Ariana Gilbert

Chapter 2: Friday Night Bites Part 2

Ariana P.O.V

Elena and I had just finished cooking dinner, and during that time Bonnie had made an appearance, she had gasped and jumped all over me and I welcomed the attention with open arms and a cheeky grin. As we were setting up the table, the doorbell rang.
"Hmmm, I wonder who that could be, I better go and answer that." I cheekily stated. Flashing Elena an innocent smile, to which she just rolled her eyes and huffed at me. I pranced over to the door, flattening my hair as much as I could and after taking a deep breath, and putting on my best Elena posture, I opened the door with a huge smile.
"Hiya Stefan!" I greeted, flashing an Elena smile. His smile, froze for a moment, and a look of confusion fell upon his gorgeous face, before understanding seeped into his eyes.
"Hello Ariana, it's great to finally meet you." I gasped in shock.
"YOU ARN'T HUMAN!" I yelled, shocking him. He stood stunned for a moment, before a horrified, guilty and slightly uncomfortable look etched itself upon his face. He opened his mouth about to reply before I cut him off.
"You must be an alien! You're the first person to ever tell us apart after a first meeting, how is this possible!" I accused him, half impressed and half annoyed that I had been out smarted and my brilliant acting had failed. He looked momentarily relieved before smirking at me, and stepping into the house.
"No I am not an alien, Elena has told me a lot about you, especially about your great sense of humor," he smiled charmingly at me and gave me a wink. Swooooon… Elena is one lucky bitch, I like this guy already.
"Ahhh compliments, I do love those.. Well StefMan, I think you and I will become greaaaaaat friends." I stated confidently, he smiled at me and nodded, as we made our way into the kitchen. We all sat down for dinner, and Elena started up a boring conversation about family history, to which I tuned out of. I sat there staring at my empty plate and wondering where all of the food had suddenly gone. I most defiantly did not eat it all so quickly, nope defiantly not, it must have been Elena. That stupid bitch ate my dinner. I turned to glare at her, to which she shot me a look of confusion. I was about to tell her to hand over her half-finished dinner and let me eat it seeing as she ate mine without me noticing but I was cut off by the doorbell. So instead of yelling at her I got up to answer the door. I pulled the door open with a huge sigh, and outside stood my good friend Caroline and one gorgeous dark haired, blue eyed man who stared at me with longing.
"Hello Caroline, did you miss me!?" I smirked. Silence..
"Ariana!" She shrieked before throwing herself at me. The dark haired man's face showed confusion. He stepped forward and cleared his throat.
"I'm Damon and you are?" he smartly asked. I smirked at him.
"I'm Ariana obviously, were you not just listening?" his own smirk widened. We were having a mini stare off, when Stefan suddenly appeared, looking panicked.
"Damon, what are you doing here?" he asked staring straight at him. I glance between the two, looking for a form of connection, when I started to notice similar features.
"Are you two related?" I asked with a confused look. Stefan stopped staring at Damon, long enough to glance at me in panic.
"Err, yeah, this is my brother Damon, Damon this is Elena's twin sister Ariana." He nervously introduced us. I shot him a confused look, before holding out my hand for Damon to take.
"Nice to meet you." I smiled at him.
"You as well, Stefan never mentioned that Elena had a twin sister." He replied, shooting Stefan a meaningful look attached with a smirk.
"Yeah well, I have been in New York for a couple of months, having some time away, but I'm back now." I stated, trying to resist the temptation to stare at his well-toned body, and gorgeous soulful eyes. He was about to reply, when Stefan quickly cut across.
"What are you doing here Damon?" I turned to see Stefan still staring intensely at him. Elena joined us at the door, and looked surprise by Damon and Caroline being here too. Caroline stepped inside and handed Elena a dessert that she had brought, however Damon remained outside, staring intently at Stefan who seemed to be trying to silently tell him something.
"Waiting for either Ariana or Elena to invite me in" Damon finally replied to Stefan.
"Oh, yeah of course you can-"
"No, no." Stefan cut me off –rude much?- "He can't erm - he cant stay, can you Damon?" he stuttered.
"Get in here" Caroline piped up.
'We're just finishing up" Stefan stated, shooting a desperate pleading look at Elena.
"Its fine, come on in" She stated giving Stefan a confused look. Damon stepped inside, keeping his eyes on me with every move. I stared almost stuck in a trance until he sent Stefan a smirk.
"You have a lovely home" he said to Elena and me, but focusing only on me.
"Thank you" Elena replied, I just stood there staring at him like an idiot. Before Elena grabbed my arm and dragged me into the lounge room, the rest of them following us. He sat opposite me next to Caroline, and sent me a smirk. I turned my head in embarrassment, annoyed that I had been caught staring. I was listening in and out of the conversation, that was until I heard the name Katherine. Wondering who she possible could be.
"I cannot believe Mr Tanner put you on the team, Tyler must be seething." Caroline said as she laughed. "But good for you, go for it!" she smiled at Stefan.
"That's what I always tell him, you have to engage, you can't just sit there and wait for life to come to you, you have to go get it!" Damon spoke extremely patronising to Stefan and this did not go unnoticed by him. I stared between them wondering if this Katherine person was the reason behind their obvious hatred for one another. It seem to me as though they both dated her, but I wondered who dated her first. Hah, what a tragic story, a love triangle. Move over Bella Swan, here comes Katherine and the Salvatore Brothers. God I'm funny, I should be a comedian.
"Yeah Elena wasn't so lucky today, it's only because you missed summer camp." Caroline said, I glanced up after silently laughing and praising myself on my amazing sense of humor. I stared at her annoyed, Damon must have been rubbing off on her because she was patronising too. "And Ariana….I don't know how you're ever going to catch up with the routines." She turned to me.
"I don't ever plan to." I muttered, glaring at her.
"I'll work with them." Bonnie spoke up.
"I guess we can put them at the back…." Caroline muttered to herself. Me and Elena both exchanged glances of annoyance.
"Like I said, I don't plan to catch up, so count me out, I'm going to clear the table." I said as I got up. I gathered up all the plates and moved to the kitchen where I started putting them into the dish washer. I turned around to get another plate when suddenly Damon was right in front of me. I hadn't even heard him come in; I jumped and put my hand over my chest. "Do you always do that?" I asked him as I tried to recover.
"Do what?" He asked. I rolled my eyes in annoyance, to which he offered me a smirk.
"Sneak up on people." I replied. I had gotten over my star struck from earlier.
"You could have killed me. My heart was beating so fast." I declared, glaring at him.
"I'm terribly sorry Aria" he whispered softly to me, sending me a wink and a smirk, I blanched at his cute little nick name, and though I hated to admit it, even to myself, I quite like it.
"Well, make sure it doesn't happen again." I huffed.
"I brought you this." He held up a glass, I went to take it from him, but it slipped out of my hands, I waited to hear the sound of it smashing, but Damon caught it with a quick reflex before it hit the ground.
I see. Another Alien! I laughed at my own joke, I'm so funny. Like I said a comedian in the making.
He smirked and leaned back. "I like you, you know how to laugh." I just nodded awkwardly hoping he didn't secretly think I was crazy for laughing at myself, as I loaded the dish washer.
I closed the dishwasher. My curiosity got the better off me.
"Earlier….did you mean….Katherine?" I asked him.
"Mmhmm." He replied as if he was waiting for me to bring her up.
"How did she die? If you don't mind me asking."
"Fire, tragedy." He responded simply.
"Recently?" I asked him using this alone time to get information out of him so I could report back to my twin. I was a good twin, and she better appreciate all of the decent things I do for her.
"Seems like it was yesterday." He replied.
"What was she like?" I asked out of curiosity, wondering how she had him so wrapped around her finger.
"She was beautiful, a lot like you in that department." Smooth, real smooth. Don't blush, don't blush, I said to myself. He smirked knowing what reaction he had caused. I silently cursed him,
"She was also very complicated, selfish, at times not very kind, but sexy and seductive."
I stepped forward which he took as an invitation to step closer to me too, we were like magnets in that moment, but then it then hit me. "So, which one of you dated her first?" I asked him and from the look on his face, I knew I was right, I couldn't help but smirk, ahhh what a genius I am, I should win an award for my fantastic observation skills.
"Ask Stefan, although his answer will probably be different to mine." He answered somewhat annoyed.
"I'm asking you." I replied quickly and coolly.
"hmm quick witted, I like that in a woman" he smirked at me, making me blush crimson.
"You haven't put the dishwasher on yet, have you?" I turned to see Elena bringing in a plate, snapping me out of my embarrassment, and I quickly looked away from him to give my twin my undivided attention, silently cursing Damon for affecting me so much, Damon chuckled to himself and looked down, leaning back against the counter.
"No, I haven't" I replied, taking the plate from her and loading it in. She smiled and left. I was about to follow in her lead, but Damon's voice stopped me.
"I would quit cheerleading if I were you." Damon said, taking a seat at the kitchen table.
"Oh I was planning on it, did you not hear me before? But why would you say that?" I asked, not daring to make eye contact with him in fear I would get caught up in them again.
"I saw your face when Caroline brought it up, you looked miserable."
"You saw that?"
"Am I wrong?"
"It's one of those things I used to love, but things are different this year." I said as I was folding a towel that did not need to be folded, anything to avoid making eye contact with him.
"Everything that mattered doesn't seem to matter anymore." I told him, I had no idea why I was telling him.
"So don't let it, quit." He told me. "Move on, problem solved….tadar." I finally looked at him.
"Oh I plan to."
"hmm, very self-sufficient." He chuckled to himself and looked down.
"I'm sorry." He titled his head in confusion.
"About Katherine." His facial expression softened, and he seemed to look at me in a new light, almost, dare I say it, lovingly.
"You lost her, too." He stared at me, with the same look, he also look as if he was trying to read me. I was too caught up in his eyes to even start to blush, at the intense look I was receiving.
Our trance was broken by Bonnie and Elena. "Do you need some help?"
"Erm," I lost the words. "yeah." I answered dumbly. I looked down at Damon and then stepped away from him, realising how close I was leaning to him. That smirk finally returned on his face and he stood up and walked towards the door, but stopped before completely leaving the room. He sent me a wink and walked out. I blushed profusely.
"What was that?" Bonnie asked me suspiciously.
"What was what?" I asked dumbly. Oh, boy, I was in soooo much trouble. Don't make eye contact Ari, don't give in.
"You have been back here five minutes-"
"Hold on just one second!" I cut her off knowing where she was going with this. "I can't believe what you are about to accuse me of! What do you think I am!?" I sent her false hurt. God could you be more obvious Ariana.
"I saw that look, Ari!"
"I don't know what you are talking about…"
"You know what look." She smirked. I glared at her.
"Clearly you are seeing things that are not there.. Do you need to get glasses Bon Bon?" I asked patronizingly,
"He is Caroline's boyfriend." I smirked to myself. Hah got you now bitch.
"I do not need glasses! But I will be watching you." She stated evily.
"Go ahead; you will see there is nothing there." I stated. Half trying to convince her as well as myself.
"Mmm."
"Don't, mmm, me Bonnie Bennett, or so help me god, you will go on my list!" I glared.
"Oh no not the list, however will I survive!" she mocked me. Oh she is soo not in my good books now, on the list she goes… I glared at her, before storming out of the kitchen, looking for Elena so she can yell at Bonnie for me.

Stefan's P.O.V

Damon had stepped back into the room before I could see the marks I knew he had left on Caroline. He had sent her to the kitchen to help Elena, Ariana and Bonnie do the dishes. He had spent a long time in the kitchen with Elena's twin Ariana. It worried me; he had definitely been intrigued by her resemblance to Katherine. He knew he couldn't get to Elena, he thinks my guard will be down with Ariana, but I will protect her to protect Elena.
"They are people Damon, she's not a puppet, she doesn't exist for your amusement for you to feed on her whenever you want to."
"Sure she does, they all do, they're whatever I want them to be. They're mine for the taking." Damon replied, I needed to get through to him, I needed him to go. I couldn't put Elena or her sister at risk. "From what I hear, I've already created quite the impression of my dear, Ariana."
"Alright you've had your fun, you used Caroline, you got to me and Elena, good for you, now it's time to go. Don't make me ask again, Damon. "
"That's a problem, because I have been invited in and I will come back tomorrow night, and the following night, and I will do with your little girlfriend's twin whatever I want to do, because that is what is normal to me." He said sternly.
"I bet she tastes delicious."
"Stay away from Ariana, Damon." I told him sternly.
"You know what? I don't think I will." He stood up and started walking towards the door.
"She is not Katherine."
He stopped and turned around.
"She's the next best thing." I turned my head as I saw Ariana walk out from the kitchen. Damon looked over her like she was his next meal; he turned back to me and winked, before leaving the house he was entitled to be in.
I needed to protect them both from Damon.