After two more months of traveling throughout the states and five months total of their trip on the road, Damon and Bonnie had finally decided that they wanted to move on and find a place where they would settle down and move permanently to. They decided this after they drive into California and found a beach side town, just about a thirty minute drive outside of L.A. and Hollywood. Driving through that town it seemed like a nice place to live, it was safe and clean and the people there seemed laid back and friendly and everything needed was just a car drive away. Plus for the majority of the time with it being California, it meant that of course the weather was warm and sunny most of the time.
That;s why the two of them decided that this was where they were going to move and where they wanted to move together as a couple, now that they had been officially dating and romantic for two months. Now that they had decided this they needed to find a home in which they would move into. So, one day they set aside time to do nothing but house hunting, staying in a hotel until they found the house in which they wanted to move into.
They went to several houses in which they looked at and considered. Some of the houses appealed to them, yet they really hadn't came up on that perfect home that they both wanted to move into. They kept searching when they were at their fifth home that they had looked at for that day. The fifth time seemed to be the charm as they were both loving this house.
The real estate agent showed them through a house, that was located in a neighborhood with about ten houses. And from the build of those houses it appeared to be in an expensive neighborhood. It sat near a beach that was just a few steps away and the beach spread out for about five miles before closing off.
As for the house itself. It was a massive brick house, that was two stories and rested on a big green lawn. On the inside there were huge spacious rooms, that included a large sized kitchen and had windows that let plenty of sunlight in. The room were bare and empty as the owners from before had moved all of their stuff out. Which would allow Damon and Bonnie to move their own stuff in. The more and more that they saw of this house as the real estate agent guided them through, the more and more convinced they became that this was the place where they wanted to move into.
As for the real estate agent, a middle aged woman who was used to selling expensive homes, including to some celebrity's. she knew an opportunity when she saw it. This house had been on the market for about one month and she could see that she was on the verge of selling it, by the look in the young couple's eyes as they explored the house. The real estate agent saw a young couple who are obviously in love and very much into each other, eager to move into a home together. And couples looking to move into a home together were always one of the best customers in the real estate business.
She had a feeling that she had them, she just needed to do her best to close out the door. The agent lead them downstairs to the first floor after she had given them a tour of the second floor and lead them into the living room area that had a tall and wide patio sliding glass door.
The two of them spotted what the real estate agent wanted them to see.
"Wow, what a view from here." Bonnie commented in awe.
"Yeah, it is beautiful." Damon agreed with his girlfriend.
The view that they spoke up was of the wooden deck just behind the patio glass door, and beyond that was a big back lawn with green, lush grass and located not far from the back lawn was the beach. With it's white, brownish sand and crystal clear blue ocean water lapping gently at the shores, with the ocean stretching out as far as the eye could see.
"Yes, it is quite the view and a very lovely beach. And it''s a private beach as well." The real estate agent explained. "Meaning it's only open to the people that live in this neighborhood and you would have free access to it if you moved here."
Damon rubbed his chin. "An advantage over those crowded public beaches."
Bonnie added. "That's for sure."
The real estate agent went. "That's what everyone around here loves about the beach too, the privacy of it and the neighborhood is good at keeping it clean. Overall I'm sure that you would love it here."
"Hmmm." Bonnie made a motion with her hand like she was thinking. "I have to admit that I really, really do love this house."
"And what she loves, I love. Plus, I really like this house as well." Damon said.
That made the real estate agent smile. "Well, I won't rush you buying a home is a huge deal for couple. So, if you need a day or two to decide then I understand."
Damon and Bonnie casted each other a sideways gaze and silently communicated with each other and came up on what they wanted to do right then.
"Thanks, but I don't think that you'll have to wait a day or two in order to hear an answer from us. Consider this house sold, we're buying." Damon let the agent know.
"I'm glad to hear that you've made your decision to buy this house. But, I still have to ask are you sure?" The real estate agent questioned.
Bonnie nodded. "We're one hundred percent sure we want this house to be our new home."
The real estate agent returned. "Wonderful, I'll go and get those papers drawn up for you and we can discuss things before the house is signed over to you."
Damon said. "Go ahead, we won't be going anywhere."
The real estate agent went to get the papers to sign the house over to them.
That left Bonnie and Damon in the room alone. She turned to her boyfriend. "We're doing it! We are really going to get a new home together!"
"Yes, we are!" Damon grinned.
"This is all so exciting!" Bonnie exclaimed.
"It is!" Damon exclaimed back.
Bonnie mumbled. "Although it comes with a hefty price tag."
Damon outstretched his arms. "Hey, Bon-Bon, I told you that I've got this and that I would take care of us and any home that we wanted to buy." And he did have it. He didn't have a job but he didn't really need one.
Because of all of the decades that he had spent as a vampire, investing in and saving up money, he had millions in the bank. If there was something that Damon Salvatore made sure to do with his life it was to make sure that he was financially comfortable.
"Right, but I still could split the cost of the house with you and help you pay half." Bonnie offered.
"You're so sweet for that." Damon said "But, you keep the money that you've saved up in your account. I've got this."
"Alright, if that's what you want." Bonnie's lips curved. "But, I'm helping with the bills such as electricity once they come in, just so that everything money wise won't be on you."
Damon told her. "That's fair. We will pay the bills equally then."
Bonnie pointed out. "See, we compromised."
There was laughter in his eyes as he eyed her. "We did compromise!"
Looking around she saw the big wide empty spaces. "We're going to have to get some furniture to furnish this house."
"Once we have the house signed over to us, we can start looking for furniture to put in here tomorrow and spend the next few days focused on furnishing." Damon suggested.
"I can already envision what type of furniture that's going to be in here and how each room will be decorated." Bonnie gestured.
He smiled brightly, he was so glad to see how excited she was at moving in and really having this life with him.
She told him. "Of course, I won't do it alone. You can have some input on the furnishing of this place as well."
"I will. As a matter of fact I have picked out the room that I want for my mancave and I especially want to help decorate the master bedroom that we'll be sharing. What's best if that this place has a big bar where I can stock all of my bourbon and booze." Damon mentioned.
Bonnie chuckled. "Having a somewhere to store your bourbon is extremely important."
Damon pointed out. "Hey, you love bourbon too."
Bonnie admitted. "I do now, thanks to you."
"You know one of the things that I look forward to the most." Damon edged closer to her.
"What's that?" Bonnie was curious to know.
"We can have all the access that we want to, to that beach out there." Damon let her know.
Once again Bonnie glanced out of the patio door towards the beach. "Yep, already I can tell that I'll be spending a lot of time there."
"As we both will. And we'll take walks on the beach right at sunset or sit by the shore at night time to get a clear view of the stars." Damon commented.
"That's super romantic stuff right there!?" Bonnie gave him a smile at the thought.
Damon returned. "Well, you make me a romantic kind of man."
Bonnie sighed with content. "Walks on the beach at sunset and sitting on the shore under the stars at night, I love the sound of that."
"I was going to add it sex on the beach too." Damon gave her a wiggle of his eyebrows. "But, the beach isn't quite private enough for that."
Bonnie hinted with an expression. "We may not be able to have sex on the beach, but I can tell you that we're going to make good use of every inch of this house once we have moved in."
Damon licked his lips and gave her that classic, intense desire filled stare of his. He knew fully well what she meant and what it involved. "Oh yeah, is that a guarantee."
"It's more than a guarantee." She gave him some eye sex of her own. "You can say that it's a promise!"
He smirked. "Well, Bon-Bon I'll make sure that we follow up on your promise!"
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They discussed the deal with the real estate agent and then the house was signed over to them. They agreed that it would take them awhile, like a week or two before they could really move in. Because they would need to get everything prepared in and around the house for moving in. Until then they were going to have to remain staying at the hotel that they were at.
For the time being they just wanted to enjoy the fact that they had a new home as a couple. After their meeting with the real estate agent, they were out on the front lawn of their new house checking out the property.
"Is that them?" Came a voice calling out in their direction and it was a voice of a woman that sounded familiar to Damon and Bonnie.
"That is them!" Came another voice that was familiar and this time it was male.
Wondering what was going on the two of them turned to see Trevor and Bailey approaching them from across the street.
Damon and Bonnie exchanged a look surprised to see the couple that they had met in Oklahoma couple of months ago was now here.
"Hello, Trevor, Bailey." Bonnie greeted.
"Hi, you two." Damon added.
Both Trevor and Bailey gave them a greeting in return. They stepped onto the front lawn.
Bailey started. "I thought that it was you guys when I spotted you across the way."
Trevor said. "She told me that she thought that it was you and I looked and saw that she was right."
Bonnie stated. "Wow, I didn't expect that we would ever see you again." She directed at the rock couple.
"Yeah, same here. Thought that back in Oklahoma was the last that we saw of you two." Damon muttered standing next to his girlfriend.
"Guess that we can all say that we are surprised to see each other." Trevor wrapped an arm around Bailey's shoulder.
That was when Damon put it together. "Wait, so you live here?"
"We have lived here for about three years. We just travel around sometimes to play with our band, but this is our home." Trevor replied.
"We live in the house across the street." Bailey jerked her thumb behind her.
"Really? That's something else." Bonnie said. "I mean who would have thought."
Damon explained. "We're here because we just decided to buy this house."
Trevor glanced at Bailey. "Seriously, you guys are moving into this neighborhood."
Bonnie confirmed. "Seriously, we are! Damon and I fell in love with that house and we made a decision to move here!"
"That's awesome! We wondered would who move in when the house was put up for sale. It's better that it's the two of you." Bailey directed.
"I guess it is a one in a million chance that we would happen to move into the exact same town. Hmmmm, maybe it's destiny, like the four of us our meant to be friends or something." Damon half joked.
Bonnie arched a brow. ""Well, I guess it is a good thing to move into a place where two people that we have somewhat live."
Bailey agreed. "It's a great thing!"
Trevor added. "The welcome mat is rolled out for you and we will help you with anything that you need while you are moving in."
"Thank you." Damon gave Trevor's hand a good shake. "We are positive that we will fit in here just fine!"
Two weeks after they had moved in the neighborhood had thrown the two of them a "Welcome to the neighborhood" party in which all of the neighbors attended. Damon and Bonnie could tell that they would get along with everyone around.
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17 months later.
They had been living in California in the house that they brought for seventeen months now and had been dating each other, in a romance for a total of nineteen months now. For over a year and a half they had been with each other and living life together and they were just as strong and even stronger than during the time that they first got together.
During all of this time that had become well adjusted to their life on the west coast. Stefan and Caroline had flown from Virginia a few times since they had moved. And Damon and Bonnie always looked forward to that time to catch up with them, as Stefan and Caroline has stayed for about a week with each visit before they flew back to Virginia. Damon caught up on brotherly time with Stefan, while Bonnie always found herself driving to L.A. to go on shopping sprees with Caroline. Caroline especially loved to go to see if she could catch some Hollywood stars roaming around in L.A.
During Caroline's west coast shopping sprees, Stefan always joked about making sure that Caroline didn't buy more than they could carry back on their plane ride back to the east coast. Although for Bonnie herself living so close to L.A. she had started to get use to the city and all of the stars that inhabited it.
While they had furnished their house with new furniture upon moving in, there were some other items of theirs that they wanted, back in Virginia that Damon and Bonnie had asked to be packed by Stefan and Caroline to be shifted by Fedex over to where they now lived. And Bonnie had paid a towing company to get her car from Virginia over to where she had moved with Damon. The towing company had charged her a reasonable fee to had her car moved. But, it was worth it to Bonnie, because even though she enjoyed driving Damon's camaro she wanted a car to drive of her own and wasn't at the time ready to get a new car.
The two of them had very much settled into the life that they currently had. They had become good friends and buddies with Trevor and Bailey and often had hung out with the pair. About one month after they had moved into their new home, Bonnie had picked up a job.
It was a job at a corporate company and it paid her excellent money. She got paid forty dollars per hour and worked there four days out of the week, from Monday to Thursday, and she worked from eight in the morning to four in the evening. She got Friday to Sunday off and always got the Holidays off and there were benefits such as the great health insurance that the company gave her. Between the money that she earned on the job and Damon's millions they had more than enough to be able to pay all of their bills and still plenty of money leftover to pay for the things that they wanted to do in having fun and enjoying themselves.
They found lots of stuff to do together and always tried to go out at least once a week for romantic time with just the two of them. Whether that be them going out to see a movie or to have dinner at a fine dining restaurant or to go to one of the many places that their town and L.A. offered for dates and entertainment, they always kept up the fun and the excitement in their relationship. Making sure to show each other every day that they loved each other and were in love.
When they weren't going out, they were staying at home. Going on countless walks on the beach hand and hand, as Damon said that they would. Or just laying out on the beach, taking in the California sun as they enjoyed the waves of the ocean. And of course they spent some nights on the beach looking up at the stars of the sky.
The two of them had built their domestic life together and it ran like a well oiled machine. They did chores together to keep their home maintained and cleaned. They would set and have breakfast together on the days that Bonnie was off and every morning before she went to work on the days that she did work, he would make her a to go cup of coffee. And she would give him a kiss every morning before she left for work.
For dinner when they weren't going out to eat, they would order in pizza or Chinese and on other nights, Damon would fix her dinner so that she wouldn't have to do any cooking when she got off. Then there were times that Bonnie would do the cooking. Sometimes they would just stay at home all day cuddled up on the couch or in bed watching TV or having conversations with each other.
And there were many, many times where they would have sex and make love. They couldn't keep their hands off of each other and the passion and the desire ran hot between them. In the shower, in the bed, on the couch, or floor. They would just strip down their clothes and make mind blowing love whenever the mood suited them.
Bonnie was thrilled where she was at in her life right now, there had been no supernatural pain or drama since the day that she decided to leave Mystic Falls with Damon. Her life was as close to perfect as it could get. She was on cloud nine and getting everything that she wanted and needed. The best part being that she was living it with the man that she loved in Damon Salvatore.
Damon felt the same way as she did. Everything in his life at the moment was going spectacular. He had so much joy inside of him that words couldn't even explain. Each day seeming to be better than the last, with no limit how good things could go for him. He felt like he was living the dream life that any man would envy him for having and all things were going exactly how he wanted it to go. With the woman that he was in love with always there by his side, he knew that his relationship with her was solid and secure. The two of them loving each other so much that he knew that they would be together for a very long time. He wanted to be with her forever or as much as time would allow them to be together.
She had been his girlfriend for a total of nineteen months, but now his heart told him that he wanted her to be more than that. He was ready to take that next step with her. He wanted Bonnie Bennett to be his wife. He wanted to marry her. Which amused him because he never pictured himself the type that would ever get married. It was true that he had promised Elena some things, but even as he had made those grand speeches to Elena he wondered to himself if he really meant them or if he was just saying what he thought that Elena wanted to hear and what he needed to say to hold onto her.
But, that was in the past and in the present he had put Elena romantic wise behind him and all of his love and his romantic feelings were focused on Bonnie. He was one hundred percent sincere about wanting the Bennett witch to be his wife. That's why one day while she was at work, he went shopping for an engagement ring and looked around until he found the perfect one that he thought would suit Bonnie's style. Now it was only a matter of asking her the question.
And Damon was nervous about that. There weren't a lot of things that made Damon nervous but in relation to Bonnie he could find himself nervous. He knew that she loved him and only him, did that mean that she was ready to take that next step with him? There was only one way to find out and that was to take that leap of faith and believe in their love and ask her. So, on a Thursday while she was at work, he went to set up what he needed in order to pop that question to his witch.
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After she had gotten off from work, Bonnie made a quick stop for an errand before she drove herself home. Pulling into the driveway she saw Damon's car and his motorcycle in the driveway which meant that he was home. Damon had learned how to drive a motorcycle in the time since they had been out on the west coast. She would often ride with him on the back of the motorcycle whenever he wanted to take her out for a ride on it. Damon had even brought her own motorcycle helmet to keep her safe during their rides.
Using her keys to unlock the front door, she looked forward to spending the rest of the evening at home with her man. Especially since she wouldn't have to return to work until Monday.
She kicked off the heels that she had been wearing to work and placed them next to the doorway and then put her purse on the stand. "Hey, I'm home!"
There was no answer from him so she tried calling out again. "I'm back." She searched through the lower floor of the house, looking for her boyfriend but he was nowhere inside and it appeared that he wasn't upstairs either. But, she knew that he had to be somewhere around because his camaro and motorcycle were parked outside and those were the only form of transportation that he used.
"Damon?" Bonnie questioned. Just then her smart phone buzzed, telling her that she had a text message. She pulled it out to look at it.
"Hey, Bon-Bon have you gotten home yet?" Damon texted to her.
"Yes, just about a minute ago." Bonnie texted him back.
"Perfect." He texted.
She quickly moved her fingers over the keys of her phone. "Where R U?"
He let her know. "Down at the beach waiting for U."
Bonnie wondered what he was doing down there. "Oh, Okay."
Damon requested. "Change into something more comfortable and come in join me."
"I'll be right there." Bonnie looked down at her woman's business outfit that she had wore to work. She placed her cell phone on the coffee table in the living room and went upstairs.
There in the master bedroom, she changed into more comfortable clothes of a casual blouse and a pair of snug blue jeans. Put on a pair of sandals. Then she made the short walk out of the back door of their house and down towards the beach where she spotted Damon sitting there bare footed on a blanket and indeed waiting for her.
She kept her eyes on him as he watched her approach. He was looking as handsome as ever with his slightly messy black hair and also sexy with the scruff that he had been sporting for a while. She thought that clean shaven Damon looked good and yet there was something about his scruff that was extra appealing to her. She often had found herself rubbing her hand over it and he would run his cheek and chin across her cheek and she loved the feeling of that.
Bonnie stopped near the blanket. "Hi, what are you doing out here?"
Damon replied. "I thought that we would have dinner out on the beach today."
Bonnie took a look at what he had cooked up. There were burgers, with tomatoes, lettuce, ketchup, and mustard. He had made homemade fries from fresh potatoes and on the side for dessert were freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. Then there was a bottle of wine with a couple of wine glasses. It was a simple dinner not too complicated, but she appreciated the effort that he had put into it.
"You really know how to make a girl feel special after a hard day of work." Bonnie commented.
"Only the best for my witch." Damon told her.
Bonnie smiled at him.
Damon gestured. "Come on, let's eat."
She took a seat on the blanket next to him and they started to eat their dinner together. As they ate he asked her about how her day at work went and in return she asked him about his day went. And they shared some small talk and conversation.
When she had finished eating, Bonnie took a sip of her wine and wiped her mouth with a napkin. "So, what is the plan for the rest of the evening? Shall we go inside and watch TV for the rest of tonight."
He finished off his own wine from his own glass and thought that this was the moment and he was going to go for it. "Actually, what I have planned is something much more exciting than TV watching."
Bonnie eyed him waiting for his suggestion on what they should for for the evening.
Taking a deep breath Damon shifted until he was in the position of being on one knee in front of her.
It took a moment for her to register in her mind what kind of position that he was now in. But, once she did her eyes widened in a taken aback expression and she said. "Damon, what's going on." In a she couldn't believe that this was happening kind of way.
Damon cleared his throat and started what he wanted to tell her right from his heart. "Bonnie Bennett, you know what I feel for you and you know what we mean to each other. Being with you has brought me more joy than I have ever had at any point in my life. And I love you so much that words couldn't even began to explain the magnitude of what I feel for you. And I'm so thankful to have you as my girlfriend."
"If you have me too, I would love to have you more as my girlfriend, My heart is one hundred percent committed to you." Damon went on with emotion. "I dream of seeing you walk down the aisle towards me one day."
Gasping Bonnie put her hand to her chest, it was thumping with the emotion of the moment as she could see that he really was about to go there. "Oh my God."
He got out the ring box out of his pocket. "So, I ask you to make me the luckiest man on this entire planet. I ask you to be my wife." He paused to open up the box, revealing an engagement ring, with a large diamond. "Bonnie, will you marry me?"
Her heart was bursting to the brink with love for the man in part of her and because of that there was no hesitation in her answer. "Oh, yes, yes, Damon, I will marry you."
And with that answer Damon was overjoyed. "You've just made me the luckiest man, Thank you!"
Slipping the ring on her finger, he got to his feet while pulling her to her feet at the same time and eyed her with love and emotion and a smile that showed all of his teeth.
Bonnie returned his gaze with a look of love of her own. Her emerald greens filled with tears of joy and happiness. "I love you, I love you, I love you so much Damon Salvatore!"
Damon was so overwhelmed by what he felt for her and that she had agreed to marry him. "I love you too a lot, Bonnie Bennett, love of my life!"
To show this and how thrilled he was at that moment, he picked her up into his arms and swung around in circles laughing and she held onto to him as she giggled.
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They cleaned up their blankets and the items that they had from dinner off of the beach and brought them inside of their house. Once they had that done, they went immediately to celebrating their engagement.
And there was no better way that they could think of from celebrating their engagement other than making love. That's why they were in their bedroom now, laying in bed with each other as they had both taken off their clothes and were now in the nude.
Damon wasted no time getting to what he wanted to do to her. And that was to devour her like she was the best meal that he had ever had.
His head was buried between her legs as she feasted on her. Sighing in content at how good that she tasted. Moving his tongue into her folds and licking every inch of her.
Tugging at his raven locks with her hands, she moaned quietly, her hips lifting off of the bed too meet his mouth.
Going on, he sucked on her clit taking it deeply into his mouth, while he pushed two fingers into her heat pumping into in and out at a steady pace.
And she orgasmed into his mouth as a strangled cry of pleasure came from hers. When he moved up her body and pressed his lips to hers, she used her magic to gently switch their positions, so that he laid on his back and she was on top of him. Grabbing a hold on his rock hard cock, she gave him a few strokes with her hands from base to tip.
In response he let out a drawn out moan of his own.
Then she lowered herself on top of him, until she was fully seated on him and he was fully inside of her. She began to ride him, bouncing herself up and down on his dick and moaning as she did so.
Letting her take complete control of him, he laid there and watched as she moved above him in awe at the sexual, sensual energy that was coming from her. As her lust took him over and made him feel unbelievable pleasure in his groin area.
Reaching forward, she grabbed his hands in hers and laced her fingers with his, as she moved her hips in a figure eight motion, squeezing him with her walls as she did so.
His head fall back on the pillow and he shut his eyes tight and let out a manly groan as her walls began to tighten around him.
Bonnie could feel herself getting closer with each bounce and with each roll her of hips that she made on top of him. And after a couple of minutes more of doing this, she broke apart, his name a whisper on her lips as she came around him, her juices spilling all over his cock.
Damon soon followed her, thrusting his hips upwards and grunting as his seed emptied inside of her.
Leaning forward with him still inside of her, she planted tender, loving kisses all over his face before collapsing against his chest, breathing heavily.
Wrapping his arms around her waist, he hold onto her as they both came down from their highs.
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Three weeks had passed by since she had been engaged to Damon, and Bonnie was still in disbelief from it. She had been riding an emotional high since then. The day after she had called Caroline and told her about the news, then her and her blonde vampire friend proceeded to gush over the phone for about an hour over it, with Caroline telling her that she was happy for her. When she returned to work and people saw her engagement ring many of her co-workers congratulated her.
If it was at all possible her and Damon became even more passionate about each other since she had accepted his question to marry him. And it really impacted her knowing that one day Damon would be her husband. She would find herself staring down at the rock on her finger or staring at her vampire and his striking cobalt eyes in really believe that she was engaged. The more that she thought about it the more that she thought that Bonnie Salvatore had a ring to it or perhaps she would go with Bonnie Bennett-Salvatore. She was sure that she would make that decision by the time that her and Damon's wedding rolled around, whenever they would happen.
On this present day, she was in the kitchen preparing a dinner of homemade chicken and broccoli, fettuccine alfredo and a garden salad. It was a Friday evening and she was currently home alone. Damon had been out since that afternoon, but he had called her an hour ago over the phone and let her know that he would be there soon to help her finish up dinner. Trevor and Bailey was going to come over later, as Bonnie had invited them over to dinner. And the four of them would just hang out and have dinner for that evening.
Placing the pasta on the stove to cook, she got out the chicken and prepared to cook it in a pan and waited for her fiance to come over and help her with the food.
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In the meantime Enzo drove his way through the California beach town. The same town that Bonnie lived in. It had been nearly two years, two years since he had last seen her. Twenty two months total since he had last scene Bonnie Bennett. He had been keeping count ever since he found out from Stefan that she had left town. And since then she hadn't set foot back in Mystic Falls or even the state of Virginia. Enzo couldn't believe how time flew.
At times it had seemed like just yesterday when he saw her last and at other times it had seemed like forever since he had seen her. For weeks after she had left, he just waited there in Mystic Falls waiting for her to return. But, as the weeks went by, it was clear that Bonnie had no intentions of coming back. She really was serious about leaving Mystic Falls behind her.
When it was obvious that she wasn't coming back Enzo became upset over the situation. He wanted to know where she had gone to, but he didn't bother to ask Stefan or Caroline because he knew that neither would tell him. He tried asking Matt because he knew that Matt knew and Matt admitted that he did know where Bonnie had moved to. But, Matt also told Enzo that he wasn't going to tell him where she was and said that if Bonnie would have wanted Enzo to know that she would have told him.
Enzo even tried to intimidate Matt into telling him, but Matt had just given him a blank expression and told Enzo to get out of his face. After that Enzo had tried to take a break to get his mind off of Bonnie, he tried to focus more on himself and had no strings attached sex with a few women. But, that had only worked for a moment and after a while his mind and heart was back on Bonnie and wondering where she was.
He tried on his own but couldn't find where she was. That was when he had recently hired a private investigator to find out where Bonnie was. That private investigator had turned him down at first, saying that he only looked up people who broke the law and were hard to find or long lost family members for someone, but not ex girlfriends. Then Enzo offered the investigator double the money that he was normally paid. The investigator commented how important it must have been to Enzo to find his ex and took Enzo's case.
It took a couple of weeks before the investigator found out where Bonnie was. The investigator was able to eventually find out through where Bonnie now worked, to trace where she currently lived. He gave Enzo Bonnie's address and went on about his way.
That's why Enzo was driving through this beach town right now. She had moved so far away from Virginia, that he may never had found her on his own. But, he did and all he wanted to do was to see her again and talk to her. Get her to be with him again and have her in his life once more. Convince her to move back to Virginia to his cabin with him. He knew that if given the chance, he could recapture the spark that he had with her when she was his girl.
His rental car approached the neighborhood that Bonnie was living in and he found her home. He parked the car on the side of the street instead of the driveway and got out. Looking right ahead he saw the two story brick house. A big home for someone to live in by themselves or at least the investigator hadn't mentioned that she was living with someone else. He knew that she had left to travel with Damon, but there was no mention of any man that was living with her. Enzo wasn't quite sure where Damon was, but if the eldest Salvatore wasn't with Bonnie then that gave Enzo some hope.
In the driveway of her house there was Bonnie's car, the same one that she had driven in Virginia, except for it had California license plates now. There was a motorcycle and Enzo wondered if Bonnie had started to ride motorcycles. But, the driveway was empty of Damon's classic camaro, so he hoped that it meant that Bonnie was alone.
Taking a minute he walked up the driveway and approached the front door and rang the doorbell, holding his breath.
She opened the door. "Hey, did you forget your k…" Bonnie stopped her sentence when she saw that the person standing there wasn't the man that she expected it to be.
Enzo swallowed upon seeing her, she was as beautiful as she ever was. "B-Bonnie."
Bonnie was completely caught off guard. "Enzo?"
There was an awkward silence between them.
"So, what brings you here?" Bonnie questioned not knowing what else to say after she hadn't seen him for a while.
"I…...I wanted to come and see you." Enzo told her.
"How did you find out where I live?" Bonnie wanted to know.
"I have my ways." Was all that Enzo said.
Bonnie didn't know what he meant by that. "Is there a reason why you are here?"
Enzo replied. "It's been a long time since we saw each other. I just wanted to check on you and see how you are doing."
Bonnie let him know. "I'm doing fine, as a matter of fact I'm doing more than fine. I'm okay and my life has been going great." Then she added to be polite and to show that she didn't hold any grudges over their break up. "I hope that life has been treating you well."
"Not as well as it use to." Enzo smiled half way. "Since you've been out of it I mean."
"Oh…." Bonnie shifted on her feet.
"I just needed to see you to let you know that I have missed you and I tried moving on from you but I couldn't. So, I had to find you to let you know that and even after the time that has went by that I still love you. I'm hoping that you love me too and that we could get back to what we once had….." Enzo was rambling.
It dawned on Bonnie the whole reason why Enzo had made his way all to California, because he still thought or hoped that they could be together and reunite romantically. Instead of letting him ramble on, she knew that she had to tell him the truth. Even if it would be a harsh truth in Enzo's case.
Bonnie blurted out. "I'm with someone."
Enzo felt like a dagger went to his heart. "You're with someone?"
Bonnie nodded.
"Who?" Enzo questioned being filled with dread.
She thought that there was no point in holding back from telling him. "Damon…...I'm with Damon."
"Damon?" Enzo's mouth went dry.
"Damon and I, we decided nineteen months ago that we had feelings for each other and that we were in love, so we decided to get together and we have been with each other every since then. This house it's the home that I have been sharing with him and we live together." Bonnie explained.
Now Enzo was thinking to himself what a fool he was not to realize that wherever Bonnie was that Damon would be near. But, still there was a difference between Damon being her friend and them traveling together and now learning that she had been with him romantically for this long and that they had been living together. He didn't like it much at all, as a matter of fact he hated it.
Enzo blinked his eyes rapidly. "You really went there with him? I really didn't think….."
Bonnie saw his reaction, she knew that he was upset by it and part of her felt kinda bad for him to come all of this way for her to learn such news. But, she had to let him know. Her heart was with Damon right now and she didn't need any man getting the idea that they had hope for a romantic relationship with her.
"I went there." Bonnie confirmed. "And we are engaged."
"What?" Enzo nearly choked.
"Three weeks ago, Damon asked me to marry him and I said yes." Bonnie told him.
Enzo mumbled. "This is unreal."
Bonnie signed. "Too bad that you had to find out like this, but it's something that you need to know."
Hearing that the woman that he still loved was engaged to Damon Salvatore of all men pushed the dagger deeper into Enzo's heart and that hurt turned into anger.
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Upset he eyed the diamond rock that he just noticed was on Bonnie's finger. "That man abandons you for a coffin for three years and you decide to jump into bed with him and get engaged with him."
Bonnie cut Enzo off. "You know that I forgave Damon for that."
Enzo snipped. "Forgiving him is one thing, deciding to be in a relationship with him and get married to him that's something else entirely."
Bonnie held up a hand. "It's my choice and it's my life and I can be with whoever I want to be with."
"Well. That's what you have to say, when you broke up with me like I was nothing. And then you just leave town without so much as a goodbye to me. " Enzo's tone was bitter.
"I never intended to hurt you when I did that. But, I had to do what was best for me. And I wasn't feeling that way about you where I wanted to stay with you. I couldn't just be with you just to spare your feelings. It wouldn't have been fair to me and it wouldn't have been fair to you either for me to lead you on. I had to make decisions that benefited myself." Bonnie shook her head.
Enzo scoffed. "That's it then, you and him are lovers?"
Bonnie shrugged. "Yeah, we're lovers."
"And you don't find any problems with that. May I remind you that Damon was with your best friend right before she fell into a coma. Your best friend in which he declared his love to and who is back on the east coast, in a coffin waiting to wake up. You didn't think of her being a factor before you decided to get with him." Enzo said to her.
She narrowed her eyes with impatience towards the British vampire. "Not that it's really any of your business, but Damon and I discussed the Elena factor."
And they had. A week after they had decided to date, Damon and Bonnie had sat down and had a mature long discussion about the Elena factor and what it meant when they had decided to be together. They knew that they couldn't avoid it or pretend like it wasn't there. So, they talked about it for the good of their relationship and in doing so they came to an agreement and understanding over it.
"Have you?" Enzo questioned.
"We have. And we decided that although Elena will always have a special place in both of our lives, that she wasn't going to stop us from loving and being with each other." Bonnie answered.
Enzo's tone was harsh. "Please, you must be an idiot not to know that if Elena were to wake up tomorrow, that he would dump you to go running back to her before you could even blink an eye."
Folding her arms over her chest Bonnie coolly returned. "You're just trying to deflect your damn insecurities and disappointments in relationships off on me. But, it's not going to work. You're not going to make me doubt Damon's feelings for me. I know that he loves me and that my relationship with him is solid. And it's sad that you are standing here trying to sabotage my relationship with Damon when you and I have been broken up for so long."
"Says the woman that pined over a man who slept in a coffin for three years." Enzo lifted his chin.
Bonnie only rolled her eyes at that.
"You want to believe that Elena isn't a factor anymore. But, I know how stuck that Damon is on her and that just doesn't go away for a man. No matter what lies he tells you, I'm sure that Elena still holds the number one place in his heart and that he is still in love with her. And you fall for what he tells you like a groupie, because I'm sure that he is just interested in one thing and that's getting you in bed. So, you're just a bed warmer for him to fuck, while he is waiting for Elena to wake up." Enzo ranted.
Now Bonnie was furious. "I should really slap the taste out of your mouth for what you've just said to me. But, I'm going to restrain myself from doing that and tell you that you can burn in hell instead. The fact that you think so little of me are your thoughts and not Damon's. You are the one who doesn't think that he can love me above Elena, but I have been with him and I know his heart. You are a sad, sorry excuse for a man and thank God that I decided to break up with you and move onto something better."
Enzo said something smart under his breath.
"I'm in love with Damon, I want to be with him, and I want to marry him. If you can't accept that then tough, because I don't give a shit about whether or not you or anyone else likes it or approves. I'm here for me and me first, that girl who altered what she did for the sake of someone else is long gone. You wasted your time coming here and only managed to make the gap between us to grow further. So, Enzo get the fuck out of my face and get the hell out of my life." Bonnie finished her voice brutal.
Enzo let out a humorless chuckle. "If that's how it has to be."
"That's how it has to be." Bonnie confirmed.
Just then Damon pulled up in his camaro and turned off the engine. Getting out he saw the tension between Bonnie and Enzo that it wasn't good. From the look on Bonnie's face she seemed very pissed.
"Bonnie…...Enzo?" Damon started wondering where the British vampire have come from.
Enzo's back stiffened upon hearing Damon's voice.
While Bonnie let out a sigh of relief. "I'm glad that you are back home." She directed at Damon.
Damon's eyes scanned back and forth between the two. "Is there something wrong?"
Bonnie told Damon. "Yeah, Enzo and I were just having a conversation but it is now over. And right now I need to get back inside of the house and finish up dinner."
"Go ahead, I'll be right there to join you." Damon said to her.
With that Bonnie gave Enzo one cold look before slamming the door in his face.
Slowly Enzo turned around to face Damon. "Ah, nice to see you, Damon."
Damon pressed his lips together and stepped up to Enzo. "I can't say the same about you, seems like you've said something to upset Bonnie."
Enzo's voice was sarcastic. "She just informed me for the wonderful news of your engagement."
"I see." Damon nodded.
"You see? You see that you have stabbed me in the back and betrayed me once again, getting with my ex girl, like how you left me behind to burn in that cell decades ago." Enzo accused.
"Hey, I already told you that I shouldn't have left you behind in that cell and walked away. I can understand that it still doesn't sit well with you. Just like you coming here and finding out that Bonnie has moved on and moved on with me doesn't sit well with you and you are taking the news good. However, the difference is that with Bonnie, I don't know you anything when it comes to her, No explanation and I did nothing wrong to you in being with her." Damon stated in a matter of fact sort of way.
Enzo spat. "Seriously, that's your reasoning for getting with my ex girlfriend, we're suppose to be friends mate."
Damon snorted. "Come on, there we haven't been friends in a while. I think that our friendship stopped long ago. That was clear when you locked me in a room to get killed by a turning Tyler. We haven't been buddy-buddy for a while."
"You were just waiting for her and I to end, so that you could get your time to jump on her." Enzo went on.
"Not exactly true." Damon cocked his head to the side.
"You never approved of my relationship with her, I could see it in your eyes." Enzo snipped back.
Damon clicked his tongue. "Well, that is true. I didn't like the fact that she was with you. But, for her sake I tolerated you and wanted to respect her relationship with you, because her being happy was my main concern."
Enzo huffed. "And here you are and she is your girl, because Damon always has to have his way. Even if you don't deserve her."
"Doesn't matter if you think that I deserve her or not. Because that woman in that house, I love that woman in that house and she's going to be by wife and I plan to be with her for a very long time." Damon retorted with meaning.
'Save your speech. Bonnie is nothing but a distraction to you, someone that you can use to pass the time and ease your boredom until Elena returns. She is just a replacement for the one who you really wish that you could be with" Enzo sneered.
The blue eyed vampire took offense. "Don't you dare use Elena to diminish what I feel for Bonnie. Yes, I still care about Elena and she will always be important to me. But, Bonnie Bennett is the woman who owns my heart now and I'm one hundred percent committed to her. Besides we know that the only replacement out of all of this is you."
Enzo's eyes nearly bugged out of his head in response.
Damon gave his former friend a cocky smirk. "You know because Bon-Bon had no one else to turn to. Everyone that she cared about wasn't available to her and I had made the worse mistake in deciding to desiccate myself and left her. She was in pain and needed a way to mask that, she wanted to hide away from what she was feeling. Plus she didn't want to be alone."
"So, who was the only person that was there? You, a man desperate for some woman to love him attention, so you saw her alone and wanted to be her hero. Bonnie turned to you because she was hurt and angry that I wasn't there and needed to find comfort in someone. You wanted to make yourself look good in her eyes, just to be a moron and poison her with pills that ended up making her sick. I never should have left her in your hands, if it were up to you then you would be playing your guitar at her funeral. Bonnie only got with you because I wasn't there. But, what happens the minute that I came back? I was the one who ended up saving her life, she forgave me, fate worked itself out and here we are now. And you are just a pathetic, weak little man." Damon ended coldly.
Outraged and humiliated by what he had just been told, Enzo balled up his fist and tensed up like he wanted to hit Damon.
Damon gave him a steely stare. "Give me a reason." He challenged with gritted teeth.
Enzo thought about fighting Damon, then he backed off. "Don't worry, I'll let the two of you be, not worth my time."
"Then get the hell off of my lawn and let me go and prepare dinner with my fiancee." Damon waved a dismissive hand.
Enzo glared at him before stepping off towards his rental car.
"And don't come back." Damon yelled after him.
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There were a few time jumps and there might be one more just so that I can get the story where I want it to be. Thanks for those who have supported this story so far. I apologize for any spelling or grammar errors.