At school next day, I was really confused with Bonnie's attitude

"I'm not saying don't date the guy. I'm just saying take it slow"

We just got out of Bonnie's car, arriving at school, our topic was Stefan. Somehow in the lapse of last night and this morning she had changed her mind about the guy.

Did I mention her witchiness was weird? No? Well, it is...

"You were the one who said to go for it" Elena pointed out. Bonnie sighed closing her eyes

"Now I'm saying take it slow" she told her opening her eyes. I tilted my head aside at her expression. Elena noticed too

"Why the about-face?" She asked Bonnie

"It's not an about-face. You're single for the first time in your entire high school career. It's the perfect time to play the field"

"Oh, because I'm so that girl" She said laughing sarcastically, noticing our expressions void of amusements, she turned serious "Seriously, what are you not saying?" Elena crossed her arms

Bonnie shook her head sighing "It's stupid"

"Bonnie..." I warned. She looked at me innocently

"What?"

"Spit it out" Elena told her narrowing her eyes stopping her from walking. Bonnie sighed

"I accidentally touched Stefan. And I got a really bad feeling"

I shivered slightly at her tone, but I exchanged a look with Elena.

"Is that it? Bonnie" I asked

"It was bad bad!" She defended herself.

"Is this the whole witch mojo thing again?" Lena asked her. Bonnie fake a smile showing her teeth.

"You know what? I'm just concerned. This is me expressing concern about my best friend's new boyfriend"

Elena's eyes softened grasping Bonnie's shoulders

"And I love you for it, I do. But I feel good. It's been a hard year, and I'm starting to kind of feel like things are getting back to normal again. And you know what? Stefan is a big part of that"

Bonnie still didn't look convinced but something in Elena's smile made her smile a small smile.it had been a while not seeing Elena happy, so she hold her tongue and hoped nothing bad would come out of her decision

I tilted my head aside smiling softly 

~~~~~*~~~~~

We were still walking to the school when Stefan appeared and walked up to us with a small smile

"Good morning, Elena. Good morning, Bonnie. Good morning, Jillian"

Bonnie suddenly grabbed my arm stepping away from him, her expression wary from seeing Stefan

"Hey, um, I gotta find Caroline. She's not answering her phone. So I'll see you guys later"

I pouted slightly but smiled an apologetic smile at Stefan

"I'll go with her to grab something I forgot. See you later"

I let Bonnie drag me over, hearing Elena's voice calling at us but ignoring it.

"Hey. Bonnie slow down, he's not in sight anymore" I told her softly

she sighed

"I'm really sorry for my behavior, Jill. It's just I have a bad feeling about Stefan. When I touched him..." She trailed off shuddering. I looked at her sympathetically

"Hey. You don't have to say anymore, I believe you" I told her softly

She looked surprised but sighed relieved

"Oh, that's why I really love you as a best friend" she wrapped me in a hug.

I smiled

~~~~~~*~~~~~~

In history class. I'm sited next to Bonnie. I looked at her writing numbers on her book over and over again. "8", "14", "22".

The numbers suddenly triggering something on my mind. I suppress a shiver.....

Those numbers. They mean something, but what?

"World war II ended in...Anyone got anything? Miss Juan? 1945." Tanner asked a girl. She shrugged a shoulder. I heard Elena whispering at Stefan, which in Tanner's class wasn't good

"Pearl Harbor. Miss Gilbert?" Tanner interrupted Elena. She blinked up at him and answered intelligently

"Hmm?"

Tanner looked to be resisting the urge of rolling his eyes as he watched her unamused

"Pearl Harbor?" He repeated again. Elena looked at loss. She opened her mouth and closed it again. She was about to be embarrassed again if it weren't by her knight in shimmer armor

"December 7, 1941"

Tanner pursed his lips and looked at Stefan sarcastically

"Thank you, Miss Gilbert"

Stefan smiled

"Anytime"

Half the class chuckled including me.

"Very well. The fall of the Berlin Wall" he looked around the class

Stefan answered without hesitation "1989. I'm good with dates, sir"

"Are you? How good? Keep it to the year. Civil Rights Act"

It was like watching a Tennis game. I looked pretty amused

"1964"

"John F. Kennedy assassination"

"1963"

"Martin Luther King.

" '68."

"Lincoln"

"1865"

"Roe vs. Wade"

"1973."

"Brown vs. Board"

"1954"

"The battle of Gettysburg"

"1863"

"Korean war"

"1950 to 1953"

By this time Tanner looked smug thinking Stefan got something bad "Ha! It ended in '52"

Stefan looked at him calmly as he turned around

"Uh, actually, sir, it was '53"

Tanner seethed in controlled anger, we all watched in anticipation

"Look it up, somebody. Quickly"

The guy on my left quickly looked it on his phone, he raised his eyebrows in surprise amusement as he showed me the answer. I smirked as he replied

"It was 19...53"

The class cheered and clapped in amusement at Tanner's face for being Stefaned twice

~~~~~~*~~~~~~~

I walked to the hallway. Bonnie hot on my heels, she still looked pretty distracted and I could guess for what

"Are you alright, Bonnie?" I furrowed my eyebrows in concern. She looked at me slightly scared

"I keep seeing this numbers, I don't know what they mean but I keep seeing them" she confessed me. We arrived our lockers and she shoved her clothes to it. She was on her gym's clothes for cheerleading practice.

I wasn't on the team because it wasn't my forte. But it didn't mean I didn't watch to support my friends

"8, 14 and 22?" She looked surprised. I smiled a small smile "You kept writing them on your book the entire class" I told her softly "Have you talk about it with your Grams?"

She frowned at me. Both of us walking to the football field.

"She's gonna tell me it's because I'm a witch. How crazy it's that? I don't want to be a witch"

"Well, Bonnie. Suck it up, baby. You're gonna deal with this like I know you to be a kick ass girl"

She smiled softly at my optimism. She started stretching to warm herself up along the other cheerleaders.

I sat on the grass of the field where the cheerleaders practiced looking around siting in an Indian position. My eyes drifting to the football field looking at the players for a second

Footsteps behind me drew back my attention to see Elena slowly coming up with her gym's clothes.

I grinned. My cousin had been a cheerleader for a long time. She left it after her parents died. She didn't want to keep cheering, it felt bad to her.

"Oh, my God! You're here!" Bonnie exclaimed surprised standing up to embrace her. I looked at Elena's hesitant form but she managed a small smile and nodded starting to stretch

"Yep. I can't be sad girl forever. The only way to get things back to the way they were are to do things that were" she smiled, her eyes then shifted and a glint showed up. I tilted my head "Oh, and you're coming to dinner tonight"

Ah, there it was. I chuckled

"I am?" Bonnie asked confused. Elena nodded humming

"Mm-hmm. You, Jill, me and Stefan. You have to give him a chance"

I raised my eyebrows at the mention of my name. Bonnie's smile faltered, her eyes changing from warm to slight coldness

"Tonight's no good" she replied. Elena tilted her head unconvinced. She then looked around changing the subject "Have you seen Caroline? I texted her like a hundred times"

I frowned tilting my head aside. It was real quiet around here making me feel comfortable, meaning Caroline wasn't here

Elena laughed in amusement at Bonnie

"Don't change the subject, Bonnie Bennett! You're going to be there"

She looked at Bonnie sternly holding her gaze for a couple of seconds not faltering. Finally she sighed in reluctance but nodded slowly

"Fine. I'll go"

Elena smiled triumphantly and turned to see me

"You'll be there, too. Got it?"

I bit my lip contemplating. For a moment I trusted Bonnie's judgment about Stefan but I wanted my cousin to be happy, so I nodded slowly shooting a grin towards Bonnie

"I'll be there so Bon-Bon won't be an awkward third wheel"

She snorted and looked away smiling, I grinned at them. Elena smiled nodding

"Good"

~~~~~~*~~~~~~~

I watched bored out of my mind the girls warming up, but Caroline wasn't here. She's not one to arrive late to this kind of thing, even I was getting worried and that's saying something 

"Seriously, where is Caroline?" I exclaimed. My voice slightly worried. Bonnie looked at me surprised

"I don't know. It's not like her" Elena answered not seeming to notice my change of attitude

"I thought you can't stand Caroline? And now you're worried about her not showing up?" Bonnie asked teasingly. Elena snapped her head at me in realization and grinned at me. I shot them a look

"Try her again" I commanded to Bonnie, who still smiling teasingly at me flipped her phone open and started to call.

The sound of music attracted my attention and I turned around to see a blue car. Caroline inside with a black haired man.

Caroline kissed the man. I raised my eyebrows surprise

"Uh..." Elena looked speechless as she pointed at the car. I nudged Bonnie with my elbow and pointed at them. She lowered her phone and looked at the guy. Her eyes widening 

"Oh, my God. That must be the mystery guy from the grill"

I frowned in surprise. So, she did get the guy.

Elena frowned standing up

"That's not a mystery guy. That's Damon Salvatore"

My eyes drifted to him in surprise

"Salvatore, as in Stefan?!."

"Stefan's brother?!"

Bonnie and I exclaimed at the same time standing up. Caroline closed the door and walked past us.

She smiled at us over her sunglasses, she was strangely wearing a scarf over her gym's outfit 

"I got the other brother. Hope you don't mind" She told Elena smiling. I frowned at her attitude. Something was off. "Sorry I'm late, girls. I, uh, was busy" at that my gaze drifted to the Salvatore brother. He smirked at me and Elena, his eyes longing on Elena and then he looked at me, his familiar blue eyes roaming up and down over my body. His gaze felt heavy, I suppressed a shiver frowning. Where have I see on him before?

He drove the car out of the field. My eyes not leaving the car, he somehow felt familiar but not at the same time.

Weird.

~~~~~*~~~~~

"5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8."

I watched the practice. And I can say I feel pretty sorry for Elena who didn't caught up to the others. Sadly Caroline too noticed 

"Elena, sweetie, why don't you just observe today? Ok?"

I frowned at Caroline's voice. Elena slowly abandoned the others as Caroline continued "Keep going! Ok. Do it again from the top. And 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8"

I locked eyes with Bonnie for a second and I shook my head at her, if Caroline continued this rudeness I wasn't about to stay here.

She nodded and smiled apologetically. I shrugged my shoulders, it wasn't her fault Caroline's personality

I walked away from the field. 

~~~~~*~~~

That night, we were getting ready for dinner. Me and Bonnie were siting on the bar, Elena preparing things

Bonnie telling us about her physic abilities

"You explain it. Last night, I'm watching Nine-o, a commercial breaks come on and I'm like, I bet it's that phone commercial. And sure enough, it's that guy and the girl with the bench, he flies to Paris and he flies back. They take a picture"

"Oh, come on. That commercial's on a constant loop" Elena told her in amusement.

Bonnie rolled her eyes

"Fine. Well, how about this? Today I'm obsessed with numbers. 3 numbers. I keep seeing 8, 14, and 22. How weird is that?"

I looked at her worriedly and sympathetically

"Maybe we should play the lottery" she joked. When no one laughed, she turned to see our serious faces. She frowned concerned. "Have you talked to your Grams?"

"She's just gonna say it's because I'm a witch. I don't want to be a witch. Do you want to be a witch?"

I pursed my lips. Elena looked at her sympathetically

"I don't want to be a witch" she answered, I nodded in agreement

Elena keeps pouring to-go food into a bowl. I laughed

"And putting it in a nice bowl isn't fooling anybody" I told her in amusement

She ignored me "Ok, serving spoons. Where are the serving spoons?"

Bonnie spoke quickly without hesitation "Middle drawer on your left"

Elena frowned and opened the drawer, finding the spoons.

I looked surprised

"Ok, so you've been in this kitchen like a thousand times" She told Bonnie.

She looked kind of freak out

"Yeah, that's it"

I squeezed her arm comfortingly. She smiled gratefully as the doorbell rings

"Ok, he's here. Don't be nervous. Just be your normal loving self" Elena told her smiling, she turned to face me "And you, keep the sarcasm a little low, alright?"

I sighed smiling at her sarcastically, mock saluting her. She shot me a look leaving the kitchen

I turned to Bonnie

"Are you okay?"

She nodded and her eyes drifted slightly around the kitchen

"Birthday candles" she whispered over a drawer. She opened it to find birthday candles inside. She closed it quickly freak out and turned around to face my frowning worried face "What if it's true?" She asked me slightly panicked

I smiled a comforting small smile

"You'll be more awesome than you already are. C'mon Bonnie, let's get this dinner over with. The sooner we start it the sooner we finish it"

She looked at me surprised

"But I thought.... You like Stefan, why are you supporting me? Elena's your cousin"

I shrugged heartedly

"You have a point. I have a feeling that you're right" I confessed.

She looked surprised but nonetheless smiled at me, she linked her arms with me and walked out of the kitchen

"Let's get this over with"

I chuckled

~~~*~~~~~

To say the silence was awkward over the diner was an understatement. The only sounds heard were the spoons clinking over the plates.

My eyes flickered between Elena, Stefan, and Bonnie repeatedly. I couldn't bring myself of starting a conversation.

But Elena seemed to think otherwise.

"Did Tanner give you a hard time today?" She asked Stefan breaking the silence. The sudden sound after 15 minutes of silence made me flinch. Bonnie squeezed my arm reassuringly.

Stefan seemed to know what Elena was doing and replied with a small smile

"Well, he let me on the team, so I must have done something right"

Elena smiled and looked at us

"Bonnie, Jill, you should have seen Stefan today. Tyler threw a ball right at him, and..."

"Yeah, I heard" Bonnie interrupted coldly. I nodded slowly in agreement looking down at my plate feeling awkward

Elena shot us a look. She forced a smile

"Why don't you tell Stefan about your family?" She asked Bonnie. I sighed knowing this wouldn't end well.

Bonnie pursed her lips and smiled sarcastically. Her smiled faltered as she answered

"Um, divorced. No mom. Live with my dad" she shrugged. I chuckled lightly. Bonnie smiled at the reaction.

Elena chuckled slowly and shot her a look

"No, about the witches" she turned to Stefan "Bonnie's family has a lineage of witches. It's really cool"

Stefan raised his eyebrows

"Cool isn't the word I'd use" Bonnie said. I tilted my head in curiousness

Stefan leaned forward, his eyes sparkling in Interest

"Well, it's certainly interesting. I'm not too versed, but I do know that there's a history of Celtic druids that migrated here in the 1800s"

Bonnie looked up

"My family came by way of Salem" she replied and I could sworn I heard pride in her voice.

Stefan raised his eyebrows in surprise. But the expression seemed odd. He really didn't look really surprised. It was like he was faking it. I frowned in confusion

"Really? Salem witches?"

"Yeah"

"I would say that's pretty cool" Stefan said leaning back. And that's when I knew what he was doing.

"Really? Why?" Bonnie asked curiously

"Salem witches are heroic examples of individualism and nonconformity" Stefan told her, to which managed to get a small smile from Bonnie

"Yeah, they are"

I smiled a small smile at the reaction. It looks like she has accepted Stefan a little more.

It was silent again, but this time it wasn't uncomfortable as before

Suddenly the doorbell rings again.

We exchanged questionable looks

"I wonder who that could be" Elena says confused standing up from the table.

I exchanged a look with Bonnie shrugging. Stefan's expression suddenly turned cold, he excused himself and stood up from the table to the door.

I looked after him suspiciously.

~~~~*~~~~~

Caroline and Damon arrived surprisingly. We were all of us on the Living Room.

Caroline was being complete pushy about Stefan of him being on the team and being a bitch towards Elena of her failure at cheerleading practice. Damon also was teasing Stefan. Stefan was right, whatever happened between them shattered their relationship

"I'll work with her. She'll get it" Bonnie told Caroline with a look after her comment

Caroline spoke out loud thoughtfully "I guess we can put her in the back"

I glared at her hatefully. If I was willing to put my differences aside with her to make amends with her, after tonight I don't think I will.

"You know, you don't seem like the cheerleader type, Elena" Damon spoke looking at my cousin.

"Oh, it's just 'cause her parents died. Yeah, I mean, she's just totally going through a blah phase. She used to be way more fun" I looked at Caroline in disgust and anger. My lips pursed and my eyes sparking with a glare. But I stayed silent. Caroline looked around at our unamused looks with what I could easily detect as a fake apologetic look "And I say that with complete sensitivity"

Damon looked at Elena, glancing at Stefan as he spoke

"I'm sorry, Elena. I know what it's like to lose both your parents. In fact, Stefan and I have watched almost every single person we've ever cared about die"

I realized he wasn't only talking about their parents. But Stefan's ex-girlfriend, Katherine.

"We don't need to get into that right now, Damon" Stefan spoke through gritted teeth, glaring up at his brother

Damon looked down at him with mock apologetic look. But I could manage to see a glint of pain when he mentioned her

"Oh, you know what, you're right, Stef. I'm sorry. The last thing I wanted to do was bring her up. Mmm"

~~~~*~~~~

After a while, Elena walked up to the kitchen to wash the dishes. Bonnie after meeting Damon and seeing the end of this diner could go worse wanted to leave.

I didn't blame her, after all Damon seemed to be a bad person.

Damon smirked the whole time we stayed at the living room. Stefan glaring at him while Caroline, again with her scarf was rubbing Damon's shoulders, Stefan's eyes flickering from her face to her scarf with a slight guilty, slight worried look.

I finished my cup of coffee. Bonnie like me was looking around at the tense silence quietly. All the time I could feel Damon's eyes on me, he stood up the moment I did to take the cup to Elena.

"I got it" he told me with a small smile.

"No, I got it.." I looked at him narrowing my eyes. His own dilating for a second, I blinked and smiled a small smile "Okay. Suit yourself" I gave him the cup and sat down again as he left to the kitchen

Stefan looked at me worriedly and Caroline glared at me while Bonnie looked at me curiously. I looked at them warily

"What?"

"Nothing" Stefan shook his head quietly, I shrugged. His gaze suddenly changed to Caroline.

Her glare turned to a sweet smile again as she started to talk about Elena and Matt's relationship. It was like she wanted to ruin his and Elena's relationship.

I tuned them out looking down confused. Bonnie squeezed my arm worriedly, also tuning out Caroline's voice

"What was that?" She asked me quietly. I shrugged at her confused myself. I sworn I was mad at Damon for his attitude tonight that I didn't understand why I was suddenly nice to him "I thought like me you didn't like him. And I know you, when you don't like someone you don't treat them nice, take Caroline for example"

I shrugged at her completely helplessly

"I don't know, Bonnie. I don't know why I acted that way when I don't like his attitude" I whispered at her softly confused.

"Okay, it's okay. Just don't overwhelm yourself. Alright?" She squeezed my arm comfortingly. Her eyes still showing concern. I didn't even catch Stefan's own worried eyes as he gazed at me. Bonnie looked around "I'll go see why Elena it's taking too long, I don't trust Damon either to be alone with her"

I nodded and she stood up.

I sighed throwing my head back towards the sofa I was siting. I was really glad when Stefan interrupted Caroline's talking

"That's a really nice scarf"

Caroline abstentantly touched her scarf with a confused look of it being mentioned "Mm. Thank you, it's new"

Stefan looked at her reaching for it "Can I see it? I mean, would you mind taking it off?"

I looked between them warily... Why does he wants her scarf?

"Oh, I can't" she answered slightly backing away from Stefan's reach. He looked at her with fake surprise

"Why not? You ok?"

Her eyes suddenly gazed over before blinking  "Um...All I know is that I can't take it off"

I opened my mouth to ask what the hell was that about when Damon returned from the kitchen

"What are you two kids talking about?"

I rolled my eyes as Stefan answered innocently "I was just commenting on her scarf"

Damon nodded sarcastically and then looked at Caroline

"Hmm. Hey, you know, um, Elena and Bonnie are finishing up the dishes. Why don't you go see if you can help?"

I crossed my arms raising an eyebrow. Caroline looked at him skeptically

"Does it look like I do dishes?"

Damon looked exasperated but managed to control it

"For me?"

Caroline shook her head "Hmm...I don't think so"

He suddenly leaned forward and spoke to her in an hypnotic voice

"Go see if Elena needs help in the kitchen"

She blinked and stood up "You know what? I'm gonna go see if Elena needs some help in the kitchen"

Damon smiled "Great"

She left the living room. I looked after her incredulously. I stood up and that's when Damon realized I was still here.

"That was rude. No one deserves to be treated like a slave. Not even girls like Caroline" I said angrily

Damon rolled his eyes and looked at Stefan. He stood up looking at Damon warningly

"Leave her, Damon" Stefan told him. Damon and sighed and looked at me

"How do you deal with her?" Damon asked Stefan annoyed "She's annoying"

I looked between them confused. What is it with their attitude?

"Listen to me" Damon without waiting for Stefan to push him again from me started talking, his pupils dilating. My whole stance became relaxed as I heard his words. "Leave us alone and go see if your cousin and your friends need help, now"

I blinked and looked between them

"Well, testosterone seems to be way up high in here. I'll let you discuss whatever you will and I'll go see if they need help. Bye"

I left the living room, not before hearing Damon's sarcastic voice

"Well, isn't she a ray of sunshine? I see why people like her. She's funny"

I shook my head frowning and left completely

~~~~*~~~~~

That night, as I'm gazing off the night, I frowned at the blank space of my mind tonight since Damon arrived.

I toy with my necklace again, the one mom said it belonged to dad before he died.

I didn't know him at all. According to mom, he was a weird mysterious guy. He was new into town when she met him. That was around the time when my aunt Miranda was dating uncle Grayson.

I'm like four or five months younger than Elena. Aunt Miranda helped my mom raise me as she didn't know how.

She helped her raise me for the first year of my life before mom had to leave town to finish her career. She's a smart woman and currently doing her mastery or doctorate, I really lost track of her titles.

I sighed thinking of Bonnie's numbers 8, 14 and 22. What do they have of special? Why do I'm completely sure those are a bad sign?

My thoughts were completely interrupted by a scream. I snapped my head towards the door and ran to Elena's room

"Hey. Are you okay?" I asked at the breathing heavily form of my cousin, sweat covering her forehead. She looked at me with scared eyes

"I'm fine. Just a dream"

I looked at her unconvinced but I nodded

"I'll be in my room if you need me" she nodded and laid back to her bed staring at the ceiling.

I left to my room

~~~~*~~~~

The next day is the Football Game. I follow Elena around. I really want to see Caroline's face as she realizes Elena won't be cheering tonight.

We come across Stefan in his gear, he's on the team thanks to Elena's insistence and support.

This morning when we were getting ready. I entered her room to see her staring at her uniform. I eyed her sympathetically and waited until she made her decision. She dropped her uniform to the bin of trash and when she turned around she was surprised and embarrassed of having seen her in such state. I just hugged her with a small smile.

If she continued cheerleading it would be forcedly. Not because she wants to, I could tell since the moment Caroline noted she wasn't doing it good at practice, she hadn't her heart on it. I was just waiting for the moment she realized it.

I nudged her in the ribs and pointed at Stefan who was making his way towards us

"I'll give you privacy, Lena" I whispered at her and slowly backed away, suddenly wary of Stefan. There was something telling me something bad was gonna happen tonight

Elena looked at me concerned. I waved her off and pointed at Stefan. She smiled at me gratefully and walked to him

I watched from the distance as they talk and Stefan takes out a box giving it to her. She takes out a necklace from where I could see. I notice another box from his pocket. I watch as Stefan helps Elena put on the necklace. And can't help but smile a small smile. They exchange a few words and then they kissed.

I looked away feeling like I would be intruding. When I turn back again Caroline's on Stefan's place and she looks angry. I chuckled

"It's rude to eavesdrop conversations of other people, you know?" I heard an amused voice behind me. I smirked slightly and turned around replying

"Is it? Half of the plays in the world contain eavesdropping. I assumed it was a common practice" I answered sarcastically at Stefan

He chuckled shaking his head. I pursed my lips trying to hide my smile, he noticed

"Come on, smile. I don't bite" Stefan told me smiling. I rolled my eyes "Ah, you still don't like me, huh? I thought it was only Bonnie"

"I don't..." I pursed my lips, stopping myself of talking taking a step backwards. He chuckled frowning

"Look, I know we hit a rock on one of our meetings and like I told you I wouldn't like to be on your bad side" he told me sincerely

"I remember" I tilted my head aside crossing my arms "And I think I know where this conversation is heading"

He hid a smirk as he tried to look innocent

"Well, you said that it depended on Elena if you liked me or not, so..."

I rolled my eyes looking away sighing. Stefan closed his eyes in realization

"It was Damon, wasn't it?" I didn't answer, but to him it was an obvious answer. "I'm sorry, Jillian. I didn't know he would show up and act that way. I'm really really sorry"

I tilted my head at his honesty.

"You sound honest, Stefan. So, why not accept your apology?" I asked teasingly, a hint of seriousness in my voice.

He looked down smiling taking a box from his pocket

"And if the apology doesn't convince you. I really hope this does" he opened the lid and inside there was a bracelet, a bracelet that matched Elena's necklace. I took it out and a pretty scent of flowers, I think filled my nose "Before you think this is a bribe. I assure you it is not"

I raised my eyebrow at him looking at the bracelet.

"Well, it's beautiful. Too bad I'm not a girl of jewelry" I told him seriously. He paused awkwardly. I tried to keep a straight face when he looked down at my wrists seeing my colorful bracelets.

"Seriously?" He asked me pointing at them in amusement. I looked down not able to hold a straight face anymore. I looked up at him in amusement

"I'm sorry. But it was a funny awkward silence from you"

"Ha, ha. Funny" he told me sarcastically, but smiling a small smile obviously joking. I smiled. He cleared his throat and pointed at the bracelet "May I?"

I give it to him. He picked the bracelet from the claps, careful of to not touch the bracelet itself.

He clasped it to my left wrist. The one with two bracelets. My other wrist was full of different colored and shape bracelets.

I tried to hide a smile.

"Aw. There's the smile I'm waiting for, don't hide it" I couldn't help but smile wider. He smiled at the reaction "So, am I forgiven?" He told me letting my wrist go, the skin of his hand barely touching the small gap of my hand and sleeve

Suddenly I felt my body cold. A shiver passing through my body. I gasped pulling away my hand from his reach

His touch felt like... How to describe it? It didn't felt like alive. He felt cold not warm like someone alive would feel.

My smile faded away looking at him warily

Stefan noticed the change

"Are you okay?" He asked me concerned. I shook the feeling off. It was weird anyway. I smiled a small unconvinced smile. The feeling left me shaken up, but I tried to force it away with a small smile

"Yeah, I'm fine. And to answer your question...." I hesitated. Now, I could understand what Bonnie felt when she touched Stefan. It was bad, bad. But I won't voice those thoughts out loud. I'm no physic nor witch like Bonnie "Yes, I do forgive you"

He stared at me for a few seconds as if contemplating what I was saying was true. I smiled a little more convincing. This time he looked to believe it so he smiled nodding

"Okay. Friends?" I nodded smiling, not trusting my voice to speak. "Great. Why don't we head inside? The game is about to start" he told me looking up.

I looked up seeing it was night time already. I nodded and we both entered the school

~~~~~*~~~~~~

As soon as we entered the school we parted ways. I needed to find Bonnie.

I passed through people tailgating and cheering for the team.

I found her along some cheerleaders and walked to her grabbing her arm.

"Bonnie. I know what you mean" I told her wide eyed. I ignored Tanner's words to the team and the cheering after his words.

Bonnie frowned at me

"What's wrong?"

"I touched Stefan. A sudden cold passed through me Bonnie. It felt bad bad" I shot her a pointed look. Her eyes flickered in realization. "I'm no physic Bonnie. I don't know what was that but it felt weird. You're the only person I could talk about this. Elena would have laugh at me"

"Wow. Easy there, Jill. Take a deep breath" Bonnie told me wide eyed stopping my rambling. I took a deep breath.

"Please Bonnie. It felt really bad. Weird, dark... I don't know how to explain it" we sat down on a bench. "Besides, the numbers you've been writing, somehow have me with a feeling of something bad happening"

"Hey. It's okay. Just calm down. Okay? We'll figure this out. Let's just relax and enjoy the game"

I nodded and I looked at Tanner talking 

"We've got some great new talent tonight starting on the offense, and I'm gonna tell you right now, it has been a long time since I have seen a kid like this with hands like these. Let's give it up for Stefan Salvatore!"

Tyler looked at Stefan kind of angry and left the formation of players. All the school kept cheering. I managed to calm myself after awhile

"That have been waiting for us to put a check in the win column, I have only one thing to say to you...Your Timberwolves are hungry"

I heard commotion from behind me, but didn't dare to turn around. I toyed with Stefan's bracelet as I tried to calm down.

"Jeremy, no!" I hear Elena scream from behind me and for once I had the curiosity to turn around.

There's a fight and in the middle there's Tyler Lockwood, Stefan and Jeremy. My eyes widened as I surveyed the scene.

Jeremy is bleeding from his mouth and has a broken glass bottle in his hand, Tyler and Matt are off to the side. Matt holding Tyler. Stefan's hand is bleeding

Jeremy drops the broken glass as Elena pushes him away from Stefan 

"What the hell, Jeremy? Put your head up, you're bleeding"

Jeremy smacks away her hands

"I'm fine!"

"Yeah, you smell fine" Elena countered concerned. He walks away passing next to me

"Jer?" I touch his shoulder worriedly. He smacks my hand away. I looked at him hurt. He takes a deep breath looking at me apologetically and then leaves.

Matt pushes away Tyler away from the place.

I let my gaze wander again to Stefan and  Elena. He closed his bleeding hand in a fist and puts it behind his back.

"No, no, no, it's fine" he was saying as I neared them

"Is it deep? How bad is it? Come on!" Elena insisted taking his hand. Stefan hesitantly opened his palm, but there isn't any injure, not blood

I stared at his hand dumbfounded. There was an injure. I could sworn I saw one.

"But...I saw it, it was..." Elena stammered looking at his hand.

"He missed. It's not my blood. See? I'm fine" he told her cleaning up his hand on his jeans, I followed the movement. He then showed us his healthy clean hand.

"No, no, no. I...I saw it. The glass cut your hand. It was..."

"You were bleeding" I stated calmly. Their eyes snapped at me. My eyes were still on Stefan's hand

"It's ok. I'm ok" he reassured us. I looked at him unconvinced "It's almost kick-off time, all right? So, um, I'll, uh, I'll see you after the game" we nodded still suspicious and he left

Elena looked at me.

I ignored her look and walked away, I wasn't on the mood of the game anymore

~~~*~~~~~

I walked to the parking lot, I found Matt on my way there. I smiled at him softly

"Hey Mattie boy"

He chuckled at the nickname.

"Hey, there Jilly girl" I smiled "What are you doing here?"

"Ah, I'm going home. I suddenly don't feel good and want to go"

He smiled sympathetically. 

"What about you?"

"I'm looking for Tanner. Have you seen him?" I shook my head. A wave of cold air appeared making me shiver. I looked around. "Help me look for him?" I nodded and I followed him. "Look" I followed his gaze to the puddle of red liquid on the floor. My heart started beating faster at the sight. We followed it to between some car.

"Oh, my god!"

~~~*~~~~~

The police and the coroner were here. Tanner's dead body was what we found on the ground.

I was on the side of the crime scene tape looking at the scene with tears on my eyes. My eyes suddenly found a license plate "BLDG 8", an immatriculation's car with the serial number "FHT 14" and on the ground, the number 22.

I placed my hand on my mouth in shock, muffling my gasps.

This was the bad feeling I got from Bonnie's numbers, wasn't it? How is it possible?

~~~~~*~~~

Bonnie also shocked about the fact of the numbers she wrote were on the crime scene, walked to my side

"Jillian?"

I looked at her with tears in my eyes. I was the one along with Matt to find Tanner dead, I was still shaken up

"Do you want me to take you home?" She asked me quietly. Her eyes were filled with unshed tears too. She probably was too freak out like me.

I nodded slowly toying with my necklace and we left the school.

~~~~*~~~~

When I arrived home, I went to my room and sat down on my bed gazing of. A hand on my necklace and the other on Stefan's bracelet.

What was going on with me?