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Season one. Ep three. Friday Night Bites!
Today I felt good. I didn't feel the need to avoid people and instead I found I wanted to interact with them. I wanted my old life back...And that's exactly what I plan to do today.
Getting ready for school in my own house felt weird but nice. I kept thinking to myself about how much its gonna hurt living in the same house my parents did, instead I found it the opposite. Something about the house was comforting, it felt like my parents were still here looking over all of us. I felt warm and safe with that thought. 'Maybe this wont be so bad'.
"Elena, Bonnie, wait up." I shouted, jogging over to the two girls talking. They slowed their pace to a stop and patiently waited for me to catch up. I wheezed in a breath as i stopped next to Elena. "Man, I'm so unhealthy, it's unreal." I breathed deeply. Bonnie chuckled at me and I glared at her. Her chuckling was cut off my another persons presence.
"Good morning, Elena. Good morning, Bonnie." I heard Stefan say politely. 'It's fine, I'm not here or anything.' Bonnie avoided eye contact with Stefan and fidgeted on the spot.
"Hey, um, I gotta fine Caroline. She's not answering her phone," She looked around anxiously and pointed towards the school building. "So, I'll see you guys later." I watched her retreating back before turning to Elena with a questioning look. Elena let out a sigh.
"I don't think she likes you very much." I said to Stefan. Elena elbowed me giving me a sharp look. I shrugged. "What?" Elena looked away.
"It's not that she doesn't like you, it's just she's my best friend and is looking out for me. She just doesn't know you yet, and when she does, she will love you." Elena said smiling up at Stefan. For a second Elena's eyes smile intensified. "Here's what we're gonna do. Are you free tonight?" She asked.
"Yes."
"Perfect. Diner, my house. 8:00. You, me, Bonnie and Lillie. You guys will spend some quality time to get to know each other and then they can see what a great guys you are. Mission accomplished."
"What?! Why do i have to come? I'm actually going out...So." I pursed my lips and rocked back on the balls of my feet. Elena's eyes narrowed.
"You're not going anywhere. You are staying home with us tonight." She said.
"Nope, sorry. You know, I'm busy." I started backing away.
"Look, your staying in and that's final. I don't trust you'll come back!" She cried. Stefan stood back and stayed quiet to let us have our moment. Elena stared icily at me for a few moments, before I gave in.
"Ugh...Fine. Don't expect me to be nice about it, though."
Elena didn't get to reply because suddenly a ball was flying our way towards Stefan's head. Stefan twisted in his place and caught that ball perfectly before launching it back over to the thrower, Tyler. My Jaw was on the ground. Stefan's catch and throw was spectacular, and it seemed to put Tyler back in his place.
"Dude! That was awesome!" I cheered. Stefan looked at me and smiled, i grinned back.
"Thanks."
"I didn't know you played football." Elena commented.
"I used to. It was a long time ago." An emotion scattered crossed Stefan's eyes for a brief moment before shrugging.
"So, why don't you try our for the team?" She asked.
"Hah, I don't think so."
"So you don't like football?" She frowned slightly looking up at Elena as we started to walk towards the school building."
"No, I love football. I think it's a great sport. But in this case, I don't think football likes me. You saw Tyler over there, and we all know how Matt feels."
"You should go for it. I mean don't worry about them, Tyler's a dick and Matt might not seem like it at the moment, but he's the nicest guy i know." I patted Stefan's shoulder encouragingly.
"Yeah, plus they don't know you. To them, you're mysterious, loner guy. Wouldn't hurt to be a part of something. Make some friends." Elena added.
"Say's the girl who spends her alone time writing in a cemetery." Stefan jokingly retorted.
"Eh, Elena does weird stuff, but there is actually more to her than graveyard girl. Or well there used to be." I said.
Elena nodded. "There is. There's a whole new Elena that you have yet to meet and im working on it."
History used to be my favourite subject until i had the disadvantage of being tossed into Mr Tanners class. He hates me.
"World was 2 ended in... Anyone got anything? Miss Juan?" I sunk as low as i could manage in my chair trying to avoid all eye contact with Mr Tanner. "1945."
Behind me the whispering of Elena and Stefan could be discreetly heard. I strained my ears trying to listen, completely forgetting I was in class as I focused.
"I'm a loner." Stefan whispered sarcastically to Elena. I stifled a giggle.
"Miss Gilbert?" Mr Tanner's voice bought be back into class.
"It wasn't me!" I rushed out as i pushed my self taller in my seat. Mr Tanner's hard stare looked down at me.
"Miss Gilbert, how nice of you to come back and visit us from wherever you have been. Did you finally realise how important History was?" He sneered.
"Oh, but of course, Mr Tanner, I missed you too." I said sarcastically. He glared coldly at me, and moved slowly moved his eyes behind me, to Elena.
"Miss Gilbert? Pearl Harbor?" He raised an eyebrow, challenging her.
"December 7th, 1941." Stefan spoke out.
"Thank you, Miss Gilbert." Mr Tanner commented.
"Anytime." I giggled at Stefan's response and he smiled over at me.
"Very well. The fall of the Berlin wall?" Mr Tanner demanded.
"1989...I'm good with dates, sir."
"Are you? How good? Keep it to the year. Civil rights act?"
"1964."
"John F. Kennedy assassination?"
"1963."
"Martin Luther King?"
"'68"
"Lincoln?"
"1865."
"Roe vs. Wade?"
"1973."
"Brown vs. Board"
"1954."
"The battle of Gettysburg?"
"1863."
"Korean war?"
"1950 to 1952."
"Ha! It ended in '52!" Tanner exclaimed pointing at Stefan. Stefan cleared his throat slightly.
"Uh, actually, sir, it was '53"
"Look it up, somebody. Quickly." He instructed. Multiply students pulled their phones out and started tapping away. Some kid I don't ever remember seeing before spoke up.
"It was 19...53."
The look on Tanner's face bought a gleeful smile to my lips as I clapped away with everyone else, congratulating Stefan on out doing Mr Tanner.
"Elena , please. Cheerleading sucks." I stuck out my bottom lip and gave her the puppy eyes.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure you were a cheerleader as well before you left." I stayed silent and Elena laughed.
"Oh, my god! You're both here!" Bonnie squealed.
"Yay us." I muttered.
"Yep. I can't be sad girl forever. The only way to get things back to the way they were are to do things that were. And Lillie's here because it's fun tormenting her." Elena informed smiling.
"Bitch."
"Oh, and you're coming to dinner tonight."
"I am?" Bonnie asked.
"Mm-hmm. You, me and Stefan. You have to give him a chance." Bonnie started shaking her head before Elena finished and she sighed.
"Tonight's no good. Have you seen Caroline? I texted her like a hundred times." Bonnie looked around searching for her blonde friend and Elena poked her in the side.
"Dont change the subject, Bonnie Bennet. You're going to be there." She instructed.
Bonnie turned her head my way. "Are you there?" She asked.
"unfortunately."
"Well then, I can tell you don't want to be there as much as I do. We can be unhappy about it together." I smiled at Bonnie.
"It's a plan."
"Seriously, where is Caroline?" Bonnie looked down at her phone again.
"I don't know. It's not like her. Try her again." Elena said.
"If you keep texting and phoning it's gonna start being on the border of harassment." I advised. Neither of them acknowledged me and continued to phone. The purring of a car engine made all three of us look up. There Caroline was, getting out of beautiful black convertible.
"Uh..." Elena's jaw dropped.
"Oh, my God. That much be the mystery guy from the grill." Bonnie assumed.
"Actually, that's Damon Salvatore... He's an arse." I put bluntly, standing up dusting my shorts off.
"Salvatore? As is Stefan?" Bonnie asked Elena.
Caroline strutted over after giving Damon a kiss. "I got the other brother. Hope you don't mind." Caroline grinned at us, dropping her bag and walking to the front of the rest of the cheerleaders. " Sorry I'm late, girls. I, uh, was busy. All right, let's start with the double herkey hurdler, what do you say?"
As Caroline was instructing the cheerleader i stayed standing on the spot refusing to participate in the stupid activity. I walked over to the fence and watched the football practice that Stefan was running over to join. I'm glad that he was taking Elena's advice and being part of the team...He was good. He was better than good, it looked like he had been playing for a Very long time, and it wasn't a bad sight to watch.
I was walking down the stairs when the doorbell rang. I skipped down the last few and answered the door. Stefan stood there looking slightly awkward. I smiled warmly up at him and he returned it.
"Hey there, loner. You're just on time...I think." I opened the door wider giving Stefan room to enter. Once he was over the threshold i pushed the door closed.
"Loner?" He asked with his left eyebrow raised slightly.
"Yep." Popping the p. "Kitchen's this way." I strolled down the hall, Stefan right on my tail. "Eleeeena." I sing-song. "Your guest is here."
All four of us sat at the table in silence, awkwardly stabbing at the pasta that sat on our plates.
"Did Tanner give you a hard time today?" Elena asked, attempting conversation.
"Well, he let me on the team, so i must have done something right." Stefan replied.
"haha, doubt it. No one ever does anything right in Tanner's books." I claimed laughing. Stefan lips twitched upwards.
"Bonnie, you should have seen Stefan today. Tyler threw a-" "Yeah I heard."
"We'll this is going swell." I stated.
"Bonnie why don't you tell Stefan about your family?" Elena encouraged, nudging her lightly.
"Um, divorced. No mom, living with my dad." She explained. I laughed and all three heads turned towards me.
"Sorry." I mumbled.
"About the witches." Elena whispered.
"Witches?" I asked.
"Yeah, Bonnie's family has a lineage of witched. It's really cool."
"Cool isn't the word I'd use." Bonnie said bitterly.
"Well it's certainly interesting. I'm not too versed, but I do know that there's a history of celtic druids that migrated here in the 1800s." Stefan added. Bonnie looked up at Stefan for the first time the entire night and she seemed interested.
"My family came in the way of Salem." She admitted sheepishly.
"Really? Salem witches?" Bonnie smiled at him as they engaged in conversation.
"Seems like your little get together is working well." I whispered to Elena.
Bonnie and Stefan's conversation was cut of by tha door bell ringing again.
"Seriously Elena, who'd you invite now?" I asked standing up and pushing my chair back to give me room to move from the table.
"No one." She replied.
The door bell rang again.
"Geez. Impatient much?" I opened the door to reveal a smiling Caroling and a smirking Damon. I groaned inwardly. 'Could my night get any better?' i asked myself bitterly.
"Surprise! Bonnie said you were doing dinner, so we brought desert." Caroline exclaimed excitedly. She thrust the desert into my arms and barged her way inside. Damon on the other hand stayed standing at the door. 'Well at least he has some kind of manners.'"
"Hope you don't mind." He said.
"Yeah, well i do." I expressed.
"What are you doing here?" Stefan's voice made me jump out of my skin. He gently put a reassuring hand on my shoulder.
"Waiting for Ann to invite me in." I fakely smiled.
"Oh course, Damon, why don't you," I started dropping my smile, "Go away." Damon Frowned.
"Damon can't stay anyway. Can you Damon?" Stefan Questioned.
"Get in here." Caroline ordered from the living room.
"Sure invite random people into my house. I'm perfectly fine with it." I muttered. "Look fine, whatever. Come in." Damon's smirk made another appearance as he slowly stepped over the threshold giving Stefan a look of achievement.
"You have a beautiful home, Ann." Damon praised.
"mmm-hmmm" I turned my back on him and walked in to the living room with everyone else.
I sat in the arm-chair stiff as a board. Something about Damon made me uncomfortable. I zoned out of the conversation for a while and the just got bored. I stood up and decided to go do the dishes. I didn't even want to be here anyway.
I found doing dished very therapeutic. It was relaxing. I hummed along to a tune I didn't recognize and swayed my hips left and right.
"One more." A voice whispered in my ear. A shrill escaped me as i spun on my heels to face to chest with Damon. I tilted my head and scowled.
"Thanks."
"I like you." He stated. I looked at him like he was crazy.
"Wish I could say that same."
"You're different. There's something familiar about you and I like it," He paused and looked thoughtful, "I think Stefan like it as well. He's seemed to have taken quite a liking to you and your sister." He looked me up and down and his smirk never faltered.
"We'll what can I say...We're awesome." I shrugged like it was nothing and continued on with the last few dishes.
"You and Elena remind me on someone." He said from behind me.
"Yeah? And who would that be?"
"Kathrine." He said simply.
"Mmmm. Kathrine. I like that name." I admitted. He didn't answer. I knew who he was talking about, I heard parts of the conversation from the other room before.
"How'd she die?" I asked quietly.
"In a fire. Tragic fire." He answered. Some of my hate faded with hearing the pain in his voice. Who ever this girl was, he had lover her and lost her, and i knew how it felt to lose someone you loved. I turned and lent against the sink, giving him a small smile.
"What was she like?" I urged. He looked down at me and for a brief second his smirk was replaced by a smile. He looked away as he thought.
"She was beautiful. A lot like you." I yelled at my self mentally as my cheeks started turning a light pink. "She was very complicated and selfish and times not very kind, but very sexy and seductive." He wagged his eyebrows and I couldn't help but laugh slightly.
"See you're not all hate, you can be nice." He pointed.
"Yeah, don't get used to it." I said. " So which one of you dated her first?" Now it was my turn to smirk as my question seemed to have caught Damon of guard.
"Depend who you ask, im pretty sure Stefan's answer differs from mine." He simply shrugged. "I'd quite cheerleading if i were you."
"Yeah, already on it. I have no clue what I was thinking when i signed up." I said.
"I'm pretty sure you were thinking about Elena." He probed. One corner of my mouth pulled up as i thought of the old times and how close me and Elena were. He was right. I joined cheerleading because Elena wanted to and we always did things together.
"I hate to admit this, but you right. Things are different this year though, me and Elena aren't the same people we used to be." I reluctantly admitted.
"Everyone changes Ann, sometimes it's for the better. Granted, that's not always how it is, but you need to embrace the change." He advised.
"Thanks Damon...And i'm sorry about Kathrine. You lost her, too." Damon was speechless, and just stared intently at me as if searching through my heavy soul.
"Hey. Need some help? Bonnie asked, poking her head around the corner.
"Sure, why not." Damon answered.