Here is the second chapter I'm glad you guys enjoyed the first one! I'm really enjoying writing this story!

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE VAMPIRE DIARIES OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS THIS IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY AND FOR THE STELENA FANDOM! WE ROCK!

Chapter 2

"Hey" he smiles. I smile wider "I haven't seen you in ages" I say and pull him into a hug, he hugs back and then we both pull out. "How have you been?" I ask still smiling, he nods "yeah I've been good, what about you?"

"I'm good" I smile

"You've grown a lot, not such a short ass anymore" he smirks; Trying to get out of being uncomfortable, I've missed his sense of humour. I giggle a bit "yeah I have, and so have you" we smile at each other,

"I would love to stay and chat but I have to get to class…"

"Yeah same, but I'll see you tonight, your dad invited us over for dinner, so we can catch up then" he says

"Oh did he, awesome, I'll see you then" we exchange another smile after smiling 100 times, and walk off to our class. God it was good to see him.

Apart from the occasional glare from Nathan school was good, and now I'm back home getting ready for tonight. I really can't wait to catch up with Stefan; we haven't seen each other for two years. I missed him, we didn't really leave things in a good place I mean I wished him the best, but he was in pain, they all were. I tried my best to help him, I did his school work when he didn't want to, I spoke to him as much as I could and I hugged him too. Stefan was hurt and didn't talk to anyone apart from me, and him moving meant he had no one to talk to. I tried to call as much as I could, but eventually it wasn't enough, I felt like I let him down.

Damon started drinking more, and started sleeping around, were as before he would help around the house, I guess Stefan took on that role. As for Lexi, she took it pretty hard, she was the main reason they left, she cried every night for her mum, and would have a tantrum over the stupidest things, she only let family hold her or talk to her, when others tried to help she would scream. Because my dad was a doctor and their family doctor he calmed her down, and she trusted him.

She wanted a motherly figure and living with boys was hard, so she would either got to me or my mum. We would sing her to sleep and cuddle her when she cried. And when she left I could only imagine it wouldn't get easier.

I wore my light pink casual dress for tonight. Vikki didn't come over because Lexi never really liked her, and it's best to be safe. We all sat down waiting for the Salvatore's and when the doorbell rang my father was first to greet them. Stefan's dad Giuseppe Salvatore walked in first with a smile, and held Lexi's hand, he wore a suit like he usually did and she wore a pretty blue dress. Giuseppe spoke "Do you remember doctor Grayson, Lexi?" he asked her and she nodded and smiled slightly.

My dad used to visit them once a month to check on them all especially Lexi. You might say that my dad was close to the Salvatore's, but he was close with everyone, he tried his best to help as much as he could.

When Stefan and I drifted apart yeah it was weird, but I would still have to see him, because that's what my family did. The only major memories I have of Stefan is when we kissed and when his mum died. After his mum died even though Stefan and I weren't close friends I was still there for him, no one else was, or maybe that's my father's genetics.

My dad didn't tell us much about them over the years though.

My mum stood up and walked over to Lexi and bent down to her height "Hey Lexi, remember me darling?" Lexi nodded "A little bit" she said, Lexi was smart, she had a good memory. Damon walked in carrying a desert with a small smile on his face. "Good evening Gilbert family" he smiled at all of us. "Elena take the cake out of Damon's hands and show him his seat" my dad spoke. I nodded, "you didn't have to get this Giuseppe" my dad said "it's the least I could do" Giuseppe said back. I took the cake from Damon, and said "follow me"

I placed the cake in the fridge and pointed to his seat, he smiled and sat down. I look back at my mum and dad and see Stefan beside his dad. I smile at him and he smiles back, he walks over to me. "Good evening Elena" he says, he was so polite in front of his father or just in general. "Good evening Stefan, you get the pleasure of sitting next to me tonight" I smirk. "Oh goody" he says. We both sit down and wait for the dinner to begin.

Dinner was great; Giuseppe caught us all up to date with their life as did we, with a bit of Damon's silly comments. Stefan had been doing well at school, he got a sports award and was a B student and sometimes got A's. They all seemed to move on with the death, although they missed her still, they learned to live life without her. Damon was still drinking just not as bad as before, and Stefan did take on more adult roles as he didn't have his mother to look out for him anymore. Lexi, soon got over her troubles and made new friends and grew up, she learnt new things, and loved books and painting. He even told about how one day Lexi painted the door pink to make it pretty, we all laughed. She still remembered us which I was happy about, she was a great kid.

It was really great all of us catching up. Damon and Jeremy got along, just like before. My dad and Giuseppe got on just great as well and started loosening up a bit towards the end of the night, having a couple of drinks, my mum was great with everyone, staring conversations with everyone. She usually spoke to Stefan's mum, but she was fine with talking to the men.

After dinner the adults stayed at the table and chatted some more. Damon and Jeremy went outside and played some football or whatever. Lexi sat in our lounge room and watched a Disney movie. And Stefan and I went up to my room to chat.

"Hasn't changed much" he said smiling walking in my room. I feel like this is his way of small talk. "Well all the embarrassing posters of boys are gone now, and my quilt cover has changed, and I bought new pillows." I say.

"Yeah but that stupid teddy bear is still there" he says pointing to the teddy bear on my bed, "I'm never getting rid of him, I will always have him" I say and sit on my bed holding my teddy bear. You're never too old for a teddy bear. He smiles and sits down next to me.

"So any secrets you wanna tell me that your parents already didn't" he smirked. I laugh, my parents had spilled some personal stuff down there. "Nope, how about you" I ask.

"Well my father did fail to mention I got expelled from school" he says smiling to himself. "Yeah Caroline mentioned something like that today" I say

"her mum must have told her, oh well" he lies on his back. I cross my legs, "why did you get expelled?"
"I got sick of them all, so I hit some guys and trashed my principal's car" he says it like it's no big deal. "Jesus, Stefan"

"The school was crap any way, every girl was a slut and every guy was as dumb as fuck. The teachers were shit and the principal blamed me for everything, he didn't even care about my well-being. So I trashed his car, he deserved it" he says simply, I was a bit taken back by his swearing but i shrugged it off "that makes sense" I say and I laugh a little.

He laughs too, "don't worry, I haven't turned bad, I just got sick of it all, the school was getting shut down any way. I'm still a good little boy." He says the last sentence with sarcasm. I roll my eyes. "It's okay, I believe you" we laugh for a couple of seconds, we continue our small chat and this little banter for a couple of minutes

Then the room goes silent.

You could hear both of us breathing and our minds ticking, with questions and little things that we each wanted to say but couldn't say out loud. The room was almost deathly silent apart from the occasionally laughter that sounded like a buzz of everyone down stairs.

"Stefan?" I break the silence "Mmm?" he answers back almost humming.

"I'm sorry I wasn't there for you…" I say quietly, but still louder than a whisper. He sits up and looks at me confused.

"You did as much as you could Elena, I moved away. We had to move on" he said smiling slightly.

"I- I just feel like I failed you" I look at him deeply, "What did I say Elena? You are not a failure and you could never fail me." He smiles and winks at me. Remembering what he said to me all those years ago. We may not have been best friends, but we were still friends, and family friends. I still cared for him. "Okay." I smile

He laughs out loud "I really missed you Elena" he smiles, and hugs me. I hug him back "I missed you too Stefan."

Once the Salvatore family leave, we all clean up and get ready for bed.

As I lay in bed I can't stop smiling. I really missed Stefan and I was glad he was back, we caught up, and it was great. I will love this senior year, because he is here.

So I finally close my eyes and snuggle my teddy bear, and hope for sweet dreams, not at all like last night's dream. Maybe I'll dream of Stefan. Yeah I like dreaming about him.

It's been a month since Stefan came back, he and his family are settling back in well, as though they never left.

Stefan got into the football team, and hangs out with Matt and Tyler now. He seems happy, just like he used to be. We have two classes together; history and math.

We still talk a bit, but yeah things are great.

Nathan eventually came up to me and got angry at me, but I stood my ground, and told him to leave me alone so he did, every now and then I notice him staring at me. But other than that he doesn't speak to me, I'm glad I don't have any classes with him, he probably does all the boring classes I don't understand. I wanted to remain friends with him but I guess we can't even be friends, were better off that way.

Like Stefan said he isn't the bad guy, he pays attention in class and is one of the good kids.

I'm sitting at our lunch table talking to Bonnie about our upcoming assessment, and Caroline is painting her nails. After about 10 minutes we hear Caroline squeal, we look up and see Tyler wrapping his arms around Caroline kissing her neck. Matt and Stefan are behind him, Matt sits next to me "Hey guys what you up to?" he starts picking at our food.

Stefan moves a bit closer but stands up the whole time. "We are going through our math assessment." Bonnie says slightly irritated at Matt picking at her food and interrupting us. "Oh yeah" he says. "I haven't even started" he laughs to himself, I roll my eyes "Well good luck with passing" Bonnie says smiling, "I'll probably get a better mark than you" he pokes his tongue at her. "You're a dumbass jock you don't even know what one plus one is" she says jokingly. They continue this playful banter, while I and Stefan occasionally smile at each other.

We've been doing that a lot lately, smiling at each other. We smile at each other in the classes we share and whenever we see each other at lunch. It's as though we are having a conversation without talking. It's like he understands me. I've never felt that way with someone before.

"Will you two shut up" Tyler says, he now has Caroline on his lap, and she has one arm around his neck. Caroline giggles and starts a conversation.

"Hey did you guys hear about this weekend's Bonfire?" she asks excitedly. Before we can answer she continues "you should all come it's going to be amazing, there will be hot guys and hot girls, and we can get wasted" she gets hyper

"Can't wait, I'll be there" Matt says

"I'm coming babe" Tyler says kissing her cheek.

Bonnie rolls her eyes and nods "Sure I'll come"

"I'd love to Car" I say smiling at Stefan, he smiles too "yeah I'll be there" Stefan says

"Great! Can't wait!" Caroline squeals. The boys get up and begin to leave, Tyler kisses Caroline one last time and Stefan says "see you there Elena" they turn around and walk of. I'll see you there Stefan.

I may not have particularly wanted to go to the bonfire but Caroline would kill me if I didn't. So its Saturday night. And we are here standing in a small group that consist of me, Bonnie, Caroline, Tyler and this random guy from football Andrew.

Jeremy is here to with his friends and Vikki.

We all exchange small talk for a while, but then Tyler whispers something into Caroline's ear and she giggles, and just like that they walk off. Andrew smiles politely at us and then wonders off when he notices someone he knows.

So I and Bonnie get a drink, and we talk for a bit.

"Should we just leave because Caroline won't notice as she is doing who knows what with Tyler." I ask and we both laugh. "No don't leave, you party poopers" Matt says from behind us, he walks over to us with Stefan and they both have a beer in their hands.

"Is Vikki here 'Lena?" matt asks, I nod. "Yeah she's with Jer. Seen any hot girls yet?" I ask smirking, "Yeah about four, but only one has both a perfect ass and perfect tits" he says, I roll my eyes at his stupidness.

Then Bonnie asks "How about you Stefan?" Really bonnie? He smirks and laughs a bit, god that laugh.

"Nope" he answers with a pop at the end, then matt hits him "are you blind dude?" matt asks. I'm a bit surprised by Stefan's answer. There are some good looking girls here, which I thought he would have liked. "They are okay looking just not my type" Stefan says.

"Okay looking?!" Matt huffs "Girls aren't your type Stefan?!" Matt says a bit loudly and annoyed with a hint of sarcasm, which I find funny. All of us laugh except for Matt; I think he is starting to get drunk.

"Whatever dude." he says waing his hand "Hey bonbon could you come with me to get marshmallows?" he asks,

Bonnie's nick name is 'bonbon'

She laughs "Yeah sure, I'll be back guys." As they walk of Matt wraps his arm around her shoulder and leans on her for support, yep he is defiantly drunk.

Stefan and I laugh at him as they walk of. "So you enjoying your night?" he asks I nod and take a sip of my drink "You?" he nods too and takes a sip of his drink.

I watch him for a bit, Stefan and I have gotten closer this past month, I'm glad we are back to being friends. But it's different from last time we were friends, to me he was just a friend. But now I see him differently I notice his muscles when he moves, I notice how perfect his lips move when he talks, I notice his amazing green eyes, and everything about him has become more attractive. Don't get me wrong he has always been good looking but I didn't really pay much attention to his perfect features until now.

"So you really didn't see and hot girls?" I ask "Nope" he answers.

"You sure"

"Yep I'm sure"

"I won't tell anyone, you can trust me" he smiles "None"

"Not even one?" I ask, he bits his lip and turns his head the side and puts one of his fingers to his mouth, indicating that he is thinking. "Maybe there is one" he says, "Who! Who?" I ask almost bouncing; the alcohol is getting to me.

"Well she is hot but I consider her more as beautiful, I don't really like calling girls hot" just then my heart melts, he is so sweet, this girl would be lucky to have him.

"Promise you won't tell anyone" he says with a smile. "I pinky promise" I say holding out my pinky and winking at him, he takes my pinky with his and shakes it.

"It's a bit embarrassing" he says his cheeks slightly burning up. "Just say it Stefan" I say nudging him a little. He sighs and smiles and looks at me for a moment, I'm smiling in anticipation.

"You, you look beautiful" he says gently.

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