𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 | 𝐭𝐯𝐝

14

The next morning, Sundance was up and getting ready early. She made coffee for her siblings and aunt, then went to brush her hair and teeth. She walked into the bathroom and began brushing her teeth. The door slid open from Jeremy's room. "Hey, Sundance." He said. She side-hugged him. "Hey, Jer. Going to the police station?" She spat into the sink and cleaned it. "Yeah. Any news about Vic?" He asked hopefully. "Nope. I'm sorry." She brushed through her hair. Jeremy was quiet. Elena walked in.

Elena: Sorry.
Jeremy: Oh, no, it's cool, I'm done.
Elena: You guys are up early. Where are you going?
Jeremy: Police station. They're organizing the search party for Vicki, so...
Elena: Wait. Shouldn't you be going to school?
Jeremy: What? You're kidding me, right?
Elena: You shouldn't skip school. If they find her, we'll know. That's what cellphones are for.
Jeremy: Yeah, your lips keep movin'. I don't know why.

Sundance scoffed and stormed out, slamming the door. Their arguing always got on her nerves. Elena didn't see it from Jeremy's point of view and Jeremy never gave her the chance to. They constantly fought, making Sundance miss their goofy times together.
Sundance was always in between them.

"Listen, Sundance, I'm sorry." Jeremy knocked on her door. It was Sundance 's turn to be quiet. She did her makeup and applied lip gloss then changed.

She put her hair in a bun and grabbed her backpack and driver's manual. She already had her permit, but it was basically useless without an adult with her. Sundance began walking to school when she got a call from the contact "The Hottest Vamp❤️" with the same picture Damon took.

"What do you want, Damon?" She asked. "You." He joked. "Haha." She laughed sarcastically. "Come to the Boarding House."
"Why?" Sundance stopped walking
"For wine and crumpets. To talk, dumbass." He chuckled. "This red button looks cool." She hung up on him.

Sundance turned around. "Not cool!" Damon said. He stood in front of her in a blue shirt with a leather jacket over it and black jeans. "Done checking me out?" He smirked. She shoved him. "What do you want?" She chuckled. "Vicki is at the house. We need a friend of hers's and Stefan and I agreed on you so, therefore, you're coming." He said. "You better do your magic compulsion to get me some good grades, Salvatore." Sundance groaned. "Deal."

He offered his arm for her to hold. She wrapped her arm around his and he sped back to the Salvatore Home.

"... I don't understand why I have to stay cooped up here. Why can't I just go home?" A female voice said from the living room. "Because you're changing, Vicki, and it's not something you wanna do alone." A male responded. Sundance recognized them as Vicki and Stefan. "There's nothin' about that Logan guy I killed in the news or the newspaper. Not a word. Someone's covering it up." Damon said, walking into Stefan's room. "Hey, Sundance." Stefan nodded. "Hey, Fangs." She smirked. He rolled his eyes and smirked along with her. "You ass." He mumbled.

"What is that?" Vicki asked, looking at Damon's hand. He was holding a silver compass. "This is a very special, very old compass. What was Logan Fell doing with it? Aren't you curious?" Damon walked closer. "Well, if you're so worried that somebody's onto you, why don't you just leave town, Damon?" Stefan suggested bitterly. "We should all be worried." Damon sat down. Sundance sat down next to him. "Hey, um, I'm hungry. Do you have anything to eat? Besides Sundance." Vicki glared. "Ouch." Sundance scoffed. "You know how hard it is not to-" Vicki began to describe the taste and process of drinking and ripping apart a human. Stefan cut her off. "Here." He handed her a cup.

"What is it?" Vicki asked. "It's what you're craving," Stefan said. "Heh. Don't lie to the girl. It's so not what you're craving, but it'll do in a pinch, right, Stef?" Damon spoke.

"What is it?" Sundance looked up at Damon. He looked at her, then at Stefan. "Yeah, what is it? Is it a skunk? Saint Bernard? Bambi?"

Sundance went stiff and looked down at her hands, knowing he was trying to be intimidating and such. "Go on. Give it a try." Stefan suggested. "She's new. She needs people's blood. She can't sustain on that stuff." Damon got up to pour a glass of whiskey. "Yeah, why can't I have people blood?" Vicki asked. "Because it's wrong to prey on innocent people, Vicki." Stefan sighed. Sundance got up and stood next to Stefan.

"You don't have to kill to feed. Just find someone really tasty and then erase their memory afterward. It's so easy." Damon said. "No, no, no. There's no guarantee that you can control yourself, okay? It takes years to learn that. You could easily kill somebody, and then you have to carry that with you for the rest of your life, which, if I haven't made clear, is eternity." Stefan looked at Sundance.
"Don't listen to him. He walks on a moral plane way out of our eye line. I say snatch, eat, erase." Damon rolled his eyes.

Sundance took a deep breath. "Hand it over" She walked to Damon. He handed her his drink, to which she chugged and handed it back. "Damn." He laughed.
"We choose our own path. Our values and our actions, define who we are." Stefan said to Vicki. "Okay, count Deepak. I am outta here." Damon rolled his eyes. Sundance watched as Damon got up and walked away. "Come on, we have stalking to do." He said. Sun hugged Stefan and walked away.
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kind of a filler chapter but happy thanksgiving bitches❤️ I love you guys and am so thankful for your support on this. mwah!