AN: Alright, well, here's the next chapter. I did a bit of a time jump. It's now the last week of June. I'm going to attempt to get into S&C's wedding pretty quickly. I know I maybe dragging things out a bit more than needed. So there will probably be another short time jump after the next chapter which should contain S&C's wedding.
Chapter 13
The next few weeks went by pretty quick. Stefan went back to working on cars at his auto garage and Caroline did…Well, whatever she did. I knew she was a party planner and she's usually on her phone and computer a lot. Damon and I rarely left each others sides. We finally picked out a few houses that we'd both liked In Ohio and were going to look at them sometime this week.
I've been researching colleges and Hospitals, too. There was only a week or two left until Stefan and Caroline's wedding. We'd found her dress and my Maid of Honor dress yesterday. Damon and Stefan already had their tuxes because she'd forced them to go to a fitting a few days ago.
Stefan and Caroline were going to go on a short honeymoon to Hawaii. Surprisingly, Care had yet to actually go there. I'd never been either, but I figured she would've by now. Damon and I were hoping to have settled on a house in the next week or so. We figured we could figure out some furniture we'd want to have while we were still at Stefan and Caroline's that way our house wouldn't be completely bare when we moved in. Neither one of us had any kind of furniture for the new house we'd live in because everything I would've had burned in the fire and neither one of us really wanted to move anything from the boarding house.
I figured we could pick out enough furniture to live with for short time so if we decided that we wanted to paint anywhere, we wouldn't have a ton of stuff to move.
Believe it or not, I'm really excited. Damon and I were going to have a house that was purely our own. It was an exciting thought but Caroline told me she'd felt the same way when her and Stefan had first moved from Mystic Falls.
Our shopping for her wedding dress and my Maid of Honor dress had gone pretty well. I was yet again lucky because my dress was actually very pretty. It wasn't a horror story like some can be.
Two days later, Damon and I were in Ohio. We'd gone to look at two different houses and had stopped somewhere else at the suggestion of the real estate agent. The moment we'd pulled up to the third, I immediately fell in love with it.
It was a white Victorian styled house with an wraparound porch. It had a basement, 4 bedrooms, and 4 and a half bathrooms. The kitchen and all bathrooms had been updated with new appliances and I was I love with everything. Damon was even impressed.
The master bedroom had French doors and was huge. It was just as big as Damon's bedroom at the boarding house, if not bigger. Damon had stopped in the hallway with the realtor while I'd wondered around the rest of the way. The house was amazing. It was my dream house and I'd never even thought I'd had a dream house, let alone one this big.
When I'd finally gotten done with my exploring, I walked back downstairs to find Damon. He was leaned over a counter in the kitchen next to the realtor and they were looking at something. I walked further into the kitchen and saw that the house had a pretty decent sized backyard with a patio. Whoever had previously owned this place had to have put a lot of work into it. I decided to walk out back and text Caroline.
"This placed is amazing, Care. It's not even one of the one's we came to look at!"
"Really? Are you getting it?"
"I don't know, but I really, really want to."
Damon walked out a few minutes later and wrapped his arms around me.
"It's ours," He said, kissing me on my cheek.
I turned around and squealed, throwing my arm around him. "What! Really?!"
He laughed, "Yup." He said tossing a ring of keys in the air. "All we gotta do is buy furniture and all that other stuff I don't care about."
"I have a hard time believing that you don't care about what furniture we'll have."
He shrugged and looked above my head. "I don't. You get my credit card and have fun with Caroline. The basement's mine, though."
I smirked at him, "I knew there was a catch."
Damon and I ended up staying at a Hotel that was in Kentucky. We'd both gotten tired and hungry and neither one of us wanted to drive any longer. I'd texted Caroline pictures of the outside of the house as we locked the doors and left. She, of course, immediately responded, wanting to know when we could go shopping. I told her she'd have to wait because Damon and I wanted to paint the living room, kitchen, and Master Bedroom.
I'd compromised with her and told her that we'd have a painting crew come in and do it so she'd leave me alone. I did let her know she could help me decide on the colors since Damon would probably be difficult and tell me that he didn't care.
Anyway, I'd finally settled on sending applications to Ohio State University, Xavier University, and the college that was near our new home. I'm planning on filling out the three applications once we get back to Stefan and Caroline's. Damon still had yet to decide whether he was going to finish college with me or not.
AN: Well, there you guys go. Not as long as I wanted it to be but that was all I really wanted in this chapter…Hopefully you all weren't disappointed.
Let me know what you thought! :)