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Witches

*Third Person's P.O.V.*

        "Hey," Bonnie smiled at her friend, who looked at her in surprise.
        "Hey," Annabelle said back, her eyes a little wide. She hasn't seen Bonnie since the Halloween Party, and she didn't really expect to because Bonnie was staying with her grams, trying to learn about her... powers or whatever the hell it was. "What are you doing here?"
        "I want to show you something," Bonnie said, her smile widening a bit as Annabelle stepped aside so that she could enter the Gilberts' house. "Where's Elena?"
        "In her room. Sulking," Annabelle said dryly, before looking at Bonnie, interested. "Why?"
        "I want to show her, too,"
        "Show her what?" Annabelle asked, confused, looking at the excited glint in the dark-skinned girl's eyes.
        "Oh, just come on," Bonnie said, grabbing Annabelle's hand and pulling her upstairs, making Annabelle yelp as she almost barreled into the rail. Bonnie pulled her friend up the stairs, before pausing once they reached the other Gilbert girl's room, and knocking on the door and opening it at the same time, "You up?" she asked Elena, who was lying in her bed.
        "No," she said as she eyed her friend and sister, before pulling the sheets over her head. Bonnie glanced back at Annabelle for a second, and the two shared a simultaneous roll of eyes before walking over to Elena's bed determinedly and attempting to pull the covers off of her, "No. No," the eldest Gilbert whined, pulling on the covers to keep them around herself, and Bonnie paused for a second, sitting down on the bed as Annabelle stood beside her.
        "Why haven't you called me back?" Bonnie asked, her eyes on Elena, who sighed.
        "I'm sorry," she apologized, though Annabelle noticed that it wasn't a very honest apology seeing as her sister didn't even stop herself from rolling her eyes.
        "Are you gonna stay in there forever?" she asked in an annoyed voice, looking down at her sister. Bonnie gave her a slightly scolding look for being, what she would definitely call, 'insensitive', to which Annabelle only shrugged. If she was being honest, she was really about done with Elena's attitude. Elena wasn't the only one who had to go through all this; she witnessed Vicki's death, too. She had to keep it from everyone, too. She had to deal with everything supernatural that they found out about, too. And she also had to deal with her powers, or magic, or whatever the hell it is, struggling to keep control over them and not expose herself. Elena was the one who made Damon take away Jeremy's memories. Elena was the one who broke up with Stefan, not even giving him a chance to somehow explain everything to her. So why was Elena acting like she was the only victim in this entire situation? Annabelle was involved as well. And if she was being honest with herself, her situation was probably even worse than Elena's. Yet Elena didn't seem to take that into consideration.
        "Yup," Elena replied, her voice monotone, and Annabelle couldn't help but roll her eyes, while Bonnie's eyes softened as she sighed.
        "Move over," she said softly, and got into bed beside Elena as the Gilbert girl moved over to make more room, "I'm officially worried," Bonnie stated as she propped her head up on her elbow and looked at Elena, while Annabelle made herself comfortable on the bed as well, sitting between the two girls' legs. "What's going on?"
        "I'm tired of thinking. Of talking, I-"
        "Can I get a one-line version so I can at least pretend to be helpful?" Bonnie asked with a sarcastically hopeful smile, and Annabelle couldn't help but smile. That's why she loved Bonnie.
        "Stefan and I broke up," Elena finally said, her voice cracking the tiniest bit as she looked over at Bonnie, whose eyes widened.
        "I'm so sorry," she said quietly. "Are you okay? Right. Stupid question... I know I've been kind of M.I.A., when you need me the most... I suck,"
        "Bonnie..." Annabelle scolded her when Elena didn't even try to seem like she disagreed with that statement. But Annabelle knew what Bonnie was going through, and she couldn't let her blame herself for not being there for Elena when she really had important things to deal with.
        "You wanna make it up to me?" Elena asked, "Get my mind off of it," she said, and Bonnie's eyes suddenly brightened and a grin grew on her lips.
        "Just remember you asked for it," she said, before jumping off the bed and closing the window beside them, while Elena sat up. Bonnie than nearly skipped back over to us, grabbing a letter opener from Elena's nightstand on her way, and then grabbed Elena's pillow before ripping it open with the letter opener.
        "Hey!" Elena protested with wide eyes.
        "Uh..." Annabelle also stared a the scene with wide eyes, while Bonnie simply grinned at them.
        "Be patient," she said, emptying all the feathers onto the bed.
        "O-kay," Elena nodded, while Bonnie sat down on the bed, Annabelle scooting over to give her more room.
        "I need to swear you both to secrecy," Bonnie said, the grin no longer on her lips as she looked at the two sisters seriously.
        "It's kind of a bad week for that kind of stuff," Elena said dryly.
        "No, swear, 'cause I'm not supposed to be showing you this," Bonnie said.
        "Okay, I swear," Elena said half-heartedly, her gaze tired.
        "I do, too," Annabelle nodded as Bonnie's gaze switched over to her, though her brows still furrowed in confusion.
        "Okay. There's no windows open, right?" Bonnie said.
        "Right," Elena nodded as she looked around the room.
        "There's no fan, no air conditioning..."
        "None. What are you doing?" Annabelle cut in, looking at her friend in confusion.
        "Grams just showed me this," Bonnie said, the grin back on her lips as she looked at Annabelle, before looking at Elena, "You're gonna love it. You ready?" she asked the two girls, and they both nodded, though a bit hesitantly. Bonnie smiled, and then moved her hand to hover above the feathers, before slowly moving it upwards, the Gilbert twins' eyes widening as one of the feathers floated in the air right below her hand. Bonnie kept it floating in the air for a few seconds, before lowering her hand, the feather lowering to the bed.
        "Bonnie, what's going on?" Elena asked, her eyes wide, but Bonnie simply smiled and rubbed her hands together before positioning both of her hands above the feathers. She then moved her hands upward, and about ten feathers followed her movements, floating in the air. Bonnie kept the feathers in the air for a few seconds as Elena gasped, she and Annabelle both looking at the scene in front of them with wide eyes, before lowering them onto the bed again and looking at the two sisters with a slightly hesitant smile. Bonnie then simply looked up, and suddenly three times as many feathers rose into the air and started floating around the three girls sitting on the bed. Elena gasped as Annabelle looked around with wide eyes and her mouth open, and sat up on her knees, looking around with wide eyes. As Bonnie laughed at the twins' expressions, Elena and Annabelle couldn't help but join her.
        "It's true, guys," Bonnie said. "Everything my grams told me. It's impossible, but it's true... I'm a witch,"
        "I believe you," Elena said as she looked down at her friend, who looked like a true, beautiful witch as she sat on the bed with all the feathers floating around her, and the two girls shared a laugh.
        "You know..." Annabelle spoke up, and they turned to look at her as Bonnie lowered all the feather onto the bed, "I don't think you're the only one," she said, and Elena looked at her confused while Bonnie's eyes widened the tiniest bit. Did Annabelle also find out about her powers? Did she learn to control them? "Look at the candle," Annabelle told the two girls, and they all turned to look at the candle on Elena's nightstand. Annabelle kept her eyes on the candle, and did what she did the night before, imagining the warmth and brightness of a flame. Elena and Bonnie both gasped, one louder than the other, as the candle suddenly lit itself, a beautiful flame now decorating it.
        "Wha..." Elena trailed off as she stared at the candle with wide eyes, before turning to look at her sister, "Was that you?" she asked, and Annabelle nodded. "How?"
        "I don't know," the blue-eyed girl shrugged as she shook her head. "I honestly don't know, but... I guess I'm a witch, too. Although it's not like I really have anyone to ask,"
        "You could always ask my grams, I'm sure she'd help you," Bonnie said, and Annabelle gave her look.
        "Well, that's assuming she even knows anything about the witches in our family," she said, and Bonnie nodded in understanding as Elena kept staring at her sister with wide eyes. Why hasn't she ever told her any of this?
        "It's weird, huh?" Bonnie spoke up again with a smile, "After all this time joking about being psychic, I really am a witch. We both are," she said, and the three girls shared a small laugh, Elena's filled with shock and amazement, "You don't think I'm a freak now, do you?" Bonnie asked, her eyes on Elena because she seriously doubted that Annabelle would think of her as a freak, seeing as she was the same.
        "No, of course not," Elena shook her head. "Bonnie, I just... I don't understand, though, if your grams asked you to keep all this a secret, why did you tell us?"
        "You're my best friends," Bonnie said as if it were obvious, "I can't keep secrets from you two," at this, both Annabelle and Elena faltered. Bonnie disobeyed her grams, the person she probably trusted the most in the entire world, because they were her best friends and she didn't want to keep secrets from them. Annabelle felt a swell of guilt in her stomach. She hated to keep all this from Bonnie, but... she couldn't betray Stefan. She promised him that she would keep his secret. Bonnie might have promised the same to her grams, but it was actually her secret to tell. In this... it really wasn't Annabelle's secret to tell at all.