** The next part is in Elena's P.O.V, I am going to flip flop back and forth each chapter.

It was a crisp morning, just like the one you would find late in the month of May. It was a Friday and I couldn't wait for the weekend to arrive. It had been a long week at school; I had 3 tests and one essay due. Of course Matt made it somewhat bearable. We spent all the time we could together ever since we started dating a few months ago. I've known Matt forever and I always had a small crush on him, but it wasn't till this year that we decided to see if we could be more than friends. I loved having my best friend as a boyfriend because we could talk about pretty much anything, like how much of a bitch Caroline was being or about how strange Bonnie was sometimes. We had so much fun together and we got along in every way possible, except one, our relationship was never passionate; he never did spontaneous things it was always just kind of boring. But he was the best guy I could find, and I did love him, but he wasn't really the guy I saw myself spending the rest of my life with.

I was sitting in fourth period history with Mr. Tanner when my phone began to buzz. The vibration made me jump a little bit in my seat but I grabbed it out of my bag before Mr. Tanner heard it, knowing him we would confiscate it and read the text message in front of the whole class. I flipped it open to find a text message from Caroline Forbes.

Party Meredith's Tonight, it's a MUST GO!
XOXO Care

A small smile appeared on my lips, but it soon turned into a frown when I realized that tonight was the 3rd Friday of the month, also known as family night at the Gilberts.

UGH! I can't its family night!
Sorry

I looked across the room to see Caroline open her phone and read the message, she turned her head towards me and made a "what-the-hell" face.

ELENA IT'S A MUST GO!

My parents would kill me, but maybe if I was really convincing I could make it happen, I just had to call rain check, maybe postpone it till tomorrow night, they were pretty easy going with things like this. We could always do it tomorrow right.

I'll see what I can do...

Caroline jumped up in her seat and almost clapped her hand in excitement until she realised Mr. Tanner was catching on.

Fifth and six period flew by, I guess it's because the whole time I was plotting my escape from family night. I figured that if I ate dinner with the family and arranged my way there and back that they would have no problem with it. Really I was responsible enough, and it was just this one time it's not like I did this every family night. And knowing Jeremy he wouldn't mind just hanging out with mom and dad on a Friday night, what else was he going to do. I just didn't know how to bring it up, that was the worst part, the initiation of the conversation. Should I bring it up as soon as I got home from school? Or should I wait till dinner... I just didn't know, the anticipation was getting the best of me. I contemplated just making something up and telling my mom that I had to work on a school project, and that Caroline had to work all weekend so we had to do it tonight. That seemed like a pretty good one, but I had a feeling that Jeremy would know about the party and blab about the truth, then I would be in trouble for more than just missing family night. I had decided I would just tell them at dinner, that wouldn't ruin the whole night and it gave me time to plan what I was actually going to say.

I got home to find my mom setting up all the board games on the dining room table. The Mystic Falls Pizza menu was by the phone accompanied by two twenty dollar bills.

"Hey guys!" my mom said as Jeremy and I walked through the door, "Elena dear do you want to call the pizza place and give them the usual order."

Oh no, this was bad, she was so excited, maybe I had to rethink my plan, maybe if I played one round of Sorry then went to the party it wouldn't be so bad. I hated to do this to my mother she got so excited by the littlest things, like beauty pageants and founders day festivals. My guilt was getting the best of me.

"Yeah sure thing mom," I was going to do it I was just going to ask now... "Uhm, mom" you could tell she was paying attention without taking her eyes off the game table, "could I go to Meredith's she is having a small get together?"

"Sure! When?" She responded unaware of the fact that I meant tonight.

"Uhm, well tonight, but I'll eat dinner with you guys, and play one round of games! I promise I have a ride there and back and everything!" You could see the look of disappointment on her face, her eyes looked sad and her smile turned to a frown very quickly.

"Elena..." she whined.

"Mom, please, rain check, we can hang out tomorrow, let's go shopping!" that's all I had to do, my mom was a sucker for shopping, "please mom, Meredith and I never hang out anymore I really miss her! I have you forever." She was caving I could see it; excitement took over my body as I saw her make a little smile.

"Fine, but you have to play two rounds of Sorry before you leave!" I squealed in excitement and jumped into her arms; I planted a big wet kiss on her cheek and told her how much I loved her. Then I ran up to my room to plan my outfit for the evening, I had to look good, Matt was driving me home and I wanted him to be amazed. Maybe tonight wouldn't be like the rest.