Hope you all enjoy this chapter. This has been calling my name to be typed out since the idea jumped into my head. I got kind of obsessed with Demi Lovato's new C.D. for some reason and the idea just came to me. All the answers to all of your questions are still not answered. And I know everyone will have a lot to say about this chapter. Hope you like it, I poured my soul into this one. Tell me what you think.
If I begged and if I cried
Would it change the sky tonight?
Would it give me some light?
Should I wait for you to call?
Is there any hope at all?
Are you drifting by...?
When I think about it
I know that I was never there or even cared
The more I think about it
The less that I was able to share with you
I try to reach for you, I can almost feel you
You're nearly here
And then you disappear
Elena sat in her room painting the last toe on her left foot cobalt blue. Katherine had done her nails earlier the same color. They were doing their own personal spa day. Beyoncé's voice was flowing through their bedroom courtesy of Katherine's iTunes. Elena knew her sister had the best taste in music. Maybe it was because she was Miss Prima Ballerina. Katherine was good and she knew it. Her great dancing skills were what had a guaranteed spot for auditions at the prestigious Juilliard in New York.
"So what's going on with you lately?" Elena questioned her twin.
"Nothing."
"Katherine, you know you can't lie to me. Ever since that night of the sleepover at Tyler's place … Wait, is it because of … well you know!"
Katherine rolled her eyes, sighing and putting the hot pink nail polish on her night stand.
"Lena can we not do this tonight?"
The door to their bedroom bounded open then shut close. Their Aunt Jenna and her fiery red hair flew into the room and onto Elena's massive bed.
"So are we getting drunk tonight you guys?"
The twins laughed in unison. How Jenna graduated with her Master's was a mystery to them. She was either going to drink, already drunk or nursing a hangover almost every day.
"Jenna how do you expect to get a job while getting drunk every day?" Katherine questioned.
"I have a job. I started in a month." Jenna told them smiling.
Elena turned around and faced her aunt. Katherine scooted toward the edge of her bed closest to Elena's.
"When did you get a job? All summer you've been partying."
Jenna narrowed at eyes at her nieces but smiled the entire time. She laughed.
"It's a private company called Smith & Regan Inc. They have multiple divisions. They just so happen to have a security division which my kick ass analyst skills get paid handsomely for. I got an interview through my old professor. I am in training starting next week and I start in a month. So that means I need to get drunk as much as I possibly can before next Friday."
The girls all laughed. Elena got up and sat down in her bed, next to Jenna.
"Sorry Jenna, we were just going to stay in tonight. Where's Alaric?" Elena said.
"Alaric was with Damon earlier. I know he had plans with Elijah later on but you know Damon and Elijah don't really get along anymore." Jenna said smiling, looking at Elena.
"It's because Damon is heels in love with Elena and he thinks she lost her virginity to Eli, which he was going to do until I walked in."
"What?" Jenna exclaimed.
Elena leaned back and allowed her upper body to fall onto her bed.
"Kat!" She exclaimed in exasperation.
Jenna dragged Elena into sitting position with big eyes. Elena rolled her eyes in a dramatic fashion to make it seem like she was tired of having this conversation, which she kind of was.
"Damon and I may have hooked up the summer Klaus was born." Elena said.
Jenna screamed in shock and excitement. Katherine giggled, joining the other two girls on her sister's bed. She was finally going to get the entire story from her twin.
"What the hell? Tell me everything!" Jenna yelled with glee.
"First off, please calm down. Damon and I … we had come back to the house. Kat was off being a slut with Stefan even though he was still with Rebekah. No one was here. We both admitted to having feelings for one another. We kissed and one thing led to another."
"But Kat just said that you did not sleep with Damon!" Jenna disputed.
"Can I finish?" Elena asked in annoyance.
"Go on." Jenna mumbled with a smile.
Elena ran her hand through her hair and sighed. 'One night of peace, why was that so hard to get,' Elena thought cursing whoever sent Jenna to their house tonight.
"Anyway we went down on one another. And-"
"Wait; is he as big as he thinks he is?" Jenna asked making Katherine burst into a fit of laughter.
"Seriously Jenna, are you really asking your seventeen year old niece does her boyfriend have a big dick?" Katherine asked with an amused face.
"He is not my boyfriend!" Elena argued.
"He better be or Jeremy will kill him. Lena you should tell him, that's his best friend."
"Do you want me to finish the story or not?" Elena questioned with a serious peeved off face.
Jenna and Katherine both got quiet and leaned in toward Elena.
"The answer to your question is yes Jenna. He's as big as he brags to be," Elena said then Jenna giggled which made her smile, "I had condoms that Katherine gave me that summer. Damon had ripped it open and was putting it on when Kat walked into the room screaming that Rebekah was a bitch. She saw us and walked out, all embarrassed. It was actually kind of funny. We just sat and held each other for an hour. Well we made out some too. He had to go take care of some things; I guess one of those strippers was doing something wrong. I didn't really ask. Kat burst into the room when he left asking a lot of questions. All I knew was that I was in love with him and it was scaring the shit out of me! We hung out the rest of the week but could never quite get alone. Then Jeremy called me down to Georgia to see your Mom and Dad. I had to go. Damon said we could try to you know … have sex when I got back. He dropped me off at the train station. I got back a few weeks later and Care was sitting on the porch waiting to share all the latest gossip with me. The major rumor going around was Isobel blew Damon behind the Starbucks a week after I left. I hated him Jenna. Kat came home and found me throwing my vanity mirror across the room."
Jenna sat wide-eyed and in astonishment. How could anyone miss everything that had happened between the little sister and the brother's best friend?
"So what is going on now? Did you sleep with Elijah?"
Elena should have known that this would come up. Why did everyone think they slept together? Two people could never just hang out in this town without rumors flying about someone being pregnant or sleeping with their best friend. It was getting to be too much. No she had never slept with anyone, why was that so hard to believe all of a sudden?
"Damon and I … we're just doing things how we should have done things last time. He asked me about Eli. I told him the truth. I never slept with Elijah. I was helping him cover his tracks with Vickie like I told everyone that summer. I am a virgin!" Elena explained.
"You never slept with Matt?" Jenna asked with curiosity.
"No but he tried. I mean we did stuff together but no, I would never sleep with that idiot."
"So Alaric said you slept over there last week."
Elena looked to her aunt with a questionable expression on her face.
"Damon told him apparently Lena!" Kat exclaimed.
"Yea, I sleep over there a lot. He had slept over here when no one was around. We spend a lot of time together. No, we aren't together if you're going to ask that."
"So are you going to sleep with him?" Katherine asked.
There it was: the million dollar question. Was she going to go down that road with him again? Would they finish this time or would fate just continue to make sure it didn't happen?
"Well I think it'll happen eventually whether it's planned or not. That's just how things are."
The girls all smiled at one another. The door suddenly opened. Isobel walked in with a tight, strapless black dress. It stopped mid-thigh and hugged every curve in her body. Her hair was pinned up on one side and she was smiling.
"Hey Kitty, can I borrow those black feather earrings you had on the other day?" Isobel asked.
She did not wait for an answer. She sat down at Katherine's desk and began looking through her jewelry box.
"First off, no one calls me Kitty except Lena and my Dad. Second I didn't remember you knocking and waiting for a reply. Third, who the hell said yes Isobel, go through my shit and wear my things?"
Jenna stifled her laughter as Elena examined her cousin's appearance. Why was she so dressed up? Isobel and her brown hair flew around to face the other three girls.
"So can I wear them Kat, please?" Isobel asked.
Katherine rolled her eyes and waved her hand in a dismissive wave as to concede to Isobel's wishes.
"Thanks! You're like the best cousin when you don't insult me."
Isobel continued to dig through the jewelry box smiling.
"Why are you so dressed up? Going to Mist?" Jenna questioned.
"No, I've got a date." Isobel explained.
Katherine burst into laughter.
"Yea right, who would be desperate enough agree to be seen with you, let alone go out on an actual date with you?" Katherine ridiculed.
"Well Damon asked me out."
The temperature in the room seemed to drop fifty degrees. Isobel was looking at herself in the mirror, putting in the earrings. Jenna was watching Elena who seemed frozen. Katherine was looking back and forth between her sister and her cousin. Elena's face suddenly turned red as she sprinted out the room.
"You're lying!" Katherine accused.
"Why would I lie? He should be here in a few moments. I was at the club visiting Jer."
"You were stalking Damon." Katherine cut in.
"I was visiting Jer and Damon asked me out. Well I had asked him out before but there were scheduling conflicts. He had some things to take care of last week."
Katherine laughed. Damon was with Elena almost every night last week except when they were at Tyler's. The doorbell rang through the house.
"Could you get that?" Isobel asked, scanning herself in the full length mirror now.
Katherine tore from the bed and down the stairs. She saw Elena heading into the hallway as she opened the door. There stood Damon in a black V-neck with black jeans and his signature leather jacket. Katherine had to admit he looked good enough to eat.
"Elena's not available right now."
"I'm actually here for Isobel. However, I do need to talk to your sister."
"Like I said, she's not available to talk." Katherine spat toward him.
"Like I would ever listen to you Katherine."
Elena could hear Damon and Katherine talking in the living room as she hid in the side hallway. Her heart was beating inhumanely fast and she felt like her lungs were constricting. 'Idiot!" She chided herself. She was just talking about him upstairs like they were going to end up married and here he was taking out the same bitch who ruined them the first time. She should have known. She was naïve and stupid for believing he could ever be better than Jeremy was about women.
"I need to talk to Elena Kat. Could you just get her? I know she's here."
"How would you know anything? I know for fact you haven't seen her all day. So she could be out."
Elena heard Damon sigh heavily.
"Stef told me. I just really need to tell her some things before I leave." Damon practically begged.
"Why are you taking Isobel out?" Katherine replied ignoring his pleas.
"It's not by-"
"I'm ready." Isobel's voice called down the steps and she walked down the steps.
Elena had the strongest urge to go out into the living room and throat punch both Damon and Isobel.
"Just tell Elena to call me. Please."
"We can go. Bye Kat. Tell Lena I said have a good night. She left the room pretty quick." Isobel said with a calculating smile.
"Bye bitch. Don't trip on your cankles on the way out." Katherine said.
Elena waited for a minute before coming out. She had heard the door close. She had heard the doors to his Camaro close and he drove off. She exhaled a giant breath as tears begin to spill from her eyes. She came around the corner to see Jenna sitting on a couch and Katherine on the phone.
"Care, get over here now. It is an emergency. Like Code Red, right now!" Katherine yelled into the phone.
It only took Caroline ten minutes to arrive at the Gilbert Residence.
"He is such an ass. Come on Lena!"
Caroline dragged her best friend up the stairs with Jenna and Katherine following behind the pair. She let go of her when they got to the girls' room and she walked right into their giant walk in closet. Elena lied back and let the tears free fall down her face. She felt like the dumbest girl to ever step foot on the planet. She got fooled twice by the same guy. She really had an urge to call Jeremy but she could not tear the friends apart like that. That would be a bitchy move. That would be a Katherine move. Suddenly clothes were thrown on top of her. Elena sat up to see a green corset and short black shorts on her legs.
"Get dressed like now!" Caroline told her.
"Care, I just want to wallow in my own stupidity."
"Oh no, you won't. Damon is a first rate jackass and right now you need therapy. We are going over to North Grove to that western bar. Tom, Wesley and some of their friends will be there. We can have fun and drink. Wallow yourself in a shot of tequila and a cute guy for a couple of hours. Now get dressed!" Caroline ordered.
Elena dressed slowly as she saw her aunt and sister following suit. Caroline was wearing a blue corset with shorts matching Elena's. She had combat boots with aquamarine laces. She tossed a pair of combat boots Elena's way with emerald laces. Katherine was wearing a red corset with matching shorts. Her combat boots were taller than Elena and Caroline's. Her laces were a blood red with white stripes. Jenna had on a pink camisole with blue jean shorts. She allowed Caroline to get her into matching combat boots with pink laces.
Two hours later …
The girls had been at the Whiskey Creek Bar for about an hour and a half. Tom and his friends were around playing pool. Elena was at the bar, downing her sorrows with tequila. Katherine and Caroline were having a good old time playing pool and drinking. Tom came over to her and sat down next to her.
"Hey Elena."
She just nodded her head, taking another shot.
"You don't seem so chirper today."
"I just found out that the guy I've been in love with for three years has a thing for my cousin despite what has happened between us. God, I am so stupid. Why didn't I learn the first time?" Elena rambled on.
"Are you talking about Damon?" Tom questioned with the beer in his hand.
"Who else? You know I can't even blame that dick," Elena said emphasizing the word dick, "I went through this once already with him and Isobel. I was the fool to actually think that maybe the rumor was just a rumor. I should have asked him. Hell I could have asked her."
Elena did not know where the words were coming from. Maybe it was the six shots she already had.
"Lena you have to dance!" The voice of her twin said from behind her.
Elena rolled her eyes as she felt herself being dragged from the stool.
"Kat, I'm really not in the dancing mood."
"Look he's dumb and if he can't see you're awesome then his loss. I will not let my baby sister go into a stupor because of Damon Salvatore!"
"You're only older by five minutes."
"Those six minutes count. As the oldest I am the wisest. So take my advice and dance!"
Suddenly the beat to Demi Lovato's 'All Night Long' filled the bar. Katherine laughed and got on top of the bar.
"What the hell are you doing?" Elena exclaimed.
"Come on, let's dance!" Katherine yelled.
The men in the club were coming toward the bar to see Katherine. Caroline giggled and cheered her friend on. Katherine began to shake her hips walking up and down the bar.
I love the way you're talkin'
I'm lovin' what you're doin', boy
I don't fall easy often
I never had a love like you before
Katherine was dancing all over the bar. She shook her hips and dipped down to the level of the men ogling her. Elena caught Jenna recording her twin dancing and she laughed. Katherine stuck out her hand and Caroline joined her on top of the bar top. The two girls danced to the beat doing a dance Elena remembered doing when she was on the cheerleading team with them.
"Come on Lena!"
Let's keep the party goin' all night long (hey)
all night long (hey)
all night long (hey)
all night, all night
Elena shook her head but then realized she was actually laughing. So she told herself what the hell and climbed on top of the bar. Elena stepped into the middle and pushed the two girls aside. She stepped up and started to dance. The girls moved back in perfect harmony and shook their hips to the beat.
"Solo!" Katherine yelled as Missy Elliot's voice pumped through the bar.
We can party all night (night)
Wanna spend the night (night)
Boy you be my type by the end of the night
We can pillow fight
Your kisses real nice
Come closer 'cause I don't bite
You talkin' how I like
You play daddy I play wife
I-I-I'm so alone
No-No-No one is home
I got yo, got yo n-n-number in my telephone
"Go Kat!" Jenna cheered with her IPOD high in the air recording the dancing.
Katherine kicked her leg up and spun around. She smiled, blowing kisses to the men. Caroline stepped up next. She moved her hips sensually to the beat. She spun her body around and made circles with her arms, smiling seductively to the crowd. Everyone was cheering.
Wanna wanna wanna be your girl
Wanna wanna be my man
Well we could hold hands, run our hands in the sand
it's the weekend, don't make plans
Party Starts
When you're here
After Dark
We don't care
We gon' set it off, we gon' set it off
Party Starts
When you're here
"Lena go!" Kat encouraged her twin.
Elena stepped the front and center where the large pole was in the middle of the beat. She wrapped her hands around the pole smiling.
After Dark
We don't care
We gon' set it off, we gon' set it –
As soon as the chorus rung out, Elena spread her legs apart and went down into a split. She bounced up and down gaining the largest applause from the crowd. She swung her legs over the bar top and sung the words to the guys closest to her. Katherine and Caroline continued to dance behind her. They struck a pose as the song closed. The bar filled with cheers and applause. Elena jumped off the bar smiling with a new reverence for her current situation. She was single and it was time to have fun. She grabbed one of Tom's friends and started to dance with him on the floor to slow, revenge-filled song 'Before He Cheats' by Carrie Underwood. It was making her think about taking Jer's bat to the front of Damon's Camaro. Then she felt the guy behind her and started to concentrate on feeling that rather than letting thoughts of Damon consume her.
A couple of days later back in Mystic Falls …
Damon tried for the tenth time to call Elena for the day. It went straight to voicemail. He had asked Jer about it earlier but Jeremy said Elena had been sneaking around and leaving her phone off so no one but Kat would know where she was. Damon walked into the large conference room that he and Jer made in the warehouse. He saw two of his low level thugs named Brady and Ben. The guys were laughing in the entrance way but stopped once Damon walked past out of respect. When he just nodded and followed past, Ben pressed play on his I-Pad. The two guys laughed watching the video.
"Are you going to show this to boss?"
"And get my fuckin' head cut off? Hell no!" Brady exclaimed.
"Who would have thought baby sister had those moves?" Ben said smiling.
"What the hell are you two idiots watching?"
Both guys looked up to see Logan Fell standing in front of them. Logan Fell was the legal advisor of Damon and Jeremy. He was tall with dirty blond hair and he had a superior essence to him. If there was a problem that none of the guys wanted to let Damon or Jeremy know about, they either went to Maddox, Luca or Logan. Logan tried to date Jenna when they were in high school but she quickly kicked him to the curb when Alaric showed interest. Logan never let that get to him; Jeremy and Damon treated and paid him well. Logan snatched the device from the two thugs and pressed the play button. As soon as he saw Katherine and Caroline dancing on the bar, he headed in to the conference room.
"Boss I have something you need to see."
"Not now Logan. I need to call Anna." Jeremy said.
Damon just sat back on his laptop, typing his essay that was for his Business class.
"Is it an emergency?"
"No, my dad has Klaus today." Jeremy said scrolling through their work phone: a blackberry.
"You need to see this. Its family related."
Jeremy and Damon's head both snapped up. They saw Logan holding an I-Pad which Damon just saw two of his guys have. Jeremy nodded his head. Logan laid the device on the table and pressed the play button. Jeremy watched as his baby sister Katherine got on top of a bar and was talking to someone off camera. She began dancing like she was seducing someone. He watched as Caroline joined Katherine and they both danced to the song. Damon watched as rage filled his best friend. Damon was starting to feel it. Where the hell were they at when this happened?
"Come on Lena!" They watched Katherine yell.
Damon saw Elena climb on top of the bar top and start to dance with her best friends. She moved like she did not have a care in the world. Damon could feel his anger build. Katherine stood out by herself and danced. Caroline did the same. The camera suddenly showed a lusty looking Elena holding a pole, and out of nowhere she went down into a split. Both Jeremy and Damon's eyes widen. Damon held in his anger trying not to let anyone know. Jeremy's fist tightened and his face turned red. The two sat and watched though without making a move.
"Look at my niece. He really is an idiot!" A voice behind the camera that they both recognized as Jenna said.
"She is so hot. If we were gay, I'd tap that!" Caroline said laughing.
The camera went out and they could see Elena dancing on a guy to some country song. Jeremy jumped up from his seat and kicked the chair over.
"Where the hell did you get this?"
"Ben and Brady. They're standing by the door."
Damon got up and followed as his best friend made haste toward the entrance of the room. Jeremy spotted the two guys and walked over to them. He grabbed the one he knew to be Brady and slammed him against the door.
"Where the fuck did you get that video?"
"It's on the Mystic Falls gossip Twitter. The girl who runs it said her friend asked her to post it!"
Ben watched with fear as his boss held hid friend up from the ground with rage.
"Is that how you watched it?"
"It's a trending topic. You put #CEK if you've seen it. It started out on YouTube and it has three million views."
"How long has this damn video been up?" Jeremy asked, slamming the guy back into the door.
"Last week to the day. I was just watching it today man. I'm sorry."
Jeremy dropped the guy who fell to the floor in a pathetic manner. Jeremy could barely see. Everything was blurred and he was trying to process what had just happened. He could expect this from Katherine and Caroline, Jenna would do anything when she was drunk. But what the hell was wrong with his baby sister Elena? Had she lost her damn mind? Jeremy stormed off, making his way toward the exit fuming.
I hope you all don't hate me. It would make me sad. I just have one thing to say though. Everything is not as it seems and answers will be coming. Reviews are loved and appreciated with me. ;) -Nee
