The Engagement

The Talks

Bonnie has to admit that she is a little nervous to talk to Rebekah. She has never been a good friend to Stefan because he always had a way to run away when things got rough. Never considering how was left to clear things out with Elena and Caroline, how obvious was in love with him. The fact is that Damon actually stayed with Elena more than Stefan did. Which did a bit to explain why her best friend fell in love with her boyfriend's brother. Because Bonnie knows that Elena was, and still is, in love with him. But she is not sure that Elena figured that out yet.

She wonders if he does the same thing to Rebekah. Because weren't about to be the 'Stefan-clean-up' to one more girl. Rebekah turns to her, clearly just as nervous as Bonnie herself and Bonnie can't help but giggle at it. Rebekah quickly catches on and some of the tension leaves the room.

"Well, I can't say that I have done this before" Rebekah says after a while.

"Me neither. Actually, I think that no one has done this before, you normally know your maid of honor, I believe" she agrees.

"You want a drink? Stefan's family makes wine and I am a little weak for it, I'm afraid" Rebekah walks over to a little bar in the big, light hall.

"Yes please" Bonnie says and takes the glass that the blond girls offer. She smiles and waves at Katherine when she goes back to the dining room to talk to Caroline, Klaus, and Elijah.

"You are really tight with all the girls here, right?" Rebekah asks and Bonnie can hear that the girl feels pretty down by it. Not that much of a surprise when no one of your friends wants to be your maid of honor when you're getting married. If it was Elena that was getting married to Stefan down here Bonnie would rush here to be by her side through everything and she is almost sure that Elena would do the same for her.

"Well, Elena and I have been best friends since middle school" she starts to explain when she follows Rebekah and sits down on one of the benches. "It was around the same time as Damon and Stefan moved to Mystic Falls so they, or maybe mostly Stefan since Damon was five years older, started to hang with us too. Caroline known Elena and Kat from birth, their family's hanged much together. There was a while when we were 16 when I just started dating Jeremy, Elena's little brother, Elena, and Matt, a guy I grew up with still were dating , Caroline was dating Tyler, another boy that she grows up with, and Katherine dated Stefan when we were like the perfect group" Bonnie stops and looks over at Rebekah.

"Wasn't Elena the one dating Stefan?" the blond asks.

"Yeah, but Katherine and him and a fling first, just for two months or something. When They broke it of Elena broke up with Matt and she and Stefan started dating a short time afterward. They went different ways after high school and Tyler and Caroline split almost a year ago" it feels good to talk to someone who listens, it had been a while since she and Elena had time for a real girl talk.

"Yes, Stefan told me about that. But you are still dating Jeremy do, right?"

Bonnie can feel the smile disappearing from her lips when she looks to the ground. Rebekah immediately leans forward and places her hand over Bonnie's.

"Sorry, I thought you were still together, Stefan never told me that you broke up" she says regretfully and Bonnie takes a shaking breath, forcing back the tears she has in her eyes.

"He doesn't know" she mumbles quietly "No one knows, he cheated on me" she sniffles and then she breaks, the blond letting her lean on her shoulder, crying into her.

"I'm so sorry" Rebekah says after a while when Bonnie pulls back, Wiping her cheeks with the back of her hand.

"It's not your fault" Bonnie giggles, because it's not like her at all to cry on a strange girls shoulder. "I just didn't think we would end like this, I mean we have been dating for more than four years"