Meant To Be
Chapter 3: Damon's 14th Birthday
March 20th 2004
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" Everyone yell when Damon and his buddy Alaric walked into the room carrying a basketball. They were just getting back from Alaric's because Alaric was supposed to distract him while we set up the party. I guess there were playing basketball.
"Woah." Damon said seeing everyone here, there was all his family including aunts, uncles, cousins, his grandmother, Stefan and his father, all his friends from school, my parents, Jeremy, and me.
"Happy 14th birthday son!" Giuseppe yelled. It's Damon's fourteenth birthday today, I've known him and Stefan for six years now, Stefan is my best friend and always will be but I'm also great friends with Bonnie and Caroline who are both in my fifth grade class. Ever since Damon and Stefan moved next door, I've wanted to be friends with Damon but he's so closed off from me; he finds me annoying. Ever since his mom passed away I've started to like him, more and more.
It's been almost three years since Elisabeth Salvatore past away in a car accident; it's been almost three years since Damon Salvatore cried on my shoulder and almost three years since he made me promise to never talk about it again. Damon hardly ever talks to me unless it is to annoy me or to pick on me but for some reason I always want to hang out with him or to talk to him but I'm always so shy.
"Thanks every one for coming." Damon said awkwardly. I don't think he wanted a party. He's been a pretty depressed kid ever since Elisabeth passed away, he isn't that happy. He smirks, and is sarcastic a lot but he's never genuinely happy.
He comes in and starts hugging family members and saying hi to his classmates. Stefan, Jeremy and I were close to the back with my parents. When he got to us, he just said a quick thanks and we said happy birthday and he moved on. Damon and Stefan use to be close but since their mom passed away they have just kind of drifted apart.
Through the day everyone had fun. Giuseppe barbecued hamburgers and hot-dogs and there was garden and Caesar salad made by me and my mom. Damon opened his presents; he got lots of different things, including sports balls, video games, a few DVD's and CD's and lots of money.
Now it's night time and most people have left. Jenna, my cousin who's in the same grade as Damon, is staying at my place tonight so we are staying at the Salvatore's until my mom comes and gets us. Damon has his best friend Alaric staying over for the night and we are all watching the Jeepers Creepers marathon in the den. Jenna and Alaric are cuddling on of the two couches since they're dating and I'm stuck between Damon and Stefan on the other couch.
We are right close to the end of the first movie when Damon speaks up. "Anybody want some popcorn and soda? I've seen this movie twice, I don't mind going to get some." He asks.
"Yeah sure." Jenna and I both say.
"Elena come help?" Damon asks me and Stefan looks at him confused. "What I'm gonna need help carrying all the drinks." He shrugs.
"I don't want to miss anything." I complain.
"Come on I'll tell you what happens in the kitchen." He nudges me.
"Fine." I groan and follow him into the kitchen.
Once we got into the kitchen he grabs a bag of popcorn and puts it into the microwave and hits start. He turns to me and smirks. "Okay so really I just want to mess with them and I need your help."
I frown. "How do you want to mess with them?" I asked nervously not wanting to get into trouble.
"I want to scare the shit out of them." He smirks.
"Okay but why do you want my help? You could have done this with Alaric and or Stefan and scared me and Jenna?" I ask.
"No I want to hear their screams, my dad's at your place and I have the perfect plan."
"Fine what?" I asked.
He explained his whole plan to me and we were ready. We were now standing in the very small laundry closet between the living room and kitchen. I had one small task in huge plan and the rest of the time I just get to sit back and laugh. It has been ten minutes since we left the living room and I'm sure they are going to wonder where we are any minute now. We left the popcorn in the microwave and dropped a can of grape soda on the floor so it looks like we literally disappeared.
"What is taking them so long?" I hear Jenna groan. It working perfectly. "I'm gonna go see if they need any help." She says.
"Okay." I hear Alaric mumble. I look up at Damon's face which is literally inches away from mine since we are squished in this small closet. He smirks knowing everything is going according to the plan.
I hear her get up and walk out of the room and down the hall past us in the closet. "Guys? Damon, Elena? Where are you guys?" She says. We hear nothing I'm assuming she's looking for us. After about two minutes I hear her call out for Alaric and Stefan. Damon gets ready knowing he has to move fast.
When we hear Alaric and Stefan walk past us Damon waits about ten seconds before leaving me in the closet. It's kind of scary now being by myself but I know he'll be back in less than a minute; he just has to go to the fuses box outside of the den.
When he gets back about 40 seconds later, he slides into the closet smoothly and calm; I don't know how he does it. "Okay, I set the power to turn off in three minutes. Crawl through this space here," He said pointing to a small passage way, it's an old house there's lots of secret passage ways. Once I'm in the space I hear him whisper, "Just remember what I told you to do."
Crawling through the crawl space took about two minutes, it led me to the pantry in the kitchen and the space I was in was behind shelves so I could barely move. He told me that when I saw the lights go out through the pantry doors that I had to make a bunch of things fall in the pantry and then get out of the pantry and go back to Damon. I must be fast.
I heard the, wondering where we could be and then I saw the lights go out. "Oh. My. God. What's going on?" I heard Jenna say scared.
"It's probably nothing." I heard Alaric say.
"Yeah, Damon is probably just messing with us." Stefan said. I then push multiple boxes of Kraft Dinner and different pastas off their shelves.
"What was that?" Jenna said hearing the noise. I'm crawling through the space but I stop half way so they can't see me but I can hear them. I hear the pantry door open. "How did those fall?" Jenna asked freaked.
"It's probably just Damon messing with us." Alaric said.
"There's nobody in here!" Jenna practically yelled. "How can Damon make those fall and get out of the pantry without us seeing him." She was very scared.
"I don't know. Maybe it was just a mouse and we are scared for no reason." Stefan said confused.
I quickly crawl back to Damon. I'm laughing quietly. "What now?" I ask slightly out of breath.
He smirks. "Shh." He grabbed my hand before leaving the laundry closet. We walk slowly hand and hand to the fuse box outside of the den. He opens it and flips a switch, suddenly all the lights pop on. "Ahhh." I hear Jenna say. Then Damon flips it off and back on and off again. He grabs my hands and pulls me with him up the stairs.
We are sitting at the top of the stairs when we hear them come in the hall. "Where the heck are they? And why does the power keep come on and off?" Jenna asks.
"Come on." Stefan says walking over to the fuse box and opening it. He flips the switch and turns on the power. "There." He smiles.
"So someone has been turning that on and off, and it doesn't freak you out?" Jenna asks.
"It's probably just Damon; he's trying to freak us out." Alaric explained.
"Well how'd he do that in the pantry?" Jenna asked.
"I don't know, probably just a mouse or rat." Stefan wondered.
"Oh please, like you have rats. You're rich!" Jenna said.
I went to look at Damon but he wasn't there. I'm not worried he's probably just doing another prank. After a minute or two he comes back. "Where'd you go?" I whisper.
"Nothing, you'll see." He smirked.
"Guys, if this is Damon doing this all. Where's Elena? We all know she wouldn't be okay with doing this." Alaric says.
I frown. What's that supposed to mean? "Okay, I can't explain it but when you get the chance go to the den and grab the t.v remote then come back here okay?" He asks in a whisper. I nob and he leaves me.
"Yeah, true." Jenna says. "You know what I'm just going to call next door and get the adults to come over and deal with whatever is going on." Jenna moves into the den with Alaric and Stefan following I hear her pick up the phone and gasp.
"What!?" Both Alaric and Stefan asked at the same time.
"The lines dead." So Damon must have went and unplugged the phone line in his dad's study.
I hear the fridge slam and I hear the water in the kitchen start running. Then I hear Jenna, Alaric and Stefan running into the kitchen. This must be it. I run to the den grabbing the remote and I hear Jenna yell, "There's nobody in here, what is going on?" I run back upstairs right around the time Damon got there.
"Did you get it?" He whispers.
"Mhmm." I hand it to him. He smirks but doesn't do anything with it, yet.
"It has to be Damon. I just don't understand how he is doing it." Stefan says flabbergasted.
"The awesomeness of this remote is that it doesn't have to be pointed at the t.v." Damon whispers in my ear. I smile.
He turns the channel on the t.v so that it's some fuzzy screen and turns the volume up very high so that it doesn't matter where you are in the house you can hear it. "Ahhh, what is that?" Jenna shrieks from the kitchen.
"It's the t.v!" Alaric says leaving the kitchen and walking towards the den, the other two following him.
When they got to the den, Stefan went and turned the t.v down by the button on the television. "The remote is gone." Stefan says a little scared.
Damon smirks and hands me the remote with a look saying go ahead. I smile. Before turning the t.v off and on again. "Ahh." Stefan and Jenna both screamed.
"Guys, it's just Damon. He took the remote and now he's messing with us. Hahha Damon. You got us. Now come out." I look at Damon and he shakes his head no. I turned the volume up very high. "Ah!" All of them said.
"Stop that!" Alaric yelled. "It's annoying Damon." I heard him go over and turn it down. I turn it back up smirking! "Urgh!" Alaric screamed. I let out a small laugh.
"I think it time to end this." Damon smirks at me.
"Okay but this was really fun." I smile at him.
We walk down the stairs and into the den calm and collected. "Hey guys." Damon say smirking. I toss the remote on the table and Damon and I sit on the couch.
"Seriously!" Jenna looks at us. "You guys are horrible." She says.
"Now I would like to know why you guys were so sure Elena wouldn't want to help me?" Damon asks them.
"Well, she's just so innocent. And weren't do anything to get herself in trouble." Jenna explained.
"Hah! I resent that. I was in the pantry." They all gasped. "And I got the remote and I was the one that was turning the t.v volume up." I explained.
"How were you in the pantry?" Jenna wondered.
"That's a secret." I smirked and looked at Damon who smirked back at me.
"Well you are both very mean; scaring Jenna like that." Alaric said.
"Dude, you were freaked. You were just putting up a good front." Damon laughed.
"I was not." Alaric denied and I start laughing.
"You guys were hilarious." I smiled.
"Seriously though how were you in the pantry?!" Stefan asked so confused.
"That's for us to know and you guys to, dot, dot, dot." Damon smirked.
We laughed and talked before Jenna and I had to go home around 11:30. When we got into my room, we changed into our pajamas and we laid down in bed. I turned the lights off.
Jenna and I were facing opposite sides of the bed and I was really tired. "Elena?" I heard Jenna whisper from the other side of my bed.
I turn around. "Yeah?" I asked. We're looking at each other now.
"Do you have a crush on Damon?" She randomly asks me.
"What no!?" I say a little louder than I should have.
"You sure? You can tell me. Just the way you looked at him tonight. It was cute." She said.
"Okay, maybe I do. I don't know. I don't even know what a crush is." I say frustrated.
"Well, when he smiles at you does your stomach erupt and does it feel like there is little butterflies flying around in there?" She asks.
"You mean smirk. Damon doesn't smile, he smirks." I say. "And yes." I mumble afterwards.
"See, you know him better than anyone." She says.
"Yeah." I smile thinking about him. "I'm tired, let's go to sleep." I fall asleep thinking about Damon Salvatore's famous and wonderful smirk and his gorgeous blue eyes.
AN: So I didn't really change much of this because I've always loved this chapter so so very much but I did add a bit of detail and fixed mistakes so I hope you enjoyed reading this funny light hearted chapter again.