Bloodlust → Stefan Salvatore [1]

Brave New World

     Elena drops the prizes one by one into my arms, while looking down at her clipboard of instructions from Caroline.

     "Hey, are you okay after last night." She shakes her head no. "Well, just know that I'm here if you want to talk."

     "That's the thing, Blake. I don't wanna talk. Today we are living the lives of normal teenagers, not the lives of innocent people caught in a whole bunch of vampire drama." I smile.

     "Got it. I'll take all of these prizes down the ring toss, and it's gonna be epic." I turn around, beginning to walk away. I bump into someone on accident. "Oh my god, I'm so sorry."

     "It's fine." The man says. I look up, seeing the face of someone I have not seen in years. The face of someone who was a friend of mine... more than a friend.

     "Oh my god, Grayson." He smiles at me. "Blake. Nice to see you again." I feel my stomach sink.

     "What's it been, a year? Two years?" I shake my head. "Yeah, it's been a while." He picks up some of the prizes. "Here, let me take these for you." He says, picking up all of the prizes. "Thanks." He smiles at me. "We should catch up sometime." I nod. "Of course." He walks towards the ring toss, and I make my way into the school.

     Stefan is waiting by our lockers. I can tell by the way he looks at me that he knows I'm a little freaked out. "What's wrong?" He asks. I wanna tell him what's going on, but it's kind of hard. The words aren't leaving my mouth, so I just hug him.

     "Is everything okay?" He asks.

     "Yeah, everything is fine." I lie, "I just really needed a hug after everything that's been happening." I open my locker and grab some of my books.

     "So, I gave Jeremy a vervain ring." I nod. "Good, it's getting really hard to put vervain in our water."

     "How's Elena doing, after the whole Damon incident?"

     "Not good. She's doing everything in her power to avoid him, and she wants nothing to do with him or vampires for the whole day."

     "I don't blame her." Stefan shrugs.

     "Today we are supposed to live like normal teenagers, Stefan. Which is why we are gonna pretend vampires don't exist, and we're gonna have fun at the carnival." Stefan nods. "Of course."

     "And when it's dark, and the moon is out, you're gonna take me on the ferris wheel, and you're gonna kiss me and my heart will flutter like a normal high school teenager. Do you see a running theme here?" I ask, moving my shoulders along with my words.