Cold Hearted | Damon Salvatore

nine

09. History Repeating

Elena, Aria and Caroline walked to school together.

"Have you even talked to Bonnie?" Elena asked Caroline, knowing the two girls were currently at odds with each other.

At the founder's party, Caroline had found a pendant, and not thinking much of she picked it and gave it to Bonnie as part of her halloween party, but once Damon saw it, he told Caroline that was his and he needed it back, but when Caroline asked Bonnie for it, she refused to return causing tension between the two girls.

"No, I'm mad at her" Caroline replied, "She needs to make the first move".

"Be the bigger person" Elena suggested.

"Ugh, impossible in her presence" Caroline stated.

"Why are you both fighting again?" Aria asked, Caroline not having told her that the necklace was Damon's.

"She's a thief, that's why" Caroline replied, "I gave her my necklace and she refuses to give it back, it's a matter of principle".

"Okay we tried, me and Aria are officially out of it" Elena said.

"Good, your turn, where's Stefan? Have you talked to him?" a curious Caroline asked Elena.

"He's avoiding me" Elena informed.

"Us" Aria said, "He's avoiding us".

"Why?" a confused Caroline asked.

"It's complicated" Elena simply said.

Suddenly the bell rang, both Aria and Elena turned to Caroline, "We will see you late Care Bear" Aria said, hugging Caroline.

"Bye" Caroline said, waving at Elena and Aria as they walked away to their shared class.

***

Aria and Elena walked to their class and both frowned seeing Stefan's seat empty, Aria sighed and quietly went and sat in her seat and pulled out her textbook from her bag, suddenly a note fell from her textbook, Aria frowned not remembering leaving any note in her book, picking it up and opening it, a small smile formed on Aria's smile.

Good Morning Aria, I left because I didn't want Jeremy or Elena to find me in your bed and bombard you with their useless questions.

p.s I am really sorry for making you cry last night, making you upset was never my intention.

xoxo Damon

Aria smiled and placed the note back in her textbook, last night Damon had stayed with Aria because of how upset she was, even if she wanted to for some odd reason Aria couldn't stay mad at Damon, and when she woke up without Damon by her side, Aria won't lie, she left bad, she thought he left without saying goodbye, but he didn't, and that thought made Aria happy.

"Good morning everyone" The teacher said, breaking Aria's chain of thoughts, "Alrighty, Alaric Saltzman" The new teacher pointed to his name on the board, "It's a mouthful, I know, it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, Saltzman is of German origins, my family immigrated here in 1755 to Texas, I however, was born and raised in Boston, now the name Alaric belongs to a very dead great-grandfather I will never be able to thank enough, you'll probably wanna pronounce it 'Ala Ric' but it's Alaric okay? So you can call me Ric, I'm your new history teacher".