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Chapter 2:
Saturday July 20th 2000 1:08pm
I'm actually wearing an outfit today. Shocker. I'm standing in front of my mirror in my new bedroom looking at myself; examining myself. My brown hair is brushed straight. I'm wearing tight black jeans short shorts and a cute purple top that shows my cleavage that I shouldn't have at the age of fourteen. I did my make-up light but hot, black eye liner, black mascara and purple eye shadow.
I don't even know why I decided to try and look good today. I haven't looked good all week. All I have worn are pajamas and sweats. My hair has either been in a messy bun or messy ponytail. But today I woke up and feel like today was the day to finally look nice and to wear proper clothes.
Giuseppe left early this morning for some business conference that's a couple hours away and he won't be back till Monday. Damon is throwing a party and I'm welcomed to go but I'm not sure I will. I feel like if I try to have fun and get my mind of things I would be disrespecting my parents death but at the same time I need to get my mind of things. It's been a month and I know I want to reinvent myself. Before the crash I was Miss Perfect; perfect grades, perfect friends, and perfect family. I never did anything I wasn't supposed to do but now I'm different. I feel like a complete different person so I need to start doing things I wouldn't have done before. I'm going to go to this party.
I haven't seen Damon in almost a week. Stefan was right when he said nobody hardly sees him. He comes home late at night when everyone is sleeping and then somehow sneaks out unnoticed in the afternoon. Damon is like the ultimate bad boy; he's hot, he's older, he hates his family and he's into illegal stuff. He's the perfect distraction.
When I finally find myself going upstairs for the first time all day I see Stefan grabbing water bottles from the fridge and trying to put them in an already packed backpack. I sit on a stool in front of him.
"Oh hey." He smiles at me and I smile back. I've grown to realize over the past week that he isn't as bad as I thought. He is a little boring but he's the kind of guy I've grown up dreaming that I would marry. Before the crash Elena would have had a huge crush on him. I know before the crash Elena is still somewhere deep inside me and I really wish she doesn't come out soon.
"Where you going?" I ask.
"To my friend's house, Matt. Damon is having a party tonight and I really don't wanna be here. Just stay in the basement with the door locked and nobody will bother you." He smirks.
"Thanks, I'll remember that." I say not letting him know that I'm going to go to the party. Damon walks into the kitchen in a black t-shirt and jeans and messy hair. Is he ever not hot?
"Hey brother." He says annoyingly to Stefan and then sits down beside me. "Hi Lena." He says with a flirty smirk.
"Hi." I say nonchalantly.
"You look nice today." He says with a sparkle in his eyes and a cute little smile.
"Thanks." I say getting up and pulling out a packaged wrap from the fridge to eat for lunch.
"Well I'm going to go. Bye Elena, bye Damon." Stefan says leaving the room. I mumble a goodbye and take a bite out of my delicious looking chicken wrap.
"So are you coming to the party tonight?" He asks.
"I don't know, maybe. If I'm bored." I say emotionless.
"You should come. Freshman girls always crash these things probably trying to find a senior boyfriend but whatever. I can introduce you to some." He says and seems genuinely kind.
"Thanks." I say quietly. I throw out my garbage from the wrap and check the clock. Its 1:52pm. I really don't know what I'm going to do for the rest of the day. The doorbell rings. Woah. Nobody has came here since I moved here. Stefan always goes to his friends' houses during the day. I hideout in the basement and Damon does god knows what. Nobody ever comes here.
"That's my buddy Nik. He came to help set up. Wanna help?" He asks.
"Sure." I follow him out of the kitchen and we head towards the front door. I just realized in the entire week I've lived here I've only been in the basement and the kitchen. I never go and explore the rest of the house. I'm such a loser. Damon opens the door. A guy with blue eyes and blonde hair is standing on the other side.
"Hey!" The guy says with an English accent.
"Hey." Damon says with a smile and 'man hugs' him. He lets him in.
"I got two kegs and a load of different whiskeys and sodas in my truck and I need some help carrying them in." The guy smirks. And still hasn't noticed me.
"Well good thing we have six hands." Dylan smirks and looks at me.
The guy turns towards me and smirks. "Well hello love. Who's this?" He asks Damon.
"This is Elena; she's staying with us now." Dylan explains vaguely.
"I'm Niklaus. But you can call me Nik or Klaus" Nik picks up my hand and kisses it. Ugh another flirt. Teenage guys need to learn to stop thinking with their downstairs appendage.
"Nice to meet you." I smirk.
"So is she your cousin or something?" He asks Damon.
"Nah, she's my god sister. Daddy dearest is her godfather." Damon smirks.
"Ah trouble at home? Fighting with parents?" Nik questions why I'm here.
"Nah Klaus, don't." Damon says seriously.
"No it's fine Damon. My parents died a month ago in a car crash." I say with a straight face.
"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry lov-" I cut him off.
"It's fine now who wants to start setting up for this party?" I ask.
We spend a couple hours setting up kegs and coolers for liquor and soda and making food and munchies and making sure valuables were looked away my basement suite that Damon promised wouldn't be touched. And now Nik, Damon and I are lounging around in the den listening to music before the guests get here.
"So Elena, what grade are you going into?" Klaus asks.
"Grade nine." I say kind of shyly and embarrassed.
Klaus chokes on the sip of beer he was drinking. "What? You're joking."
"She's not Klaus. She's fourteen and she's off limits." Damon says slightly protective. What the heck I so am not off limits.
"You're not my brother so don't act like it."
"That's not what I meant. You know I'm a fun guy and you can do whatever you want but not with my friends."
"What the fuck!" I stand up mad. "Where did the guy who was letting me have fun and not babying me go?" I raise my voice in anger.
Damon laughs a bit. "I'm still here Lena. I said you could come and I would introduce you to people and you could drink a bit and have fun but I'm not going to let you go slutting around with my friends. You can do that with guys your own age."
"You're a dick." I spit out and turn to leave.
"You aren't the first girl to tell me that." Damon smirks and begins a conversation with Klaus about some video game.
"Fuck you Damon. For your information, I wasn't going to go around slutting it up with your friends but that is my decision, not yours." I cut off their conversation.
Damon stands up and walks over to me. He's a good couple inches taller than me. "Lena, I'm sorry but if I see you anywhere near flirting with any guy less then six months older than you tonight, I won't invite you to anymore parties and I'll make sure none of my friends talks to you again." He says so calmly.
"What's your problem?" I asked pissed.
"I'm just not going to let your lose your virtue just because you are in some no emotions phase of your life." He says again calmly.
"Who says I'm a virgin?"
"You're face does. Now go to the basement and don't come back till you hear the party." He orders me.
For some reason I do as I'm told. Probably cause I don't want to make him anymore mad.
It's been about three hours and I've heard the party going on for about a half hour. I don't know if I want to go up there or not. I'm still pretty furious at Damon but I also want to make him mad. Maybe I can make him jealous? No he doesn't see me like that. He sees me as the little friend of his that needs to be protected. Ugh. He makes me so furious.
I jump off the couch and walk into my room. I'm gonna have to change my outfit. I want to look sexy, right now I just look cute. I grab a pair of black skinny jeans that my Aunt Jenna gave me and changed out of my shorts and into them. I take my purple top off before looking for a better sexier shirt. After looking through my draw I realize all my clothes are cute and innocent. I open my tank top draw and grab a spagetti strap grey tank top that I used to only wear as pajamas or as an undershirt. I throw it on over top of my black bra and look at myself in the mirror. The black skinny jeans make my ass and legs look amazing and the top shows off a bit of my belly and a good amount of cleavage. I look smoking. But something is missing.
I walk through the living room and into my walk in closet and grab my short leather boots with a two inch heal and I stuff my feet into them since they are a size too small. I got them last fall with my back to school clothes. I look up and something catches my eyes and I smile.
A week before I came here Jenna took me out for lunch and I couldn't find my jacket so she let me borrow one of hers, her black cute leather jacket that cuts off half way down my back and she told me I looked so good in it that I could keep it. It's absolutely perfect. It knocks my look up for hot to sexy. I jump up and grab it before throwing it on me and walking over to my stand up mirror. Now my look is perfect. I leave the closet and grab my keys off the table to lock the door when I get up stairs.
When I get to the top of the stairs I have trouble opening the door and I shove it roughly. And hear a guy yell "Hey!" Seems like a couple was making out against the door.
"Excuse me." I say bitchy and shove them off to the side to lock the door behind me.
"Sorry we didn't know anyone was down there. The sign says off limits." The girl says slightly apologetic.
"Yea its off limits because its my room." I snap and walk away while sliding my keys into my jeans pocket.
"Who the hell was that?" I hear the girl say confused. I smirk because I want to shock people. I want to be bad-ass and mysterious. I walk over to the counter and grab a pepsi out of one of the tubs of ice, I don't know if I want to drink tonight or not, so I'll start off with soda.
"Hi!" I hear a bubbly voice from behind me and I turn around to see a blonde girl about my height standing behind me. She's pretty but in the shy and innocent way I was before the accident.
"Hi. I'm Elena." I smile back at her in a friendly way.
"I'm Caroline." She smiles a huge bright smile. Hmm I look her over as she looks me over. She's wearing an innocent looking white flowery sundress and pink flats. She would be the same height as me if I was not in heals. She has light makeup on and her hair looks to have been curled with a curling iron. She has bluey green eyes. She's very pretty and is exactly the type of girl the old Elena would have been friends with. And although I don't think I am anything like her now, I'll be nice and let her introduce me to people. "I've never seen you around here before." She says with a questioning voice.
"I just moved here a week ago." I say vaguely.
"And you already got invited to a Salvatore party!" She says shocked. "Lucky you." She smiles enviously.
"I actually live here." I say quietly.
"Really?" She says shocked but also like she's looking for some gossip. "Are you like Stefan and Damons long lost sister or something." She asks.
"Or something." I answer vaguely. "What grade are you going into?" I ask.
"Ninth. I know I look a lot older and I hang out with an older crowd. I am really mature for my age." She says rambling.
"Me too. I'm mature for being in the ninth grade too." I say walking with her out of the kitchen and into the back yard where a lot of teens are louging around the pool, hot tub, deck and gazebo.
"Really? You're in ninth grade? Cause I would have guessed you were sixteen or seventeen. But this is great we could have classes together."
"Nope I'm fourteen." I'm barely paying attention to her I'm looking around the back yard and looking at all the people, a lot of people are looking at me too since I don't have a familiar face.
"So, want me to introduce you to people?" She asks hestitant since she can tell I'm not that interested.
"Yeah, totally, thanks." I say and follow her towards a group of younger looking teenage girls.
"Hey guys this is Elena, she's staying with the Salvatores now, she's our age." She says to the group. "Elena this is Bonnie Bennett, April Young and Anna Smith." Bonnie has dark skin and caramel colour hair and looks quite young and short for her age. April has dark brown hair and bright blue eyes, similar to Damons and looks her age and is really pretty. Anna is extremely short, its cute. She has practically black hair and dark brown eyes and its very cute but also has an edgy look to her. "Elena, April is Damon and Stefans cousin." Caroline informs me.
"Yeah my dad told me about you living here. My dad was their moms brother." She explains.
"Well it's nice to meet you all." I say friendly.
"Oh my god, He's gotten even hotter." Caroline squeals and we all turn to see a guy walking out of the house with his arm around the shoulders of a skinny slutty looking girl and a beer in his other hand. He looks athletic and older than us. He was dark spiked hair and dark eyes.
"Who's that?" I ask.
"Caroline's obsession." Answers Bonnie with a bit of a laugh. "But he's an idiot and dick and would never go for a girl that he knows won't put out right away."
"You don't know that Bonnie. You don't even know him." Caroline says sadly.
"Neither do you." Bonnie answers kind of bitchy.
"Girls, don't fight." Either Anna or April said, I'm kind of confused which is which at this point.
"Okay, what's his name?" I ask taking an interest in this for some reason.
"Tyler Lockwood." Caroline answers.
"He's the mayors son and he is a total douche." Bonnie answers.
"Shush Bonnie, I'm not asking you." I snap. And Caroline chuckles.
"Okay, Caroline, give me a bit of information about him?" I ask.
"Why?" Caroline asks a bit jealous.
"I'm going to help you I promise, Care." I say sweetly.
"Alright. Um he's two years older than us. Super popular and athletic. Total ladies man. Totally hot. Um.."
"That's it? You barely know him Caroline." I say in a friendly sincere manner.
"Yes I do." Caroline says shyly.
"Alright, I'll be right back." I say having an idea. I leave without waiting for a reply and walk straight up to Tyler who is talking with a group of friends. I stand behind him patiently and his friends motion for him to turn around cause they see me. At first he seems annoyed but then he sees me and puts a sexy smirk on.
"Well hello there, do I know you?" He asks trying to sound nice.
"No you don't, I'm new." I smile sweetly.
"Well then I'm Tyler." He says leaning cockily up against a tree.
"I'm Elena." I smirk.
"So do you want to go somewhere more private and talk." He says suggestively.
"Hmm, I don't know I barely know you." I say sweetly.
He leans in and whispers in my ear. "Well you can get to know me? I'm an open book." He smirks thinking hes going to get laid.
I back up a bit to make sure it doesn't look like I'm flirting with him. "What would you want to talk about in private?" I say kind of shyly.
He leans in again. "It'll just be more quiet there; we can do whatever you want, baby." This is the perfect moment. I push him away fast and stumbles backwards. I slap him hard against the face. He looks shocked.
"You pig! Don't ever talk or even look at me again!" I practically scream so that everyone outside can hear us. "Ugh.. as if!" I say while walking away all dramatic and over to Caroline's group of friends.
"What the hell just happened?" Caroline asks shocked.
"Ugh that Tyler Lockwood is disgusting!" I say in my best over dramatic voice. "I totally just went over there to talk you up a bit and try to get him to come over to talk to you but he kept asking me to go 'somewhere more private' and then when I asked why he- he ugh he started talking dirty to me and telling me what he wants to do to me and thats when I slapped him. He's a pig Care, you deserve better." I say apologetic. Caroline looks down sad.
"I knew it." Bonnie says sounding a bit pissed.
"I don't believe you." Caroline says kind of mad.
"Care, why would I lie about this sort of thing, I barely know anyone in this town." I say sweetly.
"Maybe you just want him to yourself?" She sounds kind of bitchy.
"No I don't. I promise. He's a pig." I look her straight in the eyes.
She looks apologetically. "Oh I'm sorry Elena, I believe you."
"It's okay you can so do better than that." I say in a disgusted voice. Honestly I'm doing this cause Caroline would obviously get hurt by that guy and I need to make friends even if I don't like them, they're my cover up. So what if I had to lie a little. It's not that big of a lie. Tyler is a player and user.
"You seem like a perfect fit for this group, Elena." Caroline smiles.
"She does?" Bonnie questions looking at my outfit.
"Oh I don't dress like this always. I just wanted to make a confident and egdy first impression." I explain.
"Suree.." Bonnie doesn't seem to like me.
"I like your outfit." Anna (I think) says. "It's daring and hot."
"Thank you." I smile a friendly smile.
"You're welcome."
"Hey love." I hear from behind me and all the girls looked shocked. I turn around and see Niklaus.
"Hey Klaus." I smile friendly.
"I see you are making friends." He smiles gesturing to the girls. "Hi ladies." He smirks to them.
"Yea these girls are in my grade." I smile.
"I wanted to come over and apologize about earlier on behalf of Damon." He smile sincerely.
"Thanks Nik. But you don't have to Damon was the one being a dick and if he wants to apologize he can come over and do so."
"Damon is a very stubborn guy, I don't think he's going to do that." He said with an apologetic smile.
"It's alright. That's Damon's problem not yours." I smile confidently.
"Alrighty love. Well I forgot to tell you that you look very nice tonight." He said friendly and not flirty, I can see Klaus and I being friends.
"Thank you Nik. You're not so bad yourself." I smirk.
He smiles. "Alright, I'm going to go find Damon. Goodnight ladies. You all look beautiful." He smiled at them and turned around to go back inside the house.
"Oh my god! How are you already friends with Klaus Mikaelson? You just moved here." April says in and shocked and jealous tone.
"Damon introduced us. And I would barely call us friends."
"That makes sense." Caroline says. "But just so you know Klaus is like the hottest guy in our school, and he's got the accent to match. His whole family is gorgeous."
"Yeah! They really are." April agrees. "He's got like five siblings and his dad is this rich business man and his mom is like a retired supermodel." Wow interesting.
"Hmm, does any of his other siblings go to school with us?" I ask.
"Yeah his only sister Rebekah is in tenth grade and his two younger brother Kol and Henrik are fraturnal twins and are in the same grade as us and then he has two older brothers in college." Caroline explains.
"Wow that's a big family." I say. I'm an only child and I can't imagine what it's like to have five siblings. "Um, I'll see you guys later, I'm going to go get myself another drink." I smile.
"Alright, see ya." They say.
I walk back into the house and go up to the booze counter and grab a red solo cup and pour a quarter of it up with vodka and the rest up with different juices, I've never mixed a drink so I gotta start somewhere. I take a drink and it's actually pretty good. "Hm." I say outloud wondering if it needs more of something.
"First time drinking?" I hear a familiar voice behind me.
I turn around and practically growl. "What do you want, Damon?"
"Just came to say hi." He smirks.
"Hi." I say with attitude and turn to leave the kitchen but he stops me by grabbing my arm.
"Hey stop." He asks. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong I'm just a little pissed off and annoyed at you right now." I say with sass.
"Seriously you still mad about earlier?"
"Not mad. Annoyed." I try to turn again and walk away but he follows me into the den where people are dancing and making out.
"Elena stop it." He says annoyed. "I'm sorry about earlier, there are you happy?"
He's really close to me. I just look at him. And for the first time tonight I actually look at him. He's wearing a v-neck black t-shirt, a leather jacket and dark blue jeans. His hair is messy in a perfect way and his blue eyes are looking down at me in a slightly sincere way. "I don't care about earlier. Just treat me less like a little sister please."
"I will." He smirks. "Now can we have some fun?" And just like that he makes me smile. A real smile I think. And I immediately feel guilty. I chug the rest of my cup in one drink.
"Yup." I smirk. "Let's do it."
"Come on, let's get you another drink." He says pulling me back into the kitchen.
It's past two in the morning and most of the party guests have left but there is still a few of Damon's friends here. I am completely drunk, I can't even see straight. I'm on one of the couches in the living room and I don't even know if I'm laying down or sitting up or am I upside down? Ughhh my head is spinning. After Damon apologized he got me some drink with rum in it and then we did a lot of dancing which is kind of blurry now and then we played some drinking game with a group of his friends, um there was Klaus, Rick (I think his name was longer but I don't know), Rose who was Damon's like best girl friend, a chick named Andie that was like all over Damon and another guy named Mason who I think was older but I'm not sure. Then we stopped playing that and Damon, Rose, Rick, Klaus and I decided to do shots and by then I was already drunk so the shots just took me way over the edge and now there's people in the room laughing and talking and I think I'm just going to pass out any second now.
"Hey, Lena? You okay?" Damon asks with a bit of a laugh in his voice.
"Huh? No... I'm not. Or maybe I am?" I say confused.
"Alright, you need to eat something and then go to bed." He said coming over and lifting me up into his arms. He's carrying me bridal style somewhere and I'm resting my head on his shoulder.
"I'm tired... but I don't want to go to bed cause I'll wake up sick." I say pouting.
"You probably will, but we are going to try to prevent it even if its just a little." He says putting me on a stool at the island and laying my head onto the counter. A few minutes later I look up and see him putting a grill cheese sandwich in a frying pan. "You like grill cheese right?"
"YES!" I practically yell. "It's the best midnight or 2:30am snack." I smile silly like.
"Good." He smiles. "You're a funny drunk." He laughs.
"Why aren't you drunk?" I pout.
"Because my friend, you are very inexperienced when it comes to pretty much everything including alcohol but I am not. Plus you drank way more than me." He smirks.
"Alcohol is yummmmmyyy."
"Yeah I agree with you." He laughs. He seems to think I'm funny but I'm not trying to be. He puts the grill cheese on a plate and passes over to me.
"Thank you Damon." I smile and start eating it. He just sits there watching me. "You're weird." I say without thinking.
"Thanks." He laughs and grabs an orange out of the basket and starts peeling it. "You are too."
"You're cute." I say studying him face.
He just laughs. "I'll be right back, don't go anywhere." He says and gets up and leaves the room with his fully peeled orange. A few minutes later he comes back and I'm just finishing my sandwich. "Designated driver Enzo is taking them all home so we got the house to ourselves and you need to get to sleep." He smiles.
"You need sleep too!" I say in a little kids voice.
"I'll get sleep don't you worry." He grabs a pill bottle out of the draw and gets a glass a milk. He passes me two little tablets and the glass. "Drink and take these, it's just advil so you won't have as bad of an hangover in the morning."
"Thank you." I smile and do as he says. As soon as I'm done he puts the glass in the sink and walks over and surprises me by picking me up bridal style again. "Damon! I can walk down the stairs by myself!"
"I'm not taking the chance or you falling down and breaking your neck and then my dad killing me." He says serious.
"Ugh fine." I wrap my arms around his neck and put my head on his shoulder as he carries me down the stairs and through the living room and into my room. He sets me down on my bed sitting up. He gets down of the floor and helps me take my boots off and stands up. Then I toss my jacket off. I stand up and look up at him. "Thank you Damon." I whisper and lean up and kiss him on the cheek. "You're a good friend." I smile and fall onto my bed and get under the blankets.
"You're welcome Lena." I hear as I drift off to sleep and I faintly hear him close my door behind him.
AN: Thank you so much for reading! Please review, reviews make my day! This chapter is lighter and more funny than future chapters so don't say I didn't warn you that it will get darker. Hope you liked it:) Tell me what you thought of it!