As it turned out, Bonnie was as fast a reader as I was. She rang me the next evening when I got home from work to tell me that she'd read four out of the five books- she'd literally been up all night reading.

"I can't talk for long- but oh my god! It's almost as though it's all happening all over again. Some of it I didn't even know was going on, like Stefan feeding on birds- ugh!" I laughed.

"Now you know why I'm a Damon fan," she sighed at his name.

"We were a bit too hard on him I think. Do you think he fancies me? I mean, I thought he may have been after me but then Elena came back and he didn't come see me even though he was invited in my house."

"I'm pretty sure he does. I tried to ask him about it once and he put his hand over my mouth and wouldn't talk about it but he had a smirk on his face like a that's for me to know and you to find out sort of thing." Bonnie hmmed and sighed some more.

"What did you think of that scene in The Reunion?" I heard Bonnie give a sharp intake of breath, before she let it out slowly and said quietly "let's just say that I went out and bought some oranges. They're in the middle of the coffee table in a bowl right now- Stefan hasn't realised, he just gave me some odd looks. So did Damon when I asked him too peel one for me." I collapsed into giggles at this last bit, Bonnie joined in and we spent the next five minutes crying our eyes out with laughter.

Eventually we calmed down enough to say goodbye, but just as I went to hang up Bonnie stopped me. "Oh wait Lizzie! I forgot to say that Stefan wants you and Lee to come over tomorrow night as he wants to talk to you about something, he said that he'll pick you about seven but I thought I might order a couple of pizzas for dinner."

"Sounds cool. Okay, I'll let Lee know and I'll see you tomorrow." I hung up the phone and wandered into the kitchen to get something to eat as Lee was out for the night. I decided either I was in big trouble over something or there was something big going on that Bonnie perhaps wasn't privileged to, I could barely sleep that night worrying about it even though Lee didn't seem too bothered. He took me hanging out with gorgeous blokes with a pinch of salt, probably because he got along very well with Stefan.

Sure enough when I got home the next night Stefan and Lee were standing outside of the house waiting for me. "Sorry, I got stuck on a call at the last minute," I apologised after I got my breath back from running down the road. "You shouldn't have rushed. There was no need, it's not a matter of great urgency, but you can get your breath back in the car, I'm afraid that you're on the back seat." I grinned at him, knowing full well that there wasn't much of a back seat but men with longer legs like Lee took priority.

We got to the flat and found the pizza had arrived a couple of minutes before we had and was waiting for us on the coffee table- I noticed with glee that Bonnie made a big fuss about putting the oranges in the kitchen.

We sat down and Elena poured out the coke for each of us, then I looked up to see Damon perching on the arm of the sofa, he didn't say anything but flashed me a wolfish grin.

"I have some news for you Lizzie, we're moving out of the flat as it's a bit too crowded now and we feel we need a bit more privacy with everything that's happening." Said Stefan, just before I was about to tuck into a slice of Hawaiian, that he was looking at as though it was giving off some horrible disease. "Where to?" I asked, puzzled as to why there would be such a big fuss made over it.

"Here," he said handing me a piece of paper with a photo of Grove house, a 7 bedroom mansion that was grade 2 listed because of the lavishly decorated dining room/reception room whose ceiling and columns were decorated in the intricate Moorish style. It had a library, huge gardens with access to the river Longford and was spread over three floors.

"Grove House?! Wow. I had no idea that was even up for sale." I had walked past it countless times and peered through the ornate iron gates at the long wide gravel drive and at the Queen Anne style house.

"It wasn't," stated Damon, flashing another grin at me that made me look at him questioningly. "That's besides the point," Stefan said sternly to focus my attention back on him. "As you're renting your father's house until it's sold and you're both having trouble finding somewhere to rent, we were wondering if you'd consider moving in with us and you can pay me the rent that you're paying your father."

I stared at Stefan in amazement, my jaw hanging open.

"Oh my god! Of course we will!" I squeaked, a moment before Bonnie squealed and threw herself at me. "I knew you'd say yes!! I can't wait Lizzie!" Stefan laughed as I was crushed.

"Gerroff! Let me up, I can't breathe Bon!"

"Bonnie! Give the poor girl a chance!" Laughed Elena who stood up and came over to me. I got up and gave her a hug, "welcome to the madhouse," she winked.

"Thanks." I said and for once in my life I felt that I'd finally found a group of friends that I belonged to and that I wouldn't feel as though I was always on the edge of their circle.

Two weeks later I had told my family that I was moving, Lee and I had packed all our stuff and after several trips we had moved all our stuff into the house.

There was plenty of space for everyone to move about and not be under each other's feet, the dining table where us girlies and Lee sat to eat had a large bowl of oranges on that earned Bonnie some weird looks. Eventually he influenced Bonnie by using his charm and grace as he knew she wouldn't be able to resist it, thankfully she only melted enough to say that he could find the answer in the books which kept him occupied for a couple of days until he found it.

I was in my room and I heard a small scream coming from the bathroom that we girls shared, I didn't think anything of it until Bonnie came running into my room her face red and out of breath, she could only utter one word when I asked her what was going on and that was "Damon." So off I went to the bathroom to find him perched on the side of the bath with a short white towel wrapped round his waist peeling an orange very slowly. The site of a near naked Damon Salvatore rendered me speechless for a minute until I managed to snap myself out of it and told him to go away, so he sauntered out of the bathroom. Slowly. Very slowly past my room where Bonnie was standing at the door with her mouth on the floor.

I think Stefan had sensed our distress as he was suddenly standing in front of Damon and told him to go and put some clothes on, Damon laughed and scooted off at supernatural speed leaving his towel behind. Bonnie and I both let out the breath that we were holding at the same time, Stefan looked at each of us in turn and shook his head. "No more oranges for you two then, serves you right for winding him up," we both stared at Stefan in shock, but he just picked up Damon's towel and walked away. Bonnie and I stood there for a minute staring at each other, then we heard Damon and Stefan laughing and realised we'd been had.

Although Damon kept himself to himself usually, one evening I got bored with the television and went into the library only to find Damon reading one of my dinosaur books which surprised me.

"Good book?" I asked him, he looked up with that elegant arched eyebrow and grinned at me. "I'm beginning to notice a worrying trend here, most of the more advanced books that you have on the subject have bookmarks in sections to do with large carnivorous Dinosaurs." I laughed at that, "you rumbled me there Damon. I have a weakness for dead things with sharp teeth," I went up to my section of the library and grabbed one of my favourite Dinosaur books that had some advanced terminology and a scientific dictionary.

"Do you mind if I read in here?" I asked him, he frowned at me.

"Of course not, this is as much your library as it is mine," he said politely, "in actual fact I have some business to attend to. If you'll excuse me." He got up and went to place the book back on the shelf.

"Actually you're not excused." He turned and looked at me with a polite questioning look, " ever since we moved in here I've seen less of you then I did when I was staying at my Dads' house. Have I done something wrong or is it because you really hate humans that much that you won't socialise with them?"

"I prefer to keep myself to myself. Now you're living here I don't have to keep an eye on you- that's my brother's job." My mouth fell to the floor.

"Is that why I was asked to move in here? So you two can keep an eye on me?!" Tears were threatening in my eyes and my anger was rising, but Damon just looked at me with his politely incredulous expression "I thought you realised. I'm sorry." But he wasn't, I left the book where it was and went downstairs to where Elena was sitting with Bonnie watching a gameshow. "Elena can I ask you a question? Was I invited to live here so I could be kept a closer eye on?" Elena and Bonnie looked shocked, then Elena's expression of shock turned to one of guilt and I walked away back to my room with tears streaming down my face.

I could hear Elena and Bonnie rushing up the stairs after me, apologising, but I didn't want to hear it and put a cd on loudly to drown out their voices. After a couple of minutes they went away and I was left on my own, I started to look at flats on the internet when I felt as though there was someone behind me. Sure enough Damon was standing right behind me, "get out of my room." I said, but he just stood there staring at my screen.

"This is an expensive area. It would make more sense for you to stay here, no bills to pay, very little rent and you have Bonnie and Elena.."

"Who I thought were my friends and I thought that perhaps you and Stefan wanted Lee and I here as we were your friends, not because you didn't trust me. I'm sorry for being so stupid, I'll speak to Lee when he comes home and I'll ask my Dad if we can move back in until we can find somewhere else."

"Don't be anymore stupid than you have been already!" He gripped me by the shoulders and I thought he was going to shake me, he looked furious.

"I'm not staying where I'm not wanted or where I'm only tolerated and Lee's the same."

"You're being very foolish. Not many people would turn down an opportunity such as the one that you have."

"Just go away," was all I could say as tears were threatening again, Damon slammed the door on his way out and I phoned Lee and told him what had happened, he was furious that we had been lied to by Stefan and equally furious with the way that I had been treated by my so called friends.

Stefan came home as soon as he heard about what had happened and told me that he considered us friends and that was why he invited us to move in, but it was true that he also wanted to keep a close eye on us. I told him that we would be moving out as soon as possible, thanked him for having us and apologised for being such an inconvenience.

We were extremely lucky in that a couple of days later I was telling a friend at work that I had moved in with some people who I though liked me but it turned out they just wanted us to fill an empty room and things had started to get awkward as one of them really didn't want us there, my friend told me that she had split up with her boyfriend who she lived with and she was having to move in with her mother as she couldn't afford the rent on her own. Her ex-boyfriend was renting it out cheaply, so I dragged Lee along to see it that Saturday and we agreed to rent it.

Her ex was very nice to us and offered to move us the next weekend as he was moving his stuff on the Saturday but had the van the whole weekend, so we returned triumphant to Grove house after stopping off at a storage company to get boxes, bubble wrap and packing tape.

Damon didn't look up when I came into the library with some small boxes, it was only when he heard the rip of the packing tape that he looked up.

"Moving so soon?"

"Yes, a friend is moving out of her flat and we're moving in next Sunday." I finished assembling the box and started putting a few large books into it, then suddenly realised that Damon had one in his hands. "Can I have my book back please? I need to pack it."

He stared at me in astonishment and something passed across his face that looked like anger for a brief second but he handed it over to me and I out it in the box.

"Why don't you pack them all into one box? I'm sure my brother can lift more than that."

"Stefan's not moving us. Besides, too many books in one box and it might give way." I did up another box with a few heavy dinosaur books in and marked them, then I started to load my paperbacks into a larger box, I felt his eyes on my back as I picked up my copies of The Vampire Diaries. "You and Stefan can have these or do what you want with them, I don't want them anymore." I placed them on the table and he got up and walked out.

All that week we packed and tried to avoid Stefan Elena and Bonnie. Stefan tried to talk me out of it but I refused, Elena tried Lee who also refused.