Jeremy looked down. She had a way of putting it very bluntly. "Yeah," he admitted sheepishly. He hadn't exactly wanted Damon to torture Mason, but Mason was one of the bad guys. They were plotting against all of his friends, and he wasn't going to stand by an lose anyone else; not this year.
"Yeah, I'd just left." He'd thought he was walking out of the Salvatore boarding house, but inside he'd ended up here. To say the experience had been disorientating would be a complete understatement, but he wasn't completely freaking out the way people seemed to expect him to. But then, saying that, people like Elena didn't know the new him that was emerging back home. He felt more stable somehow, like he was finally coming through the storm.