Just inspired by something else. _AH/AU

Crossroads.

When their paths cross, Bonnie tries to walk away, but Damon just doesn't want her to walk away from him.

Prologue.

My whole life has sucked. For brevity...

I have learned not to trust anyone and to be completely strong by myself.

Some time ago I was forced to live under the tutelage of this despicable and manipulative being. A woman whose purpose in life is to have power and money, and she only wants to achieve it in one way, to be a fortune hunter.

She is capable of doing the impossible to get what she wants. She doesn't mind stepping over anyone, not even me... her daughter.

I never wanted to be with her, yes... I'm telling the truth and it doesn't hurt to be honest.

I never wanted to be with my mother, but I had no other alternative and I ended up living endless torments, from one place to another until we got here, to this place.

It was a year and two months ago that we moved in with them. My mother thought he was the one, but he wasn't and she left.

Leaving me again...

She left five months ago and left me with this man, Alexander and his son,

Enzo, a few years older than me,

After five months sharing the same roof with them, I finally had the courage to make a decision.

And I still can't believe it... At last, at last I'm leaving here.

I don't need her. I don't need them. I'll walk away and never come back. I don't want to go back to her anymore. I never want to see her again.

I swear to God... I never want to see my mother again.

I won't take another hit, not from her, nor from him or from anyone else...

Today again, Alexander came drunk blaming me and trying to find answers, answers that even I don't know.

He discovered that my mother had called.

And when he asked, I didn't tell him where she was

Because I just don't know... She never said.

He hit me again because I didn't tell him what he wanted to hear.

He, is crazy about her. He's desperate for her, and despite all this shit. I feel pity for him.

Because he... is one of the heap.

My mother made him believe that she loved him, and she only used him for her own benefit.

And, all Alexander wants is for her to go back to him, but she left.

I know why she did it, she was not satisfied, therefore there must be another man...

But I don't care where my mother is or who she is with. Because today everything changed for me.

I thought that Alexander would not let me go... I was afraid, because he is stronger than me.

And the only difference of... why am I walking away from this damn place? it's for Enzo,

finally he had the courage to help.

Just when that bastard Alexander saw me packing my things, he pounced on top of me furious... Enzo hit him on the head and told me to run away,

and so I did, I took the backpack with the little I had packed and ran away from there,

Now I am walking away from this place with a smile on my face...

Because it doesn't matter what happens tomorrow, today I am free. It doesn't matter where I go, because the blows or mistreatment no longer hurt me, her offenses no longer hurt me, nor her contempt, nor all the times she abandoned me... none of that hurts anymore.

Today I have a smile on my face.

After so many years... today I was able to smile again.

Because I am free.

Bonnie Bennett.