AN: Woo Hoo! I'm finally out of school for the summer. (Plus I'm technically a senior now)

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Chapter 6 (Elena POV)

"Elena," Damon repeated.

This was just as bad as I had imagined. I should've just stayed downstairs. Maybe I wouldn't be mute and afraid to stare up at my boyfriend, or, rather, the love of my life.

I feel really stupid. Couldn't I muster out a freaking word?

Nope. Not one.

Damon had apparently moved in front of me while I'd been thinking of how to make my mouth and vocal cords work. I'd forgotten how high this bed was. My knees were touching his thighs and right as I had noticed that, his hands had come up to touch my face. One was tilting my chin up, making me look at him.

When my eyes met his again, I still didn't know what to say or do. I just stared. I felt like I was thirteen again and being asked out by my crush, butterflies in my stomach and everything. He had so much love and disbelief in his eyes it was shocking. He almost looked as if he didn't believe that I was actually awake.

It probably doesn't help that I won't open my mouth.

I swallowed and glanced over to his left, then back at him.

"Hi." That's the best I could do? Really?

He was still looking at me, studying me. My face was still in his hands but he had made small, quick smile. I reach up and put my hands on top of his.

"You're awake." Damon seemed amazed.

"Yeah," I wrinkled my nose. "Everyone's old. It's weird."

I know that I feel like a teenager, but did I really have to act like one?

Damon smiled at me and grabbed by hands in his. "That happens after sixty years. You'll get used to it."

All of the sudden something black passed us in the air, landing on the bed.

Stefan was standing at the doorway. "Start answering your damn phone more."

Damon rolled his eyes and turned a bit to look at Stefan. "Go away. Now."

Stefan smirked at Damon. "Aww. I love you, too." Stefan glanced at me, "Night Elena, see you tomorrow."

I laughed, "Night, Stefan."

Awhile later, Damon and I had finally gotten over the not knowing what to say or do phase and had lied down on the bed next to each other. Damon had been telling me about Illinois and Stefan being a pain in his ass. I snorted at that. One of them was always being a pain in the others ass. That's partially why they don't get along half the time.

We'd talked for hours, mostly just Damon telling me things while I listened and sometimes asked questions. He'd told me a lot about Bonnie and her husband. Apparently he was a great guy, in Damon's opinion, and was very good to Bonnie.

Damon had obviously realized that Bonnie was gone when he had been talking about her. He had stopped for a minute and seemed to be thinking. I think he may have been coming to turns with the fact that she was gone because he looked upset. It eventually passed and he continued to talk about her and her grandchildren.

We had moved the closer as the time passed. My head was lying on the arm he was lying on. I was actually pretty comfortable and, believe it or not, tired. It was odd I was tired, of all things. I mean, sixty years of sleeping and I can still get tired so easily?

Damon was still talking but I had started to get more tired minutes by minute and I couldn't really tell what he was saying. Eventually, I stopped fighting sleep and closed my eyes.

Something was shaking me.

What the hell was shaking me?

My head was no longer lying on Damon's arm. I cracked one eye open because the shaking still hadn't stopped. As soon as I had opened an eye, it finally did.

"What?...Damon, stop." I whined. I was tired. I'm allowed to be tired.

Damon was sitting up with his right arm on my shoulder.

"You fell asleep," He looked scared.

"Yes, Damon, I fell asleep. I'm human. It happens. You can't freak every time I do, I'm fine. The spells over, gone, done, whatever you want to call it, that's what it is." I just wanted to go back to sleep.

Damon still looked pretty freaked but seemed to settle down after a minute or two. I probably hadn't been asleep for very long but he apparently was still freaked about it.

Damon actually looked tired for once, and Damon never looked tired. He looked a little pale, too, which meant he probably needed blood. I wasn't in the mood to find out if Stefan had any and I doubt that Damon would've left me in the room long enough to find out.

"Damon, just go to sleep. You look tired anyway, and you're never tired." I said, pushing his right shoulder to lie back on the bed. His shaking had apparently moved the comforter and sheet enough to make it look like we'd been rolling around on it. I used my other hand to grab the edge of the comforter and moved it down so that I could get under it. Once I had, I reached over to turn the lamp off and snuggled back into Damon's side. He wrapped an arm around me and played with the ends of my hair.

Then I heard him mumble, "I'm not going to sleep," He probably thought that he'd said it low enough that I wouldn't hear him.

"Yes. You are." I closed my eyes. He huffed like a 5 year old.

"Damon,"

All of the sudden I heard muffled laughter, and I'm pretty sure it was Stefan.

"Stefan! You're not helping!" I yelled.

Damon had his jaw clenched.

Fine. I got up and threw off the comforter, stomping over to the door. I threw it open and walked downstairs to the kitchen, Damon, of course, was right behind me. Stefan showed up a few seconds later with Caroline behind him.

I went through the cabinets, looking for some kind of junk food to eat. Not a good Idea considering I was human and could gain weight again, but whatever.

Red Velvet Poptarts? Ew. No. I looked over at Stefan and gave him a disgusted look. He shrugged his shoulders and plopped down on a chair at the table.

Damon was still right behind me, following every move I made.

"Damon. Stop." I love him with all my heart, but if he didn't stop shadowing every move I make I was going to hit him with the first thing my hand touched.

He frowned at me. "I'm fine." Damon walked over to the fridge and leaned against it.

I finally found a box of Cheez-It's and grabbed them, jumping up to sit on the counter.

After Stefan had sat down, Caroline had yawned, looked around at all of us, and went back to Stefan's bedroom.

I think Stefan was just staying in the kitchen to irritate Damon. He'd apparently adopted the "I'm-your-little-brother-so-I'm-gonna-irritate-you-whenever" attitude. It was interesting because Damon was playing the annoyed big brother part perfectly. They were currently staring at each other. Damon looked ready to kill and Stefan had an amused look in his eye while he was shoveling chips into his mouth handful-by-handful.

Damon took a step forward and Stefan grabbed another handful of chips then bolted out of the kitchen, laughing.

I ended up giggling and Damon turned around with his eyebrow raised. I stifled my giggles and put another cheez-it in my mouth.

Damon was slowly stalking towards me and I put the cheez-it box down. I let him take another step before I slid off the counter and ran off, laughing louder than I had been.

I'd managed to get to the library before he'd tackled me onto the couch and sat on top of me. I was still laughing and he smirked down at me.

I had slowly stopped laughing and he was leaning down towards me.

Our lips finally touched, for the first time in sixty years, and I still felt a gazillion sparks going off, just like I had sixty years ago.

AN: I apparently suck when I try to write couples being together. Or, at least, I think I do.

I wasn't entirely sure of what I wanted to happen in this chapter but I knew I wanted it to be light and kind of fun. I'm still not entirely sure of how long this story will end up being but I don't think it'll be really long. Hopefully you guys liked this chapter! There will probably be another chapter or two in Mystic Falls but that should be it. I haven't really decided where I want DE to live because I don't want them to indefinitely stay in Illinois (which is where I placed the apartment of Damon's). So, if you guys want to give me any suggestions of where you think DE should live, let me know in your reviews!