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Chapter 6

They'd first started going out first year. She'd been together with this person, Daniel, since about the first week of school. She really liked Daniel. Daniel was fairly inexperienced as far as dating went, but she didn't know that, you wouldn't from the way he acted. Plus, he was gorgeous. Essentially, he broke up with her. It wasn't that he didn't like her. Actually, he liked her a lot. The problem was he didn't know what to do with her. Should he call her every night? Eat lunch with her every day? Trivial problems, but when you're a freshman, trivial problems are like catastrophes. He tried to act cool and basically ended up ignoring her. Around October, she finally asked him. "Do you want to go out with me or not?" The answer wasn't yes; in fact it wasn't even an answer yet that night when she met Stefan. She'd asked Daniel's friend to give him the message Friday morning, but she'd neither heard nor seen Daniel or the friend all day. Friday night she went out with her friends, jenna and caroline, and these two sophomore people. One of them had played soccer with Stefan. "Harper", they kept calling him.

Anyway, they went up to Stefan's house in the hills to see what he was up to. All of them sat around in his living room for a while, playing Sega while waiting for someone to call Stefan back.
Stefan noticed her right away. He liked her looks right away anyway, but she didn't seem particularly friendly. She was very quiet and fairly unreceptive to any suggestions people made. She didn't want anything to drink, she wanted to keep her jacket on, she didn't want to play winner.

So Stefan instead focused his attentions on the jenna girl, who had been flirting with him somewhat, but it soon became obvious that she had something going with one of the sophomores. The bitch (as he called her mentally during that first brief hour) actually sat in his kitchen and talked to his dad for a while. When she was in there, one of the people commented on her and what a bundle of laughs she was. Caroline mentioned that she was upset because she was breaking up (maybe) with her boyfriend.
So Stefan thought about it for a few minutes, then noticed it quiet in the kitchen and went in. His dad had gone back to his bedroom, and she was now sitting alone quietly at his kitchen table, slowly tracing the placemat pattern with her fingertip.

He sat down across from her, and she looked up at him and gave a half-hearted smile, then looked back down at the table. She didn't want to him to think she was a bitch, so she looked back up at him and gave him a more genuine one. It was his house after all, and she'd just gotten through talking to his dad, who was a real sweetheart, so she ought to be nice to him. "Having fun?" he asked, teasing her a bit. "Oh, yeah, tons," she answered sarcastically. He leaned forward. "So, you sad?" he asked. She just shrugged her shoulders.

"What's your name again?" he asked. "I'm Stefan. I live here," he added.
"I know," she said. "I'm Elena."
That's right, he knew that. "So," he said. "You want to talk about it? Your friend said you were having problems with your boyfriend."
Good, he knows I have a boyfriend, she thought gratefully. "Well, kind of", she said.
"What's the matter? I don't know, maybe I can give you a guy's perspective, if you want."
" Well, aright".
"So, what's up?"
" Well, we've only been going out since the beginning of the year. He's just... I don't know. I mean, I really like him and stuff but he's just such a butt!" Stefan laughed. The girl had attitude, he could see. "What's he do?"
" Well, he's sort mean to me."
" What-he doesn't hit you, does he?" asked Stefan, concerned.
"Oh, no! Nothing like that!"
" I was going to say, I mean, if he's beaten' on you I'd probably have to kick his ass."
That made her uncomfortable, but she just continued talking to him anyway. "No, he just ignores me." "He ignores you?"
" Yeah, I mean, he never calls me. I have to call him if I want to talk to him. And he doesn't hang out with me at school or anything. We've gone out to lunch a couple times but not lately. So, it's like we never talk, you know? I mean, we never even see each other. Not lately anyway. He says he likes me but I wish he'd just, I don't know", she shrugged.
"You're right, he sounds like a real butt," agreed Stefan.
" So, well, I asked his friend to give him the message that I wanted to know what was up, whether he still wanted to be with me or not. Anyway that was this morning and I haven't heard anything".
"Is he a freshman?"
" Yeah".
"You're a freshman, right?"
" Yeah".
"Um, I think that you should..." he began. He couldn't just say "Just dump him and go for me", she'd think he was a jerk. Plus he'd promised her advice. "Well, first of all you should wait and see what he says. If he calls you. Don't call him-he should call you. If he says he wants to be together with you still, and then tell him how you feel and find out what his problem is. And tell him that things need to change".
"That's what I was planning on doing."
" And of course, if he doesn't call you, like, by tomorrow night, unless he's out of town or something, which if he is you didn't mention..."
"He's not", smiled Elena.
" ... or if he calls you and says 'I don't know' then you should get rid of him because he's a dork." Elena shrugged. "I guess so."

The phone rang then and Stefan leapt up to get it. Stefan told the others the "lowdown" as soon as he got off. His friend was coming over to get him and they were going to someone else's house. The people and Caroline and jenna wanted to go too so they all stood around in the kitchen waiting for him. When he finally showed up jenna suggested Elena go with Stefan and his friend Josh because it was easier then them all squishing in the Bug again. Stefan was pleased and insisted that she sit in the front seat. She was very quiet and not at all pleased about being in the car with these two people she didn't know, plus going to the house of someone else she didn't know. All she just wanted to do was go home, and check to see if Daniel had called, and if he hadn't then cry. Cry, which she felt like doing when Josh asked her if she had a boyfriend. She was scared he was going to hit on her, which she hated, because she didn't ever know how to act when that happened. But Josh just said "Oh" when she said she did and then turned up the music louder. elena wanted to turn and smile at Stefan, because, after all, that is what they had been talking about, but she just didn't feel like being friendly tonight. Stefan thought she was cute and girlfriend potential as opposed to just a lay, which of course he wouldn't mind. Stefan thought if he didn't get laid pretty soon he'd explode. Of course, he thought hastily, he would never rule anyone out as "just a lay". His life wasn't that good.

They didn't talk much more that night because she left pretty soon after they got to the house. He'd lost track of her after they got there because this blonde-haired woman he'd never met was flirting with him fairly heavily. Later, after he didn't get anything like usual, he thought about the sad girl he'd met earlier with the big brown and long brown hair.
He got caroline's number from matt, and called her up to ask about elena. caroline said that Daniel had called her, but he was a "total butt" and acting indifferent to her so she said, "Then I guess we're not together anymore if that's the way you're acting", and he'd said, "I guess not."
It wasn't the clean break Stefan was hoping for, but he wasn't disappointed. He was a little though when Caroline said she thought Elena would be mad if she gave her phone number to him. Before he could get insulted Caroline explained that it wasn't him, but that it would probably take awhile before she would get over Daniel, the way she was apparently. But Caroline said she'd see what she could do as far as getting them together.

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