Said I'd never fall in love again but I was talking like a man who doesn't know
A love is like thunder, a love is like lightning, a love is like rain
And I don't want to let it in
I let her take control of my heart and she lost it.
And brother what are you doing, you've been here once before
You rose from the wounds of your soul
Here we go again
- Love is like by Cisco Adler

"What's happening?" I ran into my living room with a big bowl full of popcorn and sat next to Damon on the floor, facing towards the TV. We were watching a scary movie and I'm pretty sure I just missed the good part.

"The main chick just got butchered." Damon said with little emotion. This movie didn't even affect him a little bit. Which I didn't understand how that was possible.

"You've totally seen this before." That had to be the only solution.

"Nope. I think Hollywood needs to do a better job on their special affects."

"You just have no imagination." I said while shoving popcorn into my mouth. I jumped a little at a scary part and all I could hear was Damon laughing hysterically at me. "Shut up." I laughed while shoving him and then going back to watching the movie. I leaned back against the couch that for some reason wasn't good enough for Damon and I. I froze when Damon's arm instinctively wrapped around me in the most casual way. This definitely wasn't something a girl does with her boyfriend's brother.

"This movie is horrible." I heard him mumble and a smile spread across my face.

"When I become a writer I'm going to make you read over all my stuff. I think if I got a thumbs up from you I could make millions."

"It's going to be very hard to get that thumbs up."

"I know, but now I'm thinking your opinion will matter most."

"As if it didn't matter before." He laughed it off and we went back to watching the movie. I couldn't help but let my mind wander to my future. Did this mean Damon was going to be in my future? Where was Damon heading in his life? I'm sure he had goals too.

"Damon, what are you going to do with your life?" I hoped I wasn't being to personal.

"I don't know."

"Are you ever going to go back to Duke?" I thought about him leaving and those two weeks we spent apart. I don't want that to happen again.

"I didn't officially drop out. I guess I should go back. Classes just started back up again. But I really don't want to go." I titled my head to get a good look at him.

"I don't want you to go back either." I looked back down away from his face. I sounded awfully selfish.

" I don't know if I have a choice."

"You should just stay here with me. We could be like, best friends." That sounded weird. After all, Damon was the one continuously saying that he doesn't think it is possible to be friends with someone you are attracted to. Which at first I agreed with him, but in this situation, what was I supposed to do?

"You know how I feel about that." I let out a breath, knowing he would probably say that. "Listen Elena, we both know that I don't want to just be your friend." He was brushing on territory that I didn't want to get into right now. I wanted to push that all in the back of my mind.

"That's all we can be Damon. I owe it to myself to try with Stefan. I can't just forget all those days I spent missing him. I love him, Damon. I was with him for such a long time, and we were good with each other."

"Obviously it wasn't that good."

"But it was safe. You're the exact opposite of that."

"I don't understand why you want safe!" We were starting to flow into an argument instead of just conversation but I didn't want that. I didn't want to argue.

"Just chill out Damon. Let's not ruin our night with a fight. We were having a good time before this. Let's just go back to that." I tried sounding calm. I shifted and scooted away from Damon so that his arm was no longer wrapped around me and went back to watching the movie. It never went back to or comfortable state as there was now tension filled in the air.

"I should probably go." Damon said but I turned and grabbed onto him before he could sit up.

"The movie is not done." I simply said as my grip tightened on him, signaling that I really didn't want him to leave me. He complied and this time I laid back while putting my head in his lap. I watched the movie and it wasn't long before I felt my eye lids grow heavy. I tried blinking it away but I couldn't and eventually gave into the sleep that was so persistent to get me.

"What is going on here!" I could hear a familiar voice that sounded far away. I was half asleep but the voice wouldn't stop yelling. I forced myself to blink open my eyes when I heard the doorbell ring. I opened my eyes and sunshine filled my vision. I immediately came to and started to panic. Damon must of fallen asleep too because he was still here. "Elena!" My head shot over to the stairway. Jenna was looking at us very confused and then the doorbell rang again.

"Jenna, we fell asleep."

"What is Stefan's brother doing here?" She gave me a judgmental look and I was about to say something when Damon started to shift. I then noticed I was basically on top of him and moved out of the way.

"Damon! Wake up." I watched as he slowly woke up and blinked a couple times.

"What am I doing here?" He looked around and I could see reconciliation cross his face. "Sorry, I fell asleep."

"Elena, Stefan is at the door." My head flashed to Jenna as she was standing at the door about to open it.

"Don't!" I screamed as her hand went to the door knob.

"Elena what is going on?" I ignored Jenna and grabbed Damon's hand and pulled him to the stairs. I shoved him up them and he easily went.

"I'll down in a sec." I said over my shoulder as Damon and I ran up the stairs. When I got to my room I shut the door and took a couple deep breaths. That was too close.

"So this is where the magic happens." Damon looked around my room and for a moment I forgot all about Stefan and actually let a laugh escape.

"What are you doing?" I watched Damon flopped down on my bed.

"I'm just trying to see what its like when you lay here at night thinking about me."

"I don't do that." I added quickly and laid down next to him and stared at my ceiling.

"You should put a picture of me, right there." He pointed to up right above his face and I couldn't help but giggle. "You know, so you don't have to imagine me, I'll be right there."

"You think too much of yourself." I rolled my eyes and sat up. "I should go see Stefan."

"I don't care about Stefan." He rolled over onto his side and grabbed my arm, forcing me to lay back down.

"He's your brother. He's my boyfriend."

"But I can still do this." He tilted his head and kissed me quick. I didn't have time to push him away when he went back to his position before.

"No you can't." I said even though I liked it.

"You never stop me." He leaned in again but this time my hands flew to his chest before he got close enough.

"I'm stopping you now." I sat up again and so did he. "We have to stop this Damon. We are getting closer and closer to getting caught by Stefan."

"We should just tell him." No, no, no, no, no. We could not tell him. "I want to tell him."

"No Damon."

"Why not?"

"Damon. Stefan will be so mad if he found out. I just got him back, if he knew I was lying to him we would be done. I can't lose him again!" I wanted him to understand.

"But you have me."

"I'm dating Stefan, Damon. I love Stefan. I'm going to be with Stefan, not you." I was going a little too far but the thought of Stefan finding out literally made me sick to my stomach. I immediately regretted the words that came out of my mouth when I saw Damon look up at the ceiling again and let a laugh without humor escape.

"I should of known you'd be just like Katherine." He sat up from my bed and walked to the door.

"What are you doing Damon?" I panicked when I saw his hand on the door handle. He didn't answer me just opened the door and stepped out of the room. I immediately jumped off the bed and ran after him. "Get back in here!" I screamed, not caring if someone could hear.

"No, I think I might go say hello to my baby brother."

"Don't do this Damon! Please!" I was literately begging him as he stepped down each step. I followed him and tried to get a hold of his arm but I couldn't stop him.

"Oh Stefannnnn!" He called throughout the house in a high voice and I knew that it was over. There was no use in fighting it now.

"Damon!" I heard Stefan but didn't see him yet but once I reached the end of the stairs I saw him come from the living room. "What the hell are you doing here!"

"Oh, did Elena not tell you we are friends? Or a little more then that."

"Stop it Damon!" I said sternly as my eyes were flashing between a furious Damon and a confused yet pissed Stefan.

"Elena, please explain."

"So you're telling me Stefan that Elena never told you that we met each other way before the day you 'introduced' us?" I watched Stefan as his face went emotionless and Damon started talking like a crazed man.

"What!"

"Oh yea, and by the way Stefan, we both screwed the same girl...again! Talk about lightning striking twice, right?" Damon let out a laugh and didn't stop.

"You guys slept together!" I saw the pain and utter shock cross Stefan's face.

"Oh wait, here comes an even better shocker." Damon's hands came around my waist and I fought against him. I tried hitting his chest and running away but he was just too strong for me. His hands lifted the back of my shirt up and he forced me to turn around. I had no choice and at this moment the tears broke loose as I finally cracked. Why was Damon doing this? When his hand let go of me I immediately pulled my shirt down and looked at Stefan. My eyes were begging for forgiveness but his were so cold. He looked at me with such hate that I wanted to just fall down and sob at his feet. This was all Damon's fault!

"Stefan, I'm so sorry!" My words didn't even affect Stefan.

"How does it feel Stefan? Does it feel good? I highly doubt it. Now you know how I felt when you took Katherine away from me!" Damon yelled at Stefan again and my tears immediately stopped as I focused on Damon. A whole new feeling of betrayal went through me.

"I knew you were just using me!" I pushed against Damon chest, trying to hurt him. I punched at him over and over again till his hands wrapped around mine.

"You needed to learn a lesson." He spat at Stefan, completely ignoring me. "Now every time you look at her, every time you touch her, just know I did the same thing, and better." I stared at Damon in shock. This was a whole other side to him I never saw. He had such hate buried in him. I never thought this would happen. Stefan backed up away from us and headed to the door.

"Stefan, don't go!" I ran after him and he stopped.

"Elena we are done. I want nothing to do with you. I should of known you were just a selfish slut." I felt a stab at my heart from his words. He leaned down and whispered in my ear "You're pathetic." I froze as I watched him leave my house without any other words. I stood there watching him go and then my attention was brought back to Damon.

"Leave Damon." I said as calmly as I could.

"Elena-."

"Leave." I cut him off with a little more force. I was on the verge of breaking again and he was pushing me.

"No."

"Get out of my house!" I shouted and glared at him. "Get out of my house and get out of my life." I said a little bit more calmly.

"I'm sorry." he came to the door and I shoved him out. "It was just heat of the moment."

"I don't ever want to see you again. Don't call me, don't text me, don't even think about me." There was a moment of silence and his eyes pleaded that he made a mistake. "I hate you Damon." I slammed the door shut. At that moment I wanted to be done forever, with each Salvatore brother.

AN: Don't hate me... :)

I gotta say a HUGE thank you for all the reviews! Last chapter was my most reviewed chapter for this story. I almost had the same number of reviews from back when I killed Damon in my other story, and trust me I pissed a lot of people off. Haha. I mean seriously you are spoiling me rotten.

Oh, and I reread this story and I got to apologize for some really bad grammar mistakes or words getting mixed up. I think what happens a lot is that I spell a word horribly wrong and when I do spell check I think it's a different word then what I intend it to be and change it completely and don't catch it when I proofread. So I'm sorry. Don't think I'm lazy because I really do reread it over and over again, I just don't catch things.

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