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During P.E. (since Damon wanted to keep his badass image) Elena was alone. Damon ,apparently, was too cool to run the mile under the time limit.
Elena now had to put her socializing skills into action. She recognized one guy she saw talking to Caroline the other day. She walked up to him and boldy asked, "hey you're Caroline's friend, right?"
He first looked startled, mixed with a little confusion. He only nodded a little to show he heard me. He must be one of those shy types. "So, Caroline's friend," I started. "You've got a name?"
"Jeremy." He said looking a little scared. I would have laughed at the situation because you could tell by his voice, that he was going through puberty.
"So Jeremy do you have any friends?"
"Yeah. I mean I used to, I transferred schools. But now, here...Some people, they fit in life or whatever. I don't."
"Okay what's with the pity party!? I can be your friend" I end with a friendly smile on my face. At least I hope it was friendly instead of creepy...
I start asking him questions to try to make him warm up to me but then I see that I'm making him uncomfortable. I frown because I realize he won't want friends if they are anything like me.
That's when Damon decides that had enough today and comes over to join us. I think it's time for Damon to work his charms. But our teacher Mr. Saltzman thinks Damon needs to complete the course. Which results in all of us walking to give each other company. They start bonding over video games. I zone out because I really don't care anymore. They start arguing about whether Spiderman or batman was cooler. I involuntarily say Spiderman because Damon said so and I knew it would score me some brownie points.
He just smiles at me and he and Jeremy start talking again. Damon tries to include me in their conversation, he really does, but inevitably I have no clue what they're talking about.
After excoriating torture of pointless banter the P.E teachers blow their whistles simultaneously, signaling to go to the locker room. After taking off my shirt and shorts I couldn't help but overhear two girls gossiping. My first instinct was to ignore it but, as soon as you hear your name you couldn't help but eavesdrop.
"- that slut thinks she can whore around while dating Damon Salvatore."
"I know, she was totally flirting with that guy to get into his pants and did you see them fighting over in the field. And all innocent Gilbert could do was put her head now in shame an-"
"I'm sorry!" I interrupt, causing a scene (still in only my underwear). "But just because I have guy friends doesn't mean I'm going to automatically sleep with him when unlike you two whores!" I accuse at Heather and Ashley.
"And by the way Damon has a girlfriend and I know it isn't anyone of you." I say right before strutting away.
As soon as I get back outside it looks like everyone knew what happened. I walk over to Damon and he looks at me questionably yet in a playful way with his signature smirk in place. I just shrug my shoulders as if to say "what can I say?" and dramatically frown but for only for it to turn into an eruption of giggles.
"So," he starts. "A little birdy told me that you fought Heather and her clones butt naked in the showers...boy, I wish I could have seen that." He says with a smirk and that annoyingly hot eyebrow thing.
I shuddered at how rumors spread at this school and just denied it by shaking my head 'no.'
We see Jeremy walking towards us hesitantly. Damon greets him with a fist bump. The small gesture brings out a grin on Jeremy's face.
We show Jeremy where we usually go to catch up with Bonnie. It's only us four because unlike the majority of the student population, we have 2nd lunch. It kind of sucks considering I don't get to see Jenna , Caroline, or Katherine. I knew Damon liked to hang out with his friends. I could admit to myself that I was starting to like Damon. More than just a friend. But I wasn't anywhere near telling anybody! He still had a girlfriend and I have boundaries.
Lunch was surprisingly great. Bonnie seemed to accept Jeremy pretty quickly. She kept going on about how she has this 'sixth sense' and how Jeremy would have a big impact on our life.
I swore that when Jeremy heard "our life" he started blushing. Ooh how I could have fun with that!
Heather ,during P.E the next day, kept shooting me dirty looks. Dana ,the girl who changed next to me, just told me to ignore her, even though she was friends with her. It's nice to think people are actually good. But Dana told me something interesting, too. She felt sorry for me however I saw this as a teasing goldmine!
""Hey Guys! Guess what I found out?" I asked them during lunch. It's officially the four of us since Jeremy said that he's "had worse friends."
"That they actually do sell M&M's the size of faces?!" Bonnie gasped.
"That a robot dancing the robot is really just dancing?" Damon said nonchalantly while picking at his food.
"No! Apparently people are shipping us..." I end awkwardly
"What the hell is 'shipping'?" Jeremy questioned.
Bonnie and I just share a knowing look, looking annoyed.
"Ok who's is being shipped with who? And what's are the mash-up names?" Bonnie asks like it's the most natural thing in the world.
"Well...with me and Jeremy it's Jerena; Damon and I are Delena. When you're with Damon, it's Bamon and between you and Jeremy it's Jonnie."
"Ugh I don't like Jonnie is sounds like a blonde girl's name that chews gum all day...Hey! What about Beremy! It's like what they did with Bamon, kinda." Bonnie reasons. I don't even know why people made "Bamon" to be honest. They have no chemistry! Out of all of us Damon and Bonnie, are the least closest, which is weird considering they've known each other the longest.
"Hey don't ask me, I didn't start it. And Dana told me that supposedly I'm the new Bella with Jeremy and Damon."
"Wait wait what!? They compare me to a sparkly pale fictional character! Everyone knows vampires don't sparkle! I mean, ooh how scary your shiny... I miss Ann Rice she was so on it." Damon rambles on.
"What makes you think you're Edward?" I question incredulously being slightly sarcastic.
"Well because it is obvious we are going to be endgame"
I feel the heat in my cheeks rise but it is a good thing he turned back to look at his pizza. He doesn't even know the effect he has on me, ever since I got a crush on him.
"How do you even know about one of Twilight's characters?"
Thank god for Jeremy!
So as we ate, I started to feel bad. This is what I get for eating a hamburger! Eww... I really don't like feeling nauseous. I groan in pain.
This seems to catch their attention. Bonnie asked if I was okay. I couldn't help but say annoyingly"What do you think?" Bad move, she was only trying to be nice!
"Haha! You feel like shit and you look like shit. So your shit!" Jeremy can be a real jerk sometimes. But when he's not, he is actually really sweet
That's when the bell rings. This sucks! I have Miss Walberg next. It's always seems like that class goes on for hours!
I start walking in the direction of room 22, clutching my stomach at the weird sensation. And I feel a hand touch my back and I jerk back to look at the perve and it's only Damon. Aww he can be so sweet when he wants to be, mostly when he's with his friends is when he's an asshole.
Now, it's after school and I'm waiting for Jenna to get out. I don't feel so bad anymore but I am crossing my arms over my stomach self-consciously. I suddenly hear a voice I've gotten so used to say my name.
"Elena," Damon starts. "What are you doing here?" he questions.
"Well, it is a public school," I say as if I'm speaking to a child. "And it's after school and I do have a social life."
Before can comprehend what's happening next he's hugging me. He's hugging me! His arms are around my waist and because I was crossing my arms I could only wrap my arms are his waist too. My head wad pressed against his black shirt. The hug is pretty awkward considering our position, I think he was expecting me to put my arms next to his head. So he pulled away before I can savor the moment.
He just says a simple 'bye.' before leaving.
All but as soon as he leaves, Jenna gets out of Mrs. Allison's room. Since Jenna is one of those polite people, she almost always asks how my day went. I don't tell her about what happened with Damon considering she doesn't like him. At first she thought he was kind of cool and funny but she concluded with me that he's an ass.
Later on that day, Damon and I end up texting again. The first time we texted was pretty awkward. But now it's awesome.
Elena: hey so u wanna tell me y u hugged me
I was hoping he could tell I was slightly teasing him but its positively difficult to understand that through text.
Damon: oh tht well u said u felt bad nd my mom always said tht a hug can make u feel better
I couldn't tell how that would've come across if we were talking in real life. I'm think he was either A) nervous B)"badass" mode or as I like to call it C) adorkable, which basically us just another way of saying nervous.
When he changes the subject all too quickly, I conclude this:
He's in adorkable mode.
Which can only mean one thing, he cares about me.