I was praying that you and me might end up together
It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert
But I'm holding you closer than most
Cause you are my heaven.
I don't wanna waste the weekend
If you don't love me, pretend a few more hours
Then it's time to go

Ron Pope - A Drop In The Ocean

I walked down the stairs of the boarding house with a huge elaborate plan on how to convince Elena I was serious about whatever was happening between us. I didn't want all the past things I once said to take away all that I've ever wanted. I was dead set on it now, but it would be harder from all the pushing away, the past me did.

"Hey, Stefan I'm-" I literately lost the rest of the air in my lungs to finish my sentence when I came across the scene in my living room. Oh, no, no no! This could not be happening. "What the hell is this?" I yelled at Stefan.

There was a young girl, who probably went to school with Stefan and Elena sitting on my couch. Her lips were swollen as she just pried herself away from my brothers face. How could he do this to Elena! What... This couldn't' be happening! This wasn't part of the perfect world for Elena.

"Hey, Damon." The girl said completely nonchalant as she looked at me. Stefan gave me a confused look as to why I was freaking out.

"Who are you and why are you in my house?"

"Damon stop talking to Dana like that!" Oh my god... I knew her. I knew about this... And I didn't tell Elena!

"Oh, fuck." I backed up away from the two with my hands in my hair, trying to wrap my brain around this all. How could Stefan... how could I betray Elena like that! I felt horrible, to the point that I felt like I could actually get sick at any moment. Here I was trying to win her over and I was her best friend letting this happen! "Will you please unhinge your body parts from each other and Dana... get out of my house!" I watched as the girl stood up throwing Stefan and I both a weird glance as she made her way out the door.

"Damon what is your problem?"

"You little asshole!" I chucked a book that was sitting on the table next to me, right at his face. "What if Elena saw this? It would kill her!"

"Yea, sure it would." He said sarcastically and it almost felt like I was going to kill him with frustration. I had to keep reminding myself he was just a kid. He was in his stage where this was okay. But I still wanted to strangle him till he passed out.

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"We both know how things are Damon! She is practically cheating on me as well." Stefan stood up from the couch suddenly defensive. "She may not be physically cheating on me, but she is mentally. And you know that."

"Are you intending I am somehow in this mess?" I asked shocked at his tone towards me.

"You are the mess!"

"I'm not the one with my tongue shoved down some other girls throat when I have a girlfriend!"

"Yea, your just the one who steals hearts away." How in world was I the bad guy in this situation? "And it gets even better, you don't even want her!" Stefan was pushing me to my edge and I didn't have much resolve left to control myself. "It's her fault that this all took place." That's all it took me to snap as I unconsciously punched Stefan right in the jaw. I was satisfied when he fell backwards onto the floor holding his face.

"Oh god, that hurts more then I thought." I said while shaking off my hand. I felt a smile appear on my face and he rolled around on the floor. I suddenly remembered my plans to win back Elena and started walking towards the door of the boarding house.

"Where are you going?" I heard Stefan yell from behind me. "You are going to walk away!"

"I'm going mini golfing!" I screamed and then left the house.

"I can't believe you are actually doing this." Elena said while picking out the color of her golf ball.

"I promised I would."

"You promise a lot of things." She said while happily picking out a pink ball and walking over to the first hole. The whole place was pirate themed and I couldn't even wrap my brain around the thought that I of all people was here.

"Do you want to make a bet on who will win?" She said innocently as if she already knew she was going to lose. "Whoever loses has to buy ice cream."

"Deal." I knew I would be paying for the ice cream no matter who actually lost. It's just how it goes.

"Now, I've never actually done this before."

"It's not that complicated." I stepped backward, away from her and tried not to laugh as she was doing all the wrong things. She took a big swing and if I wasn't paying attention the ball would of hit me.

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry!": She said as she saw me jump out of the way.

"Elena we aren't at a driving range... It's called mini golf for a reason. You could have seriously damaged my face."

"Oh the horror! But it is true, I'm no Tiger Woods." She ran over and quickly grabbed her ball that was stopped by a bush.

"I'd say so."

"Well... why don't you teach me?" She gave me a devilish smile that I wasn't quite used to on her. But I liked it. I stepped behind her and nudged her feet with my own so they were shoulder length apart. I then pushed all her hair off her left shoulder so I could whisper in her ear.

"All you have to do is gently hit the ball." I said while wrapping my arms around her and teaching her how to correctly hold the club and hit the ball. I helped her hit the ball and we watched as it smoothly went into the hole. "Very good." I whispered again.

"You just gave me tingles." She said while she physically tried to shake them off.

"Good or bad?" I stepped away from her, keeping our distance.

"The good kind of tingles."

"I give every girl tingles." I said, trying to lighten the mood a little.

"So I'm like every girl?" She said in a playful tone but I could tell she didn't like the comparison.

"No."

"How so?" She asked while we moved on to the next hole.

"Because you aren't any girl, you are my girl."

"Your girl?" She gave me a daring look and went to hit her ball.

"You know what I mean. "

"Sure I do." She said with a chuckle and then perfectly hit her golf ball directly in the hole with ease. I gave her a suspicious look and she just smiled at me. "So, I may have played a few times."

"Wait, a minute." Her smile never faded as she waited. "Are you trying to hustle me?"

"Now what would give you that idea?"

"It is officially on!" I dropped my own ball down, ready to take my turn. "If you think I'm going to let you win this, you are highly mistaken."

"Oh, I'm so scared by the big bad golfing Damon." She snickered at me watched as the gold ball rolled right into the hole.

"You should be darling." I winked at her and couldn't help but notice the redness in her cheeks.

After a hour of a competitive game, it was in fact me losing as I didn't hear the end of it, the whole way to the ice cream parlor.

"Alright, alright. I get it. You are the mini golf master." I said sarcastically while sitting down on a bench with our ice cream.

"Thank you for finally acknowledging that." The sun was slowly setting and aiming right at us and it was nice for once to feel that warmth without any worry. "Today was a good day." Elena sighed while licking her ice cream cone.

"It was pretty good." I looked up down at her, with the sun hitting her face in the most beautiful and couldn't help but wonder how in the world Stefan could be cheating on her... How as I going to tell her? I wanted her to have a good day, so my plan to tell her now went out the window. I didn't want every day to have a falling out between us and then go back to pretending it never happened, even if the tension was nonexistent at times. I broke from own thoughts to see Elena looking at the sunset, clearly thinking hard about something as well. For just once, I'd love to get in her head.

I was suddenly taking my ice cream and scraped it across her cheek, trying to get her attention.

"Where were you?" .

"Sorry, I was thinking about something." Once it finally hit her exactly what I did, she immediately retaliated and swiped her own ice cream onto my cheek.

"You did not just do that." I said with my eyes closed. When I opened them I saw a big grin on her face. Without thinking, I grabbed onto her face and licked off the ice cream I just put there.

"Ew! Damon!" She said in between giggles as she quickly whipped off her cheek.

"You taste good." That only made her start laughing even harder.

"I'm sticky now."

"Well I tried helping." I took a napkin and whipped off the ice cream on my face.

"Thanks for taking me out today. What all brought it on?"

"I have to have a reason for hanging out with my best friend now?"

"We both know you always have other motivations." She said while rolling her eyes.

"Well, last night I did practically beg you to give us a shot."

"Oh." She said simply while looking away. It was clear she didn't like these conversations.

"Don't worry. I get that you don't want that."

"I never said that." She said quickly and I quirked an eyebrow at her with an 'oh really?' look. "I didn't, cause that would be a lie." I was about to say something back when Elena's phone start ringing, cutting me off. I watched as she took out her phone and looked at it. "Stefan is texting me. He's asking when we will be back."

"I'm sure he is." He probably think I told her, which I fully intended to do.

"We should get going." She slid off the bench and walked towards my car as I watched her. And here I thought we were about to have our defining moment.

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