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My life seriously sucked, no pun intended. The art show was, to say the least, boring. My painting was considered to be the best pieces of work anyone has ever seen; so says the townspeople. After the Damon incident, my anxiety has sky rocketed. I'm afraid that he's going to be somewhere I won't think to find him, and then trap me in a corner and drink from me. The very thought gave me chills.

I didn't tell Elena about it though. I knew she would freak out and that's the last thing I wanted to happen. I mean, when you find out your boyfriend is a vampire; it really puts stress on your life.

The days went by quickly and Elena hadn't heard from Stefan and I hadn't heard anything from Damon; not that I care or anything.

Everything was turning out to be really hectic on my life. Jeremy is obsessed with finding Vicki, who is still a physco vampire on the run. But we didn't tell Jeremy the little vampire part. The last thing he needs is to get caught up in our drama.

"Hey, where're you going?" I asked as I saw Jer coming down the stairs.

"The police station; their organizing a search party for Vicki," he explained as he slipped on his shoes.

"Jeremy, you should leave something like that to the police, I'm sure their already under a lot of pressure to find her and the last thing they need is another person breathing down their necks," I explained as gently as I could. But I knew in my mind, that argument was about to break out.

"What, so I'm suppose to sit here and do nothing? No I'm not going to do that, Vicki deserves better than that," his voiced began to rise a little.

"No Jeremy, you're supposed to go to school and wait, wait till they find her because it's their job, not yours. If you want to help then the best thing for you to do is to wait."

"What if they don't find her?" he was beginning to lash out, I could feel it.

"They will," I said gently.

"You don't know that," he countered.

"And neither do you," I countered him back. "Look Jeremy, I don't want to fight with you right now. But please trust me on this one; leave it to the police to find her. All we can do is have faith,"

"You know your mouths moving, I hear words coming out of it but they're not really going through my head," he turned around and walked to the front door.

"Jeremy!" I called out, but he was already out the door.

I sighed and Elena came downstairs. "Hey,"

"Hey," I greeted back, but with a tone of annoyance laced in my voice.

"Let me guess, Jeremy?"

"Bingo we have a winner,"

"It's not your fault," she began

"Then whose is it Elena? I feel like we should have done something a long time ago and now it's coming to bite us in the ass,"

"Well that's karma for you,"

"Yeah, no kidding," I scoffed and the two if us head into the kitchen.

We ate breakfast in silence. Elena kept glancing over at me every couple of minutes and I stated to get suspicious.

"Okay," I crossed my arms as I leaned against the counter, "what gives?"

"What's you mean?" she asked innocently.

"Don't think I don't notice the little glances coming my way from you; I know you have something on your mind, so spill."

"Okay, so I've been thinking this morning," she began but I cut her off.

"That's never a good sign," I smirked as she sent a glare at me.

"I want to go see Stefan today," that wiped the smirk off my face. I so did not want to go over there, I'm not ready. "And I want you to come with me," she finished.

"Please tell me you're joking," but from the look on her face I could tell she was all serious. "Elena, I'm going to be completely honest with you; I don't want to go. I really don't want to be in the same room with a bunch of vampires,"

I cringed at the word.

"Liz I know you're scared, but sooner or later you are going to have to face your fears,"

"Why should I though? Do you really want Stefan to be a part of your life after what happened with Vicki?"

We found out, well I found out, a couple of days ago from Stefan that Vicki drank from a human. Which meant that she's now a vampire. Hard to believe right? I never truly liked Vicki, what with the bad influence she has on Jeremy, would any sister?

"I know it's a lot to take in, but whether we like it or not we're both a part of this now,"

"But we don't have to be," I tried to reason with her, but I know it would be difficult because once Elena sets her mind on something, she won't change her mind. "We can walk away from it, all of it right now,"

She looked like she was thinking about it but then said, "You're right Liz, we can walk away; but you and I both know we'll never forget."

She left the kitchen and I groaned, following her out to the car. We sat in silence as she drove the boarding house. When she pulled up she asked, "Are you coming?"

"Does it look like I have a choice?" I huffed and got out of the car with her.

We walked up to the front door and Elena knocked while I stayed back a little. Being here made me nervous I'll admit. The door ended up being unlocked and Elena helped herself in while I was a little reluctant to go inside.

"You know what, I think I'm just going to wait in the car," I didn't wait for a reply because I sprinted away from the house as fast as I could.

Once I was inside the car, I tried to calm my heart. It was racing and beating that I could even hear it.

"You should really get that checked out," a voice said. I gave a little shriek and looked over to see none other than Damon sitting in the driver's seat. "I'm sure a pounding heart that fast isn't a good sign," he smirked. I forgot he could hear my heartbeat. That's another thing that creped me out about him.

"What're you doing?" I asked.

"Just hanging out with my new friend," he drawled out the word friend.

"You and I both know we are not friends; so what do you really want?" I was starting to get annoyed with his games. I didn't know if he wanted to kill me or keep me alive.

"Can't I spend time with you? I mean what if I want to feel human like Stefan? He has Elena to make him feel and what do I have? Nothing, that's right, nothing. You're the closes thing I have to a human experience; and I want it, I want to feel human again. Spending almost two centuries hating someone makes you realize that you're really truly alone."

I looked over at him and could see honesty in his eyes. But then I glared at him as he broke into laughter.

"You have to admit, I was pretty convincing,"

"Well you've convinced me you're a serious jerk ass," I smirked in triumph as he glared at me.

We sat in silence for a few moments. It was rather uncomfortable. I didn't want to be near him let alone be alone with him. It's too early in the day to be dealing with this sort of stuff.

"I want to apologize for what I said the other day," he said suddenly. I looked over at him, confused.

"Oh you mean telling me that you won't feel any guilt if you killed me? Yeah I don't think that's something to be easily forgiven Damon," I began to get out of the car, but in a flash he was at my side, well my other side, and pushed me up against the door.

"Don't make me regret apologizing to you," he snarled in my face.

"You can apologize all you want but that doesn't mean I'll forgive you," I glared at him and I would've continued to glare had he not moved his hand to my face.

He began to caress my cheek very gently and I would've enjoyed it if he weren't so ignorant and self absorbed. I couldn't stop myself; I leaned into his touch and closed my eyes. When I opened them, I could see actual care in Damon's eyes. It made me smile a little.

"Do you forgive me now?" he asked in a low whisper. I would've said yes, but something in me told me not to.

"Nope," I whispered back and went back into the car. I slammed the door and locked everything so he couldn't get back in.

"You can deny it all you want Liz, but you know you feel something for me," I didn't look out the window, because if I did I would see the smirk that I wanted to smack right off his face.

One minute he's sweet and caring, and the next he is a total ass who is so full of himself. It made me sick to my stomach how he acts. I knew that he acted like this with almost everyone, but I couldn't help but feel he did this to only piss me off; and only me. Great, now I sound self absorbed. He was right about one thing though, I do feel something with him. Whether it's hate or compassion I didn't know. But I do have strong feelings for him. Maybe it's sympathy or something. Thinking about this made me get a headache.

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