JUICY

ch 31

As the school day ends, Kayla makes her way outside with Caroline as she texts Jeremy, the 'couple' confirming their plans to meet up tonight at the carnival

"I think everything is going well, the advisor said the vendors would be here at 4 so I'll come back around 3:40 to meet them" One girl scrolled on her phone while the other made a mental checklist

"Great, I'll pick the tickets up and drop them off before 6"

The two paused by the parking lot and the blonde asked "You want me to give you a ride to the hospital?"

Before the other girl could respond a horn was heard honking. The two girls look up towards the sound and see Damon waving with a smirk "The traffic is abysmal this time of day, let's get a move on it!"

Sighing Kayla shook her head "I'll be okay Care, I'll text you later on"
"Sure, keep me posted"

The two teens bid each other goodbye and separated. Once Kayla got in the car she briefly greeted Damon
"How was your day?"

Cutting her eyes at the man the girl frowned "You're asking me about high school?"
"Maybe I was. I never went, you know being from the 1800's an all"
"Right...It was informative. Classes were class. Lunch was lunch and that's about it really"

"Look, I'm trying kid-"
"I get that, but what I don't understand is why. Why do you want us to have any type of relationship, i thought you like hated everyone and wanted the world to burn"

Damon chuckled out a laugh "I don't hate everyone nor do i want the world to burn...it's really just Mystic Falls"
"Oh so you just got beef with Stefan then? And the hell do you mean Mystic Falls"

This time Damon cut his eyes at Kayla and the girl crossed her arms, leaning on the door to face him

"Call it generational trauma"

The human let a short laugh escape her before shaking her head "Either way, tell me why you wanna be buddies so bad. Do you not have any life long friends or what?"

"I'll be honest. My emotions weren't exactly working before I came back to Mystic Falls"
"What like you were depressed or had some mental block on them?"
"No I mean they weren't on, like at all. Vampire lesson number 1, we can turn our emotions off and on"

Kayla squinted "Okay? So you were this emotionless asshole up till what? When you almost killed Zach?"

"Up till I saw the fear you had towards me. Your mom and I were friends. Real Friends. You remind me of her you know?" Damon admitted

He then continued "I promised her I would look after you and I know she didn't exactly want you exposed to the supernatural and I didn't make it any better with the whole coming to town for vengeance against bunny muncher Stefan which led to the Zach incident which led to the whole that one girl thing"

"Are you talking about you killing Vicki?"

"Tomato Tamatoe. Point is- while Zach's gone, the least I could do for my great nephew is ensure you stay happy and healthy. I guess you aren't a bad kid either so making small talk with you doesn't hurt"

Kayla sat silently for a second while they drove.
"Did you say great nephew? You and I aren't even cousins fr. You're technically my uncle and you slept with my best friend"

"Is that all you got from that? And never mention that moment of my life again, i'm tryna flush it out my mind"

Kayla gave a small smile "I wanna trust you Damon but you gotta earn it. You can't hurt people I love. Really I wanna say you can't hurt people at all but I be fighting and some people need to get fought. So maybe just no killing the innocents of Mystic Falls. Maybe also, you can sign me up for therapy too, cause this whole 'killing, dead and undead' talk is kinda crazy"

"Trust and therapy got it" Damon grinned "So you listen to Taylor Swift?"

"I'm a teenage girl, I pretty much listen to everyone, the real question is why do you listen to Taylor Swift?"
"I personally like country music"
"Shut up, no way. I pictured you as more of a rock kinda guy"
"I'm just full of surprises"

"Yea no kidding. Speaking of surprises, is there anything other vampire 101 lessons I should know?"

Damon thought for a second "Yea I guess I should tutor you a bit so you know how to protect yourself better. Fact 24-"
"When did we get to 24?"
"I can do this really neat trick with crows and fog, i'm assuming others can do it to"

"Y'all have special abilities? This is so Twilight coded"
"You would like Twilight"
"I'm a teenage girl, of course I like twilight. Plus if you sparkle then it's kinda accurate. Oh and you're one to talk, Taylor Swifts number 1 fan"

Damon hit the breaks and looked out his window
"We're here. Get out"

Kayla frowned at the man as she pulled her seatbelt off and got out the car in front of the hospital doors
"You gone stop telling me to 'get out' before I out you to the police or whoever can take you out"

"I take back the 'good kid' comment I made earlier"

"Yea whatever, Thanks for dropping me off but don't worry about picking me up, I got a ride I'm going to this event at school but I'm gonna stop by the house for my costume"

Damon shrugged and put his shades on "Fine by me, don't do anything I would do"

Kayla scoffed "That's not a long list then"
"You think so little of me, maybe after you, Stefan and I attend our first therapy session we'll all get along better"

"Don't hold your breath Demon" Kayla turned her back and made her way into the hospital, searching for her Dad's room, where she planed to be for the next few hours