An: Ok guys I know its short but real life is really keeping me busy. Thank you for the amazing reviews. I hope this chapter is ok...
Elena woke up in the morning her head pounding and felt the slightly headache she had from the night before. She shivered slightly and cuddled herself closer to the man lying next to her. She laid there wondering to herself if she regretted sleeping with Damon, a part of her did only because she felt like they should have taken that next step when they were both completely sober. She found herself drawing small circles on his bare chest and found it interesting to watch him sleep. He looked so peaceful, he was sleeping with a slight smile on his face, and making her wonder if she put it on his face.
"If you keeping doing that were going to have a repeat of last night," he whispered as he felt her finger on the spot over his chest and lower going over his stomach, around his belly button. She smiled and let out a little chuckle.
"Is that a threat or a promise?" She smirked and kissed his jaw.
"A promise." He said kissing her on the lips, He flipped them so he was covering over her gently, and was kissing her neck, when the phone his phone rang.
"Ignore it." Damon said as he lost half of Elena's attention.
"But it could be important." She said. "It could be work or something about the kids."
"Fine." Damon said and picked up the phone not moving from his spot. The caller id said Ric, making Damon growl. "This better be important."
"I'm in town." Ric said with a chuckle not knowing what he just interrupted.
"Good for you." Damon said sarcastically rolling back to his side.
"Who is it?" Elena whispered.
"Ric." Damon told her, "He's in town.
"Damon, I was calling to see if you wanted to go out to breakfast. I think we need to talk." Ric said wanting to see his best friend and hopefully soon business partner.
"Ric, I'm kind of busy." Damon said looking down at Elena, who was listening into their conversation.
"Invite him over for brunch." Elena insisted.
"No." Damon said quietly. Ric who heard her smiled. He assumed that Damon was with Elena because the last time they talked Damon only had eyes for her.
"Damon." She glared and gently pulled the phone from him. "Hello, Ric? This is Elena." She said in the phone moving so he could reach her or the phone.
"Hi Elena I've heard a lot about you." Ric said causing Elena to rise her eye brow.
"Would you like to come to brunch, maybe around 9:30? Does that work?" She asked.
"Elena don't invite him over." Damon whispered not wanting to give up his alone time with Elena.
"I would love to." Ric smiled ignoring his friend's comment.
"Alright do you have a pen? I can give you our address." She said then told him slowly.
"Thanks I'll see you soon." Ric nodded.
Elena stood up and handed Damon his phone, noticing that he was giving her a pretend glare.
"Why did you do that?" He asked.
"Because he's your friend and he's in town."
"But…"
"Damon stop. Get around and then come and help me get ready for him to come over." Elena said with a stern face.
"Fine." Damon pouted.
"I'm going to get a shower." Damon said.
"I'll be in the kitchen." She said pulling on his boxers and his shirt from last night. She walked out of the room leaving Damon to lay back in the bed with a smile. He was super happy, he felt like he was on cloud nine. But he wanted to know how she really felt about everything that happened.
Elena went out to see what needed to be picked up before there company came over and saw the house. She went to the fridge glad that she went to the grocery store the day before, so she decided to pull out eggs, bacon, and waffle and pancake mix, along with a fruit salad and make some toast. She wanted to make everything look nice and neat because for some reason it was really important to her that Ric approved of her. She had roughly an hour and a half until Ric would be over so she started by cleaning the living room. Vacuuming and dusting really quick. She pulled out an yellow post it note and made of list of things she wanted Damon to go pick up at the store once he got out of the shower.
Nearly finished with the quick pick up she began to start making the pancake and waffle batter, Damon came out to the kitchen where he smiled at Elena still in his clothes from the night before.
"You look very sexy in my clothes." He whispered in her ear wrapping his hands around her waist.
"Damon…" She groaned. "Will you run to the store for me?"
"Of course." He said kissing her neck.
"I made a small list." She said grabbing the sticky, note moving away from him.
"Alright I'll be back soon, he said looking over the list.
"Thank you." She said. "Please try to be quick." She begged not wanting to be left alone to greet his friend. It's not that she was worried to meet him she just wanted it to be a comfortable environment.
Once Damon left she went and made his bed, and then walked into her closet she shared with him, and pulled out a simple red sundress, and then she went and got cleaned up. She was just dressing when she noticed that the clock read that she only had about 25 minutes before Ric was supposed to be here, and Damon was nowhere in sight. She went out to the dining room and set the table in the nice China she had, and pulled out a few vases she could put the flowers in. She was working on making the pancakes and waffles when Damon finally came back home.
"Wow you know you don't have to impress him." Damon smirked as he saw all the trouble she was going through.
"I want him to like me." She said , turning to look at him.
"He will, Lena. You look amazing." Damon said pulling her in for a hug and kiss.
"Thank you. Could you please put those flowers in the vases, and put one in the living room and in the kitchen."
"Of course." Damon laughed. She was just finishing the finally touches when there was a knock on the door. Elena wasn't sure why this was such a big deal to her. She figured it was because she knew how important Ric was to Damon and she wanted Damon's best friend approve of her.
"Hey Ric." Damon said opening the door motioning him to come in.
"Damon, how are you?"
"Great. I'm glad you finally get to meet Elena." Damon said quietly.
"I am too. You talk about her enough, I was kind of wondering if you made her up." Ric teased.
"No." Damon scowled. "Elena this is Ric, Ric this is Elena."
"Nice to meet you." Elena smiled.
"Yeah, I've heard so much about you, I feel like I already know you." Ric smirked at his friend's discomfort.
"All good I hope." Elena smiled and touched Damon's hand, easing his discomfort.
"Of course." Damon smiled.
"Would you like something to drink?" Dmaon asked Ric.
"What do you have?"
"Coffee, milk, orange juice, water…" Elena said.
"Coffee please." Ric said.
"How do you like it?"
"Just black, thank you Elena." Ric said with a smile. He could already see the love between them when they looked at each other, he just hoped everything worked out for the two of them. For the first time in a really long time he could see Damon was happy.
"So what are you doing here?" Damon asked.
"I was actually here to talk to you." Ric said.
"About?" Damon questioned.
"Well you talked about starting your own company, and offered to let me join. I was hoping that spot was still open."
"Really?" Damon questioned. "You have to ask. I would be happy to have you join. We could definitely get started on it."
"We can talk about things later, I don't want to ruin Elena's breakfast." Ric nodded and looked around the house.
"We're ready to eat it you want to come take a seat." Elena called setting a plate of pancakes and waffles on the table.
There were just sitting down at the table when Elena's phone rang from the other room.
"Excuse me I should go get that, It could be about the kids." Elena excused herself.
"No problem." Ric shrugged, he watched his friend, watch Elena walk out of the room.
"You're happy here." Ric smiled.
"I am." Damon nodded.
"Are you going to move here?" Ric asked.
"I am."
Elena answered her phone to hear Anna talking to someone.
"Hello?" Elena said.
"Oh hey Elena? Is it ok if we bring the kids home. My mom called and she could really use my help and Jeremy said he would go with me." Anna said sounding a little panicked.
"Yeah of course Is everything ok with her?" Elena asked.
"She broke her leg a few days ago and was mentioning that she could really use some help. But otherwise she's fine." Annie said.
Elena walked back into the dinning room , "The kids are coming home in a bit. I hope you like children." She said looking at Ric.
"I love them." Ric smiled.
"What happened?" Damon asked feeling slightly worried about the reason why they needed to come home early.
"Annie and Jeremy need to go help her mom out, she broke her leg."
"That's horrible." Damon said.
"Anyway where we were?" Elena smiled.
They had a nice brunch even when the kids came home, they were just hanging out, Ric was really liking the effect that Elena had on Damon. He was settling, and was happy about it. Anything that made his friend smile this much made him a big supporter, he was just worried about how they would last during the court trails against Stefan.
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