Chapter 11

Behind the closed door of Bonnie's room, Damon sagged in relief. He'd gotten through dinner without Grams finding out. He wondered if he over did it by suddenly getting up like that.

He heard the phone ring downstairs, but paid no attention to it as he laid out on the twin-sized bed decorated in square patches of a myriad of different fabrics. His head landed softly on a fluffy pillow that was just right as it supported his—which was actually Bonnie's—head. "Ahhh. I'm exhausted."

Just as his eyes drifted shut, a knock on the door interrupted his rest. "Bon, there's a phone call for you." Gram's voice filtered through the locked door.

"Err, tell them I'm sleeping!" Damon said quickly.

"Are you sure? It's from Damon." Damon's eyes widened. Bonnie? But why would she call? Any way he looked at it, the phone call meant something was wrong. He shot out of bed, opened the door, grabbed the phone and closed the door again.

"What are you calling for? What happened?" He asked straight away.

"Damon!" He heard his own voice panicking on the other end.

"Cazzo. My car's ruined, isn't it?" The Italian curse word felt thick and foreign as Damon forced it to roll off of Bonnie's tongue.

There was a slight hesitation silence before he heard the response. "Well, that too, but that's not why I'm calling. Damon, I keep getting this ache in my stomach. It's like a stomachache, but more...weird. And my throat is really dry no matter how much water I drink. I even tried eating to see if that was the problem...do you have some kind of disease that I don't know about or-"

Damon said some illegible words, probably in Italian before he cut off Bonnie. "Hell no, I have no disease! I'm a frickin' vampire for crying out loud! It's because...well, you need to feed." He finished awkwardly.

"Feed? I ate, that didn't-"

"No, Cara, you need blood...well, my body does."

As his words registered, Bonnie gasped. "You mean I have to bite some unknown girl's neck and suck out her juices?"

Damon scrunched his nose in disgust at the way Bonnie described his daily feasting preference. "Well, not necessarily. I keep a couple of bags of blood in the cooler down in the basement. Just drink one of those. That should abate the ache you're feeling."

"D-d-drink it? I don't think I can!" Bonnie panicked, making voice sound high and squeaky.

Damon sighed and thought for a moment. "Well, do you want me to come over there? I could if you want me to-"

"But what about Grams?" Bonnie interrupted.

Damon hadn't thought that far yet. He looked wildly around. Like the solution was somewhere in the room...which, for this problem, ended up being what his eyes landed on. "I'll sneak out through the window. The door's locked."

Bonnie took a shaky breath and then replied, "Okay."

"Alright. See you in about twenty minutes." He hung up.

He started walking to the window until he thought it out a little more. He rushed to the bed and stuffed pillows under the blanket to make it look like someone was sleeping under them. Then he rushed to the light switch and turned it off.

Forgetting for a split second that he wasn't in his own body, Damon had relied on his vampire eyes to navigate him through the dark room, only to find himself sprawled out on the floor mere moments later.

He cursed himself and whatever dark object he'd tripped over as he got up, this time cautiously taking small steps until he reached the window.

He was about to open the window when a silhouette blocked out the little light streaming through the window. Damon, surprised, involuntarily clutched his chest. The silhouette opened the window from where it perched on Bonnie's outside window sill.

"Bonnie? What are you doing?"

Damon sighed in relief. It was Meredith. "Oh, it's just you."

...

Yeah...I kinda fell off of VD for a while, and I can't promise you it won't happen again. I've been so busy with trying to finish my original stories, and majority of the time, I am on Wattpad, under the same username, writing my original stories, most of which are regular Slice Of Life High School Stories.

So a belated and an early apology for you guys. :/

~Kyeire~