Cassie's POV

Diana and I met up with Elena and Bonnie in the school parking lot. Some guys were throwing a football around.

"Hey Diana, do you got a sec?" Bonnie questioned. Diana perked her attention toward her. "I'm sure that you should be with Stefan. I'm not saying don't date the guy, but I think you should take it slow."

"Yesterday you told her to go for it." I pointed out.

"Now I'm saying take it slow." Bonnie declared.

"Why are you giving me about face?" Diana asked.

"It's not about face. I'm concerned." Bonnie replied. "This is me being concerned about my friend's new boyfriend."

"We seriously have known you for a like a week." I declared. "That doesn't really give you a right to judge our personal lives. Is there something else?"

"When I touched Stefan the other night, I got a really bad feeling." Bonnie explained.

"That's it?" Diana asked. She said that she felt something, but it felt good to her.

"It was really bad." Bonnie added.

"It's not going to change my opinion of him." Diana remarked. "I'm going to date Stefan whether you think that I should or not. So butt out."

It looked like if she got pushed anymore, she might start a storm. Fortunately, that was when Stefan arrived. He gave her a kiss, which seemed to help her calm down.

"Hello, Cassie, Elena, Bonnie." She greeted us.

"I just remembered I have to…go." Bonnie stated.

"She doesn't like me very much." He noted.

"It doesn't matter to me if she does or not." Diana admitted.

"Hey, how about you come over to my house tonight?" Elena suggested. "We can Bonnie over and everyone can get to know each other better. I'll even make a nice dinner for you."

Before anyone could say anything, the ball flew in our direction. Stefan almost instinctively turned around and caught before he threw it back at Tyler, who struggled to catch it. Diana decided to set off the sprinklers on him.

"That throw was amazing." Elena gushed after we had entered the school. "You should try out for the football team. They suck and could really use someone like you."

"I don't think so." He answered.

"So do you not like football?" I questioned. That would mean that he and Diana had something else in common. She had told me no when I asked her about cheerleading.

"I love football, but I don't think football likes me." He answered. What exactly did that mean? "You saw how Tyler was."

"That's not really a reason to not do it." Diana commented. "If you love football, you should play. I personally can't stand it, but I would come and watch you play."

In class, Mr. Tanner was continuing to be a douchebag. History was really the only class worth talking about though, because all of the other ones were boring. He challenged Stefan to a series of dates and Diana, wanting to show off her intelligence, jumped in.

Diana's POV

I met with Stefan in the hallway after class.

"You're smart. How'd you know all of those dates?" I asked him.

"Years and years of crossword puzzles." He answered. "What about you?"

"I'm just a natural bookworm." I declared. "Look, if you want to play football, you can play football. All I know is I'm going to go home after school."

Cassie's POV

After school, I got changed for cheerleading, going with a red tank top and black shorts. I was the shortest girl out there, but I could probably be the best since I was good at moving my body.

"You're here!" Bonnie cheered as Elena arrived. Were they expecting her not to be?"

"I can't be sad girl forever." Elena declared as she began stretching. "By the way, you're coming over to my house tonight."

"I am?" Bonnie asked.

"Yes, and Stefan will be there too." I added.

"Tonight's no good." Bonnie replied. Why did she hate him? "Has anyone seen Caroline?"

"Don't change the subject Bonnie Bennett." Elena ordered. "You're coming tonight."

"Fine, I'll go." Bonnie pouted. "Seriously where is Caroline?"

At the moment, Caroline arrived in Damon's car. She got out and he winked at me. How did that happen so quickly?

"Sorry, I'm late Girls. I was busy." Caroline remarked. "Let's start with the double pike perky hurdler."

"I have no idea what that is." I declared as some of the other girls began to move.

"Well maybe you should just observe today." Caroline replied. I then watched the girls do their cheers and I started to wonder if I was in over my head.

I decided that the best thing to do was to sneak away while no one was looking. I walked over to where the football players were and saw Stefan was lighting it up. He seemed almost inhuman out on the field.

That night, I found out that Elena's idea of a home-cooked meal was a meal cooked by somebody else.

"So do you think that this is going to fool Stefan?" Diana asked.

"Just shut up." Elena replied. "Now where are the serving spoons?"

"The second drawer on the left." Bonnie answered. Elena opened the drawer and there they were.

"Okay you've been here like a thousand times." Elena remarked.

Shortly after, we were seated at the dinner table. Things were really awkward and I was pretty sure had nothing to do with the food.

"So did Tanner give you a hard time?" Elena asked Stefan.

"Well he let me on the team, so I must have done something right." Stefan quipped.

"Bonnie, you should have seen it. Tyler threw this ball…" Elena said.

"I heard." Bonnie cut her off.

"Well maybe you should tell Stefan about your family." Elena suggested. I still wasn't sure why she wanted was trying to get her to like Diana's boyfriend.

"Divorced, no mom, I live with my dad." Bonnie answered. I definitely didn't know what was supposed to be interesting about that.

"No, the witches." Elena replied.

"Witches?" I asked. Were there actually other witches in Mystic Falls?

"Yeah, Bonnie's descended from a line of witches. It's really cool." Elena explained.

"Cool's not how I would describe it." Bonnie replied.

"Well it's certainly interesting." Stefan remarked. "I'm not exactly the best versed, but I know that there were some Celtic druids that migrated to this area in the 1600s."

"My family's from Salem." Salem told him. Diana said that we had ancestors from Salem as well, but they moved to Washington.

"Wow, Salem witches, that is pretty cool." Stefan remarked.

"Why?" Bonnie inquired.

"Because Salem witches were all about nonconformity. They would rather die than admit to ludicrous accusations." Stefan explained. "They were heroes."

"I guess they were." Bonnie agreed with a smile. Suddenly, the doorbell rang.

"I wonder who that could be." Elena remarked before we all got up. She opened the door and there was Caroline and Damon. She had some kind of cake in her hand.

"Surprise!" Caroline chirped. "Bonnie said you were having dinner, so we brought dessert."

"I don't you mind." Damon remarked as Caroline just walked into the house. It was a little bit rude. Damon waited outside.

"What are you doing here?" Stefan asked.

"Waiting for one of our lovely hostesses to invite me in." Damon answered.

"Okay come in." I invited. I wondered if Elena was okay with that. He walked inside and smirked at Stefan.

After dessert, we sat down in the living room.

"I cannot believe Tanner let you on the team." Caroline gabbed. "Tyler must have been pissed but good for you."

"That's what I tell him." Damon remarked. "Always go for it."

"Well Cassie wasn't so lucky." Caroline remarked. "I don't know how she'll ever learn the routine."

"You asked me to join the squad yesterday." I pointed out.

"You don't really seem like the cheerleader type." Damon commented.

"Well I've never actually done it before." I admitted.

"So what happened to your girls' parents?" Damon inquired.

"They're dead." Diana explained.

"I'm sorry you two. Stefan and I have watched just about everyone we've ever cared about die." He said.

"We don't need to get into that, Damon." Stefan replied.

"You're right, Stefan." Damon agreed. "The last thing that we need to do is bring her up."

So somehow, I got stuck doing the dishes. I didn't see why Elena couldn't because it was her house. Luckily, Damon agreed to help and I wasn't about to turn down free labor. I noticed that he fumbled a glass, but caught it at the last second.

"Nice catch." I replied. "So, were you talking about Katherine in there?"

"Yes." He remarked.

"How did she die?" I inquired. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to."

"It was a tragic fire." He answered. "She was very beautiful."

"So which one of you dated her first?" I asked.

"Nice deduction." He commented. "Ask Stefan. I'm sure his answer differs from mine."

"Well I'm sorry for your loss." I told him.

That night, I had this weird dream about Damon. Okay, it wasn't that weird, but it was a sex dream. I was attracted to him, but it still seemed kind of soon. I barely even knew him and he was with Caroline.

In the morning, I put on my cheerleading uniform. It was a maroon with two pieces that didn't cover my bellybutton. For some reason, it didn't have the school's name on it. I did wonder how I would be able to do it. Caroline muttered something about putting me in the back last night.

"So how do I look?" I asked my sister.

"Well you look like a cheerleader." She commented. "Just don't light anyone on fire."

"You know that's probably not something to joke about." I commented.

Diana's POV

When we got to the school, I went to find Stefan. He was wearing a jersey. I wore a white tank top with a black blazer and black and white striped wraparound miniskirt.

"You know that is a good look on you." I commented.

"So why didn't you join the cheerleading squad too?" He asked me.

"I told you. I hate football." I explained. "But I don't hate the players."

"I guess I'll have to see if I can get to like it." He joked. "So I hope this isn't weird or anything but I got you something."

He presented me with a necklace.

"It's beautiful." I commented as I sniffed. "What's that smell? Is it rose?"

"No it's an herb." He declared. It didn't smell like any of the herbs that I was familiar with. Some spells required herbs to work. "I've had it for years, but I never found someone to give it to, until now that is."

"You are so romantic." I replied as I gave him another kiss. I once again felt that weird feeling.

So during the pep rally, Mr. Tanner gave a rousing speech. He seemed like he was actually better at that than he was at teaching history. Part of it involved Stefan and his magic hands. I noticed that Tyler looked upset and snuck away from the group and not long after he was in a fight with Jeremy. Stefan had tear him off. Jeremy noticed a piece of broken glass and slashed it at Tyler, accidentally hitting Stefan instead.

"Oh my God." I replied. I noticed that Stefan was hiding his hand. "Is it deep? Do you need a bandage?"

I looked at his hand to find…no wound.

"What?" I asked. "I know he hit you."

"He missed." Stefan replied. "I need to go get ready for the game."

As he left, all I could wonder was what the fuck had just happened.

Cassie's POV

I went to Elena's car to get a tissue for Jeremy's bloody nose. It was there that I found Damon.

"What are you doing here?" I asked him after getting the tissue.

"I'm hiding from Caroline. She talks more than I can listen." He told me.

"Maybe that's a sign that you shouldn't be together." I stated.

"Maybe you're right. She's really young and annoying." He declared.

"Hey, I'm not just stand here and let you badmouth your girlfriend." I remarked. "Why does everything you say have this weird double meaning."

He looked me in the eye.

"You want to kiss me." He declared. I did kind of want to kiss him, but I was not attracted to his arrogance or the fact that he had a girlfriend. Instead I slapped him.

"I am not some whore that you can mess around with." I declared. "Do me a favor and leave me alone. If you don't, I will hurt you."

No POV

Stefan was in the team parking lot as Matt went inside.

"Well look at that, Stefan made a friend." Damon replied. "So you slipped Cassie some vervain. I'm impressed. It's been a while since anyone could resist my compulsion."

"I gave Diana vervain, but I didn't give any to Cassie." Stefan replied in confusion.

"Then how did that little blonde resist the compulsion?" Damon asked.

"Who knows maybe you're losing your touch." Stefan quipped. "You know I used to think that you didn't have any humanity in you, but then I realized that you still love Katherine and you hate me for what happened to her. That my brother is your humanity."

"Salvatore?" Tanner asked. "What the hell? We have a game to play."

"If that's my humanity, what's this?" Damon asked before he killed the history teacher.

Diana's POV

They found Mr. Tanner's body in the parking lot. They said it was an animal attack, but I didn't buy it. I was pretty sure that he was murdered. There was no way that any animal could just sneak through town without anyone noticing. The game was cancelled.

"So I think someone murdered him." I told Stefan.

"There's no way of proving that." He argued.

"I will find some way to prove it." I pointed out. I looked at his hand again and it was still fine. "You know I was so sure that I saw Jeremy hit you. I guess my eyes are just playing tricks on me."

"Diana, whatever this was, I'm not going to let anything hurt you." He declared. "I'll figure this out and I'll stop it."

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