Ok, this age thingie is getting to my head. It doesn't matter if two siblings have same ages. You can think that either they are twins or they have a gap of more than nine months and they turned the same age. Whatever. Period.

Damon: (To Stef) Some girls just can't resist my good looks, my style, my charm and my unflinching ability to listen to Taylor Swift.

VD S01 E04- Family Ties

Disclaimer: I do not own anything as usual. *sigh* This is monotonous.

"Ok guys! You all can come over to the dining table, the dinner is set," Miranda called out from the kitchen.

Everyone ran to take the seats they wanted.

"Guys! Relax! You'd all get a seat. I've got a big dining table. See, are we adults running? No right?" Zac said.

"Not that seat Jeremy! That's your father's seat," Grayson said, running with the kids.

Zac sighed. "Do whatever you want to do."

Stefan was looking around for a seat when Bonnie called him over. "Hey, Stefan! Over here!" Stefan smiled and went to sit with her.

Elena was right behind him. She was just going to sit beside Stefan when Lexi intercepted and took the seat.

"Sorry! But this place is taken," she said playfully to Elena, smiling at her, but she just grimaced.

"Umm… Elena, you can sit beside Bonnie if you want to," Stefan said, getting up.

"No it's fine!" Elena said, angrily, though she knew it wasn't his fault. "I'll sit with my boyfriend." She said and went away.

Stefan flinched at the 'b' word. Lexi noticed it and wiggled her eyebrows.

"So this Elena girl…, "Lexi was saying in low voice.

"Not now Lexi!" Stefan hissed.

"Oh c'mon! Finally you started noticing girls! Now you can't tease me about Lee."

"We have met just today. Don't get your hopes up. She has a boyfriend" Stefan told her.

"And you're jealous? Tell me, tell me, tell me!" Lexi asked, excited.

"Later!" Stefan said, rolling his eyes.

"Fine! But I'm not gonna leave you until you do!" Lexi said, grinning.

"Elena! Over here!" Matt said, waving at the empty seat beside him.

Grayson saw it, quickly intercepted Elena, and took that seat.

"Dad!" Elena protested.

"Oh sorry angel! Here! You sit beside me," he said, and settled her in the seat on his other side. "You see Matt and I have some talking to do." He said that with a pointed look at Matt. Matt gulped. Talking with girlfriend's dad is not fun.

Caroline took a seat on other side of Bonnie, who was intently talking to Lexi and Stefan.

Oh great,Caroline thought. Another girl to steal my lime light. First Elena being declared the Head Cheerleader. Now this new blonde in town.

"You know, for me you would always be the most beautiful one," Tyler said, popping up in the empty chair beside her. He opened his mouth to say something.

"No!" Caroline said, firmly.

"But I didn't say-" Tyler protested

"No!"

"But at least list-"

"No!" Caroline said and whacked his head with a spoon laid in front of her.

"Ow! You're heartless," Tyler said, rubbing his head.

"So I'm told," Caroline said, giving a smug smile.

Suddenly Damon appeared, huffing and Stefan, Lexi, Bonnie, Caroline and Tyler looked up.

"What now brother?" Stefan asked.

"She-she wants me to wear a yellow shirt to match her dress. I ran at the first chance I get," Damon said, his cocky demeanour lost for the moment. "Please save me!"

"Damon! Honey, where're you?"

He yelped and ducked under the table.

"Oww! That was my foot!" Bonnie said, furious.

"Shut up or I'll stamp on it again," Damon whispered.

Rebekah appeared at the top of the stairs. "Hey! Did anybody see Damon?"

"Oh yeah! He's- oww!" Bonnie was saying but Damon stamped on her foot.

"I bite too," Damon whispered to her from under the table.

Bonnie grinned evilly and got up to stand on her chair. "He's down there."

Damon groaned. Rebekah frowned, came down the stairs and ducked under the table. "What're you doing?"

"I was just checking if all the chairs are strong on their legs. I don't want my sweaty pie to fall down and get hurt, do I?" Damon said, standing up and glaring at Bonnie.

"Aww! That's so sweat!" Rebekah said, and hugged him.

For some reason Bonnie felt a weird flapping in her stomach. She felt angry.

"C'mon. Let's sit over there. Away from these freaks," Rebekah said.

"Look who's talking," Lexi said, smirking.

"Oh look, who came back. And I didn't even say hello. So rude of me! Oh wait, it's not important," she giggled and dragged a freaked out Damon away.

"You know, I'm kind of happy she's back. We had planned so many pranks for her," Lexi said, frowning.

"Can I help?" Bonnie said. "I don't like her either."

"Sure, the more, the better. So Bonnie, tell me more about Elena. Is she always this sulky," Lexi asked, while Stefan glared at her.

"Now that you asked, she's been acting really weird today," Bonnie said, frowning.

Elena was sitting on her chair, fuming, her arms folded. She was looking at the floor and once in a while looked up towards Lexi and Stefan. Just then a dragged Damon came along with Rebekah. She made him sit beside Elena and took a seat herself on his other side.

Elena looked up at him and saw that he was sitting in a pose quite similar to hers, also fuming.

"Having a bad day too?" Elena asked.

"You have no idea," Damon said. Then he looked down and saw its Elena. "Oh it's you. Just for a warning, nobody has the right to break my brother's heart except me."

"What?" Elena said, blushing.

"Just warning in advance," Damon said, giving her a stern look.

"You're an ass, you know," Elena said.

"So I'm told," Damon said smirking.

"Damon! You aren't listening to me!" Rebekah yelled. The smirk wiped away from his face and he turned to listen to her.

"So Matt, what are you planning to do with your future?" Grayson asked. "I mean I'm not gonna give my baby girl to a no gooder, am I?"

Matt turned pale. "Umm well sir…"

"Sir? I like that," Grayson said, grinning.

"Gray, stop giving the poor child hard time. He's just fourteen," Miranda said.

"Which is not old enough to date," Grayson said.

"Well I remember how you used to run behind girls in primary school," Miranda said.

"I didn't. Girls used to run behind me," Grayson said.

"Yeah sure," Jenna said. "And I am Angelina Jolie."

Grayson gasped and said, "Don't insult her!"

"Miranda!" Jenna complained.

"There they go again," Alaric said sighing.

Jeremy and Anna had managed to sit together, and finally got to talk.
"So you're from New York? This must be a really different place for you, being a small town and all," Jeremy said.

"Yeah, it's different. But nice kind of different. I guess I was never the big city girl. I think that small towns are more peaceful, refreshing," Anna said.

"Not exactly peaceful. So-"

"Jeremy!" Vicky screeched. Jeremy looked up to see her sitting on the empty seat beside him.

"What?" Jeremy asked a bit angrily. "You know there are adults around here."

"Don't tell me what to do and what not to," Vicky said reproachfully though she lowered down her voice a bit. "Listen I want you to get me Elena's notes again. I couldn't understand a word that Alaric said in the history class."

"I won't get you her notes. Remember last time she saw me taking her notes and she didn't talk to me for a month," Jeremy complained.

"So? It's not my problem, is it? I just want the notes tomorrow at lunch," she said firmly and then started filling her plate with food.

"You know right that you would have to stand against her one day or the other," Anna said.

"I know. I was just wishing the day would never come," Jeremy said.

Anna shrugged. "Suit yourself," she said and looked away.

Jeremy cursed himself. Of course. Who likes pansies?

Sheila was palm reading Mason.

"What's this? Oh god! It's written here that full moon nights are unlucky for you," Sheila said dramatically.

"Really?" Mason said, in mock seriousness. "Maybe you're right! I always tend to have a bad stomach on almost every full moon nights!"

"So Kelly? Where did you learn to be so… hostile?" Pearl asked.

"It's a born talent," Kelly said, flicking her hair over her shoulder.

"She has been like that since her husband left her," Esther whispered to Pearl, who nodded understandingly.

Lexi was talking with Stefan and Bonnie earnestly when she heard choking voices from the other seat beside her which she thought was empty.

The thing was that Finn, Elijah, Klaus and Kol were fighting just there. When one of them tried to sit on the seat, the other would drag him down and into the fight.

Lexi smiled evilly. She got up and walked down to Vicky.

"Hey! Vicky right? Listen, can you please exchange seats with me? Down there with Stefan? Actually, I wanted to talk to my cousin for some time," Lexi asked her politely.

Vicky was just going to tell her off rudely when she saw that Klaus was there too, she got up and practically ran to the seat.

Meanwhile, the brother's fight had a concluding end with Klaus as a winner, as the other three gave up. He righted himself up and victoriously sat on the seat, grinning and looking up at Lexi, which almost made him fall off his chair when he saw Vicky sitting there, who was looking at him adoringly.

"Hi!" Vicky said.

When Elijah, Finn and Kol saw her, they started laughing and settled themselves on seats farther away from them.

Klaus tried to get up but Vicky clutched his shirt and made him sit again.

"So Klaus? Are you gonna come naked tomorrow? You know, if you want, I can come naked too. I did say that I would strip for the winning team, but I wouldn't mind doing it for you too."

Stefan, Bonnie, Jeremy, Anna, Caroline, Tyler, Elijah, Finn and Kol- who heard it all- started laughing out loud, looking up at Lexi with respect.

"Vow! She really knows what she's doing," Caroline said, smiling.

"That's my girl," Stefan said, winking at Lexi.

Elena saw this and growled. Damon looked up, startled and said, "You know you freak me out."

At that moment, Zac came in with pudding in his hand and said, "So who wants desert?"

All the kids, teen and Grayson looked up, their eyes locked on the pudding. They looked at each other, sizing each other up.

"Uh oh," Zac said. "Maybe I should have cut it and served it separately."

And then everyone leaped. Zac screamed.

Finally when the blood bath was over, everyone was having unequal shares of the pudding. Everyone parted and headed back to their seats. Zac, who couldn't be seen in the crowd earlier, was crawled on the floor. He got up with his face covered with chocolate.

"I hate dinner parties," Zac said, then rubbed his finger on his face and tasted the chocolate. "Well, at least I got some pudding. Unless someone would be desperate enough to lick my face all over."

Suddenly Grayson looked up. He was holding the biggest pudding piece in his hand. His eyes still hungry.

Zac got freaked. "Gray, no. No. Don't get any crazy ideas," he said while backing away from him.

Grayson leaped.

"Miranda!" Zac screamed and ran to the washroom and closed the door behind him on the right time, as Grayson collided with the door and collapsed.

"Did he die?" Pearl asked, concerned.

Miranda sighed. "Finally, some peace."

Finally when the dinner was over, the adults again headed for the basement, leaving the teens to themselves.

"So? You guys have got the entire hall to yourself without any adults. You know what that means?" Lexi asked.

"That means we can bury the people we don't like?" Elena asked Lexi innocently, while glaring at her.

"No! We play The Game," Lexi said, not noticing at her.

"The Game?" Tyler asked.

"Please don't say Truth and Dare," Caroline said.

"Yeah, 'coz it's cliché," Damon said, smiling his crooked 'Hook up with me' smile

"We can play Charades!" Elena said playfully.

Everyone stares at her.

"That sounds familiar…. Forget it," Matt said.

"I meant Dark Room obviously," Lexi said, rolling her eyes.

"I'm not liking this idea," Bonnie said.

"You know Truth and Dare sounds pretty good right now," Caroline said.

"Wicked!" Jeremy said.

"D-dark room?" Finn said.

"Oh please do not pee in your pants like the last time," Klaus said, smirking.

"I did not! I told you the flower vase fell on me!" Finn protested

"Lexi… you remember what happened last time, right?" Stefan said, frowning.

"I bet Rebekah does. I owed you for that one," Damon said, giving Lexi a high five.

"What happened?" Kol asked.

"Don't ask!" Rebekah said.

"Ooooh! I like darkness!" Tyler piped in.

"Of course you do! People can't see your face and thus do not run away from you screaming," Caroline said.

"Sweetheart, you're gonna scream anyway," Tyler said, smiling evilly.

"You know right that if anything happens, the adults are gonna have my ass. Are you sure about this, Alexia," Elijah asked, worried.

"Oh yeah! It would be fun!" Lexi smiled, smiling crookedly.

"You know, I don't like it when you smile like that," Anna said. "Whenever you do, things get… awry."

"Really?" Lexi asked, innocently.

Bonnie: He's older, sexy, danger guy.

Caroline: Older, sexy, danger guy? Is that an official with twitter tweet?

VD S01 E04

BTW, it might be difficult for me to update soon as my hollidays are just going to end. But I will try my best. Don't forget to review!