A/N: Okay, so I know I skipped straight to Isobel, but I couldn't think of anything for the group to do in Blood Brothers besides than sit around doing nothing. Hope you like this chapter.

A few days later, Margret had finished getting ready for school. She and her friends were going to be helping design and build floats for the Founder's Day parade. She went to Elena's room to see if she was ready, but she was on the phone. "I'm supposed to help build the Miss Mystic float for the Founder's Day parade. If I don't I get the wrath of Caroline but I wanted to check in first." She was saying.

That was so typical of Caroline. She had actually roped Amy and Melody into helping with that one, too. And she knew she'd get the heat if she didn't help her.

"What's the matter?" Elena asked. Margret looked concerned. "Don't forget who helped me." She said, smiling. "I've got to go I'm late." She hung up and noticed Margret. "How long have you been there?"

"Long enough to know that Queen Caroline's going to kick our butts if we're late." Margret pointed out.

"Would it kill you to be nice to her?" Elena asked, putting on her jacket.

"I'm sorry, I'm trying, but it's hard to do when she's in charge of a school or town based project and gets us involved. I mean no offense to her, but she can be pretty bossy." Margret pointed out.

"Yeah, well she just wants things to go perfectly when the events happen." Elena said. "Don't you remember what happened during freshman year?"

"Oh, right." Margret said. "That was a mess."

"Anyway, we better get going." They left the house.

The group met in the cafeteria. "So these are the specs for the History department. For the Founder's Day float we'll be recreating the battle of Willow Creek." Alaric told them. "Tyler has been nominated at the head of the production design."

"By whom?" Tyler asked.

"By me. I've seen your sketches and they're good." Alaric told him.

"I'm not really into the…" He began.

"Well, you just pick your team, be creative and… Don't screw up." He walked away from the team.

"Great!" Tyler said. He turned to Matt. "You want to help me out with this?"

"Not really, no."

"This is awesome, Ty." Rob told him. "If you need a hand, I know where I can find materials for this kinda stuff."

"I could use all the help I can get." Tyler said.

"Traitor."

"Hey, lighten up, man." Rob said, turning to Matt. "I know you're not on the best terms right now, but this is important."

"Were you serious about finding materials?"

"There's still a ton of leftover fabric from when Melody used to create costumes."

The girls were all gathered by Caroline and Bonnie. Well, except for Elena, who had mysteriously gone missing from the meeting. "Alright, show me." Bonnie said.

"Let's reference last years Miss Mystic float." Caroline showed them a picture. "This is what they did last year and this is exactly what we don't want to do."

"Last year they didn't have us helping, though." Amy pointed out.

"Okay! So, what are we doing?" Bonnie asked.

"Southern classic elegance."

"Wait, let us guess." Margret said.

"Gone with the Wind?" They all said.

"How'd you know?" Caroline asked.

"You channel Scarlett, daily." Bonnie pointed out.

"So true!"

"Not like that's a good thing." Amy said, though she was still smiling.

"Where's Elena? She's supposed to be helping." Caroline said, looking for her.

"I don't know." Bonnie told her.

"She said she'd be here." Margret said.

"You don't think she's ditching, do you?" Melody asked.

"Please, my sister would never skip on helping others."

"Okay, what's the deal?" Caroline asked.

"What do you mean?" Bonnie said.

"Don't play dumb. You and Elena are fighting. Spill!"

"It's nothing." Bonnie told her.

"It's not nothing. You know this whole float is supposed to be about friends creating something together and everyone is fighting." Caroline pointed out. "Matt and Tyler hate each other, you and Elena are on the outs and I don't like it! And I can't fix it if I don't know what's wrong."

"Yeah, what is going on with you two?" Margret asked. "Elena seems pretty upset these days."

"I can't talk about it, Caroline, I'm sorry." Bonnie told her.

"Does this have anything to do with…" Margret began, then hesitated. She knew she couldn't tell the others she was a witch. "Does it have to do with your grandmother's death?"

"Sort of." Bonnie said. "It's more complicated than that, though."

At home, Margret was upstairs talking with the girls. "It does seem serious." Melody said. "Elena was talking with someone and then she got upset. For a moment, I thought Bonnie would help her, but she just left."

"It must be serious. She wouldn't just leave someone by themselves."

"She wasn't alone. Stefan was with her."

"I'll call you later, Melody." Margret said. She hung up. She really had no idea what was going on here. She headed downstairs and found Jeremy and Jenna.

"Hey."

"Have you heard from Anna?"

"No. I've never even met her." Margret pointed out.

"How is Anna? I like that girl, she has fire." Jenna said.

"I don't know. She won't return my calls." Jeremy told her.

"Girl trouble?" They all looked and saw John.

"No, no trouble. Anna just owes me a call, that's it." Jeremy said.

"Is that the girl that I saw you with at the founder's pageant?" John asked. "You two are getting hot and heavy. When was the last time you saw her?"

"Why?" Jeremy asked.

"I was just making conversation. No one else in this house likes me." John pointed out. "At least I can talk to you especially if you need someone to talk to about girls."

"Oh please! I'm eating." Jenna pointed out.

"Seriously, you have got to stop bringing up that topic around us women." Margret said, leaving with her.

"He just irritates me so much." Jenna told her once they were out of the room.

"You're telling me." Margret said. "Why are most guys such jerks?"

"I have no idea." Jenna said. "Though occasionally there are some nice ones. Are you having guy trouble?"

"No, why would you ask that?"

"Just saying."

"Well, my friends think there's something up with me and Alex. At this point, I'm tired of telling them we're just friends, considering that we really are just friends." Margret said. "You'd think they'd get the message by now."

"Maybe they just figured since you two hang out a lot…" Jenna began.

"Look, Alex has been my friend since as long as I can remember, and that hasn't changed." Margret told her. "It's not like I'm just going to wake up one day and decide, hey, we should start dating."

"Okay…" Jenna said. "Look, this is probably going to sound weird, but maybe you should give him a chance." Margret looked at her. "I see the way you look when you talk about him."

"Jenna, he is only my friend. That's all he's ever been to me. If we started dating, it would be too weird."

"I think I see the real problem." Jenna said. "I'm going to tell you what you're mom told me when I was having this issue. Don't care about what your friends think about you if you decide to go through with it."

"I have some homework to finish." Margret said. She headed up to her room. A few hours later, she headed back downstairs. Elena was at the door, talking with Bonnie.

"Hi."

"Hey. I couldn't sleep last night. You were obviously upset about something and I just walked away. It's not me." Bonnie explained. "That can't be us. You're my friend, Elena. If you need me I'm here for you and I'm sorry I couldn't show you that yesterday."

"At least you're here now." Margret said. "That's what matters."

"Thanks, but I still feel awful about leaving you like that." Bonnie said, turning to Elena.

"I met my birth mother." Elena told them.

"I'm guessing it didn't go well." Margret said.

"Oh. Was it... Are you okay?" Bonnie asked. Elena broke into tears then. Bonnie came up and embraced her. Margret decided to head back upstairs, knowing they'd need time alone.

At the school, everyone was helping build the floats. Rob and Alex were helping Matt out. Tyler showed up. "Hey man. So Caroline tells me you've been on your own for the past two weeks. Is everything okay?" He asked.

"You're asking me about my mom. Seriously?" Matt said. "Look, man, why don't I just give tell her to give you a call when she comes back to town?"

"Dude, that's not what I meant okay?" Tyler said. "I'm just trying to… I don't know what to say."

"Good men don't say anything. You're a dick, end of the story." Matt told him.

"Hey, guys, knock it off." Rob said. "At least he's trying to apologize."

"Yeah, whatever happened, you both have to move past it at some point." Alex told them.

"I know." Tyler said. Matt walked away.

"Can you believe they're still fighting?" Amy asked.

"I know." Melody said. "Have you seen Margret?"

"I think she went to get more blueprints." Amy told her.

Margret went into when of the classrooms, where she ran into Bonnie and Elena. "According to Emily, Jonathan Gilbert never actually succeeded in inventing anything. Emily secretly spelled them all with magic. Compass, rings and the mystery device you told me about."

"Sorry for interrupting. I guess I'm in the wrong place."

"It's fine, Margret." Bonnie told her. She showed Elena a page. Margret looked briefly.

"Yeah, that's it. Well, a part of it. Damon only has the one piece." Elena told her.

"I should get going, my friends need help with the floats." Margret left the room.

A few minutes later, she was helping the others out. "Okay, who's idea was it to put fringe on the bottom of this thing?" Amy asked.

"Might wanna take it up with your cousin." Melody told her.

"Hey, Amy's right, though." Margret pointed out. "If it gets caught under the wheels, it could be a problem."

"So, just trim it, then." Caroline told them.

"I'll be right back." Margret said. She headed over to the guys' float, when she saw Jeremy walk away from Elena. "Great, as if things aren't falling apart enough already. Now Jeremy's fighting with Elena."

"Is there anyone at this school who isn't having a fight with someone else right now?" Rob pointed out.

"Well, I think the five of us are getting along pretty well." Alex said.

"Yeah, there's that." Margret said. "Oh, can I borrow the scissors?"

"Sure."

"Thanks." She headed back over to the float to work.

"Wait, shouldn't it be a little higher than this?" Caroline asked.

"No, we don't want it to be too high, otherwise, when it moves, chances are you'll end up falling off." Melody pointed out.

"And the last thing we need is for our Miss Mystic queen to fall off and break an arm or worse." Amy said.

"Do either of you know that woman talking to Elena?" Melody asked suddenly. They looked.

"I've never seen her in my life." Margret said.

"Something's off about her." Suddenly, there was a loud crash. Everyone turned and saw the guys' trailer had been crushed.

"Crap! Matt's under there!" Rob said.

"Come on, guys! Help!"

"Tyler, get over here." Alex said. "The rest of you, come on!" The girls ran over to help.

"Okay, girls, stay back for now." Rob said.

"Come on, we've gotta help him!" Tyler pointed out. The guys tried to lift it, but it was really heavy.

"This thing weighs a ton." Rob said.

"Hang in there." Alex told him. They finally managed to lift it. Amy and Caroline pulled Matt out from under it.

"Caroline, call an ambulance." Stefan told her. She took out her phone and called them.

"How in the world did this even happen?" Amy asked.

"Who cares? Matt's really hurt." Margret pointed out. "We have to get him to the hospital."

"Hey, thanks for the help." Rob said as Stefan left.

"Anytime." He called over his shoulder.

"How long will it take for them to get here?" Melody asked. By now the group had forgotten about the floats and were more concerned about Matt.

"The ambulance is saying in fifteen to twenty minutes." Caroline said.

"We can't wait that long!" Alex pointed out.

"I have my car. I can take him to the hospital." Tyler said.

"Caroline can take me." Matt told him.

"I didn't drive." Caroline pointed out.

"I'll wait. It's fine."

"You will not wait okay?!" Caroline yelled at him. "You need to see a doctor, Tyler is driving. End of story."

"Whoa. You really care about him." Amy realized.

"Go!" She yelled at Tyler.

"I'll bring my car around." Tyler left to get his car. Matt looked at Caroline.

"Look, forget about you're fight with Tyler for five minutes and let him help." Rob told him. "That's a serious injury. It needs to be looked at."

"Yeah, you're lucky it didn't put you in a full body cast." Alex added. Rob gave him a look that said, 'you're not helping.'

"Margret." Margret turned around to find her sister looking worried. "Have you seen Jeremy?"

"No, I thought he left."

"Let me know if you see him." Elena said. She ran off after that.

"What is up with your sister?" Amy asked.

"I don't know." Margret said. "Something's been off for the last couple weeks now."

"I have a feeling there's something going on that she doesn't want us to know about." Melody said.

Finally, Tyler pulled up. "Okay, I'm going with Matt to make sure he's okay." Caroline told them. "Amy, you take over and make sure everything gets done." She helped Matt get into the car and they left.

"Okay, first thing, Auto Club, fix the problems with that float." Amy said, immediately stepping up. "The rest of you, get back to working on the other floats. Don't just stand there, move it people!"

"She's really good at this." Melody said.

"Guess it runs in her family." Margret said as they got back to working on the floats. By the time they were finally done with the floats, it was sunset.

"Well, everything looks like it's been fixed." Amy said. "Nice job on the decorating, Melody."

"That was nothing. You should've seen the dresses I made last year." Melody told her.

"We should probably get going." Rob said. "Our parents would freak if we got home late."

"You mind dropping me off at the hospital?" Amy asked. "I want to see how Caroline's doing."

"I'm headed there, too." Rob told her. "Matt's always had my back and I want to be there for him."

"We better go, too." Margret said.

"So, I'll see you tomorrow?" Alex asked.

"Of course." Margret said. "We'll all be there, remember?" They all headed to the parking lot.

When Margret got home, she found everyone except Elena sitting together. Jeremy was on the phone. "Yeah, yeah I'm fine, Uncle John hit his head. It was an accident." He was saying.

"We're all laughing." Jenna added.

"But yeah I'm okay." There was a short pause. "Yeah."

"Hey." Margret said. "Anyone seen Elena?"

"She just called. She's on her way." Jeremy told her.

"I saw you leaving earlier. We could've used your help."

"Sorry, building floats, not really my thing." Jeremy said.

"Matt got hurt while working on one." Margret told him.

"Is he okay?"

"Yeah, Caroline and Tyler took him to the hospital." She explained.

"What happened?"

"We don't know." Margret said. "All we know is that it collapsed on him. It took the Auto Club three hours to find and fix the problem. Turned out to be a loose support beam."

"Man, everything always happens when I'm not around."

"Well, next time we'll record it for you."

"Right, you don't even know how to work a video camera."

"True, but my friend does." Margret pointed out. She headed upstairs. She was tired from working all day.

A few hours later, she went to Jeremy's room, to find Elena talking with him. "Elena! Just get out. Please."

"Jer, I..." He closed the door on her.

"Elena?" She turned around.

"Sorry. How much did you hear?"

"I just got up here." Margret told her. "Why's he so mad?"

"It's complicated." Elena told her. "I was trying to hide something from him, but it kinda blew up in my face."

"Are you going to be okay?"

"Yeah, I just want to make it up to him." Elena told her. "I'm going to bed. Today's been really exhausting." As soon as she left, Margret knocked on the door.

"I said go away." Jeremy called.

"Wrong sister, twin." Margret told him. He opened the door.

"Sorry. I'm just so mad at her."

"What happened?" Margret asked.

"Well, wait you don't know, do you?"

"What are you talking about? I don't know why you're fighting." Margret said.

"Basically, she lied to me about something important." Jeremy told her. He knew that he couldn't tell Margret what really happened because she was completely in the dark about it.

"I'm sure she had her reasons."

"Trying not to hurt me." Jeremy said. "Though not knowing the truth is worse."

"Good night, Jer." Margret said. She knew there was something up, but at the same time, didn't want to get involved in the argument herself.

A few minutes later, Melody called. "Hey, what's up?"

"Are Bonnie and Elena still fighting?"

"Not that I know of." Margret told her. "Why?"

"Amy was just with Caroline at the Grill. She told me that Bonnie seemed to be feeling guilty about something and thinks Elena won't forgive her if she found out." Melody explained.

Margret knew this had to be a witch problem. "Well, whatever it is she did, I'm sure Elena eventually will forgive her. I have to go. Big day tomorrow and all." She hung up. She couldn't help but wonder why everyone seemed to be keeping secrets from each other. She leaned back on her bed. She hoped things would clear up soon, because this was getting out of control.