I'm back with the story. So it's not any secret that the previous chapter was the best for those who read it. However, I can guarantee you that you'll find this one interesting. So some of my friends told me that I should read my own story, cause there's some things out of places. I did what they ask me to and found there are indeed things out of place. It's nearly impossible for me to point out the mistakes by reading in my cell phone then again reading and fixing it. So I request all of you to take the mistakes on previous chapters lightly. I know it's lot to ask, but from now on I'll read every single chapter before posting it.
In the pleasant morning after her body was buzzing with the beautiful after glow and satisfaction. Never in her life did she feel this sexy. And it was only for one man, whose ocean blue eyes were the first thing she saw in the morning.
"Good morning, beautiful." He stared back with such devotion in his eyes it made her melt.
He leaned forward to kiss her pouty lips tenderly, swimming in her taste. Elena pulled apart really slowly, making Damon groan.
"What time is it?" She asked already looking for her cell phone.
"11:00." He leaned back against his headboard.
"Wow, I did sleep more than 9 hours." She stretched, fully aware that a pair of burning eyes was staring at the contours of her back. Then she got out of the bed stark naked.
"Where are you going?"
"I figured I should fresh up, have a nice long shower before heading out. Want to join?" She cocked her head and watches him ogle her naked self.
"I kind of have a better idea." He smirked evilly. Causing Elena to furrow her eyebrows in a questioning look.
They walked outside of the house, half-naked. Her, wearing only her undergarments and Damon's shirt. And Damon, wearing his boxer. When they finally reached their destination Damon looked at Elena with his famous smirk and raised his eyebrow.
"So are you in, Gilbert?" he asked playfully.
"Are there any fishes in this lake?" She asked.
"Hopefully, no. But no promises." He joked not knowing she was dead serious.
"I think I'm good then." There is no way in hell she'll be swimming among those fishes.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk." Damon started to shake his head. "I expected much more from you, grandma." He took off the last piece of cloth, and then dived into the lake. He came back to the surface wiping the water out of his face. He looked up at Elena, who was staring at him. "The water is perfect." He said out loudly while splashing against it.
"I didn't know you were this adventurous, Salvatore." Elena was grinning like a lovesick fool. Who was she kidding? She turned into a lovesick after being with him.
"Me neither. I guess a very beautiful lady triggered that part, Gilbert." This made Elena grin more with a slight bit of blush. After looking at him grinning like an idiot, she saw him start swimming on his back. Well I guess there isn't any fish.
She got rid of his shirt and dipped her toes in the water to check the temperature. It was indeed perfect. Her eyes looked up to Damon, who was skinny-dipping. Feeling bold she shed all her clothes and slowly started to go where Damon was. When she felt herself floating, she started swimming.
Hearing the water splashes, he looked up. Ultimately the cute grin appeared in his wet face. When she reached him, she curled her arms around his neck looking deep into his eyes. Her right hand shot out and removed the strand of wet hair from his forehead. He cupped her cheeks and kissed her on her lips. When he pulled away he was searching her eyes for something. But what?
"The last time I was considering being adventurous was the day I lost everything." She knew bits and pieces of that devastating day; however, she wanted to know how he felt. "I wanted to have fireworks in my backyard, with all of my family members. I went to buy it and when I came home the house was already on fire. We lived in a very open space with neighbors at least 5 miles away, so no one was available to call 911." He was deep in his thoughts, as if he was again reviving the moment. Seeing the storm of emotions in his eyes, Elena felt her eyes wanting to shed tears, but she has to stay strong.
"Damon." She grabbed his face in her palm, snapping him back to reality. He looked up to meet her eyes. "I'm glad you told me and suggested this idea. Nothing makes me happier to know that I finally got to see a glimpse of the old you." She kissed him softly before she moved her palms from his face and separated herself. She took a deep breath and dipped her head inside the water and started to swim underwater. Damon followed the suit and swam. Elena didn't realize at first how deep the water was until now. She turned to look at Damon who was swimming towards her. When he reached her he holds her by her bare hip pulling her closer to him. They were still underwater when their lips met in a tender kiss. Elena's hand found its way to his neck while his hand moved down to the bare skin of her thigh. She took this as an invitation to wrap her legs around his waist. His entire body was against hers, kissing into the oblivion, underwater.
"Well that was fun." She was drying herself with a towel inside the bedroom.
"Yep it was." He was still grinning at her; looking at her like his life depends on her. Although she specifically doesn't know that.
"So when do we head out? As much as I love to stay here, everyone will soon get worried. I'm surprised that Caroline didn't called me yet and Ric haven't called you yet." When she looked back up his smile faded. "You didn't talk to him yet, did you?"
"I don't know what to say to him." he sighed.
"Say whatever that comes first from your heart. I'm sure Ric would understand." She wrapped her arms around his neck, slowly massaging it.
He lets out a content sigh. "I screwed up pretty bad."
"Mhm… you both did." Standing up on tiptoe, she slowly kissed him. "C'mon, let's go if we want to catch some sort of food."
"Right I'm starving. Will you join me in my house for brunch?"
"I can't see why not." She went inside the room, before tucking her head out of the doorway. "The only problem is what will I wear?"
"You're lucky there are some clothes of my employees, from when they stayed over. Left room, right hand drawer."
Elena looked up the enormous building, FYI, a Salvatore estate. She had no idea how many estates they owned. The guards on doorway saluted him, earning a nod from Damon. They went hand in hand towards the elevator.
"So I kind of missed a point." He spoke nervously. "Don't freak out when you see us in newspaper or hear the rumor."
"Why will I see our picture on a newspaper?" Then realization dawned to her that she was in fact dating a famous businessman. Her mouth was open with the shape of 'o'.
"The paparazzi come really handy these days." She knew that the more a person gets famous, the more people are running after them. Guess Damon acting so calm, collected and generous always managed to make forget about his class of elegance.
"How do you manage these things, Damon?" She spoke really softly.
"I stopped caring about these things a long time ago, when it rumored that I'm a drug addicted business tycoon and people would be homeless if they trusted my business. Or maybe it was when I secretly paralyzed my own brother to get the business all to myself."
"Don't they have any better things to do than poking into people's life"? She was red with anger. Oh god, it's getting hot over here. Pun intended. Damon smirked.
Just in time the elevator stopped in the top floor. He lived in a two-story penthouse. There were big windows from the ceiling to the black-tiled floor on both sides of the living room. There were white couches surrounding a black wooden table. Towards it's left was a long dining room, where the foods were served. Across it was a huge kitchen with black cabinets. The house awed her.
"So food is already served." He snapped her out of her thoughts. "I wonder if Klaus had his breakfast. Let me go check on him. You please take a seat, my lady." He pecked her lips before making his way upstairs.
As he was nearing Klaus's doorstep, he could hear muffling noises coming from his room. The voices became clearer and clearer as he neared the door. Was that a woman? Damn it sounded familiar. When he was about to knock, the door flew opened revealing no one other than Caroline Forbes. Her curls were tangled mess while she wore a white robe. As soon as she saw him her jaws were moving like they were about to say something. Klaus, who was lying under the comforter, spotted him from behind her.
"Mate, when did you come home?" He was trying to avoid the conversation. Nice try.
"A minute ago." He said quickly for he felt awkward. Also he didn't want to make them feel awkward. "So did you guys have breakfast"? He asked uncomfortably but tried to be polite. So I wasn't the only one having a wonderful night.
"We'll be down in a minute." Caroline said in her chirpy voice.
"Sounds well." He practically ran downstairs, to inform Elena that their friends were at last mingling.
Elena was humming and serving herself breakfast when she heard his footsteps. "So is Klaus coming?" she asked sweetly.
"Yep and he has a company."
"Okay." She sat back in her place with her plate filled with scrabbled egg, bacon and croissant along with cream cheese.
"Did Caroline call you yet?"
"Not yet. Why?" She had her brows furrowed in question.
Before he could answer, her eyes shifted from him towards the staircase, where the blonde was bouncing down with Klaus trailing behind.
"Caroline?" She rose from her chair.
"Elena, what are you doing here?" Damon could say she was a bit nervous.
"Damon invited me for breakfast. I assume Klaus did the same. What are you so nervous about? It's not some sin to get invited to have breakfast." Okay now she's trying to avoid conversation with Blondie about what we did before me inviting her to breakfast. They both are. I wonder why?
"Okay the more the merrier. Now let's start." Damon interjected. Every now and then he would glance up at Klaus and smirk knowingly. He also caught Caroline staring at him, scratch that, she was glaring at him. Elena was peacefully having breakfast and was unbeknownst to anything.
"Oh Care, why didn't you call me? Usually I find my phone filled with missed calls or voicemails from you." Elena looked up to Caroline questioningly.
"I was occupied." She said diverting eyes to Klaus, who had a smug.
Elena grew more confused. She looked at Damon who was smirking, almost trying to suppress a laugh. Caroline and Klaus were looking at each other. Caroline was blushing and Klaus had a weird smug or hint of blush.
"Ok now, what am I missing?" She asked looking curiously at the three of them. "Caroline?" The blonde lets out a bit of nervous laugh. She looked questioningly at Klaus, who immediately busied himself with orange juice. "Damon?" she gave him her big doe eyes. This was seriously made him weak in his knee. How can I remain quiet to those eyes?
"Sorry Caroline and Klaus." He said before proceeding. "Seems like we weren't the only one having a blast of night."
A blush crept in her cheeks at the mention of last night loud and clear by him. Soon she realized what he meant. "Wow ok." She awkwardly cleared her throat.
"Wait, wait, wait! Am I missing something now, Elena"? Blondie had a smile of shock.
"Um… Damon and I kind of… slepttogather." She said so fast it was hard to understand.
"Oh my god, what happened to 'I want to stay friends for now'?" she tried to act surprised, but failed miserably.
"Come on love, we saw that coming."
"But I can't say the same. I thought you hated relationships now." "Klaus you're leaving town in three months." Both Damon and Elena said at the same time.
"Who said we're in relationship? We can have sex without being in a relationship." She said as if it was common sense.
"Since when do you do no strings attach?" Damon asked Klaus.
"Since yesterday." He shrugged.
"Enough about us. I want to know about you guys. So how was it?" Caroline asked.
"Don't want to talk about it now." "Amazing." They said it exactly at the same time again.
"Damon!" Elena blushed furiously. She was completely red.
"Which means it was good. Come on, Elena reveal all the juicy details." It was all making her blush more furiously.
"Not now, Caroline." Caroline lets out an exasperated sigh.
"Wait till we get home?" The conversation started to flow between them. It was revealed that while working for the upcoming wedding of Peter Lieutenant, Caroline was encountered with Klaus. They hit the bar and the rest is history.
"Oh Elena, you do remember that Bonnie is coming next week?" Shoot I forgot about it.
"Kind of skipped my mind." She gave a nervous laugh.
"So you haven't decided where you'll stay?"
"I'm sure I can-" she was cut off by Damon.
"She can stay with me." She was going to say about asking Ric, but staying with Damon for a little while wasn't such bad idea.
"Are you sure about it? Cause I can easily ask Ric."
"Come on, love. I know this caveman. I don't think he is taking no for answer." It was Klaus who interjected.
"I appreciate it Klaus. Although you calling my lady 'love' are kind of creepy." He had an adorable scowl on his face while he said that.
"Anything you say."
The day shifted to noon when the girls finally decided to leave and get back to their life. Caroline had already reached the parking lot to get her car out, when Damon and Elena were making out in the doorway. Damon pulled back to look at her. "Let me drop you to the parking lot. Don't want to see you leave alone." Elena was breathing so heavily and mesmerized by his beauty, that all she could do was nod. When they reached the elevator Elena decided to speak.
"So Caroline and Klaus?"
"Yep. I knew something would happen between them. Just didn't expect it to be like no strings attached." He said shaking his head, while laughing.
"Does that ever work? I mean, everyone who does no strings attached thing, always become something bigger."
"It can work sometimes. All needed is a big globe of reason standing between your feelings. After all, not everything happens like in the movies. "
"How do you know that?"
"Been there, done that for years." He said recalling the past days. That enlightened Elena's interest. Although it was all in the past, she can't help but feel slight jealousy in the pit of her stomach. Just when she was about to ask him who she was, the elevator reached the parking lot.
"What was her name?" She could feel that Damon was a bit uncomfortable by it.
"Can we not do this right now?" He said with a hint of growling.
"Why not? It's in the past right?"
"Yes and I would appreciate it if it stays in the past. So don't ask me again." He said coldly, before turning his head to a different side, as if to not look at her. It made her feel hurt. She knew that he was not open to anyone, but after what they shared back at the house, it felt like she was brushed away. Just then Caroline pulled her car to the front.
Without saying any other word she made a progress to walk to the car. When he heard the sound of door opening, he saw that she had walked away from his side, without saying anything. He caught a glance of her hurt expression, before she got inside the car. The car stormed off into the roads of Manhattan.
Something about her look of disappointment made him question that will he be able to maintain relationship with a woman too good for him. With that he got inside the apartment, not bothering to call her or text her.
Important authors note:
There are some points I need to clear out.
readers, who have already read my previous chapters, there is a slight change. Instead of knowing each other for few days, Damon and Elena now know each other for a month. I wasn't successful in going through every chapter to fix those points, but I did as much as I could. So before reading the next chapters, keep in mind that they know each other for ONE MONTH.
Salvatore and Co. is a Real estate developer of USA. Causing them to have a huge amount of property under their name.
is going to be a part of the story soon, because I'm so into music. I sometimes even make covers and sing in the functions of my school.
updates going to take a lot more time than usual, since my school is open and I'm nearing my O level and I'm pretty serious in my studies.
5. The song is 'Stop and Stare' by One Republic.
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