Since Elena's decided that it's perfectly fine to leave Mavis all on her own in making dinner, she was going to make what she wanted, and Mavis wanted Chinese. Specifically chow mien noodles. Originally she was going to make Italian, but she thought Elena was going to help her do that. At least it's still pasta; it's just not Italian.

So here she was in the warm muggy kitchen while Elena was busy getting ready for the dinner tonight. Mavis herself still had to change out of the sweatpants she was wearing, and take a shower. She didn't really feel up to smelling like food tonight, and deciding that the noodles were indeed done she went up stairs to take her shower.

Choosing to wash her hair tomorrow, she quickly washed the smell of food off her body. Now dried and standing in her underwear Mavis tried to decide on what to wear, and not wanting to dress up she went with the simplest choice. A nice shirt and jeans.

Now dressed to sort of impress, she walked over to Elena's room to see what was taking so long. She gave a quick knock on the door, and not hearing any startled yelps she walked into the room only to see Elena looking at herself in the mirror.

"If your worried about how you look then stop, because you look great. Just like you always do."

Startled by her voice, Elena jumps around. With her hand on her heart she says, "Jesus! Maybe don't scare me half to death. Thanks for the compliment, but that's not what I'm worried about."

Giving a shrug at her comment Mavis goes to stand beside her. "If that's not what your worried about then what is it? If it's about Bonnie not liking Stefan, then there's nothing to worry about. She'll see the effort you put into this dinner. Even if you left me to cook on my own." That comment earned her a punch in the shoulder. Apparently done with the conversation Elena links her arm with Mavis' and drags her down stairs.

Just as they reach the bottom there's a knock at the door. Giving Elena a shove in that direction, Mavis walks back into the kitchen. Checking the food to make sure it's still hot, she hears footsteps from outside the kitchen. Grabbing the hot dish, Mavis takes it out to the dining table.

"What is this?" Elena's asks when she see's the food.

"This is what we're having for dinner. It would have been what you wanted if you would have helped me. Now we're having Chinese." once again receiving a punch from Elena.

"Stop hitting me woman!" Mavis yells while rubbing her poor arm.

Off to the side is Bonnie observing them. She probably wasn't use to the way the twins were acting towards each other. Which wasn't surprising since she probably hasn't seen the two together since high school started two years ago. Elena excepting the fact she wasn't getting Italian tonight, grabbed Bonnie and pulled her to the kitchen, probably to have girlfriend talk.

Mavis not seeing much of a point in staying in the dining room, left for the comfy couch in the living room. She still wasn't looking forward to this dinner, and she didn't understand why she had to be here. It wasn't like she hung out with Elena's friends and she wasn't going to start now. Mavis had a feeling that something was going to go wrong tonight, and she hoped it wasn't her poisoning the guests. She's never made homemade chow mien noodles before. 'At least it smelled okay.'

She's pulled out of her worries by the thudding sounds coming from the door. She gave it a minute, and when nobody came out of the kitchen she knew she'd have to answer it. With a reluctant sigh Mavis pulls herself up from the couch and goes to greet the unwanted guest. Just when the knocking begin again she pulled the door open to see Stefan standing behind it.

"Welcome to my humble abode. Make yourself at home. Home Sweet Home. Those are the things you say to guest right? I'm pretty sure they are." She's graced with an eye roll.

"Hello Mavis, It's nice to see you again. From the clear boredom on your face, I take it you don't want to be here?"

"You guessed correctly, so why don't we get through this dinner and make Elena happy. That's why we're all here." Taking a hold of his wrist Mavis drags the guy inside, and she takes him to Elena. Stefan didn't resist, and the smell coming from within the house allowed Mavis to drag him more easily.

Walking into the dining room Elena and Bonnie look up at their entrance. "Great your both here, and now we can start on dinner." Elena says happily.

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'God this is so boring.' Nobody was saying anything, and the silence in the room couldn't have been more awkward. Finally Elena seemed to have enough and she filled the silence with her voice.

"Bonnie, did you see how Stefan caught that football this afternoon, it was amazing."

"Yeah, I did." was Bonnie's only response.

The silence commenced once again. Mavis took her phone out and she begin to read the book she downloaded. The book she was reading was called The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. It was pretty good so far; she had the paper copy in her room, but thought it'd be rude if she actually left the table. 'Look at me being considerate to the people I don't want here.'

Elena once again began to talk, and not feeling up to listening Mavis allowed herself to be absorbed into her story. The main character was questioning is sanity when a the bright spirit started to talk to him without any tricks. It was like she said before, pretty good. The scraping of chairs against the floor brought her attention back to reality.

"We're going to go to the living room. Come on no more reading for you." Elena says while taking her phone.

"Seriously, your taking my only source of entertain? Elena, lets be reasonable there's no reason for me to be here. Let me go to my room, and we can call it a night." Mavis says reasonably, maybe a little desperately.

A big "Nope" was her response, and she was once again forced to go through the torture of human interaction. 'I think my own sister enjoys my suffering.' Apparently Bonnie and Stefan found my suffering amusing too from the smiles on their faces. Making sure she was the first in the living room she plopped herself into her favorite chair making a noise of relaxation. And then the others came into the living room.

"Great, now we're all gathered around. What do we want to do? Gossip about boys? Share our deepest darkest secrets, because that totally sounds like fun." clear sarcasm in Mavis' voice. A knock at the door saves the others from having to respond, and Elena takes her chance to leave the room for a moment. The voice of Caroline resonates from the front door, and whatever followed her caused Stefan to get up and leave too. That left Bonnie and Mavis alone for a moment. It looked like Bonnie wanted to say something, but she held back.

Two new people, besides Elena and Stefan, walked into the room. One was Caroline, and the other was a man with dark hair and vibrant blue eyes. He looked like the trouble Mavis didn't want in the house tonight.

The man looked around the room, and when his eyes landed on her, his pleasant smile turned into a smirk. 'Like I thought, Trouble.'

"Well look at that. I must be seeing double."

"Great! That must mean you need a hospital. You can leave now." Mavis said enthusiastically with a little wave.

The slight chuckle from Stefan kept the little smile on her face from falling. Especially when she got a glare from the strange man, and said glare disappeared in a matter of seconds. 'Well look at that. We have ourselves a new two-facer.'

Taking a step closer the man introduces himself. "I'm Damon. Stefan's older brother you've probably never heard of me before."

The smile on Mavis' face was gone now. "I don't really care."

"Mavis! Stop being rude please, they're our guest."

With a roll of her eyes, Mavis didn't respond and she slouched lowering in her chair. She didn't like this Damon character. He seemed more trouble than Stefan did. She didn't know what was up with the taste of men Elena and Caroline had. Did girls just have a thing for weird and mysterious. At least Bonnie had some sense. It felt like this night would never end.

Okay, it sort of feels like I left on a cliffhanger, but not really. Because basically next chapter for the dinner scene with follow the episode. Thanks for reading!