An Elemental Difference - AIR - Book 1 (Stefan Salvatore)

Chapter 62 - I can't lose you too, Grams

MYSTIC FALLS WOODS

"So, where has everyone gone?" Aella questioned due to the lack of cars.

"Yeah?" Elena frowned, looking around, "When we arrived, it was heaving with cars and drunken teens."

Caroline blushed and raised her hand, meekly, "That may have to do with me."

Aella let out a laugh as Stefan helped her to stand, "What did you do, C?"

Caroline seemed to blush even more before she whined, "People were just so drunk and annoying, and Tyler was doing a Keg, Aimee Bradley was eyeing up Matt, Duke was being a total idiot, and I was totally worried about all three of you!"

Aella's smirk turned to a laugh as she looked over at Elena, and Bonnie who were laughing as well, "So what did the party girl, Miss Caroline Forbes, do?"

Caroline pursed her lips, "I may, or may not have placed an anonymous call to the police that an underage drinking party was going on in the woods, and Jeremy may, or may not have done the same a few minutes later."

"Ha!" Aella threw her head back, laughing, alongside the other girls, and a chuckling Stefan. "That's amazing!"

Elena controlled her laughter after a few minutes, "So where's Jeremy?"

Caroline just shrugged, "Well, someone had to take Tyler home, so Matt and Jeremy took him."

Aella's arm looped around Caroline's neck, "Well, I am very proud, C. Although I would have screamed and said there was a wolf in the woods. So much more funnier!"

Caroline pushed Aella off of her and into the car, following in after her, "For you maybe... Wolves in Mystic Falls is just not believable if it doesn't come out of your mouth for some reason."

Stefan just watched on as Aella frowned at Caroline as she shut the car door, "I don't know if that's an insult right now?"

Caroline just shrugged, "Neither do I?"

Bonnie peered over the car at Stefan as Elena got in the car to drive them all to Sheila's, "Are you coming, Stefan?"

Aella seemed to realize Stefan was still outside and leaned on Caroline and banged on the window, "Oh no! We forgot my boyfriend!"

Stefan chuckled at the slight slur to Aella's speech; it seemed her concussion and exhaustion was catching up on her. He shook his head at her cousin, "Thanks, Bonnie, but I better check on Damon."

With an understanding nod, Bonnie jumped into the back of the car with Aella and Caroline, and as Elena drove off, Aella waved at Stefan from the back window, her eyes getting droopier further the car drove until he could no longer see her.

In the silence of the woods, Stefan took a moment to breathe the quiet in. Ben was dead. Anna and Pearl were hopefully still in the tomb, Katherine wasn't and wasn't ever in the tomb. Damon was probably drinking his weights in alcohol. But they were all safe, and that's all that mattered right now.

GRAMS' HOUSEHOLD

The four best friends gathered around Sheila's dining table as Caroline made some Chamomile tea for them, she was the only one who hadn't been kidnapped so could make tea while they discussed what had happened to each other.

Bonnie and her date with Ben. Elena finding Emily's Grimoire with Stefan and Damon before Anna decided Elena would also be kidnapped. And Aella's journey looking for Bonnie. She chose to miss out on her run-in with Bonnie's dad, Rudy. The girls had gasped in horror when Aella told them she'd been in the same hotel room while they had, and Aella nodded furiously when they all exclaimed in disgust at Ben, forcing her to drink sleeping tablets without a drink to follow.