His name is Damon.

Knowing

The drive home was pretty silent. I texted Elena, Bonnie, and Care to meet me at my house PRONTO. They all texted back asking why and what's wrong but I ignored them. I got up the courage to ask Damon what had been burning inside me since Stefan said something about it. "Damon. Do you feed off innocent people?"

Damon waited a moment before licking his lips, not looking at me. "Yes."

I got a little teary eyed. "That really scares me...you're not going to hurt me are you?"

He slammed on the breaks in the middle of the road and turned to me. "No, I would never do that. I've made my mistakes, I'm the bad guy, but I will never hurt you like that. You need to trust me. And I have tried to start picking my food from the badies in town. I try not to feed on innocent people anymore. Plus we get blood bags from the hospitals. Yes, we steal them, but that's how we have to survive. You have to understand that. That's why we want you to stay away from our basement. We have a big freezer down there stocked with blood bags. Not to mention the little chamber where we can lock people up in. I know this is too much to take in right now, so take your time. Just know we won't hurt you."

I never really said anything after that.

I was only home for a couple of minutes before they showed up. I was pretty short with them as we went up to my room. Caroline sat at my desk chair, Bonnie sat on the edge of my bed, I sat by my headboard, and Elena stood with her arms crossed. "Noelle, what's going on?" She asked, tucking her hair behind her ear. I could tell they were concerned.

I sighed getting teary eyed. I stretched my fingers across my temples. "I know."

They all exchanged glances. Caroline spoke up. "You know what?" She gave a tiny nervous laugh.

I gave her an evil glare. "That you're a vampire." She looked flabbergasted. "And that you're a witch!" I beamed at Bonnie. "How could you guys lie to me like that?" I started crying. I got off my bed and started pacing back and forth. "You," I stormed up to Care. "Had a thing with Damon. Were you ever gonna tell me?"

Care jolted up and we were face to face. "Ok, he compelled me!" She furrowed her eyebrows and I narrowed my eyes.

"Caroline," Elena piped, stepping forward.

Caroline looked in pain. "Ok, I did come onto him first! But that was forever ago and I didn't want you to get mad or whatever! He ate off me, Noelle. He can be lethal. That's why we're all judgey!"

I lowered my head. "He saved my life today."

I recalled today's dangers and I cried harder than I had all day. I finally got to really grasp what happened and it all hit me. We hugged, laughed, and said sorry's. I made Care show me her fangs and Bon do some magic. I was astounded at everything. It was all so crazy.