Chapter 27: Chapter 27

“You have to let me get up Damon!” I laugh, once again trying to get up but getting pulled down right away.

“No, I don’t want you to go.” Damon whines, keeping a strong grip on my waist.

“I don’t want to go either but I need to. I promised Bonnie and Elena, I would help.” I sigh, prying his hands off my waist. He’s like a little kid that doesn’t want his Mommy to leave. After a few moments of fighting with him, I am finally successful and jump off the bed. And I know what you’re all thinking, ‘oh she slept in Damon’s bed, they must have done it.’ Well, you’re all wrong, we didn’t do anything. We just slept. It’s the truth, I promise.

“Why are you so mean?” Damon groans sitting up, smirking slightly.

“I was born that way.” I smirk and grab my bag, heading into the bathroom. I was prepared and brought some clothes. I know, I’m good.

After I put them on, I wince at my reflection. I look exactly like Katherine. I’m wearing tight, black skinny jeans, a black tank top with a tight leather jacket, and high heel black boots. Yup, I look just like her. Wonderful…

I walk out of the bathroom and Damon whistles appreciatively. I roll my eyes, but like that he likes it. Ugh, I sound like some clingy girlfriend.

“I like it, very sexy.” Damon smirks doing ET.

I laugh and shove his shoulder lightly, “I’m always sexy, Day. Even in my Pj’s and don’t deny it, you said it last night.”

Damon shrugs, “Can I not think that my girlfriend is sexy?”

“Your girlfriend? Hmm…I like the sound of that.” I smile as he wraps his arms around me. I lean my head against his chest, sighing. “When are we going to tell Stefan and Elena? I think there going to be pretty pissed.”

“So? I love making them mad, it’s soooooo fun.” Damon teases.

“But I don’t, I actually want to have more than one friend.” I smirk and pull away from him. He frowns and tries to pull me towards him again but I take a few more steps back. “I really have to get going. See you later.” I smile and lean up, kissing him quickly. When I pull away, he has a grin on his face. I laugh and head out of his room.

I could so get used to this.

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I practically skip towards Bonnie and Elena, beaming with happiness. Who knew what having a boyfriend that you actually love could make you so happy. Elena sees me skipping towards them and frowns, looking at me weirdly. Seeing Elena’s expression Bonnie turns around, looking at me with a shocked expression.

“What’s with the faces guys? Who died?” I smirk.

“No one, at least not yet.” Bonnie mumbles.

“We’re just surprised to see you in that attire again. You haven’t dressed like that since…” Elena trails off looking at the ground.

“Oh come on Lena, just say it. Since Mom and Dad died. Plus I don’t know what the big deal is, there just clothes.” I sigh, pouting at them.

“Katherine dresses exactly like that.” Elena points out, glaring at me. What does she think, that I want to be like Katherine?

“A lot of people dress like this, Elena.” I glare back at her. “So to avoid any more glaring, what were you two talking about before I came over.” I don’t want anyone to ruin my mood right now. Especially not Elena.

“I was just saying that it’s really creepy how much Katherine looks like you guys. It’s freakish.” Bonnie says.

“She is our ancestor.” I say in a duh tone. Bonnie glares at me but I just shrug innocently.

“Hey, I moved the student booth into the cafeteria.” Elena tells Bonnie trying to avoid the Katherine subject.

“She’s your guys vampire ancestor and she didn’t just resemble you, like a family member would. She was you.” Bonnie states. Who is she talking to? Katherine had impersonated both of us so I’m guessing she’s talking to both of us?

“I- I don’t know, we can’t explain it. It’s creepy…that’s all I got.” Elena sighs.

“Well, how do you know she’s not still out there pretending to be one of you.” Bonnie argues.

“We don’t Bon Bon, now why don’t you just shut it since you’re ruining everyones mood.” I smile as nicely as I can but I’m glaring at her.

Elena shoots me a look but doesn’t argue, “Have you talked to Damon lately Aria? Or do you guys not talk and just make out.”

“What?!” I ask completely horrified even though it’s halfway the truth.

“Wait, you and Damon make out?” Bonnie questions, disgust showing on her face.

“No!” I say too quickly, “Can you guys just stop pestering me! Let’s just stop talking about vampires and Damon. We’re human, we need to do human stuff.”

“Alright, we’re sorry. We will focus, plus we have to make Caroline proud or she will kill us. I don’t know how she does this all the time.” Elena smiles slightly.

“Well, because she’s not human. Obviously.” I joke causing both Elena and Bonnie to laugh.

“Obviously.” Bonnie agrees, grinning. My phone buzzes and I pull it out seeing a text from Damon.

Meet me behind the school.

I roll my eyes at the text. Only Damon would be that creepy and….well creepy.

“I have to go, meet you guys later.” I smile and hurry away before they can ask any questions. I will tell them about Damon and I sooner or later. Just not now. I don’t know how they will react. They are not exactly Damon’s biggest supporters.

I round the corner to the back of the school and I’m suddenly spinning through the air. I scream and grab on to anything I can, to keep from falling.

“Ow, you’re grabbing my nose.” Damon groans, still holding me in his arms. I look at him for a moment shocked before I laugh and wrap my legs around his waist.

“You scared me, I thought you were like Katherine or someone coming to kill me.” I joke, grinning.

“I won’t let anyone touch you.” Damon smirks and sets me down. I laugh and playfully slap him on the chest.

“You’re so protective.” I admit, though I kind of like it. I mean come on, it’s super sexy.  “Whatca doing here? I have to plan for the carnival.” I glare at him playfully. Truthfully I would love to get out of it. Plus being around Elena and Bonnie feels weird, I’m keeping things from them.

“What if I just wanted to see you?” Damon teases but I know that’s not true.

“That would be wonderful but I know you’re lying. Why are you here? Please tell me it’s not something bad, please.” I beg, nothing can stay normal in this town. Nothing!

“Calm down, it’s nothing bad. I just stopped by to say hi though, I have to go meet Carol for something about the Council.” Damon shrugs, annoyed about having to meet her.

“Carol? It’s Mrs. Lockwood.” I scrunch up my nose in disgust. Damon laughs and pulls me to his chest.

“I should get going but I can’t really bring myself to leave.” Damon grins, playing with a strand of my hair.

“Then don’t, I do need some extra hands to set up some things.” I smirk but I know he would never do that. Like ever.

“Ah no…maybe I’ll come tonight though. See ya later Ari.” he leans down kissing me quickly. I try to lean into it but when I open my eyes he’s already gone.

“Ugh, stupid vampires.” I mutter, mad that he just left. We were kissing for goodness sake! Oh well…back to party planning. Yay…

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“The ring toss is out of dolls and Team Jacob tees.” Bonnie tells me, trying to keep up with me as I rush through the crowd. I have not had one second to enjoy the awesome carnival around me. Damn you Caroline…

“Ugh, can’t you just like tell Elena or something? I actually want to have fun tonight and so far, I haven’t had any.” I sigh finally stopping and turning around to face Bonnie.

“But-“ Bonnie starts to say but I cut her off quickly.

“No! Zip it! Look around Bonnie, this is a big success. If you really want to be such a downer, go hang with Elena. She’s good at that.” I smirk, while Bonnie rolls her eyes at me.

“Other things need to be fixed also, a speaker went out in the karaoke booth. Aria, you have to make sure things get fixed.” Bonnie explains, getting slightly annoyed.

“Ugh, fine.” I sigh and look over spotting the repair guy. He looks like he’s only in collage, how well can he repair things? “Hey…uh…repair guy! You are the repair guy, right?” I yell getting his attention.

He turns around, nodding his head. “Yeah, that would be me. Carter.” he smiles.

“Wonderful.” I smile as he walks towards us. When he sees Bonnie he smirks.

“Wow, what you need beautiful?” I raise my eyebrows, someone is flirting with Bon Bon.

Bonnie giggles and blushes, looking down at the ground. “Umm, what do you know about karaoke speakers?”

“Why don’t you show me the problem.” he looks at her with flirting eyes.

I turn towards Bonnie with an amused smile, “Yeah Bonnie, show him the problem.” I wiggle my eyebrows.

Bonnie laughs and rolls her eyes, “Alright, come on.” she tells him leading him off. I watch them walk away with a smirk on my face. It was quite cute watching them flirt.

My smirk soon fades when I see a group of people running over towards me. What is it now?

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I laugh as Elena tries and fails to stuff a teddy bear with cotton. She glares at me but tosses the bear down to the floor. That makes me laugh even harder while she just grumbles under her breath.

“Aria, Elena.” Damon says urgently, walking over towards us.

“What do you want Damon?” Elena glares, I guess she’s still mad he kissed me. Wait till she finds out we’re dating…

“I know I’m the last person you want to see right now, Elena but I need you two to come with me.” Damon insists, shooting me a pleading look to help convince Elena.

“Whatever you want Damon, we’re not interested.” Elena states angrily. I wince at her tone.

“Yeah, I need you to come with me right now, Elena.” Damon glares at her, loosing his patience.

“Come on Lena, it must be important.” I plead and she glares at me. “Please.” I smile batting my eyelashes. Elena rolls her eyes but follows Damon and I as we walk away.

We follow Damon all the way to Alaric’s classroom where Stefan is pacing. Elena smiles, walking over to him, giving him a quick hug. I look over at Damon and find him looking at me.

“Alright, you got us here. Now what’s the problem?” I ask looking between Stefan and Damon.

“I don’t know, Damon called me over here also.” Stefan shrugs.

“Alright then, so Damon, why are we here?” I question.

“Okay so this is really startling news but…Caroline is a vampire.” Damon says slowly waiting for our reaction. I stare at him in complete shock and horror. My best friend is not a vampire. She can’t be.

“Funny joke Damon.” Elena glares at him but I know she knows he’s not joking.

“She kind of pushed me around earlier in the hallway, using her vampire strength. She also said that Katherine gave her a message, ‘game on’. She is a vampire Elena.” Damon shrugs like he couldn’t really care less. Ugh, so typical Damon.

“How did this happen?” Stefan asks starting to pace once again.

“Well I fed her blood, Katherine obviously killed her, and a plus b equals…” Damon trails off, having got his point across.

“But why?” Elena questions, looking over at me once again. Everyone in the room keeps doing that, acting like I’m gonna break. I’m not!  At least not yet.

“Because Katherine is a manipulative, nasty, little, slut.” Damon smirks.

“She said ‘game on’? I mean, what does that even mean?” Stefan frowns trying to figure Katherine’s game out.

“It means that little bitch is playing dirty and she wants everybody to know.” I growl, feeling my anger rise. Nobody hurts my friends or family unless they want to die. So she must have a death wish. I don’t care how old or strong she is, I will find a way to kill her one day.

“But why Caroline?” Elena sighs, shaking her head.

“Oh God, she must be scared out of her mind. She has no idea what’s happening to her.” Stefan worries, running his hands through her hair.

“Oh I think she does, all of my compulsion from the past, it started wearing off the minute she was in transition.” Damon winces, not wanting to bring up that he abused my best friend.

“We have to find her.” Stefan states.

“Yep…and kill her.” Damon sighs causing me to glare at him. Ah, hell no!

“You are not going to kill my best friend, Damon!” I yell not caring how much I love him. He is crossing a line right now.

“She knows who we are, she’s officially a liability. We got to get rid of her.” Damon rolls his eyes like it is so damn obvious.

“Damon, absolutely not!” Elena states slowly, hatred seeping into her tone.

“May I remind you of a tragic little story named Vicki Donovan. Yeah, Caroline of all people will not make it as a vampire. Her mother is a vampire hunter, guys come on, we all know how this story is. So lets just flip to the last chapter and-“ I cut Damon off, sick of listening to him.

“It’s not an option, Damon.” I glare at him.

“No? Your silence is deafening Stefan. Wait, wasn’t there a school carnival the night you staked Vicki? Huh, talk about a town where history repeats itself.” Damon states amused. “You know I’m right.” Damon points out to Stefan.

“No, you’re not. We are not going to kill her Damon. If you lay a single hand on her, I will hate you forever.” I give him one last final glare before stalking out of the room to find my now vampire best friend.

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“Caroline?” I say slowly seeing her sitting on the truck, crying silently. She looks up at me and I see the blood all over her face. I gasp when I see the dead body beside her. “Oh Caroline…” I whisper walking towards her.

“No! Stay away from me! I could hurt you!” she screams, standing up quicker than humanly possible. Guess she doesn’t know how to control her hunger or speed yet.

“Caroline, it’s alright.” I smile but she ignores it.

“I killed him! He’s dead Aria! I killed someone, I’m a murder!” she cries, suddenly standing in front of me. I try not to look frightened but she is freaking me out a little.

“Caroline you have to calm down, I can help you.” I put my hand on her arm, trying to calm her down.

“Don’t lie to me!” she screams, pushing me away from her. Like I said she doesn’t know her own strength so I go flying and land on my back, quite hard. I groan and sit back up slowly. Ouch, that hurt.

I look back up at Caroline and see her fangs are out. Shit. I look and see that my elbow is scraped up pretty bad. Blood is flowing down my arm and I’m guessing it’s making Caroline hungry.

“Care, don’t.” I plead as she starts to stalk towards me.

“I’m sorry.” she whispers before using her vampire speed. I close my eyes waiting for that all too familiar pain but I don’t feel anything. I open my eyes slowly and see Damon has Caroline pinned to the wall, a stake pressed against her heart.

“No! Damon!” I scream, and watch helplessly as he starts to dig the stake into her heart. Oh God, no. I get up to my feet but I am not quick enough to stop him. Right when he is about to kill her, Stefan appears out of nowhere, pushing him back.

“Stefan!” Damon groans. Elena runs over to Caroline, not the best idea. Elena tries to put her hands on Care’s shoulders but Caroline pushes her away. More gently than with me. Wow, I feel so loved…

“Get away from me! You killed me!” Caroline sobs making me frown. Guess Katherine pretended to be Elena, not me. Thats good..well…never mind.

“No that wasn’t me. You know that, it was Katherine.” Elena explains gently.

“No! Then why did she look like you and Aria?! Why, why did she do this to me?!” Caroline screams, having her emotions all over the place. Poor Care…

“Stefan you have to get her inside.” I tell him, knowing we will attract some attention.

“Alright, Caroline come with me.” Stefan says gently walking towards Caroline with his hand outstretched to her.

“She will die, it’s only a matter of time.” Damon sighs.

“Yeah, maybe so but it’s not gonna happen tonight.” Stefan argues glaring at his brother. They start to turn away but something flickers in Damon’s eyes.

“Maybe it is.” Damon states before using his vampire speed and coming at Caroline. I quickly step in front of her, having been standing right next to her. Damon stops quickly holding the stake just above my heart. I am breathing heavily, happy he stopped himself.

“Damon, she’s my best friend.” I cry looking into his eyes. He stares at me for a moment before taking a few steps back.

“Whatever happens is on you guys.” Damon warns.

“Alright, let’s go.” Stefan says turning around again. But this time when we turn around Bonnie is standing there, horrified.

“Caroline?” she questions.

“It’s okay, come on.” Stefan smiles trying to get her to go inside. Caroline looks down at the ground, obviously embarrassed.

“No, you’re not. You can’t be.” Bonnie says, shocked. She runs up to Caroline, touching her arm. Based on Bonnie’s expression, she got the answer she needed.

“Bonnie?” Caroline asks, sounding heartbroken. Bonnie shakes her head and hurries over to the truck, seeing Carter’s dead body. I figured out it was him a few minutes ago. Stefan leads Caroline into the bathroom, to clean her up.

“I can’t believe this is happening.” Bonnie states disgusted, tears running down her face.

“Come on, don’t pout about it. We got a body to bury.” Damon almost smirks walking over to us with a shovel. Ugh, why does my boyfriend have to be so insensitive? He just makes so many friends, doesn’t he?

“Thought you two were calling the shots? No?” Damon smirks whispering to Elena and I. We both glare at him but Elena uses more hatred. “Sucks to be you buddy.” Damon says throwing the shovel on the truck.

Suddenly Damon grabs his head, groaning in pain.

This feels like deja vu.

He falls to the ground, groaning loudly. “Bonnie, what are you doing?” I question, pissed off. The water hose turns on and the water moves towards Damon.

“I told you what would happen if anyone else got hurt.” Bonnie glares at him continuing her head thingy. Damon is holding his head and I can imagine the pain he feels.

“I didn’t do this.” he gasps.

“Bonnie! You dumb ass! This wasn’t his fault!” I yell, sick of this witch bitch hurting him. She’s almost gotten him killed like twice now. That’s two times too many.

“Everything that happens is his fault, Aria.” Bonnie glares at me. The water is moving closer to Damon now.

“Bonnie, what are you doing?” Elena asks right as the water suddenly turns into fire. Heading straight for Damon.

“Bonnie! Stop it!” I scream as the fire catches on Damon pant legs. He swipes his hands, desperately trying to put out the fire. “Bonnie stop it! You’re going to kill him!” it’s like she doesn’t even hear me. I look at the fire separating us. it’s not that high, I can jump that.

I jump over the fire and land right in front of her.

Payback time.

I punch Bonnie in the face, causing her to fall to the ground. The fire dies out and Damon finally stops groaning in pain. Mission accomplished.

“Aria!” Elena yells, running over to us. Bonnie is on her knees, holding her bleeding nose.

I lean down whispering in Bonnie’s ear so Elena can’t hear us. “If you ever hurt Damon again, it will be a lot worse than a punch.” I stand back up and see Bonnie’s shocked expression. “See ya later Bon Bon.” I smirk walking over to Damon.

“Are you alright?” I whisper, helping him stand up. He looks at me for a moment before leaning down and kissing me passionately. I can feel Bonnie and Elena watching us but I don’t give a shit. He almost just died, for heavens sake.

“I am now.” Damon smirks pulling away.

I laugh and look over at Bonnie and Elena’s shocked expressions, “Let’s get out of here, too much judgement in the air.” Damon’s arms wrap around me, and suddenly I feel like I’m flying. I close my eyes scared out of my mind. When the wind stops I open my eyes and find myself standing in front of my house.

“Aww, you took me home.” I whine causing him to laugh.

“It’s been a sucky day, I think you need some rest.” Damon smiles, the one he saves for me.

“Yeah, my best friend is a vampire, my boyfriend wants to kill her, my friend wants to kill him, oh and then I punched my friend.” I wince, looking at my bruised knuckles.

“That was pretty bad ass Ari. You were protecting me.” Damon says the last sentence in a really high girly voice.

“Oh shut up, you would be ashes now, if it wasn’t for me.” I grin.

Damon shrugs, “Maybe, maybe not.”

I yawn and look up at my room. “Maybe I should get some rest. But I’ll see you tomorrow right?”

“Of course.” he smirks and I kiss him quickly. A goodnight kiss, I guess.

“See ya tomorrow, Damon. Goodnight.” I smile opening the door to my house.

“Night, love you.” he smiles a brilliant, charming, smile before disappearing into the night. I laugh and shut my door, grinning like a mad man despite the day I have had.

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Oh my God, sorry it took me forever to update. I went on a volleyball trip which was pretty awesome. We took first place!!!!!!! Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed the chapter. Lots of cute Damon and Aria scenes, huh?

Bonnie sure pissed Aria off, but she was pretty badass. Do you guys think Aria crossed a line?

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