"Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

Oscar Wilde

I was driving home from Bonnie's and I was extremely angry. It has been six days! Six long freakin days since the carnival. And Caroline was wrong, he didn't call me. She kept telling me not to worry but I was worrying. I mean, it's not that hard to pick up the phone, is it? I didn't even care if it was his ego that took a hit and that's why he didn't jump to call me right away. There was no excuse. I don't know what exactly got me so riled up, maybe it was the Taylor Swift song that was playing on the radio or maybe it was Caroline who just asked if he called or not. All I did know was that Damon Salvatore was public enemy number one right now.

I turned up the music, even though I hated Taylor Swift. Why am I listening to this? Why am I even singing along? The fact that I was becoming one of those girls who listen to songs about shitty guys when waiting for them to call back was scaring me a bit. It was the exact opposite of the kind of person I was. What was this guy doing to me? Here I was, belting out the chorus of a Taylor Swift song as I drove down a street, not even caring about anything else. When the song finally ended I came back down to the real world and quickly turned the radio off before I had any repeats of what just happened. I quickly looked around at the stop light to see if anyone saw me. When I saw that I was in the clear I sighed and went to drive on till I heard a voice. Was my phone ringing? I hurriedly reached into my back pocket and pulled out my phone. When I realized I already answered it I immediately said hello without even seeing who called.

"Hello?" I said a little breathless from my singing.

"Wow, Elena, I didn't know your singing voice was so... amazing." I almost gasped at who was on the other line. Damon! He called! He finally called me. I almost let a squeal out before realty hit me again. What did he just say?

"How long have you been on the phone?" The horror in my voice was extremely noticeable. No, no, no this could not be happening! Of all times he could have called me...

"Long enough to know not to take you to a karaoke bar." My hand came up and slapped my forehead. Could there be anymore of an embarrassing moment as this?

"I'm sorry, I must have pocket-answered your call. Please do not tell anyone about this." I said while laughing at myself.

"I actually recorded it on my phone so next time I see you, you can listen to it."

"You are just going to drag out my embarrassment, aren't you?"

"Did you expect anything less from me?"

"I guess not." I muttered. This was not how I thought our next conversation would go.

"What are you doing?" He said abruptly.

"Driving home, you?"

"I'm at the coffee shop next to the bar we met at. I had something I had to discus with my brother and I was wondering if you wanted to grab a coffee with me when I'm done." As he was speaking I immediately went to do a u-turn and go in the direction of the coffee shop.

"Yea, sure. Coffee sounds great."

It wasn't long before I showed up at the coffee place. When I walked in our eyes immediately connected and then my eyes landed on the guy sitting across from Damon. So that was his brother? Good looks must run in the family, I noted as I waved at them and went to get in line for my coffee. After a couple of minutes I got my coffee and walked over to their table. I immediately felt the tension when I approached them.

"Hey Damon. And you must be..." I remember Damon telling me his name but I just couldn't pin it.

"Stefan." He said kindly which I wasn't expecting as he was just glaring at Damon seconds ago. "It's nice to meet you, Elena." I was confused as to how he knew my name but it was probably already from Damon.

"You look really familiar." I said looking him up and down again. Yes, I had definitely seen him before.

"You know, I was just thinking the same thing." He was eyeing me the same way and it wasn't till Damon cleared his throat till I remembered the situation we were in. "I should get going." Stefan said while standing up and giving me his seat and turning back to Damon with a glare that suddenly reappeared.

"Bye." I waved him off and turned back to Damon when he was finally gone. "Now, why exactly was that so awkward?" I said as I finally felt the tension disappear.

"Sorry, you just walked in on a Salvatore disagreement."

"What happened?" I asked while taking a sip from my coffee.

"Just the past coming back up and we both have to face the facts if we are going to be living with each other." He leaned back in his chair and I wanted to ask so many more questions but I didn't want to seem nosy so I just kept drinking my coffee to keep quiet

"So why did it take six days for you to call me?" I said the first thing that was on my mind and immediately regretted it afterward.

"You were counting?" I blushed after that and he just smirked at me. "You didn't even call me at all." He gave me a pointed look.

"Touché Mr. Salvatore." I put down my coffee and gave him a suspicious look. "Did you just call me here to have an excuse to get away from Stefan?"

"That, and if I must admit it, I really wanted to see you. I wish you would have called." I wanted to say I was under strict rules not to. I couldn't really be mad at Caroline because she was right, he called me and if I called him I probably would have been just like all the other girls.

"Oh, I see. And what exactly is so horrible about Stefan that you needed an excuse?" I wanted the conversation off me so I didn't care if I was now prying.

"Do you really want to know?"

"I wouldn't have asked if I didn't."

"Don't you think it's a little early to have the awkward talk about our past?"

"You basically know a big factor with mine." I already told him all about Matt. What could his story be?

"Alright but I must admit, it goes a little bit further than just siblings rivalry."

"I expected there was something else...or someone."

"A someone is correct." He mumbled and looked everywhere but me. "Stefan and I... we used to be fine with each other. We had your typical brother relationship. We played sports together, I gave him girl advice, and sometimes we even sent each other to the hospital after doing something stupid together." I noticed when he was talking that he missed those times. He missed growing up with his brother. What could have torn them apart?

"Then what happened?"

"Stefan graduated High School and then we realized certain girls were at the same playing level. So of course we both found one that really threw us for a loop. Katherine." Ah, now I see it. If there was something that could destroy a brotherly bond, it would be a women.

"So you both fell in love with her." I stated and by the look on his face, I knew I was right.

"After months of fighting we finally told her to make her choice. You know who she chose?" I would have guessed Stefan from the current situation but I wasn't going to voice it. "She chose neither of us." Now that, I wasn't expecting.

"So she just toyed with you and dragged you both along only to drop you?" I was completely appalled and then with a roll of nausea I realized that what I was doing, wasn't much better. I had plans to just drop him as well...

"She's a selfish slut. We should have seen it coming."

"So why is your relationship with Stefan still so rocky?"

"We never made up. For a while it was all about Katherine and now when I think about it, I think we are just mad at each other that we let her destroy our relationship."

"I have a feeling that one day, you guys can be brothers again." I said while trying to have it end on a lighter note.

"I hope so, but enough with all this serious stuff, why don't we just... talk about all the good things in our life."

"Okay." I said suddenly liking this more positive aspect to him.

For the rest of the time we spent at coffee shop all we did was talk till I noticed we had been there for hours. It was so easy talking to him and I knew that today really did bring us closer in a way that we weren't before. I was actually getting to know him and instead of freaking out, I liked it. He asked me out for another date on Friday and I was already looking forward to it. The first thing I did when I left was call Caroline. She asked me to come over and I was now on her bed explaining everything that happened.

"So have you learned anything we can use against him?" Caroline said after she started getting annoyed with me. "Elena, I think you are getting a little too wrapped up in Damon."

"What do you mean?" That took me completely off guard.

"What I mean is, I think you are developing a crush. Elena you have to push that aside."

"I'm not crushing on him!"

"Elena the way you are talking about him is making me second guess our breakup and I hate him. You have to remember why we are doing this and who he is. Now do you have anything that could help us? Any little piece of information, cause we seriously need it. You aren't holding out on me are you?"

"No." I felt like I was suddenly being put in my place. I felt like I had to prove something. "I think I have something that could help us."

"What?"

The words didn't even come out yet and I already regretted them. "His brother and him were once both in love with the same girl." I watched her eyes light up as if it was Christmas morning.

"This is perfect!"

"Why?" This could not be good...

"Because you are going to sleep with his brother!"

AN: Updates will be happening a lot faster now that summer is basically here. I hope you liked this chapter:)

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