Cold Hearted | Damon Salvatore

twenty one

21. Before Sunset

"You sure you don't want to talk about it?" Jeremy asked Aria, as they prepared to paint Alaric's room at his apartment.

"About what?" Aria asked, carefully sticking tapes up on the walls.

"About the fact that me and Kol found you in the middle of the woods, screaming" Jeremy replied.

Aria sighed, "I couldn't sit there and watch Ric die, so I ran, and suddenly I had this urge to scream, so I screamed".

"According to Kol, that was a banshee scream, that's how he heard it from the Grill" Jeremy informed.

"Yeah" Aria whispered, "I have no idea how these banshee powers work".

"If it helps, no one does" Jeremy said.

"That really doesn't help Jer" Aria said.

Jeremy chuckled, "I tried".

"Next time, you're going to get the paint Jeremy, not me" Kol said, entering the room, with two cans of paint in his hand.

"That bad, huh?" Jeremy asked.

"If that shop keeper wasn't old, I would have smashed his head in" Kol replied.

Jeremy chuckled, "I guess he got lucky then".

"So, it's official, we're going darker?" Aria asked, looking at the dark blue paint Kol had bought.

"Yeap, it's either this or nothing, I am not going back to that horrible place" Kol said.

"Oh come on, Mr. Johnson isn't that bad" Aria said.

"Of course you know his name" Kol mumbled.

"This one time me and Aria decided to renovate my room, we went to the same paint shop you went, we ended up staying there for two hours because Mr. Johnson wouldn't stop talking about everything useless" Jeremy recalled, making Aria laugh, "I was standing there, getting annoyed by the second, while Aria stood there listening to his every word and making conversation with him, after that I promised myself to never go back there, that's why I sent you to get the paint".

"You didn't think to warn me or something?" Kol snapped, glaring at Jeremy.

"No, I didn't" Jeremy said, giving Kol a smug smirk.

"Asshole" Kol said.

"Dickhead" Jeremy retorted.

"You both are children, you know that?" Aria said, interrupting the two before they could continue their petty argument.

"He started it" Kol complained.

"You started it" Jeremy said.

Aria grabbed the masking tape and threw it at Jeremy, while throwing a paint brush at Kol.

"Shut up!" Aria yelled, "And let's get to painting this room, please".

"Are you sure you both want to do this right now?" Kol asked, worried for the two people infront of him.