chapter 3.
The next day, Caroline and Bonnie were coming back from school with Elena having a major needed girly sleepover with no boys allowed.
"Bon, you better not bail on us for Jeremy tonight!" Caroline told her friend.
Bonnie laughed, "I won't, promise." She moved her direction to her other friend, Elena, who was staying pretty silent which usually meant something bad was on her mind and she didn't want us to know, "What's wrong?"
Elena looked up from the ground, "Nothing." She faked a smile hoping it was good enough to fool them.
Caroline raised her eyebrows clearly unconvinced, "We're your best friends Lena. You can tell us." and Bonnie nodded in agreement.
She knew she couldn't keep her them knowing something was wrong, but she didn't want to let on what was actually wrong. I mean worrying about Damon was crazy right? But after how he acted yesterday being drunk and in a bad mood she couldn't help but think something was seriously wrong. Instead of telling her friends she kept her worries to herself partly because she didn't want to admit to them that she really cared and worried about Damon but mostly she wasn't really ready to admit that she was starting to have strong feelings for him, "Seriously i'm fine." She kept up her appearances for the rest of the walk home from school, joining in the girly conversations about clothes, makeup etc. Long time ago she would've really cared about those things but not anymore, she had better things to do and care about than what was the latest fashion.
Elena opened the door to her house and saw Jeremy and Alaric in the kitchen chatting. Caroline watched as Bonnie instantly smiled when she saw her boyfriend. "Bonnie!" Caroline moaned.
Bonnie gave a quick smile to her friend and walked over to him.
"You suck Bonnie."
Elena laughed slightly at Caroline's comment, "We'll be upstairs Bon." and Bonnie looked around and nodded, "I won't be long promise." Bonnie pouted.
The two girls wandered up to Elena's bedroom sitting down on her bed.
"Spill, you can tell me. I'm not Bonnie, judgy and what not." Caroline said softly.
Elena sighed, "It's Damon. He was clearly upset yesterday when he came to pick me up but he wouldn't tell me what was wrong. But I know it's something bad and he thinks he's protecting me from keeping me in the dark."
"So you're worrying about the bad vampire are you?" Caroline smirked before looking seriously at her friend, "Look, you know how I feel about Damon. But I also know he's seriously changed now. Why are you so afraid of admitting how you feel about him?"
Elena looked around the room for a moment or two before answering, "Because it's Damon."
"He deserves a chance at being happy and I know for a fact you, Elena Gilbert, make that bad vampire turn into a sweet little bunny."
She laughed at her comment trying to imagine Damon turning into a bunny. She shook her head failing to see it. Just as she was about to reply Bonnie came into the room, "Hey, what did I miss?" She took a seat on the bed beside them. Thankfully for Elena, Caroline decided to keep her mouth shut for once simply replying with "nothing much."
Later that evening, the girls were cuddled up in their pj's watching the notebook and obviously Caroline spent a lot of that time crying or in awe over the characters. Everything felt normal, so much so that Elena almost forgot about her problems and Damon. But obviously that was going to last as Elena's phone started to ring insistently. She finally picked up after trying so hard to ignore whatever problem was happening.
"Hey, I really hope this is just a 'I hope you're okay and having fun' call because I am. And I really don't need some problem to ruin it for me." Elena said into her phone.
But on the other side of the phone completely contrasting Elena's bubbly voice was Alaric, "Elena. I'm sorry, but we have a slight Damon issue."
Elena moved the covers away from her and the girls, and stood up leaving the room so Bonnie and Caroline could carry on watching the film without it being interrupted, "Why what's wrong?" She asked seriously.
Damon's going on a killing spree, well he killed three people tonight Elena. And I managed to stop him. Kept him locked up in the basement where Stefan was once kept but something is wrong. And I bet you'd be able to get through to him."
Elena stayed silent for a moment, before letting out a sigh and replying, "I'll be right over." She walked back in her room grabbing a pair of converse to find all eyes on her.
"Damon?" Bonnie almost sounding like an answer not a question.
Elena stayed silent with a little nod of her head and Bonnie let out a sigh, "Why must you always go running to him?"
This annoyed Elena, he was always running to her and looking after her and now that she felt feelings for Damon. He the very least deserves the same, "He's always here for me Bonnie. Maybe more than you have with the whole looking for Stefan. How can you say that I always go running after him? He'd do the same and more if this was about me!" Elena rose her voice slightly.
"HE'S A VAMPIRE ELENA. WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO GET THAT THROUGH YOUR HEAD! TROUBLE FOLLOWS DAMON WHEREVER HE GOES!" Bonnie almost shouting shocked Caroline and Elena.
"Caroline is a vampire Bonnie! And so was Stefan." Elena started to get really annoyed.
"That's completely different and you know it! Damon feeds on humans Elena. He's bad news!"
"Well I guess I've just made a bad choice then because that bad news is someone I love." The 'I love' never meant to come out of her mouth and now it had she didn't know what to say after that and she wasn't sure Bonnie knew what to say. Caroline just stayed silent. Elena picked up her shoes and her leather jacket quietly and quickly as possible before opening the bedroom door to walk out pausing to look at her two friends, one with a look of disappointment and one with a sympathetic look.
"I'm sorry Bonnie, I can't help it." Elena said softly before closing the door and rushing down the stairs not wanting to waste anymore time. She jumped in her red mini cooper and just sat there for a bit letting a few tears roll down her face. "Now Bonnie must hate me. Will I have to choose between Damon and Bonnie? Because that's something I can't do. Nor do i want to." She took a few moments to compose herself and started the engine driving to the other place she would consider as home.
AN: So this is the third chapter, I really have no idea where i'm going with this story. I literally came up with this chapter in a like an hour. So i'm sorry if it seems a bit rushed and maybe not that great. But, I hate waiting and I didn't want to keep you waiting so here is the next chapter. I have no idea when I'll write the next one. Maybe i'll try tomorrow to write before i have work at 7pm :| anyway...rant.
thanks for reading it means so much to me :)