Elena sighed as she sat down on the bed. The room was quite big, with two big windows, but dark curtains were drawn and made the room very dark. She sighed again as she got up and to move the curtains and let the daylight in.
The house belonged to Elena's uncle. She had just moved there with her brother, Jeremy, after their parents died in a car-accident and her mother 10 year older brother had offered them his home. He was kind, but Elena had a feeling he did it more out of duty than heart, since he was the only family they had left and also probably didn't want his relatives to be poor. He was a doctor just like Elena's father had been but he was getting old and didn't work as much anymore.
At dinner later that day
"So Elena" her uncle said and she turned to look at him. "Did you find your room enjoyable?"
"Yes, uncle" she responed. "It'll be just fine"
"My daughter, your cousin is coming home tomorrow" the man continued. Elena smiled at this, she had always loved her cousin, Caroline.
"Is she done with her travels?" Elena asked.
"I do hope so" the uncle grumbled. "She needs to find a husband and build a home, not go around the globe."
Elena smiled, knowing that the last thing Caroline wanted was to just get married and be nothing but somebody's wife and mother of children. She wanted a life of her own, to find true love and live every adventure she could. Elena was different. Of course she wanted to find love, but she wanted a more quiet life in peace, with a family and children of her own. The problem was only that she was certain she had already found that perfect love, the man she wanted a family with. But she had lost him.
His name was Damon. He was training to be a doctor and they had met during the summer when Elena had visited Caroline when she was in New York. He had been there with his brother, Stefan who was a friend of Caroline's current boyfriend Klaus. Damon hadn't seen his brother in a long time, they fought often and this had been the first time they had seen each other in three years.
At first Elena hadn't really been able to understand Damon. He was smart and intelligent, and he was as adventurous as Caroline, but after a few days she had seen how free his life was and secretly she envied him. He hardly had any contact with his family and could go wherever he wanted, but as long as he studied to be something his father provided him with money.
He had been flirting with her since the moment they met and after a few days she started returning it and that night they went to dinner just the two of them. It has been one of the best nights of her life. The following days they were together all the time and after one heated night in Damon's hotel room her virtue was gone. She had felt bad for it afterwards, since most men still wanted to marry a virgin. But he had told her that he would never let her marry anyone else and after that night they were secretly engaged.
Damon out with Stefan when Elena got the news about her parents deaths. After talking to Jeremy on the phone she hadn't known any other place to go than Damon's hotel room and she sat on the bed staring at the wall until he came back. Caroline must have told him what had happened because he just sat down and took her in his arms and let her cry her eyes out.
The next day she had a call from her uncle telling her he wanted her and Jeremy to come live with him, he had such a big house anyway. Elena gladly said yes, Jeremy was still in school and needed a stable home, and at 20 years old she couldn't provide that herself.
She had gone to her home town and sold her parents old house because neither her or Jeremy wanted it and now they were here at her uncle's and she hadn't seen Damon in a month. She missed him terribly and she couldn't wait to see Caroline and hear if she had any news from him. Especially since Elena suspected she carried a piece of him with her since she last saw him a month ago. A piece of both of them.
