Stay With Me (Matt Donovan FanFic) Part 4

Chapter 11

Chapter 11

I woke up in my own bed ... sort of, I was actually at Damon's but it still felt 100 times better to be back in Mystic Falls again. I sat up in bed noticing nobody was taking up the space beside me. Where the hell did Enzo disappear to? And just like clock work my phone started ringing and it was him.

"Good Morning, Gorgeous" He purred over the phone. "Hope I didn't wake you, I just didn't want you thinking I vanished". He said.

"How considerate of you... so where did you sneak off to this time?" I asked getting comfy in bed.

"I had an old friend I needed to catch up with, it won't take long. I'll be back soon love, I promise you that" He says in a husky voice.

"I like the sounds of that" I say sweetly until I hear thuds and crashes coming from downstairs. "I gotta go, apparently someone's redecorating or just destroying the living room... who knows" I say getting up and saying goodbye to Enzo.

I run downstairs not really caring that I'm in shorts and a tank top, Stefan comes down about the same time as me and were both super confused at how many people are actually living here. Jeremy was in the kitchen... wrapped in only a towel and sipping coffee.

"Uh... good morning" I say awkwardly and he remains completely un-phased by it.

"That's not the first thing I want to see in the morning" Stefan mubmles.

"Sorry, I forgot you lived here" Jeremy says casually walking past us. I hide my giggle and go to grab coffee mugs but I hear Stefan groan and look back and the coffee is gone, as well as the milk.

"Thanks for the coffee" He mutters, clearly not amused. We hear more crashing coming from the living room and both head that way to check it out. Liv comes from around the corner covered in water and brushing off her shirt.

"Where can I get a clean shirt?" She asks.

"Damon's room, upstairs at the end of the hall" Stefan tells her confused.

"I didn't know all of Mystic Falls was living here..." I say as we round the corner and see Jo sitting in the mess that the living room used to be.

"What are you doing in my house?" He asks.

"A fire spell... sort of. It turns out getting back in touch with magic isn't anything like riding a bike" She jokes. "I am sorry about the vase though, was it expensive?" She asks and I try to hide my worry and doubt about this whole plan. We were risking it all on the hopes that Jo could become stronger than Kai and win the merge. It was really looking like a long shot right now.

"I am going to shower, get dressed and find anything else to do rather than be here... wishing you all the best though" I say running back upstairs and grabbing a coffee from Ric before I do so.

I got out of the house as fast as I could. It was a serious downer watching Jo fail every spell that Liv tried to teach her... we had no idea where Kai was and needed to be on the lookout for him at all times. We had one month to make sure Jo was ready but all I could think about was what Jeremy had said about Matt. Matt was in rougher shape than he had lead on, I made a choice but that didn't mean that I wanted him to feel that way. I drove to his place and although it took me a few minutes to get out of the car I gathered the courage to knock. No one answered and then I realized his truck wasn't here. I was walking back to my vehicle when he pulled up. I could already feel the tension building up between us as he got out and stood in front of me.

"Aurora, hey. What, are you doing here?" he asked and I felt a little awkward because of it.

"Uh, sorry I know this is really out of the blue. I guess I just wanted to see how you were... if that's allowed, plus you never called me back..." I said nervously as I remembered last nights desperate phone call. I had asked Matt to meet me at The grill, with intentions of talking about us and trying to sort out my feelings for him ...but he never showed.