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0000 time pass

— — ? — — change in POV

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MINE: Claimed!

Jeremy was running. He was in the forest and he was running fast. He didn't know where he was running to or what he was running from, all he knew was that he was running.

"Jeremy…" Jeremy turned quickly, trying to find the voice that had just called him and when he couldn't find it, he turned and continued to run. "Jeremy…" Jeremy didn't look back this time, this time he just kept on going, not wanting whatever it was he was running from to get to him. "Jeremy…" Jeremy collided with something and it sent him flying backwards.

"Jeremy Gilbert," a female voice said. Jeremy looked up and saw a woman looking down at him, smiling slyly.

"Who are you?" Jeremy asked, backing away from her.

"It doesn't matter who I am… I see…"

"Who are you?"

She laughed, high and sweet but filled with malice all the same.

"You know, you're a problem. The sooner I get rid of you— —" Jeremy's eyes widened at those words.

"What? What do you want from me?"

"You're a distraction. You're a problem. You're a lot of things."

"Please let me go."

"I'll warn you once, Jeremy Gilbert. Stay away from Lockwood and we won't have a problem."

— 00000 —

"Morning, Gilbert."

Jeremy sighed opening his locker.

"What do you want, Tyler?" Jeremy grumbled, annoyed at the guy for obvious reasons and a little scared because of his dream.

"I just said morning, didn't I? Seriously… hey, I see you're… marks went away." Tyler smirked, inspecting Jeremy's neck closely. The teen was tempted to smack Tyler, but let it go, he was really not in the mood for Tyler and his bullshit. "How'd you do it?"

"Why do you keep bothering me? Don't you have anything else to do?" Tyler shrugged, leaning against the locker next to Jeremy's and grinned at him.

"What are you doing later?"

"I'm going to the movies with Mike."

"Oh… how… nice."

Jeremy smiled, hiding behind his locker door so Tyler wouldn't see.

"So… you missed a mark."

Jeremy shut his locker and glared at the shorter boy. He'd tried everything he could to get the damned mark off, but it hadn't worked and if he was being honest, he was pretty sure it was more than a few broken blood vessels. Tyler smiled smugly knowing he'd gotten Jeremy.

"Mosquito bite," Jeremy mumbled.

"Is that what you're going to tell everyone?"

"It's the truth."

"I'm sure it is." Jeremy was a little surprised when he felt arms circle around his middle.

"Hey, sexy," Mike whispered kissing Jeremy's neck. Tyler glared at them, letting out a low, angry growl sounding just this side of animalistic.

"Did you just… did you just growl?" Jeremy asked looking at Tyler surprised. Tyler didn't reply because he and Mike were having a stare down.

"Lockwood," Mike greeted.

"Cowry," Tyler replied icily. They continued to stare at each other till Jeremy cleared his throat. "Well… I gotta get to class. Oh! And hey Gilbert, you should get that bite looked at, you never know what those mosquitoes are carrying." Then Tyler walked away with a satisfied grin.

"What bite?"

"Just a mosquito bite," Jeremy said, shrugging it off, fighting the urge to move his hand to the hickey. "It's nothing."

"Mosquito bite?" Mike sounded sceptical but didn't seem to push it.

"Yeah… don't worry about it, it's nothing, seriously."

"Yeah… okay." Mike took Jeremy's hand and they walked to Jeremy's classroom. "I'll meet you in the cafeteria at lunch."

"Yeah… No problem." Mike pulled Jeremy closer and kissed him deeply.

"Later, babe."

"Aha…" Mike kissed him once more before he walked off to his own class and Jeremy walked into his, feeling guilty about lying.

00000

Jeremy was sitting at the bleachers watching Mike and the rest of the football team practising. Elena, Bonnie, Caroline, Stacey and two of her friends joined him after their cheerleading practise was over and they all sat and watched the boys play.

"Isn't this awesome?" Caroline said, smiling at everyone at the bleachers.

"Isn't what awesome?" Bonnie asked.

"This… this whole thing, you know… all of it." They all looked at Caroline confused. The blonde rolled her eyes at everyone though she didn't stop smiling. "Never mind."

"So, Jeremy," Stacey said, smiling at him sweetly. "How are you and Mike doing?"

"Great," he said nodding his head, not looking towards the girl. Elena gave him a sincere sisterly smile and Jeremy pulled a face to which they both laughed. Jeremy then turned to Stacey, giving her his best smile. "How are you and Lockwood?"

"Awesome, we're awesome."

Yes, that's why he's trying to get in my pants, coz you're doing awesome, Jeremy thought to himself. "Great…" There was an awkward silence. Caroline suddenly gasped, standing up in her surprise. Jeremy looked up at her and saw that she was looking at the field. He looked too. There was a bit of a brawl going on down there but he couldn't see much since a circle had been formed around the fighters.

"Did Tyler just punch Mike?" Bonnie asked, she too shocked by what she'd just witnessed.

"What?" Jeremy got up and rushed down to the field, followed close by, by the girls.

"What the fuck is your problem, Lockwood?!" Mike shouted, shoving Tyler hard.

"You're my problem, Cowry!" Tyler said while shoving Mike back. The coach blew his whistle and both boys grunt holding their ears and turning away from the noise.

"Stop it!" the coach shouted angrily. "You know what, I'm sick of this. Lockwood, you're off for the next five games, got it."

"What?! But coach— —" Tyler started.

"No, I'm sick of your nonsense, Lockwood. You've punch Cowry before and I gave you a warning, now I'm benching you. Five games, Lockwood."

"You can't put me on the bench!"

"I can and I did. You are not playing for the next five games and that's final."

"But coach— —"

"And that's final, Lockwood." The coach blew his whistled. "Practise is over. Everyone hit the showers." He blew the whistle again then the rest of the team went off to the showers while Elena and the other girls walked off.

"Are you okay?" Jeremy asked Mike, who was wiping blood off his chin.

"I'm okay, Jeremy, don't worry," Mike said, smiling down at his worried boyfriend.

"Are you sure?"

"It takes more than one punch to take me down, Jer. I'm fine, promise."

"Okay… okay. Well, um… you should probably go shower now. I'll wait for you at the parking lot."

"Yeah… okay." Mike kissed Jeremy quickly then went off to the showers. Jeremy walked to the parking lot and sat down by Mike's car. He was looking down at his phone when he felt someone stand before him. He looked up and saw a woman—who looked very familiar—smiling down at him.

"Hi," she said.

"Um… hi?" he answered, putting his phone away.

"I'm Jules." She put out her hand. Jeremy looked at it sceptically for a moment before he shook it.

"Um… I'm Jeremy."

"I know who you are." She sat down beside Jeremy. "So tell me, Jeremy… you and Tyler Lockwood…?" she made a gesture with her face that clearly indicated at something sexual.

"There is nothing going on between me and Tyler Lockwood."

"Oh. Is that right?" She was faking surprise and confusion. She was more curious then surprised.

"Yeah… That is right."

"I see… it's weird though."

"What's weird?" Jeremy looked at her when she didn't answer. He noticed she was looking at the mark on his shoulder. He pulled his hoody over the mark and cleared his throat awkwardly, looking away from her. She laughed out loud and Jeremy turned to look at her.

"Hmm…" She looked away. "Tyler… That sneaky bastard."

"Excuse me?"

"Do you like Tyler?"

"No." I love him– no I don't! Jeremy shook his head.

"You don't? Are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure."

"Hmm… I see." They spotted Tyler walking towards his car. "You know what I think."

"No, what do you think?"

"I think you're in love with him." Jeremy blanched, because what? Did everyone know he was in love with Lockwood?

"I— —"

"You are so clueless though… Oh, and just by the way, whatever is going on with Michael Cowry…" she sucked in air through her teeth. "…danger… Expect Tyler to act out. After all… you have been claimed." And with that she got up and joined Tyler. They spoke for a few moments, Jules throwing a look Jeremy's way before she and Tyler got in the car and drove away.

Jeremy sat there for a few minutes, trying to figure out what the hell she meant with all that stuff she'd just said before shaking his head and figuring to just let it go. Too much weird shit was going on. He was not in the mood to deal with any of it.

"Hey, hot stuff," Mike said smirking at Jeremy. Jeremy smiled, getting up and dusting his pants off. "What's up?"

"It's nothing," he lied.

"Yeah… okay…" Mike didn't sound too convinced but he left it alone, he always just left it alone and Jeremy was ever grateful for that. "Are ready to go?"

"Yeah… let's go." They got into Mike's car and Mike drove them to Mystery Grill for dinner.

…TBC…

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