"College will be great for you, Elena. Stop worrying!"

"Jeremy, its college, I didn't have the best high school experience, so I have a right to be worried."

"Right, I did die and all, you turned off your humanity and worst of all, you chose Damon."

"Don't say that Jeremy. Damon helped us both when he came up with that cover story about you not really dying in the fire."

"Right, what did he say? That I was a stupid teenager that burned down his own house and skipped town to make sure I wasn't caught?"

"Better than nothing."

Jeremy smiled at me and my heart fluttered. I loved Jeremy more than anything. It took him dying to make me realize that I would rather have him more than Damon or Stefan. The summer was great. Damon and I traveled a lot with Jeremy. There was more than enough sex and no one interrupted us. I didn't want to even come back to Mystic Falls. So far there is no sign of human Katherine. Maybe I did kill her. I could only hope. There was also no sign of Stefan either, which worried me, more than it probably should have. I did love Stefan, as a human. I am no longer a human. I am a vampire, along with Damon. Ugh Damon. I loved him. Didn't I? Of course I did, but there has always been this voice in the back of my head saying I shouldn't.

"Elena? Earth to Elena?"

Jeremy snapped me right out of my thoughts, "I'm listening."

"Great, so you don't mind me being a hunter again?"

"What! Jeremy you can't be serious!"

"Gotcha. I knew you weren't listening. What I was really saying was, have you heard from Stefan? Like at all?"

"No, not all summer. Not one word."

"What about Klaus? Caroline? Bonnie? Anyone besides me and Damon?"

"No Jer, I haven't talked to anyone all summer."

"Well all that sex will do that."

"Jeremy!"

"What? It's gross, no doubt. I don't like Damon. I want to talk to Stefan."

"He got rid of Silas for good. We should be fine. We should have a normal year!"

"That's never easy when we have a bunch of vampires and werewolves for friends."

"Touché."
Jeremy smiled, I could tell no contacting anyone all summer was hard for him but it was what needed to be done in order to start this year off on a good note, "Help me finish packing and then we can go get ice cream!"

"Is Damon coming?"

"No, he went to go home and check on Stefan."

"So we can finally have some real family time?"

"Yes, real family time Jer."

We exchanged smiles and continued to pack, but Jeremy picked up the pace to get some ice cream faster.