Chapter 7 – A bonfire car with human marshmallows

"More animal attacks bells?"

Charlie turned on me when the guests left us. I shrugged one shoulder

"The Cullens are here. So is a strange mixture of witches with demon powers and a more traditional type of vampire sharing the same last name as Zach"

Charlie blinked taking a swing of his beer.

"Damn!"

Next day clad in a red button down and pair of black slacks and black heels I looked older than my twenty years as I got in my car to drive to the high school. I have no idea what happens now but I don't plan on holing inside my house to find out. Driving by the sheriff's house I saw Caroline bawling her eyes out sitting on her porch. I stopped in front of her and lowered the passenger window

"You okay?"

She shook her head crying harder. Maybe she broke a nail?

"Can I drive you somewhere?"

I asked her. She didn't reply but she got in the car. I handed her the box of tissues in the glove compartment and drove slowly mostly cruising through the town.

"He's dead and it's my fault"

She sniffled. I threw a glance at her

"Who's dead?"

"Mr. Salv...Salvatore"

I almost lost control of the car.

"What happened? When did he die?"

"Last night, he broke his neck. Stefan found him"

She blew her nose. She bit her bottom lip

I drove us to school giving Caroline enough time to calm herself down.

"Why is it your fault?"

"Promise not to tell anything?"

She looked me up and down. I nodded softly. It was strange seeing the small town beauty queen acting human.

"Yes"

"He... attacked me"

She whispered. My eyes almost popped out of their sockets

"Mr. Salvatore attacked you?"

"NO! Damon did. Stefan's brother, we were in his car and he pushed me to have sex. I told him 'no' but he told me we would have sex and I'd like it. It was so strange, his eyes got all veiny and large. He pushed me back on the seat; I kicked him and ran away. I ran all the way home and I told mom and Mr. Salvatore, he got really angry and left"

She whispered, rubbing her eyes. I winced, so Zach left my place with Liz last night, found out one of his vampire offsprings tried to date-rape-eat Liz's daughter, confronted him and got eaten himself. Wait... the compulsion didn't work on her either? I opened my mouth to ask her 'why' but her actions gave me an answer. She pulled a large to-go mug from her bag.

"You want some? It's homemade OJ"

I smiled shaking my head.

"I skipped breakfast. If I drink anything but water, I'll throw up"

I replied with the truth. Ever since I unlocked my magic my body craves for normal diet. She winced and took a sip.

"I gotta go put my game face on. Thank you for listening. See you at class"

She ran off to the girls' bathroom slamming the door behind her. Seems like Caroline Forbes has a brain behind the giggly valley girl facade. And here I hoped Mystic Falls has less weirdness than San Francisco...

"Miss Swan, may I hold you for a second?"

The headmaster stopped me before I could go to class for the first period. With Mr. Tanner's death, the schedule had changed and now English and History (the two classes I observed) had moved to the start of the day instead of the end.

"Of course"

"We called in a replacement teacher for Mr. Tanner but he will be here on Monday. Do you think you can hold the fort for today?"

He asked me. I blanched.

"You want me to tame an entire class? I'm just on my sophomore year in college an-"

"Think of it as practice."

He gave me a slimy smile, clapped my shoulder and all but threw me inside the class closing the door behind me. Can I take Cole on again instead?

The class was a riot, boys were standing atop the desks, girls were giggling and others looked like they'd have sex right there and then. The only ones sitting calmly were the Cullens. For the first time I took a moment to observe them. Alice was busying herself drawing something, Rosalie was having a Smurfette moment while gazing in a mirror, Emmett was playing with a football still clad in the red and gold varsity jacket, Jasper was engrossed in a thick book while Edward looked like he wanted to murder Matt, the guy that was serviced by Elena at the party.

I walked to the raised on a platform teacher's desk and put my bag and books down. No one paid me any attention. I rolled my eyes, put two fingers in my mouth and whistled. Loudly.

"Sit down and shut up!"

Total silence. I gave my best Cheshire cat smile.

"As you all know, Mr. Tanner... passed away yesterday"

Matt winced and looked down. No one spoke.

"The school has found a replacement but they can't be here until Monday. That leaves you with me today"

Cheers filled the classroom. I held back the eye roll.

"So I'll either give you a pop quiz"

Shouts of unhappiness interrupted

"Or we can take the day to talk about what happened."

I finished, Surprise, surprise everyone preferred to talk. I sat atop the desk, crossed my legs and pulled my soft red leather day planner out of my purse.

"Did anyone see what happened yesterday?"

I asked my eyes traveling from Stefan (who looked murderous) to Bonnie (who was glaring at me hard enough to give her lines). If looks (and sentiments) could kill I'd be one dead witch!

"I found him"

A trembling hand rose. It belonged to the varsity jacketed Matt Donovan.

"Matt, right?"

He nodded

"What happened?"

"He was late for practice"

He shrugged. He opened his mouth to continue but was unable to. He shivered at the mental image and the freak he felt reached both me and jasper, who shivered as well.

After my two hours were up (and not a minute too soon if you ask me!) I was finally able to leave the school. The headmaster had deemed the recent deaths meant nothing so he arranged for the cheerleaders to make money for the school by stripping, putting on the tiniest bikinis known to mankind and pretend they're washing cars.

Gotta love the lengths people will go to ignore the perfectly rising death count this town has. Unfortunately I was forced to have my car washed, which my car didn't mind except the tiny fact that an angry witch-demon spawn set it on fire.

I wasn't alone in it either. Caroline had asked for a ride unable to keep her ditzy, stupid, game face on and was ready to leave this place for the weekend. And to top it up, my powers weren't helping anything. I couldn't freeze the car with the entire school watching us!

And here I thought that the days of burning witches at the stake were over!