CHAPTER 2
After few weeks, one afternoon, once again the door was being banged upon loudly. Damon opened the door and again his breath stopped. Violet was standing in front of him with bags full of her stuff. She came in and said, "Please bring my other bags in and show me my room." Damon said,"What are you talking about?" She replied, "Thank you for getting me a job at the bar but that couldn't pay my hotel expenses and so I was kicked out. I have nowhere to go because I am broke right now, again! And I couldn't think anywhere else to go in this small town." She said a bit dramatically. Damon asked, "Where does all your money go?" She said defensively, "I need to buy stuff! You know, there's so much expensive stuff out there. I cannot compel shopkeepers, unlike you!" Damon sighed and found best to say no word further. He showed her a spare room which was just a wall apart to his room. Till the end of the week that large room had been fully decorated and customized according to Violet's style in black and purple colors with a hint of pink.
Damon knocked at her room's door. She said,"It's open." As Damon opened the door, he had to blink a few times. The room was so bright and dazzled. Everything was neatly and systematically put up. No posters hung on walls, nothing stuffed or cramped in corners. Just neat and tidy and spacious. He said,"Well, one's room says a lot about oneself." She gave him looks. He continued, "Anyways I came to tell you that you got admission in Fell's High School. You can join from tomorrow. All thanks to my compulsion." And he gave a brief, brilliant, enigmatic smile. "Thank you Damon. No one has ever done so much for me before. Not even my family. You really are a great and caring person." She was saying and Damon cut her in between, "Whoa...Whoa... Stop it right there. Stop that emotional drama. Don't you ever dare tell anyone about this otherwise I will stop treating you good." "Oh yeah? Well come on. Then let's see it." Violet answered back. Damon gave her a slight smile, his usual cool twist of lips and went away.
Next morning Violet was all set to start school. She was in the same year as Bonnie, Caroline ,Elena and Matt. As she reached school, the three best friends confronted her. Caroline asked, "So you are the one who tricked Damon?" Bonnie elbowed Caroline in her ribs and she shut up saying, "What?" Violet answered raising her eyebrows, " Uh.. yes, I think so.. and I am happy to do so." Matt passed by and he called, "Hey Violet!" She ran towards him and hugged him. Matt smiled at the trio and went away with Violet while talking to her. Elena saw all this open mouthed and whispered to Bonnie and Caroline, "What is all this? Is this stranger with weird eyes going to strip us of all our friends?" Bonnie said with a smile, "Damon's not our friend. And Matt works with her in the bar. Don't worry you have got us." Caroline added, "And it's good that because of her Damon's off your back now." With Caroline's words, Elena felt a twitch. Bonnie asked while changing the topic, "So tell us Caroline, how are things between you and Tyler?" Caroline waved her hand and said, "Same as usual. You tell us, is it true that you and Jeremy have broken up?" "Yes." , Bonnie said with a sad face, "this is better as he is even going out of state for some time for his safety."
When Stefan got to know about Violet, he asked Damon, "So brother, what is this on that side of your room's wall?" Damon calmly answered, "That is Violet and her room. She will be living with us now." Stephan questioned again, "O-kay. So tell me when did you start doing charity for homeless persons?" Damon sneered ,"I am not doing charity!" Stephan further questioned, "Then is all this for one special girl?" Damon said irritated, "i don't know! Now don't you have anything to do right now? Your hunting game with animals? Or stuff with your little lovely love Elena?" "All right, I am going. But I must tell you brother, you are lucky to have a girl like Violet. You should never let her go.", Stephan smiled and went away thinking, 'It is good that he has finally got a girl in his life. Atleast now I don't have to worry about him going after Elena all the time."
When Stephan and Damon came home a Sunday afternoon, they saw their house thoroughly cleaned. Violet was standing in the hall wearing a French maid apron and ordering few people waving with a brush in her hand. They all were following her orders and putting everything at place. Damon thought she looked cute in that outfit. The two brothers stared at her in disbelief. Violet said, "What? I found some money in the basement so I thought why not use it in getting this house cleaned up! Also I am allergic to many things and I don't like living in a dirty environment." Damon closed his eyes and frowned and asked,"Did you use all of the money you found? " She said with a smile,"Of course" Stephan started laughing at Damon. Violet started to go back to her room but stopped in between, turned around and said, "Oh Stephan, your room was the untidiest in the whole house. Take care from now on. I will not get it cleaned again." Stephan's smile was wiped away and it was Damon's turn to smirk. Both brothers then ran to their rooms and the whole house including the basement to see if there was anything 'missing'. But instead everything was shining clean and systematically organised. And thanks to this human girl, now their house had a well maintained kitchen too.
Even though Damon thought himself as the master chef of this house, he had to admit that there was no terrible cook in this world than Violet. He started giving her cooking lessons after she almost killed the brothers with her dishes. Stephan left the house with an excuse, the moment he put a spoonful of Violet's food. But Damon had to bear with it because of the look on her face. After that both avoided her food. But Violet had started getting better lately, after taking lessons from Damon.
One night Damon was in his room, reading somsome classic novels. Violet came with some papers in her hands. She was about to knock at the room's door but pulled back, thinking this is not a right time. She was about to go when Damon called from inside, "You can come in. I am not doing anything 'suspicious'." Violet came in and said, "Well.. umm.. When I got your room cleaned up, I noticed you read many literary works. So I thought maybe you could read my poems and tell me if they are good enough to be published?" Damon looked at her and she was looking back with pleading eyes. He sighed and took 2 bundles of papers and looked at them. He asked, "Are these all poems?" She nodded. He again asked,"Are they all written by you?" She said, "Yes." He looked at her as if something was suspicious, "From when did you start writing?" She said while trying to remember something, "A very long long time ago, I think." He shook his head sideways and said, "These are too many poems to be written in such a young age as yours. What are you, a printing machine? Anyways, I will try to read them all and tell you my opinion." Violet sprang up with joy and said, "Thank you. So tell me all about it in the morning. Have a poetical night!" She grinned. Damon sat with wide eyes and shouted, "What so you mean by 'in the morning'? When will I sleep? I need sleep too, you know. Hello?" But she was already gone.