Chapter 6-

Aria's POV

I was walking downstairs when I saw Elijah, Elena and Jenna talking. They all saw me. Crap. Too late to run.

"Hey, Aria, come here and meet Elijah Smith, he's a historian." Jenna said. Elena looked nervous. Elijah smiled at me, then I realized, I had morning hair and was still wearing my teddy bear PJ's.

I ducked and ran back to my room, yelling "it's too early," over my shoulder. I closed my door behind me and quickly brushed my hair and got dressed.

I went back downstairs and saw that Elijah wasn't there anymore. I left and drove over to the mystic grill.

I got there and was nearly run down by a pissed off Damon who made his way over to the bar.

"What's his problem?" I glanced over my shoulder back to Damon then turned around to talk to Stefan. We made our way to a table over near the pool table.

I sat down across from Stefan. "Elena's mad at him about what happened with Jeremy and then me in the tomb."

"What happened with Jeremy in the tomb?"

"He went in to get the moon stone without any of us knowing and Katherine bit him and then I went in and threw him out." This was news to me why didn't I know. Stupid Jeremy, always getting himself into trouble.

"So Elijah got you out of the tomb." It was more of a statement then a question.

"Yeah." He nodded.

I saw Elijah standing over by the bar talking to Damon, he says something angrily and walks away.

"I gotta go." Stefan says as he looks at his phone, I nod and he gets up and leaves.

I look up and notice that Elijah is sitting across from me, he has a small smile on his face. "Hey." I say softly, yesterday he saw me in my bra and this morning I had morning hair.

"I left my jacket in your bedroom last night."

"Oh yeah. Well you'll just have to come over tonight and get it." He smiles.

"It's a date." He gets up and kisses my forehead.

"You have a date with Elijah!" Caroline sits down across from me, her shocked expression is priceless and I wish I had a camera. I wonder when she got here and how much she heard.

"Uh, yeah. It's just a casual thing." I hope she buys the brush off.

"What's a casual thing? The fact that he left his jacket in your bedroom because he was over last night!?" uh oh. Looks like she heard all of it.

"Um. It's very complicated. Uh." I was speechless, how did I explain to her that I was hot for an original vampire.

"He's an original vampire, who can compel other vampires, he wants to sacrifice your sister in a ritual!" she listed off. They were all valid points, but I didn't really care. Ok, the Elena thing was a big problem and I was planning on talking to him about not breaking the curse on his brother, but when I was with him I forgot. He makes me forget the bad stuff.

"Well…" I didn't know what to say so I switched the subject to her something I had gotten very good at through the years. "So what's happening with the Matt and Tyler situation?" there that got her distracted.

"I don't know! I was happy with Matt and then Tyler goes and kisses me! I thought we were just friends." She seems very distressed by that. I nod, I could tell from how close they had gotten that Tyler and Caroline weren't 'just friends'. She and Matt were great together but she and Tyler just had something really… special. They definitely had chemistry.

"Well, what are you going to do?"

"I don't know!" she buried her head in her hands. Caroline and I had often been mistaken for sisters, we had the same skin tone and hair, and we were as close as sisters. I patted her hand and tried to be comforting, not that I was ever good at it. I once tried to make a six year old who had fallen and scraped her knee feel better, I ended up making her cry and her mother called me a bitch. Not my best moment.

"Have you told Matt?" she looked at me guiltily and shook her head, her hair flying around wildly.

"Their friends, you know?" I nodded, I did know. If she told Matt then his friendship with Tyler might get damaged if not ruined.

It was crappy all around.

Caroline left to do what Caroline did. I went home and watched old reruns of CSI.

The doorbell rang and I got up, it would be Elijah. I checked myself in the mirror and reapplied my smudged lip gloss.

I opened the door and saw him standing there in all his glory. He was wearing another suit, different from the one he had been wearing at the grill. I opened the door wider allowing him to come in. I walked over to the couch where I had draped the jacket over the armrest, anticipating his arrival. I handed him the jacket and he took it, our hands skimmed each other's in the process sending pulsing electricity up through my arm. He always made me nervous.

He pulled me into his arms and kissed me, I relished the feel of his firm lips and soft skin against me. Our moment was ruined by my phone ringing. I pulled away and grunted in annoyance.

I picked up the phone and pressed it to my ear, I was still in Elijah's arms and he was pressing soft butterfly kisses to the side of my neck making me laugh, though it sounded more like a girlish giggle.

"What?" I say into the phone, I sound annoyed. Which I am. Whoever it is just ruined my kissing with Elijah.

"Jules and some of Mason's friends have kidnapped Caroline." It was Bonnie. I pulled away from Elijah and ran my hand through my hair nervously.

"Well, are Stefan and Damon going to do anything?" I was freaking out. What if they were torturing her the same way Damon tortured mason. What if by the end of this Caroline's heart ended up across the room from her body?

"They just left." I breathed out then in. what if there's too many werewolves and they don't save Caroline and one of them gets bitten. I was being paranoid, it would all work out in the end. I hoped.

I hanged up the phone, there wasn't much else left to say.

I turned around and saw Elijah standing there, I hugged him because it's all I could do. He pulled away and kissed me on the lips and stepped back.

"I'll take care of it. Don't worry." He said then left without another word. Well now I wasn't worried as much. No one was a match for Elijah.

I waited by my phone for news for about twenty minutes before it rang, Elijah.

"How is she?" I spoke immediately into the phone.

"She'll be fine. A little shocked and but she was healing the last time I saw her."

"Thankyou." It came out like a breath.

"You're welcome." He hung up and I picked up my keys and drove to Caroline's house.

She opened the door, I could see the traces of dried tears and I brought her in for a hug. We let go and turned to see who it was.

Bonnie and Elena. They walked over and were holding ice cream, movies and pillows.

"Slumber party?" was all Elena said. We all nodded and Caroline laughed and started to cry so we had a big group hug.

And for a moment everything was ok.