This weekend felt like an eternity. I spent my entire Saturday in bed watching TV and doing basically nothing. I woke up this morning to an unexpected doorbell, I knew Caroline spent the night at Stefan's and there was no way she would be back at 10 in the morning. The doorbell rang for the second time, "Coming,", I put my glasses on and tied my hair up into a messy bun.

I opened the door to find the one and only, Damon Salvatore. "Morning sunshine, you look great in the morning." I was stunned by his presence, why was Damon here at my apartment at 10 o'clock on a Sunday morning. "What are you doing here Damon?" "I come bearing brunch, I got some food from Jack Wife's Freida, I was thinking of surprising you with brunch in bed for 2 and I guess it worked, you look very surprised. May I come in?" "Yea, sure."

I guided him to out small kitchenette and he placed the food onto actual plates and poured us two cups of coffee. We sat down in the living room on the couches. "Thanks Damon, their french toasts are my favorite thing." Damon smiled knowing that he did something right, "No problem."

"So why are you here again, I thought after the night at TAO you would try your best to avoid me."

"I was going to but I wanted brunch this morning and I don't like eating brunch alone, nobody I know was free this morning and then I thought of you. I knew you didn't have any plans so I decided to surprise you and voila I'm here."

"Damon, you realize you are my boss right, you can't just barge into my apartment without giving me a heads up let alone on a Sunday morning. I feel like the only time we should see each other is during office hours."

"Woah, Elena I'm so offended, I thought you were my friend for a second, friends are allowed to see each other during the weekends can't they? I can leave if you really insist."

"No, no, no, stay, I didn't mean it like that."

"Then what did you mean Elena."

"I didn't know that you considered me as your friend. Sorry."

"Hey there is no need to apologize. I like you Elena, as a friend, and I don't think you give yourself enough credit for being the great person you are. Here," He moved closer towards me, "why don't we relax and enjoy some Sunday morning TV."

We sat in silence, watching the TV and suddenly Damon's email notifications went off. He read the email, "Yes! Yes!"

"What Damon, what's the good news?"

"Do you like the Rangers?"

"You mean the hockey team? I mean I don't follow hockey but I heard they are great."

"I have 2 tickets to go see a Rangers game on Tuesday against the Flyers. Every time they play the Flyers the crowds from both sides get really rowdy, it's gonna be so much fun. I was thinking if you would like to be my date, just friends, and come with me. We could go grab a quick dinner after work and then go watch the game."

"Yea sure that sounds fun. Are you sure you want to bring me instead of one of you friends?"

"I'm sure Elena, I want to spend some quality time with you my friend." He hung his arm around my shoulder, signifying that we were just friends.

"Well it's 1:30 now and I don't mean to kick you out but I have to get ready for my yoga class in forty-five minutes."

"No, it's fine, I was about to leave anyways. Here let me throw out the trash first." After he was done, I walked to the door with him, and just as he was about to leave, he leaned in forward and gave me a kiss on the cheek. "Goodbye Elena, thank you for having me see you at work tomorrow." "Goodbye Damon, and thank you for brunch, it was delicious." "No problem, bye."

With that I closed the door, I was already mesmerized by Damon's soft peck on the cheeks. I softly placed my hands on the cheek where he so light- heartedly kissed me. I really wanted more. This was becoming a problem. No, Elena I told myself, I cannot let him do this to me. We are better of as friends I told myself repeatedly.

First the first time ever I was excited to wake up at 7:30 in the morning to go somewhere and for me that was working for Damon Salvatore.

"Morning Stefan."

"Morning Elena, how was your weekend?"

"It was great actually, Damon surprised me with brunch yesterday morning, that was nice."

"Wait what, Damon brought you brunch, he doesn't even wake up on Sunday mornings." Stefan gave me a weird look and I could tell he was surprised by Damon's actions, so was I.

"Yea it was a surprise, but a nice gesture, he's actually bringing me to see my first Rangers game on Tuesday so that's exciting."

"He is bringing you to a Rangers game, holy smokes, he never brings a girl to a Rangers game, he must really like you."

"Oh no, we are just going as friends, nothing is going on between us, trust me."

"Okay if you say so." I walked back to my cubicle and began to work. It was close to noon and Caroline said she was going to come by to pick me up for lunch, I was patiently sitting on my desk, swirling on those fancy office chairs and Damon walks in, "Hey Lisa is going to go down to grab me a bagel for lunch do you want anything?" "No thanks, I'm actually going out with Caroline for lunch." "Oh okay never mind then have fun." "Thanks."

Per usual, Caroline was 10 minutes late picking me up, we walked over to the nearby deli. "So Elena, how's working for Damon Salvatore?" "It's been good so far, I mean I have a lot of work today this week since Damon just signed a new deal and we are building a new Trump Hotel in Miami so this should be an interesting week." "So I heard you and Damon are going on a date on Tuesday." "No we are not, you mean the Rangers game? No, we are just going as friends, we've made it clear that we are going as friends." The reassurance was more for me than for Caroline and I had been constantly telling myself that Damon and I are nothing but friends and that will not change. "Friends don't go to Rangers game alone, just the two of you guys. He definitely wants more than "just friends" with you Elena, you and I both know that. Damon doesn't just bring one of his girl friends to one of his favorite things on earth. He definitely likes you more than you think." "Actually, Damon was the one that said we are going as friends and we are just going as friends so let's just leave it at that." "Okay fine, but when you two end up becoming New York's hottest "it" couple, I will be there telling you, 'I told you so.'" 'Shut up Caroline, so your Bachelorette Party. Vegas Right? I called in The Mirage and they said the Presidential Suite is free when you want it and it's all set with 1 OAK." "Thanks Elena you are the best, what would I do without you." "Of course this is going to be the best party ever, Care I can't believe you are getting married, I am so excited for you. Crap, this reminds me I have to tell Damon to arrange Stefan's bachelor party before he doesn't have time."

Back in the office, I was editing the contractions for Trump Industries and Lisa pops in and informs me that Damon wants me to go over to his office. I immediately drop everything down and head over to his office.

"Hey Damon, I heard you were looking for me." He looked up and gave me a smile, "yea, look, I'm very busy this week and I don't think I will have time to spare to arrange Stefan's bachelor party. Will you please help me call the Venetian and arrange for the Presidential Suite and call LAVO for the party arrangements, that's Stefan's favorite. I'm sorry Elena, I would do this myself, but I just have a lot on my plate right now."

"Yea sure, I mean it is sort of part of my job is to help you finish what you can't."

"Thanks, Elena you are the best, and what do you want for dinner tomorrow? I was thinking of that sushi place right next to MSG. Do you like sushi?"

"I love sushi, yea that sounds great. Can't wait."

"Same. Well, you can go back to the work I interrupted you from."

"Okay, see you."

"See you, bye."

Today went by so quickly and before I knew it it was 5 o'clock. Damon came over to my cubicle, "You ready?" "Wait, just give me a second, I need to finish up this email then I will be ready." "One. Ready?"

"Damon," I nudged at him flirtatiously, "Not literally a second, like 2 minutes." "Ok fine," He went over to talk to Lisa while I was finishing up my email. After 3 minutes, I was finally ready and walked over to Damon, "Damon, I'm ready let's bounce." "Okay, after you." MSG was at least a fifteen minute drive from the office, but we decided that taking the subway would be so much faster.

"Damon Salvatore, taking the subway, now this one's a first."

"Haha, really funny Elena, I always take the subway, I like it actually it makes me feel like an authentic New Yorker."

"For someone like you I'd expect town cars with chauffeurs picking you up at all times, guess I was wrong."

"Can't hear you." The sound of the subway moving along the tracks was so loud that we both couldn't hear each other. My hair was blowing everywhere from the velocity of the subway. Damon reached over and carefully placed a loose strand of hair over my ears. "Thanks." He simply nodded and smiled.

It was rush hour and Penn Station was jam packed. We slithered our way through the crowd and finally came out of the station and walked over to the restaurant. The restaurant was this little sushi bar place that had 5 tables. We sat on the sushi bar and ordered a sushi platter to share.

"Do you go to a lot of Rangers games?"

"Yea I try to make a game once every two month or so, usually my friends and I go but they were all busy this time. I started going to Rangers games since I was 7. My dad would bring Stefan and I to Rangers game whenever we had breaks and I fell in love with hockey ever since. I was varsity hockey captain at my boarding school and I continued playing at Harvard. Hockey has been a big part of my life and still is, I absolutely love it and the Rangers, I am a die- heart Rangers fan I bleed blue, my God when they won the Stanley Cup last season I had a whole month celebratory party. Also, one of my friend from boarding school plays for the Rangers that's why I have an easy access to tickets."

It was so nice hearing about Damon's passion for hockey which made me smile because I saw that he was genuinely excited and happy about it and that warms my heart. I guess we sort of looked like a couple because the sushi chef across the bar couldn't help himself and asked if we were dating because we made a cute couple. "No, no we are not dating, just friends." Damon replied quickly. "He's actually my boss too." I added. We left after we were done and walked over to the already crowded MSG. Everyone there were Rangers fans as they were all wearing Rangers jersey. I guess Damon's not the only one. We bought ourselves two beers and headed to our seats. Our seats were prime seats, Damon was not kidding when he said he knew one of the players, our seats were right in the middle and we could see everything. What Damon said about the rivalry between the Flyers and the Rangers was true, the fans were getting rowdy and even Damon started screaming on top of his lungs. It was 2- 2 during half time and the stadium was heating up. For the sake of entertaining the audience, there was this thing called the "Kiss-Cam", so basically there was a camera that scans the crowd for couples and their faces are shown on the big screen. "What if we get on it?" Damon asked, I paused for a second, before I could open my mouth to tell him my answer, the camera spotted us talking to each other. We were on the kiss-cam and the crowd was chanting, "KISS, KISS, KISS". We both looked at each other and didn't know what to do. I could see that Damon was going to lean in but felt reluctant, and then the announcer said, "If you guys don't kiss, the crowd will start booing." Damon was not going to let that happen to him. With that he said, "Fuck it," cupped my face with his two hands and leaned in for a passionate kiss. He made sure to make everyone else in the audience jealous with that kiss. We broke apart to catch a breath and all we could hear was the crowd whistling and cheering. The guy behind us tapped on Damon's shoulder and gave him a handshake. Damon looked into my eyes again and gave me a small peck on the lips and hung his arm around my chair.

Great. Now what, Damon kissed me and I can't tell if that was the greatest thing that could happen to me or my worst nightmare.

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