Here is a little Canadian Thanksgiving treat!

Dear Diary,

From day one I had my doubts about Damon, I never saw him worthy of Elena and knew he would only cause trouble. Then he went and got her pregnant and changing her life forever. As the two spent time together my only concern was, what he would do to her. I told her to be careful and not to expect too much from him but Elena is always looking for the good in people. She wanted to believe that Damon had some good in him and that he would step up but the truth is Damon does what Damon wants.

Now just like I knew Damon would he had Elena convinced that he would be there for her and the baby. Taking her shopping, buying stuff for the baby, picking baby names and cooking for her like he would do it for her every night from now on. Elena bought into it despite me telling her not to trust him, and that he would only leave her in the end.

Now Damon has gone back to his own selfish ways and has left the rest of us to pick up the pieces and take care of Elena. He's acting like this baby only changes his life when it is going to affect everyone. All I can say is if Damon does have the nerve to just show up in Mystic Falls again he better be prepared for me to kick his sorry selfish ass!

Bonnie

"Okay, open this one next!" Caroline said all excited as she handed Elena a large square package wrapped in white wrapping paper with small little yellow duck all over it.

Elena was sitting on the sofa at Caroline's house surrounded by friends and people from the town all there for Elena's baby shower courtesy of Caroline. Being the party planner of the town Caroline had been planning this party for the last couple months and wanted everything to be perfect. It was also a way to get Elena's mind off Damon whom she hadn't seen of heard from since he left for Florida two days ago.

Taking the package from Caroline, Elena pulled out the card to read whom it was from. "This one is from… Anna and a number of the cheerleaders" Elena said with a smile as she placed the package on her lap and started to peal off the paper.

"We all pitched in," Anna said with a smile.

Thanking her Elena ripped off the paper to reveal a baby monitor with dual receivers. Beside her Bonnie was making a list of all the gifts Elena got so that Elena could make thank you cards later. "Thank you so much!" Elena told her with a smile.

"I hope you don't plan to put one of those in my room" Jenna said as she came back into the family room after getting a drink from the kitchen.

"You don't want to get up at 2am?" Elena said with a giggle.

"That's your job honey" Jenna told her as she took a seat in one of the chairs beside Dr. Bennett.

"Trust me, if that baby really wants to get your attention it won't need the monitors. I know Bonnie had quite the pair of lungs when she was a baby."

"MOM!" Bonnie said as she started to blush in embarrassment.

"Alright, alright lets move on," Elena said with a laugh before any of them got a little carried away.

Picking up the next package she saw it was from Bonnie and gave her friend a big smile as she held the package. "This is from Bonnie!" Elena told everyone as she started to open it up. Her eyes widened when she saw what was inside. Slowly she pulled out a big quilt with all the letter of the alphabet on it. "Wow, Bonnie it's beautiful! Did you make this?"

"Yep, started making it a couple months after you told me" Bonnie told her friend and then reached out to hug her. "Thank you so much!" Elena told her and the two hugged each other tightly.

"Open mine next!" Caroline chirped as she handed Elena her present.

The bag was a pastel green with a picture of a bear on the front. "Wow this seems full" Elena said with a laugh as she held the large bag.

Caroline clapped her hand in excitement. "As Godmother I have to spoil the baby!"

"Hey who said you were the godmother?" Bonnie snapped with a giggle.

Caroline shrugged her shoulders and started to laugh as she watched Elena pull out the tissue paper. "Well lets see what we have… a baby bag." Elena said as she pulled out a blue stripe bag that was just the perfect size. As she held it up and showed it to everyone she could tell there was more inside the baby bag and then set it on her lap to unzip it.

She pulled the items out one by one and showed everyone in the room. "Pacifiers, bibs, a couple sleepers, wow Caroline you did spoil the baby," she said with a laugh as she pulled more stuff out. "Diapers! Theses will definitely come in handy, and there's is one more thing…" she said as she reached inside. As she pulled it out everyone made an aw sound. In Elena's hand she held a cute soft plush ladybug. Elena smiled as she held it in her hands.

"I had to buy it since you are always calling the baby the little bug!" Caroline said with a smile.

Elena smiled back but at the same time there was a little tear in her eye. "Little bug was the name Damon called the baby," she said softly to everyone.

"Oh my god Elena, I'm soo sorry" Caroline said regretting the ladybug.

"No no it's fine, I love it and hey the baby is still my little bug" Elena told her and stood up to give Caroline a hug. "Thank you Caroline, for everything" she told her and then both girls had tears in their eyes.

Seeing how emotional Elena as getting Jenna suggested they take a little break from the gifts. And maybe give Elena some space. With a nod many of the girls got up and made their way to the kitchen to get some snacks while Jenna, Bonnie and Caroline comforted Elena.

The hot sun beamed down on the beach in Florida while many of the spring break kids ran around enjoying the time away from school. some had rented a cabanas for the day and were enjoying the warm sun and water while relaxing with a cold beer. As the music blared a young blonde wrapped her arms around her spring break fling and started to kiss the back of his neck while her fingers played with his dark hair.

"Did you miss me?" the guy asked her as he pulled her onto his lap and cupped her face to kiss her lips. The girl let out a giggle as she kissed him liking very much where this was going. His hands trailed up her thighs slowly as she wrapped her legs around him. "So when are you going to tell me your name, why so mysterious?" she whispered against his lips.

"Mystery is what makes it so much fun and hot!" he told her as he kissed her again.

"I'll tell you my name," she told him as she tried to get him to give up his.

"I thought it was angel?" he said with a smirk.

Suddenly there was a chuckle coming from behind them as someone else entered the cabana. "Angel that is the best pick up line you could think of to get into her pants!" he said as he took a swig of his beer.

"What the hell do you want Damon, I'm kinda in the middle of something," The guy said with a very annoyed tone.

"Yes and your little friend here is only here because she think this is your cabana." Damon said.

"This isn't yours" the girl said a little confused.

"No it's not sweetheart, your boy Logan here works as a truck driver who just so happen to have a stop here in Miami for the day." Damon told her with a smile on his face.

"Oh… so this is your cabana?" she said as she got up and started to walk towards Damon. Logan sat there in complete shock as the girl he was just hitting on was now moving on to Damon.

"Yes and right now you are trespassing" he told her and pointed to towards the exit. The girl gave Damon a very apologetic look and then ran out of the cabana.

As the girl left Logan gave his friend a glare as he got up from his seat. "You are such a dick you know that!" he snapped at his friend as he grabbed his own beer. "And by the way, this is a public beach she isn't trespassing." Logan told him.

"Well she didn't figure that out" Damon told him.

"I thought you said you came down here to get laid?" Logan asked as he peeked his head out of the cabana looking for another girl he could flirt with.

"No I said I came here to get away and clear my head" Damon told him.

"By getting laid!" Logan said turning back to his friend. Damon stared at his friend and shrugged his shoulders while finishing the last of his beer. "Well I did come down here to get laid and I invited you because I though you would be a good wing man not the celibacy police. I only have a 24 hours before I have to get back on the road and I was hoping I wouldn't have to crash in your hotel room for the night!"

"So you were trying to get laid in MY cabana" Damon said.

"Somebody should, I mean what happen to you man? This isn't the Damon I knew at school last year."

"A lot has happened since you graduated" Damon pointed out.

"Yea well I miss the old carefree Damon" Logan stated and then left the cabana on a mission Damon could only guess was to find a new sleeping partner.

As the night came the partying continued at a cottage on the beach but now with music and a bonfire. Girls danced around in their little bikinis while the guys drank beer and tried their best to hook up. When Damon and Logan arrived many of the girls dancing took notice.

"See this is what I'm talking about, you and I walking in and then we become the magnets." Logan said with a smile as he grasped Damon's shoulder as they walked towards the bar. Damon took a seat and grabbed a beer while Logan gazed around the party for a girl he fancied. "So I say neither of us leaves here without a piece of candy!" Logan told him with a smile.

Rolling his eyes Damon took a drink and didn't bother to give Logan an answer. As the two hung around the bar Logan had tired numerous of times to get a girls attention but never got one to give him the time of day. "I can't seem to get one to bite" Logan said with frown.

"Maybe it's the way you compare them to food, objects, animals and a free bed for the night" Damon told him. Logan just kind of glared at his friend not thinking that was the problem at all. Just then a girl came over to join the boys, pushing her blonde highlighted hair away from her face she leaned against the bar eyeing Damon with her piercing blue eyes. "Hey," she said with a smile.

Damon turned to look at the blonde cutie and smile back; she had on a red bikini top and short jean shorts with flip-flops. Logan had tired to get the girl's attention but she had no interest in him and instead kept her back to him while never taking her eyes off Damon. Giving up Logan took off hoping he would have more luck somewhere else.

"Wanna pass me a beer?" she asked him as she took a seat next to Damon. Without saying a word Damon reached across the counter for one and then handed it over.

"You seem different from everyone else here?" she told him as she moved in closer.

"What do you mean?" he asked her.

"You're not trying to hit on or take a girl home." She told him.

"Things are complicated" Damon told her then took a drink while he watched the girl read between the lies of what he was saying.

"You already have a girl huh"

"Kind of…"he told her.

"But I take it she's not here"

"You guessed right," he said.

"I'm Jules" she told him and held out her hand.

"Damon," he said as he shook her hand.

"Well Damon if you ask me you don't look like you wants to be here," she told him.

"I thought I did… I thought I wanted to let loose and fool around a bit."

"But you can't, or your conscious won't let you" she said as she tapped her fingers on her beer bottle. "She must be some special girl."

"She is… and I don't deserve her," Damon said as he took another drink. "I knocked her up when we barely knew each other, she should hate me for ruining her life but instead she wants us to find a way to make it work. She'll make an amazing mother but I don't think I'm cut out for all that stuff. Maybe me leaving is the best thing for them both."

"So you came here to Florida" Jules said stating the obvious.

"Yep doing what I do best," Damon told her with a smile.

"And what's that?" she asked with a giggle.

"Getting into trouble, breaking hearts and screwing girls and being a first rate jackass" he told her and clanked their bottles together.

"Well that's not what I see," she told him.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, sure you were an ass for leaving her but you came here planning to fool around but I take it from the time you got here you haven't slept or fooled around with any girls, in fact I think the whole time you have been here you've done nothing but think of her."

"I left her… so I'm a jack ass nothing else mattes" Damon pointed out.

"You were scared, Hell if I got pregnant I would of left town as well. You came here because this is what you use to do, but maybe this isn't the type of life you want anymore. Maybe this was a way to see if partying and screwing a new girl every night is worth giving up her and your baby"

"You think?" Damon asked her.

"Honey, I'm hot and from the moment we started talking not once did you look down at my boobs so your either gay or in love" Jules said with a laugh. "Now I say you finish up that drink of yours and then get on a plane back to wherever she is."

The rain was coming down pretty hard in Mystic Falls tonight as Elena found herself even more tired because of it. She hadn't said much since her baby shower the day before and did her best not to bring up Damon's name much like everyone around her. Bonnie was so determined to show Elena she didn't need Damon that the girls enjoyed picking through nursery patterns to go in the baby's room.

Lying on her bed Elena hugged the ladybug Caroline had given her over her baby bump as she stared out at the rain on her window. She had always found rain and even thunderstorms to be so calming and relaxing. While most kids had been afraid of them Elena found herself having the best sleeps during thunderstorms.

Today would mark the third day since she had seen Damon and a part of her wanted her to stop reminding herself of it because if he was the type of guy to run out on her now then he wasn't the type of guy she wanted around her little bug anyway.

Slowly she found herself starting to dose off to sleep just as she heard a knock at the front door. Knowing Jenna or Jeremy would get it and that it would of taken her hours just to get down there because of the big pregnant belly she just laid they're cuddling the ladybug.

She could hear voices and by the sound of it Jenna wasn't happy by the visitor at all. While the other voice seemed calm and quiet Jenna's was anything but quiet, in fact Elena was sure that her aunt was actually yelling at whom ever had knocked at the door. Finally curiosity had gotten the best of her and Elena rolled herself out of the bed. It took a few tries but she managed and then headed for the door, leaving the ladybug on her bed.

"Please I just want to talk to her," the voice begged and as Elena heard the voice she stopped in her tracks. It was Damon.

"I think you have cause enough damage!" Jenna snapped at him.

"Please I just want five minutes! I just want to talk" Damon pleaded.

Elena was standing at the top of the stairs hiding against the wall as Jenna and Damon argued about him seeing her. A part of her wanted to hear him out but after everything he had put her through how was she to know if he meant any of it. He could say he was sorry to day and then next thing she knows he's on a plane to timbuktu.

"Please Jenna I just want to say I'm sorry…" Damon told her while he stood in the doorway soaking wet in his leather jacket.

"Well maybe I don't want to see you!" Elena said loudly as she started to descend down the stairs.

"Elena…" Damon said when he saw her for the first time.

"Please Damon just go!" she told him. "You made your choice now you deal with it!" she told him and then slammed the door in his face.

"I'm not leaving until I can talk to you!" he yelled through the door.

"Well then I hope you like the rain because you will be out there for a long time!" she yelled back at him through the door and then without a word to Jenna headed back upstairs to her room and shut the door.

Staring at the closed door Damon had hoped she would of opened it up but she didn't so just as he had promised he took a seat on the front step as the rain started to come down even harder because he wasn't leaving until she agreed to talk to him.

Two hours had passed and just has the rain had not given up, neither had Damon as he hadn't moved from his spot on the front porch. As Jenna was getting ready to got to bed she passed the front door and looked out the window and saw a wet and cold Damon still sitting there. She found herself feeling sorry for him, he obviously knew had made a mistake and wanted to show Elena that.

So with a sigh Jenna made her way up the stairs and knocked out Elena's door softly. As she opened it she found Elena lying on her bed holding the ladybug and staring up at the ceiling. "Damon is still outside" Jenna told her.

This news shocked Elena and got herself to sit up straight on the bed. "What?"

"He hasn't moved from his spot on the porch. Maybe you should give him a chance to explain," Jenna told her.

"Sitting out in the rain doesn't mean he isn't going to take off again," Elena told her.

"I know, but it's a start" Jenna told her and then left Elena's room. "Something to think about."

Outside Damon hugged himself trying to stay warm in his leather jacket as his jeans were drenched and his shoes were full of water. Shaking his head he tried to get some of the water out of his jet-black hair but it didn't seem to matter as the rain came down harder and harder. He knew there was a good chance he would be out here all night but figured he deserved it after what he put her through.

Just then he saw the porch light come on and then front door open. He turned his head to see who it was and saw Elena standing there with towels in her hand. The two stared at each other for moment without saying anything. Finally Elena broke the silence, "Well I'm not coming out there to get you so you better just come in," she told him.

Quickly Damon got to his feet and hurried inside desperately wanting some warmth. As he stepped inside Elena handed him a big towel so he could wrap it around himself and dry off while she shut the door behind him.

"You're crazy you know that! You could of caught pneumonia" Elena lectured him as she left him standing at the front door while she went to get some of Jeremy's clothes from the laundry for Damon to wear.

As she returned she handed the over to him. "I'll put your clothes in the dryer" she told him as she motioned for him to change. With a nod Damon removed his shirt showing off his wet six-pack. He then removed his shoes, socks and jeans. Elena held up the towel while he started to remove his boxers and put on some new ones. Taking his wet clothes she waddled to the laundry room and threw them in the dryer.

When she returned to found Damon in the family room staring at all the baby shower gifts with a sad face expression. "You had the baby shower?"

"Yea we had it yesterday" Elena told him with an annoyed tone.

"How did it go?"

"Oh it went swell! I was the talk of the town seeing as you took off" Elena told him angrily.

Ashamed of that Damon looked down at his feet, "I'm sorry I never should of left you" he told her.

"No you shouldn't have!" she snapped back at him. "But in a way I'm glad you decided to leave now instead of after the baby came" she told him.

Hearing this Damon bit his lip and tried to keep it together. What ever she threw at him he deserved and if she made the decision that she didn't want him around their child he would deserve that too but he wasn't about to lose her or the little bug without a fight.

"I screwed up, I pulled a typical Damon, I freaked out and ran while leaving everyone else to deal and clean up my mess," Damon told her. "I panicked, suddenly my whole life was all planned out and everything I ever knew was over."

Elena said nothing she just kept her hands on her hips and glared at him.

"I took off to go to Florida to have one last hurrah before I would have to give up everything I have ever known. I tried to party and live care free but the whole time I was there Elena," he said as he took the few steps to be closer to her, "the whole time I never stopped thinking about you or our little bug. As much as I wanted to fool around and party it wasn't me anymore."

Staring up at him, Elena rubbed her eyes "Damon you're not the only one scared, I too am terrified. I never expected that this was going to be my life, but I can't run Damon." She told him as she touched her stomach.

"Elena I will do what ever you want I will spend the rest of my life proving to you that you and our little bug mean everything to me." He told her as he caressed her face and ran his fingers through her hair.

"I'm so, so sorry I left you" Damon told her with a tear in his eyes. "Please give me another chance," he pleaded desperately because he didn't want to lose her.

She now had tears in her eyes and she let out a sniffle. "Damon you need to promise your not going to take off again," she told him.

"I won't I promise" he told her.

"I mean it Damon! If you leave again then thats it. I will not be someone you can be with and then leave when it is no longer convenient for you or you get bored of us" Elena told him. "You leave again and there is no coming back!"

"I swear Elena, I'm not going anywhere," he told her. "Please…"

"You hurt me Damon…" she told him.

"I'm so sorry" he said with tears in his eyes. "I'll do anything you want!"

"Okay," she said with a nod.

"Okay?"

"I will give you one last chance," she told him.

"Thank you" he said happily and gave Elena a tight hug. "You and our little bug are my life now and are all that matters to me." He told her as she pulled away and looked into Elena's eyes while wiping away her tears. Their eyes connected and neither said another word. While Damon's hand move to run through her hair Elena had her hands on his chest. She felt safe and secure with him and could tell by the look in his eyes that he was telling the truth; he wouldn't do anything to hurt her again and run.

Slowly their lips got closer and closer to each other until they touched and immediately sparks flew. The kiss was slow and passionate, one of security and full of promises. Their relationship may have started because of the little bug but over time real feelings took form and meant just as much as their little bug. When Elena kissed Damon she felt at home.

When he pulled away Damon had a worried look on his face, "How bad does everyone in town hate me."

"Yeah your not that popular, Bonnie especially will kick our ass!" she told him with a giggle before leaning in for another kiss and wrapping her arms around him.