The Salvatore Home
After finishing his meetings, paper work and administration early Damon decided to go home to check up on Bonnie. He found her upstairs in their bedroom searching through her closet for a dress to wear to the charity ball.
"What do you think, the green sequin dress or the plain navy blue dress?" Bonnie said when she saw him walk in.
"The navy blue dress. I don't have a green sequin tuxedo." Damon said and smiled.
"You're home early its not even one o' clock." Bonnie said and walked to her vanity mirror with the navy blue dress in her arms.
"I came back to talk to you Bonnie. What Amelia said to you last night did it upset you? I can set her straight no one can make you feel guilty for something that you're not." Damon said and walked to her. He put his arms around her from behind and kissed her in her neck.
Bonnie sigh out loud. "Its not that Damon."
"Then what is it hmm?" Damon said and lightly pressed his fingers on her tummy. He slowly moved his hands up to her breasts and squeezed them softly. "Does it hurt when I do this?"
Bonnie sigh softly. "I over heard Kenzie and Zoe talking in the kitchen this morning, and it made me feel far apart from their lives, like I'm an outsider. I'm not involved like I used to. They are growing up fast Damon and it hurts. Alex left leaving us a short letter and that was it. I don't know if his going to come home one day Damon. Aslan is leaving. Zoe is worried about if she will ever get her first period and Kenzie, ... Kenzie is filled with so much anger and doubt and hurt and she's actually so insecure of herself and I always looked at her as this strong will child of mine. This beautiful statue that no one can break. Do you know what was the first book I gave Zoe to read when she turned nine? Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice. I was feeding her all these adult literature and now she's the one handing out advice like a pro. Damon I know I sound like some babbling looney but, I, I just want them to come to me and talk. I missed that." Bonnie said as tears welled up in her eyes.
"Hey, I understand." Damon said and turned her around to look at him.
"Does it make me unfair Damon. Why do they feel so comfortable around you but with me there are certain boundaries. We were all alone when you worked in New York and all over the globe. We were so close but now it feels just different." Bonnie said with a sob in his arms.
"No one said raising kids was going to easy peasy Babe. You did an amazing job with our kids. I have my fair share of doubts and shortcomings, but what we both know is that our kids, they love you, always and just because they choose to share things with each other rather then with us that doesn't mean they love us less or they're shutting us out. Its part of growing up and what shapes them to become who they are meant to be in this life." Damon said. He kissed her softly on the side of her head.
"I feel like my emotions are all over the place lately." Bonnie said with a sigh.
"When last did you go for your medical check up maybe your body is trying to tell you something. Do you feel nauseas and tired?" Damon asked with a frown.
"I think my body is just under a lot of stress at the moment Damon. Abigail. The cameras in our house. What Scott almost did to me. Stella's wedding dress. I think its getting too much. My mind and body needs work through this"
"I understand but I'm still scheduling you an appointment with Stephen for tomorrow morning." Damon said and kissed her on her cheek.
"Fine, I think I should take a quick nap before I have to pick up the twins from kindergarten." Bonnie said and yawned behind her hand.
"Do you want me to stay with you." Damon said with a look of concern on his face.
"I will be fine and beside Aslan is here." Bonnie said and walked to their bed. Aslan followed her and jumped on the bed. He curled up warmly against her.
"And you trust him to protect you, look at the guy curled up next to you on my bed sooner or later I'm going to be the one sleeping on the floor." Damon said as he bend down to kiss Bonnie on her lips.
Bonnie laughed softly. "I feel safe with him here with me." Bonnie said against his lips.
"I'm going to pretend I did not just hear that." Damon said and kissed her passionately. "Love you, Damon Salvatore." Bonnie said when their lips parted.
"Love you more, don't get up I'm going to set the house alarms. You just rest your sexy self because tonight me and you are going to show this town how to groove." Damon said and did a silly dance step.
Bonnie laughed out loud. "Oh hell no. You know I don't go down like that."
"You just wait and see my beautiful little witch. I wonder if I can still do the moon walk. I'm going to try it out tonight on the dance floor. Oh yeah, I wanna see if I still got it." Damon said and ducked when a laughing Bonnie throw a pillow at him.
Dr Stephen and Caroline Salvatore's Home
Stephen just parked his car in the driveway of their home when his phone rang. It was Damon calling him from his cell phone on his way back to work.
Stephen. "This is Dr Stephen, how can I help?
Damon: I need to make an appointment for Bonnie do you have an opening for her tomorrow morning let's say at eight?"
Stephen: Yeah, sure what's wrong and why are you calling me from an unknown number?
Damon: The twins played with my phone this morning half of my contacts are gone and my phone's language is set on Spanish, anyway Bonnie is not feeling well , maybe stress. I want a thorough check up Steph pregnancy test included.
Stephen: Is the pregnancy test for you or for her Damon?
Damon chuckled before he switched his phone off.
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Caroline was having her hands full with baby Anna when Stephen walked in to the nursery. The poor little thing was suffering from a mild ear infection. "Mommy knows it hurts my poor angel." Caroline said and gently rocked her baby Anna in her arms.
"Hey." Stephen said softly as he walked to them. He wiped his hands first with the wipes he always keep in his pocket before he gently touched Anna's forehead. "No fever that's a good sign but I will have to monitor her." Stephen took baby Anna from Caroline and walked with her to her rocking chair near the window. "Everything is going to be alright, daddy is here. Daddy is going to take away this ear monster in no time." Stephen said in a soothing voice. He wasted no time and soon he was rubbing baby Anna's ear with warm oil. The little one immediately stopped crying. "Look in my bag there is a package with Anna's name on it can you please give it to me." Stephen said to Caroline who stood there like a fish out of water.
Caroline did as she was told and handed the package to Stephen.
She watched Stephen place a small warm moist compress over Anna's ear. "Can you bring me a teaspoon please. Anna needs a small teaspoon of Tylenol it will help with the pain."
"Sure you are the expert. I'm at your service." Caroline said and rolled her eyes behind his back.
"Thanks and can you please make Anna a cup of herbal tea use the tea from her baby pack. I'll have some coffee but bring the teaspoon first. Anna needs to take her Tylenol now Caroline."
"Whatever you say Stephen." When she closed the door behind her she covered her mouth with both her hands and screamed silently. Stephen always does this whenever one of the kids are feeling sick. He takes over completely and she gets boss around.
Mystique Lake High School
Stacey was on cloud nine as she walked next to Kenzie to the school hall where all the students and teachers were waiting second last period. Stacey being second in charge of the cheer leading squad, it was only right that Kenzie asked her out of all the friends to announce the football team players and the cheerleaders who will be on the fore front against Mystic Falls this coming Saturday. This was such a big honour for her. Stacey could not stop smiling from ear to ear as she walked up the stairs under loud applause and cheers. "You got this Stace." Kenzie said before leaving the stage.
As soon as she step up to the microphone all the noise in the hall quiet down. She gracefully cleared her throat and gave her audience a dazzling smile. "Students as you know we are facing our biggest frenemy Mystic Falls this Saturday night and it's going to be epic. I'm talking about blood and guts. The good and the bad. But we believe in our boys and we are behind them one hundred percent!" Stacy said with passion over the microphone. The school hall erupted with excitement and cheers. Stacey felt like a queen watching all the kids cheering and clapping their hands. To her it felt like they were cheering her name. She raised her arms in the air and said. "So without further ado let me introduce you to the true heroes and heroin's of Mystique Lake high!"
The junior girls sitting in the front row saw it first. A thin stream that looked like red paint or blood spilling down heading straight for Stacey's head. Stacey didn't feel the first hit on her head she was too caught up in her moment of glory. She only noticed something was wrong when something sticky and wet dripped down the side of her face.
There was complete silence in the hall but it was soon broken when a large stream of red sticky blood poured down like someone open a tab on top of Stacey's head covering her from head to toe. Something fell down next to her with a loud thud. It was a dead gutted pig. Stacey's screams mixed with the girls in the front row cut through the hall like loud sirens. Drenched in pig blood and intestines Stacey looked up in sheer horror. A big empty bucket dangled on a rope from the roof.
The school hall erupted in laughter. The kids laughed hysterically some kids even fell from their chairs the way they were laughing.
A hysterical crying Stacey ran from the stage and almost slip and fell over in the thick sticky pig blood. The school hall erupted in laughter all over. Kenzie calmly followed Stacey out while the teachers struggled to calm down the students.
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Ten minutes later Kenzie and the head boy Gregory Steyn were sitting in principal Hector's office. "I have teach many generations in this town. In my years I saw teachers come and go. Old students becoming leaders and prominent people in this town. I missed teaching that I can say but I'm old now and that is not an potion anymore." The old principal said in a heavy voice but his eyes smiled at them.
"Principal Hector I can assure you we will find the culprits. Our school pride itself on good behaviour, respect and discipline. We will not tolerate vile behaviour in our school I already appointed five of my most trusted and best to investigate the incident that happened in the school hall." Gregory said eagerly with a proud smile.
"I have no doubt you will do your best Gregory as always." Principal Hector said. Gregory Steyn smiled from ear to ear.
"I heard what happened McKenzie, one side of the story. I will need to hear Page Summer's side of the story. Unfortunately I have no say that is for the school board to decide what will happen to the boys. Its not like the old days anymore my hands are cut off. I'm sorry." Principal Hector said in a heavy voice.
"I fully understand Principal Hector." She felt sorry for the old principal, talks were going around town that the board are going to replace him. He will always be the best thing that happened to this school and loved by many.
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Kenzie was surprised to see her mother waiting in the school parking lot and what surprised her more was to see her standing next to dad's car and he was nowhere in sight. "I was afraid you wouldn't see me or just ignore me so are you ready to go?" Bonnie said to Kenzie with a cheery smile.
"Go where? I thought Cayllum is taking us home." Kenzie said with a frown on her face.
"Cayllum is taking Zoe, Dylan and the twins home but you are going home with me." Bonnie said and poked Kenzie's nose playfully.
"Shit. What did I do now? Am I in trouble again or are you high mom?" Kenzie asked with folded arms.
Bonnie sigh softly. "Kenz I want to spend the afternoon with you and do stuff with you like we used to do. You know window shopping at the mall, milkshakes and cake at Roxy's tea garden. There was a lot we did together and I miss those days." Bonnie said. She sigh relieved when Kenzie smiled.
"I kinda missed hanging out with you too." Kenzie said and walked over to her mom. Mother and daughter hugged for what felt like the first time in years. "You can drive right." Bonnie said with a mischievous smile.
"Yup but, wait up, you mean I can drive dad's car?" Kenzie called out wide eye.
"I won't tell you if you wont." Bonnie said and winked at her.
"Is there a catch in all of this? Am I being punked, is dad waiting behind one of the trees and soon as I get in the driver seat his going to jump out and screamed got you now your grounded for life." Kenzie said with a sceptical look.
Bonnie throw her head back and laughed out loud. "I forgot how funny you can be Kiddo. Your dad is not here its just me scouts honour. The ball is in your court, we ride or die like in the old days."
A slow beautiful smile spread over Kenzie's face. "Like the old days only this time I'm the one in the driver seat."
"Now your talking, here, catch." Bonnie said and throw Kenzie the car keys.
"Nice. Oh wow. My dream is coming true. I'm finally going to drive Damon Salvatore's 1969 Chevy Camaro Convertible." Kenzie said with dreamy eyes.
"Are you coming the road is waiting and mischief is just around the corner." Bonnie said from the passenger side with a big smile.
Kenzie quickly got in and took in a deep breath and released it slowly. "Where are we going first?" Kenzie said and laughed when she saw her mom sitting there cool with her dad's ray-ban sunglasses on. "I have a black bag with spray paints in it. We going to visit Richa Maloney's house first and take her down a notch and then from there on we will let the road lead us."
"Say no more mom. I always wanted to test out my dark creativity on someone's wall." Kenzie said with a cheeky naughty smile.
The Salvatore Home
It was a long day for Damon. He couldn't focus on his work his mind was on Bonnie. Her possibly being pregnant. Damon sigh out loud and walked to the living room, no one was in there. He was about to head up the stairs when he heard soft music coming from the family's sunroom. He walked to the room and opened the door. Zoe, Sophi and Liz were dancing on their socks in the middle of the room. Zoe's curls were all over her face from shaking her head. Out of all the rooms in the house this room was Zoe's favourite. The walls was made of glass and the room itself had a beautiful view of the green garden.
Damon smiled to himself he was about to close the door because he didn't want to disturb or embarrass the girls but it was too late. Liz saw him first and immediately grabbed Zoe's arm who was dancing eyes closed on the beat of the song. "Zoe your dad is here." She whispered wide eye.
Zoe's eyes snapped open her cheeks hot. She quickly walked over to their stereo and turned the volume down.
"Hey why did you turn off the song?" Sophi said. She had no idea Damon was standing at the door. He looked equally uncomfortable.
"Hey dad sorry I didn't hear you come in." Zoe said with a shy smile. Her black curls were messy and all over her face. She quickly brushed her hair back with her fingers.
"Its okay Princess I didn't mean to interrupt you girls so I'm going to go and leave you girls to it." Damon said and quickly closed the door behind him. He chuckled when he heard the girls giggle.
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