Diana's POV

In the morning, after we got dressed, Cassie and I woke up hoping to grab some breakfast before school. However, before we got downstairs, we were cut off by Jenna in the hallway.

"Hey, can you girls tell me if I look adult?" She asked.

"It depends on where you're going." Cassie replied.

"Jeremy's parent-teacher conference." She replied.

"Look, I've only had one class with him, but I know the guy is an asshole and I think that he'll be an asshole to you whether you like an adult or not." Cassie remarked. "Now if you excuse me, I'm hungry."

She walked away and Jenna was a bit surprised.

"She's usually cranky when she doesn't get her coffee." I explained before I headed down as well.

"So what did you and Stefan do last night?" She asked.

"We didn't do anything." I explained. "You know I am not the kind of girl to have hookups."

"Well I thought that maybe a new attitude would come from a new place." She stated. At that point, Elena came down.

"What are you two talking about?" Elena questioned.

"Diana had a boy over last night." Cassie explained with a wide grin.

"It's not a big deal." I remarked in frustration. "We need to head to school."

Once we were at school and in class, I couldn't help but stare into Stefan's eyes. They were so beautiful. He kept looking into mine as well. I think that there was a term for it: eye sex. I didn't even have an idea what Mr. Tanner was saying. I think it was something about a comet.

"Are we bothering you, Mr. Salvatore, Ms. Blackwell?" He interrupted. I blushed and looked away from Stefan.

After class was over, we met me in the hall. He reached into his bag and pulled out a book.

"I brought it." He explained.

"Wuthering Heights by Ellis Bell, how did you get this?" I questioned in awe. I couldn't help but wonder if he thought I was a nerd based on my reaction.

"It's been passed down through the generations." He explained. "You can have it if you want. I have lots of books."

"No, this is worth way too much for you to just give away." I told him.

"Well how about you read it and then you can give it back to me?" He suggested as I put it in my bag.

Cassie's POV

So after school, we were outside the Mystic Grill. Caroline had invited us to hang out with her, Bonnie, and Elena.

"So my Grams says the comet is a sign of impending doom." Bonnie explained. "The last time it was here there was a lot of death."

"And then you poured another shot and she told you about the aliens." Caroline quipped. "She's this crazy lady who keeps talking about witches. So then what happened?"

"Nothing, we trust talked." Diana remarked in exasperation. "Why is it so hard to believe that a guy and a girl can have a civil conversation?"

"Well what are you waiting for? You need to jump his bones already." Caroline told her. That was definitely not like Diana at all. "It's simple. Boy likes girl, girl likes boy: sex."

"Profound." Elena quipped before Diana stood up. "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to see him." Diana announced. I knew that I shouldn't let her go by herself. I sighed and got up with her as we began to head…did we even know where we were going?

"Are you seriously going over there to have sex with him?" I questioned.

"No, but I want to see him." She explained. "I want to tell him that I want to be his girlfriend."

"We don't know where this place is." I pointed out. She began to chance and I realized that she was using the location spell. She began to walk and I followed closely because the spell could mess with vision.

We arrived at an old mansion-like house. There was a bell that I rang, but there was no answer. I noticed the door was open and decided to go in despite Diana's protest that it was rude. The door must have been left open for a reason.

"Cassie, we should've waited for someone to answer it." She told me before a crow suddenly flew into the house. So apparently they liked to have open windows as well as doors. We looked around and found a really hot guy in front of us. He was a bit older but that did not make him any less hot.

"I'm sorry we barged in." Diana apologized.

"You must be Diana." He replied, looking at her. "I'm Damon, Stefan's brother, and who would you be?"

"Cassie." I answered with a smile. Those guys had good genes.

"He didn't mention that he had a brother." Diana declared. I couldn't help but wonder why.

"Well, Stefan's not one to brag." Damon stated. "Please come. I'm sure that Stefan will be here soon."

He led us into the living room and it was huge.

"This is your living room?" I questioned in disbelief.

"Living, parlor, 70s auction, it's a bit kitschy for my taste." Damon explained. "I can see why Stefan is so smitten, of course there's more than one pretty girl in the room. It's about time that he finally moved on. The last one nearly destroyed him."

"Last one?" Diana asked in confusion.

"Yeah, Katherine, his girlfriend?" Damon responded as she just stared. "Oh, you haven't had the awkward exes conversation yet. Whoops, well it's definitely going to come up now. Well he probably didn't tell you because he didn't want you to think that he was on the rebound and we all know how those go."

"You say it like you don't believe in love." I noted.

"I'm a fatalist." He responded. "Hello, Stefan."

The two of us looked behind us to see that Stefan was standing there. I didn't even hear him come in.

"Diana, Cassie, I didn't know that you were coming over." He remarked. It was definitely looking like a mistake to just pop in announced.

"Yeah, it was kind of a spur of the moment thing." Diana explained. It was followed by an awkward silence.

"You know I should break out the family photo albums." Damon remarked. "But be warned. This one wasn't always such a looker."

"Thank you for stopping by." Stefan stated. I figured that the nice way of telling us to leave.

"Yeah, we should probably get going." Diana said, taking the hint. "It was nice meeting you, Damon."

"You girls are welcome any time." Damon declared as we walked out the door and then home. We had to find some way to get a car.

From there, we went to the Gilbert house, which I still wasn't ready to call home yet. Elena and Jenna were making dinner.

"How did it go?" Elena asked.

"He's on the rebound and he has raging family issues." Diana explained.

"Just wait until you date a guy with mommy issues." Jenna replied. "Or cheating issues, or amphetamine issues."

It sounded like she had a lot of bad relationships. At that moment, Jeremy walked in.

"Hey we're making dinner." Jenna told him.

"I'm not hungry." Jeremy replied before he headed the up the stairs. Jenna then through an apple at him and I couldn't help but wonder if I had just witnessed an act of child abuse. "Ow, why did you do that?

"Quit skipping class or you're grounded." She ordered.

"Parental authority, I like it." Jeremy quipped before he resumed upstairs.

Diana's POV

The following afternoon, the two of us were in Town Square passing out fliers to remind people to watch the comet. I wasn't sure how anyone could miss it. I also couldn't help but wonder why everyone was making a big deal out of it. It was just a big ball of ice.

"So are you really going to not date Stefan just because he has a few family problems?" Elena asked me.

"Well, what am I supposed to do?" I responded.

"Did you call him?" Bonnie questioned.

"I don't even have his number." I replied in frustration.

"That's an important milestone in every relationship." Bonnie stated.

"Well I'm glad that you can find humor in this situation." I remarked before I walked away and threw the papers on the ground.

Cassie's POV

"Why is she being so serious?" Elena asked me.

"It's part of her personality." I explained. One part of our magic was that it could cause our emotions to flare up, particularly anger.

At that moment, Caroline came up to us.

"There you are. I have just run into some issues and I wondering you wanted to join the cheerleading squad." She stated.

"I don't really know anything about cheerleading." I pointed out.

"It's not that hard." Caroline explained. "Do you know where Diana is? I wanted to ask her about it as well."

"No." I responded.

"Well practice is tomorrow at 3:00. Be there." Caroline instructed, seemingly not caring that I hadn't said yes. She then walked away from us.

Diana's POV

After dark, they started giving out candles. There were too many people around, so I couldn't light it by myself. I did manage to find Cassie, who lit it for me.

It was at that point that I noticed Stefan and I lit his candle.

"Hi." He greeted me.

"Hey." I responded.

"So I'm sorry about yesterday." He apologized. "I wasn't exactly myself. It had nothing to do with you."

"You didn't tell me that you had a brother." I pointed out.

"We're not close." He explained.

"Well he told me about your ex, Katherine." I told him.

"What did he say about her?" He questioned.

"He said that she broke your heart." I declared.

"That was a long time ago." He explained.

"Well we don't have to be together." I remarked. "If you need more time to get over her, I'm fine with that."

"Diana, wait." He tried to say, but I was already walking away. We didn't really to be in relationships right now. We could be gone in a few days.

Later, we were in the restaurant with everyone around us. I wasn't even sure what we were doing there. I mean I didn't even really know who the guys were.

"Has anyone seen Vicki?" Jeremy asked. It seemed that she had been released from the hospital.

"You're her stalker, you tell us." This one guy replied. "Maybe she found someone one else to part with. Sorry Pill Pusher, you've been replaced."

"What's with the pill pusher?" Elena asked.

"Ask him." The guy responded. "She's never gonna go for you."

"She already did. Over and over." Jeremy declared.

"Wait, you slept with Vicki Donovan?" Caroline questioned. It really shouldn't have been that surprising. What I heard around the school was that she was promiscuous.

"And I didn't even have to force her into it." Jeremy replied.

"What's he talking about, Ty?" Matt questioned. It sounded like rape.

"Nothing." Ty replied.

"How about all of you shut up and help me find my sister?" Matt ordered. I sighed because I really didn't want to. I stayed with Cassie.

"So, I really think that you should go for it with Stefan." She explained. "You don't get a lot of chances with a guy like that."

"Being with a guy means the chances of us being discovered goes up." I pointed out. "We can't take that risk, Cassie."

"Maybe people won't have a problem with it." She suggested.

"Why don't we just run through town and tell everyone?" I asked facetiously.

"Well I doubt anyone would believe us unless we did a spell." She declared. "We can't let what we are prevent us from being in relationships. I'm tired of running and I want to stay somewhere for a while. I don't want our only romance to be meaningless sex with faceless Joes."

It seemed that Stefan ended up finding Vicki. I had a feeling that that girl would be a lot of trouble. We'd been around for four days and already she's caused two problems. I didn't understand how one person could cause so much trouble. The two of us went home and found that Jenna was in Jeremy's room.

"What are you doing?" Cassie asked.

"I've become my own worst nightmare: the authority figure." She explained.

"Look, I can't say anything about your parenting, but I think this thing with Jeremy will probably pass." I offered. "Losing your parents is always hard and it'll take him some time."

"How do you know?" The woman questioned.

"Because we lost our parents too." Cassie pointed out. "Each of us had a mom and we lost our dad."

It was at that moment that I realized that Cassie was right and that I wanted to stay.

"I have to go somewhere." I remarked. I then realized that it was dark and normally, it would be unsafe for a teenage girl to go out after dark. I quickly came up with a solution. "Do you think I could borrow your car or something?"

I drove to the boarding house and knocked on the door. I was relieved that Stefan was the one to answer it because I didn't want to talk to anyone else.

"So I did some thinking." I declared.

"Would you like to come in?" He questioned.

"I'd feel better if we talked about it out here." I admitted. "I don't like to get close to a lot of people. It's been mostly just me and Cassie my whole life and it's a bit hard to let people in, but I want to do that with you Stefan. You make me happy."

"You know I have a journal. I like to write things down so I remember them and there is one thing in particular that sticks out to me. You're not like any other girl that I've known."

I didn't think that he was considering that there was something different about. All I knew was that I wanted to have my first kiss. I pressed my lips against his and I got this really weird feeling, but I was okay with it because I was happy. I don't know what the feeling was but I was pretty sure that I liked it.

So the girls met Damon, and Diana and Stefan kissed. Please don't forget to review.