Love will find a way

This is my first fanfic so I really hope you like it!

I want to thanks to 0123Hope, for all the help she gave me! Without her, this story would never be published…

Please review, so I can get better

P.S: English is not my first language so I'm sorry for any mistakes :s

Chapter one:

Damon couldn't sleep. His relationship with Rose was becoming everyday more difficult.

It wasn't her fault, she tried to do everything to get closer, but he couldn't lie to her, he couldn't pretend that he loved her, when he just wanted to forget all the things he would have to do with her, all the future they would have to share, all the years they would have to spend together… He hated that he couldn't choose his one future for being son of who he was, he hated that he had to respect a damn tradition… but what could he do about it?

A knock on the door interrupted his thoughts.

"Come in" he said

Caroline opened the door and Damon automatically got up.

"What are you doing here?" he said as he look outside the bedroom to make sure anyone was watching them.

"Relax, no one saw me" she said with a smile on her face.

"You have to stop coming here in the middle of the night. The other day, my mother asked me if I was okay, because she thought I was talking with myself at 4am!

"Your mother loves me, because I'm your only friend!"

"You wish" he said his cold blue eyes looking at her "And you're not my only friend"

"Of course I am" he rolled his eyes but she ignored him "But that's not the reason I came here" she said as she sat on the bed. "We haven't talk in a while and I know that this whole thing with Rose is driving you crazy."

"Of course it's driving me crazy!" Damon yelled at her "I'm being forced to marry a woman I don't love because our parents arranged our marriage when we weren't even born! And the worst of all is that I have to seem the happiest man alive!"

Damon sat on the bed, and Caroline looked at him.

"Look at me." She said. He didn't, so she lifted is chin up and forced him to look at her.

"I know it's hard, but yelling at people is not going to make it easier. "

"I'm sorry" His cold blue eyes filled with torture "I just don't know what else to do…"

"That's why I'm here." She got up "I'm going to help you solve this messed up thing that is your life right now."

"Good luck with that" he said as he lay on the bed.

"Do you remember what your grandma used to tell us when we were kids?"

Damon smiled "Se credi siete a metà strada per renderlo"

"That's right" Caroline smiled too "And do you remember what that means?"

Damon looked at her with his smirk "If you believe, you are halfway to make it"

Caroline smiled even more "I'm so smart"

Damon laughed "Just because I agree with you on something that doesn't mean you stop being blonde"

Caroline threw him a pillow "I'm out of here" She started walking to the door, but suddenly she stopped "Did you know that Stefan is going to meet his arranged fiancée tomorrow?"

Damon looked confused "No… Who is she?"

"I don't know, I just heard my mother talking to the other maids, telling them that the house should be perfect tomorrow, because Stefan's lady would arrive."

"Well" Damon said as he adjusted himself on the bed "I wish him better luck than I had."

"Goodnight Damon" Caroline said as she closed the door behind her.

"Goodnight." Damon whispered as he fell asleep.

"Rise and shine sleepyhead" Juliette said as she opened the curtains. The blonde woman was wearing a deep blue dress, the same colour of her ocean blue eyes, contrasting with her white skin.

"Jesus mother… What time it is?" Damon buried his face deeper into the pillow.

"Time for you to get up" She approached her son's bed and pull the comforter off of him.

"Okay, okay I'm up." Damon said as he stood up from the bed "The next thing would be taking off my pyjama no?"

"If I had to, it's nothing that I haven't seen before" Juliette said with a funny look on her face.

"Mother!" Damon looked embarrassed.

"What? Do you think I've never seen you or your brother naked?" She was now laughing out loud.

"Let's just stop with this talk, it's making me uncomfortable and that is one hard thing to do." Damon went to his wardrobe and opened it "What do you want me to wear to meet my sister in law?" He looked at his mother who had a surprised look on her face.

"How do you know that?"

"I have my sources" Damon took a white shirt and the black trousers he liked the most. "What do you think of these?" He asked putting the outfit in front of him.

"Caroline?" His mother asked him, her blue eyes looking at his blue ones.

He didn't answer and pulled out his black shoes.

"Well, whoever told you didn't lie. The Gilbert's daughter will come today to meet your brother."

"Rose's cousin?" Damon looked confused.

"How do you know it's her cousin?"

"Rose is always talking about her. "

"Oh…" Juliette looked surprised "But yes it's her cousin, their grandfather wants them to marry you, the Salvatore brothers." Juliette put a tie and a belt on the bed. "And you must hurry up, the Gilberts will arrive in an hour."

"All of them?" Damon asked with a tortured look on his face.

"If by all you mean Rose, yes she'll come as well. It's good, you two can talk and prepare the things for the wedding." Juliette looked excited.

"The wedding is in seven months, mother. We have plenty of time to prepare it."

"It's not that long, when you love the person you'll marry." Juliette focused her gaze on him.

"Maybe that's the problem mother! I don't love her, and I don't want to marry her!" Damon was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Miss Salvatore" Rebekah, the new maid, opened the door "Mister Salvatore is waiting for you"

"Of course he is" Juliette smiled delicately to the girl on the door.

"I want you downstairs in half an hour." She told him with an angry look on her face, as she passed by Rebekah, and disappeared in the corridor.

"Shit!" Damon said giving a kick on his bed. He turned around, facing a scared Rebekah.

"I'm sorry" She said embarrassed "But your father asked me to make sure you prepared yourself conveniently."

"I know how to take a bath and to dress myself, but thanks for the worry." Damon said with an ironic voice.

"I'm sorry." She said looking at the ground.

"Stop saying that!" Damon yelled at her. "Just go."

The girl practically ran outside the room and closed the door behind her.

Damon started undressing himself and turned the water on. Jesus, his life seemed to complicate a little more every day. He entered the bath and positioned himself under the shower as the water was falling on his back. He needed to relieve some tension… and not just emotional, sexual too. He hadn't have sex in a month! Rose was always in the mood, that was not the problem. He was the problem, he was never aroused when he was with her, and he could get turned on by basically everything. But she was not his type, in any way… Her hair was too short, she was too tall, and her body didn't have the right shapes. At least for him, because all of his friends kept telling him that he was very lucky, and that he should enjoy it as much as possible. He turned the water off, and walked out of the bathtub.

He started shaving, but was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Damn, can't they all come at the same time?" He opened the door, facing a smiling Rose. He pressed the towel more against his hips, but she didn't seem to notice.

"Morning love" She said as she tried to kiss his lips, but reaching his cheek instead, when he turned around quickly. " Something wrong?" she asked with a confused look on her face.

"I need to hurry up." Damon said as he grabbed his shirt from the bed. "And you need to leave so I can dress myself."

"I can stay here and…" She said trying to make a sexy look.

"No you can't." Damon interrupted her, and started pushing her to the door. "My mother wants me downstairs in ten minutes, so I'll see you there."

"But, I wanted to talk to you about my cousin" Damon's cold blue eyes focused on her "Why?" He walked to the bathroom with his boxers in one hand and grabbing the towel with another, pulling over the door with his foot.

"Because she's like a sister to me, and I tell her everything. And she really wants to meet the guy I'm in love with." He could notice the excitement in her voice, one of the many things he didn't share with her. Damon got out the bathroom already with his boxers on, facing an exited Rose.

"That's great." He said with the most credible voice he could do. He pulled his trousers and shoes on, and dressed his shirt in less than two minutes, not wanting to stay alone with her much longer.

"Let's go" He said holding the door open for her.

"You'll love her!" she said grinning at him, while they started walking downstairs.

"We'll see about that." He said with his smirk, looking at her.

"Oh there she is! Elena!" Rose called.

Damon turned around, facing the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, locking his deep blue eyes with her sparkling brown ones.

"Guess I got the wrong cousin." Damon whispered to himself.

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