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Chapter 11

The next morning I was surprised to find Damon gone. I suspected that I would have found him in my bed just to annoy me, but he wasn't.

I got up and trudged to the bathroom to take a shower and get ready. I pulled on a pair of jeans and a purple lace camisole with a cardigan. I quickly fixed my hair and slipped on my shoes and made my way downstairs.

Elena was already awake and making breakfast when I got downstairs.

"Coffee?"

I gave her an incredulous look. "Do you even have to ask?" It was a known fact that I was utterly obsessed with caffeine. I got addicted to Coffee when I was little and ever since then it was the only thing I drank in the mornings, and if we where out of coffee it was always soda.

"Sorry, I forgot how in love with coffee you where." Elena laughed. "But as your best friend I have to warn you this is very unhealthy with the way you drink this."

I just shrugged and rolled my eyes. "I stopped listening to you whine about my unhealthy habits years ago, Elena. I just tend to tune you out now."

I took a sip of the coffee Elena handed me and sat down at the table. Jenna had already left for work and Jeremy was still asleep upstairs.

"Hey…Do you know when Damon left?" I asked casually. "It's just I was surprised to find him gone this morning. I thought he would have stayed to bother me or something."

"He stayed all night. He actually left a few minutes before you woke up." Elena said. She looked at me curiously. "I was surprised at how he seemed to care for you. Damon rarely cares for anyone but himself."

"The only reason he seems to care about me is because I look like his dead fiancée." I said rolling my eyes. "If I didn't look like her, he wouldn't even know who I was."

Elena didn't say anything. I felt her eyes watching me like she was worried I was going to break.

"What? Do I have something on my face?"

She shook her head. "No, its just.. Are you okay? I mean after all you found out yesterday, you seem fine this morning. You are okay right? You know you can talk to me about anything."

I sighed and put down the cup of coffee.

"I promise you that I am fine, Elena. Or at least as fine as I can be after finding out I might not live to go to college. I'm handling it as best as I can."

The truth was though that I was far from fine and I knew that Elena knew that. She almost knew me better than myself. She knew that my way of handling things was pretending they didn't exist by not thinking about them, or joking about it. If I thought too much about it, I would go crazy.

"You should hurry up and eat." She said changing the subject. "We're meeting Bonnie and Caroline at the Salvatore's. We should leave soon."

I quickly chugged down my coffee. "I'm ready to go!"

I ran upstairs to get my purse, ignoring Elena's disapproving look about my unhealthy breakfast, and quickly made it out the door.

We arrived at the Salvatore's house a few minutes later. It was my first time seeing their house and I was amazed at what I saw.

"Woah, I gotta say… that is one pretty house. It's huge, and so beautiful!"

Elena laughed. "Yeah well living for over a century guarantees you're rich and have a nice house." She grabbed my hand and led me inside.

We hadn't even knocked on the door yet, before it opened.

"Glad to see you two could make it." Damon said sarcastically. I looked him over and was surprised to find he didn't look like he had stayed up the whole night watching me. In fact he looked like he had showered and had a good night sleep. But maybe that's what immortality made you look like without sleep.

He led us inside and closed the door after us. My eyes roamed the house. The living room was huge and pretty with wood floors and a nice homey feel to it. Even though the house was old, it was still nice.

"Nice place you guys have." I said still turning around to check everything out.

"Thank you. It's been in our family for generations." Stefan said standing up and giving Elena a quick kiss and smiling at me. "Bonnie and Caroline are in the library. Bonnie brought some books over and we're researching."

As soon as I entered the library, I was ambushed my blonde hair.

"Scarlett, you're okay! When we heard about your problem we where so worried! You are okay, right?"

I gently tried pushing Caroline away.

"Care, if you don't let go of me, I'm going to suffocate. Did you forget about your vampire strength?"

"Sorry!" Caroline said, quickly letting go of me. "I was just worried about you."

"We're all worried." Bonnie said coming forward and giving me a hug. "That's why we need to come up with a plan to keep you safe from vampires that could be a threat to you."

"I still think you would be safe if you went back to New York." Elena said. Seeing the look of surprise on my face she quickly started talking again. "It's just that there are always vampires in Mystic Falls. It would be safer for you're in New York where it's not crawling with vampires."

"Absolutely not." Damon's arms were crossed in defiance as he shot Elena an annoyed look. "She's staying here where we can protect her. Did you forget that she was already attacked in New York? If she goes back, she might get attacked again and we won't be there to save her."

"Damon has a point." Stefan said hesitantly.

"You're seriously going to take his side?" Elena cried out in shock.

"I wasn't finished yet. I meant at least if Scarlett was attacked here, we would be able to save her. She's much safer with us around here in Mystic Falls.

"It's safer if she goes back!" Elena said angrily.

"She's staying here." Damon retorted.

"She has a freaking voice and can speak for herself!" I cried out throwing my arms up in anger.

"I can do whatever the hell I want, okay? I'm sick of you guys saying what I can and can't do. I get it you're looking out for me but I can take care of myself!"

Damon snorted. "You can not take care of yourself."

I glared at him. "I can too!"

"Really? Like you took care of yourself when you got attacked back home?"

"I'm alive aren't I?' I said crossing my arms in anger. Damon just rolled his eyes.

"You're alive because of luck."

"If I want to go back, I will and there's nothing you can do about it." I was so close to sticking my tongue out at him, but restrained myself since it would look too childish.

He took a step close to me so he was inches a way from my face. "I can lock you up here so you can't get away."

I clenched my fists by my side and was ready to yell at him when Bonnie quickly led me away from Damon.

"Let's get some more information about you blood type and the curse before we decide anything else, okay?"

I sighed but quickly turned around to shoot a glare at Damon before being led to the library.

When we entered the library, there were open books everywhere.

"Whoa." I muttered. "You guys got a lot of research done didn't you?"

"But we couldn't find anything about tainted blood." Caroline grumbled. She threw a couple more books on the table towards me and went back to reading.

Two hours later, I threw the heavy book I was reading across the table.

"I can't concentrate anymore! I hate researching. If I have to read another word I'm gonna throw up." I ran a hand threw my hair in frustration.

"Could you please not throw my history books across the room?" Stefan said picking up the book I had thrown and returning it back to the table. "These are very valuable."

"Sorry." I muttered. "It's just I'm really bored." My voice came out in a whine that sounded like a five year old.

"Guess you still have that short attention span problem, huh?" Bonnie said chuckling.

I shrugged my shoulders. "I can't help it."

"How else are we going to find anything to help you?" Elena asked also closing the book she was reading and laying her head down on the table.

"Wait a second." I said slowly thinking back to where I had found Savannah's diary. "Why don't we go to the attic at my house? I mean that's where I found Savannah's diary, maybe there's also books too."

"That would make sense! Since tainted blood is only from your family, maybe the information we need is at your old house." Caroline said standing up and stretching.

"You could have mentioned this sooner." Damon said annoyed. "We wouldn't have had to get all these books and waste our time here."

I stood up from the table and also stretched. "It's not my fault, okay? I just thought of it. Maybe you should have thought of it first." I shot back at him. I noticed his eyes gaze at my stomach that was exposed because of my stretching. I quickly pulled my shirt back down and shot him a glare. It seemed like I had been glaring at him all day.

We all grabbed our things and piled into two different cars to get to my old house. Unfortunately I was stuck in Damon's car with him and Bonnie.

I sat in the passenger seat while Damon drove and Bonnie sat in the back. I didn't really want to sit this close to Damon, but Bonnie hated him and had beaten me to the back seat.

The silence in the car was sort of awkward until Bonnie finally broke it.

"Hey Scarlett, do you think your parents knew about your family curse? Maybe that's why they sent you back here?"

The question stunned me. Had my parents known about my curse all this time and never even mentioned it to me? Why wouldn't they tell me?

"I don't know." I said slowly. "They might have. But wouldn't they have told me?"

"Not if they where trying to protect you." Damon spoke up.

I crossed my arms over my chest. "I still had a right to know. This curse is ruining my life more than theirs."

"You should call and ask them later." Bonnie suggested gently. She seemed to know how angry and upset I was feeling that my parents might have hid the truth from me. Not knowing what was happening to my life felt like betrayal to me.

I smiled at her and nodded before turning back to the front. I could feel Damon's eyes on me.

We got to the house and all climbed out. It was after I had opened the door and Elena, Bonnie, Caroline, and I had all came inside through the front door that I noticed Stefan and Damon hadn't came inside.

"You have to invite them in." Elena said also noticing the absence of the brothers.

"That myth is true!?" I exclaimed.

"Yes, now could you please hurry up?" Damon growled.

"Not with that attitude, no." I said smiling at him sweetly. "Stefan, you can come inside."

"Thanks." He said chuckling slightly and coming inside.

Damon shot me and angry look. "If you don't let me inside right now I will bite your little neck just to taste that cursed blood of yours."

"You have to be nice and say please. And no threats!"

He sighed in an annoyed way, and shot me a glare before talking. "May I please come inside?"

"Fine, you can come inside." I said. Elena, Bonnie and Caroline where all laughing.

Damon nudged past me shooting me another angry look before climbing the stairs up to the attic.

I swallowed nervously, afraid of what I might find in the attic before following Damon up the staris.

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