A little new in the writing area, that means I'm inexperienced so I want you to go easy on me. Constructive criticism is more than appreciated. Plus I must inform you English is not my native language so I want you to put that under consideration as well while reading this. As a side note This story is AU so that gives me the liberty to be as crazy as I wanna be.
Summary: Elena is a multinational company's owner's 17 year old daughter who is completely in love with her arrogant yet mesmerizing bodyguard who wants nothing to do with the spoiled brat but has to protect her.
Elena woke up to another Monday morning sun, streaming through her window, the bright beams completely lit up her luxurious room. Rolling around she spotted the clock and realized she had exactly 45 minutes to get dressed and have breakfast.Yep 45 minutes it is, she pondered as she got out of the bed and went to the bathroom. 45 minutes before He tries to teach me punctuality again, sighing dreamily at the thought of him Elena went to take care of her morning routines.
Ready for the day from head to toe, Elena exited her room and was immediately greeted by a maid at the door with a glass of juice. Elena was accustomed to such luxuries and pampering in her life, reason being she was a Gilbert and that last name carried a lot of weight. She was Grayson Gilbert's only child and him owning his multinational company made him undoubtedly the richest man of Mysticfalls.
Although Elena Gilbert was loaded, you wouldn't really refer to her as spoiled. True she had a spoiled streak when it came to shopping but that hardly matters when one puts into consideration the fact that she didn't comprise of worse attributes that most certainly other rich kids her age have. While viewing her as an individual, she was far from what one would expect from someone of her high stature. She was kind and gentle and those characteristics went hand in hand with others traits that she had, like being naive and innocent. Generally the girl loved her life, agreeably she did but she never understood certain restrictions that her role as a Gilbert also offered; like perhaps discrimination, class differences and restricted freedom. Those were the aspects of her life which she hated but had accumulated to by now.
Anyways if it weren't for restrictions placed upon her lifestyle, she wouldn't have been gifted the biggest gift of her life, that was most certainly Damon Salvatore, her the thought of that man made the young girl squeal in happiness, she quickly looked around the corridor to see if anybody heard her and possibly stood pondering that she might be crazy. Thankfully nobody was present, which was out of the ordinary because usually the corridors were lined with servants, scrubbing and cleaning every inch of the mansion.
She quickly made her way downstairs towards the dining hall, where she knew her father would be waiting for her, for their usual father and daughter early breakfast. Her father was an extremely busy man which is not a surprise because owning a company doesn't really give you much of a choice. But that still didn't mean you can't even take your time out for your only child, the mere thought made Elena huff, another aspect of her life she hated. The only time she saw her father throughout the day was during breakfast. Yeah, during breakfast when two strangers sat at the opposite ends of a huge table that helps distancing them even further than they already were.
With overbearing gloom she entered the dinning hall. And there he was; her father, sitting at the far end of the gigantic table with his face hidden behind the news paper as his butler served him. Without even looking up he greeted her in a manner one greets an employee,"you do realize you're late, again?" Elena stared at the news paper in disbelief. "Yes dad but it was only five min.." before she could complete what she was saying her father cut her half way through sentence and said, "Five minutes is not what matters, what matters is, is that you're late, now I don't want to see this happening ever again, is that clear?" Grayson Gilbert only lowered his news paper once during the entire conversation, only to glare at his daughter who was staring at the floor trying to hide the tears glimmering in her eyes. Then he proceeded further, "Now eat and leave or you'll be late for school too." Elena simply nodded and sat down.
She wasn't upset about what he said to her, she was upset because it was the only thing he said to her. This was the type of conversations she had with her father, that is if she ever had any and she had gotten used to it. But what she still had to get used to was the fact; how did all of this turn out to be this way? They were closer, till she was five they were very close, that was until her mother left them. How was that her fault, why was she being punished for something she had no hand in? Sadly she wiped her tears away. She sighed and hurriedly ate not wanting to make another waiting man angry, currently said man would be waiting outside next to the car, assumably glaring at his watch constantly. His image brought a smile to Elena's lips and made her forget about her horrible start of the day, On second thought I might take my time cause being angry makes him even sexier than normal.
I promise Damon's gonna be there in the next chapter, so all you have to do is REVIEW and we'll see Damon!