Chapter 3:

"Oh My you girls look beautiful." My mum said as she walked into my room. Cassie and I were getting ready in my room so that we could help each other.

"Thanks mum." Cassie said as my mum came over and fixed our hair.

"I can't believe my babies our 18." My mum said as we rolled our eyes.

"Mum we've been through this already." I said as my mum laughed.

"Hey I have a right. I was in labor for 27 hours with you two." My mum said as we shook our head.

"Knock, knock." My dad said as he walked into the room.

"Wow girls.. look beautiful." My dad said as we smiled.

"Thanks daddy." We both said as we hugged him.

"Well are you girls ready. You have guests waiting." My dad said as we smiled. I looked at my sister who smiled and nodded.

"We're ready." I said as we each took one of my dad's arms and walked out of our room.

With the gang

The knights were all standing around talking waiting for Elena and Cassie to make their appearance.

"Hey sexy." Bonnie heard someone say in her ear. She turned around and smiled when she saw that it was Damon.

"Damon!" Bonnie said as she jumped in his arms making him laugh.

"Hey baby." Damon said as the two kissed.

"Oh come on we don't want to see that." Tyler said as he and the other wildcats walked up to them.

"Oh please as soon as you see Cassie, you're going to do the same thing." Damon said as Tyler rolled his eyes.

"Speaking of Cassie, where is she and Elena." Caroline asked as she walked over to Klaus, who kissed her.

"They should be coming down in a minute." Matt said who had his arms wrapped around Meredith.

"Hey everybody how you guys doing?" The dj, who happened to be Cassie and Elena's older cousin said as everyone cheered.

"Alright well are you ready to see the birthday girls." He said as the same thing happened.

"Alright well give it up for Cassie and Elena." He said as the gang saw the girls with their father.

"Wow." Both Stefan and Tyler said as they saw the girls.

"Hey guys. On behalf of my sister and I we would like to thank you guys for coming." I said as I passed the mic over to Cassie.

"Yeah and now that the birthday girls are here…" She said as she looked at me and I smirked.

"LET'S PARTY!" We both said as our guests went crazy.

After kissing our parents on the cheek, we went to go find our friends and the first people we say was of course our boyfriends.

We both ran to our guy, who kissed us and hugged us back. Once we pulled back we hugged everyone else before pulling them all to the dance floor. We danced for God knows how long and were having the time of our life. Its funny how no one noticed the wildcats, not even our parents but thats the whole point of a masquerade party right.

"Hey Elena, It's time." My sister said as I nodded to her.

"I'll be right back." I said to Stefan as I gave him a quick peck on the lips.

"Where are you going?" He asked.

"You'll see." I said with a smirk as Cassie and I walked off.

"Do you guys know where they're going?" Stefan asked the knights.

"No clue." Bonnie said.

"Yeah and knowing those two, its going to be something big." Klaus said as they all nodded.

"Okay guys Cassie and Elena have a surprise for you all so are you ready?" The dj said as everyone cheered.

"Well give it up for the birthday girls!" He said as music started to play.

Everyone looked up on the stage to see both Cassie and Elena standing behind a mic moving their hips along to the music.

Cassie-Hip shaker, dream maker
Heart breaker, earth quaker
I can be anything that you want me to

Elena-Coin spender, mind bender
Jet setter, go getter
Changing my getup for anything you choose

Cassie-I won't mind trying on someone else
I won't mind seeing just how it felt
I might like changing my disguise
To make you happy

Both-Here's my formal invitation
You and me go masquerading
Lose ourselves in this charade and
Is this love we're imitating

By now all of the guests were going crazy dancing along to the girls' song. The wildcats had all looked shocked watching the girls sing. They knew they could sing, just not this good.

Do we want what we've got?
If not I say so what
Here's my formal invitation
La, la, la, la you can be my

Cassie-School teacher, mind reader
Dream weaver, just be the
One I can count on to play it up with me

Elena-Hot waiter, cool skater
Trail blazer, pose major
Naughty and nice
What I know you want to be

You wanna try on someone else
You might like seeing how it felt
Do you mind changing your disguise

If it makes me happy

Both-Here's my formal invitation
You and me go masquerading
Lose ourselves in this charade and
Is this love we're imitating?
Do we want what we've got?
If not I say so what
Here's my formal invitation
Let's go, let's go masquerading

The girls started to walk down the stage dancing with there guests and then smirked as they walked up to Ryan and Troy singing the next part.

Cassie-We'll make it fun
When it's over and done
I still want you to see the real me

Elena-No more disguises
Let true love decide
If we should be together

Winking at their boyfriends, the two went back on stage to finish the song.

Both-Here's my formal invitation
You and me go masquerading
Lose ourselves in this charade and
Is this love we're imitating?
Do we want what we've got?
If not I say so what
Here's my formal invitation
Let's go, let's go masquerading

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

The crowd went wild once we finished. We both smiled and thanked everyone before our cousin started playing music again. Cassie and I then made our way back to the gang.

"OMG you girls were great." Caroline said as we smiled and thanked her.

"Yeah why didn't you girls tell us you could sing like that?" Stefan asked as he wrapped his arms around my waist.

"We don't know. You guys never asked." I said with a smile.

"Yeah well enough talk about how good we sing, let's finish dancing." Cassie said with a smile as we all nodded before going out on the dance floor.

For the rest of the night, our party was great. Everyone was having a blast especially the all of us. I could already tell that this was the party of the year. The party ended at around 2 am. I was upset when Stefan had to leave because of course I wanted him to stay the night, but we all know that wasn't going to happen.

As the weeks went on, we hung out with the gang almost everyday. Seeing as it was winter break, we were able to hang out with the wildcats more, not in public of course, but more at the house. Today is Christmas eve and I'm currently getting ready to once again sneak out and go meet Stefan. Cassie is of course doing the same thing as me and so is the rest of the gang.

Earlier today we decided to give our gifts to each other, but all the guys decided that they wanted to give their girlfriends our gifts tonight and we decided to do the same. I can't wait to see what Stefan got me. I hope he likes my gift, but then again Stefan likes everything I give him.

"You ready Elena?" Cassie said as she walked into my room.

"Yeah. Did you talk to Jer?" I asked.

"Yep, he knows about it." Alex said with a smile.

"Okay, let's rock and roll." I said with a smile as we both climbed down my balcony.

We met Stefan and Tyler around the corner of our house. Stefan was in his car and Tyler in his. I guess we were all going to different places, anyway Cassie and I promised to text the other if Jeremy text us about our parents before going with our boyfriend. Once getting into Stefan's car, I smiled before leaning over to give him a kiss.

"Hiya Sexy." I said once we pulled back.

"Hello beautiful." He said as he pulled off.

"So where are we going?" I said even though I know he's not going to tell me.

"Nope, you're going to have to wait and see." He said as I rolled my eyes. See I told you, he always does this.

For the rest of the ride we sat in comfortable silence with our hands intertwined. We finally stopped and I noticed we were at the beach.

"The beach?" I said as I looked at Stefan confused.

He just smiled and walked around the car to let me out. He grabbed my hand and we started to walk towards the beach.

"Stefan it's winter, why are we at the beach?" I asked as he looked at me.

"Don't tell me you don't remember?" He said with a sly smile.

I looked at Stefan and then back at the beach and then I finally realized why we were here. This was the beach where we decided to get to know each other, where we first kissed and where he asked me to be his girlfriend. We always use to meet up at this beach to just talk to each other.

"I remember." I said with a smile as Stefan smiled.

"I knew you would." He said as he sat on the sand and then pulled me down so that I could sit in between his legs.

"Those were some great moments." I said as I looked at the water.

"Yeah I got to lean a lot more about the beautiful Elena Gilbert." He said as I smiled and looked up at him.

"Always a charmer."

"Only for you." He said as he kissed me.

"Okay present time." I said once we pulled back and he laughed.

"Way to ruin the moment Lena." He said as I stuck my tongue out at him.

"Merry Christmas Lena." He said as he handed me my present. I smiled as I took it and opened it to see a diamond tennis bracelet.

"Oh My God, Stefan." I said as I had tears in my eyes.

"It's beautiful, thank you." I said as I kissed him.

"Your welcome." He said as he wiped my tears away.

After I stopped crying I handed Stefan his gift and smiled as I saw his eyes lit up like a Christmas tree.

"Oh My God Lena, how?" Stefan said as he looked at me. I had got him a rolex seeing as he said he always wanted one.

"A girl never tells her secret." I said with a smirk.

"Babe this must have cost you a fortune." He said looking at the watch.

"Please, Stefan you spend way more on me plus you has always wanted one." I said with a smile as he leaned over and kissed me.

"Thank you." He said with a smile.

"No problem." I said as I leaned over and kissed him again.

Tyler and Cassie

Tyler and Cassie were walking in their favorite park, the park where Tyler had asked Cassie to be his girlfriend. The two were just walking around the park holding hands, glad to be with each other. They finally sat down on a bench and Tyler had handed Cassie her gift.

"Merry Christmas baby." Tyler said as Cassie smiled and opened her gift.

"Tyler these are beautiful." Cassie said as she pulled the earring out.

"I saw them and thought of you." Tyler said with a smile.

Cassie looked at her boyfriend with a smile before pulling him in for a kiss.

"Thank you." Cassie said as Tyler just nodded.

"Merry Christmas." Cassie said as she handed Tyler his gift, who smiled and gladly took his gift.

"Babe, Oh My God." Tyler said as he opened his gift to see that Cassie got him a brand new iPod touch seeing as he broke his old one.

"I knew you needed a new one so I thought why not. And plus this one hold 2,000 more songs then your last one." Cassie said with a smile. Tyler turned and kissed his girlfriend and smiled once they pulled back.

"You're the best."

"I've been told." Cassie said with a smile as they both laughed.

Klaus and Caroline

Klaus and Caroline were walking hand and hand through the park, just enjoying each others comfort.

"I like this." Caroline said as the two sat down on a nearby bench.

"What?" Klaus said as he looked at his girlfriend.

"This. Us. Just being together. Even though it's behind people's back, I still like it." Caroline said with a smile and she laid her head on his shoulder.

"Me too princess." Klaus said as he kissed the top of her head.

"So, do you want your present now?" Klaus asked and then laughed at how quick she turned to look at him.

"Uh duh." Caroline said with a smile. Klaus just smiled as he handed her the gift and watched as her smile widen.

"Omg, Klaus this is beautiful." Klaus had got her a engraved sketched book that had her name on it.

"It's for all your designs. That way you have then all together." Klaus said as Caroline turned and kissed him.

"Thank you, I love it." Caroline said. Putting her gift to the side, Caroline than handed Klaus his gifted.

"Wow babe, this is great." Klaus said as he opened his gift to see a engraved chef's book with Klaus's Recipes.

"It's for all your recipes' that way when you become big and famous and own your own restaurant, you won't forget anything because you'll have all of your stuff written down." Caroline said with a smile.

"Thank you babe, it's perfect." Klaus said as he turned to kiss her.

"You know what your first entry should be?" Caroline said once they pulled back.

"My strawberry frosted sugar cookies." Klaus said with a smirk knowing that those were her favorite.

"Bingo." Caroline said as the two laugh before Klaus kissed her again.

"Merry Christmas Care." Klaus said with a dreamy smile as they connect foreheads.

"Merry Christmas Klaus." Caroline said with a smile.

Damon and Bonnie

Just like Klaus and Caroline, Bonnie and Damon were at a park, just one a couple blocks away from them. Damon was giving Bonnie a piggy back ride as the two walked over to the swing set. Damon sat Bonnie in one of the swings before going and sitting next to her.

"Remember this place." Damon said as he looked at her.

Bonnie nodded before saying "It's the place where we first kissed."

"And…where I asked you to be my girlfriend." Damon said with a smile.

"How can I forget, it was the best day of my life." Bonnie said with a smile as Damon leaned over and kissed her.

"Well it was mine too, but I'm pretty sure another day is going to beat that one out."

"Oh really" Bonnie said as she rose an eyebrow.

"What would that be?"

"Our wedding day." Damon said as Bonnie's face soften.

"Aw Damon." Bonnie said as she pulled him in for another kiss.

"And I believe this belongs to you." Damon said as he placed Bonnie's gift in her lap.

"Merry Christmas baby." Damon said with as smile.

Bonnie smiled at him as she opened her gift. Her smiled widened as she saw that Damon had brought her a necklace that had two hearts on it. She turned it over to see that each heart had their names on it.

"Thank you baby, I love it." Bonnie said as she kissed him.

Once they pulled back, Bonnie handed Damon his gift, who had the same smile Stefan had on his face. Damon's jaw dropped as he opened his gift to see a Lakers Jersey with his name and number on the back.

"Bonnie, how did you get this?" Damon said surprised.

"I have my ways." Bonnie said with a smirk.

"You are the greatest girlfriend ever." Damon said as he hugged and kissed her.

"I know." Bonnie said with a smile.

Matt and Meredith

Matt had decided to take Meredith to their secret house, where the two relaxed in the backyard on the hammock.

"The stars are really pretty." Meredith said as she and Matt were lying on the hammock with her head on his chest.

"Not as pretty as you." Matt said Meredith blushed. He just chuckled as he kissed the top of her head.

"You know I love you right Meredith." Matt said as Meredith looked at him.

"Of course, and you know I love you too right?" Meredith said as Matt nodded.

"I can't wait until we graduate, that way I can show you off to the world." Matt said as Meredith giggled.

"Here, Merry Christmas sweetheart." Matt said as he handed Meredith her gift. Meredith opened her gift to see a brand new music book.

"Oh Matt thank you. I love it." Meredith said as she kissed him.

"You are more than welcome." Matt said as Meredith handed him his gift. Matt smiled as he saw that Meredith had bought him the camera he had been talking about for weeks.

"Thanks baby." Matt said as he kissed her.

"Now you can take all the pictures you want." Meredith said with a smile.

"And my first one will be this." Matt said as he kissed Meredith and took the picture of them kissing.