I wake up to a bright and sunny day, and feel more refreshed than I have in a long time. I look out my bedroom window and see that my mom's car is in the driveway. Putting the worried thoughts I had about my parents last night behind me I walk downstairs with a smile on my face, and see both my parents standing in the kitchen. "What are you so happy about?" My dad asks me. "Didn't you want to come home last because you were upset?" Instead of answering him right away I chose my words carefully before I speak. "I was a little upset, but I decided to put it behind me." I plan on telling Matt how I feel but I want to take the weekend to think about what I'm going to say to him. "Alright well i'm glad you're in a better mood today. We all know what you're like when you get cranky." My mom says. I think she know the real reason I wanted to come home last night but i'm glad she doesn't bring it up. She knows how I feel about Matt, and has told me a few times that I just need to get it over with and tell Matt that things aren't working out between us.
"So how did you get home last night? I know we were supposed to pick you up, but by the time we were in the car you had sent me another text saying that you had found another ride home." My mom says, with a hint of curiosity on her face. "I asked Bonnie to bring me home since she was already at the party. I didn't want to bother her earlier since it seemed like she was having so much fun with Caroline, but after it seemed like you guys weren't coming I asked her if she wouldn't mind giving me a ride." I knew I couldn't tell my parents about getting a ride home from Damon, my dad would kill him and my mom would kill me. I never lie to my parents, and I had just lied to them twice because not only did Bonnie not give me a ride, but Caroline also wasn't even at the party. If my parents thought I was lying they didn't say anything which is good for me. I really don't feel like getting grounded right now. I leave my parents downstairs and go to call Bonnie and let her know that if my parents ask her about giving me a ride home to just go with it. Of course Bonnie had all these questions about how I had really gotten home, but I told her that it could wait until Monday. Might as well get everything done in one day.
On Monday morning while on my way to school I'm already starting to feel really nervous, I didn't hear from Matt all weekend, and even though I told him I would talk to him today it's very unlike him to not try and talk to me. The one person I did hear from this weekend was Damon. He asked me to meet him at the Grill today at four o'clock. I never gave him an answer even though a big part of me wants to go, because another part of me thinks that it's a bad idea. I like Damon and I feel like we could be good friends, and it be nice to get someone else's input and advice on my life without it being someone I've known since I was little. But the other part of me is saying that if Matt finds out about me meeting up with Damon and he'll automatically assume that's the real reason I broke up with him. Oh well, at least I have the whole school day to decide what I'm going to do.
When I walk into the school building I turn the corner and immediately see Bonnie waiting by our lockers.I walk up slowly desperately wanting to avoid the Q&A I know i'm about to get into with her. As soon as I reach Bonnie I am bombarded with questions. "How'd you get home? Why were you and Matt fighting? Why do you need me to cover for you?" She asks, and the questions just keep coming. "Woah. Woah. Bonnie slow down. I can only answer one question at a time. I got a ride from someone near the party. Me and Matt were fighting about the only thing we ever fight about. And because I don't want my parents to get mad at me for getting a ride from someone I had just met." I say hoping she'll only register the part about Matt. "What do you mean someone near the party?" Of course that's the only part she cares to talk about. "When I walked away from Matt to text my parents, there was a guy standing in the middle of the road. He asked me what was wrong and I told him. Then we ended up talking for a bit, and when I told him my parents were supposed to be coming to get me but it didn't look like they were going to show so he asked me if I wanted him to give me a ride." I tell her. "Let me get this straight you got a ride home from a random stranger who was just creeping on you in the middle of the street? And what else did you find time to talk about while he was planning on how he was going to kill you?" She practically yells. "Bonnie calm down I'd rather not have the whole school knowing about this, and it wasn't like that, he was really nice and not creepy at all. He was definitely a lot nicer than you're being right now." I say. Now that I think about it the only creepy thing about him was that he was wearing mostly black. "You mean you don't want Matt knowing about this, but why does it matter if you're planning on breaking up with him anyways?" After that Bonnie slams her locker and walks off to her first class, and I'm left dealing with the mess I made, because as soon as I turn around I see Matt standing right behind me.