"I had fun tonight." I smile at Tyler.
"Well that makes one of us." he jokes.
"Oh come on Stefan's not th-" but he cuts me off by rubbing his thumb against my face. I give him a curious look and he smiles, leaning in to kiss me. I eagerly kiss him back and he pushes me down on the bed, never breaking our kiss. I roll over and switch our positions. Tyler's head lands on my stuffed animal and he throws it to the ground. I laugh and lean up, pulling my shirt over my head. He smirks and I lean back down and kiss him. He gently pushes me away and starts taking off his shirt. As soon as the shirt is back over his head, I lean down to kiss him again but suddenly stop. Instead of Tyler laying there it's Damon. I scream and jump off him.
I sit up in bed gasping. Oh God, now I am having dreams about Damon Salvatore. I run my hand over my face and try to even my breathing. I look over at my window and see a black crow sitting on the window seal. I get up slowly and walk to the window, the bird is staring at me curiously.
"If you don't shoo bird, I will stab you with a pencil." I threaten while picking up my empty water glass. The bird caws then flies away. I shake my head at the bizarre bird and head to the bathroom to fill my water cup up.
Too much weirdness for one night.
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"Oo, look at you all hot in your jersey." Elena flirts when Stefan walks up to us before the game.
"What happened? No more cheerleader?" Stefan asks.
"She quit." I say.
"Yup, I am a quitter." Elena rolls her eyes.
"No, your not a quitter." Stefan says sweetly, taking Elena's hands in his. "I hope you don't think it's to soon but I got you two presents." Stefan says taking out two small boxes. I raise my eyebrow at my sisters boyfriend.
"Uh, Stefan it's kind of weird getting your girlfriends twin a present." I say.
"Yeah I know but I just wanted you to have it, I thought it would be perfect for you." Stefan says shyly. He hands me the box and I take it eagerly. I open it, smiling at what I see. It's a simple lime green bracelet, it's one of those kind of rope bracelets that are tied. (Sorry I suck at describing things.) I put it on and give Stefan a big smile.
"Thank you, I love it." I say grateful. Stefan nods and gives Elena her present. When she opens it I see a beautiful necklace.
"Oh my God, it's beautiful." Elena smiles at Stefan.
"It's something I've had forever. I've never wanted to give it to anyone until now." Stefan explains. Nice move Stefan. "I'd very much like it, if you'd wear it for me."
Elena brings the necklace up to her nose and smells it. Uh, weird much? "Is that rose I smell?" Elena asks.
"Uh no it's a herb." Stefan looks down at the ground. I smell my bracelet and smell the same kind of rose smell. "It's nice huh?" Stefan smiles.
"I love it." Elena grins and turns around so Stefan can put the necklace on. Stefan lifts up her hair then clasps the chain together.
"And I wanted to thank you both for pushing me to try out for the team. It feels really good." Stefan admits.
"What a pair." I smirk, "She quits and you start."
"We're a work in progress. We'll figure it out." Stefan smiles. Elena smiles back at him and leans up, kissing him.
"Eew! No! Not in front of your sister." I whine. Elena sighs pulling away from him. Stefan gives her a small smile before heading back to the team. I look over and see Elena all dazed and love struck. I roll my eyes and turn around to see Caroline standing there with her hands on her hips.
"And your not in uniform because..." Caroline demands.
The smile on Elena's face turns upside down and she looks a little scared. Here we go.
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I want to just get a grenade and throw it into the crowd just so people will shut up. It's so freaking annoying how loud people are at a stupid football game bonfire or whatever this is. I know it's the first game and all but seriously guys? Do we have to be like a crowd of wild animals. It is driving me so insane that I am standing on the back of a truck drinking with my little brother. Jeremy is still pissed at me about Tyler but thankfully he is still giving me alcohol. Oh, how I love my brother.
I look over at the football team and see my very hot boyfriend standing with his arms crossed. Yeah, he looks like a total arrogant dick. Oh well, his hotness covers that up....a little. I shake my head and take a long sip of my beer. Refreshing.
"Let's be honest here, in the past we used to let other teams, come into our town and roll right over us!" Mr.Tanner yells from the little make shift stage. Everybody boos and I roll my eyes at our childish behavior. "But that is about to change!" Everybody screams and jumps in the air like insane people. I look over at Jer and we both roll our eyes. I take another sip of my beer and vaguely hear Mr.Tanner admiring Stefan, I bet Ty loves that. I see Tyler whisper something to Matt and leave the crowd.
I hop off the trunk as Tyler walks out of the crowd. "Hey, Ty. What's wrong?" I ask even though I know the answer.
"Nothing." Tyler answers and looks back at Jeremy. "Is that Jeremy?" Tyler starts walking towards him.
"Ty, no!" I say, trying to push him back. He easily pushes me out of his way and heads over to Jeremy.
"Don't look so pissed." Tyler smirks. "Your sister would rather hang out with me than you and she's even a little tipsy." Before I can react, Jeremy punches Tyler in the face. I scream and run over to them but Tyler pushes me back and I fall to the ground.
"Tyler stop it!" I yell. I watch in horror as my brother and boyfriend beat the crap out of each other. Jeremy is on the ground and Tyler is above him, punching him.
"He's down." Stefan yells, coming out of nowhere, grabbing Tyler's arm as he is about to punch Jeremy again. Tyler glares at him before punching Stefan in the stomach. Stefan doesn't even flinch and Tyler looks shocked. I look over at my brother and see him grabbing a piece of broken beer bottle.
"Jeremy no!" I yell but it's too late. Jeremy swings the bottle and I watch as it cuts Stefan's hand. I get up and Elena and I run to our brother.
"What the hell Jer?!" I say exasperated. "Lift your head up, your bleeding." I say trying to get him to lift his head up. He pushes my hands away.
"I'm fine!" he yells.
"Yeah, you smell fine." Elena glares. I look down guilty, I probably smell wonderful too.
"Just stop it." Jeremy says and walks away. I watch as he walks in the opposite direction of Tyler and Matt. Matt is still trying to get Tyler to calm down.
"Oh my God, your hand." Elena says worried running over to Stefan, I follow her slightly worried. "How deep is it?" she tries to take his hand but he pulls it behind his back. "Let me see." Elena says grabbing his hand. "Do you need stitches?" she finally opens his hand and I gasp at what I see. There is just a small pink line on his hand, what the hell?
"We saw-" I start to say but Stefan cuts me off.
"It wasn't my blood. See I'm fine." Stefan smiles.
"No I saw it. The glass cut your hand.." Elena argues.
"No it's okay. I'm okay." Stefan reassures her. "It's almost kick off time so um... I'll see you after the game." Elena nods and Stefan walks away. Elena and I look at each other for a moment in shock.
We know what we saw.
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I was walking back to Elena's car when Tyler intercepted me. I glared at him and tried to walk away but he grabbed my arm. I could smell the alcohol on him. Not good. I looked around but there was nobody else in the parking lot.
"Tyler why aren't you playing?" I ask trying to hide my fear.
"The game hasn't started yet, Aria. I don't even think I can play when it starts. I am a little bit drunk." he laughs like it's hilarious.
"Tyler let me go, I need to get to my car." I say and try to pull away from him but he just tightens his grip on my arm. "Tyler let go you're hurting me."
"I don't want to let you go." he snarls. I look at him shocked, I have never seen him act like this around me before.
"You have to, Ty. We're done, you beat up my brother and tried to punch Stefan. Your violent and I don't want to be with you anymore." I growl and he slaps me in the face. I hold my stinging cheek and look at him, tears threatening to flow.
"You want to see just how violent I am?" he growls and pushes me to the ground.
"No, I really don't think she does." a voice says from behind him. I breathe out a relived sigh at seeing Damon.
"You know I really don't like you Salvatores." he growls and charges at Damon. Damon smirks and sidesteps him easily.
"Nice try, jock." Damon smiles and punches him in the face. Tyler gets up quickly and tries to punch Damon but Damon catches his fist. "Leave, go get sobered up." Damon growls, looking into his eyes. Tyler glares at him before staggering away back to the game. Damon jogs over to me and helps me up. "Are you alright?" he asks.
"Yeah, I am now...I think." I pause and smile up at Damon. "Thanks for scarring Tyler away. I've never seen him like that."
"No problem Ari, I love beating up high school jocks that abuse their girlfriends." Damon smirks. I let out a small laugh.
"What are you doing here?" I ask.
He leans in and whispers, "I'm hiding from Caroline."
"And why is that?" I whisper back, amused.
"I needed a break. She talks more than I can listen." Damon says normally.
"That could be a sign." I taunt.
"Well she's awfully young." Damon smirks.
"Not much younger than you." I point out. It's not like he is some Edward Cullen that lives forever.
Damon lets out a little laugh. "I don't see it going anywhere in the near future. She would drive me crazy."
"Caroline does have some really annoying traits but we've been best friends since the first grade and that means something to me." I glare at Damon.
"Dully noted. I'm sorry if I make you uncomfortable. That's not my intention." Damon smiles but I can tell it is his intention.
"Yes it is or else you wouldn't put an alternate meaning behind everything you say." I point out.
"Your right, I do have other intentions." Damon admits. "But so do you."
"Really?" I ask, rolling my eyes.
"You want me." Damon says arrogantly.
"Excuse me." I laugh.
"I get to you. You find yourself drawn to me. You think about me when you don't want to think about me. I bet you even dream about me." Damon smirks. I don't want to admit how right he is. Damon looks into my eyes and I see his pupils like dilate or something weird like that. "And right now you want to kiss me." he smirks and leans in but I slap him in the face.
"What the hell?! I just broke up with my boyfriend and you want me to kiss you! I know you have issues with your brother and stuff but I don't want to get involved. Get one thing strait Damon, I am not Katherine, I am not some replacement that you can replace her with. Leave me alone. Stefan likes Elena not me so why don't you two fight over her." I glare at him before storming off. As soon as he can't see my face, I let the tears fall.
Stefan's POV:
I smile as Matt walks away, at least I have one friend on this team. I hear clapping from behind me and spin around to see Damon emerging from the shadows.
"Isn't that nice, Stefan makes a friend on the team." he says amused. "It's all so Rah Rah go team!" Damon shouts in a girly voice, holding his fist in the air.
"Not tonight, I'm done with you." I say and turn around. Suddenly Damon is in front of me, smirking slightly.
"Nice trick with Aria, let me guess....vervain in the bracelet. I admit I was surprised, it's been a while since anyone could resist my compulsion." he says doing that annoying eye thing. "Where'd you get it and why Aria? Elena is yours so I should get Aria."
"It doesn't matter." I say about the vervain and ignoring the second part of the question. I push past Damon and start to walk away.
"Guess I could just seduce her the old fashioned way or just......eat her." he says smugly.
I turn around and smile, taking a few steps toward him. "No, your not going to hurt her, Damon."
"No?" Damon smirks.
"Because deep down inside of you there is a part of you that feels for her. I was worried that you had no humanity left inside of you. That you actually became the monster you pretend to be."
"Who's pretending?" Damon interrupts.
"Then kill me." I say.
"Well...I'm tempted." Damon says, shrugging.
"No your not. You've had life times to do it but yet here I am, alive. And there you are still haunting me. After 145 years, Katherine is dead. And you hate me because you loved her. And you torture me because you still do." I say. "And that, my brother, that is your humanity." Damon and I stare at each other for a few moments until Coach interrupts us.
"Salvatore, there you are. What are you doing? We have a game to play?" I turn around and look at him.
"If that's my humanity then whats this?" Damon asks and before I can stop him, he speeds over to coach Tanner and drains his blood.
"No!" I yell but it's too late. Coach Tanner falls to the ground and Damon looks over at me with blood red eyes and blood dripping out of his mouth.
"Anyone, anytime, anyplace." Damon threatens before disappearing.
Aria's POV:
I see Vicki walk away from Jer after finally doing the right thing. My brother is in love with her so she better treat him right.
"Did you hear about Mr.Tanner?" I ask walking up to him. Mr.Tanner was attacked by some animal and he died.
"Yeah, real shame." Jeremy mutters. I sigh and sit down on the wall next to him.
"Jer, he was our teacher. He didn't deserve to die no matter how much of a dick he was." I point out. I hear Jeremy let out a little laugh.
"What happened to your face?" he asks worried. He looked over and got a nice glimpse of Tyler's slap. Wonderful.
"You were right about Tyler." I say shakily. "I should have listened." I couldn't help it, I let a sob escape me. Jeremy wraps an arm around me and pulls me towards him. I sob into his shoulder and hold him tightly.
"Don't worry Aria, he will get what's coming for him." Jer whispers and rubs my back. I can't stop, I just keeping crying and crying.
The thing I can't figure out is, am I crying about Tyler or Damon?
Damon's POV:
I stand there looking at her beautiful sleeping form. She is so much like Katherine but yet she's not. I reach out and gently stroke her face, tucking a piece of her hair behind her ear. I glare at the bruise on her face from that jock kid. If he ever touches her again I will rip him to shreds.
She stirs and I am gone in a flash. I look up at her window from the driveway and smile to myself but quickly shake it off.
I can not fall in love with Arianna Gilbert.