I woke up naked with Stefan in my bed. I had convinced Anna to sleep in the guest room so we could spend some time together. It was basically a birthday present. I was currently in the second day of my 16th year. I couldn't help but take all of Stefan in as he slept. I wondered if I should be watching him while he slept because it was kind of weird.
"You're staring." He muttered. It seemed that he wasn't as asleep as I thought. I blushed a little. His eyes weren't even open. How did he know that I was looking at him?
"No, I'm not." I tried to argue. I was pretty sure that I wasn't very convincing.
"Yes, you are. It's creepy." He replied, still not opening his eyes. It was not creepy. It was creepy how his eyes were still closed though.
"It's romantic." I countered as I decided to make use of those closed eyes and gave him a kiss. It was quite the way to wake up.
From there we began to roll around in the sheets. We really needed to enjoy our private times because we didn't really have public time because of the people that we knew Katherine had watching us. Even if Caroline wasn't anymore, I'd bet that she was resourceful and compelled some people to make sure that we're not together.
After we were done, I prepared to get out of bed. I started to put on some clothes even though I immediately planned on taking them off.
"Okay, so I need to shower." I declared as I got up.
"Alright, let's go." He suggested. I blushed because I wasn't sure if I was comfortable doing that in the shower.
"No, just me. I'm decorating for the masquerade ball at the Lockwoods' and I don't wanna be late." I explained. It was an excuse. I just really didn't want to take a shower with him because I felt like it would be weird.
"Well what do you know? I'm also doing that." He stated. I supposed that I wasn't surprised, even though I felt like it might not be a good idea with Mason there.
"You know we should probably try to avoid all eye contact whatsoever." I told him. "We definitely can't have any lingering stares. There is one thing that we need to do before you leave. How about my shoulder? I plan on keeping that covered."
He bit into me for a few seconds before he pulled away and I went to the bathroom to wash up. After I was done with the shower, I put on a red sweater and black skirt. I met up with Anna in the hallway as I grabbed my keys. It felt good to have a car of my own. It was a 2005 Toyota Camry. I also went for a Mustang but Ford kind of sucks.
Part of the reason that I didn't want to go with Stefan was because I had a dream about Anna. It was a bit of an unusual dream and I was a little embarrassed by it. The fact that I was so attracted to her while I was dating Stefan kind of worried me.
The drive to the Lockwood house was amazing, probably because I was still getting used to the car. Of course being 16 meant more than just being able to drive. It also meant that I could have a job. It would definitely be weird working, especially in this town, even if I already did have a good deal of volunteer work on my résumé. I didn't know if I wanted a job right now. Maybe it was something that I could explore during the summer.
"So are you ready for this?" Anna asked me as we got out of the car. Ready for what exactly? I was ready to help out with whatever we were doing, but she had said it so ominously like something was going to happen. To be fair, Mason was probably there.
"You know I'm not even sure if I'm going to get to go to this dance." I stated. I also wasn't sure if I wanted to go another formal party. "I probably won't be able to go with Stefan."
"I'll be your date if you can't go with him." She offered. As tempting as that was, I didn't think it would be a very good idea.
"You know this is so unfair." I complained. I felt like ranting a little for some reason. "We could kill Katherine if we just knew where she is, but she's very good at hiding. Why couldn't she have been someone like Logan, who was incredibly obvious as a vampire?"
"I knew it!" Tina interrupted. I didn't know how I was going to talk my way out of this. I supposed that I was lucky that no one else was around. It probably wasn't a good idea to go on that rant in public. "I knew that you knew about vampires."
I sighed, knowing that we had been caught. Now I had to deal with this issue, even though I did kind of want Tina to know about it.
"If I say yes, will you not tell anyone about this?" I questioned. She nodded. "There are plenty people in town that would like to see all vampires dead."
"Well I would really like to be a vampire." She admitted. I was pretty sure that she didn't understand what that meant.
"Trust me, you don't." Anna remarked. "I spent hundreds of years unable to go out in the sun."
"You know I've always wanted to meet a vampire." Tina stated. Well I was right in the fact that she was harmless. She seemed like a fangirl to me. To be fair, I was a little bit of a fangirl myself. "Do you think that you could tell me some things just for my own personal enjoyment?"
"I'm not telling you anything unless I know I can trust you." Anna declared. I supposed that Anna was right not to trust her even though I was pretty sure that she could.
"That's fine." The Fell agreed. "But I would like to be your friend."
"You can help us for the day." I told her. I kind of wanted to be friends with her anyway and I wanted to show Anna that she was a good person. Though, she didn't entirely have the best judgment since she danced with Damon at the 50s dance.
"So have you and Stefan still not worked things out yet?" Tina inquired. It was a little more complicated than that.
"It's hard to work things out when his bitchy ex is a vampire." I remarked. "To be clear, we're not really fighting, but we need her to think that we are until we can get her to come out into the open and kill her."
"Doesn't that seem a little extreme?" Tina responded. She didn't know how dangerous Katherine was.
"No, trust me, this wench needs to die." I declared. I did have a bit of a hatred for her. She was the reason that I was a girl and she was also the reason why I couldn't tell anyone. "Her offenses contain turning Stefan, Damon, and most recently Caroline into vampires and also orchestrating the death of Anna's mother, and blackmailing Caroline into spying on me."
"Can I do to help?" She responded. It was sweet that she wanted to help, but it was probably too dangerous.
"Nothing." Anna answered bluntly. "Even if you can't be compelled, there are still other things Katherine can do, i.e. kill you. We can't have any liabilities around right now, no offense."
"Okay, way to not sugarcoat it." Tina remarked. I was at least glad that she understood how dangerous things were. She wasn't stupid, even though she had been arrested for DUI. "So do you wanna fold some old dresses with me?
Before I got a chance to do that, I noticed Bonnie. It seemed that she had come back from traveling with her dad. For some reason, I felt like I should catch her up on things, even though she had been such a bitch to Caroline.
"I need to go talk to her and fill her in on everything." I stated before I walked over to the witch. "Hey."
"Hi." She reciprocated. She might have been wondering why I was talking to her. One reason was that she was the only witch that we knew.
"So I have some stuff to tell you. Let's go somewhere more private." I suggested. I didn't want to make the mistake of someone overhearing us again because the next person could be a lot less harmless than Tina.
We went by the pond and I decided to fill her in on the recent events including my fake fighting with Stefan, the incident with Mason and our abduction of Sheriff Forbes. She seemed stunned. It was definitely a lot to take in.
"Wow." She commented. I supposed that it was a lot.
"I know it's a lot to take in." I remarked.
"It's not that you're fake fighting with Stefan." She replied. Well I didn't even have her cell phone number because the two of us weren't really friends. "I didn't know that there were any problems at all."
"Well we're kind of not friends." I pointed out. "And judging by the way that you treated Caroline, you made it pretty clear that you're not exactly the biggest fan of vampires."
"So suddenly, I'm the bad guy?" She asked me. I didn't say that she was the bad guy and I wished that she didn't think of it like that.
"No. You just have to know that we ever are going to be friends, you have to understand that I have friends and a boyfriend who are vampires." I told her.
"You know that this isn't easy for me, Mary." She replied. That didn't mean that she should just cast her friend aside.
"You don't need to be so highly strung. You and Caroline have been friends forever and she can't help the fact that she's a vampire any more than you can help the fact that you're a witch." I pointed out. "You really shouldn't be so hard on her because she wants to be your friend."
"We should probably get back." Bonnie suggested. Did that mean that she was going to try to work things out with Caroline or not? "All that work isn't gonna do itself."
I sighed and walked back to the house. The first person that I found was Damon. I was a little surprised that he was there. We couldn't kill Mason at his house.
"Have you talked to Stefan lately?" I questioned. I wondered if they had any plan to deal with Mason.
"No, but I'm currently trying to lose your sister. Take her from me." He instructed as I noticed Elena walk into the room. That was a bit of an interesting sight.
"Elena, what are you doing with him?" I asked her as I noticed that he noticed he had walked away.
"Damon and I were working on something involving the moonstone." She told me.
"What the fuck is a moonstone and more importantly why are you working with Damon?" I questioned. I was more than a little bit confused. I didn't think that she wanted to be involved with any of this stuff. I told her because she had to the right to know, but she seemed kind of disinterested ever since Anna rejected her request to turn her…she wasn't asking Damon to do it, was she?
"It's this rock that Tyler has and like it or not, I'm involved in this." She replied. I still didn't understand why she was involved with it.
"Well I'm going to get the stone from Tyler." I declared. "You should stay out of this, Elena."
I then went to find Tyler. I didn't even what I was looking for, but I hoped he would help me find it. I also wasn't entirely sure how to talk to him about it.
"Hey, Tyler." I greeted him with a smile.
"What's up?" He responded. It was the first time that we had talked in a long time. He was probably wondering why I was talking to him.
"Elena was telling me that you found this moonstone." I explained. I hoped that didn't sound too inorganic. Though, it was possible that anything that I could say to him would seem inorganic because of my limited experience with him. "I heard this legend about it and I wanted to know if it was the same one."
"You're going to have to ask my uncle because he's the one who has it now." He explained. Well that was definitely not good news. It was not something that we wanted in Mason's hands. "I'm done with all of this supernatural stuff."
I decided to send Stefan a text to see how he was doing. It was basically my only way to communicate with him. I supposed I could have called him, but texting was so much easier and didn't require as much time.
"What are you doing?" I texted.
"Can't talk now. Doing something with Damon and Bonnie. Fill you in later." He responded. What the fuck? He couldn't just drop a bomb on me like that and not elaborate.
"Damon and Bonnie? Fill me in now!" I replied.
That led to me receiving a call from him. I supposed that we weren't going to just text.
"So what's going on?" I answered.
"Bonnie had a vision of Mason kissing Katherine." Damon explained me. I didn't know that she could still do that. I thought those psychic things just faded away. "We're plotting something to take him down."
"You can't kill him until you figure out what he did with the moonstone." I pointed out. I was pretty sure that it was important, even though I didn't entirely know what it was for. Maybe I should have asked for more notes about it.
"We'll do that." He promised. "I love you."
"I love you too." I responded before he hung up. I sighed and wondered what I was going to do next. It made sense that Mason and Katherine were sleeping together. They both got in town around the same time and they were both evil. The only thing that confused me was that Katherine was all about Stefan, so why was she sleeping with Mason. Maybe she was manipulating him like she manipulated Damon. She wanted moonstone to break the curse and perhaps didn't care about him.
I decided to go back to Anna to make sure that she hadn't done anything to Tina. Before I got there, Jenna came to me.
"So I was going to have Ric over for dinner tonight." She told me. "I was thinking that maybe you could invite Stefan."
"Stefan and I aren't really together right now." I remarked. I thought I had told her about that. Maybe I hadn't. I also had to think of a reason as to why we broke up.
"Really, because that's not what it sounded like this morning." She replied. I blushed a bright red. I couldn't believe that she heard us having sex. It was mortifying. She noticed my expression. "You know what? I heard nothing."
I wished that she really had. I then went back to my vampire roommate. I wanted to compel her to forget that she had heard about it, even though I knew that was wrong and it wasn't even possible because she still had that vervain perfume. At least she wasn't going to try to give me the talk or anything because I couldn't think of anything more embarrassing than that.
"Why are you blushing?" Anna questioned. I supposed that she hadn't been listening to our conversation. It was a good thing that she respected my privacy.
"Jenna kind of heard me and Stefan this morning." I declared.
"Well you were so loud I wouldn't be surprised if the whole house heard you." Anna quipped. That wasn't what she was supposed to say.
"You're not making me feel any better." I pointed out with a deep red on my face. I needed to change the subject immediately. "So I also have some news. Tyler gave the moonstone to Mason."
"If you had let me kill him, he wouldn't have been able to receive it." Anna pointed out. I sighed. She was right, but I was more focused on saving Stefan and Damon at the moment.
"There's more." I added. "Mason and Katherine are fucking."
"That doesn't surprise me." She stated. I was surprised by that.
"It doesn't?" I asked in surprise.
"That slut needed someone to get her off and since Stefan and Damon wouldn't do it, she went to the closest source of man candy, even if he is a werewolf." She explained. When she said it like that, I supposed that it did make sense, even though it made me want to vomit.
"It sounds so disgusting when you describe it like that." I pointed out. Though, because it was Katherine it was automatically disgusting. It was more disgusting then. I also couldn't understand what Mason saw in her. I couldn't understand how anyone could like her. Granted, she was really pretty, even though I didn't want to think of her that way because I didn't want to think of my sister as attractive. That was another reason it disgusted me because thinking of her having sex was like thinking of Elena having sex.
I then noticed that Stefan was trying to sneak away from the house. I decided that I would take it upon myself to follow him. If they were doing something, I didn't want to be left out of it. He stopped by this old well on the Lockwood property. That was a little bit ominous and I would bet that it wasn't coincidental.
"What are you doing here?" I questioned. He looked a little surprised by the fact that I had followed.
"You shouldn't be here." He responded.
"But I am here, so tell me why you're here." I declared. "Look, I doubt that Katherine has cameras set up out here, so tell me."
"Bonnie said that the moonstone is in here." He replied as he ripped the lock and the cover off of it in one fell swoop. I couldn't help but notice it looked very deep.
"Are you sure it's in there?" I questioned.
"Yes." He replied as he stood on top of it. I couldn't help but think that all of this just seemed too easy. "I'll only be down for a second."
He jumped in the well and a few seconds later I heard him screaming. It was definitely too easy. Stefan had just jumped right into a trap.
"What's happening?" I questioned in concern. I was only able to make out one word: vervain.
"What's going on?" Caroline asked after having sped over. I was definitely surprised to see her there. "I heard screaming."
"Stefan's in there." I explained as she too prepared to go in, but I grabbed her because we didn't need her to get stuck as well. "You can't go in there. The well is full of vervain. We have to get him out."
At that moment, Bonnie appeared. Did that mean that the two of them were hanging out together? Had Bonnie actually taken my advice.
"What happened? You ran off so fast." The witch asked. We gave her a quick rundown of the situation.
I then had the two of them set up a system to lower me down so I could get Stefan out of there. It would involve Caroline pulling him up. They slowly lowered me down into the water where Stefan was lying unconscious and severely burned. I quickly wrapped the chains around his body. I hoped that they would be strong enough to hold him.
"Pull him up!" I yelled before he started to be elevated to the top.
"I wanna get you next." The vampire told me. I just chose to ignore it as I began to look for the moonstone. I found it in a small box. I decided to take it out of the box and put it inside of my bra. Part of me thought that maybe I should have taken my clothes off or something, but I was pretty sure that this stuff would wash out. I hoped it would at least.
"Okay, now you can pull me up." I replied before I felt something bite me. I realized that there were several snakes. "Pull me up now!"
They quickly brought me up and I was suddenly finding it hard to breathe. Mason had clearly thought ahead. He seemed to be smarter than we thought he was. I also couldn't help but wonder if they had killed him or not.
"Snake bit me." I remarked and no sooner did Caroline's wrist go in my mouth. Once I was better, I cut my hand and put it inside of Stefan's mouth so he could be. I noticed that Caroline turned her head away. From there, I decided to head back to the Lockwood house and to Anna.
"Is there any particular reason why you're wet, smelly, and bleeding?" She questioned.
"We got the moonstone." I explained. "Now I want to go home and get another shower."
I didn't like taking multiple showers in a day, but it was kind of necessary. While I was in there, I heard someone walk in the bathroom.
"This is occupied." I declared. It was at that point that I saw Anna come in. "What are you doing?"
"I just want to know something. Do you want to kiss me right now?" She asked.
"I can't." She replied.
"You can't or you don't want to?" She asked. I gave in and kissed her and…I can't talk about the rest.
After I was showered and changed, I went downstairs to where Jenna was cooking dinner and Anna was putting out plates. She had at least changed separately from me. Jenna was currently on the phone with someone.
"It's for you." She told me before she handed me the phone. Who would be calling for me on the home phone instead of my cell phone?
"Hello, Mary." The voice on the other end said. Katherine. "I bet you thought that you could get away with sneaking around, but I heard about your little stunt with Stefan this morning. I suggested that Jenna should switch her perfume and she's been spying for me. I also suggested that she should kill herself."
I then noticed that Jenna had taken a knife and stabbed herself in the gut. Anna rushed over and prepared to put her wrist in her mouth, but I grabbed her to make sure that she didn't.
"No, if we do that, Katherine could turn her." I pointed out. I knew it was a gamble, but I was pretty sure that the doctors would be able to treat her. "We have to take her to the hospital."
Stefan ended up meeting me there and gave me a hug. It was good to see that he was feeling better. I knew that I had to break up with him, mainly for what I had just done with Anna. I still didn't know if I could tell him that, so I could at least use this Katherine stuff as an excuse.
"How is she?" He asked. This was going to be hard.
"She's in surgery. They said the knife just missed." I explained with tears in my eyes. "Stefan, I really can't do this anymore. I love you, but I'm not willing to let other people die for our love. As long as Katherine's around, we can't be together. I'm sorry."
So Mary and Anna ending hooking up in the shower. Also Mason is dead and she broke up with Stefan. Please don't forget to review.