The Music in Us Chapter 1: Always be mine, a vampire diaries fanfic

My Boo - Alicia Keys and Usher Truth is…I can't get enough of this song. Oh and Kyle Landry's " A whole new world" on piano He's awesome!
This is an AU and AH chapter hehe enjoy!

Elena Gilbert

Well it's official, I'm actually going back to Mystic Falls...

My home

Can't say I'm nervous since I left for like..I don't know, 4 years? And not to mention reuniting with my family, friends, teachers, and uhm…maybe the guy who practically stole my heart from the day I said "Hi".

It's really weird because imagine crushing on your big brother's buddy. Jer would taunt me for the rest of my life if he knew or worse, jeopardize their friendship..

Come to think of it, I remember the times we used to "hang out" as kids.

"JEREMY! Give it back right NOW."

Jeremy and Damon laughed as I chased him around the living room holding my score. I've been working on that for a year and I can't stand anyone touching it even taking a peak at it. I catch my breath holding on to the wall but I'm not giving up that easily, so I went upstairs to Jeremy's room and grabbed his guitar and some scissors in the corridor drawer. I sauntered down the stairs holding a combination of my brother's weakness. THIS. IS. WAR.

"Oh Jeremyyyy…" I drawled with a smirk, twirling the scissor's eye rings with my fingers. "Come out; come out wherever you are YOU ASS! I've got something to show you." These guys made a fool of themselves on ganging up on me. They wore these smirks as they appeared. I turn around slowly and leisurely taking my time to making him witness this.

"And what could possibly that be little sis- woah!" The smile slipped on my brother's face seeing his endangered guitar. An amused face washed over Damon's and stepped back with hands in surrender giving the "arena" for us.

"Dude, you're in deep shit, you better give the papers back." Damon laughed

I love my brother. There's no denying that, but there are times that I just want to shove his face in the toilet. That is real sibling relationship so it's normal.

"Elena…What the hell are you planning to do?" Jeremy widens his eyes when I correctly position the scissors with a wide stance and nearing it to the strings.

"Give me the score now…" Jeremy slowly and cautiously placed the sheet on the table nearest to me. Damon watched our interaction with a still amused expression.

"Okay! Just calm down…there…see? It's yours, now hand the gui-" I cut him off with a gasp. My score sheet was ruined with folds and there was a little ripped part on the lower edge.

"Big mistake brother." I snapped the scissors and the nylon strings split and curled up.

"FUCK NO!" Jeremy screamed in horror and I ignored him grabbing the score sheet and rushed upstairs. Little did I know I heard a faint "You deserved it man…"

Good times..Gooood times.

He learned his lesson I'm sure, but yeah we called a truce after a week. Now I'm here approximately 15 minutes away 'til I reach my destination and man, I can even hear my bed calling me for a good hours' sleep. I'm on a winter break from Boston on my third year in Berklee CoM with additional 7 days off because I took advanced subjects for kicks so I'm obliged to savor these THREE weeks of freedom. It's all about strategy people.

After a few minutes, I got off the bus at the stop, grabbed my luggage and called a taxi to the very Mystic Falls. The taxi stopped at my house and I see my mom, dad, aunt Jenna holding a welcome back poster, Caroline, Bonnie and Jeremy on the porch waiting then I got out of the car and they all ran and squeezed me.

"Welcome home honey, Oh we missed you so much!" My mom cried peppering my face with kisses while my dad quickly got my luggage out of the cab. Jenna came over to me with Jeremy on her tail and took her turn in my shower of kisses.

'ELENA!" Bonnie and Caroline screamed and hugged me so tight that I began to wheeze.

"I missed you guys too" I managed to croak then they released me with sheepish grins.

"Hey pitchy" Jeremy said smiling warmly at me and pinching my cheeks as I rolled my eyes.

"I feel your love, truly I do" I said sarcastically as I went over to help my dad

"No no. I got this! You go inside and rest sweetheart. You do remember the event tonight do you?" My dad said as he studied me with skeptical but playful eyes.

"Yeah of course" I lied unsure what's going on. I looked to see Caroline and Bonnie shared guilty looks

"Great! Now go! You girls have a lot of catching up on" My dad said

"Let's go Elena!" Caroline grabbed my arm and Bonnie with my other and hauled me inside, dragged me upstairs and pulled me inside my room. It hasn't changed a bit since I left. My computer's still intact, the framed pictures are still hung up except that my bed sheets are new and so are my curtains. My dad came after us and put my luggage in the bed. I opened it and pulled out the dirty clothes.

"What was he talking about tonight?" I whispered as my dad went out of earshot

"It's the Lockwood White party; it's kind of like a Christmas reunion or something." Bonnie said

"Since people go home for Christmas, they planned this for a reunion thingy especially for the "heirs" of the founding members but the main thing is, everyone's gonna be there" Caroline explained doing air quotes on heirs.

"And that's tonight!? You've got to be kidding me! No freakin' way! I don't even have a dress yet! And shoes, Oh my God!"I exclaimed pacing around the room.

"So do we! but what's shopping for, silly? Come on let's get started!" Caroline beamed

After trying on various white dresses and shoes for hours, we finally found the ones. I purchased the military ball gown, Caroline with the chiffon with column one shoulder and Bonnie with beaded halter one. After we got the jewelry and heels, we stopped at the café for a reward. It's nearly 3 pm so I got at least 3 hours to get a shut eye and another hour getting ready and whew…my feet are killing me.

"Sorry we didn't tell you sooner, we just want the three of us to hang out again like old times!" Bonnie apologized. Yeah I gotta admit it's nice to feel like in highschool again

"Oh yeah I almost forgot! I'm pretty sure Damon will be there tonight. I heard that he's working in his dad's company in New York and he came here in town two days ago actually. I saw him yesterday at the grill and I was like oh damn!" Caroline winked smiling and I laughed and shrugged

I figured that alright. He's like the prince of this town for Pete's sake! I doubt he'll acknowledge me anyway; I'm not really the biggest thing around here.

"Seriously, what happened to the both of you? I think the more than half of the school or the town thinks that you guys were more than just buddies." Bonnie said sipping her milkshake.

"We're not." I deadpanned glancing through the glass wall to the people walking by.

" Well I think you do. Childhood friends and all. Think of the way he looked at you when you played and sang for the Founder's day Ball, or when he suddenly pops out in the Music room when we jam, and did you even know he got wasted when you le-"

"Caroline!" Bonnie stopped her as she babbled. I looked at them quizzically waiting for them to continue.

"Let's say…yeah of course he's proud of you when you got into Berklee, we all are. But you leaving? Not so much." Bonnie explained.

"He knew it was gonna happen" I said. He knew that! He was there when I spent hours practicing those sonatas everyday for my audition. Didn't he think it was hard for me too? I could even admit it without blinking.

It was hard for me too

"We know that. It's just that… nothing beats the real thing." Caroline said sadly blinking tears " We really missed you so much!" She sadly smiled at me.

"Aww, you guys! Come on, I'm here now!" I hugged them and laughed at our drama.

We talked for a few moments. Bonnie and Caroline went to NYU together with Jeremy so I'm the one left out thank you very much. All three of them arrived town five days before me. I'm majoring in Professional Music while Jeremy's for Steinhardt's Dept. of Music so college picking is tricky. We parted ways and damn right it was hard.

I went home with the shopping bags and slept for a good two hours.

"Okay, okay I'm up" I groaned when my alarm went off. I went to the shower, dried my hair, put on the dress and asked Jenna fix it to a half pony tail.

"Remember when your mom and I used to braid your pigtails for school?" Jenna said giggling as she plugged the hair curler and started making ringlets. I nodded and chuckled at the memory.

"Of course, I mean how could I forget the times when you guys used to make me look like Dorothy?"

"And then you'd sing Somewhere over the rainbow" Jenna looked wistfully into the air."Very angelic voice indeed"

"Thanks Jenna..." I smiled "Means a lot"

After being done with my hair, I applied make up and looked myself in the mirror.

Ready as I'll ever be.

I texted Caroline and Bonnie if they were ready. They planned on picking me up so we can catch up some more. They told that there'll be an after party later and we're talkin' drinks, dancing and A LOT of jamming. Now that's REAL fun. It took a lot of convincing to get my parents on letting me go with my comrades but luckily they did.

The place was…WOW. It's like everyone's getting married. White and black everywhere. We walked into the garden filled with white covered tables, with white roses as their center piece. Lights decorated trees that surrounds the venue. The place is hands down incredible, I hand it to the Lockwoods. I caught a glimpse of Stefan Salvatore, an old classmate of ours, approaching us.

"Elena, it's great to see you again! You look amazing!" Stefan said as we hugged.

"Thanks buddy, You look great too! Glad you put on with my advice on your weight" I joked and burst in to laughter as he jokingly "Ssh" ed me and looked around if anyone heard me. He introduced me to new people and greeted his dad.

"Mr. Salvatore!" I said grinning from ear to ear

"It is Guiseppe, you squirt but anyways you look marvelous! Look at you all grown up!" Guiseppe exclaimed as he hugged me.

Behind him I noticed the very guy with those striking blue eyes looking at me as we pulled away.

Damon watched in agape as the beauty before him hugged his father. All memories flashed through his mind including the time when he asked her to the Halloween party and especially when he first heard her play Disney songs gracefully on the keys.

"Where's that coming from?" a sixteen year old Damon asked a fifteen year old Jeremy as he plopped into the couch while Jeremy set-up the X-box. The beautiful sound of the tune of "A whole new world" was faintly heard.

"It's Elena, my sister. She's been practicing all these Disney stuff every morning. I mean it's cool but can a guy hear some rock n' roll these days now?" Jeremy whined. " Hey can you go into my room and get the 'Uncharted'? Oh wait; just get the DVD case instead…sorry man. It's in my room upstairs, the first one on the left." Jeremy said sheepishly and winces as he stretched behind the T.V. to connect the wires of the X-box to the T.V.

Damon went upstairs and the beautiful sound became louder. It came from the room on the right beside Jeremy's and he paused to peep in the room as its door was slightly open. He stood awestruck on the girl about fourteen years old with her back facing him and seems to really concentrating on the musical score. Her head slightly moving seeming that her eyes were shifting from the notes to the keys. Her hand flew quickly to turn the page and managed to not make a mistake and when she reached to the second chorus, the sounds became more intense as it reached to a crescendo and then became slower at the bridge heading to the coda of the song. Damon swore his vision became blurry and wet and to think, it was just a song from a Disney movie!

"Damon! Did you find it?" He snapped out of his trance as he heard Jeremy called. Elena turned around in surprise, then her face flushed but then smiled warmly.

"Hi! You must be Jeremy's friend…I'm Elena" She chirped then turning back on him once again causing her chocolate brown hair to smoothly move. She piled the musical score and placed on the table beside her. "I'm sorry if I bothered you guys"

"I'm Damon, Damon Salvatore. And no it is never a bother to hear a pretty face play the piano" Damon said as she shrugged "You're really good" he added as she turned around and a blush crept over her cheeks.

"Thank you" she softly said shyly massaging her fingers and looking down. he smirked but mentally slapped himself on forgetting which room was Jeremy's.

"His room's on the left..." She smirked as if reading his thoughts

"Right, Thanks. It's nice meeting you" He said nodding at her and she said likewise then closing her door.

He knew right then and there, that she was special. Turned out that she practically stole his heart from the day she said "Hi".

"Elena"

"Damon"

"You look great" Damon casually said scanning his eyes over her. Amazing, beautiful, drop dead-Woah! snap out of it! He added in his thoughts.

She smiled tilting her head "Thanks, you don't look so bad yourself" Gorgeous, steamingly hot, drop dead-Ugh stop it Elena!

"Don't I know it" He smirked as she rolled her eyes. Some things do never change she thought. "I'm glad you came.." the playful smirk suddenly turned into a genuine smile.

"Me too, you, I mean…I mean..I'm.. .glad you came too" She stuttered Very nice, Pea-brain and there goes that smirk again.

"I-"

"Elena! There you are! Been looking everywhere for you. Oh hi, Damon" Caroline popped out with Bonnie on her side cutting off Damon

"Blondie and judgy" he greeted and they sent him a playful glare. "Hilarious. Let's go Elena, Tyler and Matt's there..Sorry Damon!" Caroline said as she pulled her away. Elena sent an apologetic look to Damon and he nodded with a smile. That's Caroline for them.

The party went smoothly I suppose. I reacquainted with my old classmates, teachers and some familiar faces, met my parents' friends and some other people. The food was great and the dessert was Out. Of. This. World.

Oreo and strawberry cheesecake baby... Peace out, vocal cords.

The song, "The way you look tonight" came up and I saw the couples approaching the center in front of the live band.

"Dance with me?" I saw a hand held out to me as I heard the velvety voice.

I blushed like a tomato and I'm aware of that "Sure" I held his hand and let him lead me to the dance floor.

He places his left hand on the small of my waist as we found a spot. We looked into to each other's eyes and God damn! How can I even stand up like this let alone dance! Those eyes are going to be the death of me. I swear on this day, that I feel like we were definitely the only ones in the room. He held me close to him and spun me expertly around the room. Our bodies fell into a perfect sync with each other just like old times. But despite the perfect harmony we seem to make I still feel so exhilarated and excited. My heart was racing and I could feel Damon's heart racing too.

"Brought any memories?" He asked softly and I can see a glint of vulnerability beneath that wall

"Of course, it's not like everyday I get to have these dances with you" I replied and he smiled at me.

The night ended as people started leaving. Tyler and Matt set up the Karaoke machine and stereo and the ever typical Caroline showed up holding alcohol she got from the car. All the people left here are our school mates and friends. I mentally did a happy dance when Damon stayed.

"Let's get this party started!" Caroline yelled as she pulled the corks of the drinks with a knife. All people cheered and grabbed some glasses.

I was about to make my way to sit down when Jeremy suddenly announced something.

"Hey ladies and fags! You all know me Jeremy Gilbert. Thank you thank you…I would like to dedicate this song to my girlfriend Anna and also would like to request my ever loving, generous, kind and thoughtful sister to accompany me with this song" Jeremy smirked at me as they people wolf-whistled and clapped. It's sweet of him to dedicate a song to Anna but come on! I feel ten-times smaller right now. He's gonna owe me big time.

Bonnie cheered and pulled me out of the chair and pushed me to the stage. I slightly stumbled but regained my stance as I glared the joyful looking Jeremy. I turned around and waved awkwardly at people then I saw Damon's eyes fixed on me and I quickly turned away. This is just one time Elena. Relax.

I can't count the times when we used to perform duets back in high school. What can I say? We both study in different colleges of Music so we're pretty much good if I say so myself. I barely had the time to look at the screen to find out what the song is but Jeremy immediately started

There's always that one person
That will always have your heart

Are. You. Kidding. Me. My dearest brother picked the most relatable song of my existence; at least I think it is. I had this song played on my Ipod over and over again when I was on the bus arriving here. Why is this happening to me?

You'll never see it coming
'Cause you're blinded from the start
Know that you're that one for me
It's clear for everyone to see
Oh baby ooh you'll always be my boo.I don't know bout cha'll
But I know about us and uh
This is the only way
We know how to rock

All the girls rapped the part and I joined them nodding my head enjoying the beat of the song.

I don't know bout cha'll
But I know about us and uh
This is the only way
We know how to rock

A few started to dance in the center until more and more came as Jeremy started his part. I shoved him lightly and he chuckled to the lyrics and shoving me back.

Do you remember girl
I was the one who gave you your first kiss
'Cause I remember girl
I was the one who said put your lips like this
Even before all the fame and
People screaming your name
Girl I was there and you were my baby

Jeremy jumped down and came to the table Anna was sitting on and people cheered louder. He pulled her to dance so I was left here but thankfully I saw Caroline and Bonnie singing and dancing right in front of me despite the stage I'm standing on.

It started when we were younger girl
You were mine my boo
Now another brother's taking over
But its still in your eyes my boo
Even though we used to argue it's alright
I know we haven't seen each other
In awhile but you will always be my boo

I brace myself on my upcoming part as I gripped the wireless mic. Then again, my brother and I compete the loudest cheers just like back in the day. I didn't want to be alone on the stage so I jumped too and joined the people.

I was in love with you when we were younger
You were mine my boo
And I see it from time to time
I still feel like my boo
And I can see it no matter
How I try to hide my boo
Even though there's another man who's in my life
You will always be my boo

Caroline and Bonnie slightly paused and smirked at me as they looked over my shoulder. I turned around, not stopping my singing then I saw Damon standing right in front of me devilishly smirking. We knew the song. And we knew the story.

Yes I remember boy
'Cause after we kissed
I could only think about your lips
Yes I remember boy
The moment I knew
You were the one
I could spend my life with
Even before all the fame
And people screaming your name
I was there and you were my baby

His hands slid to my waist and started swaying us. Thank God I'm not losing it. His eyes were on my lips as I sang and mine to his as we swayed to the music.

We sang the chorus again and he spins me slowly and we both danced the rap part. When the song ended, we both were breathless especially me. Damon surprised me by pulling me for a kiss that I gasped and took time to reciprocate. The surrounding people roared with applause and can definitely hear Caroline and Bonnie squealing and jumping. We pulled away with warmth in our eyes and smiles on our faces. It's all coming back again.

At the Halloween party….(5 years ago)

"You look beautiful" Damon said as he pulled me close to him and I thanked him

"Can I" he hesitated nervously for a moment "kiss you?" he continued. I saw shocked since I haven't had my first kiss yet and I know he knew that too. I smiled and nodded at his permission. Then he closed the remaining space between us.

I couldn't ask for another man to be my first kiss.

We pulled away and he whispered "You will always be mine".

And that…was the perfect night.