Elena woke up at around 7:15 no matter how late she went to bed, but she needed to get ready. She had to be at the store by 9:30 to start the setting up. It was around 8:00 am when Elena was making her self a bowl of cereal and Stefan walked in. He didn't have his suit jacket on and his button down shirt sleeves were rolled up to his forearm and for some reason, Elena almost let out a cry. It was the sexiest thing in the world when guys do that with their shirts. For some reason or another, she just absolutely couldn't handle it. Her eyes averted from his quickly and went back to cutting the strawberries she wanted to put on her cereal. Her hands were shaky but she quickly got it done.

"Good morning." He said, opening the cabinet and taking out a breakfast bar. Of course, there he is eating something that won't get all over him and she's there with cereal and the milk that could possibly slip down in between her breasts when she drools over how hot he is.

"Morning." She smiled at him quickly and moved to the island where five chairs were lined up so that it could be sat at.

"What time do you have to be at work?" He asked, trying to make small talk.

"Uh, like 9:30," She told him. She almost delicately put a spoon full of cereal in her mouth. Nothing spilled or dripped so she was okay. She made sure she swallowed and moved her tongue around in her mouth so she made she didn't have any showing in her teeth. "What about you?" She asked.

"9," He answered, taking a bite of his bar. She nodded, not really knowing what else to say. "So, what's going on with you, you know besides work, which your obviously successful in," He asked her.

Elena opened her mouth to say something but then closed it quickly because she wanted to say something else. "Everything's good," She told him while spooning some more of her cereal.

"That's good." He nodded. He wanted to ask if she was seeing anybody, but that was a little too forward for only their second day back with each other. Again, they stayed silent for another minute or two as Elena tried hard not to chew loudly so she didn't seem like a pig. Even though when they were younger he saw her eat messier foods than cereal and didn't care.

Elena decided she was done and cleaned her bowl. "I have to go get ready still," She told him and walked out of them kitchen. She didn't know why things seemed so awkward between them. Did either of them do something to cause the awkwardness? She had no idea. They used to tell each other everything. Maybe it was because of the long time and distance away from each other, threw them off. She quickly shut the door and leaned against it.

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Elena left a little bit after Stefan, but stayed in her room until he left. She called her driver and he quickly got there. She wore a white, dramatic sleeve lace up top and paired it with black, basic Ponte leggings. Her shoes were Julienna mesh booties with at least five-inch heel.

She got to her store soon and walked in to meet her assistant. "Hey Amanda," Elena waved and smiled. "I'll be down in like five minutes, I just want to put all this stuff away," She told her and referred to the office stuff she bought before she came.

"Okay," Amanda said, smiling at her while folding a shirt. She went in the back and noticed there was this lobby type thing with stares and an elevator. She went in the elevator and pressed the button for the eighth floor. There were ten floors because some of the floors were the sewing and assembling the clothes rooms and then the other floors were offices. Her office is on the eighth floor obviously. She walked in and noticed, first thing, a big view of central park because the back of the building was facing that way and since she is up a little high, she had a clear picture of it. Her office was a nice size, she could easily fit a couch and desk and chairs.

She put the stuff on the desk. The desk bended at the corner and her computer was on the part that was against the wall while her papers and calendar were on the part that was open to the front where she would put the chairs.

As soon as Elena was done, she went back down to the store and started helping Amanda. Amanda was her assistant when they were in LA and then since Elena had to go to New York, Amanda came with her.

"How are you?" Elena asked as she folded some clothes to start putting them on the display tables.

"I'm good." She nodded. Elena smiled at her.

"How's the boyfriend?" She asked with a smirk. Amanda doesn't only work for Elena, but they are really good friends.

Amanda smiled widely and looked down at the shirt she was folding. "He's good. Really good." She told her. Elena could see the redness take up Amanda's cheeks when she finally looked up at her.

Elena smiled at her. "That's good."

Amanda nodded again and stayed quiet for a minute before asking about what Elena told her about Stefan and all of her other friends. "How's your crush?" Amanda asked, and smirked just like Elena did.

Elena tilted her head to the side a little with a small smile on her mouth. "He's good. And hotter than I remember." She laughed. "No, I mean, he asked me to stay with him until my apartment is done and like I kept refusing but he kept insisting saying that I shouldn't have to stay in a hotel." Elena told her.

"Weren't you at the international?" Amanda asked confused.

Elena nodded. "Yes. But he kept insisting so I agreed and now I'm staying with him for the next three days." She shrugged and grabbed a few hangers to hang to hang the jumpsuits.

"You know what that means?" Amanda asked knowingly. Elena looked over at her with furrowed brows and shaking her head no. "You underestimated how much you think he likes you." She told her.

Elena made a 'your crazy' face to Amanda. "He doesn't like me like that. He never has, so why would he start now?" Elena asked her.

"Because, obviously you changed since you were fifteen!" Amanda exclaimed. Elena shook her head not believing her still and kept hanging the jumpsuits. "And maybe you just didn't realize how much he liked you when you guys were younger," She said.

Elena stopped hanging the jumpsuits and turned to look at Amanda. "He was hot when we were younger, even though I said he got hotter, he was hot, okay? All the girls wanted him. He never looked at me as more than a friend, ever." Elena assured her.

"Whatever," Amanda said and stopped arguing. Elena shook her head and turned away from her. What if Amanda was right? What if he actually always loved her too?

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At her break time, she went to go see her parents. She caught up with them for about an hour and then she had to get back to work. Her parents always went to LA to visit her; she didn't come back to New York. If she came back to New York she would probably want to stay there because of how much she missed it and she wasn't allowed to drop out of the fashion school like she dropped out of her high school.

Elena came back to her store and saw a lot of things set up already. She smiled and just thought about how fun this is going to be once the store opens. She spent the rest of the day in her office doing paperwork for the store. Before she knew it, it was 6:30. Elena packed up all her things and got in the backseat of the car with her driver in the front.

She got to Stefan's pent house and went straight to the kitchen or a glass of water. When she got in there, Stefan was in there too and he again had his sleeves rolled up to his elbow. God, does he ever have long sleeves on without them being rolled up?

He turned towards her when he heard her coming in. "Hey," Stefan said.

Elena smiled at him. "Hi," She said back to him.

"Are you hungry?" He asked her.

"Uh, no, I just wanted a glass of water." She told him. "Where are the glasses?" She asked.

He smiled at her. "I'll get it." He told her and opened a cabinet to get the glass and fill it with water for Elena.

"Thank you," She said as he handed the glass to her. She took a sip of it and looked back at him. "I got a call today, that my apartment will be done tomorrow and I can move in. So, thanks for letting me stay here." She said and started walking out. As she walked past him he grabbed her arm and spun her around to face him. "Whoa," She gasped.

He smiled at her and brought his lips close to hers. She couldn't breath then. Like, she tired to breath in but the air wasn't coming in right. He moved closer and his lips were brushing against hers. Soon, he was kissing her. Elena's eyes widened before she started kissing back. This was actually happening. Her and Stefan Salvatore were making out. She didn't even know why he started kissing her anyway. Then she thought about maybe it's just because she looks different from eight years ago. Maybe that's the only reason. She quickly broke apart form him and covered her mouth.

"I'm sorry," She said and walked out of the room. He sighed and leaned against the counter with his hand on his forehead. Why would he do that? He knew she never like him back why would he think that she did?

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Elena sat on her bed with her head in her hands. He never had an attraction to her when they were fifteen and now all of a sudden he does? She couldn't understand. "So stupid." She whispered to herself.

She didn't want to all anyone of her friends because she didn't know if they would care that much. Well, of course they would care, but they never knew about her little crush on Stefan so they would be surprised and would get over excited and blab it out to everyone.

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It was the next morning and Elena avoided Stefan whenever she saw him. Stefan didn't blame her. Elena waited until Stefan left for work to call some people to come help move her stuff. She didn't want to call a moving truck, so she decided to call Tyler and Matt instead. Not Damon, not right now where one Salvatore is messing with her.

Matt and Tyler got over to Stefan's about ten minutes after Elena called. "Hey," She sighed as she saw them walk through the elevator doors.

"Hey," They both said.

"Sorry, for this short notice, but yesterday I found out my apartment was going to be ready today," She told them while picking up some bags.

Tyler shook his head. "No problem, but why didn't you ask Stefan to help?" He asked her, also picking up some bags.

Elena looked away from them, not knowing how to answer him. "Uh, he had to be a work, I didn't want to bother him too." She said shakily. They both noticed her shaky voice and decided not to say something about it. Yet. So, instead they both nodded.

They were in the car with Elena in the passenger seat and Matt driving with Tyler in the back. "So, uh, why didn't you ask Stefan to help?" Tyler asked again.

"Didn't I-?" She started to ask but got cut off my Matt.

"Come on, Elena. We know you were lying." He told her, quickly looking at her and then back in front of him.

She looked out the window, deciding on whether she should tell them or not. "We had a little, encounter in the kitchen yesterday." She told them.

"Did you guys have sex or make out?" Tyler asked bluntly.

Elena stayed quiet with her cheeks turning slightly red. "We made out that was it!" She assured them. "But, you don't know why it means so much to me because you're not going to understand. Your guys." She told them.

"Who kissed who first?" Matt asked her.

"Stefan kissed me first." She said quietly.

Matt looked at Tyler through the review mirror with eye contact like they were talking to each other with out using words. "We knew it!" Tyler exclaimed.

"What?" Elena asked

"He's always denied that he likes you, Elena. Ever since seventh grade." Matt told her. "After we knew that dare kiss was both of your first kisses, and noticed how happy Stefan was about it, we knew he liked you." He explained.

She shook her head while looking out the window. "He never liked me more than a friend and both of you know it." She said.

"That's false!" Tyler almost screamed. "Stefan has been in love with you since eighth grade, Elena! But he always thought that you never liked him as more than a friend!" He said.

"Did you? Did you like him as more than a friend?" Matt asked with a smirk.

"Why am I even talking to you guys about this? This is something the girls and I should be talking about!" She told them.

"Yeah, well, you called us." Tyler laughed as he leaned up towards the front and put his elbows on the thing in the middle of the two up front seats. "So did you? Or do you?" Tyler asked, nudging her arm.

Elena laughed lightly and looked down to her lap. "Oh, wow!" Matt exclaimed then started laughing.

"What's so funny?" Elena asked him.

He looked at her like it was obvious and right in front of their faces. "You both completely exhausted the fact that he could have feelings for you and you for him." He told her.

"I mean, I guess because he was always so interested in other girls, I didn't realize." She shrugged.

Tyler rolled his eyes and sighed heavily. "He was so 'interested' in other girls because he knew that you could never be interested in him the way he was interested in you." He told her.

She looked at both of them for a moment. "How did you get this good at talking about boys?" She laughed.

"That's all the girls talked about since sophomore year," Matt complained. "We caught on." He told her, pulling into the parking garage of her apartment building that Elena told him to turn into.

"Hey, we live in the same building!" Tyler said excitedly. He held up a hand for her to high five and she slapped his hand. "What floor?"

"6" She answered. "You?"

"7" He told her. "Pent house?" He asked.

She shrugged her shoulders softly. "I don't know my mom picked it out." She told him. They walked in and went to the elevator to the elevator to go up to Elena's floors. There were two sides of the elevator doors for pent houses. She clicked the button that said what her mom told her it was and they went up. One of the doors opened and they all walked into little hallway. They turned to their left and then saw the rest of her pent house. There was a big window with a nice sized balcony looking over the city just like she wanted. Couches and chairs and her kitchen and everything were set up.

Matt whistled lowly. "Wow." He said. "Your mom has good taste." He said dropping the bags in his hand. Elena nodded and walked straight to where she assumed the bedrooms were going to be. Her mom told her it was a four-bedroom apartment so she had them to choose from. She obviously chose the biggest one with a big bathroom and enough space for almost anything.

She walked out to go help bring her bags into that room. "Okay, follow me." She said, grabbing two of her bags and started walking towards the room again. "Just put them in front of the bed." She told them as she did the say with her own stuff. All of her little things that had to be packed in boxes were going to come in tomorrow because she didn't expect to be in the apartment so soon. "Thanks guys, again." She said as she walked them over to the elevator.

"No problem." Matt said. "Anytime."

"Are you going to talk to Stefan?" Tyler asked, putting his hand in his pockets.

"Yeah, I actually am." Elena nodded.

They both nodded too and smile lightly. "Good," Matt said. "Text us the deets!" He shouted over his shoulder as him and Tyler went over to the elevator. She laughed and shook her head.

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Hope your liking this story so far:))