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Note: Here's another chapter for the night. Thanks everyone for being so patient and continuing to read and comment (you lot are better than most of my friends). I love your stories as well (the ones I have gotten around to read).
Damon imagined Caroline was going to be like one of the PTA moms who had to attend every school function with a plate of freshly baked cookies and a agenda for the next two years. For the most part he had gotten used to ignoring her, and being a vampire had given some sort of calmness, but deep down she was still Caroline. "Here, do something useful" she said pushing a box in Damon's hands. He grunted a 'whatever' under his breath and followed the girls from Caroline's car. "I'm so excited, granted I pictured this a little differently" she said looking over her shoulder at Bonnie who had been forced to carry a smaller box.
"Yeah, like more man power" Bonnie joked as they continued through the doors of the community college.
"Well that and I just didn't really imagine I'd be going here, I mean, a community college, no offense Bonnie" she added as Bonnie just shook her head.
"I'm sure if we had given the admission center our essays about fighting vampires and werewolves and Silas it would've made all the difference" Bonnie teased.
"Maybe" Caroline replied thoughtfully. Damon gave Bonnie a look, he sometimes he wondered how her and Caroline were friends, but technically, at this point it was like asking how him and Bonnie were still dating.
"Klaus offered to help" Caroline said, her tone not quite reaching the annoyance it usually got when she talked about Klaus.
"He did enough helping today, we don't need him running around campus" Bonnie reminded her as Caroline nodded in agreement. For a minute Damon wondered why Klaus was in the area in the first place but then almost kicked himself for not remembering Stefan.
"How is he, Stefan I mean, did Klaus help him out?" he asked as both girls nodded.
"He called" Bonnie asked already knowing Damon was wondering how she knew.
"You think he'd call his older brother first" Damon said in a slightly bitter tone.
"Your phone was off" Bonnie replied as Damon rolled his eyes, he wasn't looking for an answer, he just wanted to be annoyed. "What floor again?" Bonnie asked as they headed up the stairs, Caroline leading the way.
"Sixth floor, sixth hallway—"
"Sixth room?" Damon finished with a smirk.
"Yeah" both Caroline and Bonnie said in unison.
"That doesn't bother either of you?" he asked though really, with everything else in their
lives that one little thing was nothing.
"Don't overthink it Damon" Bonnie told him as they finally reached the sixth floor.
"I never overthink anything" he replied, which had been true in the past, at least to some extent, now, now it seemed like all he did was overthink. He turned his attention back to the girls when he heard the familiar sound of boxes falling. Almost as expected someone had collided with Bonnie, knocking both their things to the ground.
"Oh sorry" the guy said as Bonnie mumbled out an apology as both of them scrambled to pick up their things. Damon and Caroline exchanged looks, both of them thinking—or as Damon assumed Caroline was thinking—the guy was reasonably attractive, caramel colored skin, curly brown hair, dark brown eyes and a 'childish' air about him. Damon snorted as the kid stood up to apologize again, he had a baby-ish face and seemed, for the most part filled out, though no match compared to him.
"It's okay, really," Bonnie said shyly as the stranger picked up one of the fuzzy pink lamps and handed it over.
"Cute," he said looking over the lamp as Bonnie visibly blushed.
"It's my friend's, I mean, Caroline's" she said pointing at Caroline who quickly stepped up to the take the possessive best friend role.
"Hi, I'm Caroline" she said thrusting out her hand.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Felipe," he said shaking her hand and then turning to Bonnie.
"I'm Damon" Damon interrupted as Bonnie went to open her mouth. "I'm the obsessive-possessive boyfriend of this chick" he said swinging an arm around Bonnie. "Bonnie" he said nodding at her as she seemed to blush even more.
"Uh, hi" the guy said, seeming to be a little thrown. "Nice to meet both of you" he said shaking Damon's hand first and then Bonnie's. Damon studied the guy, he seemed normal, nothing vampire looking about him. Werewolf maybe? Warlock? Granted he could just be some random kid who found himself in the unlucky situation of running into the three of them. Or at least he would be unlucky. The way he smiled at Bonnie sure didn't make him lucky. "Are you two freshmen?" he asked obviously excluding Damon from the conversation. Bad move. Damon thought as Caroline nodded.
"Yeah, what about you?" She asked.
"Sophomore" he said as Damon silently snorted again.
"We should get going, you know, we have that thing later…" Damon said hoping he sounded convincing as he wrapped his hand around Bonnie's.
"See you around" Caroline called to Felipe as he headed in the opposite direction.
"See you around?" Damon repeated in an accusing tone. "We don't want to see him around," he told her as she rolled her eyes.
"She was just being polite, relax Damon" Bonnie said moving closer to kiss his cheek.
"Fine" he said though he couldn't help but look over his shoulder at the place Felipe had been standing. The guy looked normal enough, but so did Tyler, Stefan, even Professor Shane; hell, Bonnie looked normal even when she was performing spells; that Felipe guy could be anything, any kind of supernatural.
"You okay?" Bonnie asked as they went into the sixth room. Three beds, though Damon thought the third bed looked to be a tight squeeze.
"Yeah, just, you know, I don't like other guys not watching where they're going" he said as Bonnie rolled her eyes but smiled as she dropped the box on the bare desk.
"Most of the stuff has been set up already" Caroline said in an accomplished tone as they all looked around. For the most part Damon was right in thinking the room looked like fairyland, but thanks to Elena and Bonnie it looked a little sophisticated. Like the fairy princess's mother's room. Still girly, but less cheesy. "Smile!" Caroline shouted as Damon was blinded by a flash of light. "Perfect, now c'mon, move in close, you two are a couple" Caroline said as Damon wrapped his arms around a reluctant Bonnie. "Bonnie, smile! You just got your cherry popped the love of your life, look happy!" she said as Bonnie widely blushed, unable to hide her smile as Caroline took another picture. "I'll send it to both of you" she said as she turned away from them to do whatever. Bonnie cleared her throat and started unpacking random things; Damon could do nothing but stand there and admire her; he had no need to worry about Felipe.