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2 weeks later

She had school, cheer and her magic training. She has all those things yet she feels like she has nothing at all.

" , am I boring you this evening? " Bonnie looks sheepishly at her English teacher . "Do pay attention ." The woman reprimanded her. She couldn't seem to concentrate these days, everything seems so vague and oh so far away from her mind. Kol Mikelson held her while she cried, that was not something she could wrap around her head and definitely not in spanish class. After she finally came to her scene she got in her car and drove away, she just prays that's the last time she'll ever see him.

The bell rang dismissing them to lunch. She packs her journals and walks down to her locker to get her packed lunch, because the cafeteria hates her like everything else in her life; it doesn't seem to have any vegetarian options.

"So he gave me a dress and said some smooth words, that does not mean I'll drop my panties for him." She hears Caroline say, before she sees her. She makes to turn the other way but it's too late.

"Bonnie Sheila Bennett! Don't make me chase you, because I will!" Caroline says walking towards her, Elena falling close behind her.

She plasters on a fake winning smile. "Hey guys" She hadn't told them what happened and she never would, she was taking it to the grave because she didn't even understand it and they definitely wouldn't either so it was better she kept it to herself.

"Don't hey guys us missy, you've been avoiding us, so we are going to find out why" Caroline orders, hooking her left hand with Elena and her right one with Bonnie and drags them off to the cafeteria.

As soon as they find a table, Josh Hopkins sits right in front of them. He's the baseball captain also incredibly handsome & comes from money. He's actually a pretty decent guy once he gets his eyes off Caroline's chest that is. "Ladies, I'm having a birthday bash this Friday and I'd love for all of you to come." He smiles at us.

"Let me guess, It's a pool party." Caroline said tilting her head to the side.

"Ahhh, you know me so well, So you guys in or what?" Wiggling his eyebrows

Caroline looks at them, silently trying to see if they were going or not. Elena shrugged.

"We'll see if we can Josh." Bonnie said giving him a small smile. Josh was one of bonnie first crushes, and she still had a soft spot for him because he as normal and she knew he wouldn't suck her blood on the first date or use her for her magic.

"Bonnie B! don't break my heart." He gave her a puppy dog face. It kind of reminded her of Kol. She blushed.

As soon as he left Caroline pounced on her. "You should definitely sleep with him, do you see the way he was looking longingly at you." Caroline started to shake her excitedly "We are so going!"

"Care, he was just being friendly. " She said not wanting to believe that he actually did.

"Actually, he wasn't though. He was flirting with you." Elena said.

"Please, let's go, please, please." Caroline begged trying to give the sweetest smile she'd had. She looked at Elena and she was also giving her puppy dog eyes.

"Fine." She said rolling her eyes trying to keep the small smile off her face.

The bell for last period resumed and Caroline went to Chem, Elena went to English, Bonnie went to History, her least favorite subject.

"Everyone pick up a note card but keep it face down." The teacher said. Bonnie looked around at her classmates but they were just as confused as she was.

"History, is well History. I know many of you find the subject boring because it's not relevant to your lives now. I've thought long and hard on how to show you history must be learnt or we'll lose the future." Mr. Gaspin said, he was the youngest teacher here. Shaggy brown hair and soft eyes. He had hope in his eyes that he could actually help the students. Bonnie before would've thought it was admirable but now she thought it was hopeless. "So pick flip your note card and meet your new partner for 2 months."

The class collectively groaned, there was nothing in the world did teens hate more the group projects, bonnie being one of them.

"Ah, Mr. Mikaelson, class started 20 minutes ago." said narrowing his eyes at none other than Kol Mikealson. There he stood in all his 6'1" glory, if bonnie had to guess. He was in a in black leather jacket, navy blue henley, dark denim jeans, army boots and had freshly fucked hair, it looked like he just came out of an Ad.

"I do love to make a good entrance." He said giving the man a smirk. opened his mouth to respond but closed like he knew Kol wasn't the type to not have the last retort. He shook his head and left to print the instructions

Bonnie could feel the moment his eyes landed on her. She kept her head down like she was concentrating on the passages in the textbook. He cleared his throat, still she wouldn't look up. Maybe if she looked lost in the history book he would leave.

Please dear God let him leave Bonnie thought.

"Now you know how volatile I can be when I don't get attention, darling." He said taking a seat and bringing it close to her until their knees were touching. Kol was insufferable, he demanded attention at all times, he liked the reactions he pulled out of people, whether it was lust, fear or happiness but Bonnie couldn't figure out why he wanted them from her. She finally looked up, she gave him a bored look and said

"Please, don't tell me you wish to relive your youth at highschool."

"Just because I'm immortal doesn't mean I shouldn't continue to expand my knowledge."

"You were probably there when all of these were happening or helped caused it."

"Well, I did help with the boston tea party." She couldn't help it she laughed until tears pulled in her eyes, he had this ability to make her do things with him that she shouldn't. Everyone was watching them and she couldn't careless. Mr. Gaspin came back in and bonnie finally flipped her card to see Kol's name written on it. Just great, he'd be apart of her life for 2 months all while she plotted how to kill him and his family, not complicated at all. The rest of the class was spent talking about the project and her trying to figure out how she'd survive 2 months with Kol.

The bell rang and she sprang up, collected her books and left the class, she was almost in her car when she felt him, or the vampire feeling she had, and Stefan wasn't much of a talker, well to her anyway and she despised Damon, he wouldn't dare to come near her so that left Kol.

"Oh partner." He sang wiggling his finger in the air. Bonnie groaned and pressed her forehead to the hood of her car.

"Go away." She growled.

"So, your house or mine?" He ignored her.

"Neither."

"We better start soon, I want that bloke to swallow his pride and tell us that we had the best project."

"You could always compel him to."

"Ah, Ah. That's no fun." His eyes sparking with mischief, it was his type of fun and they both knew it.

"Fine, yours. Now goodbye. " She got in her car and sped away.

"God what have I done." She said out loud in the privacy of her car. "Ughhhhhhh" She was doomed.

She stood outside the medium sized was the address Kol had given her yesterday at parking lot. She was a few minutes late she had a meeting with Ester and Abby, Ester wants Bonnie and Abby to join her when she kills her children in a few weeks. She shouldn't be here, he'll know that she's hiding something. Ester said to go and act like everything is normal. Bonnie doesn't trust her but she knows she needs to appease the spirits and if the originals are gone then maybe she'll be able to get her life. She exhales and decides to stop being a wimp and raises her hand to knock on the door but the door whipped open with Kol standing in nothing but a towel.

"While, the apprehension of you coming inside my home is quite cute, I couldn't take it anymore." He says with a bemused smile. "Welcome to my home." he says after she's entered. She's looking at anywhere but him knowing she's going to blush if she looks. His place is filled with art on every wall, from sexy pictures of barely clothed women or abstract work to a picture of a boy standing in the middle of a burning street look serene: His furniture is all black or grey. He has sculptures of greek goddess in the dining room, she's surprised to know he's a history buff. Finally she has enough of feeling him so near, her skin feels warm,

"Can you please change so we can start this project." He chuckles like he knows the affect his lack of clothes has on here.

"Your wish is my command, my lady." He comes back minutes late and they promptly start researching topics for the project, to her surprise he's a perfect gentleman, no sexual remarks, no inquiries on her personal life or anything supernatural.

"I need alcohol, I never remembered school to be this boring." He says on the floor while bonnie is propped on the couch, the have textbooks and notebooks all around them. He has the computer now because she forgot to bring hers

"and when was that? the 10th century? 11th?" she hears him chuckle.

"Old jokes, how new." He drawled. He gets up to get the alcohol, he comebacks with two shot glasses.

"C'mon Bennett, lets let loose."

"absolutely not." she pressed her lips together.

"Live, darling, it is your only one."

Kol had a way of making life sound like a grand adventure, he'd live and seen so much and had grand tales to tell, like partying with oscar wilde or meeting Jane Austen. He'd done so much yet he was still a homicidal vampire that killed on wims. She'd be adventurous and naughty and have a drink with a homicidal vampire and then repent by helping his mother kill his entire family.

"One drink and then we go back to research." He grinned like he'd just won the lottery.

"Salute!" He said clinking his glass to bonnie's. He gulped his down but she was still apprehensive, bonnie took a deep breath and just forced it down her throat.

"See not so bad, darling." He laughed at her disgusted facial expression.

"God, scotch is awful."

"The first one is always the most horrendous, try it again." Bonnie was chewing on her lips, she shouldn't but she wanted so badly to have her life to be more than just mystic falls' town witch. So she took the shot and downed it, and eventually it stopped tasting bitter, she kept coming back for more shots. Kol eventually put on some music and it was just the two of them dancing, alone or together. She was uninhibited, just this once she was a 17 year old teen, not responsible to anyone but herself. No doom or big battle she had to face, just music and alcohol and Kol.

"I think we can help each other." Kol says to bonnie. They had settled down and now a smooth violin was playing in the background. He as lying on the floor while she was the main couch. They were both drunk, her more than him. "I need your help." he added

"On what?" She asked him because what could she know that he didn't. She was tired and it was now past 8, she should be going home but the couch was just so comfortable she couldn't move.

"changing my life." she hummed.

"I've been alive for close to a thousand years give or take, and I have no real relationships, this is my last chance." He said so softly that bonnie could barely hear him.

"and you want my help?" she said warily.

"yes, but it wouldn't be without benefit for you, Bennett." Now that got Bonnie's attention. He continued "I could help you live, I've lived over a 1,000 years, I know a thing about being truly alive —even with no heartbeat I might add—,knowing true euphoria. I've watched you, you don't do anything without meticulous thinking. Always weighing the negatives with the positive, that is until you're with me, then you do things you wouldn't do in public or in daylight. I don't want your trust because I won't ever get it, but I would like us to help each other." Bonnie was speechless, she'd never left more seen and heard and it wasn't by the person she wanted. She wanted her friends to see how lost with her identity she was, she wanted her mother to know her, her father to see her and she wanted grams to hold her but mostly she wanted to know adventure and experience great, profound love that shook her to her core. She was so lost and so so tired it felt crushing. She didn't realize she was crying until Kol had was wiping her tears. She was looking at him through her tears when he said "let us help each other no one has to know." He whispered to her like he only wanted her to hear. He was caressing her cheeks. He was so tender with her she almost forgot who he was.

"I have to go." She said getting up. He both got up.

"Let me drop you off." He went upstairs to get his just stood there not knowing what the hell happened,she had a million questions in her head.

In the car it was silent , the only sound was her soft breathing and Kol tapping his fingers on the steering wheel, it was slightly awkward but also comforting. 15 mins later and he was parked outside her house.

"Thank you," she said, fidgeting with her hands. He was lazily draped against the side of his car, "I'll pick up my car tomorrow."

"Bonnie."

"You weren't horrible."

"Bonnie." He took a step towards her.

"I think we got a lot done." She took a step back. She needed space. She needed time, he was her enemy and the lines were blurring and she can't have that, all she has is her anger. Her furious t the vampires who invaded her life, her furious at the spirits for not making her strong enough and furious at herself for being so weak, it's all she sighed and shook his head as if disappointed.

"Just think about it, darling, life is too short to let others control you." He got in his car speed away. Bonnie stood there, in the night the wind picked up a little and knew she had a decision to make, take control of her life or let it perished. To live or die.

She enters her house, the empty house with 4 rooms but only one bed gets slept on. She sighs, same routine, same life, same bonnie. As she passes the array of pictures on the wall on her way to her room, she stops. A picture of her dad, grams and her at her 10th birthday catches her eye, all she had wish was for that day was for her mom to come home, to love her. Now she has no grams, no dad and no mom to pick her. She screams to no one and everyone at the same time. She takes the picture and throws it, the glass shattering and then she loses it.

She knocks down all the pictures, the pictures of her grams and father are all on the floor. She can't think straight, she doesn't even know what she'd doing until it's too late. She enters her dad's room, pulls draws out, cleas his closet, throws down his CD collection

"Incendia!" Bonnie yells at his belongings but he's never there for them to even truly belong to him anymore.

They go blazing into flames.

She's breathing heavily, she's dazed and confused and so angry. She stands in the middle of his room and tries to figure out how she got here. She taste blood, she brings her shaking fingers to her bleeding nose and wipes it away with the back of her hand.

The damage is done and she can't change it, leaves the room and goes to her own. She lies in her doesn't want this life anymore not like this anyways. She doesn't want to be a pawn anymore or second best. She picks up her phone and scrolls until she finds his name. She texts him, her hand slightly trembling.

"Okay. Let's help each other." She wants to live even if she has to get her enemy to help her.