EPOV
Dinner was fantastic. It was so great to see most of the gang again! I had met with Caroline a few times while in uni, but I felt so distant from her, like she was different somehow. Probably because she always acted weird when we saw each other, not wanting to spill the beans of vampires and whatever else I had been forced to forget.
Everyone was joking about the past few years, Ric had met another girl who he was now engaged to. A doctor and lecturer at the local university at close to Mystic Falls. He was also lecturing there. He taught students about "mystical shit" as Damon had put it.
Caroline hadn't been in school like she'd been telling me
"No! Fuck that!" she laughed "I have eternity ahead of me! We went travelling!" she beamed at Stefan, who blushed and coughed a little
"We?" I asked "Ahhh…" Wait, were they together?
"Oh, right… Ah, Stefan and I have been dating. About a year after you started uni…" Caroline said, she sounded so… Apologetic about the whole thing,
"That's cool!" I said, not really realizing why she was apologetic for, until Stefan looked at me oddly, it suddenly dawned on me that we had dated for a few years "oh, wait? You want my blessing?! Right right, yeah, of course! I mean… I'm still getting my memories back so I don't really remember… But from what Damon tells me, I had moved on anyway…." I glanced sideways at Damon, who was silently eating his very rear steak, not getting involved in this conversation.
"OK! That's great! Because… I wasn't sure what you remembered or how you felt about who or… What was going on and I'm really glad…"
"Care! It's OK! Stop rambling! Tell me about your guys travels!" I laughed as she launched into great detail about her travels with Stefan and during the summer breaks, Ric and Damon. They'd gone to Australia and New Zealand, South Africa and England. They hadn't gone to many countries that didn't speak English because their plan was to live in each country for a few years and immerse themselves in the culture and language. Maybe get a few degrees at some prestigious universities around the world.
When they finished telling their stories, I turned to Damon, "If you only joined them during the summers with Ric, what did you do during the rest of the year?" I asked, raising an eyebrow
"He brooded around at my apartment. He became Stefan for 4 years" Ric said, glaring at Damon
"Really, Damon? You didn't go out and live your life?" I asked
"First, Elena" he said, now glaring at me "I've lived for over 160 years! I've done a bit of traveling here and there already ok, mother?" he asked, in which everyone laughed
"and secondly, I wanted to wait for you, travel with you, see some of this stuff for the first time with you" he said softly, picking up my hand and kissing it gently.
"So sweet…" Caroline coo'd, quickly glancing down at the dessert menu as Damon shot his head up and threw imaginary daggers at her with his eyes
"So then that leaves Bonnie? Where is she? How come she didn't come?" I asked, also looking at the dessert menu. I was full as a bull, but seriously, if this was the only time I got into this restaurant, I needed to try at least one thing!
"Ahh, well after her and her coven had performed the spell on you, so that people will ill intent for you would not be able to see you or sense you, and as a result she kind of… Fell out with us" Caroline said sadly
"What do you mean?" I asked, confused. If she didn't want to do it, she didn't have to
"I… May or may not have forced her into doing it" Stefan spoke.
Wait. Stefan spoke?
"Stefan? You… YOU forced her? It sounds like…."
"A Damon thing to do? Yes it does" Damon laughed, smiling at his brother "I wanted to contact a witch I had met in Africa, in fact I did contact her, but she could only make a few months after you would have started university. Leaving the entire summer for Klaus to find you, or for you to find another way other than myself to turn you. So…"
"So I forced Bonnie to do it. Something about threating to take out her organs kind of… made her do it" Stefan sighed "I never really liked her anyway, so it was no great loss to me" Stefan chuckled
"Well yeah but she was my best friend, Stefan!" Caroline turned in her seat to scowl at him
"You guys still not over that?" Damon asked
"Hell no! She called me a few times 'only to make sure Elena was still alive" but other than that when I tried to ask how she was, she just totally cut me off!" Caroline said, tears starting to fall down her cheeks.
"Oh, hey, I'm sorry baby. But El…"
"Elena's safety, I know I know.." Caroline grumbled, cuddling Stefan, and then pulling away quickly, wiping away her tears
"Who cares about that right now?! Lets get some dessert!" she smiled, waving the waiter over "I'll take… hrm, these.." She ran her finger down the entire menu "please!" she said
"Ma-am? All of them?" the waiter asked in shock "For the whole table, mam? Or…..?"
"Nope, this is just for me and Stefan. The life of a…. er… slim person"
She almost said vampire. Ha.
"OK…. Well, the rest of the table?" the waiter asked,
Damon and I also ordered everything, except we intended to share it with Ric, after all, myself and Ric didn't have the magical abilities to be able to eat everything on the menu.
After dessert had come and gone, and I was feeling like the seams of this dress were about to burst, we slowly made our way to the limo waiting out front.
It was chilly out, I didn't mean to be the stereotypical girl you see on the movies who forgot to bring a jacket, but it's not like I went home before changing, or even thought to buy one when we were in the dress store. Luckily, just as I was about to move my had to my arm to rub it, Damon almost threw his jacket from himself and placed it around my shoulders before we ducked into the limo.
"OK! Now what are we doing, gang!" Care sounded way too excited for my liking, I was stuffed, I couldn't imagine doing anything other then taking this dress off and flopping down on the couch, or even the bed.
"Well" Damon started, in a tone that made my ears perk up
"Elena and myself are going to her house, where she will finally invite me inside and I will then proceed to…"
"Damon! This is our first date!"
"Let me finish!" he said, clearing his throat "Proceed to take her clothes off and dot dot dot". That's right. He said dot dot dot.
Care laughed at that, Stefan just knitted his eyebrows, and Ric rolled his eyes.
"She's still my step-daughter, niece, guardian child thing, you know mate" Ric said.
"And you say that everytime I make a joke about us being naked" Damon smirked
"Cuz I don't wanna know!" Ric said
"If she wasn't your step daughter 'niece thing' you'd wanna know" Damon trailed off, winking at me
The limo was wizzing past all the apartment blocks, I suddenly realized that I do not feel like being questioned about my living situation right now, "how did you afford this apartment" I could just here Care asking "what, did you prostitute yourself out? Haha" She'd follow up with. Which was the truth. Fuck.
I couldn't whisper it to Damon, so I pulled out my phone and sent a quick text to him
"Don't want to explain living situation atm, can we go to motel first then just me and u head home?"
I put my phone away, thankful Damon was already on his, searching a funny Youtube video to show the guys, he received the text, and looked at me and smiled, kissed me on my cheek while mouthing "yes".
"Hey guys, I don't feel too well, how about we hang out tomorrow? How long are you guys in town for?" I ask, faining an upset stomach by moving my hands and rubbing circles on myself.
"Oh baby are you sure?" Damon asked "I could really use a glass of burbon with Ric"
"I think I ate something funny…" I loved how he played along like he had no idea, made it a bit more believable. I hated lying to my friends, but I needed a legit excuse to give for living the life of luxury while I was studying at one of the most prestigious universities in America for four years.
"No worries, 'Lena! We're leaving whenever you want! It's not like we have jobs or anything"
"Ah, hi!" Ric said "I do! However, it's summer, so I'm off for a few weeks between classes of summer school, so yeah, a few weeks"
"Ok great! I can go and ravish my baby…" Damon winked at me, argh, his cockiness was showing through after our first date. I only somewhat remember what he was like, in depth, anyway.
We dropped everyone off at their hotel a few blocks from my own place. The limo then pulled up to my house, and the driver opened the door for Damon and I.
"It was a great night, Damon" I said with a smirk after we stepped into the elevator
"What do you mean it's been a good night, Elena? The night isn't over" he turned to me, dropping my hand and snaking his arm around my waist, pulling me to him "the night is far from over" he growled, looking deep into my eyes, I got lost in his beautiful blue eyes, god, I recall always being lost in them, even before we dated.
He slowly lowered his head, his arm pulling me tighter against him, and in a flash, he dropped his lips to mine, his free hand was on my cheek, stroking it gently, his tongue gently licking my lips, his blunt teeth, nibbling away at them every few seconds, he gently dropped his hand from my cheek to my breast,
"Elena…" he moaned, stroking the side of my breast gently,
"mmmm" I moaned into his mouth, getting way to carried away then I wanted too on our first date,
"DING!" rang the elevator, letting us know we'd reached the top floor of the apartment building
"Damon…" I attempted to say between kisses "My floor, it…" he kept kissing me, pushing me backwards through the elevator door. Then he stopped, and just stood there.
"Elena…." He growled, "Let me in before the doors close and it goes back down" I smirked at him then. Oh yeah. I owned this apartment.
"Hmmmmm, I don't know…." I laughed, watching as the elevator door started to close on him "OK Damon, I guess you can come inside" I said, laughing.
He however, was not laughing, and after almost ripping the elevator doors open, he charged after me! Running around in a tight silk dress was not easy, and eventually after running around the apartment screming my head off – in a fun way, of course – I tripped over myself, landing flat, tummy first on the hard wooden floors. Damon then followed suit, although purposely "falling" on top of me, he gathered my long hair to one side, exposing the left side of my neck,
"mmmm" he hummed "Where were we?" he deeply whispered, taking in a deep sniff of my scent that was most strongest on my neck, it tickled my neck when he eventually took a breath out, his full weight on me, his one hand skimming up and down the right side of my body, and his other was holding me down, not that I could push him off, anyway.
"Damon" I gasped, "I can't… breath…" which was partially true, but maybe not as much as I was letting on with my fake weezing, I just wanted to take this to the bedroom, and I had a feeling he'd take me right here on the floor.
"Oh?" He said, still with his head nuzzled into my neck licking and nipping away he slowly got up and pulled me with him, "This dress is beautiful but it needs to come off" he started to rip at it, tearing it to pieces.
"Damon!" I scolded "This is a brand new dress! And.. It's our first date… Don't you think we should take things slow?"
This didn't stop him, he could still read me like a book, the moment he kissed me in the elevator there was no way I was going to pass up having him in my bed. I'd waited 4 years for this, even if I didn't realize it was what I needed…