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CHARLIE HAD FORGOTTEN HOW MUCH RUNNING SUCKED. When she was a vampire, she could run for hours and not get tired, but as she jogged along Elena and Jeremy, she felt like dying. The boy was in the front, leading the way with his sister close behind him. Charlie was trailing, not used to running out of breath so easily. He chuckled at them, "Seriously, I shouldn't be winning."
"Two weeks without booze doesn't make you Iron Man," Elena responded, rolling her eyes. Charlie, on the other hand, was too focused on taking deep breaths and not dying to come up with any sort of comeback. She just glared at him and kept running, trying to keep up with their pace. "I can still vamp circles around you."
"You mean, you can cheat," he said, and he glanced back at the younger girl that was kind of struggling behind them. He slowed down a little bit so that he could reach back. He grabbed her arm and pulled her along with him. She smiled and pushed herself ever so slightly so that she was running alongside him and in front of Elena.
The Gilbert girl rolled her eyes at him, and she gestured over to where a group of really tall girls were standing and talking. A couple of them glanced over and watched the three of them run. His sister told him, "Or I could pants you in front of the entire women's volleyball team. "
He shrugged. "Doubt they'd mind."
"I know I wouldn't," Charlie replied, and he smirked as he looked over and winked at her. She laughed out loud at his gesture. He leaned over and kissed her on the cheek while they were running, and Elena grimaced from behind them.
"Ew! Not in front of the sister!" She ran ahead of them and stopped in front of them, cashing them to halt as well. Charlie took this break to catch her breath, and Jeremy patted her on the back as he conversed with his sister. The older girl shook her head with a smile as she looked at the boy that was a miserable wreck a couple of weeks ago. "Ok. I give up. What did you do with my miserable half-drunk brother?"
"He canceled Bonnie's cell phone, cried until there was nothing left, and got all the grief out of his system. He is ready to move on," he explained. Charlie was with him through that process, and once she got back to a steady breathing pattern, she stood up, lifting her arm up to lean on his shoulder.
