Chapter 14

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Elena's POV

"Have you thought of any names yet?" Stefan asks as we sit around the dinning room table, Dora had prepared some mac and cheese much to my pleasure. This craving stuff was really starting to kick in and I was glad I could blame it on the pregnancy.

"Haven't had time yet." Damon mumbles placing another fork full into his mouth and I just glance over to him and smile, knowing full well how we had spent the day. And thinking of names was not on the top f our list today.

"You've spent most of the day with her already, don't tell me you didn't have the time to at least think of a few possibilities." Stefan almost pleads as he looks over to where I am then back at his brother who had this silly smile on his face.

"We spent most of the day trying to figure out in what position I got her into this condition." I gulp, then choke and then Stefan is behind me patting my back to ensure that I spit out the offending food stuck in my throat. Right Damon being anything but himself. When I finally calm down and I have my choking condition under control I glare at Damon.

"Damon! Seriously! Your brother doesn't need to know that we fucked most of the day." I utter not even filtering my words of sentence and I am sure that younger Salvatore is scared for life.

"Isn't that how you got pregnant in the first place?" Stefan mutters as he takes his seat and his eyes are solemnly on his plate now. I am seriously going to slap this kid silly.

"Stefan…" I call his name completely serious as I glare at him and I swear he almost shit his pants.

"Beware, Stefan I heard pregnant woman can murder and get away with it, they just blame their hormones." Damon interjects from the side, I glare daggers to Damon and his eyes go wide. If they really wanted to piss me off now would be the perfect time and place. I could not be held accountable for anything I may do to either of them.

"Fuck…" I mutter as a blush creeps up my cheeks and I need to fan myself just to cool down. I mean it was winter for heaven sakes.

"No swearing in front of the children." Damon mocked and I shoot a glare at him.

"Yeah Lena no swearing." Stefan continued and I swear I was going to commit murder if they didn't stop picking on me.

"Stefan he was referring to you as the child." I counter and at this Stefan just rolls his eyes at me. Yeah that's right two can play this game. "Oh and by the way Damon wanted to talk to you about all your appointments at the gynaecologist… Is there something we should know." As soon as I saw both the men's reaction I could not stop myself from laughing.

Damon had this shocked expression on his face, his eyes wide as he stared at me. Stefan on the other hand look mortified as he stared at me. Yeah baby pay back is a bitch.

"Those appointments are for you!" He exclaimed making me smirk because I know all the appointments are made for a Mrs. Salvatore.

"By correction I am still Miss Gilbert. So you got some explaining to do." I reply and I watch as his eye brow twitches, it looks like he's going to pop a vain in his forehead.

"Stefan just tell her the truth, she might already know, just come clean…" Damon says and I swear Stefan is going to pass out because he's as pale as a sheet.

"You guys! What the fuck. No more picking on me okay!" Stefan says as he crosses his arms over his chest, he actually reminds me of a little boy that was just scolded, it was so adorable, I just wanted to pinch his cheeks.

"On a more serious note Miss Gilbert, we are going to have some company tonight, I invited some people over." Damon indicates and I raise my brow because he didn't mention this earlier, and I wasn't really in the mood for visitors but I guess it was his house and he could do what he wanted right? I give him a small smile and nod my head. "Have you told your brother about our baby yet?" Damon asks and it seems so easy for him to accept the matter that we are having a child and the use of the words 'our baby' came so naturally to him and now Stefan just nods at me supportively because he knows almost about everything that was going on about the pregnancy.

I bit my bottom as I look to my half eaten plate. "No, no one knows yet except you and Stefan." I say, Damon just places a supporting hand over mine and squeezes it gently.

"We'll tell him together when the time is right." Damon almost whispers and I can't help but thank the Gods for this man that's sitting next to me, he was so supporting and loving and understanding. If my parents were alive they would surely approve of him.

I don't know what Stefan did but he flinched and that was followed by an "Ouw." And then he glares at Damon in disappointment. "What was that for?" He asks and Damon glares back at Stefan for an reason unknown to me.

"Could you give us a moment please? It's about that thing I talked to you about on Wednesday." Damon indicates and he seems irritated as he almost whispers to Stefan. Stefan frowns for a second and then he just smiles nodding his head like a maniac. What the hell was going on with these two tonight? They never acted like this.

Stefan rises from his chair and he just smiles like an idiot, he knows something that I don't. Before he turns from the table he winks at me and for some reason he fist pounds Damon and I really don't know what the hell is going on at this moment, they are behaving beyond strange! Maybe it was something in the wine they drank during dinner.

Damon turns towards me as soon as Stefan leaves the room and he looks beyond serious. Like he committed a crime or something, he's also shivering meaning that he's nervous. "Damon are you okay?" I ask as I place my hand over his which is holding mine safely. "Your making me worry." I say a bit on edge and he actually has the nerve to smile at me.

He shifts from side to side and then look down to something on his lap and then back to me, a few strands of hair falling into his beautiful face. "Elena…" The way he says my name makes me shiver, he usually preserved this tone of voice for when we are alone.

"Damon?" I ask a bit unsure. He shifts his hand from under mine and takes a hold of mine, I am getting lost all over again into his blue eyes. I fear that I might just even drown in them.

He dives me a genuine Damon Salvatore smile without any doubt, fear, it's one of those brilliant smile he shares only with me and he has only done it a hand full of times in the past. I feel like I'm falling in love with him all over again, the butterflies in my stomach, I swear I might even be drooling. These moments are very rare and few so I treasure them deeply when he allows me to see this side of him.

He shift his other hand from underneath the table and lifts my hand he's holding placing something on the table, beneath our joined hands. "Elena Gilbert, I have been thinking about doing this for the past few weeks now and I think since we are celebrating, I might as well do this." All air leave my lungs because my mind is working overtime and my thoughts are scrambled.

Is this really what I think it is, is he really going to pop the question. I feared that once I told him about my pregnancy he would ask me to be his wife, I for saw it the night I spoke to Stefan when we sat and spoke and he figured out that I was pregnant. Was Damon really this man that did everything by the book? Would he really feel that this was just a way to get him to marry me.

Like I said, my thought are scrambled and I can't really think right now. I fear that if I open my mouth I would say something wrong, that as soon as my voice left me my tears will start because this was not what I was expecting, I didn't want this to be a shotgun wedding or anything of that sort. What the fuck was going on!

"Damon…." I try but my eyes are already watering and I am covering my mouth with my other hand. His expression changed instantly, and he became really worried. I don't know what happened but all I know is that I couldn't stop crying. I knew this was going to happen, he would find out about the baby and he would feel pressured to do the right thing and ask me to marry him. I didn't want to force him into anything, no matter what people said.

A lot of couples had children now without being engaged or married. This is the new world I mean I don't judge, it would be nice to be married to know that I have someone that will love me forever but it feels like I'm forcing him into something that we are not ready for. Fuck! Other thinking this shit makes my head hurt.

I feel him wrap his arms around me and pull my closer to him. "Elena? Are you okay?" He rushed and I only cried even harder because this was just completely complicated.

"You can't…." I mumble and Damon pulls back and stare at me and he has the strangest expression on his face that it's actually comical.

"What? You already know? Did Stefan tell you?" he asks as he starts to look around and I don't know what he's talking about because Stefan hasn't told me anything. "I know you already saw it, isn't it what you liked and wanted?" he asked and I can't control the sobs racking through my body. I didn't find anything that might have indicate that he would propose to me, I actually didn't have anytime to snoop around not that I would or that I doubted him.

"Damon… I just can't." I mumble pressing my face to his chest sobbing even harder.

"Elena, really it's nothing to worry about." Damon cooed into my ear as he held me as close as he possibly could. "You need this, we need this." He continued and now I feel like I am being pressured into this and I don't want this now. I shake my head from side to side but he continues to hold me tightly. He pressed his lips to my forehead. "Elena you said you wanted it, I just don't understand what's wrong with it? Was it because I waited too long?" Damon asked.

What does he mean I want this, I never uttered such words. I can promise you that. I surely did not want to get married, not now in any case. How could he not see all the warning signs and everything that comes together with a married life. "It's just too early." I whisper and I can feel the vibrations of his chest, he's chuckling.

"Maybe but I thought you would love it." Damon replies and I just sigh.

"I would, just not now." I say pulling away from him looking him straight into his eyes.

"Okay we'll wait till your birthday then." At this I frown, was he going to propose to me on my birthday? That would just be wrong. What the hell did he loose his romantic side. I still remember when he was my boss and he made dinner for me, now that was romantic, this not so much.

"That won't be romantic at all." I reply, my tears forgotten.

"You have no idea how romantic I really am do you?" Damon asked pressing a soft kiss to my forehead.

"Congratulations!" The yells came echoing into the room by surprise as my eyes go wide. What the fuck was going on? I know that he said that we would be getting visitors, and now he wanted to propose and he was so positive that I would agree he pre-planned the whole thing. I turn from him as Stefan, Jeremy, Bonnie, Caroline and Klaus comes into view. They are all smiling like idiots holding up a banner with the words congratulations on it.

I pull away from Damon as I desperately wipe at my eyes trying to rid myself of the pesky tears as I try my best to smile at them but it's pointless. Damon just shakes his head from side to side making Stefan frown and then he looks towards me and frown at me like I just ran over his puppy.

"She doesn't like it?" he asked. How the hell could Damon tell everyone about this and then try to surprise me and everything just backfires. This was so embarrassing! Fuck this only made me cry harder. "I mean I did polish it yesterday so it should be shining, did she even look at it?" he asks. I just turn from the crowd that is now staring at me in disbelief.

I just fucking ruined everything. I ruined the whole night, not only for me but for the rest of them as well.

"I didn't really get a chance to show her, but I know she's seen it." Damon says wrapping an arm around me pulling me to him again. Why does he keep on telling me that I have seen this, I didn't see the fucking engagement ring.

"This is awkward." Klaus utters and both Damon and Stefan shoot him a glare. His eyes went wide in surprise and he even stood up straight, they must surely be intimidating him.

"Awe Elena and here I thought we're going to go joy riding in your new wheels." I open my mouth to reply my brother and then the words joy riding and wheels stopped me. What did he mean? What was he saying? I frown because I am clearly lost at the moment not sure if we are talking about the same thing or if we were on the same page.

"What?" I ask a bit un-lady like as I look to Damon.

"Elena you were wining about that car for the past month. You wanted an Eco so much and now you don't want it, it's too early… I can take the car back if you don't like it." Damon state and I am completely dumbfounded. I look to the table to where the little black box was waiting with the blue and silver Ford icon on it.

I felt like the biggest idiot to ever walk this planet. What the fuck was I thinking. I shake my head from side to side, and I just could not stop laughing at myself for being such an idiot. I look to Damon and I am in shock to say the least. "You bought me a Ford Eco?" I ask slowly trying my best not to continue to laugh at how stupid I am.

Damon smiled as he shook your head indicating that he had indeed bought me a Ford Eco.

"I feel so stupid right now." I say in between giggles and the people in the room just stare at me, not complete sure what the fuck is going on.

"Why? What were you thinking?" Stefan asked as he took a step closer to me, Jeremy standing of to the side as he has his hand wrapped around Bonnie's waist and he's shaking his head at me as well. My brother knew me better then I thought.

"I just thought Damon was proposing…" I say as I laugh at myself yet again, I look over to Caroline who's smiling broadly/

"Nope, I will be the first one that gets proposed to! Right Klaus?" Caroline chipped in her voice overly excited as she vibrantly smile at us. We all laugh at the nervous man standing next to her before he is nudged in his side and he just smiles and nods his head.

I turn and place a soft kiss to Damon's lips and look towards Stefan and Jeremy. "I really just feel dumb, you know? Must be this pregnancy brain of mine?" Okay wait did I just say that out loud? Everyone stopped laughing and everything went silent as all eyes were now on me.

I only realise what I said after it left my mouth and now I really feel like an idiot. Damon pulls me closer to his side and I awkwardly smile as I look into the eyes of my family and friends. There are a scattered eray of emotions that flash in their eyes, shock, surprise, joy…anger. Fuck me, fuck being pregnant and fuck my word to mouth filter at this moment.

"Pregnant?" Jeremy choked out and Damon starts to chuckle but his eyes are just as wide as mine as he stares at my brother in, was that fear I saw in his eyes. "Elena, are you pregnant?" My brother asks and I am almost too scared to answer him, because the emotions in his eyes are either joy or murderous. This had to be the hardest moment that I have ever had in my life.

Here I stood in front of my brother, he had raised me and took care of me. He was not only my brother but my part time parents as well. How was I going to explain this to him. Yeah I should have been save, I should have used protection. You were right that first morning Damon spent the night. I sheepishly smile at him and then look to Damon, and he has this determined look on his face.

"Yes." It was hard to say that single word, to admit that I am indeed pregnant. To confirm his fears and suspicions.

I look to Bonnie and I don't know how to read her because she looks happy but concerned as she cuddles closer to Jeremy. Well he hadn't pounced on Damon yet and beat him to a pulp.

"You're going to be a mother?" it was Caroline that broke the silence, I had all but forgotten that she was even here. She had mixed emotions and I could clearly see that she was conflicted about the whole situation.

"Yip." I say popping the p and the end.

"I never thought that you were serious Damon. Talking about knocking her up and having a shot gun wedding. I really thought you were joking." Jeremy said as he took a step forward and he embraces me in a bear hugs which took me completely by surprise. Both Damon and Jeremy started laughing while Jeremy was busy crushing me in his arms.

"I plan the future and I am very ambitious about pursuing my future." Damon says as soon as Jeremy lets me go he shakes Damon's hand firmly, congratulating him about the great news. This was really a very strange evening. Everything just turned around and it just worked out. I never thought that things would ever turn out like this. How my day went from great to, down and misunderstood to fantastic.

We both got congratulated on the bundle of joy that was coming our way in the near future. Conversations were now about doctor appointments and due dates and genders. Oh and the names, Caroline came up with a nice name that I would try to remember. But absurd suggestion that the men had was just that, absurd. I mean seriously. Man could really be stupid from time to time.

I sat on the couch as Caroline gushed on how I am glowing and how she's been noticing a change in me the last few weeks. "Elena, you just glow, your skin glows, you look pretty." Caroline said and I just shook my head.

"Caroline how long do you thing I have been pregnant so far?" I ask as I look over towards Damon who is standing of to the side with Jeremy, they are in a serious conversation. I could see in their body langue and their facial expressions. I was too far to overhear their conversation but it really had me wondering.

"Oh can we bet on how long you have been pregnant?" before I can even scold Stefan for even bringing this up Klaus is shouting.

"50$ says that she's about 13 weeks pregnant." I glare daggers at the blond and his stupid British accent.

"50$ says she 8 weeks pregnant, she's barely even showing." Caroline starts up rolling her eyes and I mean how wrong was she? I was just wearing an oversized shirt and I stilled looked like my old smaller self.

"50$ on 15 weeks" Jeremy shouts from the side. Did my brother really just bet on how far along pregnant I was? And I call him family.

"100 bucks says she's about 14 weeks." Bonnie finished and Stefan actually smirked at her.

"So now you betting on my belly? Really that is so the adult thing to do." I reply covering my arms over my chest the V-neck of my shirt shifting a bit showing of my border lining C-cup as I say, Stefan refer to them as border lining D-cups in too small bra's. The men fell silent and I really could not understand why until Caroline cleared her throat pointing to my cleavage on display. "Shit!" I scold pulling the shirt straight, a deep red blush gracing my cheeks.

"With those border lining D-cup she won't be less than 12 weeks pregnant." Stefan indicated with a smile, Damon smacked him over his head.

"Why the hell are you looking at her boobs?" Damon enquired almost yelling and Stefan just started laughing.

"Oh so now you notice there bigger? I mean seriously you're the one dating her!" Stefan says and at this I nod because it took Damon a while before he noticed me curvier body even if it was to his benefit.

"Stop it Stefan!" I scold. "I told you before, it's A-cups, turning into B-cups, border lining C-cups." At this Damon just goes quiet as he just narrows his eyes at me. He really didn't like me talking this way when in company of other men. But I mean seriously it was my brother, his brother and poor old Klaus. Not that they would even look.

"Okay, this just turned awkward." Jeremy indicated as he just rolled his eyes. "But come on Lena, how far along are you. Your killing us with the suspense." And with that I just roll my eyes, this was a losing battle any way. Luckily Stefan beat me to it.

"Winner of the grand total of 250 bucks is…. Bonnie!" Stefan indicated with a drum roll and everything. I just saw Jeremy wink at Bonnie and then he continued his conversation with Damon, like nothing even interrupted them. Whatever they were talking about seemed to be really important.

"Looks like you guys owe Bonnie 250 big ones." I say and Stefan just smiles as he moves across the room and he takes a seat next to me.

"Pay up, Caroline and Klaus. Jeremy usually pays in soft cash." I think I just vomited in my mouth at the thought of Bonnie and Jeremy having sex with each other.

"Too much info Bonnie." Caroline mumbles as she pulls out her purse and pulls out a 100 dollar bill.

"What it's not like you and Klaus don't do the nasty." Bonnie replies as she takes the cash and she shoves it in her pocket of her jean.