Summer Lovin'

It's summer time in Mystic Falls, and that means, heat, parties and lots of drama. Elena Gilbert finds herself spending more and more time with the irritating Damon Salvatore, and with emotions spiraling in all different directions, the two are walking into unknown territory. ( AU/AH )

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I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there.

- John Vance Cheney

The soft grass towered high over the tip of Elena Gilbert's nose. She loved lying down on the forest green lawn in front of her house, just feeling the tips of the grass and looking up at the strange shapes in the clouds. Then sun beat down on her hard, and her little yellow sun dress was splayed across her. She missed this feeling, of floating in the air. Virginia's winters were filled with cold air and layers of light snow, and all Elena Gilbert wanted was the sun and the heat. She didn't really like the fact that she didn't own a swimming pool, but luckily, Caroline Forbes had one, and Elena intended to spend as much time at Caroline's house as she could. It was the most perfect little house on an empty street with a property no larger then the Salvatore's. And the bringing up of the Salvatore brothers was quite fitting, seeing as Damon Salvatore was now leaning over her, hand in hand with Caroline, both looking at her strangely.

"How's the weather down there?" He asked, raising and eyebrow. Elena looked up at the man. He was gorgeous, any girl's tall dark and handsome for sure. His eyes so blue and hair so shiny and black, no wonder Caroline fell for him. But of course, pretty boys could never have remotely respectable personalities. He was an asshole, but charming, and he had this way to him, where sometimes he would pretend to be all kind and sweet, but Elena knew better. It was all an act. Elena never actually understood why Caroline's mother, the sheriff hadn't already shot Damon down though. He was 24, while Elena and Caroline were just turning 18. If her parents were still around, they would never let the man in their house. Luckily Aunt Jenna was chill and really reasonable with boy expectations.

"It's warmer than up there." Elena said, sitting up with her legs still lying out in front of her. Damon held out his hand, and just as she went to take it, he slipped it away quickly. Caroline hit Damon with her free hand, then helped Elena up, smiling at her best friend.

"We were going to go swimming at my place, wanted to know if you'd join." Caroline said, brushing a couple strings of grass off of Elena's pretty little dress. Elena looked to Damon, then Caroline.

"And be the third wheel?" Elena asked, moving past Caroline and Damon towards the front door of her house, but the couple were close behind, and Caroline had dropped Damon's hand out of comfort for her friend.

"You can bring a boy if you want. Tyler's quite fond of you." Caroline suggested to Elena, leaning against the kitchen counter as Elena poured herself a cup of lemonade. Damon snorted, at this comment, leaning back on the fridge after Elena had put the juice back.

"That kid's a douche." He said, rolling his eyes.

"What about Bonnie?" Caroline suggested, looking to Elena hopefully, but Damon cut in before Elena could speak again.

"She hates me, Care, you know that." He protested, grabbing Elena's glass just before she put it to her lips, taking a sip out of it. Elena stole it back and hit him, downing the rest of the drink Damon so thoughtfully helped her with.

"Please Elena. I haven't seen you for like a week, I've been all M.I.A, I just want to hang out." Caroline whined, and Damon rolled his eyes, opening the fridge for something to eat. He picked out a little container of blueberries.

"Fine." She said, then looked at Damon. "Hey! No, those are mine." She snatched the blueberries from him after he'd popped a couple in his mouth and shoved it back in the fridge.

"Yay!" Caroline smiled excitedly. "Now, hurry up and get your bathing suit, we're leaving now." She said, pushing Elena towards the stairs, hitting her butt just as she hit the first step.

"Ow." Elena whined, running up the stairs to put her bikini on under her dress.


Elena stepped out onto the dark wood deck of Caroline's patio. The hot floor burned her feet slightly, so she made her way quickly onto the cement all around the large pool. It was shaped as a deformed 8, and a couple meters away from the pool, was an in-ground hot tub, the jets already running.

"Elena Gilbert, you look fine." Caroline applauded in her green bikini from the other side of the pool." Elena wore a strapless black bikini that showed off all of her assets.

Damon, who was lying on a towel on the cement, reading through a magazine, looked up at her through his dark sunglasses. He rose an eyebrow, never having seen her in that little clothing. "I do not disagree." He stated, nodding his head with his mischievous smirk clear on his face.

"Well, thank you." She said, sitting down on the part of his towel that was vacant beside his stomach, dipping her feet in the water slowly. The hot sun had warmed up the pool, but it was still cool on her feet, and Elena eased her feet into the water. Damon turned back to his magazine, and Caroline, who was lying on one of the chairs, went back to her tanning. Music was playing quietly in background, a song Elena wasn't familiar with, but she listened quietly. Then, she felt the shifting of Damon behind her, and he was taking off his shirt, already having had his black swimming trunks on, and got up.

"Come on, Gilbert, I need a hot tub partner." He said, making his way to the hot tub, walking in immediately.

"You can't go in by yourself?" she asked, raising an eyebrow. But he looked at her, expectantly.

"What if I drown? I'll need someone to save me. And Caroline's incapable of doing anything that involves lifting a finger." He said, making Elena get up and join him hesitantly.

"You shouldn't talk about Caroline like that, you know." She said, taking a seat across from him in the small hot tub. Their knees just barely touched each other's. Elena remembered when she used to date Damon's brother Stefan, and whenever she was at the Salvatore Boarding house, Damon was there with a new girl every day, getting drunk.

"You're right, that's unfair." He said, nodding in her direction, and lifting his sunglasses off so he could get a better look at her. "If it involves doing hair, make-up or picking out a cute new outfit at the mall, then will she lift a finger."

Elena ignored his comment, because no matter how funny Damon thought, he was, he really wasn't.

"What's with you, Elena Gilbert? You used to be so cool." Damon smirked, and she thought it might have been illegal to be that beautiful. She remembered those sad days when she could completely tolerate Damon Salvatore, and she puzzled as to how. Maybe because whenever she was with Damon, he was drunk or passed out on the couch, which was slightly better then this strange girlfriend Damon.

"I'm plenty cool, thank you very much."

"Elena, you're boring and you complain too much. You're smokin', but you don't have a boyfriend. You never get drunk anymore. Frankly, I miss old fun Elena." Elena didn't want to look at Damon, because if she did, she would have blushed. Damon Salvatore just called her hot and didn't think twice about it.

"You know you're only going to break Caroline's heart, right? Let's be honest, we're almost 18, you're almost 24. I'm puzzled as to how Sheriff Forbes hasn't arrested you yet. You're dating a minor Damon." Elena leaned in slightly, so that her hands held her face and her elbows rested on her knees. Maybe this was all harsh, but Damon was not a good man, she couldn't let him get off easy if and when he broke Caroline's heart. "You'll get bored fast, I know you're type Damon, I've dated many of them." He leaned in, mimicking her position, listening intently. "You're going to get bored, and you're going to go running to whoever's guaranteed to allow you in their pants." Elena was really getting into this pick-out-Damon's-flaws things, it was fun.

"Are you done?" He asked.

"Nope." She said, sitting back. "You like sex, Damon. I can tell that much by being around you once in a while. Once Caroline's too tired of giving into you, you'll be out the door. And I know you have this reputation as a heart-breaking single bad ass, but I won't let you step all over my best friend's heart." Then, she got up, ringing out her wet, and now curly hair. "Mark my words Damon Salvatore." She said, raising her eye brow, then getting out of the hot tub to go inside Caroline's house.

"Wow." Damon whispered. "I have got to get that girl."