Startled of what I found was enough to make me want to return to class to distract myself.

I was walking almost in a daze as I stopped at my locker. Classes had already began but I wasn't ready yet to meet our new History Teacher. It made me remember how Tanner had died and the way Matt and I found him. That night I wasn't feeling right. I had walked to the parking lot where coincidentally Tanner's body was. It made me wonder since when I've been Bansheeing deaths.

I shook my head when the bell rang and I began walking to the classroom on my way to find Bonnie. Unfortunately, she wasn't there making me sigh and turn around but not before someone called out to me

"Excuse me" I turned around, watching a man walking towards me. I mentally flinched as I was caught. Never had been a good sneaky person. "You go to this class, don't you? I had one student who didn't show up"

I cleared my throat awkwardly, "I'm sorry I missed your introduction. I wasn't feeling well enough and when I did, I realized it was too late..."

My new History Teacher chuckled, shaking his head slightly. "It's alright. No hard feelings. I just wanted to inform you I'm not gonna be like your last teacher. He seemed to held a grudge against every student" I made a face, looking down "I want a clean slate, Miss. So, I'll pretend you did assist to my class"

I looked up surprised, "Oh, wow. Really?" I asked blinking

He smiled "Yeah. And like we're pretending. You surely remember my name's Alaric Saltzman"

I nodded eagerly, "Of course, Mr. Saltzman"

Mr. Saltzman chuckled, "Until next class then, Miss..."

"Soomers" I offered, smiling slightly feeling much better now "Jillian Soomers"

Mr Saltzman nodded, turning around. "Farewell, Ms Soomers"

I breathed in relief, chuckling turning around and walked away

~8~

Feeling slightly better, I walked among the other students hugging my arms around myself when I came across Matt

"Matty Boy" I greeted, smiling at him.

Matt chuckled, scratching the back of his neck, "Hi, Jilly girl"

"How's Caroline?" I asked knitting my eyebrows together, "I know it was unfair of me asking to keep an eye on her that early but..."

"Hey, Jill. No problem" Matt stopped me, shaking his head. "She's fine. A little awkward though, cause she wasn't presentable"

I facepalmed, "Oh, great. I should had probably warned her you were coming"

Matt grimaced, "Yup. Her same reaction. She mentioned something about regretting her decision of you two becoming friends again? That friends didn't do that to each other"

I didn't look up, still face palming "So that girl is suing me for actually looking up for her. Fantastic" I said sarcastically

"Not that angry, actually. She actually told me it was nice of you. Of course, that's exactly what I was wondering... Since when you two became friends again?"

"Since apparently last night" I breathed, looking up. "We talked. We expressed our feelings blah blah, and then we made peace"

Matt smiled, "About damn time"

I rolled my eyes, fixing the grip of my school bag in my shoulder. "Whatever. Listen, I gotta go. But see you around, later?"

Matt nodded, shrugging "Yeah, see you Jill"

I smiled, watching walk away.

<8~

I tilted my head walking toward the parking lot, sighing in relief when I saw Bonnie reaching her car. I slowed down a bit, rolling my shoulders back when a shiver went down my back.

It was at that same moment when Damon walked closer to her. I narrowed my eyes, seeing even from here that Bonnie seemed scared of Damon.

"...So, next time she comes out to play. You tell her that a deal's a deal" Damon was telling her when I walked closer, my arms crossed over my chest

"Bonnie. Everything alright?" I asked my friend, not keeping my eyes from Damon.

Bonnie breathed an obvious sigh of relief, seeing me there. "Yeah, everything okay Jill. Damon was just leaving"

Damon flashed us a sarcastic smile, bowing lightly his head as he backed away from Bonnie. "Of course" he said holding Bonnie's car door open for her "See you around. Evening Jillian"

I didn't return his greeting, staring at him distrustfully. He made a light shrug to himself, walking away

Bonnie dropped her head down slightly over the hood of her car as I placed a hand on her shoulder, "We should go"

"Yeah..." she breathed, getting inside her car. I looked around for one last time before climbing into her car.

Bonnie turned on the ignition, taking deep breaths. "He's bad news" she told me, resting her head back.

"No kidding" I breathed, throwing a hand to my forehead.

"Thank God you came when you did" Bonnie said, driving away from the parking lot. "Speaking of that, you weren't at class. I was afraid something happened to you"

"You've no idea" I mumbled, suddenly remembering why I was looking for her. "Eh, um. You know we're both witches, right?" I straightened up, glancing at her. Bonnie shrugged, "Did you by any chance had some weird dream last night?" I asked causally

Bonnie raised a brow, "If by a weird dream you mean a dead girl haunting me at the remains of the Fell Church, then yes"

I looked at her wide eyed, "Oh, my God. That's exactly what I meant!"

Bonnie sighed deeply "Okay, so I'm not the only one being haunted by Emily. Good"

"No, Bon. This is where it's different for me. It wasn't Emily" I told her slowly. Her eyes slowly widened. I nodded, "It was her sister. Amelia Bennett"

"No way" Bonnie's grip on the wheel turned white, side glancing at me in sympathy "Are you alright?"

"Me? Oh, yeah. Caroline I'm not sure" I said scratching the back of my neck. "She's the one who woke up with my screaming"

Bonnie winced, sympathetic of Caroline as she had been witness of my powerful scream, "Wait. Caroline? What were you doing with Caroline?" She asked shocked

I tilted my head aside, "We apparently are friends again. Don't ask" I pointed at her warningly as she opened her mouth. She closed it, smugly. "Shut it, Bonnie"

"I didn't say anything" Bonnie smirked as she parked outside of my house. She unlocked the doors for Elena to climb inside, "But it's nice you and Caroline are getting alone again" 

Elena, who was on the process of buckling up paused, snapping her head toward me in shock, "Wait, hold on! Since when that happened? You and Caroline?"

"You speak as if I'm dating Caroline" I said annoyed, giving them a look

"Since last night" Bonnie replied, ignoring me "They had a talk and made peace and had a sleepover, like old times"

Elena looked at me, smiling warmly. "I'm glad you two are friends again" she told me softly, rubbing my shoulder.

I crossed my arms, pouting "Let's not talk about me, shall we?"

Bonnie rolled her eyes, "Okay..." she paused, "What do you want to talk?"

"How scared you are of Damon" I replied immediately.

"I'm not!" Bonnie exclaimed, glaring.

Elena looked between us, confused.

I turned to my cousin, "Damon's bad news, cuz. He scared the shit out of Bonnie today"

Elena's expression shifted to a guarded one. "You stay as far away as possible from him" she told her friend, "You too, Jill"

I tilted my head aside, narrowing my eyes "He doesn't scare me"

"Yeah, right" Bonnie scoffed, "I'm trying. Jill had to step in. I don't know what would have happened if she didn't

"It's decided then. You are sleeping at our place today. We can make a whole night out of it"

I raised my fist, cheering "Yeah!"

Bonnie smiled slightly before parking  her car on the side of the road. She unbuckled and stepped out of the car.

"Whoa!" Elena exclaimed, exchanging a look with me "Where are you going?"

We watched Bonnie ripping off a necklace from her neck and threw it into a field. We walked out of the car and as Elena came closer to Bonnie to ask if she was okay, I decided to lean against the car and look where that ugly necklace had fell.

I stared at the place for a few seconds, slowly making my way over to the field. The necklace hadn't fell far enough that when I knelt and reached my hand, I could feel the chain on the ground. It felt as if I was almost in a daze when I picked up the chain and raised the necklace to my eye sight level.

"Jill! Let's go!" My cousin shouting at me brought me out of my trance and without realizing I did it, I shoved the necklace to my pocket and turned to face Elena.

I stood up, brushing the dirt of my jeans and walked to the car.

Bonnie looked at me concerned "You okay?"

"Yeah" I shrugged "Just making sure you threw that necklace far away as possible, like you should be doing with Damon" I replied simply, getting inside the car.

Bonnie and Elena chuckled, following me