Chapter 2

With his leather jacket on, Damon strolled through The Mystic Grill and made his way over to the rowdy bunch in the corner. There were a number of already tipsy women dancing around and doing shots with the happy British bad boy who had his tongue down one of the girl's throats after taking a shot. As Damon made his way over he gave the intoxicated woman a smile and that irresistible stare of his with his ocean blue eyes.

"Darling you made it!" the British bad boy said when he came up for air and then reached over to hand Damon a drink.

"I see you have kept up the fort Kol" Damon laughed as he took a seat and took the shot before he wrapped an arm around the girl standing next to him. "Hi" he said softly to her.

He could tell he was sending chills through her body as she stepped closer to Damon and couldn't help but smile back, "Hi."

With a smirk Damon looked behind the bar to get the bartenders attentions and then ordered a drink for him and the cute brunette on his arm. Since Damon was a regular the bartender didn't even have to bother asking Damon what he wanted; it was always the same thing, bourbon. In fact both Damon and Kol spent so much time in the bar a large majority of the pubs earning were from them and the many girls that came into the bar because of them.

The brunette was now sitting on Damon's lap while he sipped on his bourbon and ran his fingers through her hair with his free hand. She was still very giddy about getting attention from Damon and had her arms wrapped around his neck.

"Alright we need another round!" Kol yelled and everyone around them cheered as the bartender brought over a tray of shots for everyone. Kol and Damon both reached for theirs and then the others were distributed too all the ladies. "To making it through the final days before spring break!"

"WOO WOO!" They all cheered and then threw back the shot.

"To those who have a midterm tomorrow but are getting wasted tonight!" Kol yelled as he grabbed his drink and stood up on his chair to get the attention of everyone in the bar.

"WOO WOO!" They all cheered.

"Hey buddy you need to get down" the bartender said as he came over to motion Kol to get off the chair.

"Oh sorry mister bartender!" Kol said with a laugh as he hopped down.

"Sorry mister bartender?" Damon laughed and gave his friend a raised eyebrow.

"Well I'm not going to call him bro, everyone will think we are related" Kol stated.

"But you are related to Elijah" Damon reminded him pointing to Elijah behind the counter.

"Not while I getting drunk I'm not!" Kol cheered and then through back another drink. "WHOSE READY FOR SOME BODY SHOTS!" he yelled and was rewarded with another group of cheers from the now growing crowd of drinkers all interested in the body shots.

While the group surrounding Damon and Kol was getting louder and louder, Stefan walked in with his hands stuffed in his pocket while Elena followed in behind him. Both remained silent as the walked in and noticed the loud and usual crowd of Damon and Kol. Biting her lip Elena followed Stefan as he led them to one of the tables in the back that was their usual table.

"It seems Damon and Kol are off to an early start, it's 5pm on a Wednesday" Stefan stated as he slipped into the booth and Elena slipped in across from him. While Damon and Kol came here with the sole purpose of getting drunk and getting laid, it was a popular hangout spot for Stefan, Elena and the rest of their group. Mystic Grill held a lot of memories, including Stefan and Elena's first date six years ago in this very booth.

Things were so much different back then, both were so nervous and had big grins on their faces. They would hold hands over the table and play footsie with each other under the table but now it was completely different. Their hands fiddled with the menus instead and their feet were planted firmly under their bench. Instead they focused on the menus as if they didn't know what they wanted to order when actually they got the same thing pretty much every time.

Once the waiter came over and took their order he removed the menus and this forced both Stefan and Elena to not hide behind them. "So schools going well?"

"Elena you're in half of my classes you know how school is going" Stefan stated but his tone came off a little short with her then he had intended.

"I'm making conversation Stefan, that is what you wanted right?" Elena snapped back before shaking her hand and looking away from him.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to… school is great" he ended up finishing and gave her a smile but she didn't return it.

"Caroline and Bonnie coming?" Stefan asked deciding to change the subject.

Elena gave him a nod just as the waiter brought over their drinks. "Yeah Caroline is forcing Bonnie to come out of the library" Elena told him.

"Bonnie leave the library, that will take some work," Stefan said with a chuckle.

Elena gave a nod as she thought about Bonnie and how she was obsessed with studying and getting straight A's on everything. To Bonnie an A- wasn't even expectable and the girls were always teasing her about being a study addict.

Bonnie practically had her own chair with her name on it at the library and when she wasn't in class she was in the library. If it was up to her she would live in the library but thankfully they have rules against that. Caroline and Elena were always having to convince her to take a break because if not she would go mad studying so they do their best to get her to take a hour or two break.

"She's here!" came Caroline's preppy voice as she walked over to the table while pushing Bonnie along with her.

"Against my will, I must say" Bonnie stated as Caroline forced her into booth and to sit next to Elena.

"You've been in that library since 6am!" Caroline stated. "They needed to clean the place without you taking up residence there!"

Bonnie rolled her eyes at Caroline's over exaggeration, "I have an exam on Friday" Bonnie told her.

"And you've been studying since Saturday morning, a break will do you some good" Elena told her.

"I can take a break on the Monday of spring break before I begin study for the next exams" Bonnie told them as she shrugged her shoulders.

"NO, NO Bonnie Bennett you are not spending spring break locked in that library!" Caroline told her with a very dramatic tone. It was Caroline's mission for spring break to have Bonnie relax and let loose a little. All school year she was a stressed out over prepared college student and Caroline didn't want her friend's entire College experience to take place in the library.

"Well speaking of spring break, how would you guys like to go to Florida?" Stefan asked them as he got the girls attention.

"Oh my god spring break on the beach is the dream!" Caroline said excitedly.

"Well Damon found the keys to our West Palm Beach vacation home" Stefan told them as all the girls got excited of being able to go to a beach.

"Oh my god that is awesome!" Caroline said happily as she gave Stefan a hug since he was sitting right beside her. "A whole week of sandy beaches, bikinis and wild parties!"

"I don't know about wild parties, but I would enjoy a little sun at the beach" Bonnie told them.

"West Palm Beach… when was last time you were there?" Elena asked as she remembered Stefan telling her stories of his trips with his brother and dad when they were younger.

"Not in years… Uncle Zach took us one year after father died but haven't been back since" Stefan told her as he thought back to those trips to West Palm Beach. Growing up their father had thrown himself into his work when their mother had died after losing her fight to cancer. Stefan was only a year old at the time so the only memory he had of is mother were from photographs. Their time at the beach house was the only time their father put his work aside and spent time with his sons.

Elena gave a nod and then a shriek of laughter erupted over at the bar where Damon and Kol were doing body shots on a girl lying on the counter. Shaking her head at them Elena turned back to Stefan already pretty sure what his answer to this question was going to be. "So I take it since you said Damon found the key that he is also coming?"

Stefan bit his lip, "Look it will be fine, we will have our vacation and he will… get drunk in the bars and wake up outside on the ground somewhere" Stefan told her with a smile. "We'll hardly see him," he told her trying to get her to agree to the trip.

"Look I don't care what you have to say Logan, I'm done, I'm done with your lies your excuses, hell I'm done with your apologies!" came the angry voice of Jenna as she stormed into Mystic Grill while her phone was pressed to her ear. "We're done Logan!" she finished off before ending the call and shaking her head wondering why it had taken her so long to finally rid herself of him.

Jenna and Logan had been dating for about two years and in that two-year span he had managed to suck the life right out of her. He had lied to her more times then she could count and finally she was finished taking his excuses. Jenna didn't consider herself a clingy girlfriend in fact she loved having her own space but Logan would take off days at a time and his only response would be "I've been busy."

With a grunt Jenna slipped onto a bar stool at the bar counter and waved Elijah the bartender over for a shot of tequila. As soon as it was set in front of her she thanked him and then let the burning alcohol slide down her throat. As she set the empty glass onto the counter she asked for another. Sitting there waiting for her shot, Jenna looked over at the crowd on the far end as Mystic Falls' top jack-asses other than Logan were enjoying themselves by taking shots from some bimbo's cleavage. Rolling her eyes, Jenna shook her head as she got another drink.

Damon who had a girl hanging off him on both sides noticed Jenna sitting kitty corner to him and the rowdy bunch of college students. With a smile Damon pealed the girls off him and slowly made his way over to her and took a seat next to her.

"What do you want Damon?" Jenna asked with a huff before downing her drink. Jenna was a year older then Damon although going by his lifestyle he made her look twice his age. At 21 Damon was getting his foot into clubs and partying harder then ever, while Jenna became a legal guardian for her sister's two kids Elena and Jeremy after her and her husband were killed in a car accident.

"Can't a guy come over and see what an old friend is up to?" Damon asked her with a smirk as he got Elijah to get him and Jenna another round of drinks. Although Jenna was 25, Damon made her feel like 35.

Jenna let out a laugh before taking a drink and then turning to look at the womanizer with that smile that got him everything he wanted since grade school. "We're not friends Damon."

Damon brought a hand over his heart and gave her a look of shock and hurt by her words but Jenna knew him far to well. "Ouch that hurt."

"Somehow I doubt that" Jenna said with a smile not even phased at his attempt to being hurt.

"So why are we drinking?" Damon asked as he held up a glass.

"Well you're drinking because it's a Wednesday, I'm drinking because my ex is a jack-ass" Jenna told him.

"Logan is an ass" Damon stated, "took you long enough to see it," he laughed.

"This coming from the guy who never gets to know a girl longer then a night" Jenna pointed out.

"I know you?"

"Yeah because I won't sleep with your ass!" Jenna told him and held up her drink to clank hers with his drink as he just held his glass still.

"It would be good," he told her as he leaned in close.

"No, it would be great, but never going to happen buddy" Jenna laughed.

"Fine I'll settle for drinking buddy," Damon said with a sigh.

"Yeah because Damon Salvatore needs another reason to drink" came a voice and both Jenna and Damon saw Alaric take the seat on the other side of Jenna.

"Oh look it's the buzz kill," Damon mumbled as he rolled his eyes.

"Don't you have someone else you can be bothering?" Alaric snapped at him.

Ever since Alaric came to Mystic Falls for college him and Damon had butted heads with neither of them being a fan of the other. In fact there was one night where the two got into a huge bar fight when Alaric found Damon making out with his girlfriend at the time, Isobel. So whenever possible Damon and Alaric avoided each other, which would be a lot easier if it wasn't for Kol being friends with both of them.

"My man Rick is here!" Kol shouted as he came over and jumped on his back. "Elijah I drink for Rick" Kol said loudly as he pounded a fist on the counter.

"I'm cutting you off!" Elijah told him with a stern face.

"Oh come on I'm not even drunk?" Kol called out as he leaned over the bar counter.

"Its fine I'm here to pick up Jenna actually," Rick said as he got his friend to calm down. As Alaric leaned into Jenna he tried to read her face, "Are you alright?"

"She's fine, we're just trying to forget about that jack-ass Logan" Damon told him with a smile.

"And you would know all about Jack-ass' wouldn't you Damon" said Elena as she came up to the bar to get a drink.

"Oh god Elena I didn't even know you were here," Jenna said in shock as she set down the drink. Even though Elena was 21 now is still felt a little awkward for Jenna to get drunk in front of her niece.

"Yeah I'm here with Stefan and the girls," Elena told her.

"Well do everyone a favour and turn your judgy little eyes somewhere else," Damon snapped back.

"Are you okay Jenna?" Elena asked ignoring Damon.

"She's fine Elena, she just needs to let loose without you and your judgy little friends getting in the way" Damon spat at her.

"We're not judgy Damon, we just have higher standards unlike you" Elena said with a smile.

"Not that high though since your with boring old Stefan" Damon told her with smirk.

Elena rolled her eyes at Damon before ordering a drink and then looking over at Alaric, "Make sure she doesn't drink too much, and keep her away from this one" Elena said as she pointed to Damon before heading back to her table.

"Look maybe you have had enough" Rick said to his best friend, who just downed another drink courtesy on Damon.

"Look I've had a bad day, I deserve to get drunk and maybe picture Logan's face on the dart board.

"Yes," Damon said liking her attitude, "I'll get the darts!"

"NO, no not when you're this drunk" Rick said making Damon stop and looking at Jenna not wanting her to get too wasted on a Wednesday.

"Don't listen to him in fact if you really want to get over Logan and get away from the boring ass town for a week, Why don't you come down to West Palm Beach and let loose. A week without consequences" he told her and he could see that Jenna was very intrigued by the idea. "Plus you can finally let loose without seeing your niece and her friends, you will be free to do whatever you want."

"Oh you guys should definitely come it's going to be brilliant!" Kol chimed in since Damon had already filled him in about the spring break trip.

"Um he's not invited" Damon said as he pointed to Rick.

"Oh come on Damon the more the merrier!" Kol told him.

"The guy doesn't even like to drink!" Damon complained.

"NO I just don't like drinking with guys like you!" Rick spat out.

"Are you ever going to forgive me for sleeping with your girlfriend?" Damon asked him with a sigh.

"YOU slept with her?" Rick yelled in anger.

"Didn't I? Isn't' that why you're such a dick?" Damon asked and it was then that Alaric realized womanizer Damon had no idea who his girlfriend was.

"Isobel? We got into a bar fight over it" Rick remained him.

"Are you kidding me I didn't even sleep with her," Damon laughed.

"You kissed her," Rick yelled.

"Well then I'll buy you a drink to make up for it" Damon laughed and then ordered two bourbons. Alaric didn't even have time to say no as the drink was set down in front o him. Shaking his head Alaric figured he might as well learn to tolerate Damon especially if he was going to be stuck spending a week with him to ensure Jenna didn't drown her sorrows too much during spring break.