"There's no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I went in to the boarding house and threw my keys onto the counter. I walked around the corner and gasped when I saw Stefan there. This whole, not sensing people thing was hard to get used to.

"I thought you were going to be gone all night with Elena."

"We got in a fight." I sat down on the couch while Stefan walked around the room.

"Shocker." I heard him mumble and that caught my attention. "So when are you going to go over to her house and beg for forgiveness?"

"Who says it's my fault?"

"That's just what you guys do. You fight all the time because you are both too stubborn. Then you cool off and go apologize. It's been this pattern for years now. She's probably eagerly sitting by her window waiting for you." So we do constantly bicker. I let a small laugh escape, and here I was worried that part of our relationship didn't exist here.

"She knows how she has me wrapped around her finger, doesn't she?"

"Everyone knows." Stefan came and sat down right next to me. I gave him a strange look but realized this is normal to us. "You guys act like an old married couple. It's a good thing you aren't into her or I would be worried." I cocked an eyebrow at him and thought that over. Did all these people really believe I didn't want Elena?

"What makes you so sure of that?"

"You are too vocal about how you are a player and will always be. Elena hangs on to your every word and sometimes you are oblivious." He laughed at me and shook his head. I really did not like this. I was a whole other kind of douche in this world. "It would just be nice if my girlfriend wasn't in love with my brother though." He mumbled more to himself than to me. "I'm just happy she's got you out of her head for the moment and moved onto me." I tried not to laugh out loud of how apparently wrong he was.

"Yea." Was all I could manage as I thought this over. It was like everything was opposite in this world. It was everything I wanted but I hated it. It was so wrong and out of place.

"But anyway, are you coming to my game on Friday?" Stefan gave me a big smile and hopeful look. I tried not to laugh in his face. His game?

"No." I said on reflex in a more snotty way than I intended. My laughter immediately got stuck in my throat when I saw his face fall in disappointment. I quickly tried to cover it up. "Just kidding. Of course I'll come." I said in a more brotherly way and gripped his shoulder and tried out a smile. "What kind of brother would I be if I didn't?"

"Okay, you don't have to be weird about it." He said while giving me an odd look and stood up. I wasn't used to the big brother role yet. I stopped treating Stefan that way the moment he betrayed me, but this Stefan, he was innocent. I could tell he still had his boyish charm and ways like back when. That was how I always pictured Stefan should be, that is what I considered innocence to be. Instead of this new Stefan that went around and brooded while taking self pity on himself constantly. Some time I just wanted to shake him and tell him to stop sulking because it's nobody's fault but his own. But of course, I would be looked down on. I was tired of it.

"Sorry." I mumbled while standing up myself and walking back towards the door. If this me apologizes so much, then I wasn't going to waste my time away from Elena.

"Going to grovel, I see?" I heard Stefan from behind me.

"Shut it, Stefan." I said while walking out the door.

When I finally got to Elena's house I thought about what I should say and I couldn't come up with anything good. I couldn't form the right thoughts on how to ask for forgiveness. It wasn't my thing. In my world if the word sorry came out of my mouth that was good enough because it was such a big deal for that, but here... I was going to have to actually talk. Talking wasn't my best skill when it came to angry girls. I take the easy way out and just flash a smile and flirt a bit till they become mush, and I couldn't do that with Elena. She would see right through it.

I walked up to Elena's door and made my hand in a fist to knock but couldn't bring myself to do it. I literally stood there for about a minute, trying to convince myself to be a man besides the little girl that wanted to run back to her car and hide out. When I finally made the decision to knock the door was pulling away from me before I could come in contact with it. For a moment I was shocked, not expecting it and then realized Elena just used my trick, no one has done that to me before.

"Scared to knock?" She mocked me and opened the door wider for me. I stepped right in and smiled. Even though I've been invited into her house millions of times, I still liked the fact I didn't need to technically be invited in. Maybe I needed to do a breaking and entering sometime as a human, just because I could. I almost got lost in the thought of just walking into some random house whenever I wanted and focused back on what I had to do. "I'm waiting..." Elena said, expectantly.

"And what exactly are you waiting for." I said playing along. I wasn't just going to hand over my apology.

"You know what."

"I actually don't." I smirked and walked past her while going up the stairs right to her room. I heard her huff from behind me and follow up the stairs. I've been wanting to see how little things have changed and I especially wanted to see her bedroom. For more reasons then one. I walked right in and surprisingly it wasn't much different. Things were a little rearranged and her bed was slightly shifted but mostly, it was all the same. I flopped down on her bed and watched as she did the same on the other side of me. Whenever I tried to pretend this was like how it was in the real world, Elena did something like that. Whenever Elena and I are in her bedroom, she purposely puts space between us. I watch as she moves when I move, mostly to keep distance, as if I would jump her at any moment. I looked again and saw a picture similar to the one next to my bed on her bedside table. I unconsciously took a hold of it and looked at it.

"Creepy." I mumbled as I looked at the picture of the two of us. I knew it was impossible, but I felt like I remembered when this was taken. At the park... and it was just about to rain.

"Hey, I liked that picture." Elena took it out of my hands and I watched as she looked over it. "It's not creepy. You have one next to your bed too, even if I did put it there." She shrugged and I couldn't help but smile at her. "It was such an icky day." She said while handing the picture back to me. "I remember we had to walk home in pouring rain. We both got sick." She laughed to herself while I was freaking out. Was I remembering things about my fake past? How was that possible?

"I'm sorry." I said quickly down to the point. "I open my mouth and can't control the words that come out sometimes, which I'm sure you know."

"Yea, I know." I heard her sigh so I shifted to watch her. She squirmed down and put her head on my chest. I froze at the simple contact between us and didn't know how to react. Everything was just so new to me. "I overreacted it's just..."

"It's just what?" I said catching her hesitance to talk to me.

"Nothing Damon."

"That's not fair." I absentmindedly started stroking her hair in an unconscious way to comfort her. "You force stuff out of me all the time."

"Fine." She sat up and turned around so we were sitting opposite of each other. "I feel stupid." She then laughed at herself and put her head in her hands.

"Why?" I said while laughing a little bit and prying her hands away.

"Can we just forget this whole weekend?"

"No." I wanted to know exactly what happened. Maybe if I was going crazy with these nonexistent memories I'd actually remember the exchange that had her all flustered. "I mean, yes. We can forget all about whatever happened."

"Thanks." She smiled at me but I could tell she was still a little tentative.

"Okay, so I walked in your house and I finally decided something I want to do and you being my best friend, have to agree to it." I stood up a little more straight and waited for her. She gave me a very confused look and I just smiled at it.

"What is it?"

"You have to agree to it first."

"I'm not sure about this. That mischievous look on your face means that this is actually the worst idea ever."

"It may just be." I thought of what we would do. We could get into trouble but I didn't care. I can't do it in the vampire world, so I'm going to do it in this one. Besides, this world wont even exists in five days. "Now agree to it."

"Okay, I'm interested in this now. Whatever it is you have in mind I'll do it." I smiled and held out my pinky finger.

"Promise?" She pinky promised like it was completely normal and nodded.

"Promise."

"I am going to do a B and E. You get to drive the get away car."

"What the hell is that?" She gave me a wary look that made my smile widen. "Bacon and Eggs?"

"Breaking and Entering."

"You are joking right?" She wasn't taking this seriously and I just wanted her to go along with it. "You want to be a fucking criminal?"

"Just for today. When doing a B and E, you need an accomplice. Especially a rational one, like you, to try and talk me out of it."

"Nooo. Whatever you are thinking of doing Damon, don't."

"It's an adventure." I sat up from the bed and walked to her door, suddenly in an incredibly good mood.

"I don't like your type of adventures."

"If you don't do this with me, our friendship is over." I joked while turning towards her, from her door. "I will not even talk to you in the next life."

Next thing I knew, I somehow managed to get Elena into my car as we drove around. It was finally dark out which made this experience so much more fun. It's not like I was performing a burglary, I just wanted to literately enter and then leave a random house. Which is completely silly... so I had to do it.

"Don't do this..." Elena dramatically pleaded. I tried my best not to laugh at her. The slightly panicked but stable look on her face was so cute. "Why would you even do this?"

"Because I need to. It's a quest, and we are on it."

"You are going to get in trouble. I don't get your sudden need to be criminal." I wasn't paying attention to her as I found a house that was perfect. It was late, but not too late and all the lights were off, so I knew they were just all out. That was were I was going to do my B and E. I looked at Elena while nodding to the house and she just started breathing hard. I decided to park a couple blocks away from the house, just for Elena's benefit. She didn't understand why I so simply just wanted to enter a house I was unwelcome in, but her reactions were just too entertaining not to build up the dramatics of the whole situation. I parked the car and went around to drag her out of it.

I led her to a house as we started going into someone's backyard. I started snickering to myself when I heard Elena somewhat running at a speed that should be considered walking. Her flushed face and clear nervousness just made it all better. We went through our second backyard as we crept upon the house. I heard a noise and turned around to see Elena almost fall on a kids toy but sprung up right away. I actually let out a laugh and then went back to my show of it all. There was a little fence we had to hop over which I got over fine and I helped her. I started walking till I heard her snap back against it.

"My shirt..." I heard Elena whimper. "This is my favorite shirt." I watched as she tore the cloth from the metal fence as I struggled to keep composure.

"You shouldn't have worn your favorite shirt to a B and E then." I grabbed her hand and started dragging her again. "You should have worn your second favorite shirt."

We finally got to the house and I walked up the path way with Elena nervously standing besides me.

"You ready?"

"Wait..." She whispered and yelled at the same time. "I think I hear a car."

"Well, yea, cars are all around us. The world is full of them. You will hear a lot of them for the rest of your life." I turned back to the house and moved forward. "If you hear a lion roar or something, tell me that. That would be weird...then I'll stop." I was nearly three steps away and stopped and gave it a second thought but went for it anyway. Before I knew it I had the door open and stepped right through. I didn't even notice that I was giggling like a little girl, clearly, just for the fact I did something I never should have been able to. I was bound never to enter a house without being invited in, but hey, I'm Damon Salvatore and I did it. I felt fantastic. I turned back to Elena and it almost looked like her face was melting in horror. "Lets get out of here." I said while still laughing.

"Yea!" She said a little breathless. I walked out out of the house, leaving the door open while returning to Elena.

When I finally got back to the car, Elena still looked as pale as a ghost but I think she was now realizing, I was just trying to freak her out. There was silence and I finally let a chuckle out that caused Elena to look at me with wide eyes and then immediately burst into laughter. It went on and on for a couple minutes and then we both finally calmed down.

"You know now thinking about it, maybe I should have closed the door. I probably just messed up that family."

"They are going to come home and they are going to be wondering what the hell you took." She said while finally settling down. "After school tomorrow, can we do something simple. Like maybe watch a movie, in the safety of our own homes or maybe even play a nice safe game of scrabble and not break any laws."

"But this was so much more fun." I said sarcastically while finally driving away. "We just did our first B and E."

"This is what I love about you."

"And there is plenty I love about you, Elena."

AN: Sorry for the long wait. I really just wanted to have fun with this chapter so there wasn't really any huge plot changing events, but I hope you liked it:)

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