AN: thank you to all who reviewed! This is really amazing, how much you guys like this story! It makes me smile! But I hate to tell you bad news: this story will more than likely end soon. Not so soon as in the next chapter, but soon as in the amount of chapters that are coming up are limited… so sad, but you guys made this story to be what it is! So thank you all so much for that!
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Bonnie POV
Damn homework. Why must teachers in high school give us so much? It was pure, unadulterated evil! I was currently working on calculus- the third out of five things I was assigned to do- when the doorbell rang. I quickly sprung up from my seat, happy to have an excuse to give my brain a rest, to answer it.
I'm not entirely sure who I was expecting, but I was surprised to see Damon standing at the door… along with a vampire version of Elena. Her fangs were slightly indenting into her lips, easily giving her away. What shocked me most though- believe it or not, it wasn't the she vamp at my door- was Damon. His eyes, more specifically his pupils, were wide as if in a trance. His face was completely calm and un-Damon like- as if he had been put under a spell.
I stared at the blonde vampire, "Uh, not to seem rude or anything, but who are you and what do you want?" I quizzed.
"Me? You mean you don't already know? Well, my dear, I am Katherine," the blonde now known as Katherine said. Who the hell was she?
"and, as for why I am here, it is simple. I just simply want to meet the young woman that stole my Damon's heart. Is that such a crime?" Wait. her Damon? I think not. That one little sentence of hers got me on edge.
"Yes, you little squirt, MY Damon. I was his first love! ME! And, you know what they say: a first love never dies."
If I was unsure about her vampire-ness, now I was positive. No other creature that I knew of could read minds. Her doing that just officially gave it all away.
"Now, " Katherine continued, "let's have Damon tell us the whole story. What do you say?"
Without waiting for an answer, she pushed him forward, making him barrel directly into me. Luckily, whatever hold she had on him seemed to disappear. His eyes returned back to normal and shock registered on his face- how I was able to capture all this in seconds, I'll never know. It was lucky he had vampire speed, especially at this moment. He quickly sat himself up straight: in a movement faster than I could comprehend.
"Bonnie? What the hell?" he gasped out, eyes widened in shock this time. He turned around so he was in front of me. "Why, Katherine? Why would you do this?" he growled out.
She didn't seem scared in the least when answering- I know I would've been, "Damon, darling, you are mine. No human should get in the way of that. No matter what. Besides, what can she offer you anyway? Immorality? Beyond human speed or strength? No, she can't. she'll die off eventually, just like all the other mortals. She isn't worthy of you."
My eyes widened, but not because of what she was saying. Because every accusation she had made was true. I wasn't like him. I wasn't immortal or fast or strong. I couldn't give him anything.
I truly wasn't deserving of him.
Stefan POV
An aching pain burned into my chest as soon as I left Elena's house. It was burning- like an inferno raging through out my body, the flames licking my insides mercilessly. It almost felt as if my heart was being burned in the process, but my heart had long ago died. But, dear God, what was this? It was extreme. I'd never felt anything even comparably painful.
It had to do with Elena. Why else would it have started directly after I left her house… and her along with it? Could this have something to do with the fact that I hadn't told her the secret? It was a slim possibility but a possibility nonetheless.
Right now, I didn't care what caused this feeling. All I knew was I had to get rid of it and seeing Elena seemed to be the only solution. Every second I became further away from her, the burning grew stronger. I turned myself around and headed back to the place I had been running away from. I was lucky. Vampire speed allowed me to get there in a fraction of the time it would've taken a human.
I climbed up to her window sill and tapped. I hope she wasn't to upset with me for what happened only moments earlier. I heard the floor boards creek under her dainty footsteps as she made her way to where I was. I could almost feel my heart coming back to life and pumping from nervousness.
What seemed like hours later- though it was only minutes- she threw open her window. Elena jumped back in shock, probably from seeing me standing there once more.
"Stefan? What are you doing here again?" she questioned, her blue eyes giving away how much confusion she had.
"I know what I said before- that I couldn't tell you anything- and I'm not going to say I was wrong. I just need to say that I'm not going to do what's right. You have a right to know what I am, no matter if I should tell you or not. So, may I come in?"
She looked even more stunned for a second. She had to have seen me standing there, because she shook her head and then turned to me once more and nodded. I hopped into Elena's bedroom in the same manner I had earlier and sat myself, once again, on her bed.
"Are you ready?" I asked once she shut the window behind her. I couldn't have anyone overhear and she seemed to understand that- it was one of the things I loved about her.
She nodded again and I took a deep breathe.
"Elena, I'm a vampire," I said in one breathe.
At first, I wasn't sure she heard it. Maybe I said it to quickly or to low for human ears. She just stood there, motionless and staring at me. I held my breathe in, anxiously waiting for her to scream or to run away. To do something rather than to just stand there.
Finally, she spoke up, "Are you serious?"
Now it was my turn to look stunned. She wasn't scared? She was asking me if I was being truthful? No running away or screaming or even alerting the authorities that a monster was on the lose; just asking me if I was telling her the truth. I should've known this intriguing little human would've found a way to surprise me.
Elena looked at me anxiously, waiting for my response. That was what snapped me out of my ravine and allowed me to answer her question.
"Yes, I am."
"Stefan, I-" she started, but I cut her off.
"That's not all I have to tell you. This is probably the worst time ever to admit to it… but, Elena Gilbert, I am in love with you."
AN: aren't I evil? Yes. But, that's not my point. What did you think of this chapter? Good? Bad? Decent? Let me know in a review…
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