It had been a week and everything seemed to go just fine. Beside his brother's unbelievably brooding, annoying and boring calls and recommendations.

It was just unbelievable how Stefan could repeat the same things every single time that he called, that is that Damon didn't even listen to him anymore. He just nodded and agreed without even listening to him.

He could say that Jamie though missed Stefan, and was truly happy everytime that he got to talk with his father. Blondie Caroline seemed to adore Jamie too, in fact each time that he called Stefan she would spend five or ten minutes talking to Jamie.

He was glad of it, truthfully. Jamie didn't have a stable maternal figure, he never did, and Damon first could understand what it meant. When Damon and Stefan's mother died, they were little. The cancer took her away from them in just a few months and he still remembered how hard Stefan cried on his shoulder at her funeral, sneaking in his bed at nights, and how he had asked him to never leave him. Those were for sure the moments where Damon had grown up the most, where he had felt responability towards his little brother. He didn't cry at his mother's funeral, he held back his tears for Stefan. To be strong for him. Jamie's mother wans't dead, though. That selfish little bitch of Katherine just left from one day to another, not bothering to say something in all the years. And here he was supporting Stefan once again.

Then he thought about Elena. Jamie loved her too, there was such a devotion when he talked about Elena, it was like he could see her as a big sister.

Damon on the other hand had been attracted to her from the first moment he met her, but in the last week he got to know her a little more and well, and he had started to genuinely appreciate her presence. He liked to spend most evenings with her and Jamie, it was a good feeling. Anyway he stayed faithful to the promise that he made to his brother, he wouldn't have tried to seduce her. Actually, he didn't even know if Elena would have 'played with him' in the first place. Sure he knew that she was attracted to him too, since lots of times he caught her staring at him or laughing a bit too much at some jokes or things that he said, but he didn't even know if she had a boyfriend. I mean, have you seen her? It would be strange if she didn't. Neither of them went there though, so Damon didn't ask.

Still sleeping lazily, he then felt a presence near him.

"Uncle Damon wake up! We're gonna be late!" Jamie exclaimed as he shook him lightly.

Damon looked up at him with sleepy eyes. He was already fully dressed with his backpack on the shoulders. Damon, on the other hand, fully convinced that it was a lovely Sunday morning was still laying in his bed half asleep and half naked.

Jamie huffed and shook his head. "It's been a week and you still don't remember!". Here, in those situations you could really say that he was Stefan's son. Same annoying anxiety.

Damon quickly stood up, rubbing his eyes. "I'm sorry Jam. I'll be ready in a minute, wait me downstairs." He said rosing up and going to the bathroom.

He was ready in a matter of seconds, heading to the kitchen for a quick coffee. When he entered the kitchen, he smelled coffee and waffles.

"Goodmorning." Elena said with a bright smile.

"Morning." Damon said lazily, heading for the coffee.

"Aren't you gonna be late?" Elena suddenly asked a little concerned, cocking her eyebrows.

Damon gave her a sarcastic smile. "Thank you, Captain Obvious. But I need my coffee anyways, even if we were sinking on the Titanic."

Elena rolled her eyes. "I'm sorry, I was just saying. For his age Jamie is a pretty anxious kid..I would say just like his father." She chuckled.

"Touché." He smirked. "You know even talking to Stefan on the phone makes me nervous. That poor little kid will lose it in a matter of years." He said, shooking his head.

Elena laughed. "Want to stay for breakfast? Five minutes more won't hurt. And you have a terrible face, to be honest." She said checking his face out.

"Yeah..I got home pretty late last night." He said casually, moving to pick a cup of coffee.

"Oh." She just said, awkwardly. She knew that Damon proably had his circle of friends, and obviously women, but she didn't dare to ask.

When she tried to move and he did the same, they accidentally bumped into each other.

Elena blushed, and seeing her immediate reaction, Damon smirked smugly. He put some of the hair that had fallen into her face behind her hear, smiling at her knowingly. She, per usual, stared at his lips because for some strange reasons her brain wanted her obsessed with his lips.

Their little bubble quickly burst when Damon's phone started ringing.

"Hello?" He answered, picking it from his pocket.

"Damon Salvatore?" The autoritary female voice asked from the other line.

"Yes?" He asked confused.

"I'm Jamie's principal, your brother Stefan told me that in case of emergency I could contact you." She explained.

"Oh, sure, tell me everything." He then said, pacing around the room.

Elena eyed him suspiciously, this autoritary manner was kinda sexy.

"Sorry for telling you this late, but today school is closed. We have some internal problems with the heating and the current and it needs to be fixed. Again, I apologize in advace if you were already on your way, or here. Oh…and Mr. Salvatore, when you can, I'd like to meet you. To talk about Jamie. I'm going to call you in a few days." She said politely.

"Sure, no problem. We'll keep in touch. Thank you." Damon said calmly, ending the conversation.

Once hanged up, he threw the phone on the counter.

He noticed Elena's look as in telling him that he wasn't completely normal.

He snorted. "It was Jamie's principal. No school today. Yeah, well thank you very much for telling me about this after kicking me out of the bed." He said annoyed.

Elena chuckled. "Well, it's not like you didn't have to wake up anyways. You're so lazy." She pointed out.

"Yeah, whatever." He said rolling his eyes.

His head hurt like crazy and he just wanted so badly to go back to bed and sleep for the next week. In fact, that was exactly what he was going to do. Sort of.

"Are you ready?" Jamie appeared on the kitchen door with an expectant look.

"Good news. No school today." Damon said trying to sound 'happy', or excited, or whatever you needed to sound when you told a kid that he didn't have to go to school.

Jamie gave him a confused look. "Just put that backpack down." Damon just said, rolling his eyes.

"Your principal called me and told me that school's closed today. Go back to sleep if you want." He said while sipping his coffee.

Jamie seemed to think about it for a few seconds, before repling with his tiny but already autoritary tone. "I need to buy some school stuff..can you bring me at the store? Since you're already up.."

Damon almost choked in his coffee. "At eight in the morning?" He said rosing his eyebrows.

"I can bring him, today I don't have to go to the university and I'm already up, fully awake." Elena shrugged, teasing him with her last words.

Damon eyed her. "No..it's okay, but you can come with us, if you want to." He said casually. Apparently knowing that Elena would have come made things more exciting.

"Okay." She just smiled. "Now Jamie why don't you eat some waffles, I know you adore them." Elena said, ruffing Jamie's hair.

"Don't. They're poisoned." Damon whispered, smirking.

Elena rolled her eyes, half amused, half annoyed. "I heard you!" She shouted, walking upstairs to go and get dressed.

Fifteen minutes later, after Jamie ate lots of waffles and drank a glass of milk, they headed towards the Mystic Falls mall with Damon's car.

While in the car, Elena's phone rang. She took it from her bag and looked the ID. It was Caroline.

Smiling, she picked up the call. "Caroline!" She said cheerfully.

"Lena! How are you? I already miss you, and here's a total bore.." her friend complained.

"Oh please. You get to stay with your boyfriend, completely alone, and you don't have to think about anything else. What else do you want?" Elena teased.

"Being with Stefan is not that funny, you know. I don't wish to anyone two months alone with him.." She heard Damon muttering, and she rolled her eyes.

"I know, but Stefan's always busy with that douche bag of his father. Plus I've already been doing shopping in pratically all the most beautiful shops of the city." Caroline said all proudly.

Elena rolled her eyes, amused. "I can only imagine."

"Ha! Look, how are things going with Jamie…and Damon? Stefan told me that you're staying at the boarding house. Be careful with him, he's a total womanizer. And he's pratically sex on legs. Look, I know that you're sexually frustrated because you aren't getting any for a while now, so if you want to let yourself go..go for Damon!" Caroline said all giggling.

"Yeah Jamie's alright. Everything is going fine." Elena quickly replied, blushing like crazy at Caroline's words. She felt Damon's eyes on her for an istant and she blushed even more.

"You can't talk, can you?" Caroline asked amused. God how she loved gossip. Elena knew that Caroline would have called her later, wanting all the juicy news. Pity for her that there wasn't even one.

"No..not really." She shrugged it off, hoping that Caroline would have had the decency to take the hint and at least call her later.

She heard her giggling. "Okay. We'll catch up later. And I want to know everything."

"Bye Caroline..oh, wait, you want to talk with Jamie?" Elena asked.

"Isn't he at school?" She asked a little surprised.

"Nope." Elena replied, popping the 'p'.

"Ah, okay."

"It's Caroline, Jam." Elena said heading him the phone. A bright smile literally widened across Jamie's features. It was clear that he adored her.

Elena didn't really know if Caroline wanted kids, but she could say that she loved Jamie very much.

"So, is everything okay?" Damon asked, once Jamie started talking to Caroline.

"Yes. She and Stefan are having a great time." Elena replied casually, smiling and trying to cover her blush, knowing what else Caroline actually mentioned.

"Great." Damon winked.

Five minutes later they arrived at the mall, which was pretty big to be one in Mystic Falls.

Once in, Damon took Jamie's hand, just to keep him in sight and because they place was really really huge for a kid. They could easily get lost.

Elena found the gesture very sweet; she thought that despite his badass facade, Damon had a very protective and caring side.

They took the escalators, which took them to the third floor, where Jamie found the store that he needed.

"I'm gonna take a look around, if you don't mind." She said politely to Jamie and Damon before they headed to the store.

"No problem. Meet us here in thirty minutes?" He asked, shrugging.

"Okay. Here in thirty minutes." She replied, heading towards the other stores.

She looked around, but found nothing particulary interesting. The mall was pretty huge, but consindering that Elena wasn't a shopaholic like Caroline, she could easily go inside Prada, Mark Jacobs, and such without buying anything. For a moment she thought about Victoria's Secret..but she quickly pulled the thought away, since she had no one to wear those things for anyway. Keep walking with her Starbucks hot coffee in the hands, she glanced at one H&M dress and she kinda fell in love with it. Not kinda, she actually did. It had flowers as a theme, but not those heavy ones to look at like old ladies, it was fresh and attractive. It wasn't too short, it could have easily reached her mid thigh with her long legs, and it had long sleeves a little loosened at the end, with a see-not see neckline.

She quickly finished her Starbucks coffee before heading inside and trying on the dress. She looked at herself in the mirror of the dressing room and she unconsciously smiled. It fit perfectly. It was tight around her perfect body, but not too much, and it gave her a feisty look.

Elena didn't quite understand why, but when she looked at herself and felt impressed on how well she looked, she immediatly thought about Damon. She wanted to look good and sexy for him. She instantly frowned, cursing herself for thinking such a stupid thing. She just had to stop crushing on him like she was a horny teenager at her first crush.

The shop assistant looked at her and her eyes widened a bit.

"Wow. You look flawless in that, girl." She said shooking her head approvingly, and Elena could see that she was being honest, not like the usual assistants who told you you looked good even in a sack.

"You think?" Elena asked smiling shyly, putting a lock of her hair behind her ears.

"Absolutely. Your boyfriend will probably drool all over you." She smirked a little, crossing her arms.

Elena didn't have a boyfriend, but she replied anyway. "Let's hope." She just said, before heading inside the dressing room and changing again.

When she went at their meeting point, her eyes fell on Damon, who was leaning with his back casually against a wall..looking insanely hot.

He immediatly smiled at her, a little too mischievously for Elena.

"Shopping?" He asked, raising his eyebrows.

"Just a little thing." She said casually, and smiling shyly again like in the store.

He looked at her again with that mischevious smirk, and she wanted to roll her eyes. He was such a flirt.

She quickly headed towards Jamie. "So? What did you buy that was so urgent?" She asked smiling.

"Five exercises books, three pens; black, blue and red. And then some stuff that I need for a school project." He replied all proudly.

"Good." Elena said still smiling, tapping his nose.

Damon rolled his eyes from behind, and Elena chuckled soflty. He did have a point when he said that Stefan and Jamie were actually quite similiar about anxiety and precision.

"Oookay..are we all done?" Damon asked a little annoyed.

"Yes. Sorry if we took one hour of your precious time. I don't know how I could ever repay you for such a favor!" Elena said mocking his tone, teasing.

He rolled his eyes. "Very funny. Let's go." He said, grabbing Jamie's shoulders, and unconciously Elena's waist ligthly to bring them to the escalators. When they both noticed the move, Damon retracted his hand away as if it was burned. What was wrong with him?

At home, Jamie sat on the couch, watching some TV.

Elena offered to prepare the lunch, but when she looked inside the fridge, she noticed that there wasn't really so much to eat.

"Damon?" She called.

"Yesss?" He replied, entering the kitchen.

"We're out of food. And you were supposed to take care about this…yesterday." She said glancing at him angrily, placing her hands on her hips.

"Don't look at me with those judgy little eyes." He said rolling his eyes.

When he noticed that she was still stubborningly glancing at him, he snorted.

"Fine. Damon the slave is going out again, doing some shopping like a sweet little housewife." He said sarcastically. He was clearly so not used to buy things such vegetables, fruit and more. His lifestyle was quite different. He didn't have the need to settle himself like a home boy.

Elena rolled her eyes, a little annoyed. "Damon. You're not doing this for me, or for you, you're doing this for your nephew. As far as I'm concerned, I could eat some junk food or directly going to McDonalds, but he's a kid, now we don't want him eating this stuff everyday, do we?" She asked raising her eyebrows as a matter of factly.

"I guess not." He said still a little annoyed, but Elena could see that he got her point.

When he was out, she gave another look at Jamie who was still watching cartoons, and quickly headed upstairs.

She threw herself on the bed, a little exhausted. She was slowly falling asleep..or so she thought, since her phone rang a minute after. She snorted and picked it up.

"Yes?" She asked, not bothering to cover her annoyed voice.

"Then?" Caroline's curious and expecting voice said from the other line.

Elena rolled her eyes. She should have thought that Caroline wouldn't let go that easily.

"Then what?" Elena asked, playing dumb.

"What about Damon, Elena." Her friend replied, and she could see her giving her a pointing look even from the phone.

"What about him? Nothing. He's okay. He's nice." Elen said trying to sound indifferent, but her tone faded a little when she said the word 'nice'.

She listened Caroline hesitating for a few seconds. "Mmmh..ain't buying it. You like him. Well, but who wouldn't…he's bad news, though." She then said.

"First of all, how do you even know that I like him? And two, he may be bad news, but with his nephew he's very sweet." She felt the urge to stand for him, because it was true.

Caroline chuckled from the other line, and spoke again, mocking her tone. "First of all, when you like a guy you're usually too stubborn to admit it so you fake indifference like now. It's when you actually feel indifference for a guy that you talk about him without that tone that you just used. And two, I have no doubts that he's a piece of gold with Jamie, but I'm talking about women. He's a heartbreaker. Sure, if you just want to be fuck buddies…I bet he's all for it." Caroline said mischeviously.

Elena blushed. Deeply. Caroline was running way too fast. And Elena didn't do 'fuck buddies', even if it happened to be Johnny Depp they were talking about.

"Caroline!" She shouted annoyed. "Drop it. You're making movies in your head. Maybe you should really come back from this trip, if it's flipping your brain.." She warned.

Caroline hummed in annoyance. "Fine, okay, whatever. I'll keep my mouth shout. I'm just saying that you should let loose a bit Lena. That's it. And Damon is the one who could help you with that, even if you had sex, he would never hold it against you. Trust me. He's slept with a bunch of my friends and I know these things!" She exclaimed.

Elena seemed to think about it for a second, but she quickly felt guilty about it.

"Look, Caroline, I'm here to work. That's my job. I can't just sleep around with the guy I work for..especially with Jamie here." Elena explained.

"Okay." Caroline said, and Elena could hear her pouting.

"Don't you pout Care! What do you want me to do? Sleep around? I'm so not that type." Elena said fiercely.

Then Elena thought about something that she was thinking about after she knew about that party, which was told to her yesterday, and decided to share it with Caroline and relieve her pointless pout.

"But.." She started hesitantly. "You know Tina? She's throwing a party tomorrow, and you know how these things works, if you don't have a date then you're lame. So I thought that I could ask Damon, since he loves partying and.." She was saying, when she heard Caroline squealing from the other line.

She rolled her eyes at her friend's ovverreacted excitement.

"Awesome! Ask him then. Relaxing a little doesn't necessarly mean sex, you're just going to have some fun." She said convinced.

"So you're sure? I should ask him?" Elena said, worring her bottom lip.

"Sure!" She kept saying.

"But..but what about Jamie?" Elena then asked, feeling a little disappointed already, but guilty for Jamie.

"You can leave him to a friend. Stefan and I do it sometimes, Jam has a couple of very good friends, you could ask to one of their mother's…" She explained.

"Okay. Then I'll do it. Wish me luck, since I will feel so awkward." Elena said, inhaling deeply.

"My god Lena, you're making such a big deal. You're so naive. It's not like you have to ask him to marry you..it's a freaking date. Just go for it." Caroline said exhasperated.

"But good luck, anyway..and have a great sex. I heard that that thing that he does with his hi –"

Elena's eyed widened at her friend's crudity, and she blushed a little. "Bye, Caroline!" She said hanging up on her.

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