3 MONTHS LATER
Damon was sitting at the bar in the grille when he heard a familiar voice. He slowly turned around and saw Elena sitting with two other girls who must have been her friends he thought. She caught him looking at her and he gave her a flirty smile.
Elena blushed and gave a flirty smile back. Elena stopped staring at him to look to her friend. Damon turned back around and put his full attention on his drink. That was his plan until he overheard their conversation about him.
"Elena, who is that?" Caroline asked.
Elena decided to play dumb "What do you mean?"
Bonnie frowned and cocked her head "Really? Did you think Caroline and I didn't notice you two staring at each other flirtatiously?"
Elena started to stutter "I-I don't what your talking about"
Caroline got an idea in her head "Really? So if I go bring him over here, you won't start turning beat red again?"
Elena knew she was screwed and looked away from Caroline "No, I won't." She looked back up to see Caroline talking to Damon. Her eyes widened and she began to panic.
"Don't know what were talking about my ass, Elena" Bonnie said while laughing. Elena was already starting to blush and Bonnie's comment wasn't helping.
Caroline tapped Damon on the shoulder. He turned around "Hello beautiful" Now Caroline was blushing but quickly snapped out of it. "My friend over there thinks your hot." When Damon looked over at Elena and Bonnie, he saw Elena trying to hide her face and Bonnie laughing at her.
Damon smirked. Damon was about to speak but Caroline interrupted him "You should come sit with us! Get to know her, she has been through a lot in these last few months."
'yea I know! Her parents died I rescued her' Damon thought. He sighed and got up and followed Caroline to the table. Caroline stopped half way there. "What is your name?"
"Damon. Damon Salvatore" Caroline smiled and continued walking to the table.
When she got there, Elena still had her face buried as Caroline went to make the introductions. "This is Bonnie" Bonnie smiled. "And this one is Elena" Elena sighed and brought her head up to smile at Damon.
"And girls, this is Damon Salvatore" Caroline went to sit down and pointed at the chair across from Elena "Damon sit down." He did as told.
"So, Damon what brings you to Mystic Falls?" Bonnie said
"I was born here but moved away when I was still young. Now, I guess I just decided I want to come back here. This town, its, very welcoming" Damon said with a smirk.
Elena's phone beeped. She pulled her phone out of her bag and received a text from Bonnie that said:
B "Ask him to the Bonfire"
Elena looked up at Bonnie who had an evil grin on her face. Elena texted back "No"
Bonnie glared at her and decided to take matters into her own hands.
"So, Damon. Have you heard of the Bonfire party that we throw every year?"
"I have not, tell me about it" Damon said with a grin. Elena went back to turning red, she knew where Bonnie was going with this.
"Well, its in the woods, and its a lot of fun. We throw it everywhere when we come back for school..."
Caroline interrupted Bonnie "...and theres alcohol. lots and lot of alcohol."
Damon nodded his head. He looked at Elena, "Are you going?"
Elena went to speak but Bonnie stopped her "Of course she is"
Elena looked at Bonnie and smiled. "I guess I am...if your interested in coming, did you maybe...want to...go together?" Elena said nervously.
"I would love to go with you" Damon gave her that flirty smile again which made Elena turn bright red.
"Ok, um..." Elena pulled a pen out and wrote on a napkin her address and phone number, "...heres my number and address."
She handed it to Damon who took it and smiled "thank you, can I see your pen?" Elena handed her pen to Damon and wrote his number down on a napkin. "Heres my number and I live at the Salvatore boarding house." He handed it to Elena.
"Did you want me to come pick you up?" Damon asked.
"Sure, is 6:30 ok?"
Damon smiled, "Of course it is"
"Ok great! Well, I have to get going. It was nice to meet you Damon." Elena went to shake his hand, Damon leaned forward and took it and kissed her hand. "Great meeting you to Elena" Elena smiled and walked off.
Bonnie and Caroline left the grille shortly after. Damon stayed at the bar for a while longer then went back to the boarding house.
The whole drive to his house he couldn't stop smiling. Elena made him feel human for the first time in 145 years. He began to question himself if he still wanted Katherine back. The first time he was with Elena, the pain of loosing Katherine in the fire, when in reality she was locked in the tomb, went away. This time, his love for Katherine, started diminishing. The more he thought of Elena, the less he missed Katherine. He thought that maybe he was moving on from Katherine. Although, if he ever started any relationship with Elena, he would feel he would have to tell her about her resemblance to Katherine, which will probably make her want to end the relationship.
Damon arrived at the house and sighed at all of his thoughts. He got out of his car and went to his room. He turned on his T.V. to the news channel who apparently found the body that he drained the smorning.
That was another problem, Elena was making his humanity trying to push itself to the surface. It was fighting the predator inside him who apparently was loosing. He decided to allow his humanity win, so he turned his emotions on.
The good thing about Damon was that even with his humanity back, he never felt any guilt from killing anyone. He started to feel the pain of watching his father take away Katherine. The anger he had for his brother exposing Katherine came back. He was waiting for his love for Katherine to come back but when he felt the love emotion come back, it wasn't Katherine that he pictured. It was Elena.
It became clear, he wasn't going to try and get Katherine out of the tomb. She never loved him anyway. He decided that he wanted to see where his relationship with Elena is going.
He smiled at the thought of it. He jumped in bed, turned off his T.V. and read his 'Gone With the Wind' book for about half an hour. Then, he shut off the lights and fell asleep thinking about Elena.
