SINGLE
It was a normal day in Mystic Falls for Elena Gilbert. Well, as normal as things can be when the guy she though that she would love and be with forever had turned psycho and gotten all pally with an Original, one of the most ruthless and evil vampires ever to exist. Oh, and she might possibly be falling for his oh-so-gorgeous yet oh-so-unattainable older brother. She would never admit it, but since she had first met Damon, he had changed. Not so much that his cocky, arrogant nature was gone for good, but enough that he could be sweet, and kind, and he actually cared about things. For these reasons, Elena was falling for him.
"Hello grumpy!" Damon 'magically' appeared behind Elena, making her smudge her carefully applied eyeliner.
"Damon! This took me ages! What do you want?"
"I want to take you out."
"W-w-what?"
"I mean to the park, or the movies, or whatever. Like I'd ask my kid brother's chick out. What do you take me for?" Damon looked honestly offended by this, but Elena knew him well enough to realise that he was joking.
"Kid brother's ex-chick." She corrected automatically, before realising what she'd said after a moment of shocked silence on Damon's part.
"I-I-I mean, he left, you know, with Klaus, and I can't be with him now, not after all he's done. We're over. For good."
"Oh." There was a moment of awkward silence before Damon, being his usual cocky self, snatched her eyeliner pencil out of her hand and, lightning fast, wrote something on her forehead.
"DAMON!" she roared.
"What?" he mocked.
"I can't believe you!" she moaned, stifling giggles at his fake-innocent expression.
"Just thought you'd want to make it clear."
"Make what clear?"
"Read it."
"Oh my God, Damon, really? Did you have to? 'SINGLE'? You realise this is waterproof eyeliner, right? It's going to take forever to get this off!"
"Well, then. I guess you'll just have to shower later, but now, we're going for a walk."
"I can't go out like this!"
"Sure you can. Just…wear a hat!" Damon's eyes filled with laughter, and he could just about stop himself from laughing. That is, until he saw Elena's expression, and he collapsed in a fit of giggles like a ten-year-old girl.
"What's so funny?" Elena asked, pouting.
"You aren't great at 'stern looks' at the best of times, babe, but when you have writing on your head, it's even less menacing and more, well, erm, HILARIOUS!" he gasped, laughing even harder.
"Oh shut up, let's go."
"What about that hat?"
"You might be a vampire, but I'm sure I could find some way of causing you pain."
They walked the rest of the way to the park in silence.