"Well what do we have here?"
"I don't believe that's any of your business. No offense of course." Kasey says sarcastically with a tight smile.
Caroline ignores her and looks at Annie and says with a sneer, "oh look little Annie made some friends, it only took 18 years. How did you do it? Did you tell them the sob story of your parents? Boohoo your mother just died get over it annie."
Annie doesn't reply and just looks down bitting her lip trying not to cry. She gets up quickly and excuses herself and heads to the bathroom. The last thing she heard is Rebekah and Kaseys loud voices but doesn't stick around to hear what they said.
When she makes it to the bathroom and slides her back down the wall crying thinking about her messed up life and just wanting to be held by her mates. A few minutes later she hears people come in, she try's to wipe the tears off her face but you can immediately tell she's been crying from the puffy eyes. Rebekah finds Annie on the floor trying to dry her tears, while Annie ran to the bathroom, Rebekah was tearing Caroline a new one with Kasey for being so insensitive to her mother, Kasey quickly explained that she was going to try and find Annie's mate while Rebekah goes and try's to find her. Before Rebekah can say anything Annie meekly says, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to run off and leave you and Kasey like that."
"Oh love, don't worry about that we were just worried about you. You're our first friend here we want to make sure you're okay." Rebekah tells her with a frown. She kneels down and hugs her while whispering encouraging things in her ear until Kasey and Alaric walk in. Ric immediately goes to his mate and holds her while Rebekah backs away and steps outside with Kasey to give them privacy.
"What's wrong sweetheart hm?" Ric asks quietly with a frown.
"I miss my mom." She says with silent tears soaking Ric's shirt.
"I'm sorry babygirl, do you need Damon to come get you or can you make it the rest of the day?" Ric asks worried.
"I can make it but can we hangout after school? I don't think I can be alone after today." She asks looking at him with sad watery eyes.
"Sure, I'll text damon and we can go to the boarding house and watch movies how's that?" Alaric's suggests. She nods at him and tells him she'll give Jeremy the keys to baby so she can ride with him.
Finally, able to go to class with one final hug from Ric, Kasey and Rebekah escort her to class while giving her encouraging words. the last bell rings and she says goodbye to Kasey and Rebekah after she gets their phone numbers and make plans to have a sleepover at Rebekah house that weekend (hm I wonder if her brothers will be there?) And giving her keys to Jeremy she heads to rics classroom. Once she gets there Alaric is already waiting for her and hugs her and gives her a kiss on her temple, and they walk out together.
After they stop at Elena and Jeremy's house to pick up some clean clothes they head to the boarding house. When they open the door Damon is there in second with a look of relief on his face. Damon walks up to her and grabs her face in his hand and gives her a quick but passionate kiss. When he pull back he says, "don't scare me like that again I don't think my poor vampire heart can take it, I could feel your pain and it had me terrified until I got Ric's text and still then I was on my toes."
Annie finally comes out of her stupor from Damon's kiss and gives him a megawatt smile, "I'm sorry Damon but I'm fine now Ric helped me. Can we watch a movie now please?"
"Sure kitten, I'll get it started and make some popcorn."
When Damon goes to get the movie ready, Annie turns around and with courage she didn't know she had grabs ric's shirt and kisses him. Once their done and he asks out of breath, "what was that for?"
"For calming me down and it wouldn't be fair if Damon got to kiss me and you didn't, would want Damon to get a big head would we?" She replies with a smile.
"No, no we definitely wouldn't." Ric says with a teasing smile.
"Hey! I heard that!" Damon yells from the other room.
"You were supposed to." Annie laughs and both Ric and her head to the living room to watch movies with Damon and relax until they fall asleep.