Second Chapter for you, guys! I was wondering if you wanted me to put the soundtrack to this fanfiction on youtube, let me know if you do. :)

This Romeo is bleeding,

But you can't see his blood,

It's nothing but some feelings,

That this old dog kicked up…

After Elena and Stefan went to school, I went back upstairs and laid in my bed and remembered when she used to lay here with me. Smiling, to myself I turned onto my side and stared at the cabinet next to me, laying on top of the mahogany wood sat the necklace that I had gave her before.

The necklace was just a bittersweet memorabilia of what me and Elena had once shared, before I had screwed it up. The necklace had once been my Mother's. She had left it to me before she died, much to my father's distaste. The sliver chain was tangled and sparkling still as beautiful as when my mother had first received it. The pendant was blue with a white encrusted rose in the centre and around its edge lay a river of sliver and on the opposite ends it had two little diamonds that always sparkled in the sunlight.

The beauty of the necklace reminded me of Elena and that had been why I had first given it to her and storing it with vervain so she wouldn't be hurt or compelled by any other Vampires. She had loved it when I had given her the necklace, it was the first night she told me she loved me but that wasn't the memory that I first remembered when I see the necklace. The haunting memory that I always saw was the one where I took it off Elena and made her forget everything that had ever happened between us.

I would never forget that, it was my biggest regret.

I circled the my pathetic little hometown of Mystic Falls, the darkness of the night keeping me within it's shadows. I watched her, as she stood with her hood of her jacket over head and her arms folded as she waited. She peered up and down the street looking for any sign of my car, for any sign of me.

"I'm sorry for this, Elena but I have to do it." I whispered, trying to convince myself that I could do this.

Elena pulled her cell phone from her pocket and her eyes scanned the screen before pushing it back into her pocket with a sigh. Her foot started to tap the concrete impatiently as she waited for me.

"Sorry, I'm late." I smirked trying my best to keep my normal charade up as I emerged from the darkness.

Elena smiled faintly when she saw me at first but then her face grew angry before I could say anything she stepped towards me and slapped me across the face, hard. I gritted my teeth, not wanting to get angry with her, not now. I grabbed her wrist and she just stared at me, her hood had fell down and her was gently blowing in the small wind. I let go of her wrist and pulled her towards me.

"Sorry, I'm late." I whispered before I kissed her lips.

I kissed her with urgency and desire and it was like nothing either of us had experienced before, it was love. A true love's kiss like she had once described it as after she had kissed me once before. I kissed her for awhile, not wanting to let her go, not wanting to give this up just yet because secretly I knew that it would be our last kiss. Eventually, we parted and Elena smiled breathlessly at me.

"What was that for?" she asked, her eyes showing how perfectly innocent she was and that I would be eternally damned for screwing up such a perfect creature.

"No reason." I smirked again at her and did my famous eye thing that she loved.

"So are we gonna go?" she asked, grabbing my hand and slightly tugging me towards the Grill.

"No, Elena. We're not gonna go anywhere." I whispered and I emphasised the we're, hoping she would understand what was coming.

She shook her head and bit her lip knowing what I was going to say before I even said it. Elena run her hands through her hair before placing her hands in the pockets of her jacket, her eyes were teary. I run my fingers gently over her face memorising everything, every feature, every bone structure, even every pimple.

"I need my necklace back, Elena." I kept my voice strong. I couldn't allow my voice to break, I couldn't allow myself to break in front of her, it would only make things worse in the long run. I had to pretend that I didn't care, that I didn't want her, that I didn't… love her.

Elena nodded and the tears fell from her eyes and all I wanted to do was pull her close and wrap her up in my arms but I couldn't. I had to do this. She tore the necklace from around her neck and threw it at me, my hands caught it quickly before it hit my face.

"So,, you're done with me now? You've dated me, slept with me, lied to me and now you're just going to walk away? You owe me a reason why, Damon! I love you, you can't just walk away…please Damon, don't leave me."

Her voice was pleading and desperate, she was practically begging me to stay and she had no idea how much I wanted to stay. My fists clenched around the necklace in my hand, why did fate have to be so cruel? Why make me a monster so I can't be with a girl who is perfect for me? Fate was cruel, inhuman and monstrous. I stepped towards Elena kissed her lips softly before I pulled away within a matter of seconds, I cradled her face in my hands.

"Elena, I love you okay? That's why I have to do this! That's why I have to leave you, I'm not good, Elena. I've never been the hero and I never will be. I don't deserve you and that's why you need to forget everything about me, okay?"

I stared at her face for one last time before I compelled her.

"You never knew me, you're gonna forget about me and everything that we had. You won't remember the love you had for me. These last few months you dated Matt, he's your best friend and you love him. You like dating him, he's fun and cool. You dated him because you both felt like you owed it to yourselves to try. You're waiting for him now, he's gonna pick you and take you somewhere nice and romantic…You're happy, Elena."

As I broke her out of the compulsion, I kissed her forehead before running away into the forest using my vampire speed. In fury, I punched a tree and made a dent within the wooden bark but I didn't care. I'd lost her and wouldn't have been fair to keep her. Headlights shined into the forest and Matt's car pulled up and within a matter of minutes it was driving away. I listened to the conversation and all I heard was her laugh and it was enough for my heart to break.

I looked down at the necklace in my hand, the chain flowed around my fingers and the pendant was in the palm of my hands. It was the only thing that I had left of her, I didn't have her heart anymore, her heart belonged to Matt and it would stay that way but the ache in my chest just grew stronger.

The ache in my chest was still inside me, the only difference was that now I could numb it out for awhile. I could switch it off, even if sometimes it was only for a few minutes. I hated living like this, I hated pretending that the day I met her was the day she walked through the door looking for Stefan. I hated pretending that Elena was my brother's girlfriend when really she was mine. She had always been mine.

I sat up on my bed and stared at my surroundings. This wasn't me, I didn't pine alone in my bedroom in my sorrows. I wasn't Stefan, I was Damon Salvatore the fun brother, the brother who had all the girls…but none of them would ever be her. That day I erased her memory ruined my life, I have never been the same man since. When I did turn into the monster that I used to be, I had tried to prove to myself that I didn't need her, that I shouldn't have to change . I gave up with that fight now, Elena Gilbert had changed me without even knowing it. I had become the man she wanted me to be and now she couldn't even remember me.

It's been raining since you left me

Now I'm drowning in the flood

You see I've always been a fighter

But without you I give up

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