When Elena reached the parking lot after school, she found that the car was gone and Jeremy had already left without her. She wondered if Jeremy had asked to drive that morning just so that he would have the keys and would be able to leave her behind.

She was about to try to call her brother, when Kol and Rebekah walked up behind her.

"You're leaving with us today," Kol said before walking past her.

Elena followed behind them, still confused as to what was going on.

She didn't figure out what was going on until they got into Elijah's car and he turned towards her and held out a letter.

"Really?" Elena asked. "You're in on this too?"

She had known that they had both decided that there was nothing more than friendship between them, but it still kind of came as a shock that Elijah had agreed to become a part of Damon's plan.

When Elijah didn't offer up any explanation, Elena opened up the envelope.

I bet that you're wondering why I saved the last letter specifically for Elijah of all people.

Well, that's because Caroline kind of failed at keeping a secret. I found about the date that you two went on from her.

That night Caroline was working on a project with Stefan and accidentally let it slip. And let's just say that I did not take it well at all.

I had no right to be jealous when I was the one who broke up with you, especially after that much time had gone by and since I had come back to town with Andie before that. And yet I still couldn't even get a hold of myself whatsoever.

I was so mad at him that night whether it made any sense or not and I developed an illogical hatred for him. …By the way, I don't hate him anymore in case you were wondering.

I told you that I punched a wall and that's why my hand was bandaged up, but I never told you the reason why... That was it. I just completely lost control of myself and ended up punching a big hole through the wall and made my hand bleed all over the place.

Caroline cleaned up my hand and then I decided to go to bed and feel sorry for myself for a change.

But then a certain five year old genius came running in a while later to tell me that apparently you two kissed, but it was weird for both of you. I said that it didn't matter, that you were still kissing someone else and that maybe the next time it wouldn't be weird.

And then she said the one thing that I was too stupid to realize on my own. She said exactly.

It took that one word for me to realize just how incredibly stupid I was still being and how if I wanted you back I had to actually do something to try to deserve you and convince you instead of sitting around and hoping that you would just change your mind.

And that was when I decided to do all of this because I knew that I couldn't just sit around and watch you move on to someone else without even putting up a fight.

I know that you said that we'd be better off staying just friends now, but let's be honest with ourselves. We were never just friends and I think that's part of why I'm so bad at trying to be.

We jumped straight from more of acquaintances really to being basically dating without admitting it to ourselves yet.

Elena was shocked to find out that Damon had known about the date with Elijah, although it wasn't overly surprising that Caroline had let the information slip.

As much as Elena loved Caroline, she knew that her friend wasn't always the best at keeping a secret to herself.

Elijah didn't begin driving until Elena had put the letter away in her bag.

Elena found that strange and wondered if Elijah had been trying to stall for some reason.

A/N: Please read and review! I hope that you liked the update and thanks for reading! :) I know that this chapter is really short, but to be perfectly honest I'm not even sorry about it. I had an update yesterday and the next one is going to be either later today or tomorrow so I really don't feel bad about wanting to end the chapter off here.

Another great big extra special thanks goes out to all of the amazing reviewers of the last chapter: Cherriesandapples, Debbie1689, Sophia Emmeline, HotStuff, Beachgirl97, vamomoftwins, GingerL47, ayna93, Kiara, DrawingMyHeartOut, and the anonymous guest reviewer :)

REVIEW ANSWERS:

Debbie1689: I loved your great big long review! :D Good point about the Jeremy living situation in season 5, I completely forgot about that. Now I'm excited for that :D

HotStuff: Aww, thanks :)

GingerL47: Thanks :D And I laugh hysterically about stuff in fanfiction and stuff all the time while there's other people in the room :P

DrawingMyHeartOut: Either that or they thought that you were reading something as witty as Alaric thinks that Damon's letter was :P