So...if you haven't heard of "Llamas with hats" then you probably won't understand the first part of this chapter. I'd suggest you look it up on YouTube if you haven't already, but I found it pretty dumb so I'm not going to tell you to.

Anyway, thanks to everyone who's reading this story, it means a lot to me. Reviews are love! xoxo


Elena's ringing laughter woke Damon the next morning. Confused, he opened his eyes and saw her on his laptop next to him in the bed.

"What are you doing...?" He asked.

"You were sleeping in, so I decided to go on YouTube. And I found the funniest thing," she giggled, looking back to the computer.

All Damon could hear were two voices; one that kept incessantly saying "CARRRRLLLLLLLL," and one that seemed to be doing a lot of crazy stupid shit.

He rolled his eyes. Humanity had really sunk down a few levels over the decades. He sat up and put his arm around his girl, watching the small screen.

It turned out the two voices were coming from two llamas wearing hats. Even stupider than Damon had predicted. The one named Carl had just managed to sink an entire cruise ship. How completely wonderful.

"God, Elena. That is just...disturbing," he said, getting out of bed and pulling on some jeans and a black t-shirt.

"It's the funny kind of disturbing though," she said, winking at him, as she closed the laptop and got out of bed. She fished out the change of clothes she'd had in her beach bag from the day before, and got changed.

"What do you want to do today?" she asked, when she was finished getting ready.

"Well, there's an ice skating rink on deck two, we could check it out if you want," Damon offered.

Elena winced. She was definitely not the best skater.

"Damon...I really, really suck at skating..."

"Oh, come on. I'll help you, it'll be fun," he said, giving her that smirk that she couldn't resist.

"Fine. But if I fall, I'll be seriously pissed at you," she said.

They left the room and decided to take the stairs down to the second deck, stopping quickly at the cafe to get something to eat.

They arrived at the skating rink, called Studio B. Elena eyed the rink wearily, and Damon pulled her toward the skate racks encouragingly. He grabbed a pair of skates for each of them, and did his up. When he noticed her struggling with hers, he quickly did hers up too.

"Okay, let's go," he said, pulling her to her feet and grinning at her.

He led her onto the ice, holding her by both hands and skating backwards. Vampire reflexes were really helpful at times like these.

After a little while he let go of one of her hands, and skated beside her.

She almost tripped a few times, but he made sure she didn't fall.

Suddenly, Elena unexpectedly veered left into the corner of the rink and pulled Damon with her her so that he crushed up against her body.

"So, is this as bad as you thought it would be?" Damon asked.

"Oh no, it's much better. But that probably has a lot to do with the fact that you're here and you haven't let me fall on my face," she said.

He smirked at her, and she leaned on his chest so that she could reach his lips without falling over on her skates.

Their kiss got heated a lot faster than either of them planned, and pretty soon they heard catcalling from the skate rental desk.

"Get a room," one of them shouted, grinning.

Elena pulled away, blushing.

"Want me to do something?" Damon asked, worried that he'd embarrassed her.

"No, it's okay," she told him, secretly pleased that everyone knew that the sex god that was Damon Salvatore belonged to her.

They joined hands to continue skating, but a girl who looked no more than five with large, precocious eyes and a smile with missing teeth skated up to them. She was a much better skater than Elena.

"You guys are a good couple," she said. "You smile and you kiss. Mommy said that if you love someone you have to be able to make them smile. Do you love each other?"

Elena's heart swelled at this little girl's unshielded view.

"I love him more than I can say," Elena told the girl, whose eyes widened even more as she turned to Damon.

"And you love her too, right?"

"Of course I love her; she's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. You're a close second though," he said, squatting so that he was at eye level with her.

The girl's eyes lit up at Damon's compliment, and she twirled perfectly on her skates.

"You guys are nice. I like you," the girl said.

"We like you too," Elena smiled at her.

" I've gotta go, but I'll tell my mommy about you. She'll be happy I made some new friends. See, she's over there!" She said, pointing at the woman reading a magazine in one of the chairs surrounding the rink.

"Bye bye!" She said, skating away.

Elena and Damon waved and watched her pigtails bounce as she skated away.

"She was cute," Elena said.

Damon nodded, smiling to himself. Sometimes it took an innocent child to recognize true love. Everyone else was so corrupted but their own selfish desires, it was nice to see that love hadn't been entirely forgotten by this generation.