NOTHING LIKE YOU
Hey everyone! Hope you all are doing well. I'm wanting to post a chapter once, if I can maybe twice a week. Here is the second chapter. Enjoy!
My visit was coming to an end, I was really excited to leave but at same time I wanted to stay. I really missed my Grams, and my friends, but….. Damon was becoming a problem. For the past few days and ever since that night in my bedroom, we've been sneaking around whenever Meredith wasn't around and have make out sessions. We haven't slept together yet I feel so attached to him, like I don't want to let him go.
I had two nights left here, after spending two weeks in the City I didn't really have a positive outlook on the life they live here. I mean it was nothing but stress for Meredith. Long hours at the hospital, four hours of sleep a day, it wasn't worth it and she barely made time for me. As well as Damon. Let's just say he was very successful in his work life. He's one of the best private investigators, and people treat him like he's a celebrity. Although Damon hated the attention he would get, after all he is just doing his job. Yet he loves his private life.
Meredith and I decided to spend the day shopping since she was actually off from work, so Damon was taking us to the Manhattan Mall. Boy was it huge, if Damon didn't give Meredith his credit card I don't think we could afford shopping here. Meredith assumes I'm doing some back to school shopping because since my spring break is coming to an end, she wants me to have a full new wardrobe for school. Since I'm supposed to be graduating this year, she thinks I should dress more appropriately. I guess she just doesn't care for cut off jeans, or ripped jeans, and converse with every outfit, not to mention baggy sweaters. Although I only wear those when I plan on staying in for the day, but hell. She wants to dress up like I'm a doll. We've spent nearly an hour shopping, and I was ready to call it a day. Until, "hey I just need to make a quick stop into Victoria Secret for a second. i can meet you at the doors." I said trying to assure her that I want to go alone.
"Victoria Secret huh? Shopping for someone special." Meredith asked with an interest as she playfully bumped me with her shoulder.
"Funny Mere, I'll be a few minutes." I said
"Okay I'll call Damon and tell him were ready to leave." She Said as I nodded and made my way to the store to shop for something sexy that Damon can't say no too.
"Hey babe, where are you?" Meredith asked as she reached the exit doors while on the phone with Damon.
"I just left the office, I'm on my way." He said as he was stopped at the red lights.
"Okay, see you soon." She said and hung up
I found a sexy snake charmer teddy garter set; he will definitely love this. As I made my way to the line up my phone began to ring, probably Meredith wondering if I'm coming. I froze as I looked at the caller ID, I nervously answered and held the phone to my ear.
"I must say, I was starting to think whether or not I was going to here from you. Why are you being a stranger Jenna?" I asked
"Its good to hear from you too Marissa. Tell me I hope you are enjoying your little vacation." She asked sarcastically.
I rolled my eyes. "You of all people should know that I won't call some time away a vacation until I get what I want." I answered honestly with hint of sadness in my voice.
Jenna sighed. "You're right. I'm sorry. I just wanted to call to see when you would be coming back." She said nervously.
"Tuesday morning I will be arriving, and just before I head back to town I will stop by to see you and Ethan." I said as I started to feel tears fall down. "Tell me, how is he?" I said trying to contain myself.
"How do you think? He misses you." She didn't take long to respond, and felt guilty
I wiped my tears and said my goodbyes. "I'll see you soon." Quickly putting my phone in my purse and throwing back the garter set and walking out the store. I couldn't stay another night, I had to leave and I had to leave now.
Once I met Meredith at the door she noticed my change in color. "Hey, are you feeling ok?" she asked with a worried look. "I'm fine Mere, just a little tired, that's all." I said. We made our way outside and in no time we saw Damon pulling to the side so we could hop in.
Putting our bags in the trunk, we settled in and made our back home, but not before we went to order some food. I was starved.
Damon was teasingly stealing Meredith's California rolls and she kept trying to move her plate away ending up spilling all on the floor.
"Damon! Now look what you did!" she said annoyingly and as she bent over to pick up the food that fell, Damon took the opportunity to give her a blow on her left cheek causing her to shoot up. She and Damon ended up laughing and he went to sit back down and pull her down so she was sitting on his lap, and she could tell. He was ready to call it a night.
Meanwhile I'm gazed off, not even slightly paying attention to what was happening. I looked up and saw Damon nibbling lightly on Meredith's neck causing her to giggle like a schoolgirl. The nerve of my sister, and Damon was no better. He was starting to really get to me, and he's been so distant with me today, barely cutting me a look, even making snarky comment. I quickly got up and excused myself from the table. Damon immediately caught that I was upset, so he quickly stopped his teasing kisses he was giving his girlfriend and leaned back into the chair.
"Hey, what's wrong? "she said as playfully poked his nose, but Damon's mind was on Marissa. Something was bothering, he wanted to go up and talk to her. Yet all he thought about was how Meredith didn't even give a glance or notice her sudden outburst. He sometimes thought Meredith and Marissa weren't actually related, I mean they are so self involved like they live two separate lives. He felt bad for Marissa. He decided in the morning he will talk to her, but for now he would let her cool off what was bothering her.
"What's up Marissa?" Damon asked as he started to clear the table.
"I'm not sure, I'm guessing she's homesick." Meredith answered.
Wow. So much for paying attention to her baby sister. How can Meredith be so cruel. Maybe she is homesick but the least Meredith can do is comfort her least.
NYC AIRPORT
I really wished I planned ahead but I just had to get out. This whole trip was a mistake, what was I thinking? I finally reunite with Meredith but all in all we only spent a little bit of time together and the fact that I would make out with her boyfriend behind her back was so messed up. I was starting to catch feeling for him, but how? I barely knew him. Every time we were alone together we wouldn't talk; we would just jump into making out on the couch. Yet just being near him has made me feel different, and his kisses would relax me and leave me breathless. But that wasn't enough, I wanted more. But he belonged to Meredith, and me? Well, let's just say I can't give him exactly what I want.
As we were about to take off, I turned off my phone after leaving a message to my Grams saying I was going to be coming home a few days earlier. I leaned my head back against the seat and looked out the window, soon. I would be home, and I wasn't leaving again.
"Damon! Damon!" Meredith shouted as she barged into her and Damon's room jumping on the bed with a piece of paper in her hands. Damon was still asleep, on his stomach half naked from the previous night him and Meredith had rolling around in bed. "Damon! Wake up." She yelled at him.
"Well good morning to you too, but whatever happened to giving me a surprise wake up." He said tilting his head down and wiggling his eyebrows hinting on her to give him head.
"Damon can you please be serious." She said as started to cry.
Damon moved to sit up against the headboard and wiped Meredith's cheek to keep her tears from falling. Because Damon couldn't stand to see woman cry, he couldn't be around it.
"Hey, talk to me." He said softly looking into her eyes.
She handed him the piece of paper and he started to read word for word.
Mere,
If your reading this you're probably wondering where I am. Well, I've decided to go home a few days earlier, I needed to get back to Grams. Unfortunately for you this trip was a mistake, we've grown apart and honestly that's fine because we live completely different lives. It might have been better between us if you haven't left me and kept in touch more often. I'm sorry I waited till once I got on the plane to say goodbye, but I figured this way it would be easier to say goodbye. I mean after all, you taught me how too.
Marissa
Damon scrunched up the paper in his hands and closed his eyes. once he felt Meredith's hand on his arm he looked straight at her with a cold stare.
"Damon what should I do?" she asked him nervously.
Damon took it as I shock. Did she seriously ask him that.
"What the fuck do you think Mere. What should you do? She's your sister! So why don't you start acting like it before you really lose her." He said angrily making her gasp. She was not expecting that.
"Damon, calm down. Where is this coming from." She said her voice shaking.
"You're the only family she has besides your grandmother and who knows how long she will be there with Marissa." Damon said raising his voice to her. "This whole time she was here, did you even make time with her, except wanting to go shopping because you needed something for Anna's birthday party next week." Damon added not like Meredith at all now.
"Wow Damon it seems to me that you are trying to say I don't love my sister." She said with an attitude.
"Do you?" Damon said testing her
At that she planted a hard slap on his left cheek cause his head to turn. This angered him, he suddenly rose from the bed not bother to cover himself up and made his way to the bathroom to get cleaned up. "If you did love her, you would have gone after to stop instead of coming to me crying. I guess you just don't want to leave this life behind….. Let me tell you something Mere. Before you met me, you were nothing. I'm the one that got you a job, and now you wouldn't be able to afford living here if it wasn't for me." He said coldly to her and turned to walk into the bathroom closing the door.
Meredith couldn't believe what he just said. "Screw you Damon!" she screamed throwing the glass of water next to his bed towards the bathroom door.
Damon quickly opened the door and responded. "Not in this lifetime baby, not anymore." He said with a smirk and closed the door again.
He was right, she was nothing without him. She continued to cry and buried her face in the pillows.
Mystic Falls
I can finally breathe, I made it. Straight from the airport she drove all the way home, wanting to see her Grams. She missed her so much.
"Grams!" I yelled once I entered.
"There she is!" My Grams said as I saw her walking out of the kitchen with my three best friends following behind Elena, Caroline, and Bonnie. This right here, was my family.
"Oh I've missed you baby doll." That's what my Grams use to call me when I was a baby.
"I missed you too Grams." I said trying not to cry as I hugged her not wanting to let go. Once we parted I started to make my over to my friend before they came running and grabbing me in for group hug. Elena was my neighbor, we grew up together and people would often mistaken us for twins, we looked exactly alike except she was a little thinner than me. Elena and I met Caroline and Bonnie in the third grade and we've all been best friends ever since. Caroline who had blonde and blue eyes was the sheriff's daughter of this town, and she had a bubbly personality she was always happy. Bonnie who was shortest out of all of us was the most confident out of the group. She had dark skin that complimented her hazel eyes, her parents were divorced so she was living with her dad because her mom decided to move away from Mystic Falls since her and Bonnie's dad didn't leave things on good terms. Elena's parent were good friends with my parents and still to this day they have looked out for me as if I was their daughter, but Elena also had a little brother Jeremy, so Elena wasn't an only child yet we spent everyday together. We were practically sisters. Caroline's dad left when she was only six and she has barely seen him, yet her and her mother are going strong.
"Well, you girls get settled in and I will make everyone some drinks." Her Grams said cheerfully.
We all took a seat in the living room, me and Elena side by side and Caroline was adjacent from us while Bonnie sat on the floor beside us.
"So, come on spill everything. How was the big city? Any hot guys? And where's your tan?" Caroline didn't stop throwing questions at me and I couldn't help but chuckle.
"Whoa Care let her breath she just got in." Bonnie said laughing at Caroline who playfully rolled her eyes. "How's Meredith? "Bonnie added.
I looked at my hands which were in my lap. "She's….. pretty much still the same. I can't say much." I answered honestly.
"That bad huh." Caroline said
I laughed shaking my head. "Let's just say I'm glad I got it out of the way and I mean it was only a matter of time before Meredith and I were bound to reunite." I said
"You're right Marissa, I mean just think. Next year will be in college." Caroline said cheerfully
"Are you planning on coming back to school?" Elena asked nervously
I looked at her for a moment and then at Caroline and Bonnie. "I don't think so." I said lowly.
"Come on Missie." Caroline use to call me that all the time when we were little and once she continued it through junior high I begged her to stop. Now she only called me that when she furious.
"Caroline, its not easy for her right now, maybe she still needs time to heal." Bonnie said taking my hand considering my decision in this.
"I know I'm sorry its just, its not the same without you." Caroline said.
"I know and trust me I miss you guys, but once I find my place again I promise I will come back. Just not right now." I said hoping they will understand.
"Of course, were just glad your back." Elena said putting her arm around me.
By then my Grams walked in with a tray of what appears to be glasses of iced tea, she set the tray down and we all took a glass and Grams joined us on the couch and toasted before we each took a sip.
"Oh my God Grams, isn't it a little early to start." I said.
"Well its ten o'clock somewhere in the world. Did I add a little too much rum?" Grams said causing us to choke from laughter.
"Cheers Grams." Bonnie said raising her glass to hers and we all decided to join in finishing off our drinks.
Damon had no idea how he ended up here, it was almost midnight when he got to the police station.
By the next morning Marissa decided to help the girls set up for the festival that was happening this weekend. It was going to be a very busy weekend with the carnival and the big football game, plus her birthday was coming up on Sunday and she finally hitting eighteen.
She was making her way down the stairs to get a quick bite to eat before she went to meet up with the girls, when she heard the doorbell ring she turned back to answer the door. Once she opened it her mouth dropped and her eyes went wide. Oh my God.
Damon couldn't believe it; he was standing right in front of her. She was in a pair of black loose pants with a light pink long sleeve V-neck shirt that showed off her toned chest.
I couldn't believe it; how did he know where I lived. I forgot how beautiful he was. His blue ocean eyes, they are so mesmerizing I got lost in the moment.
Damon kept staring, she went to cross her arms and Damon snapped out of it. "Hello Marissa." He finally said.
Also just want to let you know, Jenna won't be related to Elena in this tory and Stefan will also appear in the story later on. I hope you all are enjoying it so far, I wanted to take it slow and just introduce you to everyone before I really get the story going. Thanks for reading.