Bonnie slowly pulled away from him, looking deeply into his eyes the same as he was doing with her. He could see the tenderness in her eyes, and the surprise behind it, but only because her wall was so thin compared to what he used to have up.

That was now in crumbles around him.

'Oh god, did I just do what I think I did?' he asked himself, trying to rebuild his wall from the fragments he could find. But he watched as she shook slightly.

"I…I'm a little tired." She stammered softly, and got up to turn down her bed. When she took her eyes away from his own shyly, looking only a little scared, he knew.

He'd done it, he'd actually kissed her, and this time it wasn't while trying to seduce her blood from her, it wasn't a jealousy tactic. He'd actually meant it with something that was inside of him. And thinking about it now, he wanted to do it again. He'd somehow felt the soft fire that was within her, slowly distinguishing.

And he wanted to set it ablaze.

"All right," he said, still trying to figure out why he felt that he was suddenly empty. Rising and walking to her window he was stopped when she touched his shoulder softly.

"Where are you going?" she asked, surprising him with her care.

"Well first I should feed." He said, suddenly feeling that hunger in his veins. Then he threw her his more charming smile, hoping to unnerve her. "After that I don't know. Probably go find a nice hotel." He said truthfully.

She didn't even fidget. "Then you can stay here," she said. "You can stay in our guest room, I'll just tell my mom your parents are fighting and you need to stay away from them for a little while." She finished looking up to meet his eyes.

"I… Um… Uh…" he stammered feeling shy for the first time in centuries.

"Then it's settled," she said smiling. "I'll have the guest room set up when you come back."

"OK." He couldn't help smiling back and jumped out the window heading towards the woods behind her house, wondering why she felt so… familiar… to him.

Bonnie and Damon worked on her shielding tactics for the next couple days, both acting as if what happened never did. It was easy when Damon wouldn't get anywhere close to her, and merely told her what to do and didn't tease her. Though she wasn't sure if Damon thought about it, she knew that it was all she could think about when she wasn't fixing her mind-cloud.

Technically, he wasn't kissing her, but the Angel girl in his mind. But in real life it was her lips that touched his own, didn't that mean something? She pondered about that as she got dressed for the first day of what would be known as her 'College Years'.

When she came back to her room after her morning shower she saw Damon sitting on her bed, again dressed differently then what she was used to. In black jeans and a white button down shirt only half buttoned she could easily forget that he wasn't Damon Salvatore, and go back to believing his fake name, Damien Smith.

He smiled at her when she walked in only wearing her short soft purple and navy blue stripped shirt and a pair of white bikini panties, since she planned on wearing her new hip huggers to school she didn't want to risk them getting wet in the bath room. But now that she saw he was waiting for her, watching her intently, she wished she had risked it.

"I knew I should have brought my jeans with me too." She said, smiling as it came out naturally, not even trying to hide herself as she walked over to her closet and pulled out the jeans and a jacket for the air conditioning in that school.

"You're really starting to unnerve me, Bonnie." Damon told her, giving her a searching look. "I'm used to girls hiding themselves and backing away from me when I'm standing over them, or even near them! And all you do is just grin up at me." he truly looked as if she was offending him, and she nearly faked it for his benefit.

She smiled again, but she liked playing this game. "Like I said last night, are you scared I'm gonna break past your wall and find out something you don't want anyone to know? Or is it just that for some reason I don't feel shy around you and its making you mad?"

She turned back to the dresser and looked in the mirror at him while she put her hair up in a pony tail. She noticed that over the year that Elena had changed her view of the world she hadn't cut her hair once and it was starting to get pretty long, if it weren't for the curls on the ends her hair would be just below the middle of her back. It took her a while to get it up the way she wanted it.

She looked for a necklace to wear, since she'd just bought about six yesterday at the mall, and she noticed him looking her up and down, with a small smile playing on his lips.

"Take a picture, you can study it while I'm at school." She said, and smiled as he laughed.

"That's what I need to tell you, I figured that since your new at learning this stuff you'll need me around for a little bit to keep up your energy." He smiled when her eyes finally widened in surprise. "I broke into the school last night and copied all your classes so that I can have the same schedule."
She grinned at him, nervousness emanating from her, and said, "Thanks for your concern, but how are you going to 'keep up' my energy? I'm not letting you bite me, if that's what you're thinking." She tried, but didn't succeed in making herself sound confident as she was just a few minutes earlier.

He smiled, he finally got her to feeling something more familiar to him. "No, no, no. I mean, I'd love to do that, I didn't have a very good meal last night," he grinned mischievously. "But there are other ways of keep your energy up, I mean I can keep your shield around you if you get too weak to keep it up." He said.

"How do you do that?" she asked, going to her closet and looking for something along the bottom of it.

"Easy, I just have to be touching you to keep it up, all I do is extend my shield over you." She pulled out a pair of white and blue running shoes and put them on.

"If you say so, but how are you going to hide from Meredith and Matt and Caroline, they know what you look like and they'll tell Stefan if they see you." Bonnie asked him. Standing up she checked herself in the mirror and grabbed her book bag off her chair and started down stairs. "And why do you care so much about my well being?"

"Well for one thing, my name's not Damon Salvatore while we're at school. And it's not Smith either." He grinned when she laughed. "And to answer your second question, I don't. I just wanted something bad to do while I'm teaching you this stuff. You can just call me… Markus… Sanchez." She giggled. "What's so funny?"

"That's just what I would have called you, only something better then 'Sanchez'" He grabbed her jacket, and his own leather one that had his keys in the pocket and pushed her out the doorway while she giggled.

"Come on, you. School awaits." he told her, smiling as she looked startled to be lead to his Ferrari.

"We can't ride in that, they know what your car looks like." she told him, looking at him as if he were crazy to want to.

"For one thing, we are not parking on Campus. Secondly, after seeing my car a lot of the local brats wanted one. I've seen three of them, other than my own, prowling the streets. I'm still hidden and you get a nice ride to school. Are you ready?" he asked. She nodded and he thought this girl was a very difficult person to be near.

So why did he stay near her?

She made it almost to lunch before he had to help her out.

'Your doing great, I couldn't make it past two hours when I first started, but then again I was surrounded my more minds then this.' Damon said to her at lunch, feeling a little awkward having to hold her hand all the time. It was almost two, and they'd left just after nine to make it to her first class at Nine thirty. A two hour class that was followed thirty minutes later by a half hour lecture, and an hour movie by the same teacher.

But here they were, in the school cafeteria with all her friends. 'Thanks, I think after lunch you can let go though. I'm feeling better now that I've had something to eat.' Bonnie answered back, and then said out loud. "I can't believe schools back, first day, and we have homework in World History!" she sighed loudly causing the other people at their table to laugh.

Only Lisa was in that class with her, a new friend she'd made, but everyone had heard about what she'd done. "Don't you think it had a little something to do with making a fool out of her?" Meredith said.

"Well I was paying attention, I just had my eyes closed because I was tired, and I didn't get much sleep last night." Bonnie said, yawning.

"Aren't you going to introduce us to your boyfriend?" Matt said teasingly, obviously hurt that he was this close to Bonnie only a few weeks after they'd split. Yes, Bonnie had tried a relationship with Matt, Damon had watched every second of it with amusement. The boy didn't know how to entertain a girl, nor did he know how to act around one.

He smiled and Bonnie giggled. "This guy? Boyfriend?" she giggled again. "This is Marcus Shaman. He just moved here from… Italy was it? Or Greece?" she turned and winked at him.

"No, France." He stated like it was so obvious, and smiled as he pulled the unused French accent out of his voice. He hadn't been to France in a few decades, it was probably time to go back soon.

"Well anyway, this is Meredith, Matt, and Caroline. I'm afraid Lisa will have to introduce the other two, because I've just met them myself."

"That's Scott. "She said, pointing to the boy with blonde hair beside Matt. "And that's Joe-Anne." she gestured to the girl across from him. They all said hi as their names were called.

"I still don't believe you recited half of what she said word for word. Did you see how mad she got at you?" Lisa said finishing off her fries.

"Actually no, I still had my eyes closed, maybe that's why she was so mad." She said, grinning as they laughed. "It's not hard, just read what's in the book, she practically reads from it. She's got that thing memorized. It's like that's her bible or something." There was more laughter.

"Yea, well Marcus, here, didn't help when he asked why she was so red." Damon said pretending to be Scott, laughing again. "I'm surprised she didn't give you both a 'detention'." Damon grinned as they all laughed. They could no longer get this Detention thing, it must be hell.

"I was just being curious," he said as innocently as he could. "I've seen people turn red before, she looked like she could be the cool-aid man's wife." The was a chorus of laughter, even Bonnie was giggling at the joke. And he really felt comfortable here.

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They continued chatting and getting to know each other, planning on hanging out at the same time for lunch the next day when someone's watch went off.

"Oh no, back to class." Caroline pouted, glaring at her watch as if it had told her she was ugly. "I'll see you all tomorrow." they all said bye as she left.

"I should go too." Bonnie said, looking at her own watch. "I think I'm going to go get a couple new notebooks for the rest of my classes. I took four pages of notes in my first class alone!" she sighed dramatically. "Are you going to take me? Or do I have to catch the bus?" she asked, turning to Damon and smiling sweetly at him.

It seemed to work, as Damon picked up both their trays and carried them to the dish washer and then joined her at the doorway leading out.

"Are you sure you'll be all right for the rest of the day?" he asked her holding her books for her while she leant over to retie her shoe.

"Yea, I'll be OK," she said and smiled. "Why are you being so nice?" she asked, after she stood back up and they were walking down the hall.

"I don't know, not many people know me here, I guess I just want to fit in for a little while. Before I move on you know?" he said nonchalantly, a small smile spreading on his lips.

Bonnie stared at him a minute. "That's not the Damon I know." She said quietly, still thinking about what he said, and trying to figure out what he had actually meant by it.

He grinned. "Besides, it's easier to get good meals if people like me and want to be near me. Specially the girls."

"That sounds like the Damon I know." She grinned and gave him a little shove out the doorway towards the outside.

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