Light Me Up

Chapter 3 : Morality

A few months later

Bonnie's POV

"Happy Birthday Bonnie" I muttered looking in the mirror

Just like last year in the prison world I was spending my birthday alone again. Well the year before last year. Last year I was too busy trying to get Stefan and Damon out of the phoenix stone to even remember. I sighed, making my way out of the bedroom. Much to my surprise Enzo was here. He stood behind the counter cooking something.

"Hey! Happy Birthday!" He cheered

I froze in shock for a second not knowing what to say.

"How did you know?" I ask

"Really Bonnie?" I yell at myself in my head

"I have my ways.... " He says "Now I didn't know what you liked so I got-"

He walked over to the table and opened a box revealing a set of cupcakes.

"- cupcakes!"

I laugh walking over and sitting down across from him.

"Thank you" I say "Really"

He gives a small smile and offers me a cupcake, I smile taking it, and stuffing it in my face. He laughs.

"Your phone was blowing up this morning with texts from your friends" He explains "That's how I knew"

"You did all this, just this morning?" I ask, surprised

He shrugs. I can't help as a smile slips onto my face. I was glad I wasn't alone for once. And against all circumstances, I was glad it was him.

"Ok... now that you know my birthday, you have to tell me yours" I tell him

His face saddens a little bit, but he covers it up

"As soon as I know you'll be the first one I tell"

My smile fades, feeling bad. We sit in silence for a while before I have an idea.

"Ok if you don't know then I guess it's up to us"

"What do you mean?"

He eyes me confused. I give him a smile

"I mean we pick a day and it's yours" I say "Let's keep it simple, from now on today's your birthday too"

He smiles softly and his face looks touched. I pick up a cupcake from the box and offer it to him.

"Happy Birthday" I say

He laughs taking it from me

"Thank you, Luv"

We talk and laugh for a while and it felt amazing. I haven't spent my birthday with anyone in a while. I haven't spent this much time with anyone in a while. Not genuinely. It's always "Bonnie I need this" or "Bonnie do this spell" but not with him. Spending time with Enzo sounds dreadful, if you asked me to do it just an year ago I wouldn't have enjoyed it at  all. But now it was something I looked forward to. As we talked and I got to know him, I understood him. And it felt like he understood me.

A few days later

Me and Enzo sat at the table shuffling through books and papers from the armory, still desperate to find the word "Bennett" anywhere.

"Here look at this" He handed me a journal

I flipped through it

"It's a diary" He explains "Virginia St. John's Diary. That's Alex's sister"

"Why do you have her diary?" I ask

"Better question.... where is she?" He replied "I've never met her or even heard of her from Alex"