"Audrey are you alright?" Elena's hand was on her cheek and she was sitting in the ground. She nodded but everyone looked wobbly. She felt like her head was moving without her own free will. Mister Tanner was knelt down, looking at her. She started to get up and managed to stand on her own. She glanced at her palm, it was bloody. She noticed that Stefan was nowhere to be seen. Elena took her hand and started patching her sister's palm. Everyone was starting to leave around them.
"I guess you are not cheering today?" she questioned.
"No, I was never going to," Audrey said with a small chuckle.
"Ouch," she whined and pulled her hand away from Elena.
"Sorry," Elena said and tied a bandage on Audrey's hand.
"So where's Jeremy?" Audrey questioned and tried to see Elena's face. Her brown hair just was on the way. Elena cleared her throat and raised her gaze with a puckered face.
"I told him to and watch the game," Elena looked at Audrey and tried to smile.
"Look Audrey," she started. Audrey rolled her eyes and sighed deeply.
"Oh god," Audrey said and rolled her eyes, "nothing good ever follows from the words "look" and "Audrey"."
"Just today I found out you and Tyler broke up. Almost the entire school knew before me," she sighed and tried to study Audrey's expression. The bandage was tied on her palm and the bleeding was calming down. She avoided Elena's eye contact, she couldn't face her worried dark brown eyes.
"You have just had so much going on and-"
"Audrey," Elena breathed and took her hand, "I am your sister, you can tell everything to me."
"I know," Audrey smiled and looked into Elena's eyes. Audrey pulled Elena into a hug. They never really hugged and it was an exception that Audrey even touched Elena. Though they were close it was more of a speaking and distant sister-ship. Elena returned the hug and started squeezing even harder.
"Okay," Audrey said and started pulling away from the hug. Elena let her hold go and they faced each other and smiled.
"I'm going to go and change. Are you going home, or?" Elena questioned and started to walk slowly to the dressing rooms. Audrey nodded and started backing up as well.
"I'm heading home. If you see Jeremy please tell him that it's okay," Audrey said before turning her back and walking to the parking lot. It was seriously dark and it was hard for Audrey to see anything. She walked over to her aunt's mini and dug the car's keys up from her pocket. An alarm got off and it startled Audrey so bad that she dropped her keys.
"God dammit," she swore and knelt down to pick them up. Her hand was still aching. She noticed that her dark blue t-shirt had blood on it.
"That wound looks bad," she heard a man state behind her. She quickly got up with her car keys and backed so much that she hit her Aunt's car. She placed her right hand on her chest and breathed heavily.
"You scared me, Damon," Audrey said and glared at Damon's body. Dark clothing made him look, well, dark. He had a wide grin on his face.
"What are you doing here?" she questioned with a loud gulp coming afterwards. Damon chuckled and stared Audrey straight in her eyes.
"I'm hiding from Caroline. She talks more than I can listen," he whispered pretty loudly. Audrey placed her hand on her forehead and wiped it.
"If you seriously came here to bash Caroline I'm not listening," Audrey said and lowered her eyes on the ground.
"I apologize. It was not my intention to make you uncomfortable," he said and lifted his arms in the air in the signs of surrender. Audrey eyed him for a while but then just rubbed her temples and turned around.
"I am not going to do this Damon," she whispered and turned back around. Damon startled her by being few inches away from her.
"Then what are you going to do?" he asked and raised a brow. He was threateningly close and pushing her back against the car.
"I think you will kiss me," he said and Audrey could've sworn his pupils increased and decreased in turns. He leaned in closer and looked so seductive. Audrey didn't know what was drawing her to him but something just was. His lips were so enchanting and she wanted to kiss him suddenly. Their lips touched and his were so soft but masculine. When the kiss continued Audrey started too feel she wanted to back away. She didn't want this, Caroline was her friend she didn't want to do this.
"Damon?!" they heard a high voice shout from a distance of couple of meters. Damon finally let her out of his spell. When Audrey tilted her head to the side she noticed that she was holding the collar of Damon's black leather jacket. She gasped and let go of it. Damon had a wide smirk on his face.
"Oops," he said and shrugged. Audrey glanced at him and felt pure hatred. Caroline was watching Audrey with a trembling lip. Caroline turned around and started running away from the lot with her cheer suite. Audrey laid a death glare on Damon before she started to run after Caroline.
"Caroline!" she shouted after her but Caroline just ran away. Caroline moved behind a corner with her hand before her mouth. Audrey grabbed Caroline by the shoulder and it made her turn around.
"What?" she shouted and looked at Audrey anger filling her eyes.
"I'm done," she sobbed and pushed Audrey away.
"What?"
"You and your sister! You always get the boys, you always say the right things," Caroline had a shivering voice. "I never say the right things and I try so hard."
"That's not true," Audrey tried to convince her friend.
"Yes it is."
"Car-"
"No Audrey. You kissed him!"
"He tricked me, I didn't want to," Audrey stuttered but it had no effect on Caroline. Caroline laughed with her laughter mixed in tears.
"Of course he did. Because no descent guy would ever like me," Caroline said and smiled sadly. Audrey frowned when she noticed blood on Caroline's scarf. Audrey reached onto it and pulled it away from Care's neck. Caroline shivered when it left her neck. Audrey gasped when she noticed it on Caroline's neck. Two bite wounds.
"Did he hurt you Caroline?"
"What?" Caroline seemed to be panicking, "No, of course not. Give me my scarf!" she yelled and took the light green scarf back.
"Caroline that was not nothing!" Audrey tried to grab Caroline by the shoulder but she just shook her off.
"Just leave me alone!" the blonde girl yelled and got away from Audrey's holding distance.
"The only one who should leave you alone is Damon!" Audrey yelled to Caroline who was already running away from her. Audrey sighed and wiped her forehead. What did she do? But most importantly what did Damon do to Caroline?
"Caroline were have you gotten yourself into?" Audrey said to herself and turned around. She was still squeezing her aunt's mini's car keys on her hand, next to her wounded palm. The pain was still stinging but she had other things in her mind than the pain she was going through. Her friend was in danger.
Damon was looking at the girl sleeping calmly in her bed. Her brown hair was messy and she was a really restless sleeper, it made Damon smile slightly. He walked silently closer to her. She moved in the bed, but Damon knew she wouldn't wake up. He was now next to the bed reaching his arm out. Her cheek was slightly rose colored when he touched it it felt warm. It felt human. He caressed the cheek lightly and smiled sadly. The girl inhaled and opened her eyes. Before she could realize Damon was there he was outside the house, walking away.
He wanted to be human again.
