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Chapter 3
Friday Night Bites
The morning sun shone through the window as I prepared my coffee, the house was actually peaceful which could only mean that Caroline was at school already or still sleeping. I kind of doubted the latter considering Caroline didn't miss school for a lot. Mum wasn't home so I didn't know if that meant she had left early or that she just hadn't come home.
"Enough for me?" a voice asks me.
The foreign voice caused me to jump sending hot coffee over myself, "Ahh," I scream as the scalding liquid seeps to my skin. "What the hell is wrong with you?" I growl at Damon, Caroline's late night guest as I attempt to dry myself off.
Damon holds up his hands but still looks amused at what just happened, "Didn't mean to scare you," he says in a tone that implies the opposite.
"Whatever," I snap dropping the tea towel, "why are you out here you do realize this is the sheriff's house right and your messing with her daughter?" It seemed like an awfully big gamble to come out, for all he knew I could have been mum.
Damon looks around, "She doesn't seem to be around," he states pointing out the obvious.
"It's the principle okay," I mutter picking up my coffee and circling around the room so the table stood between us, something about Damon just seemed off, in a way I couldn't quite grasp.
Damon looks at me and the table between us before smirking, "You don't like me," he observes.
"Yes," I answer, Damon seems surprised before I add, "there is enough coffee for you. Tell Caroline to wake up its almost time for school and please next time we see each other have a shirt on," I blush at the last bit, somehow only just noticing the lack of clothing in Damon's upper region. I could tell Damon was about to say something and I only could guess that it was something that I didn't want to hear, so I made a quick retreat to my bedroom in the hopes that by the time I was ready to go to school Damon would be long gone.
"Hey," Elena calls cheerfully as I arrive at school with Daniel alongside, thankfully I had been able to escape the house without seeing Damon again. I was tempted to just wave at Elena, but I couldn't so it, not after Stefan had given me the present.
"Give me a sec," I whisper to Daniel, making my across the field towards them.
"Good morning, Elouise," Stefan greets me as I stand before them. I half smile at the greeting wondering why it was hardly ever said any more.
"Morning," I reply, "what you two doing?" I question feeling a need to keep the conversation going.
"Planning a dinner to make Bonnie like Stefan," Elena informs me.
"She doesn't like him?" I question confused, that just seemed wrong Stefan was too nice to not be liked.
"Weird right?" Elena says to me, sounding slightly vindicated.
"Very," I say nodding my head enthusiastically, "your perfectly likable and she'll totally like you when she gets to know you," I promise Stefan.
"That's what I told him," Elena agrees turning to face Stefan with an I told you so face, which caused me to laugh.
Stefan shakes his head at us, "Well why don't you come to dinner tonight?" Stefan offers me.
My heart stops the thought of it sending me into a spiral of panic, "Ah no I couldn't," I stutter, hoping Elena will shut down the idea.
To my dismay she agrees, "Yeah you like Stefan it'll be two against one."
"Bonnie doesn't like me so it'd be stupid," I argue wishing they would get the hint and leave it.
Elena laughs as if the idea is ridiculous, "Of course Bonnie likes you, it'll be fine, my house at eight," she commands.
I stare at her in desperation, "That might not suit me," I murmur a last ditch effort.
"Come on it'll be fun," Elena promises me. I give a pleading look to Stefan as if he could sense it and set me free. Unfortunately I plan it just as a football comes hurtling towards us causing me to flinch in fear as I anticipate the incoming pain. I open my eyes to see Stefan holding the ball and I stare at him in shock, "Okay that was amazing," I comment looking over at the source of the ball. Matt and Tyler stand looking as shocked as I was and I couldn't help but join my laugh in with Elena's.
"So eight?" she prompts me.
"Fine," I agree hesitantly, wondering if she would mind if I called in sick.
"Elena asked me to a make Bonnie like Stefan dinner," I explain to Daniel when he asks what took me so long.
Daniel gives me a strange look, "Why would she do that?"
I shrug, wounded at the fact it seemed so unbelievable Elena would invite me to dinner, "Stefan and I are friends I guess and I guess she thought I could help her guess."
"Friends," Daniel scoffs, causing me to frown, "I'm sorry but you've hardly talked to the guy."
I glare at him, "Why does it seem so impossible to you that I could make other friends?" I question my tone offended.
Daniel looks shocked by my response and I can almost seeing his mind scrambling to make an excuse, "Elouise you've known Elena forever and you've never been friends and this Stefan's guys nice yeah, I just don't want you to get your hopes up at something that will probably start and finish with one dinner," he tells me. Its his sincerity that hurts the most and makes me more determined than ever to go to the dinner. Before then I was prepared to back out but as per usual my stubborn nature takes over.
"My hopes aren't up over so you can stop worrying," I snap at Daniel storming away from him.
"I'm glad you made it," Elena says to me as she leads me into the kitchen where Bonnie stands waiting. "Me too," I mutter unsure if I meant it or not.
"Hey," Bonnie greets me and I couldn't decide how she felt about me being here.
"Hey," I reply, turning my attention to Elena who is pouring the to-go food into a bowl.
"I'm not entirely sure that's going to work," I comment, stepping forward into the kitchen.
Elena looks up at me and I instantly regret saying a thing, "She's right," Bonnie agrees and I breathe a sigh of relief.
"You two shut it. Serving spoons where are they?" Elena questions, spinning around as she looks over the kitchen.
"Middle draw on your left," Bonnie tells her, Elena opens it and pulls them out. Elena and Bonnie share a look and I wonder if its because Bonnie seems to know Elena's kitchen better than her.
"Ok, so you've been in this kitchen like a thousand times," Elena says explaining it.
"Yeah that's it," Bonnie says and I can't work out if its sarcastic or not.
The doorbell chimes and Elena turns to Bonnie, "Okay he's here don't be nervous just be your normal loving self," she advises her before disappearing to let him in.
I turn to Bonnie, "What was that about?" I ask nodding towards the serving spoons.
Bonnie looks at the spoons, "You know my Grams?" she asks me, deciding I could be trusted.
"Yeah," I say everyone kind of knew Sheila.
"Well according to her I'm a witch, and sort of psychic it's being freaking me out," Bonnie admits.
Everything becomes clear in my mind, "The crow thing," I exclaim.
Bonnie laughs at my reaction, "Yeah the crow thing."
"I knew that wasn't a joke," I say feeling triumphant, that would have been just too coincidental.
Bonnie frowns at me as if what I just said confuses her, "Why?" she question just as Elena walks in with Stefan.
"Did Tanner give you a hard time today?" Elena questions Stefan as we all sit awkwardly around the dinner table.
"You tried out for the football team," I exclaim, upset I had been denied that knowledge, "I knew you had to be good after that catch."
"Oh yeah Bonnie you have seen Stefan today. Tyler threw this ball right at him and," Elena begins only to be cut off by Bonnie, "I heard," she says shortly.
"Hearing is nothing compared to seeing it, I was so sure it was going to hit one of us," I admit turning to face Stefan, "so are you on the team?" I ask.
"Yeah I am," Stefan tells me.
"Great," I say cheerfully looking around the table unsure what to say next.
"Why don't you tell Stefan and Elouise about your family?" Elena suggests to Bonnie. I give Bonnie a curious look wondering what about her family could be so interesting.
"Um divorced. No mum, live with my dad," she says shrugging as if it was no big deal, which it wasn't really.
Elena shakes her head giving Bonnie a look, "No about the witches, Bonnie's family have a lineage of witches its really cool," Elena tells us. Of course that made sense considering what Bonnie had just told me.
"Cool isn't the word I'd use," Bonnie mutters and I wondered why she was acting like this around Stefan.
"Well its certainly interesting. I'm not to versed, but I do know that there's a history of Celtic druids that migrated here in the 1800s," Stefan comments, I had to smile of course Stefan knew that.
"My family came by way of Salem," she corrects him.
"Salem witches?" I question surprised, most people had heard of that.
"Yeah," Bonnie says.
"I'd say that's pretty cool," Stefan tells her, "totally," I add.
"Really? Why?" Bonnie questions Stefan confused at his answer.
"Salem witches are heroic examples of individualism and nonconformity," Stefan informs her.
"Yeah they are," Bonnie agrees perking up at Stefan's answer. I smile at the two of them glad that Elena's plan had worked. The doorbell rings once again and Elena looks surprised.
"I wonder who they could be," she says standing up. Just as she disappears Stefan gets up to follow her, looking worried. I could only guess at why.
"I wish my family had a heritage like that," I admit to Bonnie changing my thought pattern. It was the truth, it sounded so original.
"Really?" Bonnie asks me.
"Definitely, Stefan's right you know," I inform her.
"I know," Bonnie agrees as Elena and Stefan stroll in closely followed by Caroline and Damon. I gulp when I see Caroline the last thing she would be happy with is me having dinner with her friends.
Caroline's face immediately darkens when she sees me, "What are you doing here Elouise?" she questions me an underlying threat in her voice.
"I invited her," Elena says backing me up.
"Why?" Caroline asks and it takes a few seconds for it to dawn on her how rude that sounds, "I just meant surely you had plans with Daniel," she quickly corrects herself.
I feel myself going red with all the attention on me, it was the thing I disliked most in the world, "No not tonight," I mutter.
"Plus we didn't really give her a choice," Stefan adds making me feel just a little bit better.
"Hey need some help?" I question Damon and Elena as I walk into the kitchen. I didn't really want to help with the cleaning up but Caroline was taking every opportunity to make me feel out of place. Of course it was working, by now I knew I should have listened to Daniel and never come in the first place.
"Sure why not?" Damon says.
I walk up to them, "So what's up with you and your sister?" Damon questions me. I stare at him why in the world would he think that was even a remotely appropriate question to ask.
"Nothing's up," I snap, I didn't know why I was acting like this Damon just rubbed me up the wrong way.
Elena laughs, "No but seriously he's right you let Caroline walk all over you."
I scoff, "I do not. I let no one walk all over me," I lie. Damon and Elena both give me a look which makes me squirm. "Fine I do, but it works this way you know? I don't interfere with her life and she doesn't with mine. You're her friends not mine, it's not entirely fair," I say to them, desperately trying to explain a relationship that I'm not even sure I understand.
"She's not being fair either," Elena argues.
"Well it works okay," I tell her in a tone that suggested she leave it.
"No it doesn't and you know it, the only one winning out of the two of you is her," Damon says firmly like what he's saying is fact.
"You know you're meant to take her side cause you're with her," I tell her, glaring at him for telling the truth. Sometimes it was better to hear a lie.
"I'm here to help," Bonnie declares walking in before Damon can reply.
"Thank god," I mutter under my breath glad to have the conversation over and done with.
"What are you doing at a football game?" I ask Daniel walking up to him.
Daniel turns to face me surprised, "We're talking now?" I had ignored him after our fight, but much like Damon it was because he told me the truth and I couldn't hold that against him.
"You're right, I can never be friends with them Caroline wouldn't let me and its not worth it," I admit, wishing I didn't have to hear the words come out of my mouth.
"I didn't realize you wanted to," Daniel comments, seeming to be more offended than before.
"I don't I mean I didn't but this year its been different there's change in the wind, I just it felt kind of good to be liked by someone other than you," I confess to him, "but I'm totally over it," I assure him when I see his face.
Daniel looks relieved, "Good because honestly its been weird, I shudder to think how weird it would be if you were actually friends with them."
I laugh, "Me too can you imagine the horrors?" I joke lightly.
"I don't think I want to," Daniel replies in the same joking manner.
"What happened?" I question Bonnie disturbed and afraid at the sudden appearance of police all around the school. Bonnie seemed to occupied in her thoughts to answer me so gently I shook her.
"Tanner's dead," Bonnie tells me turning her head lazily around to face me. It took a few seconds for the news to sink in Tanner was an arse but nobody deserved to die.
"How?" I question, my mind going into shock what had happened to Mystic Falls? Bonnie shrugs and I take a few steps back needing to be home and away from this.
Bonnie grabs my arm before I can get away, "I lied," she admits to me.
"About what?" I question my mind spinning not able to focus on any one thought.
"The crow thing I saw it when I touched Elena but Elouise when I touched you the next day I saw something as well a crow, a face," here she pauses taking a deep breath, "Damon's face and blood, lots of blood. I didn't tell you because I knew you'd think I was crazy and maybe I am but Elouise stay away from him," she warns me. I look at her still unable to process what she had told me or more importantly what it meant.
So just a couple of questions any more ideas on Elouise, oh and do you guys think she should be with?
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