Chapter 10

Elena and Cassie talk

Several days passed, where Elena and her friends resided with Stefan, Cassie and the twins. Several days where they got on and spent time getting to know one another all until one day when Elena was up at the crack of dawn and made her way down stairs to find Cassie sitting at the island unit in her kitchen. Cassie was still in her pyjamas.

"Morning Elena." She greeted kindly. "Coffee?"

"Yes please." Elena replied and took a seat opposite Cassie's as Cassie poured her a mug of coffee and returned with it to the unit. "Cassie?"

"Yes?"

"Thanks,. Elena said as she took the coffee. "Alaric said you knew my parents, Miranda and Greyson? Do you have any stories you could tell me about them?"

Cassie took her seat opposite Elena once more, wrapping her hands around her own refilled coffee cup. "I have a few. But I wasn't with them long enough to know them really well."

"How well did you know them?" Elena asked.

"I went to Mystic Falls High school with them for a couple of years, all graduating together." Cassie smiled. "I got them together actually."

"Really?" Elena said surprised.

"Yes, your mum was my best friend, she told me how much she liked Grayson and I told her I would talk to him... In fact I talked with his brother John first. He had a crush on me, did John, so I agreed to go round to dinner with the brothers so I could talk with Grayson. Low and behold by the end of the evening Grayson had called Miranda and arranged a date out." Cassie explained with a remembering smile.

"That must have been interesting?"

"It was. I was invited back to their wedding. I was a bridesmaid. Damon was there then." Cassie said putting the empty mugs into the sink.

"Damon was there?" Elena asked surprised.

"Yes. I was helping him, he'd had a rough patch in New York in the 1970s. He'd hurt Lexi actually- do you know of that Elena?" Cassie asked.

"Yes I do."

"We'll when Lexi called to say Damon was out of control, I jumped up to help. Stefan was okay. He was here actually at the boarding house, we hadn't been a pair for over 20 years. The twins were off at school doing their own thing. I took Damon to the wedding. He and Grayson got on quite well actually. They were a good pair of people, Grayson and Miranda. Be proud of them, Elena." Cassie said.

"I am. I'm glad Damon knew them, but he didn't say anything to me about it." Elena said tearfully.

"Probably because that's when he met Isabelle for the first time, not that she would have remember it, she was compelled to forget." Cassie said.

"Did you know, Cassie, that Isabelle was my birth mother? Miranda and Grayson adopted me." Elena said curiously.

"Yes, I did know. But in my mind Miranda and Grayson will always be your parents Elena, they raised you. Not Isabelle." Cassie, Elena noticed, said this with great venom in her voice. "I'm sorry, Elena. Isabelle and I never got on. In fact, she hated me. Why I don't know."

"Probably because you were my work colleague, Cassandra." Alaric said as he emerged into the kitchen, dressed in his clothes from the day before.

"Probably. It was nice to talk with you Elena." Cassie said with a kind smile as she left the kitchen. "Coffee's in the pot, Rick."