"Of course I want to go," and the way she says it, it's clear that it's not of course I want a pony, it's that she wants to go, she's always wanted to go, and she didn't really think that she'd get to go. She's dead, she's never left Mystic Falls and what, she's going to leave Elena and Bonnie and her mom behind when she could get eaten tomorrow? And that's if she even lives until then, if she makes it to graduation and doesn't end up working at some dead-end job like the Grill or something and before she was a vampire she'd hoped that her million extra curriculars would make up for her grades and now she's dead.

"I want to be normal," she says, and it's a whisper, and she knows it's stupid, she knows it's all stupid, and she's pulling away from him, pulling away so she can get up. "I'm cold," she says abruptly, finally looking at him because she hasn't until now, and she knows there's not a thermostat, but she's just asking him o say something to him. "Do you have a sweatshirt or a coat or something?"