AN: Sorry, guys. Spent about a week with my grandma + dad. My grandma hates me being on any type of electronics, I barely get away with being on my phone and even then she complains. Wasn't a bad time though. I saw the new Jurassic World movie (it was really good) on Father's Day, saw my grandma's new car, spent a few hours at the hospital with my dad, brother, and brother's girlfriend. (She went into labor but hadn't yet had the baby. We were waayyyy to early but we got to spend some time with them.) Then I went with my grandma to pick out a dog for her. Well, enough about me and my week, here's the next chapter!

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Chapter 11 (Elena POV)

I rolled my eyes, sat back, and pulled the sunglasses atop my head over my eyes.

"So, how are you going to tell Stefan?"

I saw Damon shrug his shoulders out of the corner of his eyes.

"Probably just wait it out and see if he notices. There's really no fun in telling him." He smirked and ran a hand through his hair.

We finally hit the South Carolina border a few minutes ago. As we were passing the state welcome sign, I snapped a picture and sent it to Caroline. She sent me about 50 different 'happy' emojis as a response.

Caroline and Stefan lived in Seneca, South Carolina. Damon said we were about an hour or so from the city. From the few details I'd gotten out of Damon and found on Google, Seneca seemed like it was a small town. Damon told me that Caroline had picked South Carolina to go to three years ago when they'd decided to move. Stefan had picked Seneca because of the Hunger Games or something. Apparently it was a movie franchise he liked. I vaguely remembered a few movie trailers but I never watched any of the actual movies.

I was surprised Stefan had actually watched them, but I figured it'd probably been Caroline's idea.

We finally pulled onto their street about 2 minutes ago. Damon had manages to slow down as much as possible as soon as we'd hit the street.

"I know you're old, but you can speed up, you know."

Damon ignored me and started whistling.

I decided to change the radio station. I stopped on one that was playing a pop song. It sounded like Hilary Duff and I'm pretty sure the title had to be All About You.

I saw Damon frown and slump in his seat when he realized I'd stopped on the channel. I cranked the volume up and started singing. I looked over and saw he had a slight smile on his face.

He looked to his left and reached over to take my hand in his. As the song was ending, he finally sped up a little bit and I saw we were coming up to what had to be Caroline and Stefan's.

They lived on Horseshoe Dr. There house looked like it was on almost 5 acres or so and had a pretty driveway. Even though it was getting pretty dark out, I could tell Caroline had all kinds of pink and yellow flowers planted. The house almost looked like a mini-mansion. It had two garage doors and Caroline seemed to have every single light in the house on.

As we pulled in the driveway, Caroline came running out and Stefan walked out behind her and lent against the porch railing. Damon let go of my hand to turn the radio down and I got out of the car right as Caroline reached me.

"Really, Care? It's only been like, a day or two." I said, hugging her back and laughing.

Caroline let go of me and had a bright smile on her face. She grabbed my hand and started dragging me off towards the house. Stefan smiled at me and nodded as we reached the porch. He took a drink of beer and walked off to the car where Damon was pulling a few of the bags of clothes out.

The living room had a dark blue sectional with throw pillows to match. There was also a cream colored coffee table with wooden legs and two white and blue striped chairs facing the couch with an end table in the middle. There was also a big flat screen on one of the walls. The kitchen wasn't too extravagant or big, it mostly just looked like a normal kitchen. Caroline and Stefan weren't very big on cooking. I knew that Caroline could if she wanted to but I wasn't sure about Stefan.

Caroline pointed various things out to me while going through the two rooms and as we were going up the stairs, Damon and Stefan walked in with bags in their hand. I stopped to turn around and look at them.

Damon sat the bags down and headed towards the kitchen.

"Could've just stayed at a hotel," He glanced up at me with a mocking look. Stefan followed him.

"Elena! Come on!" Caroline whined while moving quickly up the stairs.

"Caroline. Human." I breathed and looked ahead. "Stairs suck." I muttered and started walking up again.

Caroline walked past the first guest room without showing me, which was surprising. She told me that she was going to show me her bedroom, then mine and Damon's. The guest room was apparently, 'noting to see.'

Caroline and Stefan's bedroom was decked out in yellow and green. They had French doors that led onto a patio which had a small table and chair set. She showed me her walk-in closet that housed a ton of clothes and shoes. Stefan had a small corner I giggled at when I saw. Everything else in it was packed full of Caroline's things.

After flipping her bathroom light on to show me, we headed back out into the hallway towards Damon and I's room. Caroline was very specific on what room Damon and I were staying in because she'd specifically designed it for us. She also told me that no one was allowed to stay in it but us, which is pretty funny.

Damon and I's room was decorated in gray and white with black accented throughout it. The colors sound a bit boring but it was very pretty. The bedspread looked super soft and there was a silver chandelier hanging from the ceiling. There were also a few black and white framed photographs hanging on the walls.

"Wow. This is really cool, Care."

She gave me a big smile and clapped her hands together excitedly. "I knew you'd like it!"

I laughed and smiled, "I do! Very much so."

We walked back out into the hallway and I noticed there were all kinds of photos all over the walls. On the wall leading to Stefan and Caroline's bedroom they were all of them. All the other walls were filled with different photos of different people. I turned and noticed that The wall right by the door to Damon and I's room was filled with photos of us. They're weren't many of us together, but there were a lot of us separately. I immediately noticed a picture of Damon and I at the Miss Mystic Falls dance and one of us that Damon had taken. The others were ones of me from Witmore and ones of Damon that had obviously been taken after I'd fallen asleep. There was one of Damon asleep on a couch; he had his mouth open and a hand dragging on the floor.

Another was one of him and Stefan. Stefan had his arm around Damon's shoulders with a big smile on his face, almost like he was laughing. Damon was looking down with a smile, although it wasn't very big.

Caroline grabbed my hand again and we went back downstairs.

Damon and Stefan were in the living room on opposite sides of the sectional watching a car restoration show. I went into the kitchen to find something to drink and Caroline went and sat with Stefan.

When I came back, I noticed Stefan was staring at Damon. Which I'm pretty sure Damon noticed, he was just ignoring it.

Stefan was looking him over with almost a critical eye. Caroline seemed to ignore Stefan's staring and was paying attention to the TV, which was odd. Caroline could care less about cars, let alone classic ones.

I walked over and sat next to Damon, lying down on his lap with my head up against the arm rest. It was pretty late so I doubted that we were going to do much more than watch TV and go to bed. Damon and I had stopped and ate at a road-side diner right after we crossed the border of South Carolina, so it's not like we needed to eat or anything.

"Stef," Damon said "Did you recently develop a staring problem?"

Well, he'd apparently decided to acknowledge the staring. That was a good thing; it was getting a bit creepy.

"No." Stefan narrowed his eyes at Damon.

Caroline looked between them, glanced at me, and then rolled her eyes.

"Boys," She muttered and pulled her pone out of her pocket and started tapping.

"Then stop staring at me. It's creepy, annoying, irritating..." He trailed off.

"Well you didn't tell me."

Caroline lowered her phone down to look at Stefan. "He didn't tell anyone and you obviously figured it out on your own. It's really not a big deal. You should've been expecting it." Caroline sat her phone down on the Coffee table and stood up, kissing Stefan on the cheek.

Damon looked over at Stefan with his eyebrow raised and a mocking smile.

Stefan woke Damon and I up at about 8:30 the next morning. He bothered Damon for at least thirty minutes before a blurry-eyed Caroline walked over to the doorway and told Stefan to kindly shut up or make his brother get up because she wanted to sleep and eight thirty in the morning was too early to be up. Caroline then went back to bed.

I eventually shoved Damon enough that he got up. They both left about fifteen minutes later to get Damon's things and other car from Illinois.

Caroline and I got up about 2 hours later. She sipped on a cup of coffee while checking her emails and I ate a bowl of cereal. After she finally woke up, she started talking about wedding plans even more.

She wanted me to help her decide on the venue. She wasn't sure whether it should be at a beach, a church, a nice dining hall, or somewhere else. She had a long list already of potential venues and was googling even more as she told me the ones she already had looked at.

I eventually got her to settle between a Beach or her house after she'd finally told me how many people would actually attend the wedding. I knew from the many talks we'd had as preteens that Caroline had always loved the idea of having a wedding at a beach. It wasn't going to be a huge wedding by any means but no matter the size, I was sure it would be extravagant. Caroline wouldn't settle for anything less.

After stealing the computer from her after she went to refill her cup of coffee, I researched some of the piers and Islands in South Carolina. When she sat back down, I showed her pictures of Hilton Head Island. She made an excited noise at the back of her throat and threw her arms around me.

"I love it! That's it! That's where I have to get married!"

It seemed to be a pretty beach and Caroline had immediately ran upstairs after hugging me to get dressed. She wanted to go down there and see it in person and I'm sure she probably needed to ask about being able to get married there. I put my bowl in the sink and went upstairs to get dressed.

By the time I was done, Caroline was already downstairs waiting and we left as soon as I'd grabbed my phone and purse.

AN: I didn't re-read this before I posted it, so I apologize for any mistakes I made. If anyone was wondering, most of the places I mention, if not all of them, are real. I usually just Google cities and places until I find something I like. I use the same method to find pictures for the story. You can find pictures of Steroline's house on my WeHeartIt, which you can find on my profile. Hope you guys liked this chapter! Please review and let me know!