Two weeks has passed since the Andie incident and I haven't left the house since. Damon has been trying everything to get me out of the funk I seem to have found myself but nothing has worked so far. Since Damon and I shared that kiss nothing else has happened between us. We seem to be walking on eggshells around each other, not really knowing what to do or say. The babies have been kicking a lot more frequently which Damon is absolutely thrilled about. He keeps finding random reasons to touch my stomach just to see if they'll kick for him.
Damon's been really great though. He's been kind, considerate and just down right godly. He kept his word and got Andie fired – publicly I might add. Just like how she plastered me all over the news, Damon made sure the same happened to her but she had no one to come to her rescue like I did.
At the start I could honestly say I hated Damon Salvatore but now I don't know what I felt. I found myself watching him sometimes out of the corner of my eye and sometimes I could swear he was watching me too. But then I had to remind myself that this was just an arrangement. It was fake. It was never going to have a happily ever after. Damon and I were going to get married. I was going to get my money. I was going to have my children. Then finally, we'd get a divorce, only talking and seeing each other when he came to collect the kids or vice versa.
I was startled from my thoughts by the devil himself. "Elena?" He smirked as he waved his hand in front of my face. "Come on, I know I'm God's gift to women and all that but there's no need to day dream about me." He had a little gleam in his eye that had my heart fluttering at he lifted up my legs and plonked down on the couch next to me before placing my feet in to his lap. "Although, it does explain the drool."
I smiled and let out a little laugh as I picked up one of the pillows and hit him with it. "Shut up." I scolded playfully as he chuckled. "You are so full of yourself, you know that right?"
"Of course I do." He stated with a roll of his eyes. "But I have reason to be." He locked eyes with me then as the gleam got even bigger. "You of all people should know that."
I narrowed my eyes as I hit him again and again with the pillow. "Ugh! You are such a pig!"
"And yet you're marrying me anyway." He smiled as he pulled the pillow from my grip.
"Yeah, but I don't really have much choice." I replied before my mouth connected to my brain. I regretted it as soon as it left my lips.
Damon frowned and hurt flashed across his eyes but as quick as it happened it disappeared and his lazy smile was back in place. "Salvatore does mean saviour, it's in my genes to help charity cases." He added a bit of malice at the end which was the only evidence that my words hurt him.
"I'm sorry, Damon. I didn't mean it like that." I said softly as I reached out to touch his cheek but he pulled away from me and stood up abruptly.
"Sure you did." He smirked. "But anyway that's not the reason I'm here. My mom and I are going out to the town to get a few last minute things for the wedding, she wants to know if you're coming?"
"Thanks but no thanks."
"You need to get over this." He groaned. "No one even cares about that news report Andie did. Are you going to become a hermit for the rest of your life?"
"No, I just don't want to go out today, Damon."
"Fine." He huffed. "We'll be gone for a few hours. My dad's here so if you need anything just ask. I'll see you later." He leaned down as though to kiss me causing my heart to speed up, but he pulled back at the last minute and walked away.
After an hour or so I found myself with nothing to do. Carefully, with a hand rubbing soothing circles over my abdomen, I made my way in search of Giuseppe. It didn't take long until I found him hunched over the desk in his study with the door ajar. Knocking softly I pushed the door open further.
"Elena, dear, come on in." Giuseppe welcomed as he stood up from his chair and made his way closer to me. "How are you feeling?"
"Hi, I'm fine thank you." I smiled. "I didn't mean to interrupt your work."
"Nonsense." He chuckled. "I was looking for a distraction, so how can I help you?"
"Damon said if I needed anything that I could ask you." I explained wringing my hand nervously before continuing. "And I was just wandering if I could have some paint to paint the nursery?"
His brows furrowed with worry as he mulled it over. "You shouldn't really be near the paint fumes Elena."
"I'll wear a mask if I have to." I pleaded. "You, Cecilia and Damon have just done so much for me, I just really want to do something so you don't have to do it."
"We're family, Elena." He grinned causing my heart to hurt at how I was deceiving these lovely people. "Which means we're allowed to do stuff for you."
"And I appreciate it, I really do but at the moment I just feel like a burden." I said softly, averting my gaze to the ground.
"You're far from a burden." He stated with the utmost certainty before adding. "Damon's going to kill me if I let you do this right?"
"Why don't you let me handle Damon?" I smirked.
"I have no doubt you can." He laughed. "I'll let you paint the nursery, if… you wear a mask and only if you let me help you."
"God, that smells delicious!" I exclaimed as I sat at the kitchen counter waiting Giuseppe work in the kitchen.
"And it tastes even better." He smirked confidently as he pulled out a spoon and stirred it through the mixture before pulling it out. He placed his hand underneath it before bringing it over to me. "Here, try some."
I took the spoon from him and blew on it gently before tasting it. I couldn't stop the small moan that escaped my lips. "That s heaven!" I stated matter-of-factly. "What are we having?"
"Just pasta but the sauce you just tried is the secret Salvatore recipe. The best you'll ever taste."
"Actually, I believe that'll be me." We both turned to see Damon standing in the doorway with a huge smirk on his face.
"Must you be so crude?!" Cecilia reprimanded as she walked past him slapping his arm on the way.
"Ow!" Damon frowned.
"I'm sorry Elena, I honestly don't know where he gets it from. But just so you know if you decide not to go through with the wedding, we'd completely understand and don't worry we'd kick Damon out and you could still say."
"HEY!" Damon yelled.
I couldn't help but laugh as I smiled up at Damon. "Don't worry, I'll kick him in to shape soon enough."
Damon snorted then as he rounded on me and made his way closer. "Please, I'm America's bad boy, I'll never be tamed."
"For the love of God, please do it soon Elena." Cecilia whined. "I swear Stefan better not be as bad as you, because if he is I swear, neither of you will be leaving this house for the duration of your lives until you learn how to be a gentlemen again."
"Stefan's the perfect gentlemen." Damon mocked. "Just ask Elena, he's dating her BFF after all."
"I have to admit, Caroline has nothing but nice things to say about Stefan." I smiled. "Same, can't be said about Damon but you can't help who you fall for, right?"
"Amen to that." Damon smiled as we locked eyes, blue to brown, neither wanting to break it. In the end it was Damon that broke it he frowned as his hand stroked my hair, twisting it between his fingers. "Do you have paint in your hair?" He questioned.
I squealed as I jumped off the chair and linked my hand with his and pulled him with me as I jogged up the stairs. "Hey, woah! Where's the fire?" He joked.
I ignored him as we reached the top and pushed him forwards so I was behind him. Reaching up on my tiptoes I covered Damon's eyes. "Just trust me okay?" I smiled. He bent his knees a bit making it easier for me as I led him towards the nursery.
"Know, I know you're probably going to be mad, but I wore a mask and Giuseppe helped me and I just wanted to do something, seems as you've already done so much."
"What did you do?" He asked wearily.
"Just don't peak." I warned as I removed my hands and pushed the door open before waddling in. "Walk forward, but still keep your eyes closed."
He had a smiled on his face as he covered his own eyes. "Jeeze, Elena. It's almost as if you don't trust me."
"That's because I know you." I laughed causing him to chuckle. "Okay, now open them."
He uncovered his eyes and they widened as his mouth dropped. I gestured with my arms widely smiling as I waited for him to speak. "So, what do you think?"
One side of the room was a baby pink with baby blue teddy bears painted across the centre of the wall as a border whereas the other side had a baby blue wall with baby pink teddy bears as a border. "It's… Beautiful." Damon breathed out. "I love it."
Within moments Damon was in front of me smiling down at me with a weird twinkle in his eye. "You never cease to amaze me, Elena." Then his lips were pressed gently against mine as his arms circled against my waist.
We were broken apart from someone knocking on the door downstairs. Blushing, I averted my gaze to the ground as Damon reluctantly stepped away from me. "Saved by the bell." He chuckled.
"Who is it?" I asked as he took my hand and led me out of the room.
"Well, you gave me my surprise it's only fair I give you yours." He smirked as we reached the bottom of the stairs.
I froze in shock as he pulled open the door. "Caroline!" I screeched.
"ELENA!" Caroline screamed before jumping in to my arms.
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