Chapter 4

It had been a few days since I had seen Stefan, which was really weird. I went to his house and there was no answer. All I could think about was who was that guy that I saw going up to Stefan's house. It looked a lot like him but he said he didn't have any family.

That night I finally got a phone call from Stefan.

"Hey Elena. I'm so sorry I haven't called you or let you know where I've been."

"Well could you tell me please, I'm worried to death about you?"

"Something came up and I had to go out of town."

"Was it something with that guy I saw going up to your house that last time I was there?"

"You saw him?"

"Yes I did. I would like to know who he is. He looks a lot like you except you told me you didn't have any siblings."

"Well that's not exactly true. I have a brother, but I don't ever talk to him. He just randomly showed up to my house that night. I don't know how he found out where I was living. I didn't ever think that you would meet him. I haven't seen him in like twenty something years."

"You mean he's a vampire too?"

"Yes it was a brother thing; when it happened."

"Ok I just wish you would have told me the truth when I first asked you."

"We'll let me make it up. Come over tonight and we will have a romantic evening."

"Ok I guess."

I was so happy I was going to see him. I missed him so much. I still couldn't get Katherine off my mind. I don't why but it was bothering me.

I drove up to his house and there was a walkway of rose petals. I walked in the door, and the room was filled with candle. I smelled chicken parmesan; my favorite.

"Hello?"

"Hey baby."

"Do I smell chicken parmesan?"

"Why yes you do. I heard it was your favorite."

"Oh my gosh that is so sweet."

"Yep that's just me."

I could not help but think how perfect that night was. How perfect the guy was. He made me feel special like I actually was important. After my parents died I felt as if I lost everyone that loved me. Yes I still had my brother Jeremy but he's a teenager, he doesn't really care about me. I had Jenna but she was just there because she was my mom's sister, and she told my mom that if anything ever happened to her that she would be our guardian. I just feel like I'm not important, like if I weren't around that nobody would even notice. But when I'm with him I feel the opposite. I feel like I'm loved that I disappeared someone else would disappear to find me.

The dinner was amazing, but I was more in the mood for desert. I dragged him to the bedroom. I took of my dress, and the look in his eyes was like 'holy crap what is she doing'. We were in the bed when suddenly the doorbell rang.

"Who would be here right now?"

"I don't know I will be right back."

"No Stefan stay with me." I batted my eyes and that's all I usually have to do.

"I have to get it I will be right back."

I was just sitting there thinking about our future when all of a sudden I hear Stefan arguing with someone. I got up and walked into the room and his brother was there.

"What are you doing here Damon? Me Elena were in the middle of something."

"Oh yea I bet you were. in the middle of getting it on."

"That is none of your business Damon."

I had to step in I wasn't going to see my boyfriend and his brother arguing about what me and Stefan were doing in bed.

"Guys…. Guys… STEFAN DAMON SHUT UP!"

"Wow feisty one you gut there Stefan."

"Oh you've crossed the line Damon, get the hell out of my house, and get the hell out of my life."

"Stefan its ok. Calm down and lets all go over and sit on the couch."

"No Elena I'm not going to calm down. I didn't even want you to meet him. Every girlfriend he meets of mine, he steals. He's a vindictive bastard that I want you to have nothing to do with."

"Excuse me! You cannot tell me who I can and cannot be friends with. I think weer done here tonight. I'm so not in the mood anymore. BYE!"

I didnt want to act like a bitch but it was getting over the top. I couldn't take it anymore. I was walking out the door when I heard someone coming after me. I thought it was Stefan coming to apologize but when I turned around it was Damon.

"Elena wait."

"No I'm not going to wait. I can do what I want. and certainly a strangers not going to tell me what to do."

"Ok I'm sorry I just wanted to meet you. When Stefan went out of town with me you were all he could talk about. And I wanted to meet the famous Elena Gilbert."

"Ok well you've met me and now you're watching me leave."

"I just wanted to tell you I'm not as bad as Stefan described me to be. I'm a nice guy. I have stolen all of his girlfriend's that's just because I'm a good looking guy."

"Cocky much?"

"Maybe just a little."

We both laughed. I looked into his eyes and suddenly I felt a connection with him. All I was thinking is this can't be happening. I finally found the guy that I want to marry and here comes his brother. But his brother, the mystery guy. That I don't even know. But I'm falling for him just the way he looks at me mesmerizes me. Kind of like I don't have control of what I'm doing, like it's supernatural.

Next thing I know me and Damon are in the back of my car making out in the back of my car. I can't help but think 'what the hell are you doing Elena'.

I heard the house door open and close. Stefan was coming to see why Damon had not come back when he noticed that my car was still there. He went up to look at it and that's when he saw us. Me and Damon.

He opened the car door.

"What the hell is going on here Damon?"

"stealing your girlfriend, once again."

"Damon please leave her alone. I really love her, more than any of the others I've ever been with."

"Even more than… Katherine?"

"Damon no! Do not bring her up!"

"Why not do you not want your girlfriend to know she looks exactly a girl you went out with one hundred forty five years ago? Or is it the fact you don't want her to know she looks exactly like her?"

"Both, now leave it alone. Ok she does not need to find out this way."

"Find what out Stefan?"

"I don't want to do this here. You don't deserve to find out this way."

"Well I'm not leaving Damon so…"

"Elena you don't need to be with him."

"But I can't leave him."

"Why not?"

"I don't know all I know is I can't leave him."

I wanted to go with Stefan. I want to know what he and Damon were talking about. But I couldn't move. It was like I didn't have control of my own body.

"Damon, why can't Elena move?" Stefan said sarcastically

"Oh I don't know why don't you take a guess."

"No you didn't?"

"Oh yes I did."

"Take it off of her now!"

"Why should I?"

"Because I love her and you don't. All you want her for is to irritate me."

"You're right but that doesn't mean I'm going to let her go."

I had no idea what they were talking about. But later on I found out I was compelled. Compulsion is a form of mind control that all vampires posse's. The only thing that can't stop vampires from compelling you is vervain. Vervain is an herb that is like a poison to vampires.

After Stefan finally got Damon to let me go he took me inside and sat me on the couch.

"I want to know what the whole thing with Katherine was about stefan."

"Are you sure you want to know because you're not going to be too happy about it."

"Yes I want to know just tell me already."

"I didn't exactly meet you on the first day of school. I had been here earlier this summer and I was in the woods when I heard a loud noise. I ran as fast as I could to where it was. I saw where a car had driven off of a bridge and into a lake. When I got there the car was already fully submerged. I went down to try to save the people in the car. When I got down there I saw you. And I noticed you looked very similar to a girl I used to date a long time ago. Your dad was still conscious, I went to get him but, he would let me get him until you and brother were safe. I got you out of the water. When I went back down to save the others they were all dead. I came back up to check on you. It was so weird how similar you looked to Katherine. I knew you weren't Katherine because she's a vampire and would have been able to get back out."

"So you're saying you lied to me and never told me that you're the one who saved my life?"

I began to cry.

"No Elena I didn't want to tell you because I wanted our love to be real. I didn't want you to feel that you had to love me because I saved your life."

"Umm ok… why do I look like Katherine? Are we related or something?"

"Well that's what I thought at first but then you're a Gilbert and she's a Petrova. So there was no way. But I started thinking about what if you weren't a Gilbert. I was looking around when I noticed there was no documentation of your mother being pregnant. Yes you did have a birth certificate with their names on it but your dad was a doctor he could do just about anything without anyone noticing."

"Are you saying I'm adopted?"

"Yes."

"What that's impossible. They would have told me."

"Well I went over everything, trust me you're adopted."

I could not believe all of this. My whole life had been a lie. My 'parents' weren't my parents anymore they were people who found me or whatever, but I feel like they didn't love me enough to tell me the truth.