Best Friend

Chapter 1 – Home Sweet Home

Rating T

"Well, Bon... We are going to your hometown, huh? Mystic Falls?"

"Yeah. It's been a couple of years, especially since my mom is finally traveling more to see me now. Once Grams died, I just didn't like going back. Now, my mom is getting married." Bonnie's eyes teared up. "Geez. I swore I wouldn't-"

"Stop. It's going to be great. Your mom is happy and you're giving her away. She won't be alone anymore."

"Yeah, but... You don't understand, Mystic Falls carries too much pain for me. I've lost too much there. LA is home now. I'd rather be in LA. beaching it up and going on hikes."

"Well best friend... You have me, and your boyfriend will be there in a couple of weeks. How bad could this month be? We both have plenty of Vacay time. I'm kind of excited to see the East Coast or is it the South?"

"I had a southern upbringing."

"I'm just happy to be out of the west coast for a while. You know I have nowhere to go, or no one to see. No man. Sigh. I'm sure we can get some interstate traveling in, if you get too anxious being there. I hear Florida has some awesome beaches."

"Ugh. What would I do without you?"

"Work too much." She laughed.

"You're right. We have a long flight ahead of us."

"Bonnie, I think I'm gonna sleep. You?"

"No way." She pulled out her laptop and looked at a series of letters and pictures. "Too much on my mind. I'll wake you before we land." The last eight years were replaying themselves over and over in her head.

"Okay, sweetie. Head phones in ears, good night world." Bonnie smiled her. She never thought she'd have a female best friend. After years of the same best friend being, him. Once things got all messy, they decided they needed space. Unfortunately, that space involved not talking for a while. A long while. Since her Grams funeral. Her face felt a tinge of excitement staring into those blue eyes in the pictures of them. He... Had the kind of face that you never forget. It embedded itself into her brain, her soul, her heart at one point. But blue eyes were also a reminder of pain. So, she tried to remember the good, but the nerves in her lips shook while she tried not to be angry, or sad. She slammed the laptop shut and covered her mouth.

The motion made her sunglasses fall from the top of her head to cover her eyes. She turned to look out of the window, and she got lost in the clouds, until her eyes shut.

About five hours later when they landed, the humidity hit Bonnie as she walked through the airport. Her body felt nerves tense up inside of her. She was so excited after waking up refreshed and seeing a text from her fiancé, I love you baby, can't wait to see you. I hope you landed safely. Call me when you get to your moms. Those words, from him, reminded her of how lucky she was, and how much she's grown. She quickly dropped all of the painful memories and allowed her growth to re-evaluate how she walked into the situation.

People grow, and change, and move on. There was a month here. She promised her mother a month. A lackadaisical compromise, she realized carried more weight emotionally then she intended for it to. There was no way she wouldn't bump into a certain someone. The luggage came before she'd knew at baggage claim. She looked down at her engagement ring, and grinned from ear to ear, biting her lip and collapsing all doubts.

"You feeling better now sweetie?"

"Oh yeah. To be honest I needed that nap. I over analyze things when I'm tired. I feel so much better now. Let's grab a cab. Before the crowd pushes out of the door." Bonnie was on her way to her childhood home, her newly engaged mother, the last place her grams was buried, thirteen years since her father passed, and the one man who knew he could read her like a book and knew her better than anyone in the past couple of decades.

Well, maybe not anymore.

The walked up to the cab and the cab driver smiled, "Welcome to Virginia!"

She sighed, and smiled. "Homes sweet home."

Excerpt from next chapter:

"Bonnie Sheila Bennett, you got some beautiful legs on you." He said to himself. He smiled and stood up from his porch, until the long green thistles in the grass helped half of her body disappear as she trailed. The sun was shining on her cinnamon skin, and she looked like she was dipped in a barrel of sweetness. He grinned to himself when she looked back to him still watching her. She waived him off and, but he stayed until she made it inside of her house. Most days he walked her to the door, but today was one of the days he watched her walk away. It was a beautiful sight.

Possession and BV are my main focus, will be updated still. But chapters are longer so I work on shorter stories in between. Anyone waiting for Dueces Wild it's really been being worked on. There's maybe fifteen chapters, but I'm using it for another project so it won't be updated on FF until December, along with other stories when my schedule lightens up. So my newer stories have to have shorter chapters. As always chapter updates will be posted on my tumblr Maniq1

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