It was Monday morning. Elena's alarm clock rang at 7 am. Dozily she switched it off and lay down again. She had no idea when she'd finally fallen asleep. It must have been very late, since she felt dead tired.

She arrived at school just in time before the bell rang. She quickly sat down in her chair and threw a quick look through her class. No, Stefan wasn't here. But there was Bonnie, sitting two tables away from her. They smiled at each other, but before they could start a conversation their English teacher had arrived.

"Hey Bonnie", Elena caught up with her in the hallway. "Hi Elena. How are you?", she asked with a serious voice while she gave her a hug. As always, she immediately felt what was going on inside of Elena.

"I don't know. I'm worried about Stefan...", Elena started.

"Oh right he wasn't in class today"

"It's not only that.", she wanted to explain everything to Bonnie, but how could she do that, when she had to be careful about every word?

"You know there was this party yesterday at the Grill and it was Stefan's Birthday and a friend of him, Lexi, visited him and then.. well I think she got ... arrested, and it was pretty much Damon's fault, and then Stefan was so mad at his brother and I think they might've gotten into a huge fight..."

Bonnie almost started to laugh. "You are worried because he's mad at his brother? Come on Elena, what could possibly happen to him?",

Elena tried to smile at that. A lot could happen when two vampires got mad at each other, but Bonnie didn't know anything about that.

"You are possibly right",

"As always", Bonnie replied smiling.

"Why don't you leave him a text and ask him if everything is ok?",

"Yeah I think I'll do that. So how was your weekend at Grams?", Elena asked with a grin.

Now it was Bonnie who was hesitant with her answer.

"Well it um... was sort of weird."

Before Elena could ask her another question the bell rang and they both had to go to different classes.

After two more hours of boring English and History lessons the school day was finally over.

While Elena was walking out of class she rummaged in her bag until she found her mobile phone. She had texted him twice in the last two hours.

But still, there was no answer from Stefan. "What's going on?" She felt the edginess inside of her grow stronger and stronger. She needed to do something.

A few minutes later she found herself driving to the Salvatore Mansion. It was already 5 pm and twilight started to set in. She got out of her truck and slowly walked towards the house. There was no sound and no light in the windows. She was anxious.

"What if he's really hurt? Or even worse.." she didn't allow herself to finish this thought. No there must be an explaination for why he hadn't been to school today. Hesitantly she stroke the doorbell. It echoded loudly in the otherwise silent house. "Come on, please be here. I need to know that everything's okay."

But no one opened the door. She wanted to knock on the door when she noticed that it wasn't locked. Elena entered the house slowly.

"Stefan are you here?" here voice was shacking.

The hallway was gloomy and vacant. Elena walked into the living room, but it looked abandoned, too. She decided to leave Stefan a note, so that in case he might return from his mysterious absence he'd know that she had been here, looking for him. She turned around to head for the kitchen where she knew they kept some notepads when she suddenly bumped into someone.

"Elena what are You doing here?", it was Sheriff Forbes. She looked surprised and a bit resentful that she found Elena here, and not the person that she'd been looking for.

"Oh hello Mrs. Forbes! I was looking for Stefan and the door was open so I was checking to see whether he's here or not".

"Ah I see.", her face relaxed a little. "Do you know where I can find Damon Salvatore. I wanted to talk to him about something".

"I'm sorry but I don't know where he is".

"Mhm that's strange. Seems like this is a blackhole, first Zach leaves town without a word and now Damon is gone too", she said jokingly.

Elena shivered at the hearing of Zachs name. Another dead person.

"Well since no one is here we should just leave and come back another time, right?", with that Forbes put an arm on Elena's back to guide her to the door. After they had left the Mansion and Elena was back on her way home she realised that she had forgotten to leave Stefan a note.

~***~

Without a sound he jumped up to his window and into his room.

He had just drank the blood of some deers and he felt his energy return. The house was silent. He wondered where Damon was. "Seems like this town holds no interest for him as soon as I'm not here anymore. When he has no one he can torture". Furiously he threw some books off his desk.

After his night in the woods his clothes werer covered with dirt and he really needed a shower. He rushed through the living room when something suddenly caught his eye. It was the blood from Lexi. He needed to throw it away, he couldn't stare at it all the time without an increasing desire to taste it. He grabbed the box and wanted to put it into his garbage can when he noticed that one of the blood conserves had a small crack. He could smell the blood now. It smelled so good. A hundred times better than any deer or rabbit or squirrel.

"Just one small sip won't be so bad".

He was about to start drinking when he suddenly heard his mobile phone buzz on the coffee table. For a moment he wasn't sure whether he should simply ignore the stupid phone and drink all the blood or if he should answer it. Perhaps it was Elena. Suddenly his phone stopped ringing.

"Decision made"

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He passed the blood conserve to his lips. The pure odor of the blood made his head spin and his body ache for more. "Oh god how I missed this".

In the next moment his voicemail resounded. "Stefan could you please answer one of my messages. Where are you? I know you want me to stay away from you but... anyway just give me a sign". The message had ended and it was all silent again.

With one swift movement he was out of his house and the blood was in his garbage can.

A few seconds later he was back in his front room. He had to grin at himself. "Elena's voice is stronger than my desire for human blood. How can that be?"

He now noticed that she had sounded very upset and also deeply worried about him. Did she really care so much about him? It had been her, who had pushed him away, not the other way round, so why was she calling him? Perhaps Lexi had been right. Elena was scared of everything that Stefan was, but she couldn't deny his feelings for him, no matter how hard she tried.

This thought made him smile for a moment.

~***~

Elena sat down on her windowsill and started writing into her diary.

"Who does he think he is? I've texted him 3 times today and called him twice, I even left a message on his voicemail. But there's not a single beep coming from him. At first I was really worried but now I'm becoming more and more angry at him. It's not that difficult to write a small message "I'm okay".

She paused for a moment.

Not even a whole day has passed since I saw him the last time but I already miss him. I perhaps shouldn't care so much about him. Though he has never done me any harm, he IS dangerous. I know that, but still I need him in my life now!

She got up and decided to make herself some dinner, all this sitting around and brooding about him didn't really help her.

Elena was down in the kitchen preparing some spaghetti when she heard Jenna talking to someone on the door.

"Elena it's Stefan", she shouted.

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My 2nd chapter:) So what do u guys think about it? Do you like it?? Pleeeaaase leave me a review!!! :D I'll try to update soon, but I think it won't happen before Sunday, sorry!!