Hey guys here is the next chapter and I hope you enjoy it:) I added a little bit more of Liz and her personality so to say in this chapter and I hope you guys like it:D Reviews are greatly appreciated

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A few days had passed since Mr. Tanner was killed. Turns out it was a mountain lion. It was all very scary when I thought about it. A mountain lion was walking around town, killing people; it made me cringe and shiver. Thank God that it's over. There was a service for Mr. Tanner the day after he was killed. It reminded me too much of my parents' funeral. Even though I didn't like Mr. Tanner, I still went because there are people who are going to miss him. It was all very sad. Now the school's looking for a new history teacher; so far, no one has come up.

Today was now the annual Founders Day kick-off. As a Gilbert, Elena, Jenna and I had to attend. Jeremy, however, said he didn't want to go because it really wasn't his thing. He of course got a mouthful from Jenna, but she finally let him slide. I however, did not want to go. I hated the annual Founders events. It was all so boring and uneventful. Since the Gilberts were one of the founding families of Mystic Falls, we had to go to everything. And when I say everything, I mean it.

Right now we were all watching the news in the kitchen.

"Scumball," Jenna muttered under her breath. I looked at the TV, and Logan Fell was giving updates on the mountain lion.

"Who? The news guy?" I ask.

"Uh, yeah." She said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Who are you talking to?" Elena asked.

"Him," Jenna nodded towards the TV. "Also known as Logan Scumfell," she said with disgust.

"I don't know Jenna," I cross my arms and look at Logan, "He's pretty good looking," I nod in approval.

"Did you mom ever tell you two why I moved away from Mystic Falls?"

Elena and I laughed, "Oh no way," she said.

"You and him?" I finish.

"He's cute," Elena adds.

"Least somebody agrees with me," we sit down next to each other.

"He is not cute, there's nothing cute about him," she shuts the TV off.

Elena and I go through several boxes for the party. As a founding family member, each family had to contribute an artifact from when Mystic Falls began. Elena was busy cleaning off one of the objects; an old pocket watch.

"What're you doing?" Jenna asked, taking a sip of her coffee.

"We went to the safety deposit box yesterday after school," yeah that was so boring for me.

"Mom had told Mrs. Lockwood that she would loan it to the founders' council for their heritage display," I say while cleaning an old ring.

Jenna picks it up when I'm done, "is that grandma Bets ring?" she takes a closer look.

I smirk, "originally it was great great great Grandma Betty's ring,"

Jeremy comes in and picks up one of the items. "How much do you think this stuff is worth on eBay?" he looks closely at it.

I snatch it from his hands as Elena glares at him, "You're not going to find out,"

He returns the glare, "that stuff is mom and dad's, you can't just give it away,"

"We're not giving it away Jer," I continue to clean, "it's called a loan." He only rolls his eyes.

The doorbell rings and I get up to answer it. Surprise, surprise, Stefan was at the door.

"Hello Liz,"

"Hey Stefan, come on in," I open the door wider and he steps in.

"Hey Elena?" I call and she instantly came rushing in. They both smile and head upstairs. I grin to myself and head back in the kitchen.

"Who was that?" Jenna asked.

"Oh, just Stefan," I return to cleaning.

"Ah, young love; I remember what that was like," she stares off into the distance.

"You mean with Logan Fell?" I ask with a smirk. She glares at me but I laugh it off. For the next ten minutes of so I clean the objects as best as I could. When I finally couldn't handle it anymore, I went to my art studio.

Elena and Stefan were of course, as strong as ever. Right now the two of them were in her room, doing the usual. The sad part was that I could hear everything from my art studio. I groaned and rolled my eyes, waiting for it to stop. When it did, I sighed and continued to paint. I was painting a portrait of a fruit bowl. It sounds so cliché but it's what I do. A few minutes later, I was grinning from ear to ear.

After cleaning up, I went to start getting ready for the party. I honestly say that I hate parties; whether there fancy or formal. I just stick out no matter what and it sucks. Besides, I'm going to look like a lone wolf tonight, seeing as I don't have a date. Oh, well; who needs a guy on your arm anyway?

I laid my dress down for the night and had everything ready. With a couple of hours to spare, I head over to the Grill.

"Hey, I'm heading out for a few," I call to Jenna.

"Alright, but make sure you're home on time so you're ready," I turn around and did a double take.

"Nice parental authority," I nod approvingly.

"Really, it wasn't too much?"

I laugh and smile, "not at all; you're doing good Jenna, really good."

Just as I open the door, I come face to face with Tyler, who has his arm raised. We both looked at each other, awkwardly.

"I'm here for my mom, to pick up some stuff," he explained. A look of realization crosses my face and I turn to grab the box right by my feet.

"Right, here you go," I hand it to him. He smiles and so do I. "Please be careful,"

"Hey, it's me we're talking about Liz," he gives me a cheeky grin.

"Right, that's why I'm telling you to be careful. Butterfingers," I use an old nickname from a long time ago. We both laugh at fond memories.

"Alright Liz, you have my word; I'll be careful with it."

"Thank you and I will see you tonight," I smile.

"You too," I close the door and sigh.

I walked back upstairs and threw my bag on the floor, deciding to not go to the Grill. I sit there for a few minutes before the doorbell rings. I go back downstairs and open it to see Bonnie.

"Hey Bonnie," I smile.

"Hey Liz, how're you doing?" she asks as I invite her in.

"Eh, same old same old," I shrug.

We sit down at the kitchen table and begin to talk.

"So what's on your mind?" I get straight to the point.

"What'd you mean?" she gives me a dumb look. I only raise my eyebrows.

"I've known you for a long time Bonnie to know when something is bothering you," she looks down at her lap, "so spill what's up?"

"Well I'm not really suppose to be saying this, but I talked to Caroline today,"

"Yeah?"

"And it was about Stefan," she paused.

"What about Stefan?"

"Apparently he and Damon have some really messed up issues. Like with Katherine. She chose Damon over Stefan and he did horrible things to try and break them up," she looked at me pointedly.

"Bonnie are you sure? I mean that doesn't seem like Stefan,"

"Look I know you're just trying to watch out for Elena, but I think Caroline's right about this; I mean you saw the way they acted over here the other night? They definitely have huge issues to work out,"

"Yeah but what family doesn't? Bonnie I'm not saying you're wrong or you're right. But I am saying that there's a possibility that Caroline might be wrong,"

"Why would she be wrong? She heard it from Damon herself," she argued.

"Exactly, she got it from him; only one source. All I'm saying is that I need to hear both sides of the story before I decide who's right and wrong," I shrugged.

The phone rang and I left to go get it. Mrs. Lockwood was frantic, asking where the pocket watch was. I already knew where it was. Hanging up the phone, I made my way to Jeremy's room. He had his headphones on and listening to music. Aggravated, I knocked them off his head. Clearly pissed off, he turns and yells at me.

"Ah, God what now?" he said annoyed. I crossed my arms and gave him a knowing look.

"The pocket watch, where is it?"

"What pocket watch?" he asked while trying to fix his headphones.

"The one you stole from mom's box. Look, Mrs. Lockwood just called me, freaking out. It was on the list and she can't find it and she thinks she's the one who lost it,"

"Well maybe she did, or maybe Tyler took it," figures, always trying to blame him.

"Don't even play that card; Jeremy you took it. If I go online am I gonna find it on eBay? Is that how you pay for your pot?" I knew I hit him dead on right there.

"Screw you," he suddenly stands up and goes over to one of his drawers. He rummages through it for a couple of seconds and then has the pocket watch in his hand.

"I would never sell this, okay?"

"Then why did you take it?"

"Because it's supposed to be mine," I stood there frozen in confusion. "Dad said it goes to the first born son; his father gave it to him and now what?" he forces it into my hand.

"And he was going to give it to you?" I guessed.

"Yeah," I begin to walk out of his room and then turn around

"Look, Jeremy, it's still yours. Mom said that Mrs. Lockwood would only borrow it and then give it back. What'd you want me to do?" I asked annoyed.

"Just take it and get out," he puts his headphones back on and I walk away.

Back downstairs, Bonnie sat waiting.

"Hey, everything okay?" she asked worriedly.

"Yeah, just a bunch of crap that I'm too young to deal with," she laughs and then Elena comes down, finally.

"Hey guys," she says happily.

"Hey," we both say.

"So you guys wanna start getting ready? We can help each other with our hair and makeup?" she was very chipper and it kinda annoyed me.

"Why're you so happy?" Bonnie asked.

"Because she's going to dance the night away with Stefan," Bonnie and I laugh and Elena sticks her tongue out.

We head up to the bathroom and begin to get ready. Elena and I help Bonnie first. I do hair while Elena does makeup. It's usually how we worked. Next was me. Elena went simple but elegant on my makeup. Light gold eyeshadow, and a delicate soft pink on my lips. Bonnie curled my hair even more. She pinned it back with peal clips in a half up half down style. My dress itself was simple. It was a dark navy and satin, it had a v-neck and a-line. It was slightly ruffled too. I wore black high heels and small studded diamond earrings. I wore a silver locket with my name inscribed on the front. I did a once over in the mirror and nodded with a smile. I turned to Bonnie and Elena and they gave me thumbs up.

For the rest of the hour, we helped each other out with getting ready.

"Hey Bonnie, who're you going with by the way?" I asked as I held the curling iron in her hair.

"Ugh no one, unfortunately; I was gonna go with Caroline but she ditched me to go with Damon," I froze for only a second at his name. I hadn't seen him since Mr. Tanner was killed. I remember how he comforted me when I saw his body. He didn't say any words, but just his presence made me feel safe.

"Well looks like we're both dateless then," I pin a curl back, "unless you want to go with me?" I grin and Bonnie rolls her eyes, even though she's smiling too.

"Elizabeth Gilbert? Would you do me the honor of escorting me to the Founders Day dance?" she asked while trying to keep a straight face. I burst out laughing and she joins in.

"Why Bonnie Bennet, I thought you'd never ask," I giggle. The three of us finished up and just as we were about to leave, I stopped and looked at the pocket watch.

Dad was going to give it to Jeremy. It means so much to him too. I didn't have the heart to give it to Mrs. Lockwood now that I know how much it means to him.

"I'll meet you guys downstairs, I have something to do," they nod and I make my way to Jeremy's room.

He has his headphones on and doesn't acknowledge my presence, though he does look at me through the corner of his eye. I make my way over to the desk and put the pocket watch next to him. I rub his shoulder and then leave. Together the three of us make our way to the Lockwood mansion, where the party was. I could only hope that tonight there would be no drama. But knowing my life, there always is.

So what did you guys think? I know Damon was only mention like twice but I wanted to give Liz more oomph and so I changed up the episode in my own way:) I promise though that they'll be more Damon moments in the next chapter!

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