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Chapter 7

When Damon said to me "It's a date" my heart felt like it had stopped, literally. How I wish he would say that and actually mean it. I'm really fed up of waiting for him, but I could never give up. I'm far too stubborn for that. Caroline is going through hell at the moment, I've just realised that I got off lightly when it came to Katherine being a psycho bitch that's over the top when it comes to power. They are doing more laps and poor Caroline looks close to tears, running has never really been her strong point. I just want to run out there and tell her to forget about it and go home but I can't, not when I already have a space on the squad and she doesn't.

Damon ran out of the locker room. He had just had the quickest shower of his life so he could run out and talk to Elena. And it all paid off.

"Elena, I'm here!" Damon said when running up to her, out of breath.

Elena laughed as he panted next to her. "How are you out of breath already?"

"I ran all the way from the locker room so I could see you, I didn't want to stand you up," he winked. Her laugh turned into a schoolgirl giggle. It was funny what he could do to her.

"I would never have forgiven you," she winked back. "Now let's watch your bit- lovely girlfriend do terrible thing to those girls…" Damon frowned. Elena was right, Katherine was being terrible. He wanted to do something about it.

"Stay here," he ordered Elena.

"Where are you…" was all he heard before running off again towards Katherine. As he got closer, he heard her cackling away.

"Oh, oh, oh my god! Look at her run! That is just the funniest thing I've seen all year!" She said before laughing again. "I think I'm going to maybe give her some false hope, but with thighs like that, she would never be one of us!" The rest of the group giggled away but Damon was fuming. He could believe how much of a bitch Katherine was being. It was then Damon realised that he actually didn't really like Katherine, he had only went after her in the first place was because he liked to annoy Stefan. He didn't actually have any feelings for her.

He reached out his hand and tapped her on the shoulder. She turned round, her eyes widening when she realised he probably heard her whole talk. "Hey babe, what's wrong?"

"Can I talk to you for a minute? Alone?"

Katherine didn't like the sound of that so she decided that whatever Damon wanted to say, he probably wouldn't say it with other people around. "No, Damon. What ever you want to say, you can say it in front of the girls. We don't have any secrets, right girls?"

The rest of the cheerleaders were watching closely and nodded their heads vigorously.

Damon gulped. "Alright, I think what you are doing to those girls is unfair. They came here to join the cheerleading squad, not the mafia. Leave them alone."

Katherine giggled. "It's only a little bit of fun Damon, lighten up."

"No, I will not lighten up. I've watched these cheerleading tryouts every year and the head cheerleader has never been a big a bitch as you are being right now." Katherine recoiled as if he had slapped her.

"How dare you call me a bitch!" she screamed. The girls on the track stopped dead at her high pitched wailing. "How dare you!"

"Well I'm sorry Katherine, someone had to tell you," he shrugged. Stefan noticed the argument and ran over quickly.

"What's going on here?" he said, his head going back and forth between his brother and his crush.

"Damon just called me a bitch!"

"Damon, what the hell?" Stefan said, enraged.

"For one, I didn't say it like that. I said she was being a bitch to those girls. Two, you have no right to come and barge in like that Stefan, Katherine and I were talking," Damon defended himself. By that time, their argument had caught the attention of everyone on the playing field, mainly due to Katherine's wailing.

"Whatever, come on Katherine, ignore my douche-bag of a brother," Stefan said, while putting an arm around Katherine protectively and turning her away from his older brother.

Damon rolled his eyes when Katherine sank into Stefan's embrace and gave him accusing eyes. He turned round to head back over to Elena. When he got closer to the bleachers, he noticed they were empty. His phone beeped in his pocket.

Damon, sorry I couldn't stay, Caroline and I had to go and meet Bonnie and we were already running late to go to the mall. Blame Car, she didn't want to wait the five minutes I told her it would take me to tell you. Is everything okay with you and Katherine? It looked like you were having a fight. Phone me if you want to talk or I'll come and see you later.

Elena x

Damon sighed when he read the text. It was just his luck, maybe splitting up with Katherine and then Elena not being there to comfort him when he wanted her the most. He typed a quick reply.

I've possibly split up with Katherine, not to sure on that one. Why don't I pick you up from the mall later and then you can come back to ours for dinner or something, I'm sure mom would love to have you.

He had to resist the urge to put a kiss at the end of the text. She would probably find it far too strange.


Elena frowned when she looked at her phone. She couldn't believe she had missed the argument that possibly spilt up Damon and Katherine. It didn't matter though, she would here about it later. She typed a quick 'That would be great!' before she slipped her phone back into her purse and concentrated on the shopping ahead of her. Caroline was getting an outfit for her date the next night with a mystery guy. She hadn't told them who it was yet.

"Caroline, how are we supposed to find you the perfect outfit if we don't know who the guy is. If we know who it is, we can fashion the outfit to his taste," Bonnie stated.

"No, I won't tell you," Caroline giggled. "But, man, is he hot."

Elena hit her on the arm. "You can't do that and not tell us who it is!"

Caroline chewed on her lip and looked at the other two girls. She didn't know if she wanted to tell them. "Okay, okay!" Caroline sighed. "It's Tyler Lockwood," she said before ducking behind a rack of clothes. While hiding, she could hear the squeals coming from her best friends.

Elena parted the clothes and looked at Caroline. "No way!"

Bonnie done the same but to the right of Elena. "No way!"

"You guys!" Caroline moaned. "This is why I didn't tell you. I knew you would react like this."

"But it's so cute!" Bonnie gushed. Caroline rolled her eyes and came out from her hiding spot. She stared at them before starting to jump up and down.

"Oh my god! I'm going out with Tyler!" The three of them jumped up and down excitedly while squealing.

"I'm so happy for you!" Elena sighed. Caroline and Bonnie turned round at the sigh.

"Why are you sighing?"

"Because, everything is working out for you! Whereas I'm here pining away for someone who has a girlfriend, well, might have a girlfriend."

"First of all, I'm pining for someone too, and second, what do you mean by might have a girlfriend? And what about Stefan?" Bonnie argued.

"Damon just text me that he might have broken up with Katherine, I haven't ever really classed Stefan as anything, he's just a really close guy friend and who are you liking Bonnie?" Elena's sentence came out rushed and was all in one breath. Bonnie blushed.

"Did I say that? It was a mistake," Bonnie told them hurriedly. Caroline and Elena exchanged a glance.

"Bonnie has a cru-ush!" they chanted. She hid her head in her hands.

"It's not a crush! I've liked him for a while!" she pouted.

"Who is it?" her two best friends gushed.

"Matt Donovan," she said through her hands. When nothing was said, she took her hands away from her face to reveal worried glances from Caroline and Elena.

"You mean the guy that fancies Elena like crazy, got really drunk and started a fight at the Salvatore's party?" Caroline asked, as if she couldn't believe her ears.

"Yeah, do you have a problem?" Bonnie jutted out her jaw defiantly.

"No, it's just, how could you like him knowing what he has done?" Elena questioned.

"I liked him before then, I was going to ask him to the dance, but then, uh, he asked you," she stared at Elena.

"Why didn't you say something? The whole fight could have been prevented."

"I didn't want to mess with your plan, it wouldn't have been fair to you."

Elena honestly couldn't believe it. She knew Bonnie was a good friend but she had no idea that she was so loyal that she wouldn't even say something even though it must have been hurting her inside.

"It wasn't that big a deal, honestly. It wouldn't have mattered to me if you had went to the party with him," Elena lied. Of course it would have mattered, Damon wouldn't have actually noticed her as a girl if it hadn't been for Matt. But she did feel some regret that everything ended the way it had. Maybe she could have found someone else.

"Why don't you ask him out?" Caroline suggested.

"I'm too embarrassed," Bonnie admitted. "And I think he still likes Elena."

"Well, I will sort that out for you Bon," Elena told her. "You will have your prince charming soon."

The girls were successful in their shopping trip. Caroline and Bonnie both managed to get outfits for their upcoming dates (Elena had assured Bonnie there would be a date on the cards) and Elena bought a few tops for school. She text Damon letting him know that she was done before following the other two outside.

"I was thinking we could all go to my house and we could make fajitas or something," Bonnie said.

"That sounds delicious! I'm starving!" Caroline rubbed her stomach.

"I can't," Elena said, causing Caroline and Bonnie to turn and raise an eyebrow. "Damon said he would pick me up and we could go and have dinner in his house."

"Oh Elena, you are so in there!" Caroline laughed.

"He just invited me over for dinner, it's no big deal!"

"Oh really, then why is he picking you up and then taking you to dinner? It sounds like a date," Bonnie teased.

"It's at his house and I've been there a million times before! Why are you making it out to be something it's not?" Elena said, exasperated. Bonnie and Caroline giggled.

"Uh, Elena?" Bonnie gestured to behind her. Elena turned round and nearly collapsed as Damon was standing behind her.

"Ready for dinner, mi'lady?" he smirked. She could feel herself going beetroot red.

"Uh yeah, bye guys," she muttered before heading off to find his car. Damon rolled his eyes at Elena and winked at her friends.

"Oh, well. What's up with her?"

"She's just frustrated." Damon nodded and followed Elena.

"Sexually," Caroline added quietly and her and Bonnie giggled more as he walked away.

"Elena, wait up! The car is this way!" Damon said, while picking up his speed to catch her.


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