~Bonnie~

"So…." Meredith started

"So?" I said

"What happened?" she asked as she sat beside me in the dark corner of the library.

"What do you mean?"

"Well you come in and a few minutes later Damon comes out and Matt is ready to start a fight." She said

I just looked down at my lap. I fell for it that's what happened, I thought. But I didn't say it, I just sat there quietly trying to come up with an answer.

"Bonnie is there something I should know?" she asked

This wasn't what I expected. I didn't expect her to try and be understanding and helpful. What I did expect was for her to tell to stop with the head games and be better towards Matt and to get my head on straight. It wasn't anything like that at all. Her being so nice to me just made me feel worse about letting Damon kiss me. And in all honesty the kiss that was only at least 4 seconds long that felt like 4 minutes was something that took me by surprise. It was something that wasn't gentle or rough but wanting. Like he actually…wanted me.

No he didn't want me. I was pawn to him to get Elena's affection. But HE kissed me this time not the other way around. He did want me and I wanted him. But it wouldn't happen that much I was sure of. Not at a time like this.

"Earth to Bonnie. Are you still in there?" Meredith asked waving her hand in front of my face

I shook my head out of the daze I was in.

"Sorry what?" I said

"You know sometimes I wish I could figure out what was going on in your littlehead and other times I'm a little afraid to ask." She said

"It is one of those times?"

She just nodded and it made me laugh. She had her own special ways of making me feel better and I loved that the most about her. it could be so depressingly dark and she would say something that would just make you laugh or smile because it just wasn't the right time to say it.

She smiled too.

"I was wondering if how long it would take you to smile. We even had a pool going on how long it would take." She added

"Oh that's not funny." I exclaimed

"What's not funny?" Elena said coming in to join us

"I told Bonnie about the pool we had going."

"Ah right." She said sitting beside me "So are you going to be okay?"

"Would you quit asking?"

"Sorry." She said

"Elena I'm never okay. With everything you guys have me doing it makes me surprised I'm not insane." I said

"So you're-"

"Elena I know how to take care of myself. Don't worry about me. You should be with Stefan right now." I said cutting her off

Getting up I left them sitting there and headed through the kitchen out the door. Looking up at the stars glitter up the sky I fell back onto the ground and took it all in. Then I watched as a shooting start went by. It was a simple yet small pleasure of life. One that would probably be gone soon.

"Make a wish." I heard

I didn't bother getting up. So Matt laid down beside me and I turned and laid on his chest.

"I don't need a wish. Plus I don't think it would change anything." I said

"You never know." He said

Propping myself up on one elbow I leaned down to kiss him. But something felt different. It wasn't the same as before. It was better. Next thing I knew he turned over so that he was on top of me and his tongue met mine as our mouths parted. It had me forgetting all about Damon in that instant and it was just him and I. I could feel his heart against mine racing just as fast. I could feel his arm as he lifted my body up against his.

~Damon~

"Could I hate you anymore? I think so especially since you're touching HER." I muttered to myself as I sat in the dark of the woods out back of the boarding house and watched as the two kissed

When had everything switched from Elena to Bonnie? Maybe it was when I saved her life that night when the Old Wood attacked. Seeing her there in the bathtub on the edge of her death bed killed me inside. I couldn't explain it. Everything was different with her. for one I wasn't fighting with my brother to have her and second she's a witch. She's young and beautiful and such a fiery little thing that burns you when you touch it. Which makes me want it even more but if I kill Mutt to get to her she would never look at me again. So that option is out.

There wasn't anything I could do. Who knows though maybe its better she's with him. Because as far as I'm concerned he hasn't killed anyone and he has a beating heart unlike me. She deserves the best and the best isn't exactly me.

"Who gives a damn." I muttered under my breath "Certainly not me."

Then I turned and walked deeper into woods. I was forced to go on the Stefan diet of eating bunnies and I still didn't feel full enough.

~Bonnie~

Months went by and I hadn't seen much of Damon anywhere. And when I did he wouldn't look at me. Did I do something wrong? Why did it bother me that he wouldn't look at me?

I shrugged it off and headed back into the living room with the others. I squeezed a seat in beside Matt and Tyler. Tyler had shown up about a month ago when he was being chased by something and literally knocked Stefan over. It took nearly two weeks to get him completely calm. He said that things would chase him and that they were invisible dogs. I corrected him on term that they were actually hellhounds.

Even more though Fell's Church had gone in a complete disarray. The people who could escape did while several others were mutilated and killed. Some of which we went to school with and knew as good friends. Nights became longer and days felt shorter. And whatever was out there had a serious hold on the town. Soon we would have to have a confrontation. I mean it was bad enough we had no idea what it was or who it was doing this. But what I had seen was coming closer and closer and it scared me.