Chapter 3

Hope you enjoy this coming chapter. This chapter introduces you to an OC called Eric. I will try to update regularly.

In her head, which was reality, she had a vision thought out on how she was going to burn Damon into shreds and completely wipe him out from the face of the earth. In her dreams, it was totally different. Can a vampire cast a spell? She had a ridiculous thought. Of course not! She assured herself.

It's like I'm not me

Elena saw Bonnie from afar and decided to walk up to her and greet her no matter what the response might be. She didn't care! She wanted her friend back, she missed her so much.

"Bonnie.." She said without knowing what else to add on to the sentence.

"Elena. Hey." Bonnie replied. Her tone was not a excited one. Elena just started without hesitating. "Bonnie, I just want you to know, I am sorry about everything, I know that as long as I am associated with the Salvatore's, you can't and won't have anything to do with me. I just want you to know how much I love you and miss you. Our friendship still means the world to me. Please always know that. No matter what! Okay?"

Bonnie nods in agreement to that statement and walks away sadly without saying a word. Elena is broken and Stefan walks up from behind to comfort his girlfriend.

"It's okay; she and you will be okay soon." He assures her.

Bonnie had always been strong willed and independent but lately she has been feeling so vulnerable and lonely. The void that the death of her grandmother's death had left in her is just so huge. She herself doubts she would ever be her strong willed cheerful self again. How could that one person in the world who loved her genuinely just be gone in a few moments .Her mind kept replaying all these thoughts and toiling with her emotions; she could not take it anymore.

A normal person in her position would just contemplate suicide but for Bonnie, she somehow held on to that little bit of strength she had in her. Now with her powers slowly growing deeper, it gave her the will to carry on. She wanted to carry on for Grams.

She decided to take a night walk as she could not sleep. Bad idea. She thought to herself. As she spotted, the irritating force that never seems to leave her alone.

"Hi, Bonnie. So you thought your wailing and screaming would scare me away from you did you?" Damon Salvatore asks her, his facial expression as irritating as ever to her. His voice bugs her. His eyes leave her speechless. Oh God, why?

"Do me or rather yourself a favor Demon Salvatore! Go bug someone who doesn't have the power to burn you into pieces, literally!" Bonnie says trying to act tough.

"Impressive name calling; I've always preferred demon over Damon. Well Bonbon, or little witch as I prefer to call you, I will have you drinking at the palm of my hands or rather you will have me drinking from the palm of your hands before you could do that." He says as he moves closer to her and strokes her hair with his hands and moves down to her face and slowly letting go, without taking his eyes off of hers. She starts to feel a sudden chill run down her spine, as her heart skips a beat consecutively. He moves in closer with his lips almost touching hers, she tries to avoid eye contact but he catches her glance and says "You are being watched. So you should really be aware of your surroundings." With that he vanishes into the dark.

What did he mean by that? She asks herself. He is watching me that's for sure, because he doesn't seem to stop stalking me. If so, who and what was watching her. She wondered. She decides to go home and keep herself safe as even though she does not trust him, she took his word seriously.

There was no one to protect her anymore. Her dad was hardly around and even when he was he never really bothers much. She had to stand on her own two feet. Even though Caroline is there for her, she has Matt to attend to because she loves him too much to even spend too much time away from him. Bonnie was surrounded with danger she knew of and did not know of.

She just wanted to put the fear aside and just let her hair down for one night and that she did. The next night that she could not sleep, she asked Caroline out for some drinks and dancing.

"Finally, some girls night out time. I'm glad you are finally getting yourself back up. I wanted to call Elena, but.." Caroline stopped there.

"No offense Car, I just don't need her right now." Bonnie was straightforward with her blonde friend.

"None taken! I understand where you are coming from." She replies.

" Don't look now, but a hot brunette is totally staring at you right now." Caroline alerts her friend.

"I hope it's not Damon. He's been stalking me." Bonnie jokes.

"Gosh, just pretend that, that psycho does not exist okay? Even if , you know you dream about him. "

"It's a nightmare Caroline not a dream. He's a demonic force bugging my life who's just the most unfriendly person that no one can approach." Bonnie states.

"You speak as if you know me so well. Have you been stalking me? " Damon sneaks up on them.

"Get lost freak." Caroline tries to chase him off but fails to do so.

"Hi Caroline, nice to see you too." Damon adds a little bit of his usual sarcasm.

Bonnie pretends not to see him there and just sips her drink without looking up Damon gets her signal,just smiles and walks away. Caroline leaves Bonnie a while after that to go to the ladies. Just then she feels a presence near her as she is sipping her drink. She looks up to see the brunette, tanned gentleman that Caroline had been referring to earlier.

"Hi, I noticed that you had dropped this." He picks up her cellphone that she had dropped without realizing that she did.

"Oh my gosh. Thank you. Thank you so much. I have been really very ignorant lately of my surroundings." She had no idea why she had said that.

" Aren't we all? I am Eric by the way." He reaches out to give her a handshake. She rises up and introduces herself returning the handshake.

"Hey Eric, I am Bonnie. Once again, thank you" Eric acknowledges her appreciation.

"Could I buy you another drink? You seem really thirsty. " Eric says as he noticed her sipping really hard on her drink.

"Um not really and I am sorry I am with a fr……." Caroline cuts her off.

"Sure, she is happy to. Go ahead I'll be fine. Matt's coming in a while if you don't mind and he's cute." Caroline says to her friend to convincing her to get to know the young gentleman a bit better.

"Yeah,sure! " Bonnie says to Eric and she moves over to his table.

They spend the whole night talking and Bonnie is surprised about all the natural things they have in common. Supernaturally she is a witch, which of course he will never find out, at least so soon. Damon sees them from afar and slowly takes his leave. At that moment Matt arrives and Caroline and him decide to go some place else but Bonnie feels that it is alright for her to stay with Eric for a while, as he had promised to take her home.

"Wow, for someone who had just lost her grandmother, someone who you said is really close to your heart, you are strong." Eric says to her as they are in his car on the way to her house.

" Yeah, I just need to stay strong you know, or I will fade away in a instance." Bonnie states.

"So who is that guy you were very obviously trying not to acknowledge just now?" Eric asks her.

"Damon? Oh he is just a leech who is a friend's boyfriend's brother." She rolls her eyes while saying that.

"Okay, leech is a strong word. Well, I will make sure he stays out of your way the next time he comes around. " Bonnie laughs at the comment and the car stops in outside Bonnie's house. " Thank you, for the drink and the company. Oh yeah for the ride as well. I had fun." Eric smiles agreeing.

He then looks into her eyes and leans closer. Slowly they both kiss and Bonnie pulls away after a while.

"I, I am really tired. See you soon. " She smiles at him and exits the car.

He watches as she enters her house and then drives off slowly. Bonnie feels real good about everything and goes to bed. This guy seems like the sweetest thing I have ever met. She thinks to herself.