PART TWENTY

"Caroline, you're going to be joining us too?" Elena asked in surprise. It had been surprising enough that once cold hearted Rebekah had asked Elena out to lunch, but it had been even more surprising when she had seen a familiar blond next to her.

Caroline squealed, "Surprise!"

"Caroline," Elena smiled as she hugged the overexcited blond. "What are you doing here? This is quite the surprise."

"Rebekah invited me over actually," Caroline said looking at the other blond. "I got off work early to come and celebrate."

"Celebrate what exactly?"

Rebekah snapped her fingers and a waiter quickly brought over a bottle of champagne. "Elena, how could you not remember? Today has been officially one month since your wedding." Rebekah started pouring champagne. "And that's very important. It means that you survived a month of marriage which is not a small feat. Especially where Damon is concern because, bless him he has the attention span of a fish when it comes to women."

Caroline took the glass of champagne and handed it to Elena. "So best friend, let's celebrate your one month anniversary with style."

"I appreciate all of this," Elena said. "But shouldn't Damon be here, I mean he is the second half of this marriage."

Rebekah rolled her eyes. "Believe me, my cousin shouldn't be here. I love him, but he can be a know it all jerk. It's better when it's just us girls, don't you agree Caroline?"

Caroline nodded as she took a sip of her own drink. "I agreed whole heartedly. So sit down Elena and relax and let us toast your one month of marriage."

Elena smiled as she took her own glass and clicked it against the girls' "To my one month of marriage." After toasting the two girls quickly ordered lunch.

Elena was halfway through her eggplant parmesan when Caroline blurted out. "So, Elena I've been meaning to ask. It's no secret that you were a virgin when you married Damon. So spill how is the sex life?"

Elena nearly choked on her food, she glared at Caroline. "Care!" she gave Rebekah an apologetic look. "Rebekah, is Damon's cousin and I'm sure that she doesn't want to hear about my sex life with her cousin."

Rebekah looked at her lazily. "Oh, I don't care honestly. Besides I play for the other team, so unless you have some hot lady friends, blabber away about my cousin. Besides I lost my virginity back in junior year of high school. It would be nice to get the perspective of a virgin that waited until marriage."

Elena flushed red with embarrassment and she wanted to crawl under the table. "It really is not that interesting."

Rebekah rolled her eyes as she filled another glass with champagne. "Oh, come on, Elena don't give us that crap. You were a poor, innocent virgin and my cousin is the town whore. Are you actually telling me that nothing, absolutely nothing has happened? Do you think that we're dumb?"

"I didn't say that," Elena flushed red and she wanted to crawl under the table. She looked over her shoulder to make sure that none of the other customers were listening, but they all seemed preoccupied in their boring conversation. "Our first time, well Damon and I-" she started stuttering, "well, it was fine. He was patient and a very fine teacher and it's none of your business."

Both girls burst into giggles. "I think we should give her a break, Bekah." Caroline said. "We're embarrassing her."

"Alright," Rebekah agreed. "But I think that this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

"What are you doing?" Damon looked up from his novel to look at his wife who was sitting down next to him on the bed.

"I'm working on my blog," Elena murmured, never once looking away from her computer. She had decided that her blog was mostly going to be a collection of photographs, advice columns, and just something that young wives and mothers could look forward too. "It just needs a few touches." She was suddenly glad that she had taken computer courses in high school and had actually paid attention to them.

Damon looked at her web page with curiosity. Elena had chosen a very feminine pattern for her background. It was an icy blue with orange and yellow flowers. She had decided to include a introduction page in where she would tell her viewers a little about herself, but she didn't know what to include yet. "What did you decide to name your blog?"

Elena smiled at him. She had thought for hours for the perfect name, but she hadn't known what to put. She finally managed something that she remembered from her Occult's elective class that Bonnie had forced her to take. "The Doppelganger."

The next morning Elena woke up her to her phone buzzing. She ignored it, the last thing that she needed was to wake up early in the morning. Thankfully, it was Saturday and Damon had the day off.

She snuggled next to Damon and Damon leaned over and kissed her on the forehead. "What should we do today?"

"I don't know what do you have planned?" Elena inquired. Damon mentioned that there would be a food festival downtown and if she wanted to go to that. Elena agreed. She wanted some decent food for a change.

She had been trying her best to cook a decent meal and her efforts were slowly improving. Thankfully, Damon was being a good sport about it. Elena was craving something sweet and maybe the cooks from the food festival could give her a tip or two. "That would be nice."

"Perfect." Damon said. "Get dressed then, I'm going to hop in the shower."

Elena nodded as she went to grab a pair of jeans and a cardigan from her closet. She quickly put on her clothes and grabbed her phone to see what all the fuss was about. Elena had a few emails indicating that she had new followers on her blog, The Doppelganger.

Elena had posted the first part yesterday. It had not been a lot, it had just been a small introduction and the pictures that she had taken of the wedding dresses (she had been allowed to post it with Lily and Rebekah's permission.)

She had 34 followers. Elena let out a small giggle of hope. Damon had turned the shower off. Elena knew that they weren't a lot of followers, but it was a start. With luck she would get a few more before her next post.

-End of Chapter Twenty-

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