We're Golden

Chapter 1

 Bonnie hated this.

She could be at home right now watching reruns of Boy Meets World, but instead she's at this party of a classmate she barely even knows watching Stefan flirt with Elena Gilbert from a corner she really hoped kept her hidden.

She doubted anyone would spot her though. She wasn't exactly the type of person to attract attention, but she wore the hoodie she stole from Stefan a few years ago just in case and leaned further into the wall kinda hoping it would swallow her up.

She was giving him five minutes and then she would leave with or without him. They weren't supposed to be here, but he snuck into her room and begged her to go with him, "We'll stay for two hours tops, Bon".

They've been here for two and a half hours and between her grams and his parents, she was certain they'd be in a shitload of trouble when they got home.

"Are you talking to yourself?" a voice said next to her and her glasses must've been foggy and her hearing bad because this person couldn't be talking to her, could they?

"You". She turned her head then and adjusted her glasses to get a better look at the person now standing next to her.

"Are you talking to me?"

Matt Donovan. He was one of Stefan's friends. She never really hung out with any of Stefan's friends other than the occasional forced lunches at the cafeteria where they barely noticed her except when Stefan was talking about what they'd gotten up to that week like it was hot news.

They all knew her as one thing though.

"You're Stefan's friend right?", and she swore anyone who didn't know her thought that was her name.

"Bonnie".

"Right, hey I'm Matt" he said and extended his hand for her to shake. And she swore if she had to shake one more of Stefan's friend's hands from them repeatedly introducing themselves she would cut her own hand off.

"I know who you are. I have lunch with you guys on Mondays and Tuesdays" she said looking at the outstretched hand that Matt finally dropped to his side.

"Right" he said.

"And I wasn't...talking to myself, I mean" she said. Just contemplating how to kill my best friend and make it look like an accident.

He nodded. But he didn't believe her.

"So...are you having a good time?" He asked and she wondered why he was still standing there trying to make awkward conversation with her.

She didn't exactly have a welcoming look, or personality to be honest. She had exactly one friend she made when she was a baby, back when life was easy and puking on a kid meant you wanted to be friends.

That wasn't the case these days though and she didn't have it in her to try and make another friend.

It was too late anyway, but she might as well make small talk before making her graceful exit.

"No. I wanna leave, but that thing is my ride so I'm kinda stuck" she said and Matt choked on his drink from the laugh that slipped through. She actually smiled at that, but only a little bit. She wasn't about to get crazy.

"If you really want to leave I could give you a ride home" he offered. She rose a skeptical eyebrow at that and just looked at him suspiciously.

"What?"

"I'm still trying to figure out why you're even talking to me let alone offering me a ride home" she said and he shrugged.

They heard Elena giggle from across the room and playfully shove Stefan away from her with her left hand only to have him grab onto it and keep it in place against his chest.