Thanks for the reviews! I have been caught up reading Shadow Souls so I haven't been writing as much. I know I should have updated one of my other stories first since it has been a while but I had an idea for this and I really wanted to write it. ENJOY!!

Chapter 7

Damon quickly dressed in some jeans a white tee shirt and his leather jacket. I don't think I have ever seen him in anything but that. Well, besides his sweatpants…and a towel. After Damon was dressed we left the hotel and headed down to the car.

"So, are you going to tell me where we are going?" I asked. Damon unlocked my door and opened it for me.

"Nope." He said just before closing the door.

We pulled up to a brick building it was an average size place and by the number of cars outside it seemed to be busy. We walked in and it was a large restaurant with a medium sized stage at one end and a decent size dance floor in front of it. Damon walked over to the hostess and I followed. He gave his name and handed the lady two rectangular pieces of paper. The young women led us to a table just in front of the dance floor. The stage seemed to be set up like someone was going to be performing.

"Is there someone performing tonight?" I asked Damon.

"Yes, Daughtry."

"You bought tickets to this?" I finally realized. "When, I was with you the entire trip?"

"I have my ways." He said smirking.

I smiled and opened up my menu. Everything on the menu sounded delicious. After a few minutes the waitress came over.

"Hi, my name is Ashley; I will be your server tonight. Are you all set to order?"

Damon and I both nodded. He gestured to me for me to go first.

"I will have the chicken parmesan."

"Spaghetti or penne?" The waitress asked me.

"Penne, please."

She wrote it down and looked over at Damon.

"I will have the steak, a little on the rare side please."

I held in my giggle and the waitress wrote it down.

"Anything to drink?"

"We will have a couple of beers." Damon said handing her both our menus.

Surprisingly she didn't even question my age even though I knew I did not look twenty-one. The waitress walked away to put our order in.

"I didn't know you like Daughtry." I said

Damon didn't respond he just smirked and kept staring at me. A few seconds later a women walked up on stage and greeted everyone in the room then announced the band. After about three songs our food came. It was delicious. I have had chicken parm many times but this was defiantly one of the best. Damon seemed to enjoy his steak but we didn't say anything to each other while we ate. People began filling up the dance floor as they were through with their meals. Damon and I sat and listened to the rest of their songs. After probably an hour the band announced that they would be playing their last song for the night.

'Ten miles from town and I just broke down

Spittin out smoke on the side of the road

I'm out here alone just tryin' to get home

To tell you I was wrong but you already know'

"Elena." Damon said. I turned away from the stage to face him. "Would you like to dance?"

I smiled and said "Sure."

Damon stood up and held out his hand and I place my hand in his. I stood up and we walked out on to the dance floor. Damon took me in his arms and pulled me in close to him.

'All that I'm after is a life full of laughter

As long as I'm laughin' with you

I'm thinkin' that all that still matters is love ever after

After the life we've been through

Cause I know there's no life after you.'

I always felt awkward slow dancing, I never knew where to look or if I should talk…but with Damon it was so…so natural. He was actually a great dancer. I am not sure why I was surprised, I have learned to expect the unexpected when it comes to Damon Salvatore. Although I usually would stop myself from staring into his blue eyes, I didn't while we were dancing. I let myself get lost in them. My heart started to race so after a few minutes I dropped my eyes down.

'All that I'm after is a life full of laughter

Without you God knows what I'd do, yeah'

Damon brought his finger to my chin and pushed my head up so I was looking in to his eyes again. We stared at each other for a few seconds. Damon leaned in and stopped just millimeters from my lips, probably giving me a chance to back away; instead I closed the gap between us. He moved his finger from my chin and cupped my head with his hand. The song ended and so did our kiss. Everyone in the restaurant began clapping Damon and I just stood there for a minute then when we realized what was happening started clapping as well.

"Come on we should head back." Damon said.

I followed him to the door. I wasn't going to put up with him pretending this didn't happen this time. We were going to talk about it; we had to. We both got into the car and Damon started it.

"I think we should talk about what we just did." I said looking straight ahead out the window.

Damon didn't say anything for a few minutes. He pulled out of the parking lot and started driving to the hotel.

"Why? So we can dissect it for two hours and then come to the conclusion that it was a mistake? Let's save the two hours of both our existences and I will just apologize now." He turned to look at me. "Sorry."

"Damon." He turned back to look at the road. "It wasn't your fault…I kissed you back…both times."

Damon didn't say anything else. He pulled into a space in the hotel parking lot and we both got out of the car.

"I will walk you back to the room but I am going to go out tonight, I need to feed."

"OK." I said in a small voice. With no words Damon walked me to our room. Before I slid the key card into the door I turned to look at him. "Will you be back tonight?"

"I will only be gone a couple hours." He said turning his head so he didn't have to look me in the eyes.

I unlocked the door and walked inside. I needed to talk to someone but I had no one to call. I couldn't call Bonnie, she didn't even like the idea of me coming here with Damon I don't even want to know how she would react if I told her we kissed…twice. And obviously I couldn't call Stefan. I walked over to the bed and collapsed on top of it. After a few minutes I sat up and took my shoes off. Then I grabbed my pajamas and went to the bathroom to change. I came back out and got in to bed and turned the television on. I started to drift asleep but I left the television and lights on.


Something woke me up; I am not sure what it was. I turned myself on my side and propped myself up with my elbow. Damon was sitting on a chair taking his shoes off. I know it wasn't him that woke me since he usually moved without a sound.

"Welcome back." I said. My eyes were still not used to the light so they were half closed.

"Go back to sleep."

"Damon."

"Elena." He said in the same tone that I had said his name.

"I want to talk."

"No." He said simply.

"Why not?" I sat myself up more and raised my voice slightly. I was getting aggravated that he wouldn't even discuss what happened.

"Because it would be pointless" He paused and raised his head to look me in the eyes. "You are with Stefan."

He grabbed his pajamas and headed towards the bathroom.

"What if I said I felt something?" I didn't know what else to say…so I went with the truth.

Damon stopped in his tracks. He let out a deep breath and said "It wouldn't matter. I won't go through that again and I won't put him through it either." He continued walking and before closing the door he called out to me. "We are heading back home tomorrow after you eat breakfast." Then I heard the bathroom door close.

So I am going to see Daughtry tomorrow night and I just love the song 'Life After You' so that is how I came up with that part of this chapter. I hope you like it! PLEASE REVIEW!!!