Lavender Haze

chapter forty one

Matt storms into his house shrugging off his jacket and tossing his truck keys onto the kitchen table, he headed for the living room.

"Matt." Kelly called for her son following him. She sees him sit on the couch not even looking at her. "I don't wanna hear it, mom." Matt says.

Kelly sighs. "You know what I was doing tonight, Mom?." Matt finally looks at his mom. "I was having fun you know, trying to forget all the crap that I have to deal with everyday. Just enjoy the night with my friends." Matt stands up turning towards Kelly.

"And then, there you are, wasted at the bar, where I work! By the way.. to pay the bills that you don't pay and then you're off acting like a freaking kid? Hooking up with some guy half your age." Matt laughs with a scoff as he scolds his mother. "To add to it, it's Elena's friend's ex-boyfriend!"

Kelly's mouth opened to say something but nothing came out, she was stunned. "I'm the kid, Mom. You're supposed to be responsible for me." Matt finishes. "I know Matt." Kelly finally speaks. All Matt could do was shake his head at his mother in disappointment leaving the room.

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Elena was brushing her teeth in the shared bathroom between her and Jeremy's bedrooms. Jeremy walks through the door that's connected to his room. He heads towards the sink standing next to his sister turning on the water then wetting his toothbrush.

"How was your night?." Elena asks in between brushing her teeth. "Oh, same old, same old. You?." Jeremy answers. "Yep." Elena nods her head.

Jeremy begins to brush his teeth as both the Gilbert siblings sit in silence doing their nightly routine.

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"You can't go back to that house after what just happened." Damon grunts dragging the dead body of Bethanne and Alessia helped by having her ankles.

"Damon, you're not my parent and you can't tell me what to do." Alessia huffs as the both get out back to.

Alessia set up a bonfire big enough to burn Bethanne's body as both of them swing Bethanne's body onto the wood.

"We just killed a vampire that lived in that house and I'm sure the vampire that left is out for blood." Damon states.

Alessia rolls her eyes grabbing the lighter fluid spraying down the wood and Bethanne's body. "Not like I'm save here." She uses her magic creating fire in the palm of her hand lighting the wood and the body on fire.

"When did you start caring?." Alessia asks Damon heading back into the house to clean up the rest of the mess.

"You saying I don't care about you?." Damon follows Alessia. "Oh, I don't know why don't ask the woman you were with tonight? Would I have been burning her body too?." Alessia deadpans.

"You know jealousy doesn't look good on you when you're the one who told me to move on!." Damon scoffs.

Alessia stopped in the hallway whipping around towards Damon. "And maybe I'm realizing i made a mistake." Damon stops almost colliding with Alessia's chest. "Mistake?." He asks. "Yeah but thanks to you it proved I should not go through with what I wanted tonight." Alessia turns around heading back to the living room.

She sees Stefan on the phone, assuming it was Elena on the other end. "I'm over this conversation, Damon, it was just a fat reminder why I shouldn't open up again." Alessia shook her hand forgetting it was cut but it was all dry now with her blood.