Elena
"Well I'm sure that you're damn good at your job Elena and I'm extremely happy that you came out of that car wreck alive. I just hate that I wasn't here to be with you, after we had officially called it quits I felt that I had to get away from you or I would break. Fuck I wish you would've told me, I wish any of you would've called to let me know." I will myself to not tear up, we amicably split up and yet I had a giant hole in my heart. Stefan came into my life at a time where I was a lost girl and he pieced me back together, my father left when my mom told him on her death bed that he wasn't my real father. We were all crushed by the news, she said that since she was dying that it was time for the truth to come out, he took my little brother Jeremy and I was left to care for my mom in her final days. My brother was ten years old and I haven't seen him since. After my aunt Jenna came home to help me with my mother's funeral I was angry at her, angry that the man who I thought was my dad just left, I was pissed at the world. Lost and alone, I felt like I had no real identity. Stefan came to Mystic Falls a year later and was able to make the lost, angry and broken girl whole again. I thought we were going to be the ones to make it, to say in fifty or sixty years that for a couple in the era we grew up in we lasted out of high school, but I was so wrong. Stefan didn't grow up in Mystic Falls, it never held special meaning to him like it did with me and a lot of others in this town. He was born in New Jersey and lived close to Seaside Heights until he was thirteen when his parents divorced, from there he and his brother Damon moved with their mother to Tennessee and that's where he fell in love with the Tennessee Volunteers. When his mom died from a brain tumor, Damon thought it would be best to come to live here in Mystic Falls with their father's brother Zack. Their father was a horrible drunk who pissed away money, they were never close with the man.
Even though I we fell deep in love, he still couldn't wait to get out of here and what kind of person would I have been to beg him to stay? I didn't go with him either after he had asked me to come with him to Tennessee, we were over and we had to accept that. Stefan and I wanted different things in life, but we didn't let the breakup make us bitter towards the other thankfully.
"Me too because I'd be a highly pissed off ghost if you came back here after I died." I try to make light of my near death experience to lighten the mood, but Stefan's face is unreadable. "I just wonder why Damon never told me about it, like you said he was still living here, hell you text him saying that you was coming over to sleep." I look away, I can't lie to him now that I've started telling him about the accident and what lead me to my career. "Elena?" I huff shaking my head, but I keep my look pinned on the warm glowing lights that surround us. "I asked him not to when he came to see me in the hospital, we actually argued about it, but Damon finally respected my wishes and left it alone." When my eyes meet his I regret turning my head back to him. Stefan's hold face is hard, jaw is set and his eyes look cold. "Look Stefan it was my call, don't be mad at him and I didn't want you to know because I knew what you would do." With a roll of his eyes Stefan scoffs standing up. He walks away from me then comes back, his finger points to me now and I just wait to hear what he has to say. "You're right Elena, you did know what I would've done. I would've packed up my shit and caught the first flight to Virginia because the girl I loved was in the hospital from a car wreck. I hadn't even started classes yet, it was still summer! It's not like I had responsibilities there at that point in time!"
Throwing the blanket off of me I jump up and march over to him placing my hands on his face like I used to. "I know Stefan, I was just scared of seeing you and you said it yourself you had to get away from me or you'd break." In an instant he takes my hands away from his face and wraps me in a tight hug, I find myself holding onto him. We hold onto one another because we need this, he's missed me just as much as I've missed him. "Elena you should've let me know, you could've died." Stefan's voice is strained which makes my throat tighten. I move my face into his chest breathing in the smell of Stefan, his detergent, cologne and body wash. He smells the same, he smells like home. "I'm sorry Stef." We both tense when I say that, it's what I used to call him when we were a couple. When he relaxes I release a pent up breath. "It's fine Lena, I'm beyond glad that we're here together now. I don't know how many times I've said that, but I just need you to know it." A girlish giggle escapes me hearing him say my nickname, so I lift my head and see him already looking back at me. "I'm beyond glad that we're here together again too." We both grin, Stefan takes my hand leading us back to the lounge area on the patio, I gulp down my wine now that our short spat is over. If you can even call it a spat. "Are you, Matt and Vicky the only townies left?" Stefan fills my glass back up while I watch him, he's so damn great to look at. "Actually no, Caroline came back after going to college at Whitmore and she brought back a Brit with her." We share a laugh since we both know that Caroline has always had a thing for guys with British accents.
"You're kidding." He chuckles sarcastically and I push his jean clad knee. "His name is Niklaus Mikaelson, but he goes by Klaus and he's a successful realtor and Caroline is an event planner." Stefan downs his drink and rolls his eyes in a playful manner. "Of course she is, what about Bonnie, what has she been up to?" I decide to get more comfortable sitting next to my ex, so I lean back stretching my legs out. I'm kind of leaning on him and he doesn't seem to mind now that he's moving his arm around my shoulders. "Bonnie Bennett is Bonnie Bennett, she's a world traveler. She has seen everything and has done everything and she's home now because she's broke." I don't say it like that to be rude, but because she thinks it's great to start her life over from the ground up. "Damn." I nod my head against the side of his chest, I can't believe how good this feels. We haven't seen each other since we were eighteen and it's like we've lost no time at all, I thought there would be awkwardness. "I know that Tyler plays for the New Orleans Saints and that he's married to some girl from Bulgaria." I mention, "Have you and him kept in contact?" Stefan begins playing with the ends of my hair making me smile like an idiot. If it's not obvious, I never stopped loving this man. "Yeah we talk from time to time and Nadia is pretty nice." We sit in a comfortable silence before I decide to inform him of something. "I.. I met my real dad."
Stefan turns his body to me and his face is white as a ghost. "You did?" Exhaling my head nods. On my seventeenth birthday Stefan asked me what I wanted, I told him to look for my dad. My mom had given me his name and where he's from and when we set out across the country to find him in Texas I choked and couldn't go through with it, so instead Stefan took me down to South Padre Island. What was a depressing and embarrassing moment turned into the best birthday ever with my man, we had the best time. "Yeah he actually found me, Greyson found him after my twentieth birthday. Said he thought that he should know that I existed, the guilt of taking Jeremy and leaving me to care for mom in her final days finally got to him, so he found him and let him know of my existence." Stefan blinks clearly shocked by hearing this causing me to laugh. "Yeah it shocked me too and although he lives in Florida now, we still keep in contact and we have a pretty good relationship." His hand pushes my hair away from my face, he breathes heavily and all I want is to kiss him. God I want to kiss those perfect lips and taste Stefan. "That's great Elena, I am truly happy for you. What was it like meeting him for the first time?"
Licking my lips I take my eyes off his. "Really awkward to be honest, he came to my house and when I opened the door he introduced himself. I was completely shocked, I asked if he wanted to come in and when we set down at the table we just stared at one another. Then I asked how he found me, how he knew about me and that's when he said that Greyson found him." I lean my head on Stefan's shoulder now and stare out at the brick barbecue pit. "Dad said that he was in shock, but he knew it had to be true because my mom and him had been together when she was on her summer trip after graduating high school, they met one another on the beach in Corpus Christi and hit it off." Yeah my mom and Greyson were high school sweethearts who went on a summer vacation together, while they were they had gotten into a huge fight and called it quits for an entire day and she met Mason Lockwood. My mom spent two days with Mason then went back to her hotel and found Greyson there waiting on her, a month later she found out that she was pregnant with me and when my dad popped the question she said yes. It wasn't until I was born that she did the math, her and Greyson didn't sleep together until she came back to him, by then she was a married nineteen year old with a newborn baby and a loving husband. She kept it quiet until her breast cancer was about to take her from us. I remember when I told Stefan about my mom's lie and affair he just told me that no matter how I got here, it was meant to be and he was damn glad that my mom slept with Mason because otherwise he wouldn't have met me. That's when I let myself fall for him as hard and as fast as I could. He had gone through the passing of his mom and new the pain I was in and though he had known his dad all of his life he still helped me through that pain too, Stefan Salvatore is an extraordinary guy. "Your life story is one for the books Elena, I'm honored to have been a part of it." My heads whips around to look at him, our lips are so close.
Just as we lean in there's a tapping noise on the window behind us. Stefan closes his eyes, "I better go check on April." I sigh nodding my head. "Yeah, I should probably go anyway." Stefan puts his forehead on mine closing his eyes, sighing too. "When can I see you again?" Smiling like a school girl with a crush now I giggle. "Well I'm probably going to sleep all day tomorrow because I work night shift and then I'll sleep half the day once I get off, so Saturday?"
Chuckling he kisses my forehead, "Are you still at your old house?" I nod my head leaning back to look at his handsome face once more. "Do you mind if April comes?" She taps again this time, louder though. "Stefan Salvatore of course not, how about we make it a big dinner at my house? I'll get Caroline and her boyfriend to come over and I'll make Matt and Ric come, Bonnie will already be there since she's staying with me. Oh and Vicky and her kids, her daughter Millie is April's age." Stefan stands holding out his hand for me to take, we walk inside and April runs to him. "That sounds great." Scooping her up into his strong, protective arms her little thumb shoots into her mouth as those Damon blue eyes begin to close. Stefan looks even hotter with a child. Oh my ovaries. "Get her back to bed, I'll see myself out." I whisper while he winks at me. "See you Saturday Lena." Shaking my head I can't stop the smile that comes to my face. "Yeah, see you Saturday.
Please read and review! :)