Come Back, Be Here

by darkangel9314

Elena Gilbert had her future all planned out. She would go to Stanford with her best friend Damon Salvatore and they would go to college together, but when Damon is accepted into Dartmouth he chooses to take the scholarship and leave Elena to go to Stanford alone. Will there friendship survive the test of distance and time?

1. Chapter 1

Come Back, Be Here

Chapter 1

Elena looked at the photograph by her bedside table as she thought about the day she had met Damon Salvatore. It was when she was five and her and her mother had just moved to Mystic Falls after her father's tragic death.

She didn't really know the details of her father's death back then. No mother wants to tell their five year old child that their father had been brutally murdered by some psychopathic killer, but that was some story for some other time.

Her mother had just taken Elena and her one year old brother to their new two story house. Elena was looking at the big scary house when a ball flew into her front yard and nearly pelted her in the face.

"Hey!" she yelled.

That's when she came by the boy who she would know in the years to come as her best friend. He was an adorable little kid with his kind blue eyes and adorable black hair that stuck out in an arrangement of a bunch of little curls.

If Elena hadn't been a small child she would have claimed it was love at first sight, but in real life she didn't believe in love at first sight or at least she didn't think she did.

"Who are you?" He asked raising his eyebrows and inspecting her as if she were some sort of science project.

"I'm Elena Gilbert. Who are you?"

"Damon Salvatore at your service."

"You're very strange."

"Well I believe being normal is very overrated."

She laughed. It was the first time she had laughed since her father's passing.

"Thank you. I needed that."

"Not a problem. Elena Gilbert."

"Elena! Come inside!" Her mother said from the threshold to her new house.

"I'll see you around Damon Salvatore."

"I sure hope you will."

She smiled at Damon Salvatore and ran back inside the house.

Now the years had passed and that five year old girl from that day had become a high school graduate. Now she would be attending school at Stanford with her best friend Damon. Things couldn't get any better than this.

A knock on the door sounded and she smiled as she opened it up to see Damon Salvatore in the flesh.

"Shouldn't you be packing for our awesome road trip to Stanford? I can't believe we're going to be college students soon."

"Yea about that. Elena I need to tell you something."

"What is it my super best friend?"

"I got a scholarship."

"Damon that's great."

"You didn't let me finish. The scholarship isn't from Stanford. It's from Dartmouth."

"What are you trying to tell me Damon?"

"Elena. I'm not going to Stanford. I'm going to Dartmouth instead."