Hey I know, I know I have been MIA for a few weeks but I promise I didn't forget about my stories or gave up on them. Just had a few busy weeks and although I've been writing here and there never was able to finish up a chapter. Hopefully I'll be able to update a little quicker.

Chapter 13

"Kol just admit it, we're lost" Damon yelled from the passenger seat while Kol had been driving god knows where for about an hour.

"We're not lost, I have a keen sense of direction" Kol said as he rolled his eyes but the tone in his voice wasn't very convincing to the gang sitting in the back. After getting back on the road things seemed to be going fairly well with time. Driving down through North Carolina, South Carolina and into Georgia traffic wasn't too back. Although about five hours into the drive around the time they reached Savannah Georgia construction was blocking their way.

"Your keen sense of direction got us lost in the woods only two days ago!" Elena snapped from the back.

Stefan had suggested they pull over and possibly find a new route but Kol figured how hard could it be to drive around the construction by taking the back roads. Damon too had voted on pulling over but they were both told to stop backseat driving.

"Kol where the hell are you going?" Alaric yelled.

"I'm taking us all to West Palm Beach? Kol called back.

"Then why are you taking us west?" Damon asked as he stared out the window.

"Seriously Kol you've got us lost" Alaric yelled from the back.

"Come one pull over, this is insane" Damon told him.

"So you're telling us we have been driving the wrong way for about an hour and a half now?" Elena asked from her spot in the very back of the van next to Caroline and Bonnie.

"And he is making it worse by not pulling over!" Alaric yelled again.

"Damn it, things were so much better when you and Alaric hated each other!" Kol said to Damon as he gave up and pulled over to the side of the road while Damon got the map out so they could figure out where the hell Kol was taking them.

Once the van came to a stop, Caroline was quick to clip off her seatbelt and letting out a deep sigh. "Well as you guys fight over where the hell you have taken us, I need to get out of this van that smells like boy!"

"Throw out that reeking perfume you swam in this morning while you're at it," Damon called back as he continued to stare down at the map.

"Shut up Damon!" Caroline said as she rolled her eyes while pushing open the back door so that her and the girls could hop out for some fresh air.

"Why don't you find somewhere to leave that screeching voice of yours" Damon mumbled.

On her way out of the van she reached forward to the passenger seat so that she could slap Damon on the back of the head. Damon's head bobbed forward and he winced in pain and let out a, "Ouch" sound while Caroline left the van with a huff. Elena and Bonnie weren't too far behind as the girls walked along the edge of the road and the green forests of Georgia. "This is insane we are cursed or something!" Caroline called out as she spun around and looked at Elena and Bonnie walking along with her. "We should be enjoying our spring break but instead we are stuck in the middle of nowhere once again!"

"Hey cut Kol some slack, the highway was closed" Bonnie stated as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"And now we are lost!" Caroline yelled all dramatic.

"Look Damon will figure out where we are" Elena assured her friend who was in the middle of a freak out.

"No offence but I'm not trusting Damon, he is just as bad as Kol" Caroline snapped and then stormed off.

Biting her bottom lip Elena stepped back out of Caroline's way as she headed back over towards the van as the guys and Jenna were huddled around the map trying to figure out how to get back on course. Her eyes moved from the back of Caroline's head and over to Damon as him and the others were hunched over the map and pointing at possible roads they could take. Realizing she was staring a little longer then she should, Elena averted her eyes and let out a tired yawn. Looking over at Bonnie who was standing beside her, Elena smiled and then took a couple steps to head back towards the group.

Bonnie didn't miss the long gaze Elena made towards Damon and if she had any doubts about whether or not her and Damon were sneaking around she didn't anymore. As she noticed Elena heading back she knew this might be the only time she would get some alone time with her so quickly grabbed Elena around the arm pulled her friend back so that she could try and understand what the hell she was doing. "Whoa hold on a minute!" Bonnie said as she watched as a weary Elena was turning to look back at her friend.

"What… what's going on?" Elena asked with a stutter.

"Why don't you tell me?" Bonne asked her friend with a raised eyebrow.

"I don't know what your talking about" Elena replied shaking her head but at the same time feeling a little uneasy about what her friend thought she knew.

"Oh really?" Bonnie scoffed as she released Elena's arm and crossed her arms over her chest. "How about how you being tired has something to do with the late night visit to test out Damon's magic stick?" she asked and watched as Elena's eyes widen in horror that she had been figured out.

"How did you?" Elena started to stutter as she looked around to see if anyone else would of heard but luckily everyone was still down by the van. "Can you not shout that out?" Elena begged as she pulled her friend a little further away.

Bonnie followed Elena but her eyes never left her friend as she made it pretty obvious that she was indeed right on her suspicions. When they were further away Elena came to a stop and was biting her bottom lip while Bonnie waited for answers.

"Okay we slept together!" Elena spat out and shrugged her shoulders. "A lot" she added with a mumbled.

"And?"

Elena stared at her friend as she tried to find the right words to describe the feelings and emotions that were racing through her mind right now. She licked her lips as her eyes slowly gazed over at Damon as he had his lean body against the front of the van and his arms crossed his chest in his black fitted t-shirt as he was talking to Stefan, and Alaric. His face expression was serious and smoldering while he and the guys were discussing their plan of action. She watched as his fingers tapped against his biceps, the same fingers that had done wonders to her body. Looking back at her friend and glad to see she wasn't going into a sudden fit about how stupid she was being, Elena couldn't help but let out a smirk. "It was amazing Bonnie, I mean I know I should feel guilty about everything because of Stefan but I don't regret it. It was like the beast inside me had been sleeping and now it's awake and hungry and god did it like the food Damon was giving it" she said as her eyes rolled into the back of her head.

"That good huh?" Bonnie said with a smile.

"I can't explain it, I don't know what the hell I'm doing and I don't care" Elena said as she felt a sense of freedom for the first time in a long time.

"Just be careful" Bonnie told her friend knowing how emotional attached she could get.

With a nod the girls slowly started to head back over to the van just as everyone else seemed to be settled on their direction. With her hands crossed over her chest as she wondered on back Elena could see that Stefan was staring at her and seemed to be waiting for her to close the gap between them. He had a smile on his face as she was getting closer to him and Elena found herself nervously biting her bottom lip as they came face to face. She knew Stefan had hopes of them getting back together right now but a part of her wondered if his sudden change of feelings had to do with the emotional trip they had had so far.

"Everything alright?" Stefan asked her and Elena just gave a nod and gave him a weak smile. It made Elena feel so bad because she knew that when the truth came out about what her and Damon had been doing he would be so crushed and feel so betrayed by her and his brother. "Looks like we know where we're going,

Kol had us heading to Alabama instead of Florida."

With a laugh and shaking her head Elena and Stefan made their way over towards van just as everyone was hopping back inside. Caroline seemed so relieved that they would be getting a move on it finally and was one of the first to hop in the back of the van with Bonnie not far behind her. Slowly as everyone was taking their seats Elena held back a bit and glanced at Damon who was taking over the driving now since it had been hours since his early morning drink. "So are we ever going to make it to West Palm Beach?" Elena teased, as she got closer to Damon who was leaning against the closed driver door with the road map in his hands.

"As long as we keep Kol away from the wheel" he answered back with a smile.

"Hopefully we don't get anymore surprises" Elena replied as she said a silent prayer.

"Don't jinx it," he told her as he turned to put his hand on the door handle to the driver's side door. While his left hand was on the handle his other was at his side and it gently grazed against Elena's for a moment. Their fingers interlinked for a brief moment and neither said a word during this time and their eyes only held a gaze for a quick second so as not to attract attention to them. As Damon pulled the driver side door open their hands broke apart as they both got into the vehicle with everyone else.

"Alright Florida here we come!" Jenna called out as Damon took his seat and inserted the keys into the ignition. The gang in the van started to cheer as they pulled back on the road and headed on back so they would be back on track.

"We will be crossing the state boarder in about 45 minutes, and then be in West Palm Beach in about 5 hours" Damon announced to the eager group.

The group remind quiet for a moment before Alaric started to laugh and shaking his had as he reached forward and slapped Kol on the back of the head. "I can't believe you had us heading towards Alabama!"

"My bad" he replied after his head knocked forward after the slap from Alaric.

As they crossed over into the sunshine state few hours ago, the vibe in the van was very upbeat as they were getting closer and closer. The girls stated singing songs and whatever came into their head, as the radio was now busted. They weren't about to let that bring them down as the girls started to sing Sweet Caroline and I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles). Kol got right into it as well and had nudged Damon to start singing but he just gave him a "never gonna happen" look.

"Don't waste your time Kol, Damon is too cool to sing" Jenna teased.

"You'll never get me drunk enough to start singing" Damon assured them all.

"I see that as a challenge for the rest of spring break" Elena chirped in with a laugh.

"You'll be on the floor before I even reach my limit" Damon shot back. The gang was laughing and joking around as their spirits were definitely up from what they had been earlier in the day. That was until Damon heard a weird sound coming from the van and the engine was starting to give out. "What the hell?" he said as he put more pressure on the gas paddle but it wasn't doing much. With what little power he had left, Damon was able to get the van to the side of the road just before it stalled.

"What's going on?" Alaric asked as he watched Damon fight with the van to get it to start again.

"I don't know it just stalled."

"Are we out of gas?" Caroline asked from the far back.

"No, it says I have a quarter tank" Damon replied as he shrugged his shoulder.

"Uh-oh" came Kol's voice as he sat in the passenger seat and seemed to be sinking in his seat.

"Uh-Oh?" Damon repeated as he turned to his guilty looking friend who obviously knew something the rest of them didn't. "Oh-oh is never good!" Damon added as he glared at Kol waiting for him to explain what was going on.

Kol bit his bottom lip as he scratched the top of his head, as his look of guilt got even worse. Damon was obviously not in the mood for playing the guessing game and nudged Kol roughly to get him to tell the rest of them what was going on. "The guy I bought it from said it died like once before but it was a year ago" Kol explained.

"DAMN IT KOL" Damon yelled as he slammed his fist against the wheel in frustration before he threw open the door to the van and hopped out. Kol got out as well and as the others sat in the van and they watched as Damon and Kol engaged in a screaming match with each other. Arms were flying all over the place as Damon lay into Kol about how he bought this piece of crap of a van and Kol fought back.

"I said it once I'll say it again, we are cursed" Caroline cried.

"Stop being so over dramatic!" Bonnie mumbled as she snapped off her seatbelt and squeezed her way out of the back of the van so that she could get out. Sliding the door open she hopped out and the others soon followed.

Things were going so well as they were just about 3 hours away from their destination but now they were one again at a halt from getting to where they wanted to be. Not only that but it was also getting dark and now it looked like they wouldn't be making it to West Palm Beach on schedule. Damon and Kol continued their yelling match as it was revealed he bought the van from a guy on Craigslist.

"How can you a complete idiot and not inspect the van before handing over cash! Cheap doesn't mean it would be a great option for driving it from Virginia to Florida!" Damon yelled.

"He said it was running fine for the last year and that he had no problems with it" Kol replied.

"Well the guy is a idiot too because this is a piece of CRAP!" Damon yelled and then kicked the front of the van.

"Where are we exactly?" Elena asked trying to break up the fight and get Damon and Kol to take a breather.

"About 20 minutes from Port Orange" Damon answered.

"This is unbelievable" Alaric complained as he scratched his head and rolled his eyes. "Honestly Kol how could you buy this van without getting it checked out first."

"Shut up Ric!" Kol yelled back.

"Wow shut up Ric? That's the best you got? Maybe if you spend less time making goo-goo eyes with Bonnie your come backs wouldn't suck" Ric snapped in anger.

"Hey!" Bonnie chimed in not happy that she was being into this.

"This coming from the guy who is driving 14 hours to meet a girl he has been chatting with over the Internet for years and has completely unrealistic expectations and doesn't know a good girl is!" Kol yelled as he nudged Alaric.

"What the hell is that suppose to mean?" Alaric snarled.

"I'm saying you won't recognize the perfect girl if she was standing right in front of you!" he yelled back.

"Alright that is enough! Fighting isn't helping!" Jenna yelled as she broke up the fight between Ric and Kol.

"We wouldn't be in this mess if it wasn't for him!" Alaric yelled as Jenna was pushing him away from Kol.

"You need to shut up Ric!" Bonnie yelled unhappy that everyone was beating on Kol.

"Bonnie your not helping" Elena said softly to her friend as she tried to pull her away from the fighting ring.

"And neither are you!" Bonnie snapped back at her as she shrugged away from Elena's touch.

"We don't have to walk do we?" Caroline asked not too thrilled about the idea as it was hot sticky and getting darker.

"Stay here for all I care!" Damon snapped at her as he brushed past them all and started walking. He had had enough of listening to them all whine and decided to get a move on it if they had any hope of getting into town before dark.

"Don't be an ass Damon" Stefan chirped up, as his brother was being a little short with everyone when really nobody had done anything on purpose.

"She's been complaining this whole trip and I'm tired out listening to her!" Damon shot back in anger as everyone in the group was getting frustrated with the situation.

"Yeah because you haven't complained once!" Stefan scoffed, "You have made it damn clear you didn't want us here. You too have complained non stop!"

"Yeah until he started sleeping with Elena" Bonnie scoffed without thinking and immediately realized what she had done. Her hands came up to cover her mouth and her eyes widen in shock after what she had just blurted out. Her mind started racing, as she hoped no one had heard her but everyone had gone silent and as she looked around at the group she were all staring back at her. Elena's look was completely horror as she was frozen in one spot staring at her best friend; Damon closed his eyes and was cursing under his breath at her outburst and everyone else looked completely shocked and confused. The look on Stefan's face was one Bonnie would not forget ever as he seemed to be dealing with a flood of emotions from confusion, shock, hurt and devastation. "Oh my God" Bonnie mumbled.

"YOU SLEPT WITH DAMON!" Caroline screeched as she cut through the silence.

Without saying a word a guilty Elena turned on her heels to look over at Stefan who was standing beside Caroline and she could see how devastated he was when Elena didn't deny it.

"Oh my god" Jenna mumbled as she took a step back from the tension filled circled at they stood on the road.

"When the hell was this?" Kol asked as he knew it was a question on everyone's mind since Damon and Elena's troubling relationship was no secret to anyone as they usually never got a long never mind the idea of them getting together.

Nobody answered as Elena's eyes were staring straight at Stefan who was letting this all sink in. The girl he loved, the girl he was with for six years had slept with is brother of all people. He knew they were going through a rough patch and thought that they would be working things out but now as it turned out she was sleeping with his brother this whole time. Feeling totally betrayed by both of them he had to look away before he broke down and started walking in the direction of town.

"Stefan" Elena yelled in desperation and she ran after him. She knew he was angry and she knew he probably had a million questions running through his head. This was not the way she wanted him to find out and she gave Bonnie one last death stare before her and Damon quickened their pace to catch up with Stefan.

"Stefan please" Elena pleaded.

"Look Stefan I know what your thinking and I-" Damon started to say as he chased after his brother. He was in the middle of his sentence when he felt a sudden blow to his face as Stefan's fist made contact with his left eye at full force. He let out a grunt and stumbled backwards as his hand came up to cover his throbbing eye.

"Oh GOD" Elena yelled as she jumped back in shock at seeing the sudden physical expression from Stefan. This was something she had never seen from him before, Stefan was the kind of guy who would never hurt a fly and yet here she witnessed Stefan possibly throwing his first punch ever and it was directed at his brother.

"YOU SLEPT WITH ELENA? Of all people Damon" Stefan yelled at his brother in anger.

"Look I deserved that, I'll let you get one of those" Damon replied as he started to recover and stood back up to face his brother.

"How long?" Stefan spat at them as his eyes moved from Damon to Elena and back to Elena. His face showed how betrayed he felt by the two and how his mind was racing with thoughts of Damon and Elena. "Days, weeks, months? How long have you two been screwing each?"

"God No Stefan it wasn't like that" Elena said as she realized he was thinking she cheated on him. "It happened after we broke up, you know me," Elena told him.

"Do I, because the Elena I knew wouldn't sleep with my brother in the wake of our BREAK UP!" Stefan yelled as he was now furious and could hardly stand the sight of the two of them.

"Wait was that you last night in our room making all that noise?" Kol asked loudly.

"Shut up man!" Damon growled as he pushed Kol.

"My God ELENA!" Caroline whined a she shook her head and grabbed her friend by the arm. "Damon, really Damon?" she said still not really believing it.

"Okay everyone needs to relax" Jenna said as she saw everyone's eyes all full of anger about something.

"Relax? My cold hearted brother slept with my girlfriend!" Stefan yelled in anger as he was pointing his finger at Damon like he was a traitor.

"Ex girlfriend" Damon corrected and although he didn't mean it as a dig his tone made it seem otherwise and the next thing everyone saw was Stefan lunge at Damon with another full blow to the head in anger. Elena had to jump back and get out of the way as the two brothers went at each other's throats as they tackled each other to the ground throwing punches. Watching this Elena was on the verge of tears as she begged them to stop knowing that this was all her fault.

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