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The next day I woke up to silence instead of rain and thunder.
'That's odd.' I thought to myself as I sat up and looked out to the window to see that it was a beautiful, sunny day.
"It stopped raining!" I said semi-excitedly as I jumped out of bed.
I walked down the stairs wearing a T-shirt and denim shorts, my hair still wet from my shower.
"Isn't it nice outside?" Anna asked as she walked into the living room with a cup of orange juice.
I nodded. "I'm just glad that it stopped raining."
"Mhmm."
I glanced at her again and noticed that she couldn't stop smiling. "So he finally popped the question, huh?" I asked.
Anna's smile grew a little wider and she nodded. She set her glass of juice down on the coffee table and rushed over to me to show me the beautiful diamond that was on her left ring-finger.
"Wow…Though I am a bit worried about my brother being this good at picking out jewelry on his own." I joked.
Anna laughed a bit. "I assumed you help him out."
"Nope." I shook my head. "I actually didn't even know until last night."
She looked up at me. "And I was also wondering if you would be one my bridesmaids…?"
"What kind of question is that? Of course I will." I smirked. "Who else have you chosen so far?" I asked.
"So far only Rebekah has signed on, but I'm also going to ask Caroline. Oh, and then Jeremy wanted me to ask Jenna." Anna said.
"And I was thinking about asking Bonnie, too, but…that would be pretty awkward to have Jeremy's ex's as one of my bridesmaids." She explained.
I laughed. "Yeah."
"Oh, and then I'm going to ask my mom to be my maid of honor this afternoon. After that I should be set."
I nodded. "I'm really happy for you, Anna."
"Thanks." She replied.
"Jeremy hasn't really had the best life. First with our parents dying, and his drug problems, and then he got his heart broken, then he broke someone else's heart…Anyways, he deserves someone as amazing as you." I rambled.
She just smiled.
"Jeremy got us plane tickets for tomorrow morning, by the way." She told me.
I nodded. I didn't know how I felt about leaving. "Okay."
She leaned against the back of the couch. "You don't know how you feel about leaving, do you?" She asked.
I shook my head. "No…I don't."
"Well, you have until tomorrow." She stated before walking upstairs.
I sighed.
I couldn't decide whether to talk to Damon or not.
Part of me wanted to work things out…The other part of me told myself there was nothing to work out anymore.
No. I wasn't going to give up hope yet.
I needed to talk to Damon. I didn't know if I was gonna be able to start anything with him or not, but I still needed to at least talk to him.
I walked into the kitchen to see Jeremy leaning against the counter on his phone.
"Hey." I said as I grabbed an apple off of the counter.
Jeremy looked up at me. "Hey."
I broke out into a smile. "I heard the big news."
He smiled back. "I sort of can't believe she said yes."
I cocked my head to the side. "Why wouldn't she say yes?" I asked him.
"I don't know…I just had a feeling that she wouldn't." Jeremy replied. "But, she did. So right now I'm just going to focus on figuring out who are gonna be my groomsmen."
"Who have you chosen so far?" I asked curiously as I leaned on the counter beside him.
"Stefan, Matt, Alaric, Tyler and Damon." He told me.
"Best man?" I asked.
"Matt." He replied.
"Good…So then when we all walk down the aisle it will be Rebekah and Stefan, Jenna and Ric, me and Damon, Caroline and Tyler and then Matt and Pearl." I said, starting to plan things in my head.
"Are you already planning my wedding in your head?" Jeremy asked.
I grinned. "Maybe."
He chuckled. "Well don't go too crazy, I still want this wedding to be sort of traditional…besides the officiator dressing up as Batman."
I raised my eyebrow. "The officiator is gonna be dressed up as Batman?"
Jeremy got a super serious look on his face. "Of course they are."
We both started laughing.
"What are you guys so chipper about?" Damon asked as he walked into the kitchen, on his phone.
"Anna and I are engaged." Jeremy blurted out.
Damon looked up from his phone. "When did this happen?"
"Last night."
After that I kind of zoned out of the conversation and started thinking about what to do about Damon.
'When should I talk to him?'
'What should I tell him?'
'Will he even care?
"Elena!" I heard Jeremy say loudly, snapping me out of my trance.
"Huh?"
"You've been standing there for five minutes without blinking, staring at the exact same spot." Jeremy told me.
A rush of embarrassment came over me. "Sorry…I zoned out…" I said as I noticed Damon had left.
Jeremy just nodded.
"I'm surprised that Caroline hasn't come over yet." I said.
"Oh, she will…" Jeremy sighed. I laughed.
"Or I could just go to Bonnie's apartment and check up on her. I need to get out of this house." I said.
"Take Rebekah with you." Stefan told me as he walked into the kitchen, holding Alexis.
"Mmkay, mom." I replied sarcastically.
Stefan rolled his eyes. "I'm just saying that you guys could have a girls' day so that you and Caroline can complain about your relationship problems while Rebekah and Bonnie silently judge you."
I started laughing. "In Senior year Bonnie was complaining, too." I said, causing Jeremy to narrow his eyes at me. "What? I never said I was talking about you."
"Jeremy, a piece of advice, once you're engaged, stop letting anything that's happened to you in past relationships bug you." Stefan told Jeremy.
"Yeah, because you're an expert on being engaged." I rolled my eyes.
"What? I got married!" Stefan said.
"I said engaged, not married."
"Same thing."
"Is not! …I'm just saying that you guys randomly eloped in Vegas, so you have never actually been engaged." I said.
"Would you rather I'd had been beaten up by Klaus, Elijah and Kol?" He asked.
"They wouldn't have beaten you up." I said.
"Oh yes they would have. Rebekah is their baby sister and they all hate me." Stefan replied.
I sighed. "True…Wait, I thought Elijah and you were okay?"
Stefan chuckled. "Not after I married his sister without 'getting his consent' first."
I laughed. "I can't believe Elijah of all people would end up with Katherine. I mean, it's Katherine!" I exclaimed.
"You're only saying that because you hate her." Jeremy said.
"I have reason." I replied simply.
"Has anyone ever liked Katherine?" Stefan asked jokingly.
"Elijah, apparently." Jeremy said.
Me and Rebekah stood outside the door of Bonnie's apartment, knocking.
The door swung open revealing Caroline, who was wearing yoga shorts and a baggy sweatshirt with the sleeves rolled up and her hair in a messy bun.
"Hey, Care." I said.
Caroline smiled weakly. "Hey."
"My god, what are you wearing?" Rebekah asked her abruptly.
"Rebekah!" I scolded.
"It's one of Matt's sweatshirts that I kept." Caroline admitted.
"Who's at the door?" We heard Bonnie yell from inside the small studio apartment.
"It's 'Bekah and Elena." Caroline yelled back. "Oh sorry," Caroline apologized, shaking her head lightly. "Come in."
Rebekah and I stepped into the apartment that was still mostly unfurnished due to Bonnie just moving two weeks earlier, and set our bags down by the door.
"How have you been?" I asked Caroline.
"I dunno…" She sighed. "I'm just…tired...of everything."
I nodded slightly. "Believe me, I get it."
Realization flashed over her face. "How have you been with everything going on with Damon?" Caroline asked.
I shrugged. "It's been better, but it's okay." I said. "But we're here so that you can complain. So, complain."
Caroline sighed. "I just…I don't know how to fix this! And the worst part is, I don't know if I want to fix it. I mean, we were together for ten years. Do you really think that Matt would just end it because he thought I had kissed Tyler?"
"Well, Matt can be sort of…impulsive…and he definitely has a temper, so I don't know if just deciding not to try is the best idea." Bonnie told her.
"Ten years, guys. Ten years. Matt isn't the type of guy to end it without good reason." Caroline repeated.
"Caroline…" I started. "Have you have ever thought that you guys just…fell out of love? Maybe he's just using that as an excuse to break it off?" I asked her.
Caroline started crying. "I don't know what to do, guys." She said through her tears. "It was me and Matt. I…I thought we were meant to be."
"At one point I thought Jeremy and I were…" Bonnie laughed slightly, shaking her head.
"You guys dated for a year in 11th grade, and you thought he was 'the one'?" Rebekah asked her.
Bonnie shrugged. "He was my first love."
I smiled a little. "I thought that Damon was 'the one'."
"He is." Caroline said.
I sighed. "I don't know, guys…I mean, I love him, but…I just don't know if we will work like we used to."
"When will you guys just suck it up and see it?" Rebekah asked.
"See what?"
"Damon is 'the one'! He has always been 'the one'! And you two trying to deny it won't help anything!" Rebekah said, frustrated.
I ran my hands over my face. "Okay, let's get back to Caroline." I said, trying to change the subject.
"Elena, you are going to talk about Damon and you are going to like it!" Caroline snapped, causing us all to laugh.
"Fine." I gave in.
"I'm not even sure what to do in this situation. I mean, I'm not mad about him sleeping with Katherine anymore, I just don't know if he wants to be in a relationship with me anymore. But I'm going to talk to him tonight or something, so…" I said.
"You can still stay here, you know. You don't have to get on that plane." Bonnie told me.
"Yes I do." I replied. "I need to distance myself from all of this."
"But what if he wants you to stay?" Caroline asked.
I thought about that for a moment. "Then…then I guess I don't know…"
I sat in the living room with my guitar, quietly strumming some chords.
"I have a question for you." I heard Damon say behind me.
I turned around and saw him walking into the living room from the kitchen. "Alright…?"
"How many breakup songs did you write, exactly?" He asked.
I thought for a moment. "A few. But I only ever finished one." I told him honestly.
"You should play it for me." Damon suggested as he sat down on the couch.
I sighed. "Wouldn't that just make things even more awkward?" I asked.
"Maybe," He said. "But you still should."
I smirked. "Fine." I said. I knew that if I said no that he would just keep on bothering me about it, so I thought 'Why not?'
Running away through the nights so black
The stars on my shoulder
Pulling me back
Whispers of you
Ringing through my ears
Trying to forget all the wasted tears
And all your lies in your blue eyes
Another day goes by
And all I can say is
Wish I could forget you
But you keep coming back
You're running away through the nights so black
The stars on your shoulder
Pulling you back
Maybe you can forget
But I just can't
One day I'm here and one day I'm there
Some days I wake up and I just don't know where
I see the lights on the city streets
I'm wide awake while the world still sleeps
In all my dreams the picture freezes
And every night it's always the same
Wish I could forget you
But you keep coming back
You're running away through the nights so black
The stars on your shoulder pulling you back
Maybe you can forget but I just can't
No I just can't
No I just can't
I just can't
Running away through the nights so black
The stars on my shoulder pulling me back
Whispers of you ringing through my ears
Trying to forget all the wasted tears
Wish I could forget you
But you keep coming back
You keep coming back, you keep coming back
Wish I could forget you
I just can't
I finished the song and looked at him.
"Well, at least you got a great song out of it." Damon joked.
I smiled. "A few months back, my manager heard that and almost got me to sign a record label." I admitted. I hadn't told anyone about that.
"Why did you turn it down?" He asked.
"I didn't think I was good enough." I said. "I mean, why would I be any better than anyone else in this business?"
"Because you're amazing." He told me. "Maybe you wouldn't do better than anyone else, but you are better than everyone else."
I thought about that for a moment. This made the whole 'I'm leaving' conversation a lot harder.
Ugh, why is love so difficult?
And there's the fourteenth chapter! The song used was "Running Away" by Greyson Chance. I thought it fit the situation, especially at the line "All your lies in your blue eyes".
This was actually the longest chapter EVER out of all the stories I've posted on here, coming to 2,333 and 9 pages.
Thank you guys so much for the great reviews and I hope you all have a great evening!
-Nina