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I heard Ric's muffled voice in the master bedroom. He sounded exasperated and had a reluctant tone. It was a long conversation too. There was a lot of back and forth going on, so I believed it to be an argument. Oh Damon; he was always the arguing type. Ric left his bedroom and started walking in my direction. "Damon said he'd be here in ten," He breathed. I gave him a strained smile. "Great," I replied. Ric took a seat across from me on his plush brown sofa and just stared at me. I refused to make eye contact with and tried to look in any other direction than his. As much as I tried, I eventually failed. I could literally feel his eyes on me; burning my skin. It made me cringe. My cheeks turned red in annoyance and I snapped my head at him and finally met his challenging eyes.
"Well Ric are you gonna say something or just fucking stare?" He looked at me with a surprised expression and merely bowed his head down in intimidation.
"No, I'm sorry…I just can't believe you're back."
"Mm. With no help from you. Even though I kinda died for you. But you know, shit's not too important right?" I questioned in a sarcastic tone. Hey, maybe Ric didn't deserve that, all my sassiness, but I didn't care. He was annoying me with his condescending looks and I didn't have time for his small talk. We were never close, so I didn't understand his need to try and spark up a conversation with me.
Alaric looked at me with his mouth agape and merely stayed quiet. I looked in Caroline's direction and her eyes were as wide as saucers. She made eye contact with me and her blue eyes burned into my skin. "Damon's here," she said in a soft tone. I licked my lips and felt my heart skip a beat.
"Is he with anyone?" I asked, praying that he was alone so I wouldn't have to face Elena or Stefan or anyone in the Mystic Falls gang.
"Yeah," Caroline replied. She squinted her eyes and bit her lip as she was finally able to tune in the secondary voice who had arrived with Damon. "He's with Elena." I sighed. Fuck, man. Here comes another reunion. A knock on the door interrupted my train of thought.
"Open the door, Ric. What's so important?" The sound of his voice literally made my heart flop into my stomach. All the balls I once had shriveled into nothing and my throat suddenly became dry. My palms started to sweat and I knew if I were to open my mouth and try to speak to him, I would literally speak like a mouse. At the same time that Ric got up to open the door, I got up as well and went into his kitchen. My breathing increased as I heard the door knob turn and I quickly got a glass of water and chugged it down. It helped a little, but I had to give myself a mini pep talk. You got this, Bonnie. Don't let it show that you care. Don't let him know that you care. I regained some of my confidence and waltz out of his kitchen and made eye contact with a blue eyed vampire.
"Bonnie," he breathed out.
I stood frozen in place. Fuck, Bonnie! Get it together. Don't just stand there like an idiot, say something!I licked my lips and opened my mouth, but soon enough I was crushed with a bear hug from the doppelganger. Elena.
"Oh my God, Bonnie! You're back! Oh my goodness! I'm so happy! I missed you," she said into my shoulder. I just stood there dumfounded and didn't know what to say or do. Was being in Damon's presence really throwing me off? I shut my eyes and cleared my throat loud enough for Elena to get the hint to get off of me. I stared into her doe brown eyes and gave her a fake smile.
"Enough with the theatrics." I said with a monotone voice. I pushed passed her and walked straight up to Damon, taking in his black pants, black shirt, and black leather jacket. "Hm. I liked how you dressed in 1994 better. You had way more color back then." He smirked at me and God, my heart fluttered.
"So, I need something," I began.
"And what is that?" He questioned.
"Cuddles. I need her back."
Damon gave me a funny expression. The type of expression that said, 'what you talkin' 'bout Willis?!' He then crossed his arms and I knew I was going to get an earful from him and I didn't want to hear it. "Listen up Salvatore, I'm not in the mood right now, so can you please give me my bear back? I don't have all day."
He nodded his head in agreement and cast his eyes down in me. "No."
I looked at him in disbelief. "No? What do you mean 'no'?"
"No, as in N-O. You ain't getting shit back." I opened my mouth at him in astonishment. "You don't get to walk in here acting all big and bad and think shit is gonna go your way. Sorry Bennett, it doesn't work that way."
I crossed my arms and look up at his pale beautiful face. I wanted to smack that look off of his face. The look of smugness and righteousness. This cocky ass vampire made my blood boil and I just wanted to inflict so much pain onto him. But without my magic I was useless when it came to physical confrontation against a vampire. So I did the next best thing. I slapped him. I was filled with rage and disappointment. Rage because I was so tired of feeling like shit, and disappointment because he didn't come back for me. None of them did. And before I could even register what I was doing, my right hand was raised up and made contact with his cheek. He turned bright red and I knew he was angry. I knew I got a rise out of him. But before he could say anything, I walked around him and left Ric's apartment.
Tears threatened to escape my eyes as I stomped down the hallway and into the elevator. Fuck, why was I so emotional? Why is everything so fucked up for me? I pressed the button for 'lobby' on the elevator and the doors were closing, but not before Damon sped his way in right before the doors closed. I scoffed and looked in his direction. His blue christine eyes met mine and I almost melted.
"Bonnie are you gonna tell me what the hell is wrong with you?" His voice caught me off guard. He actually sounded like he cared.
"Damon don't act like you give a shit. Save it." My voice cracked and I knew I was about to cry, and I guess Damon knew it too because in that moment he wrapped his arms around me. This was the first time we ever hugged, but it felt so familiar. It felt like home. But I didn't want that. I didn't want to feel vulnerable around him and I didn't want his compassion. And the shittiest thing about it is that I felt the best I've ever felt in months just because of his touch. Sounds so pathetic, I know. God I'm pathetic.
"Get the fuck off me," I said through clenched teeth.
"What?" He asked.
"I said, get off of me," I snapped. With all the strength I had I pushed against his cold chest to no avail. He didn't even flinch. Goddamn vampire.
"Why are you doing this, Bonnie? What crawled up your ass?"
"Damon what the hell?" I screamed. My heart was beating a hundred beats per second. My fists were so clenched that they were turning red. Damon looked so surprised. He opened his mouth to speak, but I cut him off before he could say one word. I was so mad. So much pent up anger from all these months just started to pour out of me. The feeling of despair and loneliness and crawled up through stomach and my feelings erupted straight out of my mouth.
"Can you just leave me alone, Damon?! Jesus fucking Christ! You know what's wrong with me? I'm going to break in down for you. You. Fucking. Left. Me." I said through gritted teeth. My voice started to crack but I didn't care. "You left me there in that hell hole. And you know what the most pathetic thing was? I really believed in you. I believed that you would find a way to bring me back. But I guess not. You're a horrible person, Damon. I fucking hate you. I hate you for almost killing me when Emily possessed me. I hate you for making me and my Grams do that shitty spell to open the tomb. That spell killed her. I hate you for turning my mother into a vampire, and I hate that I believed in you." I looked straight into his eyes and he showed no emotion. He didn't even have a snarky comeback or anything. He was just quiet.
The elevator doors opened into the lobby and I walked out leaving the blue eyed vampire silent.
Angst angst angst. But tell me what you think in the reviews xo