I don't own the Vampire Diaries or any of its characters. English is not my first language.

Elena put on her dress and looked at herself in the mirror. She looked more or less fine. She was wearing a purple dress with lace, and had two hair buckles on her hair. She was pretty, she knew it but sometimes she forgot how much. She was a brunette, and had doe eyes, a small nose and cute lips. However, she wasn't as self-assured as her identical twin Katherine. Perhaps because she was such a perfectionist…

But apart from her looks, she was also really smart. She was studying Medicine in Yale and had great grades, actually. She couldn't ask for more.

Tonight she was going to have dinner at the Salvatore mansion with her family. Katherine and Stefan Salvatore were getting married in two months, and they wanted the two families to know each other better. Elena already knew Giuseppe and Maria Salvatore, Stefan's parents, but she was about to meet Damon Salvatore, Stefan's older brother who was kind of a mystery guy.

"Auntie! Auntie!" Little Liam, Katherine and Stefan's son, shouted while running towards her. Katherine had had him when she was only sixteen, now they were twenty and Liam was four.

"Liam!" Elena said opening her arms and he ran towards her so she hugged him. "What are you doing here?!"

"Mommy wants you to go downstairs now, auntie" He said and Elena rolled her eyes. Again using the little boy as a messenger...

"Well tell mommy I'll be there in a sec" Elena told him and he ran back downstairs.


"Please, act as if we were actually a normal family" Katherine was telling them on the ride to the Salvatore's. "The Salvatores are very conservative people"

"Very consertive" Dylan tried to imitate and Elena giggled.

"Honey, are you ashamed of us?" My mother Miranda asked her daughter in amusement.

"I just want everything to go fine" Katherine admitted.

"Don't worry, Kit-kat" Their eighteen year old brother, Jeremy said. "Everything will be alright"

"Yes, you don't have to worry, honey" Their dad Grayson said.


"Be welcome to our home" Maria said when she and Giuseppe opened the door, and Elena had to hold a laugh at their formal manners.

"Hi!" Miranda said, going to hug Maria who seemed uncomfortable all of a sudden.

They all greeted Giuseppe and Maria with a handshake after that, and they directed them to the dinning room. Elena couldn't help but think how boring this was gonna be...

Until she saw him standing next to Stefan: Blue eyes, raven hair, beautiful face... He was beyond gorgeous. He was perfection itself. Elena had to pull herself away from her trance after she saw him.

And next to him... his wife. Beautiful too, but not as much as him.

"Hey Lena!" Stefan said to Elena and hugged her. "This is my brother Damon and his wife, Rose"

"We finally meet, Elena" Damon told her and she almost blushed.

"It's a pleasure" Elena said, extending him her hand which he kissed. Rose looked between them with some annoyance.

"Hey, Liam!" Damon greeted little Liam who ran towards him.

The rest finished greeting each other and then they could sit at the table, finally. Maria had made some Italian dish Elena had never heard of but was pretty delicious.

"The meal's amazing, Maria" Grayson said politely.

"Thank you, Grayson" Maria said. "It's a family recipe"

"So Elena, you're still studying medicine, aren't you?" Giuseppe asked her and she nodded.

"We have ourselves another nerd in the family" Damon joke and Elena sent him a look. She hated being called nerd.

"Damon! The manners!" Maria told him like he was five or anything.

"How old are you, Elena?" Damon asked her all of a sudden and she almost rolled her eyes.

"I'm Katherine's identical twin" She told him matter-of-factly.

"Really? I hadn't realized" He said sarcastically and then looked at Katherine. "Kate you are..."

"Twenty just like your brother, and please don't call me Kate" Katherine said and Damon laughed.

"How old are you, Damon?" Miranda asked him.

"Twenty six" He replied.

"And what do you do for a living?" Elena asked him and he scoffed.

"I spend my dad's money that's what I do" He said and Giuseppe sent him a murderous gaze.

"Damon!" Rose scolded him.

Elena then realized what an asshole he actually was.

"You have no plans, no interests at all?" Elena asked him.

"I'm married" He said, showing her the ring. "Is that mature enough for you?"

Elena scoffed. "I couldn't care less"

"You know, Elena? You seem like you're all perfect, why don't you chill yourself?" Damon said and that was it. Elena couldn't take any more of this asshole.

"Chill myself?!" She snapped and was about to answer to him but was interrupted.

"Well, enough of this" Katherine said.

"Who wants dessert?" Maria asked.


After that hell of a meal they finally went back home and Elena went directly to her bedroom to study. A moment later Katherine appeared.

"How bad was that?" She asked Elena, going to lay on her bed.

"Pretty bad" Elena admitted. "Damon's an asshole"

"I know, he can sometimes be... intense" Katherine said.

Like hell he was intense.

"Is it possible that I already hate him?" Elena asked Katherine who laughed.

"Nobody likes him, that's for sure" She replied.

And they had their reasons.