Damon's alarm clock rang. He opened his eyes and turned it off. He turned in his bed and saw the blond woman from the last night lying next to him.
"Crap!" He sad and rolled out of the bed and entered the bathroom.
Fifteen minutes later he got back in his bedroom. He had only a towel around his waist and his hair was damp.
"You look gorgeous!" The blond woman said.
"You're awaken?"
"Yep." The woman popped the 'p'.
"And you're still here because…?" Damon raised his eyebrows.
"I was hoping you may take me with you to that wedding."
"No way! Almost everyone on that wedding will remember you as a stripper from the groom's Bachelor party."
"So, you're afraid of being seen with a prostitute?"
"Practically – yes!" Damon said. "How much do you want to get out of here and never mention that night?"
"Well… $10 000 will be fine."
"$10 000?" Damon raised his eyebrow again. He just realized that he was blackmailed by a stupid stripper.
"Do you want me to stay quiet or not?"
"Fine." He said firmly and took his check book out of one drawer. "$10 000 for whom?"
"Andy. Andy Star."
"OK, Andy. Here you are!" Damon gave her the check. "Have a great time spending my money and forget about last night! Now – get out!"
"Bonnie! Bonnie? Are you home?" Jeremy has just come back. He entered the living room and saw his sisters sleeping on the couch.
"Jeremy? Is that you?" Elena opened her eyes to see her brother going out of the room.
"Yes." He slowly turned to her. "I'll go upstairs to check on Bonnie."
"Caroline is with her. We all got a bit drunk. I know how ridiculous it sounds to get drunk just by drinking champagne." Elena said when she saw the strange expression on Jeremy's face. "Anyway, we decided not to drive in this mood and we stayed here. I hope you don't mind."
"If all of you are safe then I don't mind whatever you do." Jeremy smiled.
"You are such a good brother!" Elena smiled back. "So, if you want to sleep for a while the guest-room is…"
"Sleep?" Jeremy laughed. "Elena, it's seven o'clock in the morning!"
"What? Where have you been all night?"
"I didn't want to disturb your party so I slept at Alaric's."
"Aah… Clear!" Elena giggled.
"Guys, please speak quieter!" Jenna hissed as she cuddled in her blanket. "Someone is trying to sleep!"
"Jenna, it's seven o'clock!"
"What? Why didn't that stupid alarm clock ring?"
"I don't know. May be there is something wrong with it."
"Damn it, 'Lena! Now I won't have enough time to get ready!"
"Take it easy, sis!" Jeremy said.
"The wedding is after five hours!" Elena tried to calm her down.
"Oh, right! I forgot…"
"You forgot when your own wedding is?" Elena giggled "May be Caroline was right – you're going crazy!"
"Shut up!" Jenna laughed. "And speaking of Caroline – where is she?"
"Upstairs with Bonnie. I'll go wake them up. And you…" Elena pointed on Jeremy "… don't allow my baby sister to fall asleep again!"
"You can count on me!" Jeremy smiled. "I need to tell you something very important." he said as soon as he heard that Elena entered Bonnie's bedroom.
"Well, if Alaric got drunk and he did something stupid I don't wanna know!" Jenna giggled.
"Well, he wasn't that drunk when he did what he did." Jenna raised her eyebrows a bit confused. "He asked Damon to be his best man!"
"Wait! What? I thought that the best man was a colleague of Alaric's."
"Well, apparently he had an accident yesterday morning and…"
"And from all of the people in the world he chose Damon as his best man?" Jenna interrupted her brother.
"I thought the same thing! Shall we tell Elena?"
"It will be too much for her – after yesterday's article in the newspaper... Last week I was planning on putting the two of them next to each other but when I read it I put her next to the best man because I thought it was Matt Donovan and now… She's going to be next to Damon anyway!"
"Can't you change it?"
"Five hours before the wedding? No way!"
"Damn it!" Jeremy sighed. "But I swear if Damon touches Elena with his little finger…"
"Shhh! They're coming." Jenna whispered.
"Good morning, guys!" Caroline smiled. "God, I feel like I have a brick in my stomach!"
"Well, that happens. You haven't slept enough and you drank too much…" Jeremy began.
"Stop being witty!" Bonnie said as she jumped in his embrace. "Now go in the kitchen and make some coffee and pancakes - they help if you have a hangover." She laughed.
"And since when I'm your private cook?"
"Since you said you loved me and you would do whatever I want you to!"
"Fine!" Jeremy pressed his lips against hers and went to the kitchen.
"Ouch!"
"Sorry! You know I was never good at that."
Elena, Bonnie and Caroline were in Elena's room and were getting ready for the wedding. Bonnie was curling Elena's hair while Caroline was walking around the room. Jenna was downstairs. She was almost in a nervous breakdown so Elena sent her in the kitchen to drink some tea and talk with Miranda.
"And you're ready!"
Elena rose from the chair in front of her vanity. With her curly hair and red dress she truly looked beautiful… and hot.
"The three of you are my bridesmaids and you are dressed completely different!" Jenna moaned as she entered the room and sat on the bed. Bonnie was wearing a knee-length golden dress which fitted her hair color and skin tone perfectly. And Caroline… she looked like a Barbie-doll with her straight blond hair and her fairy pink dress.
"Don't worry! They were just trying some of the clothes in my wardrobe."
"OK. Just… Girls, please put on the red dresses because I'm going to freak out! The whole decoration is in white and red and…"
"Hey…" Elena tried to calm down her sister "Everything is going to be perfect! Trust me!" she sat on the bed next to Jenna and hugged her "And you…" Elena pointed on Caroline and Bonnie "…change the dresses immediately!"
Caroline and Bonnie entered Elena's wardrobe-room so she and her sister were alone in the bedroom.
"You look beautiful!" Jenna sighed "I wish I looked as beautiful as you do!"
"You are going to look more beautiful than anyone!" Elena said and smiled "Come on, let's make your hair! What kind of hairstyle do you want?"
"Surprise me!" Jenna said as she sat on the chair in front of the vanity.
"Are you sure?" Elena looked at her sister who nodded. "OK but if you don't like it blame it all to yourself!" She turned the curling iron on. They have spent five minutes in silence when Bonnie and Caroline entered the bedroom again.
"Hey, it was my turn for the curling iron!" Caroline scoffed.
"There will be enough time for both of you!" Elena giggled "So, Bonnie come here, curl Jenna's hair and make that great hair bun that you made me for my birthday party last year!. Caroline and I will go take out the jewelries and the shoes."
"The jewelries and shoes that we talked about, right?" Jenna asked worryingly.
"Yes, Jenna. I told you not to worry – everything will be perfect! Come on, Care!"
"And what did you and Jenna talk about?" Caroline asked as they entered the wardrobe-room.
"You remember the shoes we chose?"
"The red open toes with the silky straps?"
"Exactly. Well, when we chose the diamond bracelets Jenna said that she didn't like the way the shoes matched the bracelets so we decided to put three little diamonds per shoe."
"Diamonds? Real diamonds?"
"No, Jenna said she didn't want real diamonds because they were too expensive!" "Mhm… So, where are they now?"
"The shoes are in there." Elena pointed on one of the closets "I'll take the bracelets and the earrings…"
"There are diamond earrings too?"
"Yep." Elena popped the 'p'.
"And certainly which are the shoes?" Caroline asked when she opened the closet. It was full of shoe-boxes.
"Oh… Well, on the top shelve there are four red boxes with butterflies on them. You see them?"
"Yep." Caroline pulled them out "If you have found the jewelries let's go!"
They went out of the wardrobe-room and entered Elena's bedroom.
"Are you sure these are the right…" Jenna began when the two girls entered the room.
"Jenna! Stop being so nervous!" Elena interrupted her. She and Caroline sat on the bed.
"Girls, it's 10:30! Hurry up!" Caroline moaned.
"Calm down, Caroline! Jenna's hair is ready so come here so I can do yours!" Bonnie sighed.
"Finally!" Caroline giggled.
Thirty minutes later the four girls were all dressed up and looked really beautiful.
"The waiting was absolutely worth it! Your dress is amazing!" Caroline sighed. "And you look so beautiful in it!"
"I know!" Jenna smirked.
"Girls, it's…" Miranda has just entered the room. "Oh, you look beautiful! And the dress is really amazing, Jenna!"
"You look very beautiful too, Mrs. Gilbert!" Bonnie said. And she was right. It was not a secret that Miranda was a very beautiful woman and the ocean blue dress that Elena has made for her mother was amazing and it matched perfectly her skin tone and her bright blue eyes.
"Thank you, Bonnie! And you can call me Miranda – you'll be my daughter-in-law soon… at least I hope so." Miranda gave her a warm smile "Well, it's 11:15. Jeremy is downstairs with a guy called Tyler… I guess he is…"
"My boyfriend." Caroline completed.
"So, you and Bonnie will go to the wedding with them, right?"
"Yep." Bonnie popped the 'p'.
"And Jenna and I will go with you and dad." Elena said.
"That's the plan. So, let's go!"
So, this is the forth chapter. I hope you like it. I know you can't wait for Elena and Damon to meet but you'll have to be patient and wait for the next chapter (I'm going to upload it next weekend). I hope I will be able to finish and upload the first chapter of my new story "Forbidden Love" by tomorrow.