Broken Reality (The Vampire Diaries)

Chapter 8

"Sit," Jenna commanded and Audrey let herself relax on the uncomftorable kitchen chair. She was still drunk and smelled like smokes. This was not going to be a good talk.

"I'm sitting," Audrey said with a tiny burst if laughter. Jenna scowled her with a bad eye.

"Sorry," Audrey immediately corrected. She moved a strand of her dark brown hair behind her ear and moved her gaze back to Jenna.

"You are drunk yet again and you have been smoking," Jenna sighed and threw her other hand in the air and making it slap her thigh.

"You are a bad example for Jeremy. Audrey you are my niece and you are precious to me but you are making this so hard," Jenna tried to seek for any empathy in her niece. Audrey's eyes quickly glanced up from the floor and faced Jenna's.

"Hard for me or for you?" she asked from her aunt with a very serious tone. Jenna tried to speak up but it looked like someone had literally got her tongue.

"And what comes to Jeremy, I could move out. If this is so hard for you."

"No that's not what I meant," Jenna closed her eyes for a while and rubbed her forehead.

"I am just saying stop smoking and drinking. You are under aged."

"Jenna, I'm sorry," Audrey got up from the chair. Jenna looked at her with surprised but satisfaid eyes when Audrey pulled her into a hug. She squeezed Jenna and let out a tiny snicker.

"I don't know if this is the liquor talking," she giggled. Jenna patted quickly her back and pulled out.

"Okay, sleep it off," her aunt commanded and Audrey started drag herself upstairs.

***

"So this thing," Audrey started and took a sip from her coffee, "with you and Stefan permanent?"

"I don't know, Audrey," Elena sighed.

"Am I on a break with Stefan as well? Because, you know, I'm friends with him."

"You can do whatever you want Audrey," Elena walked away from the breakfast table. Elena walked gracely out of the kitchen and Audrey sighed. It had been for over a week now that Elena hadn't talked to Stefan and Audrey was caught right up on the middle of it. A week from Elena founding about that she looked exactly like Katherine. Stefan tried to break it to her gently but Elena flipped and drove straight to home and ran to her room with teary eyes.

Because her sister wouldn't talk to her and Caroline and Bonnie sided with Elena, Audrey had been hanging out with Stefan. And before anyone starts to judge they had been recently searching information about Audrey's birth mother and contemplating about life.

So yet again Audrey found herself walking through the Salvatore boarding house and sitting herself on the dark couch in the library. She had brought a cosmopolitan for a minute because she knew that Stefan was hunting. Animals, not humans.

"You just keep coming back here," Damon commented as Audrey turned the page on her paper. Damon poured some whisky to a crystal glass. He looked brooding and that wasn't Damon.

"And you just keep talking to me," Audrey said back and raised her gaze out of the cosmo. Her eyes wondered on to the liquor table.

"Why don't you fix me one of those," she said and grinned. Damon glanced at her but then just chuckled.

"Thought you were trying to be sober," his amused tone came strongly through. Audrey threw the paper on to the coffeetable she had just kept her legs. She had low black boots on, a black v-necked t-shirt and blue holed jeans. She slowly walked over to the liquor table where Damon was already pouring more whisky in his glass.