So here we have another new story by yours truly. The idea just wouldn't leave my head and it's been written for almost a month now. I hope you all enjoy it, the next three chapters are completely written and just waiting on your reviews. ;)
"So are we hanging out this weekend?" Elena asked her boyfriend of a year, Damon Salvatore as they walked through the school hand in hand.
"I don't know are we?" He asked just as stiffly as she had. In the past week or so things had changed in their relationship and neither knew what went wrong. Out of the blue Elena had started pulling away from Damon and then Damon had responded the same way. The issue was that Elena had no idea she was pulling away from him. They had yet to actually talk about the problem and he wasn't too eager to do so.
"Tomorrow is Friday night, I thought we could go out for dinner and maybe see a movie or something. It could be fun. Besides, I really need to talk to you about something." She told him hopefully. She gave his hand a reassuring squeeze, hoping that he would simply agree to going out with her rather than demand an explanation. The explanation he would get would happen in private They needed to talk about the problems that had arose in their relationship and there was also one other teensy-weensy itty-bitty little issue to discuss as well. Elena refused to give that any thought until lunch time so she knew for sure.
"Fine, what time?" He asked as they got to her class.
"Do you want to pick me up at 6?" Elena asked smiling softly at him. They were the schools it couple and they had to maintain their images. If it looked like they were fighting about something it would be all over the school in a matter of minutes. Damon Salvatore was the bad ass popular senior while Elena Gilbert was the cheerleading junior. They had been a couple for over a year now and no one ever thought it would last.
"That's fine. I have to get to class." He said lowering his head to peck her lips quickly.
"I won't see you at lunch, I have to run an errand." She called after him.
"Alright, I'll see you after school." He called after her as he walked away. Elena took a deep breath and walked into the classroom taking a seat beside Caroline at the table they shared in biology.
"Have you figured out what's bugging Damon?" Caroline asked quietly. They didn't want to disturb anyone else in the class and they really didn't want anyone to overhear their conversation.
"No idea. We're going out for dinner tomorrow night. If he's going to break up with me I hope he'll do it then." Elena told her.
"Have you found out for sure about you know what?" Caroline asked in code, just in case someone was listening in. There were already suspicions around the school that Elena Gilbert and Damon Salvatore were about to break up. All the girls in the school were excited for that possibility. Every girl in the school wanted a chance to date Damon Salvatore and every guy wanted Elena Gilbert.
"No, today at lunch. As my best friend it is your job to come with me." Elena ordered her.
"I wouldn't miss it." Caroline stated firmly.
"Just remember that if it's true, it's going to be a bit of a tragedy. Not the miracle that you're obviously thinking." Elena warned her friend.
"Understood. Bad timing and all." Caroline nodded her head trying to assure her friend that she would act appropriately.
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Damon took his accustomed seat in the back of his calculus class and immediately slumped forward. He didn't understand at all why Elena had all of a sudden started pulling away. It wasn't anything obvious but it was just a feeling he had. Before she always had a smile for him and she could rarely stop talking long enough to let him get a word in edgewise but now there were more awkward silences. There had never been an awkward silence between them before. It's one of the many parts of their relationship that he loved.
"Mr. Salvatore are you paying attention?" Mr. Matthews demanded from the front of the room.
"Carry on Mr. Matthews." Damon called up with a wave of his hand. The teacher rolled his eyes but he was used to Damon's uncaring actions when he was in his class. Damon was nearly certain that when he took Elena out for dinner tomorrow night she was going to break up with him. He had half a mind to turn her down for dinner and delay the inevitable. But if it was going to happen it was going to happen and there was nothing he could do about it. He just wished he knew what went wrong. Did the sex stop being good? He couldn't see that one because it was always explosive between them. Was it something else he did? He had no idea what could have gone wrong. He supposed he could ask Caroline or Bonnie, but he didn't want it getting back to Elena. He wanted to act as normally as possible before their dinner. For all he knew her issues might have nothing to do with him. The problem was that he didn't know and right now he wasn't sure if he wanted to know.
When the bell rang he walked to his next class alone until Stefan caught up with him.
"So I hear rumours that you and Elena are on the road to a breakup." Stefan said gleefully.
"Where did you hear that?" Damon demanded his voice cold.
"Brittany Collins was telling everyone that the two of you were less than loving when you dropped her off at her classroom." Stefan said.
"Maybe you shouldn't listen to Brittany Collins. We haven't broken up yet and I don't plan on breaking up with her. We're going out for dinner tomorrow night." Damon told his brother.
"Why are you even trying anymore Damon. You know that it's over." Stefan told him with an annoyed lilt to his voice.
"She's my girlfriend and I like her a lot. Therefore I am not giving up without a fight." Damon told his brother, relieved when he came to the door to his biology class.
"You'll see Damon. Your graduate this year so you actually think that Elena will stay with you even when you don't go to this school anymore?" Stefan asked.
"We'll see won't we. Do you actually think she would date you?" Damon asked before walking into his classroom.
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The morning seemed to speed by much to the chagrin of Elena. She really didn't want lunch to come because she really didn't want to find out the answer to her question.
"I'm scared Care." Elena told her friend as they drove to the clinic on the other side of town. She already had her alibi just in case her father somehow ended up there, all she needed now was the yes or the no answer to her question.
"Elena what can I do for you dear?" Martha, one of the nurses who delivered Elena years earlier asked.
"Hi Martha, I'm so happy it's you here today. You're not working at the hospital today?" She asked.
"Nope, one of the nurses who work here got sick. So I'm filling in for a few days." Martha agreed.
"That's good. So um do you have a few minutes to do something for me? I'm too scared to do it on my own." Elena asked her voice shaky.
"Come with me. We'll go to an examination room." Martha said considering that the room was empty. She took Elena into one of the rooms and she hopped up onto the table.
"What's wrong Elena?" She asked sitting down in her chair and wheeling herself over to where Elena was sitting.
"I think I might be pregnant and I'm too scared to go to the drug store to buy a test just in case someone sees me. At least coming here I have an alibi." Elena told her.
"I'm glad you came to me. We can do a test here, but you need to consider telling your father." Martha told her firmly.
"Let's just take this one step at a time. I need to find out if I am or not." Elena corrected her, unable to say the word again. She could not make the word pregnant move past her lips. It just wasn't working. Martha moved around the examination room for a second while Elena watched nervously.
"We're going to do a urine test. This test is very similar to one you'd find in the grocery store. So just go into the washroom right next door and take the test. Then come back in and wait for the results. We'll do a trans-vaginal test to see how far along you are if you do turn out to be pregnant. When was your missing period scheduled to begin?" She asked
professionally as she handed over the test.
"Its a few days late" Elena told her.
"Have you ever been late before?" Martha asked.
"Not a single day in my life. I should have come to you sooner shouldn't I?" She asked her voice quivering again.
"I'm sure everything is fine. I've detected pregnancies at much later stages than yours dear. Go take the test now, I don't want to get you back to school late." Martha ordered, her voice strong. She was used to dealing with young moms and knew how scared they were when this sort of thing happened to them.
Elena came back in a couple minutes later with a grim look on her face.
"Now let's just wait it out." Martha said as Elena sat down beside Caroline and took her hand. After the appropriate amount of time passed they looked at the test and Elena burst out in tears when she saw the two lines.
"You're pregnant." Martha said sadly. Elena cried harder as she saw everything she'd ever worked for go down the drain.
"You know there are other options dear. You don't have to have the baby if you really don't want to." Martha told her hoping desperately that she wouldn't take those options.
"I can't do that." Elena denied shaking her head profusely.
"That's good. You should tell your father and your mother. They would want to know." Martha suggested.
"I have to tell Damon. It's his baby." Elena cried.
"We'll just do the other test to see how far along you are and go from there. Have you had any morning sickness?" Martha asked.
"No. The only reason I even thought about it was because of my missing period." Elena said. Martha nodded and instructed Elena to lie down on the table.
After the test was all done, Martha wrote out a prescription for pre-natal vitamins and handed it over.
"You should get back to school. Don't forget to take those vitamins and talk to your parents." Martha said. Elena had found out that she was about six weeks pregnant and she desperately tried to pull herself together. When she left the room she found her dad standing in the waiting room looking for Martha.
"Hi dad." She greeted him shoving the prescription in her bag and smiling at him.
"Hi sweetheart, what are you doing here?" He asked.
"I just had a girlie appointment. Seemed like as good a time as any to get it done with." Elena said trying to smile confidently.
"Oh, you should probably get back to school." Grayson told her uncomfortable talking about potential female problems witi his daughter.
"Yeah. I'll see you at home tonight." Elena said rushing out of the clinic.
"That was close." Caroline said as they walked away. Caroline had stayed mostly silent through the whole ordeal.
"I can't believe that it's true though. How am I supposed to tell Damon that I'm pregnant?" Elena asked frantically. Her voice getting shriller and shriller. She was scared to say the least.
" I don't know buddy." Caroline sympathized.
"I mean it already feels like he wants to break up with me. I don't want him to feel like I'm trapping him in because he is breaking up with me." Elena cried.
"I'm sure it will all be okay Elena. Even if you two do break up I'm sure he would still be a good father for the baby." Caroline comforted.
"I'm suddenly not feeling all that well. Can you just take me home and tell my teachers that I got sick on our lunch break. Tell Damon I'll see him tomorrow." Elena begged of her friend.
"Sure. Are you going to come to school tomorrow?" Caroline asked.
"I can't come to school again until I tell Damon what's going on. I can't talk or look at him until then. I'm pregnant with his baby, he's going to be blindsided." Elena cried.
"Didn't you guys use protection?" Caroline asked.
"Yes, but the time that would have resulted in this, the condom broke and neither of us ever thought anything of it." Elena admitted.
"Well it shouldn't be a complete surprise them." Caroline offered.
"Oh no believe it's still a complete surprise." Elena stated as Caroline pulled up in front of her house.
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"Hey Caroline, where is Elena?" Damon asked when he didn't see his girlfriend walk in with the blonde the next day
"She stayed home today. But she told me to tell you that she still wants to go out tonight." Caroline told him.
"Will her dad let her out if she missed school today?" Damon asked.
"Yes she already talked to him. He said as long as she gets all her homework in she can go out with you." Caroline told him.
"Okay Caroline I want you to be honest with me. Is she avoiding me?" He asked.
"Look you need to talk to her. You are part of the reason she didn't want to come to school today." Caroline admitted while taking a deep breath.
"Do you know why she wants to go out for dinner with me?" He asked knowing Caroline knew mostly everything that went on in Elena's life.
"You have to talk to Elena. There is something the two of you have to discuss and I can't talk about it. Just talk to her." Caroline insisted.
"So it's true then. She does want to break up with me." Damon said.
"Just talk to her." Caroline told him before the bell rang. Damon sighed and got up walking to his class ignoring all the questions about where Elena was and why she wasn't at school.
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"Did you get your homework you missed today?" Grayson asked when he walked in the front door after work.
"Caroline is bringing it to me either tonight after I get home or tomorrow." Elena told him.
"That's good. So where is Damon taking you tonight?" Grayson asked. He had to admit he kind of liked his daughters longtime boyfriend for that very reason. He was her longtime boyfriend. He clearly had no issues being in it for the long haul.
"I'm not sure. I haven't actually talked to him." Elena shrugged.
"Oh you two used to be inseparable. Is everything alright between the two of you?"Grayson asked.
"Things have been a little tense lately. That's what tonight is about, I need to find out why he's been pulling away." Elena admitted.
"I hope you figure it out. Your mother and I really like him." Grayson said standing up when he heard the front door open and Jeremy walked in.
"I should go get ready." Elena said as she walked up to her room to change.
When Damon came to pick her up a little while later she was ready to go in a nice shirt but a pair of jeans keeping it casual.
"You look nice." He said as he held the door open for her to walk out.
"Thank you." She spoke awkwardly as they walked to his car together. She got into the passenger seat and he walked all the way about to the other side and got in.
"So where do you want to go?" He asked not having made reservations of any sort.
"The Grille sounds fine to me." Elena shrugged and Damon nodded his head. They had never had such an awkward conversation before. Any other time they were always chattering away, there were no awkward one word sentences or brief delays where you decide what to say. When they got to the Grille they walked inside and took a seat at one of the empty tables.
"What can I get you two?" Matt asked when he came by.
"Water is fine for me." Elena told him.
"Me too." Damon shot in. Matt nodded and left the unhappy couple to go get their drinks. After Matt brought back their drinks and took their food order Damon took a deep breath.
"Alright I can't take it any longer, if you're here to break up with me just do it already." Damon stated frustrated.
"You think I'm here to break up with you? What gave you that idea?! I don't want to break up with you." Elena exclaimed, her eyes wide.
"You've been pulling away for a few days now. I just figured that's where this was going." Damon shrugged.
"I don't want to break up with you. I didn't even realize I was pulling away. I love you Damon." Elena told him reaching across the table to hold his hand.
"Then why have you been pulling away?" He asked.
"You first." Elena stated knowing what she had to say would put an end to this conversation.
"I was pulling away because you were. I didn't want to be the one hurt." Damon admitted shaking his head.
"Look just remember that what I'm about to tell you wasn't in any way planned. But the reason I pulled away from you last week is because I was late." She told him.
"You're late?" He asked.
"Yes, then yesterday I found out that I'm six weeks pregnant." Elena told him refusing to look him in the eyes.
"Oh my God. Pregnant?" He asked his eyes wide and fearful.
"I'm pregnant." Elena whimpered.