Chapter Six: Irresolvable

"And this is why we should all be afraid that Kimberley Blanc will take over the whole school."

Faye's voice only roughly cut through Bonnie's thoughts. She was sitting in the cafeteria with her friends and had been munching the same piece of bacon for the past ten minutes. Her friends had started a conversation about Kimberley Blanc and some point. Faye detested her and was trying to make everybody else see the evil behind her pretty façade. Bonnie hadn't listened to a single word Faye had said. She had heard her arguments more than once and still didn't think Faye was right.

But actually the reason for not listening was another one. Her conversation with Jeremy yesterday evening was still stuck on her mind. They weren't in a fight or something but Jeremy had seemed distant. He only answered Bonnie's questions with single words or short sentences and didn't even ask her anything, even though he knew she had this very important presentation a while ago.

But the worst thing about all of it was that she couldn't see him for another few weeks because she had to focus on her presentation with Kai now. A huge need to look her boyfriend in the eyes and actually ask him what was going on with him overcame her.

"Hello, earth to Bonnie!" Liza was waving a hand in front of Bonnie's face. She shrugged and focused her attention to her friends who were all watching her. Faye, Liza, Perry and Connor.

She was taking a look around her friends one by one. Faye, perfectly styled as always, Liza wearing her blond hair in a braid today, Perry playing with the red bowtie he decided to wear to his plaid shimmy today and Connor, whose blue eyes were intensely stuck on hers. He wore gypsum on his left arm, the reason he hadn't been at school in a while because he had been involved in a car accident. Bonnie had to think of the time when Faye had tried to pair the two of them. That was a time way before Jeremy was in the picture.

"What's going on, Bonnie? You've been quiet this whole day." Liza asked with concern in her voice.

"Everything good. I just had a weird talk with Jeremy last night. I think I actually need to see him soon but that's going to be a problem considering that I have to deal with Mr. Super Cool over there in the next weeks." Bonnie nodded to a table in the other corner of the cafeteria. Like on cue the people being seated there laughed out loud so that a lot of heads in the cafeteria turned in their direction, including Bonnie's. She saw Brian standing on his chair and move his arms like he pretended to be an ape. She saw three boys laughing in ecstasy and a few girls smiling too. Then she spotted Kai, he was sitting on the gallery just behind their table and shook his head. If Bonnie had to bet, she would bet 100 $ that he was rolling his eyes at Brian just now.

Bonnie shook her own head and turned back to her friends before Kai would notice her. He had been leaving her alone all day and she wasn't too sad about that. She knew she had to talk to him sooner rather than later but she wanted to enjoy her last Kai free moments for the rest of her school year.

Her friends had the same expression on their faces. Liza now gave Bonnie a sympathetic look. "I'm really sorry that you have to deal with something like that!" she said nodding in Kai's general direction.

"It's okay. I think I can handle him."

"What makes you think that? I mean, no one can handle Kai Parker, that's the mystery of him." Connor asked.

"I am actually a little mad at him. I know, shocker! But he is ruining your quality time with your boyfriend by being such a charity case. I mean, I would gladly step in if I could you know that, right Bonnie?" Faye stated.

"I think the whole school is aware of that, sweetheart." It was Perry that answered Faye.

They let out a collective laugh. Bonnie was waiting for the day that Faye would ask her to arrange a meeting with Kai, which she wouldn't be able to do because everybody around her seem to forget that she is not any of Kai's friends. She was his babysitter/spy and no one in this school would know about it.

The majority of the students got up from their seats now and went to return their trays. Her friends seemed to want to do the exact same thing now. They were chatting about some random crush Faye had in 5th grade. When they saw that Bonnie made no effort to stand up herself they stopped.

"Aren't you going to get up and go to class?" Liza asked.

"I will, in a second. I have to have a little chat with Kai first. I'm just waiting for all his animal friends to leave."

"What do you want to talk to him about?" Of course it was Faye who asked.

"Well, I have some school issues that I have to discuss with him, remember?"

"Yeah, but why do it now? Since, like you said, he is surrounded by cave men." Perry involved himself in the conversation.

"Because right now is all I got. Right now, I know where exactly he is and tomorrow he could be in Alaska and I wouldn't know. A chance is presenting itself to me and I got to take it, even though it is the most inconvenient environment ever."Bonnie turned around on the seat and watched as all the other students left. The people at Kai's table didn't move a bit which gave Bonnie a shiver as she thought about the fact that she was going to have to go over there while all his douche friends were still there.

"Allright, I'll take your tray." Faye offered. Bonnie smiled at her gratefully and her friends left for their next classes, but not without wishing her good luck.

Bonnie took in a deep breath and sighed. The cafeteria was half empty now but the table of evil was still crowded. Bonnie knew it was only going to get worse if she waited longer and got up. In that moment a few of the people on Kai's table got up too and left for the exit. Now it was only Kai, Brian and that stoner guy, whose name Bonnie didn't know.

Bonnie hesitated for a moment and waited for them to get away from the table and took huge, confident strides towards the table. As she got closer she could make out a male voice. She realized it was Brian talking as she got even closer. It was obvious now, that she was headed their direction because all the other tabled were already empty.

Bonnie hoped that Kai would look up from where he sat, realize her intention and come towards her to spare her from the strange encounter with his two friends, but of course he didn't. She just needed his attention once but couldn't get it. She was now standing only steps away from the table and heard the stoner guy and Brian talk about the next game.

Bonnie cleared her throat and had the attention of all three boys now. She was looking directly at Kai, trying to seem as calm as possible even though her heartbeat was crazy. He looked at her with curiosity in his eyes.

"Well, well if that is not the dashing braveheart that kicked Kai's ass a while ago. What a nice view to have your in our hallowed halls." It was Brian who addressed Bonnie before she could turn to Kai. The way he talked to her made her shiver. His voice was laced with arrogance, not the kind she had gotten used to from Kai, but pure and exaggerated overestimation of his own capabilities. Bonnie knew that Brian was seen as a good catch among a lot of girls from school but Bonnie wasn't into the brainless athlete style.

He now got up from his seat and made a few steps in Bonnie's direction. Bonnie had to fight back the urge to shy away from him. He had a disgusting smirk on his face and made her feel uncomfortable but she didn't show.

"How can I help you, sweetheart?" Brian was now standing right in front of Bonnie and she had to swallow. Her mouth went dry and she couldn't get a single word out. She avoided looking at Brian and instead was facing the floor. She hated that he daunted her so much, but there was nothing she could do now.

"Why so quiet? I remember you being very capable of expressing your thoughts. Did you swallow your pretty little tongue?" Brian's voice was glib. He was circling her now watching her with mocking eyes.

Just as she had decided that this had been a bad idea and she should turn around and leave before it was getting even more uncomfortable for her, Kai's warning voice cut through the atmosphere.

"Brian!" Kai wasn't looking at Bonnie or Brian, he was only facing the table. His arms rested on his knees and Bonnie couldn't make out his face. "I think you're making our guest feel uncomfortable."

"My ass! She would say if she felt uncomfortable, wouldn't you love?" Brian stated.

"Well, I think Ms. Bennet is too nice to tell a retard like you that he is being a dickhead, so why don't you leave her alone?" Kai was looking up now and Bonnie saw that he almost looked bored.

Brian was facing Bonnie and couldn't see Kai, who was sitting in his back. "Come on, Kai. Let me have some fun here. I'm just teasing her a little. She deserves it. After what…" Brian had turned around to look at his friend, in that moment he abruptly stopped in the middle of his sentence. A dark glow was scurrying over Kai's face for a second. It was intense but gone the next moment but this single look made Brian shut up. So even his friends were afraid of Kai?

Brian backed off now, giving Bonnie enough space to breathe again. She hadn't noticed that she had been holding her breath until her lungs were so happy to finally inhale oxygen again.

Bonnie wondered how she must have looked. It must have been so obvious to the three boys that she was feeling queasy. Shit, she never wanted to make Kai see her vulnerable side. She was looking back at him and his expression wasn't as hard anymore. He had tilted his head a little and was watching Bonnie with growing interest. He was waiting for her to state what she came here for.

Bonnie wasn't sure she was capable of talking just yet but as she cleared her throat once more she said to herself that she didn't need to talk to them, only to him.

"I was wondering if you could spare a few seconds of your valuable time." Bonnie's voice was a just a bit shaky, something that douche and stoner would probably not notice, but Kai would and he would probably make a comment on that. But to her surprise he was growing an almost believable smile on his face and got up from his seat to walk in her direction.

"Sure, BonBon."

Bonnie felt relieved at how easy that part of her agenda had been. As Kai reached her he indicated her that the two of them would not stay here but talk on their way to their next class and Bonnie was thankful for that. She didn't want to spend any more time in Brian's presence.

"Hey, are we still up for tonight? Or do you and Ms. Bennet have any other plans?" Brian yelled at Kai. He only turned around to give Brian another gloomy look and kept on walking. Brian didn't say anything anymore for as long as they were leaving the cafeteria.

"I'm sorry for Brian's behavior. He lacks a few brain cells and doesn't know when his dumb show off is inappropriate, which it almost always is." Kai said with true regret, the moment the entered the hallway to her locker.

"Why do you even hang out with these people?" It wasn't what Bonnie had wanted to say. She wanted to state that it is alright and wanted to try and play the scene down but she had wondered why Kai was friends with Brian when he so obviously thought so badly of him.

"Because, I've known him forever and he may be dumb but he has your back if you need him to." It was a pretty common answer. Kai could have described mostly half of the schools pupils with his words. Bonnie only looked at him in confusion. Maybe she missed something here, maybe Brian could be a good friend or maybe he was fun or just supplying everyone with booze, Bonnie didn't know.

"Are you alright?" Kai asked and Bonnie was surprised at how honestly concerned he sounded.

"Yeah, sure. It wasn't a big deal. I will survive."

Kai nodded at her and looked back at the hallway in front of them. It was filled with students that were gathering their stuff for the next class and they had to maneuver their way through them. With a quick look on the clock Bonnie knew she would be late for math because she still had to get to her locker on the other end of the hallway and still had to talk to Kai. She curled her lips.

"So what was it that you wanted to talk to me about?" Kai asked. Bonnie silently thanked god for his reliability to address certain topics because she didn't have a clue how to get back to what she needed to discuss with him.

"Right. Remember you promised me to really try and contribute to our assignment?" She waited for his nod to continue. "Well, I usually have this routine when I get an assignment. I like to start early to gather all the information and after that I prepare the presentation to make sure every important information is in it. And I would like to start doing that in the next couple of days." They had reached her locker and she stopped to get all her stuff. Before she opened her locker she turned around to look at him.

He blankly stared at Bonnie with skepticism and didn't say anything. Bonnie raised her eyebrows to make clear she was waiting for some kind of reaction from him.

"Why?" was the only word that finally came out of his mouth.

Bonnie was confused. "Why what?"

"Why do you start this early? You'll be done weeks before the presentation is actually due. Why do you stress yourself out like this?"

"Because I have made good experiences with this routine and I need the presentation to be done early because I want to practice it."

Kai laughed at her now. "You are such a geek."

Bonnie frowned at him. "There is nothing wrong with being prepared and most defiantly not with having a timetable. So, are you backing out or are we going to do it my way?"

He stopped laughing now only to frown at Bonnie himself. "I told you I was going to help you with this. I keep my promises." His dark eyes were stuck on Bonnie. She felt the dull feeling in her stomach rise again, the one she always got when talking to him.

"Good, than it's settled. We're gonna do it my way. So are you free tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow? You don't let anything scorch, do you?"

"No, not really. So what about tomorrow? Or do your Friday evening plans with Brian are standing in the way of being productive the next day?" Bonnie was teasing him now. She didn't understand why but he always made her do things that weren't really her.

He snuffled. "I can assure you, BonBon, I can bring my A game no matter what I am doing the night before." His voice was low and angry.

"Tomorrow it is then! I'll even let you choose the time." Bonnie was being annoyed as well but she tried to fight that back. After all she was grateful for what he did back in the cafeteria.

"No, I'll let you choose that, you have all the power about it."

"Good, then 9 am."

"No!" he instantly replied and stared at her intensely. Bonnie knew he wouldn't agree to this but she wanted to tease him a little. Bonnie hadn't been keen on getting up that early either.

"Alright, 11. Not a minute later! We'll meet at the library. Can you handle that, Superman?" She was using the nickname Jo's friends had used yesterday as they ran into them in school. Kai didn't miss the reference and smiled at her, giving her some kind of acknowledgment for her scheme.

"You're the boss!" Kai was about to walk away from her but there was something else she needed to say.

"Wait!"

Kai stopped. His eyes were asking her what was left to discuss but she suddenly felt a little unsure about how to start and looked around in the hallway instead. All the other students were gone now. She could only hear a few of them around the corner making their way to their classrooms.

"Are you going to say anything, or am I free to leave now?" Kai asked.

"I just wanted to say thank you… for earlier. You got me out of an uncomfortable situation and you haven't picked on me for it. I just want you to know that I am grateful for what you've done." After she finished this, she quickly looked away. She didn't want to see the bugged look that he was probably having on his face right now, because he didn't think it was necessary for her to mention something like this or maybe he didn't even think it was that big of a deal, but for Bonnie it was.

"You're welcome."

Bonnie looked back to him with surprise. His voice had been genuine and is face didn't indicate anything about dishonesty either. She had assessed him wrong again. The smile growing on her face was to show him her content and was accompanied by a warm feeling in her stomach, which she chose to ignore.

"See you tomorrow, Bonnie!" He was turning around now and headed to the general direction of the exit.

"Hey, don't you have class?" She yelled after him.

He turned around while walking and yelled back. "I do, but now that I have to spend my Saturday being productive I have to cross a few things off my to-do list a little earlier." He was turning around again and the next moment Bonnie only saw the doors of the school swing and he was gone.

'Great work, Bonnie. Mr. Bright gives you the task of making him more committed to school and your first act is to drive him away from it.' She thought. But this conversation had been a success. She had gotten him to agree on their cooperation and she kind of had gotten a binding consent of him showing up tomorrow. Bonnie decided that she had won the first round of a game that Kai didn't even know he was playing.

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"Hey, mom!" Bonnie had opened the door to her house and was now trying to figure out if her mother was already home from work. Bonnie could never keep up with her work schedule because it shifted every week.

"Hey, sweetie!" came her mother's voice from the kitchen. Bonnie put all her stuff down and went to greet her mother properly. As she stepped into the kitchen she smelled something roasting in the pan. "Hmm, this smells delicious."

"It's going to be hamburgers. Are you hungry?"

Bonnie had actually eaten something in school, but the smell of the hamburgers was too good so she quickly nodded and went to the counter to place some plates onto the table.

"Is Jeffrey going to join us?" Bonnie asked. Her mother's boyfriend had a tight working schedule himself so Bonnie didn't know if he was going to be there for the meal.

"No, it is just the two of us today. Jeff is still at work." Her mother answered her, so Bonnie only took two plates and placed them on the table.

"How was your week, honey?" Bonnie heard her mother ask from the small storage room she had disappeared in. Bonnie hadn't had the chance to properly talk to her mother all week. She had been busy with school stuff and catching up with a few people and Abby had to work long hours. Bonnie was thinking about telling her about the special task force she had agreed to join in school but she remembered that Mr. Bright didn't want anyone to know. Also, she thought her mother would maybe think that this was going to have a bad impact on Bonnie's school assignments. So she decided to stick to some other random topics of the week and only tell her that she had a new partner for her history project.

"I'm going to be at the library tomorrow, so you don't have to plan on anything to cook. I will grab something on my way home."

"It is such a shame that your teachers always decide to give you assignment after assignment. Now you won't be able to go see Jeremy in a while." Abby said.

Bonnie totally agreed with her mother. She hadn't told her about the weird feeling she got after her last visit and the phone call yesterday, so her mother didn't know how badly Bonnie needed to see Jeremy. And she didn't plan on changing that.

"It's alright. Jer understands that I have a lot on my plate right now." Bonnie was sitting down on the chair next to the table.

Abby brought the burgers and placed one on Bonnie's plate. Then she sat down next to her.
"By the way Elena had called a few minutes before you came in. I told her you would call her back."

"Did she say what she wanted?" Bonnie could imagine what she was going to tell her. She had probably ended things with Matt and needed Bonnie to reassure her that she did the right thing.

"No, but she didn't sound too happy." Abby gave Bonnie a knowing look. Just like her daughter she had never really understood Elena and Matt's relationship. Like mother, like daughter.

"I'll give her a call later!" Bonnie said and began to eat her burger.

"So, who's your knew partner for your history assignment?"

Bonnie nearly choked because she didn't expect her mother to ask her about it again. Normally, she didn't care about her project partners because she didn't know most of them. Bonnie always told her who they were but she never knew any of them.

But she had kept the name of her partner a secret on purpose. A memory about her furious mother popped up in her mind. It had been years ago, when Bonnie was only a kid. She was new in school and Kai had pushed her into the mud one day and ruined her new shirt. Her mom had been furious about it and even called the school to get the phone number of the Parkers. Then after that she had a heated conversation with Kai's father. This had been one of the few encounters Bonnie had had with Kai before this school year. Kai hadn't even done it on purpose back then and had actually apologized. But she had been so scared of her mother's reaction that she never cleared the situation up. The next day, Bonnie could swear Kai had glared at her the whole day. He'd probably gotten the lecture of a lifetime, considering this death glares for Bonnie. Since that incident Abby Bennet had been the president of the anti-Parker task force. She not only hated Kai for pushing her daughter but also his father for being a "groundbreaking moron with little access to logical thinking" like her mom had put it. On every parent teacher conference after that she would always come home and say something hateful about the Parker parents or no matter what Kai did in school, she would always rule him out as a troublemaker. Bonnie had to admit she wasn't too wrong about Kai but the way that Bonnie had heard she was wrong about his father.

Abby was still watching Bonnie waiting for an answer. Bonnie looked down on her burger and decided that she would just spill the beans.

"Kai Parker." She rushed the words out and bit her burger so that she wouldn't need to answer her mother again.

"Did you say Kai Parker? The kid that was close to getting suspended because he smoked pot on the schoolyard? The Parker kid from hell? Who decided that?" she was back at her usual rant about the Parkers.

"He was about to be suspended for smoking pot?" Bonnie asked her mother, she had never heard that story before. But her mother probably had because she was very involved in the parents work at school and was also present during student conferences, where they talked about troublemakers. Kai had probably been a topic on those more than once. The parents weren't allowed to talk about anything that was being discussed there so Abby hadn't mentioned this to Bonnie before but know her mother was enraged and not too careful with her words. But Kai's father had probably buried this story too, so that no one would find out about it.

"Yes. I mean no. I mean, you have never heard that from me." She was calming down a little. "Now, tell me why are you doing this assignment with him?"

"It wasn't exactly my choice. Ms. Gibbens had picked the partners and she thought it was a good idea to put us in a team."

"I can't believe it. This kid is nothing but trouble. He is doing whatever he wants no matter the consequences. You have to be careful, Bonnie. Don't trust him and don't trust him to be any help with the assignment. That kid is the devil."

"Mom, I think you're exaggerating. And I actually think you're doing him wrong. He is not that bad. I think I can handle him pretty well." Bonnie wondered why she defended him to her mother. But she felt it was unfair from her to judge him like that when she didn't even know him.

"I'm just telling you to be careful around him. I don't want you to become a pawn in his games."

"I'm not gonna marry the guy, I'm just preparing a presentation with him, that's all. So, there is no risk for me, relax."

Her mother nodded to herself and seemed to let it go, even though Bonnie knew that she would love to keep blustering about the topic.

Bonnie finished her burger and went up to her room. She dialed Elena's number and waited for her friend to pick up.

"Bonnie, thank god you called back!" Elena's voice sounded relieved.

"Hey, Elena. How are you doing?"

"Not good. I broke up with Matt today. He tried to reason with me but I told him I didn't love him anymore and I think I broke his heart. He hates me now."

"Even if, Elena, you can't be loved by everyone on this planet." It was Caroline's voice that pierced through the phone. So she had been with Elena on this day, Bonnie was relieved.

"You have to give him some time; of course he is not going to get back to being your best friend after you just broke up with him. He's going to come around eventually. And hey, Care." Bonnie was trying to give Elena the equivalent to Caroline's drastic opinion.

"I know. But, now that you call, Care and I have been thinking. Now that we are both single and have no obligations here in Mystic Falls, how would you like a visit from your two oldest friends?"

"You want to come to Portland?" Bonnie was suddenly exited.

"Yeah, we thought we could use the change and since you can't come here in a while and we are missing you so much, we thought why not?" Elena sounded happier now that she was talking about the trip.

"I would love for you to come here! But I must warn you, I will probably not have the time to show you around the amazing party scene, because A I don't know anything about it and B I will be doing a lot of school stuff."

"That's alright. As long as you can spare a few hours of your time. Care and I, we can entertain ourselves." Elena's voice got happier by the minute.

"I'll ask my mother right away but I know she's not going to say no. She loves having the two of you around too much to permit it. Plus, I told her about my new history partner and she would want to make sure I spent enough time with people she actually approves."

"Then it is a good as settled. Care and I will search for a flight and when we found something we'll call you again."

"I'm so looking forward to it!"

When Elena ended the call Bonnie smiled to herself. There was nothing she needed more that a good girl time with her old friends. Even her doubts about Jeremy's behavior seemed smaller now. She texted him about Elena's and Caroline's visit and hoped he would propose a similar idea but all she got back from him was a short 'nice, have fun with them'. Bonnie threw her phone onto her bed and left her room.

Author's note: Hey guys, thank you so much for sticking around and reading and reviewing. This chapter is kind of a filler chapter, but next chapter there will be a bit more Bonkai scenes. Thanks again. Until next time, LiLaAir.