Nightmares ; Bonkai

chapter 12

Bonnie spent the entirely of the next day making mental lists in her room; well not so much her room, but every room of the house. In an attempt to avoid Kai and not have him find her, she would spend about an hour in one spot before finding another in a different corridor of the house. Her hair would stand on end every time she'd push herself to a side of the wall and run on tip toes until finding her next destination. After a few tries Bonnie started to have some fun with it; changing her outfit to all black and putting on a scarf to cover her mouth and nose, feeling very ninja-like with moves to back it up and ready to take down anyone who comes across her.

Now Bonnie found herself lying on Stefan's bed, staring at the ceiling as she went through her new list of things that cannot happen and at the top of the list was no touching, whatsoever. Just the thought of Kai drifting his fingers down her arm or snaking his arm around her stomach sent heat waves across her body, her brain firing out images to add to the effect. She played out a scenario of them asleep and feeling Kai's touch trailing across her skin, gentleness mixed with that tinge of electricity she felt when he was sleep siphoning her and suddenly she's on top of him, hips grinding into his as she fists his hair in both hands.

Groaning a frustrated noise shaking her head Bonnie leaned up swinging her legs off the mattress to keep her mind on the topic and the action brought her onto the next rule on the list; no more sleeping in his bed. Now as much as she'd like to laugh it off that it won't be a problem and what a relief it'll be to not have to deal with that – she'd just be lying to herself. Without realizing Kai crept up under her skin and made himself comfortable, inevitably making her feel the same around him. Instead of that flare of panic and detest she used to feel in his presence, now it's more of a distaste. His incessant chatter doesn't seem so annoying anymore, or his need to be around her and bother her which used to drive her up a wall, even him being in close proximity's doesn't fill her with the emotions it once did. What the hell is happening to me?

Getting off the bed she made her way to Stefan's bookshelf, touching the spines as she went across the titles. Even though they have a massive library in their house Stefan was always buying books of his own – first editions – and keeping them safe and sound in his own little collection. Stefan had all the classics that you could get lost in and on the bottom shelves were his diaries. Bonnie had never really gotten into writing diaries herself; she, Caroline and Elena used to always have the small notebooks with the little lockets attached when they were kids but she never knew what to write and would end up doodling and drawing pictures instead. She bent down to pick one up when she heard a door close in the same hallway, jerking her back up and tiptoed over to the wall hitting the switch, breathing slowly as she watched the light under the door. The other door opened again and a shadow appeared hazy then got darker the closer he got until it almost fully encased the light outside. After a moment the shadow wavered and descended back into the hallway until it disappeared.

Letting out a deep shaky breath she hit the switch back on and took a moment to wonder what in the world she was doing. This is Kai Parker, the sociopath-child-hybrid that she's spent the last month of her life with; the one who shot an arrow through her chest and made her time here more complicated, but is somehow the same person who's making her home cooked meals every night. The same one who can painfully steal her magic anytime he pleases, but is sleeping snuggled up next to her every other night. It just doesn't make sense!  Bonnie thought as she threw the book against the bed and paced around the room for another moment before heading to the door for a new destination. She took on her same tactic of gliding across the walls with her fingertips until she got to the end of the hallway, looked both ways, then started off to the right.

"What – are you wearing?" Bonnie froze mid-step and dropped her arms, turning around. Kai looked amused with his wide smile as he raked her over and she glanced down at her black leather jacket, tight black jeans, and black boots. "I mean I'm not complaining."