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Elena was livid. It was one thing to sit and act like she could tolerate Isobel with her family and Stefan. It was a completely different story to sit in the same room as Isobel and Damon, and just act like nothing happened that summer. To hell with pleasantries. John and her father had gone out to get drinks at one of Jeremy's bars. They wouldn't be back for hours. Katherine looked at her sister and gave her an encouraging smile. Elena gave a grimace in return. This was beyond awkward. Everyone was just talking, except Elena, like this was one big family moment. Isobel was flipping her long dark brown, flat hair over her shoulder. She turned to Damon with a flirtatious smile.
"So Damon I hear you're dating Rose now." Isobel stated.
Katherine laughed then attempted to cover it with a series of coughs.
"I wouldn't call what Rose and I do dating." Damon replied with a smug smirk.
"Then what would you call it?" Isobel instigated.
"Getting my dick wet." Damon said causing Jeremy and himself to laugh.
Elena couldn't help but roll her eyes. It was bad enough she had one ex screwing Rose and now Damon was too. Great. She couldn't hope but to go deaf in the next couple of seconds.
"Wow. Oh I forgot, you might want to tune down the language. Virginal ears in the room."
Every eye seemed to drift to Elena. Leave it to the bitchiest person to point out the fact that she was a virgin, not that it was common knowledge.
"No one here is a virgin." Jeremy stated with his jaw tense.
'Here we go again', Elena thought. 'Jer and his made up fantasies about to make a huge disagreement about absolutely nothing.'
"Nice Jer." Katherine said with an attitude.
"It's the truth. Seems as if my little sister had absolutely no common sense or self-respect that summer."
"Jer, calm down." Damon advised but Elena watched her brother mentally shrug all the comments off.
"For the five hundred and sixty-sixth time, nothing happened between Elijah and me. How many times do I have to tell you?" Elena exclaimed.
Jeremy just grinned at everyone. This was the only constant argument between the siblings. How Elena lost her imaginary virginity, which by the way was still intact. The entire town thought differently except with a few exceptions.
"Why do you feel the need to lie to my face?" Jeremy asked with his face turning red with anger.
"Am I missing something here?" Isobel questioned.
"Only two years late. The facts about this entire argument are debatable at best." Katherine exclaimed.
"Elena slept with that prick Elijah the summer you visited. He was from Fells Church, the next town over. I found out when I got back from Georgia." Jeremy revealed.
"Please! If I was going to sleep with anyone, I wouldn't have let you catch me. I am way smarter than that. Plus Elijah and I are just friends."
"Okay." Jeremy replied back with sarcasm dripping from every word.
Everyone, except Isobel, was sitting back, waiting for the siblings to calm down. The argument had been a common one in the Gilbert family for years now. Elena got up to leave when she heard-
"So what about all the rumors?" Jeremy yelled.
"Rumors. Elijah did hang out that summer, I won't deny that. The simple fact of the matter is that I never slept with him. He needed someone to talk to and so did I. We talked. He was with Vickie!"
"Who wasn't?" Damon mumbled earning a glare from Elena.
Vickie Donovan, Elena's ex-boyfriend's sister, used to be nothing but trouble. She was beautiful despite her trashy highlights. She flaunted it when she was in high school. She dated Jeremy when he was a junior and they had a troublesome relationship. Vickie had changed though, Elena watched her. Elijah's love did that for her and no one could take her new image from her. Elijah was one of Elena's one two male best friends. She helped him see Vickie, whom his mother forbid him to see while he was still living in her home, all summer and she was happy that she could help her best friend. Elijah and Vickie were living in Chicago but they were back for the summer. Elijah was from old money, and everyone knew it. He had a pompous air about him but he was the complete opposite. Elena figured it was because he was always dressed like something from an Armani or Calvin Klein Ad.
"Then explain the open condom wrapper I found in your room. Seriously, Twisted Pleasures?"
Everyone besides Jeremy and Isobel froze. Images of Damon's chiseled chest flew into Elena's mind. She could feel everyone glaring her way especially Damon.
"Why would you just assume it was mine? Kat lives in there too, it was probably hers!" Elena yelled back.
Katherine's eyes went wide then she smiled. Elena was becoming a good liar right before her very own eyes.
"She's got you there. I was messing with Slater then. Then I got with Stefan but I didn't sleep with him until three months, kind of my rule." Katherine said smiling without a care.
"Doesn't explain why it was on your side. Not between the beds." Jeremy rebutted.
"She could have just thrown it over there."
Katherine didn't mind her sister throwing her into the flames. Jeremy's comments would never stop her from being with anyone, physically or not. Katherine appreciated the tactic her sister was using.
"I think you're lying."
"And you're full of shit." Elena exclaimed with red cheeks.
Damon hopped up knowing his friend's reaction. He put his hand on Jeremy's shoulder.
"Jer, leave it alone. You don't want to argue with Lena. Let it go."
Jeremy shrugged Damon off and walked past everyone to the bar in the room. Elena exhaled a large breath. Lying to her brother was exhausting, there were only so many times she could use the same excuses. Thankfully she thought of 'our sister's kind of slutty' excuse this time around.
And I just ran out of band aids
I don't even know where to start
cause you can bandage the damage
you never really can fix a heart
Even now I know what's wrong
how could I be so sure
if you never say what you feel, feel
Elena looked down at her phone at the sound of Demi Lovato's voice signaling her phone was ringing to see Elijah calling. She sighed then dragged the button to accept the call.
"Hi Eli." Elena said into the phone.
"Hey Lena. I just wanted to let you know Vickie and I are in town. We're at her Mom's house."
"Awesome. We can all go out tonight. Care misses you like crazy." Elena said trying to sound happy.
It just failed miserably. Elena walked into the side hallway for privacy.
"Are you alright?"
"Isobel's in town." Elena said feeling like a million pound weight was lifted from her lungs.
"Ah. I see your problem. I think a night out would be sufficient to turn your mood around."
Elena told Elijah about everything with Damon and Isobel situation last year before he left when he came back to visit for Christmas Break from Loyola University.
"Thanks Eli."
"I don't think that is the only reason you're upset." Elijah said.
Damn him! Being the best friend she could ever wish for.
"Well Isobel made a comment about virgins and Jeremy jumped at the chance to insist that we slept together." Elena revealed to him.
"Let him continue to hate me Elena. It will better than him trying to kill his best friend and business partner." Elijah said being the voice of reason once again.
"The last time I allowed Jer to even fathom that what he thinks is the truth, he went after you. I barely got to him to stop him from taking those brass knuckles to your face."
"Elena, we cannot make others see the truth. How did you manage to calm him?" Elijah questioned.
Elena didn't want him to know Damon was there. Elijah was for a reunion between her and Damon. There was only so many ways to say 'People will ice skate in Hell before they ever got together.' Plus he seemed to think the entire thing was a misunderstanding.
"Damon is here. I don't think he wanted Jer to know the condom was his." Elena said giggling.
"That was a wise move. How are you and Damon doing?"
Elena sighed walking back past the living room and sitting on the stairs.
"There is no me and Damon." Elena insisted though she knew she was speaking to deaf ears.
Elijah was a man of his word and genuinely friendly. How he ended up related to Rebekah, she would never know. There must have been a knot loose when Rebekah's mother gave birth to her. First cousins? Elena would have thought the two were related through marriage if their looks weren't similar.
"If you insist. I will see you later Elena."
"Bye Elijah." Elena said, smiling a real smile.
Elena walked back into the living room to see just Stefan and Katherine remaining. 'Damon and Isobel probably snuck off for a repeat', she couldn't help but think. She shook her head to rid herself of such thoughts. They made her cringe.
"Where did Isobel go?" Elena questioned to make is seem like she didn't want to know where Damon had gone off to.
"Don't you mean where Damon is at?" Katherine teased with a knowing smile.
Elena internally cursed her sister. Sometimes she wished she had only had best friends who didn't live with her. Elena rolled her eyes and gave Katherine her 'could you just answer the question' look/
"Isobel is on the phone with mother." Katherine said smiling.
Elena couldn't help but smile. Isobel's mother was worse than Miranda. She ran off with one of Isobel's gymnastic coaches when she was twelve. She lived her life travelling the world with the man, leaving her daughter with her husband who she stilled failed to divorce. John was dating a woman but Elena figured it stopped because he moved. Isobel got postcards from her mother once every few months with only two words. 'Have fun'. Her name was usually signed at the bottom. At least when Miranda left, she left for good. She never kept sending her husband and children remainders that she was gone. Elena knew her Uncle John had filed for divorce a little over a month ago but how could one get divorced with a flighty wife?
"Hope she cries." Katherine added laughing.
"Kat, that's insensitive." Stefan said glaring at his girlfriend.
"No, Isobel going after Damon when she knew Elena had a thing for him, that's insensitive." Katherine replied back.
"Could we just stop talking about Damon and me for one second? Gosh. I've already got Elijah breathing down my neck." Elena expressed.
Katherine's eyes lit up at the mention of Elijah's name.
"Was he was the one you were on the phone with a moment ago? The only you told that there was no you and Damon?" Katherine drilled.
"You heard that?" Elena asked hesitantly.
"It's why Damon walked to the kitchen where Jer was at making a sandwich."
Elena exhaled. Life was not supposed to be this complicated. She couldn't have her eat her cake. Hell she barely was getting a slice of the cake as of right now. Katherine stood up and grabbed Stefan's hand.
"Well, we're going to the Grill for lunch. Are you in?" Stefan asked Elena.
"No, I'm going out with Elijah, Vickie and Care later. I'm just going to grab some fruit."
Elena stood up and walked into the kitchen. The back door was open and she could hear sounds coming from the garage. She saw someone standing behind the open fridge door in the wall and she approached who she thought was Jeremy.
"Look Jer, I'm sorry for arguing with you." Elena said.
The fridge door closed to reveal Damon drinking a beer. He eyed her suspiciously.
"Hey Lena."
"My name is Elena." Elena told him, scowling at the sight of his face.
"I thought we were friends."
"Barely." Elena scoffed.
She saw a hurt expression pierce his face before his ruthless mask descended.
"Why have you been treating me like this?"
"Like what?" Elena countered.
"You know what. Ever since you came back from Georgia that summer you've been taciturn and indifferent to me."
Elena had to laugh on the inside. Leave it to Mr. Business major and English degree to use big words to say she was being cold and unresponsive to his attempts at being cordial to her.
"Did you meet someone in Atlanta?" Damon asked her.
Now it was Elena's turn to not say anything. Meet someone? Did she meet someone? More like her cousin's mouth met his erection. Elena rolled her eyes, trying to get past him to the fridge. Damon blocked her way.
"That's what happened, isn't it?"
Elena narrowed her eyes at him, shooting daggers.
"I wasn't the one who met someone."
"What are you going on about?" Damon questioned.
"Let's just not do this here," Elena said trying to move past him with little success, "Fine. I'll go get my fruit from Caroline's house!"
Elena stormed past him and out the back door to her car in the driveway. She exhaled a massive sigh of relief when she pulled out onto the street. There it was the confrontation that never happened all those years ago. Elena had to wonder, if Isobel hadn't come back, would it have happened?