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Chapter 3: New State of Mind

After a conversation that had seemed the longest in history, Damon and Elena rested embraced on the girl's sofa, each of them immersed in their own thoughts. He gently stroked Elena's hair and she was lying down on his body with a hand that felt strange caressing her belly.

But, obviously, the peace could not last much in their lives... peace never lasted. None of them had time to react when the door opened wide.

"I came as soon as I could, Elena! I bought ice cream and..."

As always, Caroline opened her mouth before analyzing the situation and was half waythrough her accelerated phrase when she realized the picture which was waiting for her in the room. Elena was curled in man's arms, she looked quite shattered, but the impressive thing was who the man was.

The blonde dropped the bags and her jaw opened wide when she realized what was going on and Elena closed her eyes wishing the Earth to swallow her in that second.

"Professor Salvatore!" She cried out impressed.

"Nope. I am his evil twin…"

"Idiot!" Elena scolded him unable to avoid laughing as a way to relieve the tension.

"Is he is Mr Mysteries? Oh my God Elena! This is worse than I thought!"

"Care…"

"You are dating with our literature teacher!"

"Care…"

"Elena this is gold! Were you keeping such a thing all this time?"

"Care…"

"It is so beautiful! A true love story!"

"Caroline shut your mouth!" Elena shouted, desperate to stop it.

"I'm sorry, I was inconsiderate... I'm sorry Mr Salvatore."

"You can call me Damon, Caroline. We are not at school" he said with a weary tone, wishing more than anything that the blonde closed the mouth for once. "How did she get inside?" he asked Elena.

"She has a key to 'emergencies'" Elena sighed "God, my head is about to explode…"

"Would you like a coffee babe?"

"Yes, please…"

Before getting up to go to the kitchen Damon stole her a small kiss surprising both of the girls.

"What? She already discovered us" he said shrugging his shoulders.

"Wow…" Caroline whispered dropping on the couch with her friend when Damon left the room.

"You must swear that you won't tell anyone, Car. ANYONE"

"Yes, of course... you can count on me. It's just that... wow."

"Yep. Wow" Elena slightly smiled "You better give me that food before I you kill for coming unannounced."

"Hey! How could I know you were locked up with our hot teacher here?"

"Caroline!" Elena scolded her "This is way more complicated than what you think…"

"What?! He's hot!" Caroline laughed "He's 'the one' isn't he?" she asked, referring to all the times that they were talking about Elena's secret lover.

"The one and only…" the brunette nodded.

"Should I should say 'I'm sorry' or 'I'm happy for you'? It is a strange situation…"

"Yeah, tell me…"

"Do you know something about the baby issue?" Caroline asked, while she got ice cream and Elena's favorite candy from the bag to give it to Elena.

"Please do not call it... 'baby'" Elena said covering her ears with a huge rebuff to the idea "It is probably nothing more than a lot of formless cells. I don't want to know it"

"Wait. Does that mean that you are…?

"Please don't shout" she begged again, showing the test.

At first Caroline had nothing to say. She stared at it with her mouth open wide and wet eyes, trying to mumble something.

"Oh my God…" she whispered.

Tired of the drama, Elena shrugged her shoulders and took the ice cream that her friend had forgotten starting to eat it without paying attention to Caroline's reaction.

"How are you?" she asked concerned when she recovered from the initial surprise.

"My life is collapsing Care, how do you think I feel?" Elena said giving her a bitchy glare.

"Quiet babe" Damon warned appearing on stage with a cup of steaming tea "You don't want to add a fight with your best friend to all of our problems."

"Thanks, Romeo" Caroline said snidely.

"You're welcome, Barbie…"

Smiling by the small dispute between her friend and Damon, Elena took the cup between her hands and took a sip only to discover that it wasn't coffee.

"Damn it. What is it?" Elena said disgusted "Where is my coffee?"

"You can't drink caffeine, babe" Damon said sitting beside her "It's bad for…"

"Shit. No coffee for nine months?" she asked pouting.

"Nope, babe. I'm sorry"

"Shit" she frowned.

It was going to be some very long nine months without coffee and getting fat. It seemed like an eternity.

"So now that you know it... Do you hate me for hiding this from you?" Elena asked her friend.

"Do you think that I can hate you now that you have all of these problems?" Care laughed "I think I'll be fine with a couple of extra credits." she joked.

"Not even a couple of extra credit will save you from suspend literature, Care…" Elena mocked with the mouth full of ice cream.

"So, do we count on your silence Caroline?" Damon asked.

"Elena counts on my silence" she corrected, not very happy with the situation.

"You can't tell anything absolutely anyone" Elena remarked becoming serious.

"Come on, Elena. Trust me. No one outside this room will know it" Caroline smiled.

And Elena trusted.

That afternoon, Caroline left early and Elena forgot everything for a while while she watched a movie snuggled on the sofa with Damon, at that moment she thought was sure that he seemed to be all she could ever need.

Elena decided that, for now, she would keep what they had discovered as a secret and try to live a normal life while she still could. Damon knew that it was not good a idea to let the time go by without going to a doctor, but she was so small and helpless in his arms that he couldn't help to ignore it at least for that moment. He had to leave early that day so Elena's aunt didn't discovered them and had to endure leaving Elena with tears in her eyes just to keep it a secret, something that obviously was destroying them both, but after talking a lot they came to the conclusion that that day, after so many emotions they couldn't face something as big as talk to Jenna.

When her aunt came home with Jeremy, Elena had to fake a sudden headache to explain her looks although none of them believed her at all, they obviously suspected something but Elena didn't want to think about that. Without eatting anything dinner, the young woman took the candies that Damon and Caroline had brought her early and locked herself in her room.

After eating many as many chocolates as she could, Elena took a quick shower and as soon as she buried her head on the pillow she was removed from his brain staying completely asleep, trying to take refuge on memories from easier and warmer times.

(Georgia, five weeks ago)

The road stretched completely empty before them, the sky was clear and the sun made Elena's sparkle while her curls flew around her because of the wind. Damon was driving the camaro relaxed, holding the wheel with one hand and looking at her girl from the corner of his eye. She kept her hands raised to the sky and her eyes closed, enjoying the air that caressed her face.

"Can you remember me why we never did this before?" Elena laughed dropping to the seat, exultant by the effect of the speed and the excitement of spending two full days with Damon out of the city.

But when Damon was about to answer, a new song began on the radio and Elena tuned the volume to maximum. He felt as something twitching inside his chest when he saw the huge smile that colored the Elena's face.

"I love that song!" she screamed closing her eyes.

'She Will Be Loved' was playing on the radio and she sang it as loud as she could with her eyes closed, a huge smile and hands raised as if she was trying to catch the the sunlight. When Damon looked at her through his sunglasses, he felt that she was part of a movie, she was so beautiful, so full of life... Elena surprised him every day of his life. Not only with her exquisite beauty, she was simply wonderful in every way. She was brighter, and more intelligent and witty than most of the women he had known in all his life. She was always in a good mood, always with a smile that was normally accompanied by the laughter of campaigns that, for him, was the most beautiful sound in the world. Definitely, it wouldn't surprise him, but what most called the attention of Damon, that which had so completely captivated was the ability of the girl had to be happy. After having known her and her story, after knowing all the misfortunes and difficult moments that she had spanned, he felt stunned by the the fact that she was still able of being happy.

And there she was, with all that strength that he knew she had from the first day that he saw her enter in his class, with all the wounds of her past, enjoying something as simple as singing a song as high as her voice could reach, laughing, enjoying, wasting that joy that she carried wherever she went. And he, being by her side, was the luckiest man in the world. He loved her to death.

"What?" she asked him releasing a giggle when the song ended and lowered the volume a bit.

"What?"

"What is that face?" she asked again smiling while she tied her hair in a messy high ponytail.

"It's just that I love you, babe" he said with a relaxed smile, taking her hand and stroking it gently.

Elena smiled instantly, with that huge smile that was all over her face showing all her teeth, that smile that enlightened her eyes with thousands of flashes of happiness, Damon's favorite smile, a smile that she only reserved for him.

"Sometimes I wonder what did I do that was so good to deserve moments like these with you" she smiled again "I love you too, Damon."

He shook his head, didn't make sense when she said those things, as if she was the one who was lucky to have him when it was actually completely backward.

And so, hand in hand, they continued on their way along the road that would take them to Georgia, the place where they would spend one of the two best days of their lives; the place that, even though they didn't know, would change everything.

The sound of the alarm was what pulled Elena from her sleep the next morning, she had to go back to school. With nostalgia she reminded the freedom she had felt on that trip that would take her to spend those two magical days with Damon away from everything. Now she felt like she would never be free again. She could not understand that something as magical and beautiful as it was for her to be with Damon had finished creating such a big problem.

With a weary sigh she decided to get up before the tiredness could convince her to go back to sleep. She reminded herself to stand up slowly as she tried to combat the dizziness that came anyway. She had to hold two or three tears of helplessness at the realisation that she was now unable to control her own body and, when she was finally calmer, began to put on the uniform to go to school. It should be part of a common routine, but somehow everything she did seemed new and strange. Taking her time, Elena put on her blue stockings, white shirt and tie and blue skirt. Once on her uniform, she sat on the bed and slowly brushed her hair trying to keep apart dizziness. There she was, getting ready for another normal day and trying to get all her strength to overcome the following hours keeping such a secret still hidden.

Fifteen minutes later, Elena slowly went down the stairs after brushing her theeth and putting on a little bit of makeup to hide the remains of crying all night.

"Good morning, Elena" Jenna smiled when she heard Elena come in the kithchen "I made coffee"

"Um no thanks Jenna" she sighed "I'll take some yogurt. Did you sleep well?

Elena could feel the tension in the room, but her aunt seemed as normal as every morning so she did her best to convince herself that she was just exaggerating. With a sigh, she sat down at the table to wait for Jeremy to come downstairs to go to school; strangely, Elena was no hungry that morning.

"You won't eat anything?"

"No, I'm not hungry" Elena answered slightly biting her nails.

"That's weird ... What going on with your appetite lately? You are a complete nutritional disaster since several days ago and I can swear that I heard you throw up a few times."

"I …" Elena whispered unable to create an excuse on time.

Luckily, Jeremy came downstairs at that time with a huge smile. Here was another strange thing to add to the list of weird things that grew increasingly inside of Elena's head: Jeremy had just got up in a good mood, that was worthy of entering the Guinness book.

"Good morning ladies!" he smiled as he pulled him things to prepare a bowl of cereal.

"Who are you and what did you do to my brother?" Elena joked.

"It's a beautiful day, plus it's Friday. Do I need a reason to be in a good mood?"

"You two are really going to turn me crazy" Jenna sighed quickly swallowing what was left of her coffee "I have to go to college don't be late to school!"

"Okay" the two brothers they replied in unison.

"I love you two!" she shouted from the hall before leaving.

They heard the door close, and in five seconds Jenna was gone. Elena looked at her brother with a smile full of guilt, she knew she should tell him… She should tell everyone but she couldn't stand the idea that the people she loved would react badly. Also, how do you tell your family that got pregnant at sixteen? And how do you tell the that the father of that baby is your literature teacher? No. It was simply impossible ...

"Aren't you going to eat anything Lena?"

"I'm not hungry!" Elena snapped cranky.

"Hey ... calm down, I was just wondering. It's weird, lately you've been eating like a hippopotamus." he said with his mouth filled with cereals.

"Does everyone in the world have something to say about how I'm eating? Shut up, Jeremy! Don't mess where nobody calls you" she snapped again with a frown.

"No need to shout, Lena. It just surprised me… Are you okay?" he asked worried.

"I know, I'm sorry" she sighed guiltily "Sorry, Jer I'm cranky. You better don't talk to me much…"

"And then they say I'm bad in the morning…" Jeremy said to himself as he ate his cereal in silence.

Elena bit her tongue before answering his brother with another nasty comment and crossed his arms waiting for him to finish his breakfast to go to school. Definitely that day was going to be worse than she thought when she got up.

"So ... how are you doing?" Caroline asked carefully as the two walked toward literature's classroom.

"Terrible" Elena confessed lowering her gaze "I can't even stand myself. This morning I yelled at Jer and Jenna begins to suspect that something is wrong. I can't stand my temper and I'm cranky all the time"

"Have you talked to Dam…

"Do not say his name here!" Elena interrupted her before she could finish the sentence "If I could keep the secret for so long is because I've been extremely careful, please be careful with what you say"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Do you want some?" she quickly apologized and offered Elena the gummy bears that she was eatting.

Elena was about to scream. Everyone making some kind of comment on the food was really getting on her nerves and she was about to snap Caroline with some nasty comment but when she looked at the bears she found herself wanting to eat one more than anything in the world.

"Thank you" Elena said and took some little bears.

The freaking gummy bears tasted like heaven on her lips and as suddenly as his temper made its appearance earlier disappeared while eating them. Caroline smiled and they continued talking while they walked down the hall until they reached the literature classroom, Elena sighed as his eyes made contact with Damon. Definitely things would not be easy.