Enjoy the early update thanks to my boo boo with yesterdays update. It was supposed to be posted last week sometime but I somehow forgot to post it after I uploaded it last week. This chapter is my apology for forgetting to give you another chapter when I was supposed to. Enjoy!
As of Monday morning I was no longer hanging out with the jocks. I was still a cheerleader because Damon thought it was hilarious that I was. But I told them that I was hanging out with Damon.
"Is it because of the kiss at the Grill Saturday afternoon?" Stefan asked when I got to school Monday. Damon was waiting by his car for me. I wasn't sure where he hung out in the morning but I would go wherever that is.
"Maybe so. All I know is I would rather hang out with him than with all of them." I told Stefan.
"They're not so bad when you get used to them. You can even bring Damon." He said as Damon started walking over to us.
"No, I'm sorry Stefan. It has nothing to do with you, I just can't stand all of them. It's more yours and Caroline's gig than mine." I told him. Damon came to stand next to me and I smiled up at him. He grinned and kissed my lips softly. I kissed him back briefly and when we broke the kiss, Stefan was already walking towards his table.
"You should come over after school." Damon said and I smiled.
"Whatever will we do?" I asked coyly and he laughed. We were walking into the school, Damon didn't strike me as the type to hang out in the school.
"I can think of a few things." He said and I grinned. We were so totally on the same page it was funny. I had no qualms about rolling around in a bed with him either clothed or unclothed. It was probably smarter to keep it clothed for the time being. I refused to sleep with a guy until he knew about me and I wasn't ready to tell Damon about me yet. I did that once and it did not end well. If that meant I had to be celibate for a while then I would be. I worried about vamping out in the heat of the moment. I didn't want to scare him away and that would surely scare him away. He walked us into Mr. Saltzman's class and I was surprised a guy like him hung out with a teacher or in a teacher's classroom.
"Somehow this surprises me." I said when we sat down in the seats we occupied in his class.
"Where else is there to avoid the jocks. They're the types of people who make me want to fight." Damon said and I laughed.
"Well well look at what we have here." Mr. Saltzman said when he walked into the classroom with a cup of coffee to find us there.
"There's nothing to see here." Damon said and our teacher laughed.
"I think there is. Considering how much you disliked each other on Elena's first day. Now you're hanging out together." He said with a smirk.
"We discovered we liked kissing each other." I told him with a smirk and Damon laughed in response.
"That's just great, just make sure you don't do it in my class and we'll be good." He said and Damon saluted him. We laughed with Mr. Saltzman until the bell rang and people started coming into class. It was like the class filled by clique. The nerds filed in first, then everyone that didn't really belong to a group and then the jocks came in right before the warning bell. All the cliques were broken up, Mr. Saltzman really knew what he was doing.
"Is your dad going to be home?" I asked quietly while Mr. Saltzman was lecturing about the Civil War era.
"Unfortunately. He won't be happy that I'm bringing you home with me. But I really don't care what he thinks, I want to spend time with you but I also have to be at home with my mom." He whispered and I smiled. We managed to talk all through class without getting caught by Mr. Saltzman. We went our separate ways when the bell rang with a chaste kiss. One didn't make out with a guy who could possibly be their boyfriend in the middle of the hallway at school.
We met up again for lunch but we spent the entire hour making out in his car.
"Are you sure you don't need to eat?" He asked when we came up for air and I laughed.
"I'm totally not hungry right now." I promised him before kissing him again. We kissed through the bell and up to the warning bell before we both ran to our classes. The final bell rang a while later and I met Damon by his car. I had told Caroline to take the car home today since I was hanging out with Damon.
"How was your afternoon?" He asked when he unlocked the door to the baby blue Camaro.
"Uneventful. You?" I responded. He shrugged and got into the car. I loved the deep rumple of the engine with it started up. This could possibly be my dream car, that's how perfect it was. It definitely helped that the owner was currently my favourite guy on the planet.
"About the same. Shall we?" He asked as he peeled out of the parking space. The drive to his house wasn't long, so when we got there he took my hand and led me inside. He tensed when he heard the yelling.
"Lily no, it's me. Your husband." Giuseppe said firmly. Damon tugged me behind him as we went into the great room to find Lily Salvatore holding a gun on her husband.
"Shit, mom no." Damon said holding his hands up to while keeping me shielded from the gun. I should be the one shielding him but he didn't know that.
"Don't come any closer! I don't know you. Get out of my house." She screamed frantically.
"It's me. Your son." Damon said trying to calm her.
"Get away from me! I don't know you." She screamed. I grabbed Damon's arm to pull him back towards me. I hated that this woman was holding a gun on him. I was pretty sure I loved him and I wouldn't be able to stop myself from killing her if she hurt him.
"Come back here. Let me try. I at least am actually a stranger. I've dealt with this before, I know how to talk them down." I said to Damon.
"Stay away from my wife. We'll handle this the way we always do." Giuseppe ordered.
"And get shot in the process. I say we give Elena a shot." Damon said defensively.
"Don't worry about me, she won't hurt me." I said certain. Damon grabbed his dads arm and pulled him away from me. I knew he didn't like leaving me there but he didn't know that I would be just fine. A bullet wouldn't kill me. It would only momentarily daze me.
"Now Lily, that's your family out there. They love you and you love them. You're not scared of them and they're not strangers. Snap out of it." I compelled and when I broke the compulsion her gaze became focused again and she stared at me. I went to grab Damon and Giuseppe and they came in to find Lily back to her normal self.
"How did you do that?" Damon asked me and I shrugged.
"I'll tell you about it, but can we go upstairs?" I asked. I knew it was time to tell him the truth about me. I was falling in love with him and it was time to be honest with him. He nodded and led me upstairs to his room.
"That was close. It's never been that bad before. I was scared." He admitted sitting on his bed. I clasped my hands in front of me and took a deep breath. I had never been this scared before. I wasn't ready to lose him. I just got him.
"What would you say if I told you there was a way to make sure that never happened again?" I asked testing the waters.
"I would ask what you mean by that." He replied.
"I can make her forget that she was ever sick. It's a mental illness and I can take that away from her." I told him.
"How can you do that? The doctor said there is no way to control it but for the medication that she doesn't like to take." He said and I shook my head.
"That's not entirely true. I can convince her that she's not sick. I can force the delusions out of her head." I told him.
"It's impossible, I love you for trying but it's impossible." He insisted.
"Not if you're not human. Damon I'm a vampire." I told him.
"You're what? There's no way, you're perfectly human. You're beautiful." He told me.
"My vampire side only comes out when I'm in danger, when I want it to and when I'm hungry or angry." I told him.
"I don't believe you. Vampires don't exist, least of all in Mystic Falls." He said. I took a deep breath because I knew there was no other way to convince him. I felt my fangs drop and the veins envelope my eyes. His gasp said everything. I knew he now believed me.
"This doesn't change anything. It's not going to change anything, right?" I asked. I didn't want him to leave me, and I didn't want him to be afraid of me.
"You lied to me. You're a monster." He told me and I felt my heart break.
"I'm not a monster. I would never hurt you or anyone." I told him.
"You were just lying in wait for my blood. Maybe eventually I would trust you enough that I would open a vein for you? Did you think that?" He demanded.
"I don't drink blood from the vein. Blood bags. Damon please. I'll explain everything to you. I will." I promised.
"It sure as shit doesn't matter anymore. I don't want anything to do with you. You can leave the way you entered." He said and my eyes welled up. I thought he was different than Liam. I thought he would be able to deal with my secret. That was the final sign that I was meant to be alone for eternity.
"I'm sorry Damon." I said before grabbing my bag and leaving his bedroom. I didn't turn back when I walked out of his house. I didn't really blame him, not really. Rationally I knew it was true, I was a monster.