After Bonnie and Elena get out of Bonnie's car they walk towards the school.
"So, what happened last night? Are you and Stefan good?" Bonnie asks Elena.
"Yeah, we're great, actually. We talked about the other timeline." Elena replies.
"Oh, did you tell him how you had an epic romance then fell in love with his brother." Bonnie says laughing a little.
"Yes to the romance, no to the brother. We didn't really get into it. I didn't even get to tell him about the pull thing."
"I'm glad, Ellie. You seem happy around him. Speak of the saint." Bonnie says as Stefan walks up to them.
"Hello Ellie, Bonnie." Stefan greets with a nod.
"Hey, Stefan." Bonnie and Elena reply.
"It's nice to see you Stefan, but I gotta go find Caroline. See you guys later." Bonnie says politely backing away.
"Bye, Bon Bon." Elena says as Stefan smiles at her.
"I still cannot believe your friends are so okay with me being a vampire." Stefan says whispering the last part.
"Well, my friends are very understanding people, Steffy. Which is why you should get to know them. You free tonight?"
"Yes." Stefan answers.
"Good. Tonight. My place." Elena demands.
"Okay, that could be fun." Stefan smiles.
"One condition though. You have to teach me to make Italian. And don't deny you can. I know everything." Elena teases him.
"Sure, what time?" Stefan laughs.
"Whenever you want. I'll go grocery shopping after school." Elena says getting excited.
Stefan was about to respond when he hears Tyler shout.
"Yo, Stefan."
Stefan turns around and catches the ball as Matt and Tyler run up to them.
"That was so awsome!" Matt exclaims.
"For real, you should join the team. Having a vampire would be so cool." Tyler says as Matt nods along.
"We would really suck less. Or more, I guess. Cause... you know... you're a vampire." Matt tries to joke.
"Yes Matty, I think he gets it." Elena says as they laugh.
"But really, you should. I think it would be fun and I could cheer for you guys."
"I'll think about it." Stefan says as they all walk through the halls.
In class, walking to her seat Elena sees Bonnie doodling numbers in her notebook and mutters
"Uh-oh."
Matt and Elena are ignoring Tanner as they whisper to Stefan.
"Come on, you would be great. Could be fun." Matt says.
"Yeah, Stef this is your first time to finally enjoy highschool without trying to hide your secret. Live a little." Elena tries to convince him.
"Miss Gilbert?" Tanner asks Elena.
"Hmm?" Elena replies absentmindedly.
"Pearl Harbor?"
"Tanner, why do you do this to yourself?" Elena says faking concern while the class laughs.
"December 7, 1941." Stefan supplies for her with a smile.
"Thank you, Miss Gilbert." Tanner jokes and the class reluctantly laughs.
"Anytime."
"Very well. The fall of the Berlin wall."
"1989. I'm good with dates, sir."
"Are you? How good? Keep it to the year. Civil Rights Act." Tanner challenges Stefan.
"1964."
"John F. Kennedy assassination."
"1963."
"Martin Luther King."
"'68."
"Lincoln."
"1865."
"Roe vs. Wade."
"1973."
"Brown vs. Board."
"1954."
"The battle of Gettysburg."
"1863."
"Korean war."
"1950 to 1953."
"Ha! It ended in '52." Tanner shouts smugly.
"Uh, actually, sir, it was '53."
"Look it up, somebody. Quickly." Tanner demands impatiently.
"It was 19...53." A random student says as the class cheers.
Elena mouths "Show off." To Stefan as he smile at her.
As the group sits outside having lunch they try to convince Stefan to join the team.
"Oh my God! Yes! You would be so great! This will be so much fun!" Caroline shouts excitedly when Matt tells the group he's trying to convince him.
"See, I told you, everyone thinks you would have fun." Elena nudges Stefan.
"Yeah man, and you could get to know us better." Tyler tries to appeal to his sainthood.
"What are we talking about?" Jeremy asks as he walks up to the picnic table.
"There's my baby brother!" Elena shouts as she runs to him and hugs him.
The group smiles at Jeremy lifting her up.
"We're trying to convince Stefan to join the football team." Vicki says.
"Oh, that could be fun. If you don't want to play you can sit on the bleachers with me and Vic." Jeremy tells him.
"Thanks." Stefan nods at Jeremy.
"Well I think he should enjoy this time. I also think he should graduate and go to college with us, but whatever." Elena mumbles the last part as they laughs at Elena's plan making.
"Okay, I'll do it. But isn't Tanner the coach? He's not exactly my biggest fan." Stefan tells them.
"Oh, Don't worry, Ty's the captain. He'll back you. Right Ty?" Bonnie asks Tyler.
"Of course." Tyler smiles at Stefan.
"Now that, that's settled. Should we let Tanner die? Yes or no?" Elena says casually as the group stays silent.
"I feel like the fact that none of us said no immediately, makes us terrible people." Matt says.
They all shrug.
"How do you know that's going to happen, El? Did it happen in the OG timeline?" Bonnie asks.
"Yes and you, actually. I thought It wouldn't happen because I changed some stuff but your doodles of numbers, shows it might still happen." Elena tells them.
"Oh! That's why I'm so obsessed with those numbers." Bonnie realizes.
"We should just let whatever happens happen. So what are we doing tonight? I got the night off." Vicki tells them.
"Dinner. Our place. Stefan's gonna teach me to make real Italian." Elena says motioning between her and Jeremy.
"Yum. Can't wait." Caroline says.
At cheer practice Caroline is seething.
"How dare she? She knows what time practice is. If she dosen't show up in the next 10 minutes she is off the squad."
"Who, Care Bear?" Elena asks her cautiously.
"Rachel! The red hed. She has been hounding me non-stop about different drills and placement since the season started and now she doesn't even show. What the hell?!" Caroline freaks as a blue Camaro pulls up with a red head and Damon Salvatore inside.
"Holy hell." Bonnie mutters checking Damon out.
The red head gets out of the car and walks over to Caroline.
"I'm so sorry I was late Caroline. I was busy." She says walking past them.
"Who is that?" Caroline asks also checking him out.
"Damon Salvatore." Elena says through gritted teeth walking over to him.
"Hello there El-" Elena interrupts his greeting.
"I wasn't aware you have a death wish Damon. I can help you out with that.
If you did what I think you did, I will show you things worse than death." Elena says clenching her fists while glaring at him.
"Woah, hold on there, El."
"Did I say you could speak?" Elena asks contemplating prying the ring off his cold dead hand.
"I only fed on her." Damon defends.
"Prove it." Elena says not calming down.
"Look, Ellie. I can promise you, I'm not that kind of monster." Damon says with a genuine look on his face.
Elena looks into his eyes.
"Give me your word Damon. And just know that if I find out you're lying to me, your end will be spectacular." Elena threatens borrowing lines from her favorite original.
"I give you my word, Elena." Damon says looking into her eyes.
"Fine, I believe you. This time. But, leave her alone Damon, you don't need a spy."
"She's not a spy." Damon interrupts.
Elena glares at him and he hold his hands up.
"You don't need a spy because me, Stef, and my friends are having dinner at my place tonight and your invited, sans the cheerleader." She tells him emphasis on Stefan's name.
Damon looks surprised at the invitation, but agrees.
When Damon drives away and Elena walks back to her friends they start questioning her.
"That's Damon?" Elena nods at Bonnie question.
"Wow. I thought Stefan was hot, but that man is walking sex." Caroline says flustered.
"I couldn't agree more. But please be careful. His humanity's not fully on and he's still totally obsessed with Kitty Kat. You can look just don't touch." Elena tells them.
When cheer practice is over the girls walk over to the football field where Jeremy and Vicki are seated on the bleachers.
They started cheering for their boys.
Stefan walks into his room to see Damon sitting down reading his journal.
"How were tryouts? Did you make the team?" Damon taunts.
"Very Emerson, the way you reveal your soul with so many-" Stefan snatches his journal out of his brothers hands.
"Adjectives."
"What are you doing here?" Stefan asks Damon.
"I've come to apologize. I've been doing some thinking, some soul searching, and...I want us to start over. We need to put the past behind us. You're my little brother, and if you want to live a normal, happy human life, then I want that for you. Maybe I can do it, too. That I can learn to be a non-living living person. Maybe there's hope for both of us." Damon tries to keep a straight face but breaks and laughs in Stefan's face.
"You know, it doesn't have to be this way, Damon." Stefan tries to reason.
"Of course it doesn't. I saw Ellie today, BTW. That means "by the way." She was at cheerleading practice. She looked so perky in her little short shorts." Stefan steps closer to Damon.
"Simmer down, she approached me. She threatened slash invited me to dinner tonight. Feisty one, that girl. Speaking of, I gotta go get ready. Wanna make a good first impression. See you tonight, brother." Damon says with a smirk.
In Elena's kitchen Stefan is trying to teach Elena how to make tomato sauce while her friends stand around the island making fun of her inability to pay attention.
"El, it's not that hard. Just put the onion in the pot." Tyler says while trying not to laugh.
"The whole onion? That's doesn't seem right." Elena mutters.
They all laugh while Stefan tries his hardest to not kick her out of the kitchen.
"No, Ellie. Not the whole onion. He said dice it." Caroline says.
"Right." Elena sighs "How do you dice an onion?"
"That's it. Give me the knife." Stefan says while taking the knife out of her hand and setting it down.
"Now, sit here. Do. Not. Touch. Anything." Stefan stresses while holding her hands and leading her to a kitchen stool.
They all laugh as Elena makes faces to the back or his head.
"Where'd you learn to cook like this Stefan?" Bonnie asks him.
"Italy. I spent some time there with Lexi for a little while." Stefan tells them.
"Lexi? That's your best friend right?" Jeremy asks.
"Yeah we've known each other since 1864." Stefan says with a faraway look.
"Wow. That's crazy. I can't imagine knowing someone that long and still liking them." Vicki says.
"Well you better, if I find a way to make us all immortal you gonna know me that long." Elena mutters and only Stefan hears her clearly.
"What?" Stefan asks.
"Nothing." Elena says sending him a smirk.
"Don't mind her. She's always muttering "immortal" "Malachai" "squirrel rebellion" she's crazy is what I'm trying to say." Matt says as they all laugh.
"What's Lexi like? She must be pretty amazing if you still want to be around after all this time." Caroline asks Stefan as he smiles at the thought of her.
"She's the best friend I've ever had. Throughout the years whenever I need her she was there as soon as possible." Stefan was interrupted my the door bell.
"Ooh, that must be Damon." Elena says while walking to the door, not noticing Stefan's jaw clench at his brother's name.
"Hello there, Ocean Eyes." Elena says with a smile after opening the door.
"Hello, Ellie. I brought dessert." Damon says with a smirk while holding up a pie.
"Classy. Come on in" Elena says stepping aside, letting him in.
"You really invited me in? I can't decide if that's brave or stupid." Damon says while looking around.
"Can't it be both?" Elena says teasingly.
"Hmm, maybe. You have a beautiful home." Damon says a little sincerely.
"Thank you, I had nothing to do with it. Come on, everyone's in the kitchen. Stefan's making Italian."
After walking in the kitchen everyone greets Damon while he looks a bit surprised.
"Damon these are my friends, Caroline, Tyler, Matt, Bonnie, Vicki, and my adorable baby brother Jeremy." Elena introduces them.
"Guys, this is Damon salvatore, eternal stud and Stefan's big bro."
"Damon" Stefan says tightly.
"Uh uh, none of that. Right now we are just friends hanging out, none of which have eternal misery pacts. Okay?" Elena tells while Stefan nods his head.
"Okay. Damon, have a seat. Food almost done." Stefan turns back to the stove.
"Don't mind if I do, Stef." Damon says sitting down.
"So Damon, did you hear? Stefan joined the football team." Caroline says not grasping how much Damon despises Stefan.
"Is that so? Well that's great. You know I always tell him he should engage more. You can't just sit there and wait for life to come to you. You have to go get it." Damon says obviously trying to mess with Stefan.
"Damon, cut the shit." Elena says shortly.
"I don't-" Elena interrupts him.
"Take a night off, alright. Please. Just relax, no one here cares about your diabolical plans." Damon surrenders his hands.
"Anyway, dick move with the crow, Damon." Bonnie says seriously while looking him in the eye.
Bonnie puts her hand on her heart dramatically.
"Do you know how many bird related accidents happen in this town?" She finishes jokingly while everyone laughs.
"My apologies, won't happen again." Damon says with a genuine smile.
"So, we don't really care what you do. But could you not kill any football players. We suck enough as it is." Tyler says to Damon seriously as they all laugh.
"Speaking of Damon's homicidal tendencies, have you thought about what you're going to say to Enzo?" Elena asks while everyone but the vampires and Jeremy look confused.
"I have. I'm gonna hide It from him. It can't be that hard, it happen so long ago." Damon shrugs.
"Wait, who's Enzo?" Matt asks while the rest nod their heads.
"Damon's best friend." Jeremy tells them while Damon looks at him confused.
"Remy knows everything I do." Elena whispers so only the salvatores can hear.
"He's currently locked up being experimented on slash tortured." Elena tells them.
"That's horrible, we have to help him!" Caroline exclaims while everyone smiles at her good nature.
"We will, I have a plan." When they all keep looking at her she explains further.
"He's locked up by a group called Augustine at Whitmore college. They fancy themselves revolutionaries. They genuinely think they're helping people. My dad used to be apart of it." Elena says looking over at Jermey.
When she told him about their father's extracurricular activities, he was very upset. But he looks fine hearing it now.
"So I called the head researcher Dr. Maxfield, and told him that i found some of my dad's research and was interested in "helping people" just like my dad, one day.
We made an appointment to meet and discuss all they do.
Stef and Day are gonna come with me, get invited in and then we are gonna sneak back in to save little Enzo." Elena finishes.
"Can I come?" Jeremy asks.
"No, too dangerous. Enzo starving, he hasn't drank from the vain in forever." Elena tells him sternly.
"What about you?" Vicki asks concerned.
"Stefan can protect me, Damon will be preoccupied crying with his bestie. Plus, I can fight." Elena says while Damon rolls his eyes.
"Rem, I don't like controlling or telling you what to do, but please don't push this." Elena says quietly to her brother while he nods.
"And Damon, seriously? Don't lie to him. Secrets always come out and it will hurt more if he forgives you first them finds out. Let him know everything, then let him forgive you. It might take sometime, but I promise you, you are the most important person to him." Elena tells him.
"I'll think about it." Damon says in a noncommittal tone.
"Wait, what do you have to apologize for?" Bonnie asks.
"I may have...um-" Elena interrupts him.
"He killed the love of Enzo's life." She states bluntly.
"Huh, well that's not great." Tyler says.
"Well, when you rescue him. We will throw him a party and make him feel at home." Caroline says.
"That's really nice of you, Caroline." Stefan tells her.
"She's just wants to throw a party." Vicki says with a laugh as Caroline shrugs.
"But for real. We will be there for him." Bonnie says while everyone agrees.
Damon looked grateful at the teens then to Stefan who shrugged and smiled looking at Elena.