Demetria let go of Avery when they were both submerged. Avery pulled Demetria up to the surface, pain flowing through Demetria’s back but it ended when Avery pulled her lips to her’s. Demetria tried to concentrate on the kiss and not the pain pulling Avery’s waist closer with one arm to get rid of any space between them. They were both deep into the kiss when Avery stopped kicking pulling Demetria down into the water with her.

I would kill you. ✧ I would physically hurt you. ✧ I would attack you unprovoked. ✧ I would manipulate you. ✧ I dislike you. ✧ You annoy me. ✧ You scare me. ✧ You intimidate me. ✧ I hope I intimidate you. ✧ I pity you. ✧ You disgust me. ✧ I hate you. ✧ I’m indifferent toward you. ✧ I’d like to get to know you better. ✧   I’d like to spend more time with you. ✧ I’d like to be friends with you. ✧  I’m unsure what to think of you. ✧ I’m unsure how I feel about you. ✧ You are my friend. ✧ You are my best friend. ✧ You are my mentor. ✧ I look up to you. ✧ I respect you. ✧ You are my hero. ✧ You inspire me. ✧ You are my enemy. ✧ You make me happy. ✧ I want to protect you. ✧ I would fight by your side. ✧ I consider you an equal. ✧ I think you are beneath me. ✧ I think you are above me. ✧ I would lie for you. ✧ I would lie to you. ✧ I would sleep with you. ✧ I would sleep by your side. ✧ I would hug you. ✧ I would kiss you. ✧ You are family to me. ✧ I would die for you. ✧ I would kill for you. ✧ I would trust you with my life. ✧ I would trust you with my most precious belonging. ✧ I would trust you with a secret. ✧ I would trust you with my biggest / darkest secret. ✧ I love you (platonically). ✧ I love you (romantically).

❛ I’m sorry, Avery. I didn’t mean to slip this up. It just happened,❜  Bonnie apologized, giving her friend a sympathetic look. She had foolishly told the boy (Avery’s crush) that Avery liked One Diretion when the topic music appeared. Embarrassing a girl in front of her crush? That was truly a crime she committed, and felt terribly sorry for it.  ❛ Please, please, forgive me, Ave. You can humiliate me in front of Damon too, okay?❜  Large brown eyes peered hopefully into the brunette’s dark brown hues. Her suggestion, granting Avery to tell something embarrassing about herself in front of Damon should be a means to make it up to her.

❛ No, I’m not, but so are we all, ❜ the dainty redhead muttered meekly in return to Avery’s observation. Her brunette friend was driving her home after staying at the boarding house with her other friends, although one member was not present, being missed: Damon. They had been trying to bring him back ever since he died on the moon in the Dark Dimension, and till now they had failed, and to worsen the situation for her: it was her fault he died as he simply saved her from sheer death, like so many times before, but this time it truly cost his life.  ❛  I’m sorry, Avery. Nowadays, I’m no good company to hang out with, ❜ she apologized, a small smile sweeping over her plump lips. These days she was mostly at home, in her room, crying into her pillow. 

Occasionally, her nightmares do settle down however they are very easily provoked during times of extreme stress, or anything that might trigger it such as halloween (Zach was killed the night before Halloween so the whole holiday was very fresh and basically embedded into Eva’s mind as a reminder of the night Damon killed her father). 

Eva personally feels as though each time she has a ‘home’, it just gets ripped away from her. Her first home was with her mother in North Carolina but unfortunately the entire house was burnt to the ground in a tragic house fire. Her second home was with her father in Mystic Falls (at the Salvatore Boarding House) but although the house is still standing, it has a lot of bad memories inside the house, particularly in the basement where Damon killed Zach and turned/killed her. Even four years on, the trauma of those memories still heavily affect Eva and she has been unable to see the boarding house as a ‘safe home’. Despite that, she still continues seeing it as her father’s house as it’s the only thing Eva technically has left of him. It’s left Eva with a very complicated view on the boarding house because the memories living in those walls are ones that terrify her and leave her screaming through some/most nights, but she also can’t bare to part with the house because she’s terrified of abandoning her father.