A/N: Hello people, yes we are so excited with Damon's POV last chapter. This chapter is more on Elena's way of seeing. Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters used in this story.

Chapter 10

Elena hurried into the kitchen, dropping a knapsack on the counter. She rushed back into her room and then Adam's room to collect all the necessities; diapers, wet tissues, bottle, juice box, extra t-shirt, more wet tissues… stuffing them into the gazillion compartments in the knapsack. She was a little distraught, wishing she had made a list of the things they needed.

She ran back into Adam's room to see if she had missed anything else, passing Damon and Adam in the living room.

"Bang…bang…" Adam shot his father with a gun that was too small to cause any real damage.

"Oh no, you got me!" Damon grunted and dramatically dropped to his knees, Elena just rolled her eyes at his theatrical performance.

Damon lay still on the floor, doing his best imitation of a corpse as Adam poked him with his toy gun. When he came close enough to check if his father was still alive, Damon sprung back to life, capturing and pulling Adam to the ground with him. "Arrgghhhh…I'm a cowboy zombiiiie…"

"Noooo….daddy,no" Adam struggled in his arms, looking pretty convinced his dad was a zombie.

"Okay, that's enough…"Elena broke the obviously unfair fight going on in the middle of the living room. "…you guys ready? Let's go" she picked up the knapsack.

"Yup, let's go…"Damon swung Adam up into his arms and walked towards the kitchen. "Here, let me take that for you" he used his other free arm to pick the hundred pound knapsack off Elena's shoulder.

"uh, okay…I'll get the keys" Elena glanced at her watched and noticed that they were running late when they were suppose to meet her family at the town festival half an hour ago. Damon tilted his head towards his room where she would find his car keys.

In her nervous state, Elena grabbed the keys off his night stand but it slipped out of her hand and landed on the floor. She groaned at her own clumsiness and bent down to retrieve it when her eyes fell on a strange box under Damon's bed.

It was rather large; something was scribbled on it but was crossed out violently that she couldn't make out what it wrote. She studied it curiously and deliberated for a minute before pulling it out from under the bed, making sure Damon was not at the door first. The box was filled with files and papers, but when she dug deeper, she found something alarmingly disturbing.

Her heart raced as her thoughts jumbled in her head and an unsettling feeling sink in the pit of her stomach. It was a picture of Katherine.

She barely recognized her sister who wore a huge floppy hat and a banner hung behind her that said 'Happy New Year'. She held up a glass of martini to the camera as her heavily made-up face was beaming with joy. The date on the picture told Elena it was last new year's celebration.

She looked at the picture a little longer before realizing that the only explanation why Katherine's picture was hidden under Damon's bed was because he could still be in love with her. She felt her insides churned, not sure why this discovery had affected her so badly.

"Elena! You got the keys?" she heard him shout from the kitchen and she quickly pushed the box back under the bed, snatched the keys from her side and stormed out the room.

"Yeah I got it…" she made her way out the apartment where Damon and Adam were already waiting.

Damon and Elena were beyond happy when the festival provided a play pan, where couples could drop off their load. They needed a break after chasing Adam around all afternoon. Satisfied that he was in safe hands, Elena joined her friends sitting at a picnic table under a shady tree, not far from the playing area.

She flopped down next to Caroline and sighed loudly, realizing that she didn't drink anything in hours. Bonnie handed her a glass of lemonade before she fainted or worst, fell asleep on the grass.

"Thank you Elena…" Caroline raised her glass in a mocking toast.

"For what?" she inhaled deeply, happy that she finally had time to sit down and relax. She sipped her drink, taking off the rubber band in her hair to let her hair down. The gentle breeze swept over her skin, leaving a cool feeling on her neck and face.

"For being a constant reminder to never skip my birth control pills…" Caroline finished with a wide grin.

"Caroline!" Bonnie gave her a playful shove.

"What? I mean look at her? She's like a soccer mom on steroids. I could never go through what I saw her go through today…"

Elena laughed it off, "He isn't usually like this. It's just all this balloons, and colorful flags and other kids running around…got him a little amped up"

"Well at least you're not alone in this…" Caroline smirked at Elena meaningfully, gesturing across the park where Damon stood not far away, talking to Alaric.

Bonnie and Elena followed her gaze, "Hey, you win some you lose some …that's how life works…" Bonnie said, sighing regretfully while shaking her head.

Elena giggled at her friends, feeling at loss, "What on earth are you talking about?"

"You lose your social life by becoming a full time mommy but at least you win yourself a hot piece of ass…" Caroline explained and laughter instantly broke among them. When she finally stopped laughing, Elena had to catch her breath.

She stared admiringly at the tall, dark and handsome man, standing just a few picnic tables away. He wore a black t-shirt that showed off his lean posture and his hair was ruffled by the occasional strong breeze. Alaric and he seemed to be talking about something serious because Damon crossed his arms causing his biceps to bulge.

Soon Caroline indulged them in gossips, filling Elena in on Damon's reputation as the most eligible but inaccessible bachelor in town. Elena found out that he dropped off the social radar almost straight away after his son was born and the only places to bump into him were either at his work place, the grocery store or at the play ground, which is a place a lot of single ladies find hard to come up with an excuse to go to.

"A friend of a friend of mine tried borrowing a friend's kid, just to bring to the park. She was so smitten by him… Honestly, I thought it was a little pathetic. But you should just see the cluster of women swarming him when he is in public…"

"…like bees to honey…."Bonnie finished for Caroline and the girls glanced at each other, giggling like school girls.

"Yeah but slutty, horny, psychotic bees…in heels" Caroline added before finishing her drink.

All this information was amusing, but it didn't mean a thing to Elena. Whenever she looked at him, she saw what a great father he was, how lovingly he treated Adam and how much he cared for him and maybe even for her. Damon was so passionate about his small family, a dedicated father willing to do anything.

Living together with him had revealed more of his desirable qualities and Elena could not deny how nicely he had been treating her and how special she felt. She inhaled deeply; a warm feeling flowed through her when she thought of Damon.

As if their minds were connected, Damon suddenly glanced at her and their eyes met. His smile sent shock waves down her spine and her heart rate spiked up. She replied with a weak wave, her limbs felt powerless as her heart finally admitted to herself;

'Oh god, I'm in love with him'.

If only she hadn't found that picture this morning.

Dum..Dum..Dum...did I keep you at the edge of your seats? Well that's not my intention hehe.

I will update more frequently because i will not be around come September. Nways, hope you like this chapter and please review...