Alone

Chapter: 10

Elena's POV:

I woke up early the next morning, I was still tired but I was unable to sleep anymore. I groggily got out of bed and stripped from my pajamas and put on the clothes I laid on the chair last night.

I went downstairs to the kitchen to get something to eat. I grabbed a yogurt from the fridge and a spoon from the drawer. I sat down at the table when I heard someone make their way down stairs. I looked up to meet Damon's clear blue eyes. "Morning Damon." I whispered.

"Elena." He said flatly walking by me and grabbed a blood bag out of the fridge.

"Damon, what's the matter? You are not acting in your usually cocky way."

"The real question is, did you use me as a replacement for my brooding little brother?"

"Damon, how could you say that? Of course I didn't and I," I closed my eyes for a minute in hope of regaining some of my courage to tell him what I was about to. "I d-don't regret w-what we did." When I opened my eyes, he was standing inches away from me, my eyes staring longingly at his lips.

"Elena, are you in the kitchen?" Stefan's voice called from the hall.

"Yeah Stefan." I answered returning my attention back to my half eaten yogurt.

Stefan walked in the kitchen with a small smile on his face. When I saw him like that, guilt weaseled its way in.

Stefan's POV:

When I see her I can't help but to smile, I love her with all my heart, I hope she still loves me. "Elena, may we talk about last night please."

"Yes, sure Stefan." She answered hearing the uncertainty in her voice.

Damon left the kitchen in that moment and I continued, "Elena, I am so sorry that I left and didn't tell you the whole truth. I should have stayed. I was full of regret and worry while I was gone. I love you Elena, I hope you forgive me."

"I-I forgive you Stefan."

Elena's POV:

Once I said those three words I tasted the salty taste of a lie on my tongue. Before I could understand why I felt like I was lying Stefan was leaning forward to kiss me. I let him but it felt different, it didn't feel like it use to. He pulled away and smiled at me, I couldn't help but smile back at him.

"I better go catch up on the laundry." I said standing up from the table and left the kitchen.

I went upstairs and walked into Stefan's room to get the hamper, I walked into the room I slept in last night to gather my pajamas from last night and threw them in the hamper as well.

Stefan's POV:

Our kiss meant a lot to me but something tells me it didn't mean the same to her. Quinn said that she had some 'fun' while I was gone. Knowing Quinn he didn't mean fun in the same sense of the word everyone else does.

After that thought realization hit me, did she and Damon do something? I went into the living room were Damon was sitting on the couch staring into the fire with a glass of scotch in hand. "Damon, what happened between you and Elena while I was gone?"

"Wow, I didn't think it possible but you are even more brooding and jealous than when you left."

"Damon stop avoiding the question and answer it. I said to take care of her and not do anything you will later regret."

He stood up to face me, "It we did anything who said I will regret it." He left the room. My feeling were stronger now that they did something but I have nothing to go by but some stupid vampire whose favorite past time is threatening other vampires and human life.

Elena's POV:

The clothes were now in the dryer; they should be dry within an hour so, I went upstairs and wrote in my diary.

Dear Diary,

I told Stefan I forgive him for leaving and I felt as if I lied to him. That's not the only thing; I feel my attraction to Stefan dwindling and my attraction to Damon multiplying every second I am around him. Today, I found myself staring at his lips missing the kisses we shared that night. What am I going to do? How am I ever going to tell Stefan? I can't keep it a secret forever especially if I am in love with Damon. Oh my, I just admitted it! Well Diary, I have to get the clothes from the dryer and find a way to tell Stefan.

Elena

A/N: Please Review!

Elena knows her true feelings for Damon now.

Sorry for the late update.