Elena tried to sleep, but the thoughts spinning around in her head made that impossible. A knock on the door snapped her out of her thoughts. She made her way down the stairs as she wondered who was knocking on her door at such a late hour. Looking through the peep hole she saw a very upset looking Jason.
"Jason, what in the world are you doing here at two in the morning?" She asked as she opened the door. She stepped aside and signaled for him to come in.
"I love you, Elena and I don't care about your past or what you have done. I want to be with you forever and that is all that I know. I am so sorry that I acted the way that I did earlier, I was just in shock. We will get your husband to sign the papers and then we will get married. I love you and I don't want to spend another second away from you." He told her before capturing her lips in a passionate kiss.
Elena felt sick to her stomach as they pulled apart. She blamed it on the drinking, but she knew that it was out of guilt. If it was one thing she knew, it was that she was still in love with Damon and nothing was ever going to change that.
"You should come back to the hotel with me." Jason told her. "I think we have a lot of making up to do." He gave her a suggestive smirk before pulling her back into a passionate kiss. "I have missed you so much and I think it is time we reconnect, if you know what I mean."
"I… have… missed… you…. too." Elena said in between kisses. "Let's go." She said as she finally pulled away from him.
"Elena!" Jenna shouted through the door of Elena's old bedroom. Elena tried her best to open her eyes as aunt Jenna continued to knock on the door. Sitting up, Elena realized that her makeup with Jason was only a dream. It was the same dream she had been have for the past week, ever since she had told Jason the truth. Sighing heavily, she slowly got up out of bed and made her way over to the door. "Elena, Jason is on the phone and he said that he really needs to speak to you." Jenna told her as she opened the door. "I will call him in a few minutes," Elena answered as Jenna simply nodded before making her way back downstairs.
Elena felt crushed as she remembered her dream; her perfect little dream was just a dream, as it had been every night for the past seven days. However, she knew that it shouldn't have come as a surprise to her because there was no way that Jason was going to just forget everything that had happened, and come running back to her without a second thought. In fact, she was expecting him to leave her and never look back because that is exactly what she deserved.
Pushing the thoughts aside, she made her way into the bathroom to take a shower, but a wave of dizziness hit her and she slide down on the cold bathroom floor. Trying to shake the feeling off, she slowly stood up and leaning against the sink trying to get her balance back. When she finally got herself together, she finished getting ready.
"Are you okay?" Jenna asked as Elena walked into the kitchen and started to pour herself a cup of coffee. "You aren't looking so hot."
"I feel a little sick this morning." Elena answered as she made her way over to the kitchen table and took a seat next to Jenna. "I almost passed out while trying to get ready and I feel like I could throw up if I try to eat anything."
"I'm sure that it is just a stomach bug. Maybe you should just take it easy today and relax, you have been under a lot of stress this week and I'm sure that it is just starting to catch up to you." Aunt Jenna suggested as Elena simply nodded in agreement.
"You are probably right, but I need to talk to go talk to Jason and figure out what I am going to do about this messy situation." Elena said as she stood up from the table. "I better head on over to the Grill and meet Jason. I have a feeling this is not going to go over too well, so I am sure I will be spending the next few days in bed anyway."
"Good luck, Elena. If you and Jason are meant to be, everything will work out. Besides, if he loves you as much as he says he does, he will forgive you." Aunt Jenna said before giving Elena a hug. "No matter what happens, you always have me."
"Thanks, Jenna." Elena whispered as she pulled away. She gathered her purse and headed out the door, praying that everything would work out.
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The Grill was almost completely empty as Elena made her way through the Mystic Falls hotspot. There were a few people sitting in the back, but they seemed to be the local elders who usually talked about the town gossip and started some new rumors from time to time. They seemed to be too interested in the latest headlining story to pay any attention to her. Once she reached the bar, she took a seat and waited and waited for Jason.
She prayed that he would end it fast and she could move on from this whole mess that she had created for herself. She felt like she needed to rip the band aid off and let the air hit it. Wounds always sting for the first few minutes and then the pain eases after that, right? It was definitely going to sting when he broke up with her, but it was totally deserved on her part. A part of her wished that she could take it all back, that she never shared her past with Jason. Ignorance is bliss, or at least that is what everyone always told her. However, she knew in her heart that she had done the right thing by telling him, she just wished that she had been straight with him from the start.
"You just can't seem to stay away from the bar these days, huh?" Elena heard a familiar voice say as it made its way to the seat next to her.
"What do you want, Damon?" Elena asked, snapping out of her thoughts as she watched him take a seat. The last thing she needed was to have a fight with him right before meeting Jason. This night was already going to be hard and Damon would only make matters worse if she allowed him to.
"I figured that you might needs these," He said as he placed the signed divorce papers in front of her. "You can't get married to Jason if you are still legally bound to me." He tried to force a smile on his face, but Elena could see the hurt in his eyes. "It was the hardest thing that I have ever had to do, but I know that it is for the best. I will always love you, Elena, but I know that I can't make you happy anymore. Jason seems like a really great guy and I know that he will take care of you and make you happy. I wish you all the happiness in the world."
"Why are you being so nice about this?" Elena asked. "After everything that I have put you through, why don't you hate me? This whole thing would be so much easier if you could just hate me." She sighed as she waited for his response.
"That is what you wanted all along, isn't it?" He asked as she turned her head away from him. "When you left me all those years ago, you wanted me to hate you." He could tell that he had struck a nerve as he watched her whole body tense.
"You were so happy that I was alive and I felt so guilty that I was and our son was not, I needed you to hate me because I hated myself. I loved you so much, but I needed you to hate me and let me go. It was so hard leaving you that day. I was scared and hurt and you were trying so hard to keep it together for me. I knew that I had to leave because I was only going to drag you down and it wasn't fair to do that to you. I had planned on you moving on, but I guess that didn't exactly work out for either one of us." Elena explained.
"I never hated you." Damon said as he grabbed her hand. "I prayed every single day that you would come back to me because I loved you more than anything in the whole world. I tried to visit you in New York, but I saw you with Bonnie and decided not to bother you. For the first time since the accident, you looked truly happy. I realized then that you need space to grow and to move on from what had happened. A few months later I found out that you were dating and I decided that you just need to go through that phase and that one day you would come back to me, but it looks like it wasn't just a phase, it was real. I want you to know that I could never hate you, Elena. I know that I have every right to hate you, but I just can't. I have been so in love with you since the day I met you and I just can't find it in me to hate you. In fact, I actually forgive you for all the pain that you have caused me. I know it seems crazy, but it's true." Damon said as a single tear fell down his face. "I hope you and Jason have a wonderful life together and that you have all that you have ever dreamed of and more. Goodbye, Elena." He placed a soft kiss on her forehead as he stood up from his spot. He began to walk away, but stopped when he heard soft sobs coming from Elena.
"Jason and I are over." She said trying to get herself together as she noticed Damon sit back down beside her. "I told him about us and he said that he needed time to think. I am meeting him here to talk, but I am pretty sure that he is going to break up with me. I guess that I deserve it, but it still hurts."
"If he loves you as much as I do, he will never be able to fully walk away." Damon said, trying to comfort her. "After talking to him the other night, I am pretty sure that he is head over heels for you, so I am sure that he will come running back to you. If he lets you go, he is an idiot."
"Thank you, Damon." Elena said as she whipped away her tears. "I hope that you find a girl who can make you truly happy, I'm so sorry that it couldn't be me."
"Hey, you made me happy, but sometimes people are just meant to be friends not soul mates."He told her trying to laugh it off. "It was silly for us to think that we had found our soul mates at such a young age." He gave her a fake smile as he tried his hardest to keep it together. His heart was breaking at the thought of his marriage to her actually being over.
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Elena laughed, trying to hide her own pain.
"Friends?" Damon asked holding out his hand to shake hers.
"Friends," Elena agreed as she shook his hand.
"I better get going. I am supposed to be hanging out with Alaric this afternoon and he get cranky if I am running late." Damon said as he stood back up out of his chair. "See you around, Elena." She watched Damon make his way out of the grill just before Jason made his appearance.
"Hey," Jason said as he walked up towards her. He made his way to the seat next to her as he waited for her to finally speak.
"Hey," She said her voice just barely above a whisper. Her voice was shaky and she knew that she had to get herself together before she fell apart right in front of him. "Jason-" She started to say, but he stopped her.
"Just stop. You have done enough talking and now it is my turn to say something." He told her. "I understand that you have a past that you are not proud of, we all do, but you have to tell the people that you love. We can't start a marriage based on lies, it will never work out. When I proposed to you, I meant that I wanted you forever, not just for a few years. I know that I said I didn't care about your past, but I care that you don't trust me enough to tell me about it." Jason grabbed both of her hands and held the tight before continuing. "I love you, Elena. Even though you lied to me and kept me in the dark, I still love you. I want to marry you next week, but I need to know that the secrets are over, that I can trust you again. Can I trust you again?" He asked.
Elena was speechless all she could do was nodded her head, but she had no idea what she was nodding for. She couldn't believe that Jason still wanted to marry her, after everything that had happened, she figured he would have be over her, but here he was confessing his love for her once again.
"Good," Jason said as he watched her nod her head in agreement. "I have missed you so much. I have been a complete wreck without you. I guess we better start planning our wedding next week!" He pulled her into a big hug, placing kisses a long her neck.
Elena felt the same sick feeling that she had had earlier in the morning was over her again as she pulled away from him. She excused herself and ran towards the bathroom. She barely made it over to the toilet before she emptied the contents of her stomach. Once she was sure that she had everything under control, she stood up slowly and tried to regain her balance. Making her way over to the sink, she rinsed her mouth out and splashed some water on her face, trying to making her face look a little better before making her way back out to Jason.
"Everything okay?" He asked as he watched her walk out of the bathroom. She could tell that he was worried about her by the sound of his voice.
"I think that I just have some stomach bug or something." She answered trying to brush it off and not make such a big deal about it.
"We better get you back to Jenna's house and get you to bed." Jason told her, putting his arm around her, he led her out of the grill and over to his car. He helped her into the car and then made his way over to the driver's seat.
"Could we stop by the store before we go to Jenna's?" She asked. "I think that I should get some Pepto-Bismol for my stomach." She watched him nodded before starting the car and backing out of the parking space.
Once they arrived at the store, he tried to get out of the car, but she stopped him. "I want to go in and get it. I promise that I will be fine." Against his wishes he agreed to stay in the car while she went into the store.
Once she was in the store, she made her way over to an isle that she didn't really want to be in, but she knew that this was more than just some stomach bug. She searched along the shelves until she found the item that she wanted to purchase.
"Elena?" She heard a voice say from behind her. At that moment she wanted the world to swallow her up.
"Stefan," She answered turning around to face him. She watched as he stared at the item she held in her hands. "Umm, what are you doing here?" She tried to sidetrack him , but her efforts were useless.
"Obviously not what you are doing here," He said with a chuckle. "I guess I should be congratulating you." He said pointing at the box in her hands.
"Umm, I don't know yet." She told him as her face turned red. "Listen, please don't tell anyone about this, especially not Damon." She pleaded with him.
"What is the problem, Elena?" Stefan asked as a confused look appeared on his face. "You and your fiancé are going to have to tell the world sometime, right? Why keep it from all of your friends?" He asked her.
"Look it is complicated, okay? Please just don't say a word to anyone." She said before rushing towards the front of the store to pay. She had never been so happy to leave the store in her life. She made her way back to the car and got in a quickly as she could.
"Are you alright?" Jason asked as he noticed her sigh of relief that she was back in the car.
"Yeah, I just want to go home and go to bed." She snapped at him. She could tell that she had hurt his feelings a little and she tried to apologize. "I'm sorry, I'm just not feeling the greatest and I just want to be alone for a little while." He nodded and grabbed her head and gave it a reassuring squeeze.
Once the made it back to Jenna's house, she gave him a kiss on the cheek and said her goodbyes, before making her way back in the house.
"Hey," She heard Jenna say as she walked into the kitchen. "How did things go with Jason?"
"The wedding is back on, but there might be a small problem with that." Elena said as she pulled out the small box she had picked up at the store and showed it to Jenna.
"How is that going to be a problem?" Jenna asked confused. "You two are already getting married, so you just skipped the honeymoon step and went straight to being parents, it will be okay."
"I haven't been with Jason in months." Elena said as she felt the tears starting to form. She watched as Jenna finally started to realize what she was saying.
"Elena, what have you done?" Jenna asked, her face was full of shock and disappointment.
"I got a little drunk a few weeks ago and Damon and I sort of… well, you know." She said as the tears started to fall. "It was stupid and we both agreed to move on from it, but I guess that plan kind of back fired on us."
"Don't get too upset yet, you haven't even taken it." Jenna said trying to comfort her. "Go upstairs and take it before you get yourself all worked up about it."
Elena made her way up to her old bathroom and closed the door behind her. Taking the test out of the box, she read over the instructions and followed them. Within five minutes she would know something that could possibly change her life forever.
A/N: I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter. Let me know what you think. : ) Did anyone see this coming? By the way, thanking you for all the reviews. I finally reached over 100! And if you want to find out what happens next, click the little review button. : )