Friendship- Chapter 4
*Elena POV*
I lay there, listening to the front door slam. What happened? Damon was usually so good with women. There was a light tap on my door, of course. He has women troubles and he comes to me, some things never change.
"Come in Damon." I wasn't being short with him, I was just too emotionally strained to take anymore pain.
Damon opened the door slowly. He poked his head through the gap, his hair messy and hanging over his eyes.
"Can I talk to you for a minute 'Lena?"
"Sure."
Damon walked over to my queen size bed, sitting on the foot of it, as if he was afraid to go near me.
"Damon, what's wrong?" I was honestly a little worried, he was never this wary of me.
"Listen, I know that lately we have been, well, not ourselves when we are around each other. But I want you to know that you are my best friend, that no matter what I am always going to be there for you. But I am going through some... problems. So I want to be on my own for a little while, you know, in school and stuff." Damon looked up at me as he finished speaking. What was he talking about? Did he not want to be my friend anymore? I called bullshit!
"Okay, well first I want to know why. I detect bull Damon, I don't think you're being honest with me and I want answers." I had a right to a few answers, didn't I? I wasn't asking much, I just wanted my best friend to tell me why he wanted to basically leave me, right?
Damon looked at me, softly shaking his head. My eyes brimmed with tears, I felt like someone had died.
" C'mon Damon! Why are you doing this? Just because some girl rejected you, you're suddenly breaking ties with me? What the fuck Damon?!"
"Elena, this has nothing to do with Maurine, no Mol... ugh! Anyway, this is only between me and you. I just feel that we need some space from each other, that's all! For Christ' sake, we have no lives of our own, we are just Damon and Elena!"
I can't believe it, my best friend, the person I depended on most, was leaving me. I couldn't look him in the eyes, my head fell into my hands, tears now forming a steady stream down my pale cheeks.
*Damon POV*
I don't know why I was doing this. I was with that chick, about to have sex with her, and I called her Elena!? What is wrong with me? I mean, Elena is beautiful, smart, energetic, kind...sexy.. Stop it! I was sitting here, breaking my best friend's heart, but thinking about how sexy she looks in her little blue camisole and shorts? This is disgusting.
"Fine Damon, I give up. You do what you have to do." Elena looked up at me from underneath her eyelashes, her face wet with tears I caused.
Her words kept repeating in my mind, 'You do what you have to do.' Suddenly, I had the strangest urge, like a feeling in the pit of my stomach, I could no longer control my actions. 'You do what you have to do.' I grabbed her chin with my left hand, pulling her small face up to see mine, I looked at her, she is so beautiful, I realized. I leaned down suddenly, crashing my lips down onto hers. What was this? I thought. I couldn't stop! Fireworks, lighting behind my eyelids, everything clicked into place. Elena gasped, hesitating. She threw her hands around my neck, pulling me to her, deepening the kiss. I knew in that moment, there was no turning back. I had finally realized.
I loved Elena Gilbert.
*Elena POV*
Have you ever done something so extremely challenging, that is pushes all your boundaries? Something that makes you breathless but at the same time, so comforting in itself? This, for me, was one of those experiences. As Damon's lips pressed against my own, I became infinite. I realized that what I had felt before about Damon was a crush, nothing more than puppy love. As I kissed him however, a number of things happened. One- I became terrified and ecstatic at the same time. Two- fireworks the size of Jupiter exploded in my brain, I felt that to stop kissing him would be agony. Three- I realized, with a startling amount of certainty, that I was absolutely and completely in love with Damon Salvatore.
Just as the words formed in my mind, Damon pulled away from our passionate embrace.
"Elena Gilbert, we have grew up together, we know everything about each other and yet, it feels that there are many things we still haven't discovered about each other. I love you 'Lena, I love you so much I can't understand it. I don't know how or when I first had feelings for you, but I realized just then, I can't live with you as my best friend." I felt as if my heart was about to explode. He loves me, but doesn't want me as his friend anymore? He can't do this to me!
"Elena?"
My body trembled with need as I looked at him.
"Yes?"
"Will you be my girlfriend?"
I looked at him in shock. I couldn't believe that Damon wanted me! He wants ME! I wanted to shout it from the roof of our house.
"Oh my God Damon! Yes yes yes!" I couldn't contain my happiness anymore, I flung my arms around his neck, passionately kissing his startled mouth. He paused for a second, before winding his arms around my waist. We battled for dominance with our tongues, our bodies pressed together. I couldn't for the life of me figure out where he ended and I began, but I didn't want to stop kissing to check. I knew we were getting to heated, and that if I didn't want to lose my virginity on our first night as a couple we should stop, but I didn't want to. If I stopped that meant I wouldn't be this close to Damon, which was impossibly painful to think about.
Damon's hands traced the outline of my hips, before sliding down my legs and hooking them both under my knees. I hesitated, this was getting a little out of hand, but I liked it to much! He lifted my legs and ground his hips against me. I gasped, throwing my head back. I have never felt like this before, it was incredible! I brought my hands up to Damon's silky hair as he continued to move against my silk covered body, tugging on his hair much harder than I should have, but he didn't seem to mind.
"Elena."
He pulled his lips from mine and released me from his grip, sitting up on his knees. I hadn't even noticed that we had been lying down on my bed. Huh, I just made out with Damon. It was exasperating!
"Yes, Damon?" My voice was small and shaky. I panted heavily, running my fingers through my now mussed up hair.
"As much as I would like to continue, I don't want us to have sex immediately."
"Oh." I was surprised, I also felt a little disappointed, even though I was a virgin, I knew I wanted to give my virginity to Damon. I wasn't really that concerned about the location or time frame, it was incredibly amazing just by the fact it was him.
"I want us to get to know each other as boyfriend and girlfriend first, I don't want to sleep with you before I even take you out on a date."
Aw! He wanted us to go on dates! So he was serious about this then.
"Okay, I understand that, but could you stay in my bed tonight, I don't want to be alone."
"I would 'Lena, but our moms will be back anytime. I don't think they would approve."
"Damon, we have slept in each other's rooms ever since we were five years old, I don't think they are going to notice it now. Besides, their rooms are on the floor below, only us two come up here." He knew I had a point, our house had two floors, (it was previously a bungalow) the top floor was the attic, which had been renovated into two bedrooms and en suites for me and Damon.
"Well, in that case, I would love to sleep with you Gilbert." Damon smirked at me, before picking me up of the edge of my bed and placing me under the covers. He climbed up next to me, rolling under the sheet and turning to switch off the lamp beside my bed. We lay there in the darkness, his arm wrapped around my waist, my hand stroking the hair at the nape of his neck.
"Hey Damon?"
"Yeah sweetheart?"
"I never mentioned it before, but I love you." He looked into my eyes, with the most carefree smile I had ever seen on his face.
" I love you too 'Lena"
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