Crying Lightning
Disclaimer: I don't anything or anyone from the vampire diaries.
Gladstone is just a fictional town I have made up, a place that is a couple of towns over from Mystic Falls!
I sigh and stand outside the coffee house that is written on the piece of paper in my hands, this is it. I look around at this unfamiliar small town, not really sure why this was the chosen location but then again I guess it would cause suspicion if we were to meet somewhere like The Grill and be recognized by almost everyone in there.
It's been a few days since Isobel tried to reach out to me again in school and she had left me alone, until yesterday when she approached me in the library during my free period, pleading with me to meet up with her today so we can talk. I said no at first, but she handed me the address and told me to meet her here at 12 if I changed my mind.
I look down at my watch to see that it's almost half past and I wonder if she is still here, I'm still not even sure if I made the right choice in coming here and part of me just wants to call Damon and tell him to come pick me back up even though he just dropped me off five minutes ago.
Damon getting into NYU really confirmed it to me that I would be leaving Mystic Falls for at least four years come September and that I still didn't really have all the answers that I wanted after finding out that I was adopted. In a way, Isobel was right with what she said at school the other day, this is the only chance she's probably going to have to get to know me.
For me to know her.
I take a deep breath and push open the door to the small building, a bell immediately signalling my entrance and I look across the small shop to see Isobel sat staring down into a mug, another mug sitting across the table from her and I'm guessing that's for me.
I slowly approach her and watch as she lifts her head slightly and her eyes widen when she sees me. "Elena," she smiles. "I didn't think you were going to come."
"I wasn't going to." I admit bluntly and take a seat on the chair across the table from her.
"Well I'm just glad that you did." She keeps the smile stuck to her face. "So, how are you?"
"Fine." I answer back simply before I realize I'm being rude. "You?"
"Nervous," she lets out a small laugh and I try my best to force a smile. "There's still some things that I need to tell you, Elena." She sounds a little scared and my heart starts to pound hard against my chest and not in the good way.
"Oh?"
She motions to the cup in front of me. "I got that for you, it should still be hot. I hope you like coffee."
"I do." I say while wrapping my hands around the cup and bringing it to my lips and taking a sip, grateful that I have something else to concentrate on. "So uh…what else did you want to tell me?"
She looks down guiltily before leaning down and picking up her purse from the floor, I watch curiously as she pulls out her wallet and pulls out a photo and slides it along the table to me.
I look at her for a moment before glancing back down at the small photo and lift it up in my hand to see two children, a boy and a girl, smiling happily into the camera.
"I don't understand." I mumble out confused but somewhere in the back of my mind I think I know where this is going.
"Their names are James and Amber," she speaks up, her voice frail and shaky. "James is 13 and Amber is 10."
I suddenly feel sick, and my head is starts to ache. What is she getting at here? What is she trying to tell me?
"After I…after I left you," her voice wavers slightly as she says it but she coughs slightly and continues. "I went back to Savannah and I tried to pretend that the past nine months of my life didn't happen, it sounds awful, I know it does, but I was so young and scared and my head and my emotions were all over the place that I just couldn't cope so I tried to shut it out, I knew that you were better off without me, I knew that on some level, I had done the right thing, no matter how much it hurt me." She takes a breath and looks at me but the second she does I shift my eyes onto the mug in front of me, waiting anxiously for her to continue. "A year later, I met a man, called Alan and we hit it off immediately, he was a few years older than me but it was fine and although part of me was terrified to be involved with someone again, I couldn't ignore my feelings for him, I loved him from the moment we met and I just knew that he was the one." She smiles a little and I clench my jaw because I feel like I really know where this is going now. "We started dating and things were getting serious, and two years into our relationship I found out I was pregnant." She looks back at me, trying to read my reaction but I try my best to stick with my poker face.
Why the hell did I even come here?
"So, what the hell are we supposed to do now?" Jeremy asks with a sigh as I drive down the street after dropping Elena off at the address Isobel asked to meet her at.
I'm still not sure if it's a good idea, especially her doing this alone, but she insisted that she needed to do this by herself and I trust that if that's how she feels, that's what she needs to do, even though I wish I could be there sat by her side right now to hold her hand, do anything that I can to make her feel better.
"Why don't we park the car somewhere and take a look around? See what Gladstone has to offer?" Bonnie suggests from the back seat. This place is like an hour drive away from Mystic Falls so we decided to make a small road trip out of it in my Camaro, knowing that Elena is probably going to need her brother and her best friend here for her if things go awry with Isobel.
Luckily for me, Caroline is visiting her Dad this weekend so I managed to save myself a headache.
"What's there to see?" Jeremy whines. "This place is even smaller than Mystic Falls!"
I pull over at the side of the road in the middle of a long street that looks semi-populated and turn off the ignition. "I'm sure anything is better than being stuck in a car with you two giving each other longing pining looks." I get out and slam the door shut behind me before they can even argue, smirking at the blush on Jeremy's cheeks as he gets out the passenger side and holds open the door for Bonnie who is looking just as embarrassed.
"So…what do we have here…" I look down either side of the road. "A bakery…a convenient store, a pharmacy, a book store and oh look…a diner, exciting!" I wiggle my eyebrows mockingly and Bonnie rolls her eyes with a smile.
"Well I for one am hungry!" Jeremy pats his stomach.
"You're always hungry." Bonnie nudges him in the side and I roll my eyes at their lame attempt at flirting that they have been doing all freaking day.
Jeremy broke up with Anna last week, and apparently now has his eyes on his older sister's best friend, confirming my suspicions from before. I just wonder if Bonnie is just as interested or if she is just being nice because he's Elena's brother.
I do know, however, that Elena has absolutely no idea about her brother's crush and part of me is looking forward to her figuring it out, oh it should be good.
"Why don't we go to the diner and grab a burger? Then if Elena is still with Miss Flemming we can take a walk somewhere else and see what goes on in this ghost town." Jeremy suggests and I shrug.
"Sure."
Bonnie sighs before nodding her head and we walk into the diner, and as soon as we step inside, eyes linger on us for far too long and I can tell that they probably aren't used to strangers around here.
We slide into a booth and it's not long before a young waitress approaches our table, a bright smile on her face. "Hello, welcome to Gladstone Diner, my name is Sarah and I will be your waitress today. Can I get you any drinks?" I notice her eyes linger on both me and Jeremy, barely even looking at Bonnie who glares at her in annoyance and I roll my eyes before asking for a glass of lemonade, Jeremy ordering a chocolate milkshake and Bonnie a coke.
She soon comes back with our drinks before taking our food orders, Jeremy practically ordering half of the menu and I wonder where the hell he puts it all.
"So, you guys aren't around here are you?" She places her hand on her hip and looks directly at me.
"What makes you think that?" I question her with a raised eyebrow.
"Well, this is a small town…most of our customers here are local, and trust me, I would have definitely remembered you." She smiles at me and I glance over at Bonnie to see her glaring at me.
"That's sweet." I put on a fake smile. "So…how long does it normally take for the food here?" I lean on my elbows and put on the best polite smile as I can, hoping that she can take the hint without taking offence, the last thing we need is for these lock hicks to be messing with our food if we piss them off!
"Oh, it shouldn't be too long." She smiles back at me widely. "I'll go and hand deliver it to the chef right now."
"Thank you, Sarah." I send her another fake sweet smile and she wonders away towards the kitchen, turning her head back to look back over at me as she does so.
I lean back against the booth and turn to see Bonnie glaring at me. "What?" I ask innocently.
"You're an ass." She glares at me and I roll my eyes.
"Oh come on! You can't honestly think I'm interested in that, geez Witchy, give me just a little credit here."
"All I'm saying is, the last thing that Elena needs right now is you flirting with waitresses." She holds her hands up in defense.
"You call that flirting!" I look at her amused. "Jeremy, tell her buddy."
Jeremy glances between us before letting out a sigh. "As much as I hate to agree with him, Damon's right."
"Urgh boys!" Bonnie huffs.
"And that my dear, is why you're single." I wink at her amused and laugh loudly when she gives me the finger, although I can see a hint of amusement in her eyes but then I don't miss the blush that crosses her cheeks as she shares a look with Jeremy and I remind myself to interrogate him about this later.
After a mediocre burger, seriously, they need to change their menu or something because it sucked;we walked out into the warm late spring air and walked down the street. I look down at my phone to see that Elena still hasn't text me and I hope that this means that everything is going well so far.
"How do you think Elena is doing?" Jeremy asks quietly as he noticed me check my phone.
"She'll be fine." I tell him confidently, sometimes forgetting that Elena being adopted has changed his life too, I know they still see each other as the siblings that they are, they grew up together, they love each other, nothing will change that, but that doesn't make it any less hard. "You know you're sister, she's strong."
"I just hope Miss Flemming isn't filling her head with crap." He mutters coldly. "Mom and Dad, they obviously adopted Elena for a reason, they kept her away from her, for a reason." he says with a hint of anger in his voice.
"Maybe." I sigh, "But we don't really know the full story yet and I don't like to speculate, let's just wait until Elena is done and she will tell us all about it, ok?"
Honestly, I don't want to talk about it because I know if I do I will drive myself crazy with worry and will probably end up charging back to the coffee shop I dropped her off at a few blocks away and picking her up, carrying her home and locking ourselves in my bedroom where no one else can hurt her.
Unfortunately, that's a tad unrealistic.
"Fine." Jeremy sighs, ending the conversation even though I can tell that he still had more to say on the matter.
"Why don't we stop by the bookstore?" Bonnie suggests, swiftly moving the subject along.
"Yuck, really?" I ask unimpressed although part of me is a little appealed by that idea.
Of course, I'm not going to let these two know that.
"Yes! There's nothing else to do, is there? Come on, it might be fun." She shrugs and walks ahead of us and pushes the door open.
Jeremy does not look happy but goes along with it anyway and we follow her inside, that smell of old books immediately attacking my senses and I look around the almost empty store with a sigh.
"Can I help you?" A man by the counter asks suspiciously and I roll my eyes at him already. Can't three teenagers enter a store without immediately causing suspicion?
"No we're fine thanks." Bonnie answers politely before wondering down one of the long aisles.
"Well…I'm going that way." I tell Jeremy before walking across to the other side of the store leaving him alone.
After about ten minutes of browsing and really not finding any books that peak my interest, I round an aisle and find Jeremy stood leaning back against one of the cases on his cellphone, totally oblivious to everyone around him.
I creep up behind him slowly and quietly and the second I'm close enough I reach out and snatch the phone out his hands, watching Jeremy's eyes widen in panic slightly before turning into annoyance when he realizes it's just me.
"Damon!" he groans in annoyance. "Give it back!"
"Who you texting?" I ask with a smirk as I step back as he tries to swipe his phone back and I look down at it and a wide smile crosses my face. "What? Bonnie Bennett?" I look up at him and see his cheeks immediately turning red. "And why exactly are you texting her when she is just a few hundred feet away?"
"I was just seeing where she is…" he steps forward again and tries to get the phone but I hold my hand up in the air so he can't reach it. "Stop being an ass, Damon! Give it back!"
"Nah uh!" I smirk and start to walk backwards, Jeremy following my every movement. He tries to swipe the phone from me again and I raise my arms in the air again, switching the phone between my hands and before I even have time to react, Jeremy's hands are in my pocket and he has took my own cell phone from it.
"Aha!" He grins widely in triumph and I immediately groan. "Not nice is it?"
"How about a trade?" I suggest slowly as Jeremy slides the lock button along, giving him full access to my phone.
"Hmm…I'm not sure." Jeremy starts tapping on some buttons.
"Hey! What the hell are you doing?"
"Changing your Facebook status." He smiles cheekily at me.
"Oh, real mature, Jer!"
"Says the guy who stole my phone and won't give it back?"
"Touché." I roll my eyes and let out a loud sigh. "Come on, trade!"
"Just a second," Jeremy smirks as he continues to type and an idea pops into my head.
"You know, I'd be careful with that…" I tell him in a serious warning tone and Jeremy finally tares his eyes away from my screen and looks up at me.
"Why?"
"Well…I have some pictures on there of your big sister that I know are definitely not suitable for the eyes of her baby brother, if you know what I mean." I smirk and put in a wink for good measure as a horrified look crosses his face and before I know it he is throwing his phone against my chest in disgust.
"Ew Damon! That's gross!" he swats his hands against his jeans, almost like he has touched something dirty and is trying to wipe it off.
"Trust me; your sister is anything but gross." I wiggle my eyebrows at him. "She's hot, sexy...beautiful and has a body to die for! She's flexible too." I tease him wickedly.
"Oh GOD!" He groans loudly and literally covers his ears with his hands. "Really?!"
I shrug in amusement before tossing his phone back at him with a laugh. "Come on, let's go find that girlfriend of yours."
"She's not my-"
"Yada yada yada." I roll my eyes waving him off with my hand.
"Dick."
"Oh?" I turn around and before he knows it I have him in a headlock. "What were you saying?" I tighten my grip around his neck in amusement.
"You're…a dick!" he gasps out struggling for air and I chuckle as he attempts to pull himself out but I'm too strong.
Before I know it, his feet are moving and he is pushing me against bookcases around us, trying to free himself from my grasp but I refuse to let go, and we shuffle from side to side in the aisle, each of our backs hitting off the case at one point or another.
Everything happens so fast though, I stumble on my feet and immediately go crashing into a small bookcase behind me, the shelves tumbling down as Jeremy and I land on top of it, my grip on him finally letting go as we tumble into it and the whole thing collapses.
"Oy!" Jeremy groans loudly in pain as we lie in a pile of books, a chunk of broken wood digging into his back which he immediately removes and throws onto the pile beside him.
"That hurt," I push myself up so I'm sitting and rub my back and glance at Jeremy with a smile.
"You really are a dick!" he lets out a laugh and I stand up, holding my hand out for him which he takes as I pull him up to his feet.
"Come on, we need to get out of here before-"
"What the hell is this?!" the man from behind the counter comes rushing around the corner to see the scene and the mess that we have left and I watch as his eyes widen in horror before his nose starts to flare with anger, his face turning an angry shade of red.
Jeremy and I glance at each other before turning on our heels and running away. "HEY!" I hear him call after us and I know that he is chasing us, we pass Bonnie on one of the aisles who looks startled and confused but Jeremy quickly grabs her hand and pulls her along with us, and we quickly run towards the door and outside, running down the street.
I turn around, to see the man stood panting a few hundred yards from outside his shop, his hands wailing crazily in the air as he shouts at us to come back and I let out a howl of laughter as we turn the corner and stop to take a breath knowing that the guy isn't going to come following anymore.
"Oh man!" Jeremy leans down and presses his hands against his knees, a mixture of laughter and heavy breathing escaping his lips. "That was hilarious! Did you see his face?"
I nod my head and wipe my head, the hot sun making small beads of sweat appear on my forehead.
"What the hell happened?!" Bonnie asks in disbelief but I can tell that she is just as buzzed as we are.
"We knocked down a bookcase." Jeremy laughs while straightening himself out.
"That's what that crashing noise was? What the hell were you guys doing?!"
"We were just messing about." Jeremy chuckles. "Damon couldn't stay on his feet and brought the entire thing down."
"Um no," I immediately cut in. "I'm pretty sure it was your fat ass that put your weight into it to make it fall!"
"You're both idiots." Bonnie scolds us half-heartedly. "Come on, let's just go back to the car and wait for Elena there before you jokers get us into any more trouble!"
"I freaked out," Isobel looks down at her hands. "All those memories that I shut off and pushed out of my mind of when I was pregnant with you came rushing back. I couldn't be pregnant, I couldn't have a baby, not when I already had one out there already. Alan didn't understand, he thought it was the best news ever, we were already living together and even though we weren't engaged or anything, he just saw it as the next step. Not me, I…" I look up when I notice her voice trembles and I can see the tears in her eyes. "I wanted to get an abortion, I didn't want a baby, I already had a baby, I wanted that one, I wanted you." She runs a hand through her hair. "Alan got mad, he didn't know about you so he didn't get why this was so hard for me, but eventually I told him, everything, and I thought he'd be mad, I thought that he'd judge me, but he didn't, instead he just held my hand and he listened and suddenly things didn't seem so bad, he helped me believe that this was my second chance, my second chance to do the right thing."
"Glad to know I was so replaceable." I hiss bitterly, the sickly feeling still resting in my stomach that I have a brother and sister out there and I didn't even know about it. That this woman, who gave me up, who didn't want me, got pregnant and started another family not even five years later.
"No, Elena, it wasn't like that I swear!" she tries to defend herself immediately. "You have to understand, Alan changed my life, before him, when I was pregnant with you, I was completely and utterly alone, I had nothing."
I stay silent and she sighs before taking a breath and continuing.
"All through my pregnancy I was praying that it would be a boy, I didn't want a girl, I already had a beautiful baby girl." She wipes at her eyes. "I got lucky, and we got James, and I felt so happy, Alan and I had gotten married a couple of months beforehand and I finally felt content with my life, despite my longing for you." She looks up at me. "A couple of years after that I had Amber."
"So you got your baby girl in the end." I shake my head, this is too much. I did not expect this. "Where are they now?" I ask after a few moments of silence. "I haven't seen you around Mystic Falls with a husband, never mind kids, and how come your name is still Flemming?" I think back to when Damon hired someone to look into Isobel when we first suspected her, but he found nothing on an Isobel Flemming having other children. I have so many questions, so many questions that I need answering but I just don't know if I can find the courage to ask them, never mind hear them.
Isobel smiles sadly and lifts up her left hand. "I went back to Flemming after Alan and I got divorced." I frown, wondering if he really was this amazing man that she knew she was going to spend the rest of her life with, if she had then went on to get divorced. "I know what you're thinking," she smiles slightly and I look away guiltily. "We went through a rough patch a few years ago and we ended it, it was the hardest decision of my life but it was for the best at the time." She tells me and she doesn't sound as sad as I thought she would. "But a year ago, James had gotten hit by a car." I snap my head up in shock and she immediately waves her hand. "He's fine now, thank God, but it was touch and go for a moment, he got hurt pretty bad and there was a moment when we thought he wasn't going to pull through, but he did, and it made us realize how fragile life is, and we decided to give it another go. We haven't remarried, we probably never will, but getting back together was the best decision we made and we haven't looked back since."
"So…where are they? Your family."
"Once James recovered from his accident, I realized that I needed to see you again, that I needed to be in your life. So we made the decision to move here together last summer."
"To Mystic Falls?" I ask confused.
"No, here, in Gladstone." She tells me while holding her hands out. "I wanted to move close by, but I didn't want to ambush you so we picked a town close by, that had a nice school for the kids and that Alan could open his own bookstore here, which is something he has always wanted to do, and I was close enough to make the daily trips I needed to work at Mystic Falls High."
"But you didn't start at Mystic Falls until January?" I ask confused.
"No, but I had applied for a position in the summer to work as a sub, but it didn't work out, luckily the position came up before Christmas to start in January." She explains and we fall silent.
"This is so much." I put my head in my hands for a moment as I try and let all this information sink in. "You're telling me that I have…that I have siblings, a brother, a sister that I didn't even know existed…I didn't…I can't."
"I didn't want to tell you this soon, Elena, I wanted to wait until you got used to the idea of me before I brought them into it, but when I found out that you were moving to New York, I knew that I had to tell you sooner rather than later." She explains and I stay silent before taking a sip of my coffee, cringing slightly when I realize it has gone cold. "I'm not asking you to meet them today…but…they know about you, and it would be nice for you all to meet before you go."
"You want me to meet them?" I ask frowning and she nods her head. "I don't think I can do that."
"Elena…"
"Jeremy is my brother," I say almost in panic. "He's my baby brother. I don't know them, I don't even know you."
"I want that to change," she practically pleads with me. "If you'd let me."
I stay silent and try and think over all this information but it is so hard to get my head around, I was not expecting this today, not at all.
"I don't know." I admit. "I'm not saying it's always going to be a no, but it is going to be a no right now."
Isobel nods her head; a sad smile on her lips that I can tell is forced. "I guess I can understand that. Thank you for coming today, Elena, it really means the world to me to just be able to sit here in the same room as you."
I nod my head slightly and pull out my phone, quickly sending a text to Damon to tell him that I'm ready to leave and I go to make a move and watch as Isobel gathers her stuff and stands with me. "Where are you parked? I'll walk you too your car." She smiles softly but I shake my head.
"Damon drove me here; he's coming to pick me up now." I explain as we walk outside, the sun immediately making my eyes squint.
"Thanks again for coming, Elena." She reaches her hand out and touches my arm; I flinch for a second but don't move away. "I hope we can make this a somewhat regular thing?"
"Maybe." I answer hesitantly, not really sure if I'm ready for that yet. It's bad enough seeing her at school almost every day.
I feel my entire body sag in relief as I see Damon's Camaro turn the corner and drive towards us, pulling to a stop on the sidewalk.
"Bye then." I wave awkwardly at Isobel before walking across the pavement to the passenger side door, watching as Jeremy opens it before climbing into the back seat next to Bonnie, not even bothering to send a glance Isobel's way.
"I'll see you at school on Monday?" she asks almost hopefully and I nod my head and force a smile.
"Yup, see you then." I climb into the car and slam the door shut immediately, watching out of the corner of my eye that Isobel still hasn't moved. "Drive please." I tell him Damon and he nods his head quickly before pressing his foot against the gas.
"You ok?" he asks softly, his hand reaching out and taking my hand in his, squeezing it gently as his thumb runs up and down my palm soothingly.
"I just want to go home." I lean my head against the window and Damon brings our linked hands up to his lips before pressing soft kisses on my knuckles.
"That can be arranged."
"I'm going to go have a quick shower, I won't be too long." Elena pecks me on the lips while patting my chest before leaving the room and heading upstairs and I'm left alone with Jenna who is just finished loading the dishwasher.
She's cheered up a lot since we got back from Gladstone a couple of hours ago, after telling us what Isobel had told her on the drive home, I could see that she was trying to stop herself from crying and I have to admit that I'm surprised she didn't just let it all out.
It's a lot to take in, finding out that not only do you have a mother you didn't know about, but you have a whole family too, a brother, a sister, a somewhat stepfather. She's definitely handling all of this better than I ever would if I were in the situation.
But that's Elena Gilbert for you, strong and gracious, never one to just crumble and take defeat.
"So…Damon…Elena tells me you got into NYU." Jenna smiles at me as she turns around and I nod my head while taking a seat on the stool by the counter, starting to feel a little suspicious by the tone of her voice. "Congratulations."
"Thank you." I smile gratefully, but part of me knows that this isn't what all she was planning on saying.
"So…you're moving to New York, you and Elena…"
"Yep." I try to hide my smirk. "Both of us."
"And what exactly are your plans?"
"How'd you mean?"
"Well…are you two planning on living together? Aren't the campuses quite far apart? How would you even be able to afford a place on your own, it's expensive there you know. Besides, I know that you two are serious, and I think you're good for her I really do, but you haven't even been together a year yet and I don't want you guys rushing into anything, I worry about her sometimes because she loves you a lot and she doesn't want to slow down, the whole going to college together thing is a big deal and-"
"Jenna!" I cut her off with a smile. "Slow down, you're getting way ahead of yourself here."
"Sorry," she almost blushes and sends me a smile. "I just worry about her sometimes, well, all the time."
"I know." I smile in understanding. "But to answer your questions, Elena and I have decided we're going to do the whole college dorm thing, we both agree with you, it's too soon to live together and we want to do the whole college experience properly. As much as I want to live with Elena, trust me I do, I know that it's not really the most sensible idea just yet." I smile as I watch her shoulders sag in relief.
"That's good, I'm glad you're both being smart about this." She nods her head at me approvingly. "You will look after her though won't you? I know she's excited about the move, but New York is a lot different to Mystic Falls, it's going to be scary for her living in a big city, I know it's different for you because you spent most of your life in Chicago, but Elena has lived here her whole life."
"Don't worry," I tell her softly. "I'm going to make sure she's fine, I'll make sure she has the best time and nothing bad will happen to her, not under my watch."
"Thank you. I know I'm probably being way too overprotective, but I know that if her parents were still here they would be way worse with you than I am right now." She lets out a small laugh as she thinks about it and I watch as her mind wonders off somewhere else. "She was there little girl, you know?"
"I know." I smile sadly. "I wish they were still here too, I never knew them but…I know how much Elena misses them, especially now."
Jenna nods her head in understanding and I watch as she lets out a loud sigh before changing the subject and locking her hands together. "So, Elena's birthday is only a week away, I hope you have something special planned for her." She points out warningly. "I know she said she doesn't want to make a big deal out of it, but it's her eighteenth."
"Yeah actually, I'm glad you brought that up." I walk towards the kitchen door and close it, just in case Elena is lurking about upstairs and can hear us. "I wanted to talk to you about something, and I'm not quite sure what your reaction is going to be." I send her a nervous smile.
"Oh yeah?" Jenna looks at me curiously as I walk back towards her.
"Yeah…you see…" I take a deep breath before I go into it and explain everything and I just hope to God she takes it well.
It's now or never.
Sorry to leave it there folks, the next chapter will be Elena's birthday! And I know there wasn't much Damon/Elena interaction in this one, but there will be plenty in the next!
Hope you liked it, and thank you to all you awesome reviewers, please let me know what you thought of this one :)
Until next time!
