"I'm not saying don't date the guy, I'm just saying take it slow." Bonnie says getting out of the car as we pull into the parking lot of our school. Yippie, another day of school.

"Your the one who said to go for it." Elena teases pointing at Bonnie.

"Now I'm saying take it slow." Bonnie shrugs.

"Why the about face?" I ask.

"It's not an about face, Aria. Elena, your single for the first time in your entire high school career. It's the perfect time to play the field." Bonnie points out.

Elena laughs, "Oh because I'm so that girl. Seriously, what are you not saying?" Elena asks.

"It's stupid." Bonnie says walking faster. Elena catches her arm, stopping her.

"Bonnie." Elena says slowly. "Spit it out."

"I accidentally touched Stefan and I got a really bad feeling." Bonnie says shrugging.

"Is that it?" Elena says amused. Bonnie glares at her and stars to walk away again. Elena grabs her arm, "Bonnie."

"It was bad." Bonnie says seriously.

"Is this the whole witch thing again?" I ask.

"You know what? I'm just concerned." Bonnie states. "This is me expressing concern about my best friend's boyfriend." Yup, you heard right. Elena and Stefan are officially dating, they kissed last night.

Elena puts her hands on Bonnie's shoulders. "And I love you for it, I do. But I feel good." Elena says smiling. "It's been a hard year and I'm finally starting to feel like things are going back to normal again. And you know what? Stefan is a big part of that."

Bonnie gives a small smile before doing a small nod towards Elena. Suddenly Stefan appears in front of us smiling.

"Morning Elena." Stefan says smiling at my sister. "Morning Bonnie, Morning Aria." Stefan greets nodding at us.

"Hey, um..I got to go find Caroline. She's not answering her phone." Bonnie's eyes flicker up to Stefan and she quickly pushes her way through us. "See ya guys."

"Bonnie, wait!" Elena tries to get Bonnie to stop but Bonnie just keeps on walking. Stefan watches her go then turns towards Elena.

"She doesn't like me very much." he states.

"She doesn't know you. She's my best friend, she's just looking out for me." Elena says rolling her eyes. "But when she does, she will love you." Elena says smiling.

"Really?" I ask. Elena glares at me and gives me a light punch on the shoulder. I look across the field and see Tyler staring at us. "Got to go, catch ya later." I wave goodbye to them then jog over to Tyler.

"Look there's Elena and her new boyfriend." Tyler says smirking at Matt who is throwing the football around. "I wonder what there doing while there walking.....walking....walking. Yup right into the sunset." Tyler says joking around.

"Dick." Matt mutters. I laugh at Matt's comment.

"You just stand there, looking like one of those little yard trolls." Tyler teases.

"Gnomes." Matt says ticked off. I burst out laughing, it's just too funny not to.

"Whatever." Tyler mumbles. I laugh and give him a slight peck on the lips.

"Good thing I'm not into guys with brains." I joke and hear Matt burst out laughing this time. "Just kidding." I say, kissing Tyler again. He laughs when I pull away. I see Matt look over again at Elena.

"What am I supposed to do Ty? She made her choice." Matt sadly states. Tyler thinks for a moment before setting his backpack down.

"Let her know she made the wrong one." Tyler smirks. He steals the football as Matt is about to catch it. He takes some steps back and gets ready to throw it at Stefan.

"Ty don't! Ty!" I yell trying to stop him. Tyler throws the ball as hard as he can at Stefan. I gasp as it gets closer to Stefan's head. Right at the last moment Stefan spins around catching the ball. He catches it and raises his eyebrows. Tyler gives him a surprised look and Matt and I look over at Tyler giving him "I told you so" looks.

Stefan than throws the ball back to Tyler, hard. Tyler jumps and catches it, almost falling back at its force. I hear a bunch of people laugh at Tyler. We hear the bell ring and Matt and I shoot Tyler one final look before heading inside.

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"World war 2 ended in?" Mr.Tanner asks but nobody raises there hand to answer. "Anyone got anything?" Mr.Tanner ask. Nope, no one did, Mr.Tanner.

"Pss, FYI are team sucks, they could use you." Elena whispers to Stefan. I see Matt lean up his interest sparked. I'm guessing Elena is talking about the football team.

"Can't I'm a loner." Stefan whispers back. I laugh a little at his comment. At least he has a little sense of humor.

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"Miss.Gilbert." Mr.Tanner says looking at me.

"Hm?" I respond.

"Pearl Harbor?" he asks wanting the date.

"Um..." I trail off not knowing the answer.

"December 7th, 1941." Stefan answers for me. I shoot him a thankful look and see him nod slightly.

"Thank you Miss.Gilbert." Mr.Tanner jokes looking at Stefan.

"Anytime." Stefan smiles.

"Very well. The fall of the Berlin Wall?" Mr.Tanner asks.

"1989." Stefan answers right away. "I'm good with dates."

"Are you?" Mr.Tanner glares. "How good? Keep it to the year, Cilvil rights act?"

"1964." Stefan responds immediately.

"John F. Kennedy assassination?" Mr.Tanner comes back with.

"1963." Holy shit! How does he remember this stuff?

"Martin Luther King?"

"68"

"Lincoln?"

"1865"

"Roe verses Wade?"

"1973"

"Brown verses Borg?"

"1954"

"The battle of Gettysburg?"

"1863"

"Korean war?"

"1950 to 1953."

"Ha, it ended in 1952!" Mr.Tanner exclaims.

"Actually sir, it was 53." Stefan argues. Mr.Tanner glares at him for a few moments.

"Look it up, somebody!" Mr.Tanner exclaims.

"It was 19...53." someone answers. Oh snap! Mr.T just got burned. I start to clap and everyone else joins in with me. Elena turns around and smiles at him. The bell rings and we all get up.

"How did you know all of that?" I ask Stefan while we walk out.

"Years and years of crossword puzzles." Stefan answers. "It's a loner thing." he jokes. I laugh and Elena gives him a pointed look. I start to walk away but Elena stops me.

"Tonight were having some people over for dinner so if you want to invite Tyler you can." Elena says.

"Okay, I'll ask him." I say and hurry away to Tyler's practice.

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"You should join." I tell Stefan walking up to him. He is sitting on the bleachers like a loner like just watching the football practice.

"Nah, I don't think that Tyler guy likes me very much." Stefan answers.

"That Tyler guy is my boyfriend." I say, sitting next to him. "I saw how you caught that ball today, it was pretty epic. Screw what Tyler thinks, if your good you should join."

"So I shouldn't join because I'm not that good." Stefan says. I scoff.

"Please, your probably better than 90% of the boys out there." I say trying to give him some confidence. "Elena would really like it, if you joined."

He stares at me for a few moments before standing up. "Your right, I should try." he starts heading down the bleachers and I hurry after him. He walks up to Mr.Tanner, with me right behind him.

"I would like to join the team." he says.

"Varsity tryouts were last spring Mr.Salvatore." Mr.Tanner tells him.

"He wasn't here then Mr. Tanner." I say, sticking up for him.

"And he's not here now as far as I'm concerned." Ugh, stupid asshole of a teacher.

"Mr.Tanner I realize you and I didn't get off to the best start and I want to apologize for that. I played football before, wide receiver mostly and I'm pretty good." Stefan states.

"Well I won't be asking you who won the Super Bowl in 71?" Mr.Tanner jokes.

"71 was the.." Mr. Tanner glares at Stefan. "Sorry." Stefan says.

"Just to see you get knocked on your ass." Mr.Tanner says rudely. "Go grab some gear. Go! Before I change my mind." Mr.Tanner yells. Stefan and I walk away. I smile and give Stefan a high five. He laughs and says goodbye as he heads into the boys locker room. I smile and head over to my sister's cheer practice.

Right as I get there I see Caroline kiss Damon then get out of the car. When did Carmon happen? (I like to make ship names for people.) He looks over at me and smirks, revving up his engine. That cocky bastard.

"Hope you don't mind, I got the other brother." Caroline smirks at Elena. I sigh and walk over to Caroline.

"Hope you don't mind but I'm gonna get a ride home from your boyfriend." I smile and walk over to Damon's car. I hop in and take his sunglasses off his face and put them on.

"Give me a ride home, please." I say smirking as he pulls out of the driveway.

"Very demanding." he says amused.

"So, screwing my best friend, are you?" I ask, turning the radio up.

"She's very fun in bed." Damon says smirking. I fake puke and punch Damon in the shoulder.

"Did not need to hear that." I say glaring at him. I hear my phone buzz and see I have a message from Caroline. Oh, God. Hear we go.

I can not believe u just got into a car with my boyfriend!!!!!

I sigh, Caroline gets way to jealous sometimes.

Calm down Care. I have already have a boyfriend. Damon is just a friend.

While I have my phone out I decided to send a few more texts. I send one to Tyler, asking him to come over tonight and then one to Elena asking who is coming over. I look up and realize we passed my house.

"Damon my house is back that way." I say pointing behind me.

"I know, your coming over to mine." Damon shrugs.

"Why?" I ask.

"Because your like my only friend and I want to hang out with you." he replies.

"Damon don't say hang out, your way to old for that." I joke. "What are you like 160?" I see amusement flash over his face before he answers me.

"I'm 24." he answers.

"Hm, you look older." I tease. He glares at me before turning up the radio. I laugh and look out the window. I smile as we pull up to the Salvatore boarding house. Before the car is fully stopped, I jump out. I hear Damon yell my name and I just smile, I love freaking people out. Damon stops the car quickly and gets out.

"Seriously, Ari? You couldn't have just waited?" he says annoyed. I give him a innocent look and shrug. I skip over to the front door and walk in. They really should lock there door. "Make yourself at home." Damon mumbles as I walk right in.

"I will, thank you." I say smirking. Damon smirks back and grabs my hand leading me up the stairs. "Where are we going?" I question.

"Stefan's room." Damon answers. I laugh and follow him up. When we get up there I look around, it's really huge. Damon walks over to one of the bookshelf's and pulls out a journal.

"Is that Stefan's diary?" I ask.

"Yup, he writes all of his dirty little secrets in here." Damon says smirking.

"Damon you shouldn't read it." I say.

"I shouldn't but I am." Damon says smiling. I roll my eyes and sit down on Stefan's bed. I feel weird sitting on it but I am way to lazy to keep standing.

I feel my phone buzz and look to see that Tyler has replied.

Sounds great. I'll come to your house at 7. Did you know Salvatore joined the football team?

Kk, see ya at 7 and yes I did know. I mean I was the one that convinced him to join ;)

Suddenly the phone is pulled from my hands and I look up to see Damon reading my messages. "Damon!" I scream playfully. I get up and try to grab it but he moves across the room. I run after him.

"See you at 7." Damon makes fun of me, trying to imitate my voice. "What dinner?" Damon asks.

"None of your business, you nosy bastard!" I yell trying to get my phone back. Damon holds it above his head, knowing he has a hight advantage over me.

"Don't use bad words, missy." Damon taunts. I yell out in frustration and jump up trying to grab it. Damon laughs as he moves it up higher.

"Fine! If I invite you, will you give it back?" I ask.

"Maybe." Damon smirks.

I bow and say in a proper voice, "Mr.Salvatore it would be an honor if you would come to the feast being held at my humble ado."

Damon laughs, "Thank you, Miss.Gilbert. But you still can't have your phone back." I glare at him and do the only think I can. I tackle him onto the bed with me straddling him. I grab the phone from his hand and smirk.

"I won." I start to get up but Damon pulls me back down. I am right against his chest and can feel his breath on my face.

"Not yet, Aria." he whispers in my ear. I hear someone walk in the room and quickly jump off him. I see Stefan standing there tense.

"Stefan." I say embarrassed.

"How were tryouts?" Damon asks sarcastically standing up. "Did you make the team?" I can literally feel the heat of Stefan's glare.

"Okay.......I guess I'm going to leave now" I say excusing myself, right before I walk out the door, I turn around and smile at Damon.

"Bye, thanks for the ride even though you kidnapped me instead of taking me home." I joke and head out the door. I smile to myself as I walk down the stairs.

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"You explain it. Last night I'm watching 9o and commercial break comes on and I'm like I bet it's that phone commercial. Sure enough, it's the guy and the girl on the bench, he flies to Paris, then he flies back, then he takes a picture.." Bonnie says trying to convince us. I laugh and bring the bowl to the other side of the kitchen.

"Oh, come on. That commercial is on a constant loop." I tell her.

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

"Maybe we should play the lottery." I say smiling. Bonnie scoffs and walks away.

"Have you talked to your Grams?" Elena asks.

"She's just gonna say it's because I'm a witch. I don't want to be a witch, do you wanna be a witch?" Bonnie ignores me only speaking to Elena. I see how it is.

"I don't want to be a witch." Elena responds. I'm about to respond when I hear the doorbell ring. Elena starts to go get it but I stop her.

"It's Ty." I say looking at the time. She nods and lets me go get the door. When I open it I see Tyler standing there all hot like. When he sees me, he pulls me into a hug. I laugh and push away from his buff chest. I take Tyler's hand and lead him to the kitchen.

"Hey, Elena. Bonnie." Tyler says greeting them. They smile and say hi back. Elena runs to the door when we hear it ring, I'm guessing that is Stefan. We all go and take a seat at the table and start to eat once Elena puts the food on the table. I want to laugh at the awkwardness of it. Bonnie won't even look at Stefan and Tyler is just glaring at him.

"Did Tanner give you a hard time today?" Elena asks trying to break the silence.

"Well he let me on the team-" Tyler interrupts him before he can finish.

"Yippie, were all so delighted." Tyler gives Stefan a bitter look. I punch Tyler on the shoulder and glare at him.

"Sorry Stefan, continue." I say smiling at him. Stefan just looks at Elena so I'm guessing he is done.

"Bonnie you should have seen Stefan today, Tyler threw-" Bonnie cuts her off.

"Ya I heard." she says. For a few moments there is just awkward silence. Tyler is now glaring at Elena for bringing up his epic fail.

"So Bonnie tell him about your family." Elena speaks up again.

"Divorced. No Mom, live with my Dad." Bonnie replies not really looking at Stefan.

"No about the witches." Stefan turns around looking at Elena, with a look I can't figure out. "Bonnie's family has a lineage of witches. It's really cool." Elena says looking at Bonnie.

"Cool isn't the word I would use." Bonnie says quietly. Elena glares at Bonnie.

"Well, its certainly interesting. I'm not to versed but I do know there is a history of keltic druids that migrated here in the 1800s." Stefan points out. I see Tyler roll his eyes at Stefan's history knowledge.

"My family came by way of Salem." Bonnie corrects him.

"Really?" Stefan asks but for some reason he doesn't sound too surprised. Bonnie does an awkward smile and nods. "Salem witches?" Stefan asks amused.

"Ya." Bonnie smiles and looks down at her plate.

"I'd say that's pretty cool." Stefan smiles at Elena.

"Really? Why?" Bonnie questions.

"Salem witches are heroic examples of individualism and non conformity." Stefan tells her.

For the first time all night Bonnie smiles a genuine smile, "Ya, they are." Elena and I both laugh a little. The doorbell rings and everyone looks surprised.

"I wonder who that could be?" Elena asks starting to get up.

"Uh, about that. I kind of invited Damon." I say. Stefan looks over at me sharply and Tyler glares. I get up and quickly head to the door. As soon as I open it Caroline smiles and holds out a cake.

"We brought desert." she smiles before heading into the house.

"Hope you don't mind." Damon smiles hanging out at the entrance.

"What are you doing here?" Stefan asks coming up from behind me.

"Waiting for Aria to invite me in." Damon smiles taking a step closer.

"Well ya, you can ju-" Stefan cuts me off before I can finish.

"No, no, no." he argues. I raise an eyebrow and stare at him. "He can't....he can't stay." I look over at Damon and see he has an amused expression. "Can you Damon?" Stefan asks looking over at Damon. Damon glares at him.

"Get in here." Caroline says from behind us.

"Uh were just finishing up." Stefan says quickly.

"It's fine. Just come on in." I smile at Damon. Damon smirks at Stefan before heading into the house. Once Damon walks away, I turn around and glare at Stefan.

"You have a beautiful home, Aria." Damon smirks, turning around.

"Thank you." I say. Damon smirks one more time at Stefan before heading into the kitchen. I turn around and see Stefan frowning. What is with these boys?

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"I can not believe Mr.Tanner let you on the team." Caroline says to Stefan laughing. Were all sitting in the living room having coffee. "You must be seething Tyler." Caroline laughs shooting a glance at Tyler. "But good for you. Go for it." Caroline tells Stefan.

"Thats what I always tell him. You have to engage, you can't just sit there and wait for life to come to you. You have to go get it." Damon says smirking.

"Elena wasn't so lucky today." Caroline says referring to cheerleading. "It's only because you missed summer camp." I roll my eyes at Caroline and stand up taking Tyler's hand.

"Were going upstairs so have a nice time." I say excusing ourselves. I see Damon glare at Tyler as we leave but I choose to ignore it. I drag him up the stairs and shut my door behind us as we get into my room. I turn around and smirk at Tyler. He quickly walks over to me and pulls me into his chest.

"What about now?" he whispers in my ear. I smirk and start kissing him. He picks me up and I wrap my legs around him. He leads me over to the bed and sets me down. I smile as he takes off his shirt, he gets onto the bed and starts kissing me more. I'm about to take off my shirt but I hear my door open. I imeaditly pull away from Tyler and glare at the intruder.

"Damon!" I yell