The Vampire Diaries Preferences And Imagines

14 • Alaric

Pt. 2 for psykaipath, hope you enjoy it :D

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It had been just over a month since Mr Saltzman had last asked you to stay behind after class, you hadn't spoken since then out of lessons.

Today you sat once more slumped in your seat and not paying any attention to what your teacher was saying. Instead you were planning on a safe way out of school, over the past month a group of people had started to bully you as you tried to leave school.

You didn't tell anyone because you were too scared and embarrassed by it, the thought of telling a teacher seemed mortifying.

"Naomi can you stay behind please." Mr Saltzman called as the bell rang out, making you groan. After all of the students had filed out of the classroom, you got up and went over to his desk.

"Yes?" You asked in quite an annoyed tone, whilst nervously glancing at the door every few seconds.

"It's been a month and you're still failing." He stated but didn't even look up from the numerous sheets of paper that crowded his desk. You didn't reply but continued to look back at the door, praying that as you left you wouldn't encounter any of the bullies. "Oh I'm sorry, am I keeping you?" His tone was a lot harsher than previous making you jump and turn back around to look at him.

He stared at you with a raised eyebrow, awaiting a response from you.

"Uh n-no, sorry." You mumbled and looked at your shoes.

"Sorry's not going to cut it this time Naomi, I'm going to make sure that you work harder to get better grades." He spoke in a stern voice as you simply nodded. "Starting now." His words made you shoot your head up and your eyes widened.

"But Mr Saltzman, it's the end of the da-"

"I know and since you won't pay attention in my lessons, you're going to pay attention after school until you learn." He cut you off whilst gesturing for you to take a seat, you huffed before sitting down on one of the seats on the front row of desks. "Now then let's start with some easy dates, should be easy right?" He asked as you nodded and looked down to avoid eye contact, you felt extremely awkward and you felt it was about to get worse because you weren't very good with dates.

"Sure." You mumbled and still didn't look at him.

"Okay, so the French Revolution." He spoke and you began to think, you knew it was in the 1700's but just not sure when.

"It's not really fair since we haven't been studying it, I mean do we have to do this now?" You asked and shrugged your shoulders as he sighed.

"Do you want to pass history? Because we've been studying this for a while now." He stated as felt your cheeks flush with embarrassment, you muttered a small 'oh.'

"I-I'm sorry, I've just had a lot on my mind lately." You mumbled and looked around the room.

"Want to talk about it?" He asked as you turned your head back to look at him.

"N-no, it's okay thanks." You spoke as he nodded in understanding.

"You know they say it's bad to bottle things up, sometimes it only takes talking to someone to make you feel better." He shrugged making you laugh slightly and shake your head.

"You sound like a cliché therapist right now." You said as he laughed with you.

"Well it's true! Like I said last time, I'm always here to talk if you want someone to speak to." His smile reassured you but at the same time made it tempting for you to just pour your heart out to him. His whole persona felt extremely inviting to you as you sighed and averted his gaze.

"I don't think there's anything to talk about." You spoke barely audible, but you could tell he heard.

"That's not what the bruises on your arms and face say." He spoke as he gestured to your slightly purple jaw that you had tried your best to conceal with makeup and you hair. "Who did it to you." He asked as you shook your head, tears were welling up in your eyes at the memories of them hurting you. "Naomi I can't help you if you don't tell me." His voice was becoming increasingly more stern as you looked at your hands in your lap.

"I don't know their names." You spoke as the first tear spilled down your cheek, he saw and got up from his desk.

"It's more than one person?" He asked as he walked over to your desk, concern now laced his voice. "Was it just a one off thing?" When you shook your head, you heard him exhale deeply. You got up swiftly and grabbed your bags before trying to walk over to the door, Mr Saltzman stopped you in your tracks by stepping in front of you and closing the door.

"Mr Saltzm-"

"It's Alaric." He cut you off. "I prefer Ric though."

"Ric, let me leave." You snapped at him and said his name in a rather mocking tone.

"Not until we get to the bottom of this." Ric spoke making you shake your head.

"They said I can't tell anybody, this is why I didn't want a teacher to know." You mumbled and looked at him.

"I won't tell anyone I promise." He gave you a light smiled before wrapping his arms around you as you began to let more tears flow. "Shhhh, we'll sort it out and everything will be alright." His words were reassuring and for the first time in a long time, you felt like you could trust someone.

"Thank you, and I promise that I'll try to get my grades up." You smiled into his chest.

"Okay good, I just want you to be happy Naomi. You're too young to be stressing out about things." His words were like gravity, pulling you back to the reality that maybe not everything in your life was as bad as you thought. You smiled more and pulled away from him slightly only to look up into his eyes, your eyes flickered down to your lips before you were both leaning in.

You knew it was extremely wrong and inappropriate, but in that moment all that mattered to you was how happy he made you. The gap between you closed as your lips connected together in a sweet and passionate kiss. It only lasted a few seconds, but felt like a lifetime when you pulled away and looked at him whilst still smiling.

"Oh and I have two homework assignments for you to complete." He spoke whilst smiling and making you groan. "One: Catch up on the work you've been missing whilst you sleep in my lessons." He spoke making you laugh slightly. "Two: Smile more because you're beautiful and don't let anyone tell you differently." You blushed at his words before collecting yourself and giving him one last hug.

"I'll see you tomorrow Mr Saltzman." You smiled as you got to the door of the classroom and opened it.

"Yes, have a good night Naomi." He nodded at you before returning to his desk, you left smiling ear to ear with happiness fluttering up inside of you.

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