Chasing The Sun

Prologue- Awkward First Meeting

Bonnie

"Luka," I called, the anger seeping through my voice. "I can't believe you're doing this," I followed him into his room where he placed his shirt into his suitcase which was thrown carelessly onto his double bed. The double bed he'd only slept in for 3 nights so far and yet he was leaving once more.

Luka looked up at me with wide jade colored eyes, the same color of my own, a sorry look on his face. "Aww Bon. I know I've only just gotten back from spending 3 years with Mum in England but this exchange program is a great opportunity for me to learn some Italian and meet some hot Italian babes," He smirked at me and I felt sad because even his accent had changed. It had a hint of the typical British accent and that saddened me to the core because that meant he wasn't the twin brother that I knew like the back of my hand anymore.

I smacked him in the arm, "I've missed you though and…weren't you just in Europe?" I asked, plopping down onto the end of the bed.

Luka sighed and came over to sit down next to me. "I've missed you too, Bon. Since we were born, we've been inseparable, I know, but I'll only be gone for the summer and you have Caroline and Rebekah and Elena and Klaus and Kol and whoever else…" He explained to me, placing his hand onto my shoulder and rubbing it comfortingly.

"How does Dad feel about this?" I asked, shooting Luka a pointed stare.

Luka returned it with a roll of his green eyes, "Oh so he isn't going to be away on business for the rest of his life?" He returned, sarcastically.

I sighed, "That's not fair, Lu. You know Dad has been trying to spend more time with us. He's only going away for a month starting tomorrow…and then a couple of weeks at the end of the summer…." I trailed off, running a hand through my wavy chocolate colored locks.

Luka glared at the ground, "This is one of the reasons I left to go stay with Mum-,"

"It's Mom," I interrupted, raising my hand up. "You're not in England anymore,"

Luka rolled his eyes, "It's one of the reasons I went to stay with Mom. This endless sense of raising ourselves. At least in England, there was Mum and Gerald and I felt different from when I was here… I felt like someone was taking care of me," He explained, putting his hands onto his knees and trailing patterns up and down his legs. He couldn't bring his eyes up to meet my own.

"Well, who's been taking care of me then?" I put in, sharply and Luka tore his eyes, abashedly to the ground. I felt bad the second the words left my lips but I didn't take them back. I just sat there, my arms folded across my chest as I waited for him to answer.

When a few moments passed, I stood up, "I didn't think you knew," I muttered, some venom in my tone. I started out of the room but Luka grabbed my arm before I could exit, stopping me from leaving.

"Bonnie, you knew you could come with me," Luka explained, his muddy green eyes- exactly the same color as my own- begging me to understand what he was saying, begging me to accept his beliefs. "I told you, you could. You just decided to stay here,"

"We were in just starting High School and I had my friends, you had your friends too. I mean, Matt and Ty were devastated when you left. You three were like the three musketeers or something…" I trailed off, "I couldn't just up and leave. And Dad as well, who was going to take care of him?… and Grams…. She's still here and no one cares about her. Her own daughter left to England and she had no one but me after you left," I replied, and by the end of my words, I was sniveling. I rubbed furiously at my eyes, not wanting to seem weak. Luka's departure had made me strong and able to depend on myself.

Luka sighed and threw his arms around me, "I know I should have been there and I'm sorry. I just needed to get away," He murmured into my shoulder, trying to assuage my pains. "I needed some peace and quiet,"

"I needed you," I replied, sniffling and the wiping my nose with my arm. "I needed my twin brother,"

"I know," Luka kept on whispering, "I needed you too." He sighed, just as his phone started to ring. I let him break out of our embrace and then answer his phone. I heard him 'mmmm'ing into the phone and then promising whoever it was that he'd call him back.

"That was Tyler. He's coming to take me to the airport…that is, if you let me go. I'm not going to disappoint you again, Bonnie," He muttered, looking up to meet my damp eyes.

I sighed, "No, go. We'll deal with this when you get back, Lu," I responded, determinedly.

"Are you sure?" Luka studied my face and I pasted a half smile on there and nodded.

"Yes, I'm sure. Like you said before, this is a great opportunity," I told him and Luka came over and enveloped me in a hug.

"You're the best sis ever," He exclaimed, squeezing me tight.

"Can't…..breathe," I made out, chokingly.

Luka laughed and released me, ruffling my hair. "Now, let's get this suitcase packed or Ty will have my butt on the barbeque. You know how he is when he's waiting," He said, crossing his eyes which made me laugh.

I grinned, "They don't call him intolerant Tyler for nothing," I responded, jokily, already in a better mood.

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"Are you sure you don't want me to come with you to the airport?" I asked Luka, about an hour later at our front door. Tyler was waiting in the car with Luka's stuff.

"Yes, I'm fine," Luka insisted, "Tyler will bring my exchange partner back here so you'll meet him,"

"Wait," I asked, the true meaning of exchange student crashing down onto me, "You mean some Italian guy is coming here?" I exclaimed, feeling a sudden shock that a random stranger would be living with me. Especially when Dad was always on business trips.

"Yes," Luka assured me, "But he's a great guy. I talked to him on video chat a couple of times. He's pretty handsome too. And I say that in a non-homo way,"

I laughed then sighed, "What if he's a serial killer or something?" I asked, desperately.

"He isn't. And his brother is coming in exchange with Klaus's brother, Finn was it?" Luka scrunched his eyes up as if trying to remember. He looked amused because of my previous question.

"Yeah, one of Klaus's brothers. I'm still worried, Luka," I told him tensely but Luka just rolled his eyes and leaned forward to give me a hug.

I enveloped him close in my embrace, feeling warm and comforted that my twin brother was back to stay. At least after he got back from Italy. And in the meantime, a pair of Italian brothers were coming to Mystic Falls? This sure would be exciting.

Tyler honked his horn. "Come on, Bennett," He called to Luka who pulled out of my embrace and shot me one last comforting look.

"I'll call you and we can video chat," He offered me as he retreated with his bag pack towards the car.

I nodded, trying not to cry because that would be lame. "Stay safe, Lu," I called as he got into the passenger seat and shot me a wolfish grin.

"I will, you too," He called before he waved and Tyler pulled the car cleanly out of our gravel driveway, which was empty because Dad was out at work, and left me standing there in the porch alone.

I was just about to turn into the house when I found a whirlpool of blonde hair hurry towards me and I felt warm, slender arms wrap around my waist. She was crying, or more like sniffling into my shoulder.

"Bekah, are you crying because Finn is leaving?" I asked my blonde friend who shook her head violently as if such a suggestion was outrageous.

"No way," Her British accent was pronounced, "I just feel that it's a bit awkward because some freak is coming to stay with us and considering how weird Finn is, you know how his exchange partner will be…" She trailed off.

I rolled my eyes at her, "I think you're crying because you'll miss your brother. You did cry when Elijah left for Harvard," I reminded her.

Rebekah's blue eyes met my own, a sarcastic look in them. "That's Elijah, dear," She smirked, "I'd never cry for Finn," She wiped her eyes, obviously done with crying.

"That's harsh. You're supposed to love your brothers equally," I told her, a reprimanding tone in my voice.

"Oh now you sound like my mother, Bonnie," Rebekah muttered, with a smirk, "Besides, if you were living with Finn, you'd like him least too,"

I decided to tease her a bit, "That's why out of all my guy friends, I like Matt the least because he's dating someone called Rebekah," I joked, looking away from her.

Rebekah smacked me playfully on the arm, "Aww shut up. You know that Matt's a sweetheart. And at least I'm dating someone and not flirting around with the Mikaelson brothers, both Klaus and Kol," She laughed as she mentioned both of her brothers.

"I do not flirt around with them. I don't even know how to flirt," I defended myself with a shocked look.

Rebekah just laughed at me, "Oh sure. You don't know how to flirt at all," She muttered, in a disbelieving tone of voice.

"Well, I don't," I replied, stubbornly, folding my arms across my chest.

"Whatever you say, dear," Rebekah responded, before she turned around and entered my house. I followed her into the kitchen, closing the door behind us as she started pulling out of the cupboard a mug and then reaching into the fridge for the milk before she put the water to boil.

I stared at her, amusedly and she shot me a look, "Can I help you?" She asked me, with a smirk very much like her brother Kol's.

"Yeah, could you make me a coffee too?" I asked her and she nodded before she turned to the cupboard and yanked out another mug. I slid onto a stool at the counter and sighed. "Speaking of coffees, have you heard from Elena?" I asked, speaking of our caffeine addicted friend. She had to have a coffee every single morning or something would happen to her.

"Elena, no. Caroline, yes. She was telling me about some party she wanted to hold to celebrate the start of the summer and whatnot. She said it'd be tomorrow night and that she'd call us all up with invites," She explained to me, pouring hot water into both of the mugs and spooning in some Nescafe. "Sugar?"

"Just one spoon please," I responded, "I see. That party sounds like a good idea. We need some refugee after the exams. I don't know how I survived,"

"I don't think I still have my sanity," Rebekah clarified, as she brought the two mugs over to the counter and slipped onto the stool. She slid me my coffee with a sigh. "Glad it's over,"

"Yes, and it's so sunny today. It's almost as if the whole world is smiling along with us," I told her brightly as I took a sip of coffee.

Rebekah nodded in agreement, "Yeah, what did you do about the Luka situation?" She asked me. Seeing as Rebekah was my best friend, I told her practically everything. She knew about how upset I was with Luka leaving just after he'd come back. Rebekah and I had been best friends since the 5th grade when her parents moved her because of her Dad's business, along with her brothers of course.

"He left and we said we'd deal with it when he got back," I said unhappily, as I sipped some more coffee.

"Hmm, you don't look very chuffed about that," She commented.

"Because I'm not 'chuffed'," I added with bitterness, "I didn't want him to leave but he kept telling me how much he'll benefit and I couldn't not let him go,"

"I signed Finn up for this, I was practically pushing him out of the door," Rebekah responded, making me smile at the mental image.

"I don't know why you don't like Finn. He's sweet and quiet and actually very smart," I told her because I'd had a couple of conversations with that Mikaelson brother before.

"Exactly! He's not fun," Rebekah shot back. "He's boooooooring. But I get what you're saying about Luka. I mean, I'd be a teeny bit sad if Klaus or Kol left,"

"A teeny bit?" I replied with humor, bringing my coffee cup to my lips.

"Yep, just a tad. Because who would I annoy without them here?"

"You'd annoy me, Bekah," I retorted and she laughed.

"Yeah, I agree with that," She muttered, just as her cell phone started to ring. Typical. It was 'Pretty Girl Rock' by Kerri Hilson. Rebekah danced along a bit before she picked up. "Hello, Rebekah Mikaelson here," She spoke.

"No, I don't need to be there, Mother," She snapped, a few seconds later. "I'm…I'm hanging out with Bonnie…Yes, I know that…No, I did not sign up to be that freaks little tour guide. I want to enjoy my summer with Bonnie and Matt and Care and Elena," She paused a bit, "Fine…. Okay then," She hung up with an aggravated cry.

I shot her a concerned look. "What's up?" I asked.

Rebekah gulped back her remaining coffee, hopped up off the stool and placed her mug of coffee into the sink. "Mum wants me back home because Kol and Klaus are out God knows where and Finn called to say he's arrived at the airport which means that Little Mr. Italian will be arriving at our house soon and I have to be there because none of my other dear brothers are," She finished with a glare.

I sighed, "It's okay, Bekah. How about we meet up in a couple of hours at the Mystic Grill? I can call Care and Elena and tell them to come. How about you tell Matt?" I suggested.

"Yes, I will escape the house if it's the last thing I do," Rebekah assured me, before she sighed, "I'll see you at the Grill then?" Then with a swish of her blonde locks, she exited the room, closing the door behind her.

"Yeah, see you," I called before I got down off the stool and walked over to the sink to wash up. I knew Luka's exchange partner would be here soon too and even though I wasn't really going to spend much time with him, I wanted to make a good first impression, especially seeing as we were going to spend a good couple of months together.

When I was done washing up, I hurried upstairs to my room and decided to take a brief shower before whoever he was showed up. I climbed into the shower, putting a small blob of jasmine-scented shampoo onto my hand and rubbing it into my hair. I closed my eyes and left the scent waft over me, comforting me and making me feel happy. I quickly scrubbed my body with the shower gel and then rinsed myself free of all the shampoo and body wash and just stood there, feeling the kinks and crooks in my neck and back smoothen out because of just how peaceful this was.

My little meditation period was interrupted by the ringing of the doorbell downstairs. I groaned, remembering how Luka's exchange partner was supposed to show up. I climbed out of the shower, dressing in my lavender colored bathrobe and wrapping my hair into a white towel. I'd have to get dressed quickly before I hurried down to open the door.

I walked into my room, slamming the door of the bathroom behind me and started drying my hair briskly. I then slouched over to my wardrobe and picked out a pair of jeans shorts and a light gray tank top with some flower details on it. I picked out some underwear and a bra and was about to get dressed when I heard footsteps on the outside landing.

"Hey?" I called out through the closed door of my room, "Dad?"

I didn't get a reply so feeling rather freaked out, I wrapped the bathrobe closer to my body and started towards the door, opening it and leaning out. I was met with piercing turquoise colored eyes peeking out from under wayward ebony colored hair, some dangerously high cheek bones and an amused smirk perched on some perfect pink lips.

"Hello," The boy who looked a little older than me, called out, and I almost melted at the sound of his voice.

"Hi," I responded awkwardly. I realized I was still dressed in only a bathrobe and screamed, holding the bathrobe closer to me. The boy had me locked under his alluring gaze however and I couldn't move.

The boy smirked once more, raising his eyebrows so they were hidden in his soft dark colored locks that I already wanted to run my hands through. "If I see anything I haven't seen before, I'll throw a euro at it," He responded, with an adorable wink. I noticed he had an accent to his voice that wasn't too prominent but that colored his voice just enough to make him seem adequately Italian. His English was pretty good however.

"That's….rude," I told him, squirming a little bit backwards.

The boy didn't reply, merely shrugged. "Where's my room?" He asked, cockily.

"Give me a second to get dressed and I'll tell-," I started annoyed at his attitude, "How did you get in here anyway?"

He held up Luka's key which he dangled around in front of my face, almost mockingly. He was sure vain to act this way even though he was in a stranger's house. "Luka gave it to me," He added, as if I was dumb enough not to extrapolate that.

"I figured that," I scowled at him, "I'll be right back," I inched back into my room, slamming the door in his smirking face, leaving him standing there while I got myself presentable enough. What an awkward first meeting. And I had a feeling that this wasn't going to be the only awkward moment between the cocky- albeit gorgeous- exchange student and I.

A/N: I couldn't help but start this! I've been wanting to write it for a while and I LOVE summer time fics as I'm sure you can probably figure from Just Friends. It's going to be a whirlpool for Bamon, as I'm sure you figured but this is going to be a pretty light, funny read if you know what I mean… Not much angst and stuff like that!

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