Chapter 4...Home sweet home.
Previously on Twin Flames...
Elena took his hand and squeezed it. "You don't have to go through all that macho bullshit with me Damon. If you want to talk I'm here." And with that she walked of.
Damon stared after her, and not realizing it fell for her a little more.
"Hey! Hey Elena wait!" Damon ran after her, and she spun around, not realizing how close he was to her, she tripped over his feet.
She let out a soft yelp. Damon tried to keep her up and ended up on the floor, tripping over his own feet, with her on top of him. She lifted her head up and looked at him, as he looked at her. The silence was deafening and she tried to speak but couldn't. She could only stare at those blue eyes. Damon cleared his throat and spoke first, never taking his eyes of her. "Thank you. For what you said I mean"
She nodded, and to his surprise instead of getting up and walking away (which she seemed to have a habit of doing!) she rolled over so they were side by side. They stayed like that, laid on the floor side by side, for a couple of minutes, until Damon reached out for hand. He grazed his thumb over hers, and she responded by intertwining their fingers together. She turned her head, and looked at him having no idea what was going on, but at he same time not wanting to stop it.
"Come to dinner with me. Tonight." He suddenly said, breaking the silence.
She was shocked, and reminded herself of her earlier promise. Don't mix work with pleasure.
Gaining some sort of control over herself she replied four meek words "I'm sorry, but no." She then did what she does best and walked away.
"So she just walked away...man you got rejected bad!"
"Oh c'mon Ric, I came here for a bit of support, not to get laughed out by my supposed "best friend!" Alaric laughed even more and Damon had to admit he was glad he was spending some time with his long time best friend. It had been a while and they needed a good catch up together, especially since now they were in different colleges.
"So what was it your studying again? Its one of those long words I just can't remember...something geeky!" Damon teased, earning him a smack on the head.
"PhD in Badassery, that's what I always say!" Damon laughed at how wrong he was. Alaric was probably one of the kindest people you'd meet, behind the macho mask. Wouldn't hurt a fly.
"Haha, okay all joking aside I'll tell you..Paleontology. In other words : Dinosaurs. Hey don't laugh! It's actually pretty damn fascinating and it so beats English Literature! I mean c'mon Damon...Dinosaurs or Books? I know what I'd choose.
Damon smacked him hard this time, ensuing a mini wrestle on the park bench.
Damon kept the laidback facade, but the whole time he only had one person on his mind.
"You said no?" Caroline stared at her best friend in shock "Have aliens invaded your mind? You said no to one of the hottest men in town? Damon freaking Salvatore, c'mon Elena thought you knew better?"
"Caroline have you ever talked to this guy? He's got some sort of PMS! One minute he's a total jackass, then the next he's the sweetest guy on the planet. I don't know what to think? Plus, I'm looking after his father! He's the one Salvatore I need to focus on right now. The other two can just...go away!"
Caroline felt pity for her friend. Turning down a guy like that...she definitely knew what her decision would be.
"Well let's do something non-Salvatore related tonight. C'mon Elena you need to get out more! There's a party at the grill tonight, and it would do you some good to get away from all this! Like you said you need to get away from all this, right? Ok it's a date!"
But no matter how hard Elena tried their was one Salvatore that wouldn't go away.
"Hey Stef, what's up?" Damon had just arrived at the boarding house after a long day of catching up with friends, and hadn't seen his little brother all day.
"Oh nothing...just catching up with people. Actually spending time with my father. Our father, incase you'd forgotten!"
"Oh c'mon Stefan, now really isn't the time for a lecture. I love Dad, just as much as you do, okay? I had things to do today, but tommorow I'm straight at the library to do some research about this thing. And to be with Dad."
"Well, considering we're just letting lose tonight...would you care to join me at a party at The Grill tonight? See some old friends, have cosy chit chat and all that..." Stefan showed Damon the leaflet.
"Hey, y'know I can never turn down a party! I'm there. Your driving though brother!" Stefan gave him a grave look. "Hey you're the one who got the car from Dad. So drive it!"
