Dear diary, it's weird how me, and Damon being together has the opposite effect on each other. I've become less dark, and temperamental. Damon has become way more uptight, and super protective, he has a zero tolerance for any dude other than Stefan being in my personal space. We have had a lot of arguments about the way he treats Matt. I think the only reason he doesn't pick on Jer as much is because there's still a part of Jeremy that isn't afraid to die/wants to die. The second reason being Alaric has been training Elena and Jeremy how to fight, which obviously Jeremy took it more seriously than Elena. Anyway I think it's time to spend more time with my cousin. Since I got sent away to boarding school at a very young age, our friendship was severed. This weekend I promised fun, and to do her hair, and that's what she's gonna get.

-Blaise

This was one of the few mornings I requested to not be bothered by anyone. Which is why Damon wasn't next to me snoring half naked. Boy did twilight get that wrong, vampires slept all the time. Damon was a grumpy man if he didn't get his proper sleep.

I sigh as I stretch my body, I thought today would be a good day for self care. I pull out my yoga mat laying it in a cleared space on my bedroom floor.

"You might wanna look into that, it could save your life one day." I Heard Stefan's advice a few weeks ago. He was right, and I can't keep being so scared that I don't even take care of my mental.

I got my heart rate up, by doing a few poses, finally deciding that was enough, I sit on the mat. Grabbing the amulet, I hold it in my palms. I close my eyes, at first all I see is darkness, then it slowly fades into a bright orange color. I can feel myself starting to panic, then I hear a voice in my head. "You have to calm yourself Blaise, you control the flame, the flame doesn't control you." That voice...it sounded familiar, but I just couldn't place it.

It felt welcoming, and trust worthy though, my heart stopped pounding, slowing back into a steady rhythm. The bright orange color turned into a small, flickering wildly at first. I inhaled so deep, I felt a sharp pain in my lungs, when I exhaled the flickering flame stilled. It burned brightly, but calmly, I smiled to myself. This had been the first time I meditated in years that ended in such positive results. I was still a little too scared to fully tap into my magic, so I stopped it there. I felt light when I opened my eyes, my phone buzzed notifying me I had a text message.

I'll be there in 10, Caroline is with me, she wants to put together the Halloween dance. -_-

-Bon

I forgot I was supposed to be doing Bonnie's hair. I sighed still holding in to my positive mood, walking into my closet I pulled out my hair box. I made a mental note to restock later, carefully walking down the stairs I smell coffee brewing. Sitting the box down on the coffee table, I enter the kitchen to see Damon drinking a large cup of coffee steaming.

"You made coffee, and no food?" I said giving him a side eye look, Damon moved off his seat leaving his coffee on the kitchen island. At normal speed he walked towards me, a smirk on his soft pink lips. I smile back at him, I actually smile feeling happy for once.

He holds me away from him, observing my face, and eyes. I giggle a bit under his gaze, this makes Damon look at me oddly, my bubbly attitude catching him by surprise.

"What's got you all, smiley, and I didn't cook because I can't, that's usually Stefan's thing." I roll my eyes, suddenly I remember even though Damon is a supernatural being, he's still a dude.

"Well aren't you lucky that it's the weekend, so I will cook breakfast, my father wasn't a witch 24/7. He was a chef, had his own restaurant, studied abroad, and could cook anything. It's partly his fault why I'm fat, I never said no to any of his meals." I say reminisce to myself, I forget Damon was there for a moment until he bumped my hip getting my attention.

"First of all, shut up because you're not fat, a lot of girls ball their eyes out to be as beautiful as you are. Secondly, you never talk about your parents, what changed? Damon questioned me, I internally facepalm thinking he was gonna let that slide though. He never likes it when I talk down about myself, like ever, I'd hate to see his reaction when I tell him about the dude that caused me to feel this way.

"Yea, I try to repress unnecessary thoughts, my parents...they have a lot of flaws, but I still love them." Damon gave a thoughtful look, I took the distraction as an excuse to end the topic.

I backed up into his crotch with my ass,rubbing up against Damon softly. He's able to quickly grab before I can get away, pulling me back against him, his cool fingers lightly dancing on my shoulders. "You're not going anywhere, you're so soft, like my own little rain cloud." I shiver a bit at the contact of his lips pressed against my bare shoulder, Damon's lips lingering as he pulls back slowly.

"I may be satisfied with just eating you, but you can't do the same, go on making breakfast." Damon teased, but also slipping into his authoritative voice. I was fine with that, sometimes I really liked when he decided to take direction for me. Not because I'm lazy, but a lot of the time I'm not really sure what I should do. On days where it's hard for me to make decisions I just choose not to eat, usually I get so busy with what I'm doing I'll forget about hunger.

I jokingly jab my fork in his direction. " No, but I will try my best, my pretty." I say in a creepy witch voice pretending to brew a pot, Damon threw his head back laughing at my antics.

I smirk feeling satisfied I got the reaction I wanted, it was difficult to get a raise out of him. More so because he didn't find most things funny, now Stefan. He doesn't laugh at my jokes because he has total self control to choose not to, but he's easy to crack when he wants to.

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to actually date Stefan...though there's something disturbingly dark about a vampire like him. Like any moment he could snap, and you'd never see it coming. It's eerie seeing him laugh, and smile, being so passionate. As if in the flip of a switch he'd rip out your throat, and sleep well at night.

That's the kind of thing that makes me keep an eye on Stefan. Sure he's my bestie, but I'm no fool, speaking of fools, in walks Elena.

"Blaise is cooking? Jackpot, hm where's the bacon-pancakes?" She's all over the kitchen looking in the pan, cabinets, and fridge as if I'm hiding it from her. I smirk a little bit, observing her bed head, and love bites in hidden areas.

"Of course you're hungry, you've been banging Stefan so long, you forgot to breathe." Elena choked on a pancake, and Damon made a disgusted noise from behind me. Elena blushed a deep red color, obviously embarrassed by my observation. She tries to tug her robe up closer, finally covering Stefan's markings, but also biting her lip thinking about the previous night.

"Ew, don't replay sex in your head over the food. Shoo away wit ya chile." I say, as I lightly shove the taller girl out the kitchen, poking at her sides that sends her into a fit of giggles. Back in the kitchen Stefan is eyeing an omelet that's almost done cooking. He licks his lips, practically drooling, I scrunch my eyebrows slowly approaching the kitchen.

"Stefan...you okay bestie?" He looks at me as if he didn't know I wasn't there, his pupils blown wide open. "Hungry..." Was all that left his mouth, Damon seemed unbothered by Stefan's weird zombie behavior so I wasn't too concerned.

"Okay...well let's get you a plate huh big guy?" I slowly removed the top from the skillet, any sudden movements and I was toast. The second the smoke left the pan, and traveled up Stefan's nostrils he ferociously inhaled the hair. I immediately freeze, terrified. Next thing I know Elena is back in the kitchen looking as wild eyed as Stefan.

"Oh my god when the fuck you get back in here! Damonnn-" I turn to my boyfriend for protection but he rejects my hand slapping it away.

"I lied, I didn't make breakfast because Stefan, and Elena act like wild beasts around food. I didn't think you'd be a pro chef, but apparently the better you are at cooking the hungrier they get. Especially Stefan, his appetite is amplified because ya know, vampire, and he uses human food to suppress his thirst for blood." Damon explains nonchalantly, still looking down at his phone.

"Mmm, bacon...it looks so crisp, and crunchy." Elena started, one hand latching on to me, I tried to pull away but her grip was deathly. Stefan is slowly closing in on me, a quiet groaning noise coming from him.

"Blaise, it's either you or that omelette, I'm not above eating a human today. I'm...so, HUNGRY!" Stefan gripping on the kitchen counter, he cried out unexpectedly. I didn't know rather to laugh or cry, poor baby being subjected to sub par cooking. Damon huffed in annoyance, he eventually got up and left, I can't believe this fucker is leaving me in the middle of a war zone.

"Stefan, I want that omelette." Elena said, looking like she might actually fold Stefan, he growled back at her.

"Ha, not if I get to it first!" Stefan shouted, sounding like someone straight out of an anime. What I didn't see coming was Stefan, and Elena jumping out at the same time.

"Mine!" They both shout at the same time, arms stretched out as far as possible. Stefan was a few inches taller than Elena, but she had the longest arms.

Forgetting that it was all a joke, Stefan launched forward with his speed, crashing into both of us. My eyes flew wide open, as my face crashed into Elena's boobs. Luckily for Stef, he was able to catch himself from toppling on us.

"Ya know I can't say I'm totally mad with how this ended, boobs are a 8.5/10, however them being soft bumps it up to a 9." Elena giggles at me, wrapping her arms around me, squeezing me tighter.

"Alright get off my girlfriend you pervert." Stefan grumbles pulling us apart, when I stand up all the way I see him shoving the rest of the hot omelette in his mouth.

"You monster, how could you! You don't even have to eat." Elena whined, and I kinda agreed with her. Stefan ate because he chose to, most likely to humor himself, I shook my head so confused right now.

"You guys are weird." I mumbled to myself, the doorbell rang in enough time for me to turn away from Stefan feeding Elena some bacon.

"Oh Bonnie thank goodness, I've never been so glad to see you." I say pulling my cousin in tight, fake sobbing into her shoulder, Caroline just rubbed me on the back out of pity.

"Wow, you weren't complaining when your face was in my boobs." Elena shouted from the kitchen, Bonnie pushed me off her, a judgemental look on her face. I shrug not ashamed of my perverted nature towards my friends.

"I brought extra hair just in case, you can braid whatever style you want, I trust your capability." Bonnie said holding up 3 extra packs of braiding hair, I grin it's been too long since I've done someone's hair. Caroline looked around trying to act normal, but I knew she was using her vampire senses to see if Damon was here.

"Yes he's here Caroline, and yes you mine as well talk shit about him since he knows you don't like him, especially being with me." I call her out of her nosey behavior, she scoffs as if she would do such a thing. I knew better though, Caroline played it off well to everyone else, but she was salty about us dating. She was such a crybaby, her and Damon didn't end well, partly because he manipulated and compelled her a lot when she was human.

However, Damon made up for that by allowing Caroline to kick his ass almost to death. Apparently this went on for hours, he told her to beat his ass until she couldn't anymore. That was a mistake, apparently it took him three whole days to heal up, because no human blood for a whole day was part of the deal. Which is why I no longer feel bad for what happened between them, she's gotta move on, but that jealousy embedded in her is what's gonna be her downfall.

"I mean, come on, first Elena now you. Who's next Bonnie?" Caroline bursted out, she looked me dead in my eyes. I can't believe she's starting shit when everyone is clearly having a good day. Bonnie gave her a disappointed look, already annoyed, she couldn't see Caroline because of the direction I had her head turned.

"What is wrong with you Care, why would you say that?" Bonnie asked, she knew how I felt about Damon, surprisingly gave us her blessing. She defends our relationship fiercely, it's actually kinda cute.

"What's wrong with her is that she's jealous, she wanted a bad boy so bad, and when she finally got one she didn't know how to handle it. Just like white blonde girls who go messing with shit they don't know about." Caroline's mouth dropped open in shock, most of the time I held back on my asshole behavior. Especially since being with Damon, I've learned to manage my instant reaction.

Today I'm gonna bite this hoe head off.

"You can't just disrespect me like that, that's so mean Blaise!" Caroline shouted playing victim as usual, I rolled my eyes in a nonchalant manner, a habit I picked up from said boyfriend.

"I'm just giving you the same energy you were giving me, if you think you can come around with that stank ass attitude you're sadly mistaken. So you listen here, imma need you to reset yourself, walk out the door and only come back in when all that negative shit is gone." I snapped back at her not missing a beat, not bothering to look at her, I continued with braiding Bonnie's hair. Dipping my fingers in the olive oil and smoothly applying it to her scalp.

"Are you seriously putting me in a time out?" Caroline huffed in disbelief, no doubt her face red with embarrassment, and anger. Her fist balled tight, Stefan spoke up from the kitchen, I was kinda glad he was still here, I'd hate to have to box this Walmart ass Barbie.

"I mean you are acting like a child." Stefan points out, and Elena backs him up coming out of the kitchen to sit on the love seat.

"Act like a child..." Elena started shrugging her shoulders, Bonnie now facing in Caroline's direction.

"Get treated like a child." Bonnie finishes pointing towards the door. Caroline huffs out air in frustration, stomping on the way out slamming the door.

Caroline finally walks back through the door looking deflated, and guilty. She stands there just looking at as us all with a dumb look on her face.

We all look at her expectantly, just then Damon walks into the room, of course he hears everything. Caroline rolls her eyes, Stefan coughs "Apologize." Finally giving in, Caroline speaks up.

"I'm sorry, I'm just fighting with Tyler...it's not fair I take it out on anyone, and for the record I don't hate Damon anymore." Caroline gives in, I feel her words are genuine so I forgive her, I'm finishing up Bonnie's hair. I open a pack of wooden hair beads, as I start to pull a braid through the holes. Bonnie showed me a video of a cute cat playing with its owner's shoestring, I couldn't help but giggle.

"I want a cat, I would name him Lurche...oh oh or Jason." They all looked at me weird, so naturally I had to explain.

"Lurch from the Adams's family, or Jason, as in Jason Voorhees duh." Stefan laughed out loud, he raised his thick eyebrows at me. "Yea well good luck in that, apparently Damon hates cats." Stefan said, pointing at his older brother, Damon rolled his eyes, he tried to defend himself, but I don't think any of us were buying it. "It's not that I hate cats, that's harsh, we just don't get along for some reason okay, I'm not a cat guy...sorry princess." I feel deflated by that revelation, I love cats, and cats love me, but the last thing I want is for my pet to continuously scratch my boyfriend's eyes out.

"Cats don't like you because they probably sense your evil, haha." I say jokefully, I didn't think Damon was evil, but he definitely had a dark side. Most cats don't like people that hold that kind of energy. He pouted, poking his bottom lip out, looking at me like I hurt his feelings. I stick my tongue out at him, Damon makes chomping noises at me and I instantly back off.

I finally finished with Bonnie's hair, so I decided to give her fulani braids. I put brown wooden beads on the ends of her braids, I even took some gold string, and wrapped it around some of the braids. I finished the style by laying her edges in cute little swirls, and applying moose. When I was done she looked like a Black princess, satisfied with my work I stretched and leaned back on the couch. Before I got here, Bonnie always had sew-ins, or straightened hair. Now that I'm back I don't mind doing my cousin's hair, it actually helps me focus more, and it made me feel like we're mending our broken bond

"It looks great Blaise, I forgot how fast you work, so do you have any of that lavender hair oil you made." Bonnie questions, she looks down at her buzzing phone. A weird look passed her face, but I ignored it for now, it's probably nothing.

"Yea it's in my room on my dresser, take the whole thing if you want, but you better not take anything else." Bonnie gives me a mischievous grin, and she skips towards the large staircase.

"What's that? Help myself you said? Thanks cuzo!" Bonnie shouts halfway up the stairs. I groan, throwing my head back, knowing Bonnie is gonna snatch all my best stuff. She has such a sharp eye, like a damn bird.

Damon had come to sit beside me grabbing my hand kissing my palm. I unconsciously grab his face playfully as I ramble on with Elena and Caroline about the play list for our next school dance. Stefan has his head in Elena's lap, and she's playing with his deep golden locks of hair. Everyone seems to be content.

Then we hear Bonnie's voice scream at the top of her lungs. We all shoot up instantly, Damon shoots me a quick, "Stay here." Following Stefan up the staircase, Caroline stays down in the living room with Elena and I. My heart pounding in my ears, I feel like I'm about to pass out, I knew something was wrong. It felt like forever before Damon and Stefan came back down stairs...without Bonnie. I felt sick, whatever they were going to say, I didn't even wanna hear it. Elena came to me, pulling me in her long arms.

"Bonnie's gone, and the window was left open, it was a clean getaway." Stefan confirms.

"Damon we have to find her, she the only family I have left." I was totally shocked, I finally got back to my cousin, and now she's being taken from me?

"We are going to find Bonnie, I promise you that Blaise. I think I know where to start looking." Damon holds up Bonnie's cell phone, a series of notifications on the screen from some number. That was good, at least we don't have to start with nothing.

"I haven't used my magic in years...something is telling me I'm gonna have to start again." Something tells me this isn't the last of my worries.

A/N: A picture of the Fulani braids Bonnie had done by Blaise is above