Chapter 1


Damon Salvatore was not an ordinary man. He had confidence like nobody's business. Not that anyone could blame him. He had a steady income, a great car, and he was good looking. With raven hair and blue eyes a person could drown in, not to mention just a smirk from him could make a girl weak in her knees. She could pass out if she got a smile from him. Though most of the time his signature move was a smirk.

He lived in Mystic Falls with his brother, Stefan. Though two years apart, the siblings were very close. Best friends. They brothers lived together in the home their parents own before they died. Their Uncle Zach had even lived with them for a while, before he moved on when he got a teaching job. But that's not important.

Our story begins with our leading man working at the paper. He was a writer for the wedding announcements-the best one too, and everyone knew it. He didn't want to stay in Commitments forever though. But it was where he was needed for the time being.

"Dude, where were you all weekend?" his friend and coworker, Alaric asked him.

"Friday night I had a date slash job, and you know, Saturday is work night. I had a wedding to write about," Damon smirked.

"Ah, right. Tell me about them. All I got was beer and a football game. Jenna had some sort of book club or whatever, so I didn't see her," Ric complained.

"The job was a success. She went crying back to Trevor right on time. And the bride was a blushing beauty in a pure white dress that complimented her every feature just right as she walked down the aisle to the man who could not take his eyes off her."

"How are you still a lonely old single man?" Ric chuckled. "Anyways, I got a game to write about."

Damon nodded and waved as his friend walked away, and returned to his computer where he sent his work to the editor of the Mystic Falls Times newspaper, Elijah Smith. And began searching through other articles for wedding announcements. His day went by quickly and he ended it by going to his favorite bar, The Mystic Grill.

He walked up to the bar as soon as he walked in and his eyes landed on his target. "Well hey there," he smirked, cutting in between her and her friend.

"Excuse me," snapped the shorter woman. "We were talking."

"I'm sure you were," he turned, then faced the pixie haired brunette. "Now I see you're pretty much here alone, and clearly the hottest woman in the place."

"Excuse me?" her friend scoffed, causing Damon to face her again.

"Well, yes. Your hair could use a little TLC, and it looks like you were once quite a healthy weight, but clearly you've recently put on a few pounds. Not to mention your clothes," he said and turned right back to the other woman.

"You're an asshole. I just had a baby," The short brunette fumed and stomped away.

"You are an asshole, you know," the short haired brunette said.

"So I hear. So, what do ya say?" he smirked.

She smiled and bit her lip. "I'm Rose."

"Damon."

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The sound of a blender working away sounded loudly through the house.

"Elena! You know I like to sleep in the daylight hours!" shouted Caroline.

The beautiful brunette smiled apologetically. "Sorry. But you know I'm training, so I need to wake up early and make my protein shakes."

"Yeah, I just don't see why it has to effect my sleep schedule. So are you going out with that guy again tonight?" the blonde asked, reaching for a bagel.

"No. Tomorrow night. But I don't know. There's just not any chemistry with him. And I mean, I thought there was at first, but then I realized it was just because I hadn't dated in a while. Not since Matt," she said, pouring the liquid into a bottle and taking a sip before setting it down to clean up before she left.

"Well, maybe you just need to give it some time. I know! I have an idea, but I'm not telling you until later. Because then if I tell you now, you'll have time to convince me not to do it. But you'll have to do it if I tell you later," Caroline smiled cheerily while her friend cleaned up.

The brunette stared blankly at her friend before laughing. "I have no idea what you're saying. But I'll see you later. Go back to bed," she waved before picking up her bottle and heading out for her run.

A little while later, Elena got home, showered, dressed for work, grabbed a bagel, and was headed to the travel agency. "Hey, Bonnie," she greeted her friend at the desk next to hers. "How was your weekend?"

"Ugh. I left Jeremy with the baby and went out with Rose. She's been insisting like you that I need a girl's night since I just got back to work and have been home with the baby," Bonnie said.

"Which you and I both know is true, whether you admit it or not," Elena smiled.

"Probably. But then this complete asshole interrupted us, and Rose went home with him. He didn't even hide that he was an ass, he just embraced it. Made it clear he really only wanted a one night thing. Rose was fine with that though, you know her," Bonnie said, rolling her eyes.

"How'd my brother do taking care of Mary?" Elena inquired, organizing her things and logging into her computer.

"He did fine. I don't know why he always insists on it though. Mary loves him already, I can tell. But he doesn't have to stick around. It's not his responsibility," she shrugged.

"Well, he knows you've had a hard time with everything," Elena said, referring to Bonnie's marine husband's death. "And he just wants you to know that he's there for you. You two always were friends anyways."

Bonnie nodded. "True," she smiled and looked past her friend. "Don't look now, but your boyfriend is coming."

Elena made a face at Bonnie, but turned it to a smile right as Stefan made it to her desk. "Hello, Elena," he said cheerily, but nervously.

"Hi, Stefan," she greeted.

"I was just coming over to say, um, hi, and to make sure you still wanted to have dinner tomorrow night," he choked out.

She almost rolled her eyes at his nervousness. "Yes, Stefan."

"Okay. Great. I'll see you tomorrow night," he said, backing up slowly. "Well, tomorrow morning. We have work still. Unless the building burns or something," he laughed.

Elena smiled and watched as he finally turned away. She looked over at Bonnie and the friends giggled.

"That poor boy," Bonnie said, shaking her head.

The rest of the day went slowly, but Elena was finally able to get home and relax.

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"Damon! Wake up!" Stefan knocked on his brother's bedroom door the next morning before finally opening it and barging in.

"Haven't you heard of privacy, Stefan?" Damon said, sitting up.

"Listen, I need to leave these in here tonight," Stefan said, setting a large box on the foot of Damon's bed.

"What is this?" Damon said, scooting to take a look in the box. "Wow. Bad Cop? Sexy Sailor? What is this Stefan?"

"It doesn't matter. Just let me leave these here, and please don't be home tonight," he pleaded.

"Ugh, good morning," the young woman beside Damon mumbled awake.

"Oh, um, hello," Stefan waved.

"Oh! How rude of me! Rose, this is my brother, Stefan. Stefan this is Rose. Now," Damon said as Rose began to get dressed, Stefan averting his eyes, "Why do I need to be gone tonight?"

"Because I have a date with Elena again tonight, and if everything goes as planned, a date for breakfast tomorrow morning," he smiled.

"Aww, you do breakfast? How….quaint," Rose smiled before kissing Damon once before leaving.

"Quaint?" Stefan mutter. "Anyways, will you please leave?"

"What's wrong? Don't want her to meet your big brother?" Damon smirked. "Aw, sure. Why not?"

Stefan sighed in relief. "Great. Okay, I have to go to work."

Damon chuckled as his brother left quickly.

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It was later that night, and Elena was standing in front of her closet in her bra and panties, holding up two dresses while Caroline sat on her bed and watched.

"The black one. That way in case the night sucks, you still look hot, and you didn't have to show him your best dress," Caroline said, and poured a glass of wine for each of them. "Now, take those curlers out of your hair, and drink!"

Elena laughed. "So your plan was to get me drunk before my date?"

"Well he's boring, right? So you might as well have some fun."

A little bit later, Stefan picked her up and they left for the restaurant.

"So how was your day?" Stefan asked awkwardly.

"Well, you saw how busy it was today," she said.

"Right."

Ten minutes later, they were at the restaurant and getting seated. The date went by well until after the waiter brought back dessert.

"Elena, there's something I'd like to tell you," Stefan began.

"Uh oh," Elena muttered.

"You see, we've gone out several times, and I feel it's time to take our relationship to the next level."

"Next level?"

"Yes. I love you, Elena Gilbert."

"What?"

"I do, and I don't regret it. I think we need to become official."

"No, just no. You can't tell me that. We're not even exclusive. We haven't even had sex yet!" she shouted, causing the nearby tables to glance over at her, though she ignored them.

Stefan, turning red, reached for her hand, but she snatched it away. "That's what I mean, let's take our relationship to the next level."

"Sex isn't a level. It's just a thing. A level is like, dating, then moving in together, then getting engaged and married. Not sex. Sex is what you do," she said, annoyed.

"Then fine, let's move in together!" Stefan exclaimed, throwing his hands up.

"What? No! We've been on like, five dates."

"But I love you," Stefan said.

"Can you please just take me home?" Elena said softly.

Stefan sighed in defeat and nodded, waving the waiter over for the check.

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"You gotta help me," Stefan begged his brother the next day.

"How bad did you screw up?" Damon said as the brothers walked.

"I told her I love her and she flipped out," Stefan began before telling the whole story.

"I don't know, Stef. You're my brother, I don't want to see you get hurt, but she finds out we're related…" he began.

"Well then later in life she'll learn to love you. But only after we're married and have children of our own," Stefan said. "Please! Just do the thing you do for other guys."

"Fine. But it's still gonna cost you," Damon said.

Stefan nodded. "Okay. Well wake up early tomorrow. We're starting right away."

Damon groaned. "Mornings aren't so good for me, brother."

"Make it good for you, because you are the ticket to my happiness."


Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to My Best Friend's Girl or The Vampire Diaries.

So? How was it? I'm super sorry about killing off Tyler, but I wanted to mention all the characters in the show, and more will be brought in. But I wanted Tyler mentioned, and I thought Bonnie and Tyler could have been cute. But I didn't see Tyler ever abandoning a family, so I had to make him a soldier in the Marines, whom I have the utmost respect for. But yeah, more characters will be seen later, but only mentioned and not a huge part to the story. Caroline, Elena, Stefan, and Damon are the big ones. But I hope you all liked it. Review if you like.