Stefan came to, opening his eyes slightly. He got up on all fours and reached for dresser to pull himself to his feet. 'What the hell just happened', he thought, putting his hand to his head. He stumbled over to the bed, putting his hand out to steady himself. Sitting on the edge, feeling as if the whole room were spinning. He had never felt like this before, not since...well, in a long time. He could hear someone downstairs.

'Elena', he thought and stood up to make his way towards the door, stumbling to the floor a few times until he reached it. Opening the door, he looked down the staircase and saw nothing. He could sense her though. He tried to call out to her, but no sound came.

'Ooh, the pounding.... the dizziness', he thought, putting his hand to head again. 'I have to see her. I have to talk to her...'. He started to make his way down the stairs, taking each step as carefully as he could. Waves of dizziness came as he took each step, until it he lost his footing and felt himself begin to fall.

He lost consciousness before he even hit the floor.

Matt went around to the other side of the truck and got in. Starting the truck up he pulled slowly out of Meredith's driveway and headed towards the school. Arriving about 10 minutes later he saw Bonnie's Cherokee and decided to park next to it. He noticed that both Mary and Bonnie were still in the car and that Bonnie looked a little scared. Panic shot through Matt again for the second time in the last few days, it was beginning to become a regular feeling. Exiting the truck quickly he ran to Bonnie's side of the Cherokee and tapped on the window.

Bonnie whipped around at the sound of someone tapping on her window. Her eyes widened in recognition. "Matt!" Opening the car door she slipped out of the driver's seat. "Mary just starting wigging out the minute we got in the parking lot. I don't know what's wrong." She glanced briefly at her sister who was still a little white but quickly regaining her composure and then back to Matt. Bonnie saw the worry etched on his face and her heart gave a little tug. 'He worries so much about other people, he really is a sweet guy.' Giving him a reassuring smile she walked over to her sisters side of the Cherokee opening up the door. "Come on Mary, let's get you some fresh air. You really worried me back there. Are you okay?"

"I'm sorry," Mary apologized for about the tenth time. "It was another bad dream." She straightened out her top as they walked to the administration office. Suddenly she smiled, "Now let's get you registered."

Matt watched Bonnie dart to Mary's side of the car and ask her sister if she was ok. 'Great. Elena's back from the dead, Caroline's having a nervous break down and now Mary's wigging out. What else could happen this week?' he thought with a smirk. Walking back to his truck he nodded to Meredith. "Mary seems to have had some type of episode, don't really know what went on but she seems to be coming out of it. Let's go get you registered." he said with a smile and turned back towards the college. "We're going to office to get Meredith enrolled. I hope Mary's feeling better now. See you inside." he said loud enough for Bonnie to hear on the other side of the car and gave her a small wave. Heading toward the entrance he slowed down enough for Meredith to catch up.

*Why couldn't I have been born with LONGER legs? * Meredith thought to herself as she speed walked to catch up with Matt. "So, Matt," Meredith said as she caught up to him, "what do you think I should sign up for?" She paused a moment, and then spoke again before he could reply, "Do you think Mary's okay? Do you have anything planned after this? If so, you can leave me all by my lonesome, to go crazy in my solitude. If not, could we go visit Elena??" She turned to him with pleading eyes.

Matt glanced back at Meredith as the entered the office. "Yeah we can go to the boarding house to see Elena. I don't know if Bonnie and Mary are going to go. " He added the last with a shrug.

Meredith looked at Matt with relief in her eyes. "Thanks, Matt. You're a doll. I really do think I'd go crazy if I had to sit at home waiting for a phone call from Alaric. But, before we go, do you think it's possible for me to go home and grab more clothes for her? I don't know if she needs anymore."

Walking up the counter desk he grabbed Meredith an application and handed it to her. "Here. Fill this out it's pretty simple and straight forward, they already have everyone's transcripts from Robert E. Lee." As the sat down at one of the chairs Matt grabbed a magazine from the pile on the side table next to him and started flipping through it.

"Well you can always go for a science major then transfer to Duke and place yourself in the Parapsychology wing there or there is always Franklin Pierce in New Hampshire they've got a nice Para wing there. Before school ended I went through a whole bunch of brochures." Raising a curious brow at the topics in the magazine he flipped it back to the cover. 'I'm reading Cosmo?!!!!!' he realized with a shock and plopped the magazine back down on the table grabbing one about auto mechanics. Meredith grabbed the application he handed her. "Thanks." She starts mumbling to herself. "Yeah, science sounds cool. Okay, so science. French. History, government, Maybe. Math...calculus...or stats? English. Yeah, but what kind? Oh, do I have to do gym?"

Meredith looks at Matt to ask him if gym was a requirement...and saw him quickly setting down a Cosmo magazine. She smiled and pretended to not have seen that. "Hey, Matt? Do I have to take gym?"

Bonnie walked into the admissions office with Mary behind her and smiled at the lady that was behind the counter desk. She had already mailed in her application so now all she had to do was pick her classes from the catalog. Taking one from the counter she sat in a chair across from Meredith and Matt just in time to see Matt put back a copy of Cosmo. 'What the?' she thought with a grin. 'Matt reading a girl magazine. Now that's rich.' Bonnie turned her attention back to the task at hand and opened the catalog. She had decided before the summer started that she wanted to deal with troubled children and so now after retrieving a pen out of her bag she circled the classes she wanted. 'Hmmm, Child Psych, Sociology 101, Math 130, and gym? Oh I'll take tennis, those little skirts are sooo cute.'

Next she checked out her electives and picked beginner's French for a start. 'I'll progress as I go along.' she thought with determination then saw that the college offered beginner's Italian. Changing her course selection she picked Italian over French figuring it would be cool to talk to Stefan and yes even Damon in their native tongue even if they did laugh at her for starters. 'I'll probably botch up the words horribly to begin with but I'll have two of the best tutors possible.' She counted the number of credits that the classes held and smiled as she realized she had chosen enough to be considered a full time student. All her classes would end around 3 every afternoon so she would still have time for her friends, family and a part time job maybe at the local movie theater.

Standing up she went back to the counter and received a card to fill in with the name of her classes, their times and class numbers. It only took a matter of minutes before she handed it back and waited for the lady to come back and tell her if all of her classes were available. Bonnie turned to her sister giving her one of her best smiles and looked about the room. Meredith was still hovering over her application and Matt was flipping through a magazine. She turned back around as she heard the lady approach. "So all my classes are available to me?" she questioned the office clerk then added as the lady nodded in response, "Good, thanks. See you in the fall."

Bonnie walked over to Meredith and Matt and smiled down at Matt. "Well Mary and I are going to do a little shopping, maybe we'll see you back at the boarding house later." Giving them a small wave she headed back outside and to the car. 'I hope Mary doesn't have another one of those. Whatever that thing was.' she thought with a worried frown as she hopped back into the driver's seat. "Ready to go spend some money Mar?" she asked her sister cheerfully from the driver's side.

"Yeah, shopping will be good." Mary gathered herself, "I still have some money left over from my bonus. You think I should get my nails done?" At the back of her mind the dreamed still taunted her. What could it mean? She couldn't tell her sister. Bonnie had so many things going on in her life right then, this was the last thing Mary should tell her.

'When I get back home I need to meditate. I am too scattered...can't think.'

"Hey, Bon! How are you? Yeah, we're going to the boarding house. Matt's taking me so I don't go crazy. Well, I guess I'll see you and Mary later. Have fun shopping!" Meredith gave them a little wave as they walked outside.

Caroline tapped her foot long enough waiting for Tyler's incompetent maid to answer the door, then she turned sharply and went to her car. She flipped open her trunk to toss the steaks in. 'hmmm maybe Elena and her dead men will want them. I can give her these clothes while I'm at it,' she thought. She still had clothes from her families stay In heron. She was taller then Elena but they would fit size wise. She slammed her trunk shut, flipped her sunglasses down and got in. she blasted her CD player, some loud thumping euro techno. She slinked her car down Stefan's street, came to his house and parked. She got out and pulled from her trunk the food, 2 pairs of hip hugging jeans, 4 shirts consisting of a light blue silk midriff tee, a black string back top, a red tee, and a black sparkly halter top. She took out one pair of sandals, a pair of sneakers, and a pair of heeled sling backs. She threw them into a bag, surveyed her appearance and went onto the porch. And knocked.