AN: SO IM TRYING TO POST THIS REALLY FAST BECAUSE I LEAVE IN LIKE FIVE MINUTES. alrighty, this was originally two short chapters, but i really dont like either of them so im posting it as one big long chapter. I PROMISE THIS ISNT AN ALL FLUFF STORY. wait for next chapter;) also im posting this in celebration; literally a half an hour after i posted chapter three my mom came home with a laptop charger! okay so here are the chapter(s).
DAMONS POV
I woke up with a major hangover. Wait? When did I even drink last night? Rubbing my temples as if it could cure my headache, I looked to see what time it was. 12. Okay, not too bad. Just then all of my memories came flooding back in. Klaus coming here, going to the Grill, getting drunk with Elena and our friends, Elena…the kiss. I didn't get time to think about the kiss for much longer because there was a loud crash coming from the kitchen. I walked down the steps and looked for what it was. Klaus was laying on his stomach in the middle of the kitchen surrounded by various pots and pans. "Dude, what the fuck happened?" I asked him.
"I was trying to find the bloody aspirin, and then the pots attacked me." I burst out laughing. Then I maneuvered my around the mess and took the bottle of aspirin out of the cabinet. I quickly swallowed two, put the cap back on and tossed the bottle to Klaus. I walked into the living room and sat down on the couch with my phone. As soon as I turned it on I laughed to myself. My background was a picture of me, Elena, Caroline, Klaus, Tyler, Matt, Bonnie, and Jer. Klaus walked into the room and sat down across from me. I started a conversation.
"So how was your first night here?"
"Fucking awesome. I'm definitely staying."
"Oh, yeah? This doesn't have anything to do with a certain blonde now does it…?"
"Oh it definitely does." He replied smirking, "I was actually just about to call Caroline and ask her out on a date. Hey! You should ask Elena out!" I thought about it long and hard before I came up with my decision.
"Yeah, I will. I'll give her a call right now." I said before walking up to my room to call her. She picked up after the second ring.
"Hello?" she answered groggily.
"Hey Len, its Damon."
"I know dumbass I have caller i.d." she joked.
"Youre so mean to me. Listen…I…uh…was wondering if you wanna go out with me tonight?'
"Damon."
"Yeah?" I asked. Oh god, she has a boyfriend.
"I'd love to." I started dancing around my room, then I realized she was still on the line and I calmed down.
"Awesome! I'll pick you up at 7?"
"Wait? Where are we going?"
"It's a surprise!" I hung up before I gave it away, and got the biggest smile on my face.
Today was going to be a good day.
ELENAS POV
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I quickly ran back into my room and kicked Caroline to wake her up. "CARE GET UP."
"Jeez Len, where's the fire?" she asked me still half asleep.
"We need an emergency girl talk session, I'll tell you in a sec. I have to go get Bon." Just then Care's phone started ringing. I walked down the hall and started banging on my brothers door. I heard someone get up. The door flew open to Bonnie in one of my brother's shirt and a pair of shorts. Ew. I don't even want to think about Bonnie and my brother sleeping together. "Bon, emergency girl talk." I said with a huge grin on my face. I grabbed her hand and pulled her into my room. One we were all seated in a circle on my bed I spoke up. "Damon asked me out!" They both squealed in excitement. They knew this was huge, this was the first date since Elijah. "I know! And since the Grill is closed today I vote we go get mani, pedi's!" They both nodded. "Okay ladies, you can borrow clothes from me, and whatever you need."
I walked into my closet and through on one of Jeremy's old band t-shirts and some shorts. I went into the bathroom and put my hair up. I walked out and Caroline was already dressed in my white shorts and a mint green tank-top. Then Bonnie walked out of the closet in some neon pink shorts, and a black tank-top. Bon went to say bye to Jeremy and me and Care walked downstairs. Bonnie appeared at the bottom of the stairs and Caroline turned to us.
"You're not the only one with a date tonight!" she said grinning. Once again me and Bonnie squealed. "Klaus called me this morning, he's taking me to an Italian restaurant outside of town!"
"You guys are so lucky. Jer's idea of a date is eating ice-cream on the couch watching football."
"Yeah, Jer doesn't have a romantic bone in his bod-"
"You know I can hear you Lennie." Jeremy said walking down the stairs.
"Love you baby bro!" I told him before I unlocked the front door and walked out, followed by Caroline and Bonnie. We piled into my cherry red Dodge Charger. I turned on the radio and we all sang along to some boy band song.
We arrived at the Nail Salon ten minutes before it opened so we decided we would get coffee from the Starbucks across the street. We all got venti passion fruit teas, our favorite hangover-drink. We walked back to the nail salon and got seated in the huge pedicure chairs. Then I realized something.
"Guys. I have nothing to wear tonight."
"We can just go to the mall after this then. I wanted to get a new dress for my date tonight anyway." Caroline answered, then Bonnie piped up.
"Yeah, and this weekend is me and Jeremy's three year anniversary and he's taking me out, so I need something too."
With that crisis diverted, we carried on for another hour talking about celebrity gossip and other random things. When our nails were dry, we got back into my car and drove off to the mall. We went into our favorite dress store, Windsor, and started getting a pile of things we wanted to try on. We all out on what seemed to be our 15th dress and walked out of our respective dressing rooms. The dress I had on was a bright red. It was strapless and there was a cut-out in the back of the dress the cinched into a bow. The dress had a tight bodice, but then the skirt flowed out to hit mid-thigh. The entire thing had a lace over-lay. This was definitely the one. Caroline had a neon pink, dress that also hit mid-thigh also. It was strapless too, but Care's was almost a body-con dress. At the waist it had a two-tiered peplum. Caroline looked gorgeous. Finally bonnie had on a spaghetti strap lilac dress. It off-set her skin color perfectly. It also had a tight bodice and flowed out to hit mid-thigh. I had to admit. We looked good. No. We looked phenomenal. "Caroline, Bonnie. You both look gorgeous. Seriously. Wow." I was at a loss of words. They both looked like they walked out of a magazine.
"Puh-lease. Lena you look absolutely divine. You're going to take Damon's breath away. And Bonnie, you look so beautiful. Jeremy is going to fall in love with you all over again." Caroline said.
"Care, Klaus is going to be put through torture with you wearing that dress. And Elena, you look gorgeous beyond words." That's it. I couldn't do it. I spoke next.
"Alright we all look amazing. Can we please just go pay for the dresses before I start crying?" I laughed.
We all went back into our dressing rooms, and put our clothes back on, or rather my clothes. We went to the front of the store and paid for our dresses also.
"Ohhhh! Lets go to Victoria Secret. Who knows maybe Klaus and Damon will get lucky!" Bonnie says to me and Caroline, winking.
"Uhm, most definitely not. But I need new underwear so…"
"Klaus isn't getting any either. He has to take me on at least five dates before the next step."
We walk to the store, pick out of underwear of choice, pay, and then we leave the mall. We all went back to my house. Bonnie was going to hang out with Jeremy and help us get ready. Caroline had told Klaus to pick her up at my house too.
Caroline and I had two and a half hours to get ready. Once we got back to my house we all ran up to my room. I jumped in my shower, and Caroline used Jeremy's. Bonnie had put on our 'Get Ready' playlist to get us pumped up. I got out of the shower just as 'Royals by Lorde' came on. I was singing along as I danced to my closet. I pulled on my favorite nude push-up bra, and matching panties. I walked over to my closet door where my dress was hanging. "Hey Care can you clip my strap in the back?" I called over my shoulder. Caroline came into the closet in her robe. I walked out so she could put her dress on, then I zipped her up. I blew my hair dry, and then Bonnie came in and curled my hair. Caroline was wearing her hair in her natural curls so all she had to do was blow dry her hair. That lucky bitch. My hair is naturally wavy, but I'd rather have her perfect curls. Before I knew it Bon, was finished. I started to do my makeup. I put on some light, shimmery eye shadow, and did a cat eye with my eyeliner. I put two coats of mascara, some bronzer, and I used a lip-stain to get my lips the perfect rose color. I looked at the time and saw it was 6:30. "OH SHIT!" I exclaimed aloud.
"What's wrong?" Caroline and Bonnie asked at the same time.
"I have no shoes to wear!" how could I forget to buy shoes!
"Why don't you wear your nude ones?" Bonnie asked.
"Do they match? I asked while rummaging through my closet. I finally found them and slipped them on.
"OMG! Yes! They look gorgeous!" Caroline practically shouted.
"What shoes are you wearing Care?" Bonnie asked her.
"Well I was hoping I could borrow Len's black Louboutins?" she asked smiling sweetly at me.
"Of course you can!" I said. Honestly Caroline has lone me so many dresses and pairs of shoes I owed her.
"Yay! I love you so much!" I grabbed my nude clutch from my bed and put in the essentials; phone, money, lip-stain, and keys. Caroline grabbed her clutch and then the doorbell rang. Bonnie said goodbye to the both of us and went into Jeremy's room. I turned to Caroline, and got the biggest grin on my face. We locked arms and started down the stairs. I opened the door to Damon and Klaus standing side-by-side. Each were holding a single rose. The only difference was Klaus held a white, and Damon had a red. He was dressed impeccably. In a white button down tucked into black slacks.
"Hi." I said a little breathlessly.
"Hi…Wow. You look…Wow." He said with a blinding smile on his face.
"Damn Salvatore, you really have a way with words." I told him putting on a smirk. He looked down sheepishly, and at that I had to laugh. Then Caroline and Klaus decided to make their presence known.
"Yeah, we get it you both look hot. But we have our own date to be going to so bye!" Caroline replied, pulling Klaus off of the porch. Klaus opened to door of his black Cadillac for Caroline. Then I looked up at Damon.
"So, where are we going?" I asked him.
"That is for me to know and for you to dot, dot, dot." He smirked, "Here, this is for you." He held out the rose. I took it and smelled it. He put his arm out for me, and I took it. Closing the door behind me, we started down the steps of the porch.
DAMONS POV
Elena looked…I seriously can't even put it into words. Her chocolate hair was swept to one side, with curls cascading over her shoulder. Her lips looked completely kissable. And her legs. God her legs. I don't think they have ever looked better. When she opened the door, I honestly didn't even notice Caroline. Elena Gilbert would be the death of me.
We started walking down the porch steps to my baby blue Camaro. I opened the passenger's door for her, the jogged over the driver's side. I put the keys into the ignition and drove off. I couldn't wait to see the reaction on Elena's face when she saw what I did for our first date.
AN: hmmmm where will their first date be? okay so Windsor is actually a dress store that I love! You can see the girls dresses here;
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BONNIE'S DRESS: Elly-Short-Lillac-Mesh-Prom-Dress/p/158234
ELENA'S DRESS: Shop/Dresses/Short-Dresses/Red-Strapless-Lace-Dres s/p/169384
CAROLINE'S DRESS: Shop/Dresses/Short-Dresses/Neon-Pink-Strapless-Pep lum-Dress/p/170893
ELENAS POV
We filled the 20 minute drive with small talk and jokes. It was so easy to talk to him. We finally pulled up to The Falls. Damon got out of the car and jogged over to the passenger's side so he could open my door. That's when I saw it. There was a table set up beside the falls. It had a table cloth, candles, roses, the whole nine yards. The trees were draped with soft-yellow lights. It was starting to get dark out and the lights combining with the sunset made it look magical. We walked over to the table and Damon pulled out my chair for me. I was still in awe. I watched him jog back to the car and open the trunk, and he pulled out two picnic baskets. Once he was at the table again he opened the baskets to reveal wine, bread, and a bowl of pasta. Putting the baskets aside he finally sat down. I'm pretty sure my smile was so big I could be mistaken for the Joker.
"Damon, this is just incredible. Thank you so much. I seriously can't imagine how hard this was to do." I told him. His smile grew two sizes to match mine,
"You're welcome. And I thought our first date I should make a good impression, especially if I want any more dates with you."
"I think I could fit you in my schedule…"
"How about we see how this date goes and if you still want to go out with me." He said piling some pasta onto my plate and pouring me a glass of wine.
"I think I'll definitely want to go out with you again, the question is will you want to go out with me?"
"Absolutely."
WE had finished our meal. We were now sitting on a picnic blanket with the bottle of wine.
"So…what do we talk about?"
"I have no clue. I haven't been on a date for almost three years…" oops. Should I have said that?
"I haven't for five. There aren't that many cute girls in Afghanistan." He joked, "if you don't mind me asking why not? You're obviously gorgeous."
"Uhh, bad past relationship." I replied.
"I guarantee mine last relationship was worse."
"Well it's kind of a damper on a perfectly good date, do we really want to do the 'ex's talk' on the first date?" I asked?
"Well, we have already established there will be more dates, and we will have to have the talk at one point or another, so why not get it out of the way?"
"Okay." I took a deep breath. "The last guy I dated was this perfect gentleman. His name was Elijah. When you're growing up and thinking about you're perfect boyfriend, you pictured him. He was kind, sweet, thoughtful, and I was madly in love with him. I thought he was the one. I thought that I would have kids with him and we'd be living the 'American Dream'."
"On our two year anniversary, which also happened to be my birthday, we went out with Tyler, Caroline, Bonnie, and Jeremy. Matt couldn't get off of work so he didn't come." I told him what happened in the club with me dancing with that guy. I also told him how Elijah slapped me.
"I had called my dad to come pick me up after Elijah drove off. I didn't want to burden my friends or anything. I had started to walk up the road and wait for my parents. I got to the bridge and saw their car sinking in the river. I tried to jump in after them but I had sprained my ankle and wrist jumping off of the bridge. I also sliced the right side of my rib cage on a nail. I swam to shore and waited for the paramedics." A single tear rolled down my cheek and Damon put his hand over mine, rubbing soothing circles into the back of my hand. Taking another deep breath I started the story again. "Elijah had run them off the road in the midst of his drunk driving." Damon put his arm around my shoulders, and I immediately calmed down. Why did he have such an effect on me? "My parents didn't suffer, they had died upon impact. I was brought to the hospital because I had been in shock and non-responsive. Matt was the first one there. Followed by everyone from the club, and Jenna and Ric. Me and Jeremy just sat in each other's arms for three and a half hours crying. Even though Jeremy was my younger brother, he knew he had to be strong, for me."
"I blamed myself."
"I blamed me. I thought it was all my fault. If I hadn't let Elijah drive off they would have lived. Then I realized it wasn't my fault. It was Elijah's. He was in a coma for two weeks. When he woke up and was in good health, he was put into custody. He pleaded guilty. And now he's in a jail cell for the next 35 years." By the end of the story a few more tears had rolled down my cheek and I was snuggled into Damon's side.
"You're okay though. You made it through." He told me. God I could kiss him right now. He was the first person who didn't apologize for me.
"Thank you." I whispered into his chest.
"Anytime. Alright. I have something to tell you before I start," he said hesitantly. "Before I moved here, I was engaged." Oh thank god. I thought he was going to say he had a kid or something.
"Her name was Katherine. And now that im looking back on it, I don't even know what I saw in her."
"We had met in college. Dated for two years, and I proposed when I was 20. Before we got married though, I went to the Marines. Those five years gave me so much time to think about it. Was I really ready to settle down with her? Kat, was…Kat. She was sexy and hot, but she was also mean and vindictive. I think I only stayed with her because I wanted to feel important. To feel loved for the first time since my mother died."
"My dad resented me after she died. Why wouldn't he? I looked exactly like her. I would rebel against Father. And as soon as I turned 18 I went to Duke. There I met (what seemed like) the two most important people in my life, Kat and Ric. I fell in love with her within weeks."
"Fast forward seven years and im coming home from Afghanistan. Klaus was seated right next to me and I knew he was ready to shoot me because I wouldn't stop talking about Katherine. When we finally got off of the plane I was running through the airport to find her. There was clearly something different with her. She wasn't even wearing her engagement ring."
"Turns out while I was in Afghanistan she was fucking my brother."
"Oh my god. Damon,"
"It's okay. The minute they told me I figured out that I wasn't in love with her. I just wanted to feel loved so I tricked my mind into think I did love her."
"And now you're here with me." I said.
"And now I'm here with you. I gotta say, I'm very happy I moved out here." He said smiling at me.
I blushed. Then I knew what I wanted. I looked up at him, then down at his lips, and back up to meet his gaze. I wet my bottom lip and moved my head to the side. I pushed myself up from my laying position so our faces were a mere inch apart. Then it was as quick as the flash of lightning. He put his arm around my waist and closed the distance between us. I wrapped my arms around his neck and tangled my hands in his hair. He pulled me even tighter against his and I set out a small moan. He took that as permission and slipped his tongue into my mouth. Both our lips were moving with haste. When we finally pulled apart he spoke.
"If each date ends like that…I'm taking you out every night." He said with a smirk. I just blushed and laughed. "Well we should probably get going, but I definitely want to do this again." He told me with a small, shy smile.
"Me too."
ONE MONTH AND EIGHT DATES LATER
DAMONS POV
I think moving to Mystic Falls was the best decision I've made. Elena and I have gone out twice a week. We haven't had the whole boyfriend/girlfriend talk, but that's pretty much what we were. Even though we hadn't gone to the 'next step' yet. Klaus and Caroline were also dating, except they weren't as closeted as we were. Just then I got a phone call, and surprise, surprise it was Elena.
"Hey Len, what's up?" I said into the phone.
"I'm bored come over and make me food." She told me and I had to laugh at that.
"How about you come here and I'll make you some chocolate chip cookies?"
"I'll be over in ten minutes" and with that she hung up.
A few minutes later the doorbell rang, and I walked over to answer it. Elena walked in, wearing yoga shorts and my duke t-shirt, it was still quite warm despite it being September. She looked gorgeous even without any makeup on. She gave me a quick kiss on the lips and walked into the kitchen where I had laid out the ingredients. I walked in behind her. She put herself on one of the stools at the counter and I started to make that cookie dough.
"Aren't you the perfect little house-boyfriend." She said with a cheeky grin.
"Boyfriend?" I asked, my eyes instantly lighting up. She blushed, god I loved it when she blushed it was positively adorable.
"Well, yeah I thought that's what we were…" she said sheepishly.
I walked around the counter to stand in front of her, "Well, as your boyfriend," I started with a smirk on my face, "I guess I should probably ask you to go to the masquerade ball with me?"
She squealed and threw her arms around my neck, jumping onto me. I caught her and hugged her back. I carried her back to my side of the counter and set her down on the counter-top. I stood in between her legs and commenced a much needed make-out session. When we broke apart she spoke.
"Put everything away, we need to go shopping." She said.
"Elena," I groaned, "you're taking away my man-card."
"You got your man-card taken away when you offered to bake me cookies. Now go clean."
Once I was finished putting everything away, Elena grabbed her purse and we got into my Camaro. When we arrived at the mall we immediately went into some store that started with a W. she started picking stuff out and giving it to me to hold. I slipped in some really revealing dresses just to get a laugh out of her reaction. When she was ready to try on things I gave her the pile, and took a seat outside of her dressing room. The first dress she came out in was one of my picks. She had the cutest pout on her face and was glaring at me. I burst out laughing and had tears rolling down my face. The dress was extremely short and tight, it also had two huge cut outs on each leg. She stomped back into the dressing room and put on the next one.
After about five more dresses she came out in a charcoal dress that was completely covered in sequins. She look utterly amazing. I was speechless.
"So…?" she asked.
"Babe, you look stunning. This is the one."
"Yay! I thought so too!" she ran over to me and gave me a chaste kiss on the lips. She went back to the fitting room to put on her own clothes, came back out, and paid for the dress. We continues to walk through the mall and when we passed Victoria's Secret I spoke up.
"I think we should stop in that store." I said with a grin on my face.
"Ugh, you're such a pig."
Once we were back at the boarding house, we decided to finish making the cookies and some dinner, then watch a movie.
We had finished dinner, and we were both doing the dishes. Elena thought it would be a marvelous idea to flick bubbles at me. I did the logical thing, and flicked bubbles back. We started throwing bubbles back and forth until it was an all-out war. Then Elena took some water in a cup and flung it at me.
"That's it," I growled. She screamed and started to run. I tried to chase after her but I lost her. Then I heard the front door slam shut. I immediately ran outside only to find Elena standing there with a smirk on her face. Then she pulled out the hose from behind her back and sprayed me. I charged at her. I chased her around the perimeter of the pool, when I got an idea. I was finally catching up to her when I jumped and tackled her into the pool. Her screams were muffled by the water and we both came up sputtering. We both broke out laughing until we had tears in our eyes. I wrapped my arms around her waist and kissed her in the middle of the pool. We stayed in the pool, splashing and swimming around, until it was getting dark. We went inside and dried off.
"Do you mind if I take a shower?" Elena asked me.
"I was just thinking the same thing." I told her, wiggling my eyebrows.
"Alone." She said blushing.
I gave her a kiss on the cheek, "of course, I'll grab a shirt and some shorts you can wear."
Once Elena was out of the shower, and into my clothes, I went and took a shower of my own. When I was done I came back downstairs to find Elena laying on her stomach in front of the entertainment center, looking for a movie.
"Breakfast Club or Hangover?"
"Breakfast Club" someone screamed. I turned around to see Caroline and Klaus walking in.
"Breakfast Club it is." Elena said.
"No, I want Hangover." I said.
"Well, you should of thought of that before you pushed me into the pool." She replied. Feisty.
"Care, Klaus do you wanna watch the movie with us?"
"N-" Klaus started before Caroline cut him off, "Yes."
"Whipped" I coughed.
"Damon go get the cookies you made me, please." Elena asked sweetly.
"Who's whipped now?" Klaus asked with a smirk.
After the movie was over, Elena was fast asleep in my arms. Caroline and Klaus had already gone to bed. I decided that I didn't want to wake her, so I picked her up bridal style and carried her to my room. I got in bed with her, and she instantly curled into my side. I fell into a perfect, peaceful sleep.
ELENAS POV
I woke up in a foreign room. I turned around and hit something soft and warm. I realized it was Damon and I relaxed.
"Good Morning Sleeping Beauty" he drawled out.
"Hi" I said. I turned around and just looked at him.
"Do you have to get to work?" he asked me.
"No, I took the day off to get ready for the ball tonight."
"Good, do you want some breakfast?"
"Yes please!"
We both got out of bed and walked downstairs. Caroline and Klaus were sitting on the couch together watching the news.
"Did I hear something about breakfast?" Klaus asked.
"Breakfast for my girl," Damon shot back. My girl. Okay that was my new favorite saying.
"Damon, don't be mean." I chastised him.
"Fine, youre lazy-ass can have some breakfast." Damon finally agreed. Klaus got up to help and I sat on the couch with Caroline.
"have you gotten you're dress for the masquerade ball yet?" I asked her.
"Yes, Len it's gorgeous. It has a red-sequin bodice. Then it flows out to the shear red ombre to black fabric. It has a high-low hemline too. Klaus is my date too, is Damon taking you?" She said with a grin.
"Yeah, I dragged him shopping with me yesterday." I said with a devilish smile. "we should all get ready at your house." I suggested.
"Absolutely! I'll text Bonnie after breakfast."
After chatting for another half-hour breakfast was finally ready. All four of us sat down at the table and ate, talking about the ball, and other small things. I could definitely get used to this.
All four of us ended up just lounging around all day. We all stayed in our pajamas and watched movies. It was the perfect day. At around 4 Caroline and I decided we should get going so we could get ready. I gave Damon, what was supposed to be a short kiss, but Damon being Damon, the kiss lasted a good minute. "I'll see you tonight. Don't forget to pick me up at Caroline's house." I told him. Giving Damon one more peck on the lips, caroline and I headed out. I turned on the radio when we got into the car. "Hey, can we stop at my house so I can get my makeup and everything?" I asked her.
"Sure. Hey what shoes are you wearing? I could lend you some if you need them?" care asked.
"Well my dress is charcoal gray so I was just gonna wear my black pumps, that you borrowed."
"Okay, I think they are still at my house." We pulled up to my house. I ran inside grabbed everything I needed, ran back outside, and drove to Caroline's house.
AN: I know. Dress shopping twice. Im sorry. You can all kill me if you want to. sorry if there is formatting issues or mistakes. like i said im seriously putting this up in five minutes. i hope you arent too disappointed; these are really weak chapters. alright ill see you guys next time! love you:) also; please review, it makes my day!