Somebody to you
Category: TV Shows » Vampire Diaries
Author: JustLola
Language: English, Rating: Rated: M
Genre: Romance/Humour

Chapter 17: Chapter 17

Chapter 17

Disclaim: I do not own Vampire Dairies. Or any songs, movies or artists or phones or phone applications I refer to in this fanfiction.

Thank you to everyone that left me a review. I lost someone near to me today just after I finished this chapter. And I am currently in a very emotional mood set. But I will try to be pro-active during this time. Hope you enjoy this chapter.

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Elena's POV

I feel a strong arm wrap around my neck and then Damon pulls me to his body and I can't help but yelp in surprise but I relax into his touch. "Did you miss me?" Damon asks and I find myself giggling as he starts to steer us towards his car. I feel the weight of my bag lifted from my back and then he's at my side.

"I did." I say and then he dangles my phone in front of me and I am not even sure that I want to take it from him. "It's very tempting just to leave my phone in your hands." I say and at this he frowns at me.

"Believe me it gets noisy and irritating. I mean I'm not even as popular as you are and I am the captain of the football team." He says and then I roll my eyes as I take the phone into my hands and place it in my pocket. Managing to carry both his sports bag and my bag he still reaches towards me, touching my hand lightly but not grasping it, I think he wants me to and without hesitation I tightly grasp it and smile to him.

"Belief me I get tired of it to." I say and then he pulls me to him and it's that sense of ease that washes over me when I am with him. We walk closely next to each other and not something we should or would do but it feels nice and good. "So Stefan was camping outside of my house after school." I say and I can hear him sigh.

"I haven't really spoken to him since last night." Damon says and at this I look to him but he is just staring forward. And we are getting seemingly close to his car now. But he doesn't let go of my hand as we reach the back of his car and the boot pops open. With his free arm he throws the two bags into his boot with his school bag. And then he closes the boot and he pulls me to him, against his chest. We are now face to face.

"What's wrong?" I ask because his eyes looks worried and pained. There is definitely something on his mind.

He looks from side to side and then he grabs a hold of me, pulling me flush against him, he smells like pine and leather and bourbon, just how I liked it. And then he kisses me and at first it's unexpected but soon I give in to him and I taste him, he taste like home. It feels like I'm getting a fresh breath of air after running for so long that I just could not catch my breath. I lick at his tong, I taste the inside of his mouth and I moan when he slips his tongue into my mouth.

I couldn't get enough of him and he knew that but he pulls away and when my eyes open I see his beautiful blue orbs, they seem fine now, with no worry in the world. "I missed you." He said and I smile at that as he pulls me into his embrace and he just holds me. "I just missed you today." He says next to my ear.

"I missed you to." I say and I hold onto him and I smile into his chest. He pressed his lips to my forehead and then he pulls from me a small amused smile on his face. "You seem amused that I would say something like that." I say and he chuckles looking up to the sky.

He looks back down to me and I just raise a brow at him. "I never had someone tell me that they missed me…" Damon says and I find it rather absurd that no one has ever told him that they missed him. "And to know that it came from you, it made it more special to me." He says and I just nuzzle my face back into his chest.

"People would be crazy not to miss you, because it's pretty hard not to miss you." I say and he just chuckles at that.

"We can't really stand here all day, how bout we go get dinner then I take you home?" Damon asks and I look up to him. He was right, we could not stand here all day, we already posed a threat of being detected by our little public display of affection. But did he really want to take me to dinner?

"You asking me out on a date?" I ask half hinting that this would be our official first date.

"I might." Damon says as he pulls from me but he doesn't let go of me as he leads me to the passenger side of his car opening up the door and finally he lets go of me and I take a seat. As I think it over I'm not really sure that my parents would like it if they knew that I would be going out to have dinner when mom might already be home cooking dinner for us but I highly doubt that. Damon casually walks to his side of the car and gets in without any problem and he looks to me smiling. "What are you in the mood for?" he asks as he sticks the key into the ignition.

"I'm not sure if my parents are going to be to happy…"I am stopped as Damon playfully puts his finger to my lips silencing me.

"Already taking care of that, you meaning me texted your mom earlier today that you would be getting dinner with some friends. And she said it's fine and don't miss curfew." Damon says and I frown, when the hell did he do that? As if reading my mind he shakes his head. "I texted her when I finished practice okay, go and look." Damon innocently says as he places his hands back on the steering wheel and he start the car. "What would you like?" he asks yet again.

I blink a few times and then I mumble as he starts to drive. "Burgers and chips." Before I pull out my phone and I swipe the screen curious to what he had done on my phone not that I minded at all. My phone lights up with a picture of the one and only Damon Salvatore he must have taken this picture today with my phone because I have never seen it before. I roll my eyes but he's far too busy driving to even notice.

I look and see that I still have a rather large amount of notifications, from the missed calls that Jeremy had left me to countless notifications for BBM, Whatsapp and Facebook and Instagram. I open my text messages and indeed Damon was telling the truth, he had messaged my mother and requested her permission and she approved, he even replied with a sweet 'Thanks mom love you.' I smile at that. I feel Damon's hand on my thigh and he just rests it there. I look to his hand and then to him and he seems unsure but I smile at him pressing my knees firmly together to keep his hand from moving.

I move to my applications and first thing is first BBM, because I know that it will be bombarded with messages from Stefan but to my surprise there is no message from the younger Salvatore brother and all and any trace that he had sent me messages was wiped away.

"Did you delete the message Stefan sent me?" I ask and Damon looks to me for a few second before turning his eyes back to the road.

"After he sent you numerous messages on BBM and then he started on Whatsapp and he even tried on Facebook but I did delete the messages and I did block him." I'm not even bothered that he deleted and blocked his own brother from my phone. I was overall thankful that I didn't have to endure it myself. And I know he was only looking after me and my well-being.

"Thanks Damon." I say with a small smile and he winks at me before I return my attention to the task at hand. I open the conversation with Caroline and there are about 4 new messages that was unread. I scroll down and look at where she sent me texts earlier the day but it was mundane questions. Just the same question on if I am okay and what happened this morning and what's my next class and then there is this random text that asks if my phone is working and I see Damon only replied to that text with a cocky remark. 'I'm receiving your messages so yes my phone is working.' Typical Damon. The same went for Bonnie, same questions, same shit. I got a message from Matt asking if I was okay as well but I just rolled my eyes.

I don't reply to the recent messages I would do that later when I had the time later. If I was in the mood, right now I just wanted to be with Damon. I skip Whatsapp and Facebook and all the other crap because I could do this later. I look to Damon and he's focusing on the road, where was he taking me? There was only a hand full of restaurants around here. I place my phone on my lap face down and place my hand on top of his.

"Done spying?" Damon asks and I giggle.

"I'm in no mood for lame text messaging when I'm with you." I say and at this his grip tightens on my thigh but it's just a light squeeze.

"Did you have a fight with your friends?" Damon asks.

"Not a fight as per say why?" I ask and just as Damon takes a turn.

"You looked pretty angry." He replies glancing over to me.

"I'm scared of what they will say when they see us together." I say because in all fact this was the main factor to my anger and worry and stress. What my friends would say if they found out, but it's not like I'm embarrassed about Damon anything but. I would show him off to the world if I could.

"Do they really dislike me that much?" he asks and he almost seems hurt by that fact.

"They just don't know you like I do, I think…" I start but Damon shakes his head and he silences me.

"No one knows me like you do. Maybe Ric but that's different." Damon says and I squeeze his hand.

"Maybe if they get to know you…" I try but the elder Salvatore just shakes his head from side to side.

"I don't think that would be possible. What's the main reason girls don't like me?" Damon asks his question catching me off guard and I frown because why would he ask it?

"There are two reasons." I say as I think about why most girl disliked him, he raises a brow at that and then his eyes are back on the road. "One being that you used them, the second being that they want to be with you but you don't want them." I say and there was a third reason as well and I fell under those, I hated how he used the girls but I wasn't used by him, those girls with the right morals.

I hear Damon sigh, this must be a touchy suspect because I can see he finds it difficult to speak about it. "Why does Bonnie and Caroline dislike me?" he asks and I frown again, I swear if I keep this shit up I will have a permanent frown on my face.

"Well I haven't really asked them but I think it's that you use girls." I say as Damon turns into dive a few miles out of the town and he parks his car. He runs his hand through his raven hair and he just keeps staring out of the window as he removes his hand from my thigh. "Why?" I ask.

"I don't think I should tell you." Damon says, his voice soft and he seems hesitant.

"Just tell me." I say as I grab his hand pulling to my lap again.

"I was with them about a year, year and a half ago…" Damon says and at first his words doesn't register or I'm not sure that they want to register what he had just said. And then it's like a train crashes into me 80 miles per hour as realization kicks in and I'm not sure what to say. He had been with both my friend… How did I not know about it? Why didn't they ever tell me? I want to remove my hand from Damon's but still this was before we even noticed each other and I should give him a chance to explain himself. But still I could not believe what I had just heard.

"Tell me about it." I say as calmly as I can manage. I was a bit upset but still it was before we even notices each other so I had nothing to be mad about, if I was mad it should be directed towards my friends for not telling me.

Damon looks to me and he's hesitant like he doesn't want to tell me but he gulps and I can see his adams apple move, he's nervous. "I was with Caroline first, but nothing really happened between us." He says, yet I couldn't understand what he meant by that because nothing ever happened between Damon and his conquests, there was never a future. "We kissed but never had sex even if she was willing and threw herself to me but I couldn't do it. I darted and left never looking back, never speaking of it again. I think that's why she hates me." He says and my eyes go wide because all of this was new news to me. Where had I been through all of this? Why had she never told me?

"Why couldn't you do it?" I find myself asking and Damon looks down like he's embarrassed.

"Caroline is a nice, pretty girl but she didn't do it for me…" Damon answers and looks to his side and to the dive that looks half full, half empty. I'm not sure whether I am an optimist or pessimist at the moment. "I was with Bonnie a few weeks later but as I got to know her, I just could not see myself doing that to her, she just give of this sweet innocent vibe and I couldn't do it." Damon says and I find it hard to catch my breath.

"How did that end?" I ask.

"You remember last year at the school car wash?" he asks and I nod my head, I vaguely remember it but I nod my head. "We had a date later that day, I never went. I bailed." Damon said. I find myself turning my head to the side as I blink a few times as the words sink in. I slowly nod my head, I didn't have words and I could form them even if I tried. "I think that's why they hate me. That and that I have been through most of the cheer squad except them." Damon says and at that a sob racks through my body and I shiver. Had he slept with the entire cheerleading squad?

I knew he had a bad reputation. I knew it. But it was before we got together. It was before we started anything. I should be upset. But yet how must I feel if I know that Damon has had sex with 20 or more? How would you feel? Right now I feel so much that I feel nothing at all.

"Elena?" Damon asks squeezing my hand and I don't dare look at him because if I do I'm not going to hold the tears that I am fighting.

"You had sex with most of the cheerleading squad?" I ask because that was really what was bugging me, yes it did bug me that he has been intimate with so many people, and it makes me doubt not only his feelings but mine as well. And I don't want to have that doubt.

"I don't have sex with ever girl that's on my arm." Damon says and he seems offended. But then it's like he realizes what I'm thinking, he knows that I'm doubting our relationship. "Elena, lately I have found that physical attraction is no longer enough. I need genuine connection. I need to undress the layers of a soul before I feel a desire to tear away any clothes. Passion remains the fire, but now intimacy strikes the match, and friendship has become the fuel." I can feel his hand on my cheek and then I'm looking at him, those blue eyes pleading for me to listen, to understand. And really I try. "You always talk about these crazy things and I never understand a word you say but all I understand is that you're the girl I sit up every night thinking about, and when I am with you I feel happy to be alive."

He softly strokes my cheek and I try to smile but there's this small tear that escapes its confines but Damon catches it before it even makes a trail. Damon really wanted to change and I knew it. I would not let the past bring us down. Love is like sunshine, sometimes you have to get burned to know you are there. And whatever comes from this situation so be it. When we came out to the world and they didn't accept us so what. It doesn't matter what other people think.

Damon leans over the middle console and he lightly kisses me, his lips a promise of what was still to come. "I love you." I hear his words as I feel them against my lips. There will be dozens of people who will take your breath away, but the one who reminds you to breathe is the one you should keep, and that was Damon.

"I love you to." I whisper so soft that I think he didn't even hear it but he smiles against my lips as he kisses me again and I just return his kiss. When we pull apart he smiles to me but he can see that I still upset with the whole situation.

"Let's go eat." Damon says and I nod my head and in a blink of an eye he's out of the driver's side and he's on my side opening my door and he extends his hand towards me taking it, helping me out without any effort. "Shall we?" he asks and I nod my head as he closes the door behind me and he leads me into the dive. I had never been here before but it looks rather nice.

Damon opens the door and we are greeted by the host. And she politely greets us and shows us to our table, I catch her secretly checking out Damon but I just hold his hand and follow him, we end up in a booth at the back of the dive and the host places the menu's on the table before leaving. "You come here often?" I ask as I start to look at the menu.

Damon scoots closer until he is next to me. "Me and Ric sometimes come here." He says as he picks up the menu. "Are we okay?" I hear him asking and at this I look to him and he just seems conflicted.

"We're okay." I say and give him a small hopeful smile. "I'm not going to judge you on what you did before we got together." I say and he gives me half a smile.

"I really thought you knew thou." He says.

"Seems like there is a lot of things I don't know about my friends but it's a mutual thing when it comes to you." I say attempting to a joke but Damon only raises a brow at me.

"Everyone has their secrets." Damon says and I look back to the menu.

"We aren't a secret, we just don't want to involve the whole word in our relationship." I say and at this Damon chuckles and I can see him shaking his head. "So what's good in this place?" I ask and Damon starts looking at the menu again and he's silent for a few seconds.

"You're going to love their Big Kahuna and chilli cheese fries." Damon says as he turns the menu around to look at the side of the drinks. "And an Oreo milkshake… Or are you one of those girls that prefer a salad with water because if you are we are out of here."

"Nope I'm up for anything." I say as I place the menu on the table because there was no need looking at it if Damon already knows what I would be eating and drinking. "I have a healthy appetite. One of the main reasons I'm not on the cheerleading team." I say.

Damon places his menu on the table and then he takes my hand in his. "I love a girl with a healthy appetite. I am so tired of girl who worry twenty four seven about what they eat and if they gain weight. It's something that puts me of." Damon says as he starts playing with my fingers.

"So it doesn't bother you that I am not a size 0?" I ask.

"You're perfect." Damon says leaning in and kissing me cheek and this has me blushing. "I don't do stick figures." Damon says and at this I giggle but we are interrupted as the waitress walks to our table. She's literally undressing Damon with her eyes as she stares at him, but he pay her no attention. "Okay so 2 Big Kahuna burgers, change the fries for chilli cheese fries and then I want a chocolate milkshake and my girl want to try the oreo milkshake." Damon orders and the waitress has a bit of a struggle writing down the order but she eventually gets there and then she is dismissed.

"Do you know the girl that was with me at lunch?" I ask.

For a second Damon raises a brown and it looks like he's trying to think and then he smiles. "I know she was a cheerleader for a year but other than that and her name I don't know her. Hailey right?" He asks and I nod my head. "When did the two of you become friends?" he asks.

"We just got talking on Monday. So yeah I thought I would get to know her, we have four classes together." I say I didn't want to tell Damon that she had told me what Stefan had done. I wanted to keep the piece.

"Ric's having a Karaoke party Friday after the game." Damon says as he changes the subject and I am a bit surprised because since when did Alric Saltzman do Karaoke.

"That might get fun." I say and Damon just continues to play with my fingers and then with his other hand he pulls his phone out of his pocket and when it lights up it's a picture of me and him. I just smile at that, it was the one Stefan took at their family barbeque. "If someone sees you wallpaper we are a bit screwed." I say. He just laughs beside me.

"I love to live my life on the dangerous side." He says and then he has his phone in front of us and he pulls on my hand to sit a bit closer. "First unofficial date selfie." Damon says and we both look to the screen as he takes a picture and we are both smiling and then he shifts ever so lightly and takes another and this continues until we are facing each other and our lips mould into a sweet kiss. But the moment has to end and he pulls but not before we take a few more pictures. We actually made a pretty couple.

I am reminded of the other pictures we had taken last Friday, I needed to put them on my phone and maybe send it to Damon. Damon moves to his gallery and we start to inspect the pictures that was taken. We indeed made a cute couple. When he finally finds one he loves he changes his background yet again and soon he sends me all the picture to my phone.

But I don't check them. I watch him as he touches the screen of his phone, he has one Whatsapp message and he open the application. I just see that the message is from Ric but that was about it, I didn't check out his phone but I did wonder if he had numbers of other girls on his phone.

"Do you keep the number of the girls you have been with on your phone?" I ask and I feel a bit ashamed to ask the question but Damon smiles to me.

"Nope. I have about 3 ladies on my phone." Damon says as he closes the application and he moves to his contact and he starts scrolling and most of them are guys that goes to school with us. "I have my mom, my cousin Sarah and you." Damon says as he scrolls to my name. I am a bit surprised but this.

"You don't keep their numbers?" I ask.

"I never give them my number nor do I take their numbers. I see them at school every day so why should I?" he asks and I nod my head. "Some are still friends with me on Facebook, but I unfriended most of them." Damon says and its weird that he would bring that up because I remember he had like 1352 friends.

"Yeah you have a big number of friends on there." I say.

"When I just got Facebook I randomly added people but I unfriended them as well. I mean I am around 200 or so friends now." Damon says and my eyes go wide. Did that mean he unfriended more than 1000 people. I would have to check later. "But there was something else I wanted to talk to you about…" Damon says as he shift in his seat.

I go still, that never meant anything good. "What do you want to talk about?" I ask and I dare look at him and he seems serious.

"Okay so I'm in my senior year, and well prom is around the corner…"was Damon blushing as he looks down to our hands and then he looks back to me. "Would you go to prom to me?" he asks and I am speechless because here I thought it was something completely different. But hell did he just ask me to Prom?

"Serious?" I ask as I blush.

"You are my girl so yeah I am." Damon says as a matter of fact.

"Of course, that would be amazing." I say and I give him the biggest of smiles. We don't even notice the waitress coming to us with our milkshakes and she just places them on the table and she disappears again. I lean a bit closer to him and place a soft kiss to his cheek. "I would be honoured." I finally say and he smiles brightly.

"Thank goodness." He says and playfully rolls his eyes. But it was scary to think that this was his last year of school and next year he would be off to college. I wasn't even sure where he was going and if he was going and what would happen then. I didn't want to think of it because then there would be expectations again and I didn't want to be let down. I didn't want to think that he might be going to college in another state and he would be leaving me behind. It was a bit unsettling and something that could ruin the mood if I even mentioned it. I knew if the time was right we would have that discussion.

The rest of the night was otherwise perfect, the food the drink. Being with Damon, enjoying the time with him. It was the perfect first date even if it was unofficial. But we only shared small talk because most of the serious things was already dealt with. When he drove me home he stopped in front of my house and he looked towards the house. The porch light was one yet it was only 20:26. Curfew wasn't for another hour and a half but yet again I had homework to finish. If my parents hadn't been home then I would have invited him in. But a simple yet passionate make-out session was all we did as we said our farewells.