AN: Sorry guys, I know it's been kind of a long wait. But, what with the stuff for the 4th and other crap, I've been a little busy.

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Chapter 13 (Elena POV)

The three days after Caroline got her ring were filled with wedding planning and not much else. Damon and Stefan hadn't really done much other than work on their cars and whatever. Today is what I'm hoping is a lazy day. I'm sort of sick of weddings and the things that go along with them. Damon and I hadn't spent much time around each other since we'd arrived because Caroline had kept me busy.

I decided yesterday that Damon and I really needed to find a house or apartment to live in. We had finally decided on either Ohio or Kentucky one of the many times Caroline dragged me out for wedding stuff. I'd texted him the whole time out of boredom. I love Caroline, but I wasn't a huge party planner. That was her thing.

Currently, it was almost noon and Damon and I had yet to get out of bed. Caroline had been moving around in the house since about 10 AM and we had heard the front door open, close, and then heard a car start up. We figured Stefan went out to get or do something.

Surprisingly, though, Caroline had left us alone.

I was lying partially on top of Damon with my arms and head on his chest. He had his arms around me and was asleep at the moment. These were the kind of lazy moments we both loved. We had many of them at the start of our relationship before all the other craziness started.

I eventually made the decision the get up and get dressed. When I finally detached myself from Damon, he groaned and rolled over onto his stomach.

When I came out of the bathroom after brushing my teeth, I heard him huff. He had his head buried underneath a pillow.

Then he let out a muffled, "I'm hungry."

I grabbed a shirt to put on, "Yeah...?"

"Why am I always hungry?"

I giggled, "You're a guy, Babe. It's a normal thing."

"I never saw Jeremy constantly eating."

"That's because Jer continually ate Doritos and Pepsi. Usually that was all he ate unless Jenna and I made him eat something else."

"Ugh," Damon made a disgusted sound. "Pepsi."

I rose my eyebrow and continued to get dressed.

Damon and I made it downstairs an hour later after he got dressed and stopped trying to pull me back into bed with him. Caroline was on her phone on the porch and we went into the kitchen. I sat down and grabbed an apple to eat from the counter and Damon riffled through the cabinets and fridge. He pulled out bread, a bag of chips, bologna, some kind of mayonnaise, and a piece of cheese. He put the sandwich together and took a bite before setting it back down to grab a handful of chips and crushed them to put them on the sandwich.

Stefan came in the back door with a few big manila envelopes under his arm. He tossed the folders on the counter by Damon and I.

"There. Now you both have valid birth certificates, social security cards, and school records. Elena, I took the last ID you had and had it redone. Now you just need to renew it on your birthday which is in like… two weeks."

I grabbed the folders and pulled the papers out to look at them.

"What about me?"

Stefan sighed and had an irritated look on his face, "Well, Damon, the only driver's license you ever had was the first one you ever got. That was when they started making Driver's licenses. You'll have to say you lost yours." Stefan paused. "Which you did."

"How was I going to know that I would ever need it?"

I got up and went over to one of the drawers and pulled it open to find a pen. Once I'd finally found one, I went back over and signed my social security card. I handed Damon's card and the pen to him.

"What happened to my original birth certificate and everything else?"

Stefan went around Damon to get a water bottle out of the fridge, "I had all of it erased and gotten rid of. You can't really have the same name and everything but have two of everything also. I had to change your parent's information too."

I nodded and looked at Damon's birth certificate. It was a little funny that out birthdays were so close together. Damon's is on June eighteenth while mine is June twenty-second.

Damon had signed his card and was now scrolling through something on his phone. Stefan had walked out of the kitchen and sat in the living room to watch TV.

"Ohio or Kentucky?"

"Huh?"

Damon looked over at me, "Blondie irritates me and I don't know how much longer I can handle it." He paused, "Ohio or Kentucky?"

"Oh," I said, taping my fingernails against the counter. "Ohio?"

Damon nodded and pulled the stool I was sitting on closer to him. He put an arm around me and looked back at his phone.

Damon had spent the last hour or so looking at houses in Ohio after making me say what type I'd like best. I didn't really leave his side after we'd settled on the couch. There was a Jurassic Park movie marathon that was on and Stefan had decided he wanted to watch the movies yet again. Caroline attempted to make him hand over the remote so she could change it but he stuck his tongue out at her and ignored her. She just rolled her eyes and shoved him over so she could be more comfortable.

Out of boredom, I'd grabbed my phone to entertain myself with. It was kind of funny that I could now actually have the time to be bored. It rarely happened. My life was usually filled with someone trying to kill me or someone else or do whatever it is they wanted. Now, I didn't have to deal with any of it.

It was really, really nice.

AN: Okay, there's the next chapter. It's pretty short, sorry! I've taken too long to write it so I figured you guys wouldn't mind it being a little shorter as long as you actually got it. I guess my problem is that I know where I want the story to go, I just can't fully decide on how to get there. Anyway, hope you guys liked it! Please review and let me know what you thought! (I'd be open to hearing any ideas you guys have, too)