done to me." He exclaimed humorously.

"Alright, alright," She wondered over to the kitchen doors, as he followed her, "maybe later..."

"Don't tease me like that." Matt remarked.

"I wouldn't have to, if you kept doing that..." Payton raised her brows, before shaking her head in amusement and going through into the kitchens.

When Payton had finished serving her last table, she headed back on through to go finish for the day and head back to the apartment to just chill for the rest of the night, see if Matt wanted to come over again like last night.

Thankfully, he had just finished taking his break and was stood by the lockers, looking down at his phone. Payton wondered over to him, laying her hand on the back of his shoulder, as she leant up to his ear and whispered, "Hey, you. What about that offer then?"

When he felt her contact and her words, Matt slipped his phone into his pocket and turned to face her, a faint smile on his face, but one that didn't meet his eyes and she could already sense something was up.

"Matt, what's wrong?" Payton asked worriedly.

Just an hour or so before, Matt had been pouncing on her, being suggestive and dirty, but now he was looking like he'd rather not even be stood there talking to her, he looked hurt.

"Caroline's dad's dying." He confessed to her, things hadn't looked good earlier when he spoke to Payton, but decided not to mention it since it wasn't her problem and wanted her to stay in a good mood, but now he had just received the bad news, he couldn't hold it to himself anymore.

"What?" She was shocked and confused.

Poor Caroline. The girl had been through so much lately. They all had.

"Yeah." He nodded in confirmation.

"That's so sad. What happened?" Payton asked.

Matt glanced over at the two doors, one that lead through into the kitchen and the other that went into the main area of the Grill, where the busy restaurant come bar scene was on going.

Matt looked back at her, before explaining "He got stabbed last night. Doctor Fell, you know, the one your Dad's dating?" Payton nodded, already guessing the next part of the story, "well she previously healed him with vampire blood in his system, Damon's to be exact."

"Oh yeah, I know about Meredith taking Damon's blood. She's actually been using it wisely then?" Payton folded her arms.

"I guess so, because he died with vampire blood in his system and he's refusing to transition..."

"...which means if he doesn't accept it, then he's going to just die." She finished for him, already knowing how it ended.

"Yeah." Matt looked down at the ground sadly.

It wasn't that he was hugely upset that the man was dying, it was more so that someone else had to lose someone because of the supernatural. It was another person to grieve and show their sympathy to their loved ones. It was having to see Caroline upset and another painful reminder of how much their lives had changed.

"Matt," Payton rubbed his arm comfortingly, "I'm so sorry."

"There's nothing you or anyone could have done. It's just the way it is." Matt reassured her it was alright.

"I know," She sighed, before taking her hand back and folding her arms, "you should go be with Caroline, I'll cover the rest of your shift."

"No..."

"Yes!" Payton walked him over to his locker, taking off his apron and getting him to open up his locker to get his jacket so he could go, "you're going. You're going to support her."

"Even after everything?" Matt raised his brows.

"Even after everything," Payton knew he was talking about the Tyler situation, "you helped save her life the other day. I know you still care and your reaction proves otherwise."

Matt nodded in agreement, before he opened up his locker and slipped on his jacket, "You sure you want to stay till later? You've been working all day..."

"Yeah, I'll be fine," She assured him, shutting his locker for him, "I need the extra money anyway."

"Ok," He smiled at her lightly, "I owe you one."

"Don't worry about it," Payton replied, walking with him over to the door that lead into the restaurant, "just meet me later, ok?"

"Sure." Matt gave her one last look, before he went out through the doors and Payton watched him through the glass, feeling awful for not only him, but Caroline knowing the pain she was going through.

She felt it every single day since she had lost Mason.

Times like this, all she wanted was for him to hold her and comfort her, make her feel good about life and the world again.

He was always so great at that.

Payton smiled lightly over at the two teenagers walking towards her, as she came to a halt at the white wooden gate in the front yard of Elena's home along the neighbour hood street.

Matt and Elena were walking side by side just having come back from being with Caroline, who's father was still in the process of deteriorating after not consuming any blood to complete his transformation.

He was deciding to accept fate and not let himself become one of his daughter's and Payton's kind.

"Hey." She greeted them in a soft tone, knowing that things were tough right now.

"Hey, Payton." Elena greeted back, as she opened up the gate and the two others followed her up the front path.

"Hey. How did your shift go?" Matt asked her, now walking beside her and letting Elena lead, "Thanks for covering for me."

"Don't worry about it. It was fine," Payton assured him with a small smile, before asking, "How's Caroline?"

"Hurting," He responded sadly, "but she'll pull through."

"Yeah I don't doubt that for a second. She's a strong girl." Payton answered.

Elena came to a stop at the front door on the porch, before turning around to face them with a sad smile also, "We all are having to remain strong with that we go through."

"Agreed." Payton sighed lightly.

"It's this town though," Matt complained, looking between the two girls, "it's messed up. None of us should have to live this way."

Payton and Elena glanced back at their friend with sadness across their faces, as well as in their smiles and eyes. It pained them to hear Matt talk that way, but it also hurt more knowing that it was the whole truth.

They shouldn't have to live this way.

But they did.

And that was the reality of all of this.

They couldn't get out. Not even if they tried to.

When Payton tried to, she was just swept back into it for someway or another.

Silence fell over them briefly, no one knowing what to say, but all Payton did know was that she couldn't deal with this negative energy when she was feeling so run down anyway.

She knew she needed to help the two out of this negative head space, to then also help herself and then they could all pull through this together without any more complications.

"Can we please go in and have something to drink," Payton suggested with a small shine, "something preferably strong."

"I think your Dad might have consumed all of that last night." Elena joked.

Payton flashed her an amused look, "I'll have to stand for caffeine then."

Elena giggled at her lightly, before turning around and putting the key into the lock of the front door, whilst Matt threw his arm around Payton with a smile, happy to have her here through the hard times.

Opening up the door, Elena stepped into the home and then the other two followed behind. The teenager went to flick on the lights of the home, since it was dark out and there was no one inside the Gilbert home. However they didn't turn on. No matter how many times Elena flicked them on and off, they just wouldn't turn on.

But that wasn't the only strange thing going on right now.

As soon as Payton stepped through the door of the home, she wanted to run straight back outside and stay as far as hell away from the insides. The smell that was radiating around her was making her cravings go absolutely crazy and pushing her to consume some source of human blood as soon as possible.

Matt felt Payton's body freeze up beside him, as Elena turned to close the door and looked around the house in confusion. Payton stared straight ahead, trying to hold it together and keep her cool, but god she couldn't when the house stunk so blood.

It stunk of blood.

Fresh blood. Blood that had come from the vein. The type of blood she had consumed from her best friend and that random jack ass from the bar.

"That's weird." Elena was referring to the lights that wouldn't turn on.

"So is Payton," Matt remarked, looking at the girl beside him, taking his arm off her now, when he saw the look of horror on her face, "what's going on?"

It wasn't until Matt had let go of her, she then noticed how hard her heart was beating in her chest and how erratic her breathing had gotten in such a short amount of time. It was like she couldn't breathe, because if she did, then she would be able to smell the blood.

And if she could smell that, then god know's what she would do to get it when she was already struggling.

Maybe her mind was playing tricks on her?

But she couldn't shake off the feeling like there was blood all over the house

"I-i-i can smell blood." Payton confessed to them through her shaky breathes, finally taking a look at both of them in horror.

"What?" Elena and Matt both repeated in confusion and also fearful for their friend.

Elena knew Payton was struggling, Matt had no idea, but he was soon going to find out just how bad she was finding it to hold it together now. But Elena believed in Payton that she could do this and hold it together. She wanted the girl to trust herself and continue normally despite how she was feeling.

"The electric must be out." Elena explained, going over to one of the cupboards to get out a flashlight.

Matt and Elena began to head through into the home more, but Payton couldn't move her feet from the front door. If she did, she was terrified what she'd do, whether that was attack the two people she now called friend's or searched the house for the blood source in a manic behaviour.

Looking back at a frozen Payton, Matt slowly went back to her and grabbed her hand, wanting her to know what she could do this and he was right there with Elena to help her through it.

Elena wondered, heading more into the kitchen to get some candles and some matches to illuminate the house more whilst the electric was down. She did find it slightly strange how Payton was saying she could smell blood, so Elena knew she had to be careful about trekking around the house.

Matt and Payton slowly came on through, as much as she didn't want to, somewhat having Matt by her side was reassuring her that he was her friend and she couldn't rip his head off and feed from him just because there was the smell of blood filling her nostrils.

But as soon as she stepped into the kitchen more, Elena understood completely why Payton had such a strong smell of blood flooding her senses.

"Oh my god!" She exclaimed, after she had shone her flash light on the floor of the kitchen to see a pool of blood and splatters up one of the cupboards, "Payon was right..."

"I can't..." Payton went to turn back round, wanting to run out the door and get out of there before she did something stupid.

Matt grabbed her hand again, as he saw what Elena was looking at from a further away distance, "What the hell."

"Matt. Help Payton with me," Elena instructed, coming back over to the two and standing in front of the shaken up girl, "you're in control, ok? It's just blood. It's just blood. You can do this. I believe in you," she paused, looking at Matt for help, "We believe in you, don't we?"

Yes," Matt breathed, seeing the frantic look on Elena's face now, he didn't know whether it was because she was fearful of why there was blood in her home or what Payton would do, but he had to help his friend and forget his own concerns, "w-w-we do."

"I can't," Payton cried, letting go of Matt's hand and beginning to bounce on her feet uncomfortably, tears were now pricking her eyes, "Elena...it's too strong."

"Then help us," Elena suggested in a calm tone, "Help us locate why it's here and where it's coming from."

"I can't do that," Payton exclaimed in horror that she was asking her to do that, "All I can smell is blood all over this house. It's too much."

"Listen to me," Elena reached out, taking her shaking hands and holding them tightly, "focus on it, use all of those senses you have and put them to good use."

Matt unlinked one of Elena's hands from Payton, before he took Payton's other hand in his own and squeezed it reassuringly, wanting her to know despite how afraid he really was seeing his friend like this, he knew that she could gain back control and would make it through.

Looking between them for a brief moment in complete shock they were making her do this, Payton slowly closed her eyes and began to steady her breathing, as she focused on her senses.

The blood was strongest from the pool of it in the kitchen that Elena had located due to it being right near them, but Payton knew that it wasn't where the actual source of it was coming from.

There was more elsewhere. It was like a trial. She was using her senses to lead her through this trial and locate the source of the actual blood.

Payton's eyes quickly snapped open, the two teenagers blinking back in surprise, as they stared back at her anticipation for the answer.

"It's coming from upstairs."

"Upstairs?" Matt repeated in confusion.

"Yes," She nodded, closing her eyes again, then opening up, "I can smell more of it coming from up there."

Elena quickly grabbed her and Matt a knife each from the kitchen counter, before Matt took Payton's hand again and walked her with Elena through the house towards the staircase. If there was someone in here, then they needed to be prepared and ready for the attack.

They shone their flash lights on the stair cases and the walls surrounding, noticing the bloody handprints on the wall and more splashes of blood coming lingering on different areas of the home.

Elena checked out the dining room door, seeing a hand print on it, but noticing that the most of it was clear from anyone and also signs of anymore blood. From the looks of it and from where Payton was turning head away from, it was coming from the upstairs area.

The pictures along the wall had been turned around, like someone had ran into them or been thrown against them. There was more bloody hand prints up the walls and on the banister handle, signalling that someone had run up there in a bloody mess.

Again Elena took the lead, a frightened Matt and a shaky Payton behind her, she could feel her senses going even more crazy when she headed up the stairs and the source of the blood was growing closer to them.

She wasn't ready to face a situation like this, but here she was, surrounded by a lot of blood and two humans, that her cravings were telling her to eat and consume every inch of blood flooding through their veins.

Then there was the part of humanity in her, telling her to not listen to them, to relax and work her way through it by putting her senses to good use, feeling the way Matt's hand felt in her own, the fear that was around her and that if she consumed their blood, it would only make her own fear of herself worse.

But she wasn't even prepared for the sight she saw when they came to the top of the stairs.

There was Ric. Her father. Sat against the bathroom door, a knife through his stomach, blood all over him and the flood surrounding him. The smell really intense and powerful now.

But Payton focused on the emotion of seeing her father in this way, the tears pricking her eyes more now and the feeling of complete shock and worry taking over her. Her Dad had been stabbed and she didn't even know if he was alive.

It had only been a matter of days from when she had last witnessed him basically die in front of her, now she was seeing it all again and Payton didn't know if she could cope with losing her father.

He had already escaped fate once, would he be able to do it a second and would she be able to stick around to watch the show without her cravings consuming her?

Author note: Yay! I finally managed to upload twice in a week. Go me haha!

Who would like to see a post uploaded every other day the week before Christmas day?! Please let me know and I can do that for you all of you :)

I still can't believe how many of you like Matt and Payton. I honestly had no idea when I first wrote this that they would be shipped together, but you're all making me rethink who I want her end game to be hahah.

Special thanks to RHatch89, lijahsgirl, HPuni101, LMarie99 and Nicole for reviewing the last part. Stefan and Payton scenes are coming! I promise you.

Thanks to everyone who has been reading and enjoying also. It means the world. So thank you!

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