That night, Elena stayed over at the boarding house, but she couldn't sleep. Stefan fell asleep long ago, but Elena was still awake, listening to the rain dropping rapidly against the rooftop. Elena quietly got out of bed and began to walk downstairs. Until the thunder shook the house and the lighning shown thruh the window, making Elena jump back into place. If there was a greatest fear to Elena, aside from Klaus, it was storms. Elena did an impulsive move and ran into Damon's room. Luckily he wasn't asleep, he was sitting up in his bed, reading. He took notice of her and threw the book somewhere in the floor.
''Can I help you?'' He said bitterly.
Elena winced slightly. What was his problem? ''I got scared,'' Elena admitted shyly.
Damon's brow raised in annoyance. ''Of what?'' He asked.
''The storm,'' Elena said ducking her head.
''Oh, so your perfectly fine of sleeping with a vampire, but storms are just so scary?'' Damon asked harshly. ''And don't you have your knight in shining armor, Stefan for that protection?''
Elena nodded in understanding. ''Your problem is Stefan.'' Elena said.
Damon sighed, then got up off the bed. He didn't move close to Elena, he just stood in one spot close to his bed, while she stayed close to the door. ''My problem isn't completely Stefan.'' He admitted.
Elena's brow raised. ''My problem is that your with Stefan one second, then you run to me. Then your with me and you run back to Stefan. Do you see what I'm getting at? Can you make up your mind! You told me you didn't love me back, so why do you keep coming back?'' Damon said.
Elena's eyes watered. I hurt him that bad? ''Do you want me to leave?'' She asked.
Damon groaned loudly. You can't say no, Damon...as much as you want her to stay... Damon thought. ''Yeah,'' He said, looking in her eyes harshly.
Elena stiffened. ''OK,'' She said emotionlessly. Before she walked out, she turned back around to look him. ''I'm sorry for bothering you.'' She apologized. Then she walked out.
Elena walked downstairs and flinched every now and then at the thunder and at Damon's words echoing thruh her mind. I must be a horrible person. I'm worse than Katherine. I can't ruin his life again. Elena thought. Elena sat on the burgandy couch and pulled the little green blanket over top of her, she layed there for awhile, and then the power went out and everything went black, there was silence aside from Elena's screaming thoughts and the loud thunder.