~Chapter 12

Elena POV

I woke up, Saturday morning, after my pretty good night I had with Damon. I stretched lazily on my bed before slowly batting my eyelids and opening them. I rose from my bed and headed to the little window I had in my bedroom. It was raining lightly. Perfect, I thought smiling to myself. I loved rain especially when I had nowhere to go.

I slowly trotted down the stairs, about to make some breakfast. Since Jenna started working at the grill, now that she was cutting down drinking, I had no one to prepare my breakfast, but I felt so happy for her. She was such a wreck after my mum died.

I arrived in the kitchen and I opened the small fridge, getting out the ingredients for toast. As I was waiting for the toaster to finish my toasts I heard a cry. Damn, perfect timing love, I thought as I climbed up the stairs two at a time, finding my little one screaming his head off. I gently picked him up from his crib, and hugged him to me as I shushed him softly.

"Shhh, it's fine now little one," I whispered in his hair as I made my way down the stairs. He was starting to calm down as I arrived in the kitchen. The toast! I thought, as I hurriedly plugged off the toaster only to find a pair of black burnt sandwiches.

"See? Now momma's got nothing to eat," I whispered to him pouting, as he giggled softly. I started to laugh with him as I slowly sat him in his highchair. I turned on the television so he could watch some program that was on while I prepared him his meal.

"Let's get you something to eat now sweetie-pie," I whispered to him before ruffling his hair and heading off to the kitchen once again. I decided to see if he wanted to eat before preparing him a meal and he'd refuse it. So I opened the top-cupboards and searched around for some of his favorite biscuits. There they are, I thought to myself as I stretched my body up to reach the packet of biscuits. I sighed as I finally caught them and went back to Alex. He was giggling softly at something on TV.

"Looks like someone's in a good mood today," I told him giggling as I opened the packet of biscuits.

"Would you like some hunnie?" I asked him as I brought out a biscuit and handed it to him. He blinked at the biscuit before pushing it away and returning his attention back to the television-set.

"Oh come on Alex, eat hon," I tried again as I slowly shook the biscuit in front of him, desperate to catch his attention. He pushed it away again so I decided to get him some water and settle down beside him.

Once again, I headed back to the kitchen and back to the living-room after I brought his bottle of water from the kitchen's table.

"Come to momma now," I told him softly as I picked him up from the highchair and we sat on the sofa with Alex placed on my lap.

"Drink now, little one," I whispered to him as I slowly brought the bottle to his lips.

We must have dozed off, because when I heard some footsteps, it was something about 2 hours later. I quickly opened my eyes and saw Jenna coming in. I slowly rubbed my eyes and found Alex sleeping soundly, sprawled on my stomach.

"Jenna, hi!" I called softly her as she entered the living room, careful not to wake the sleeping beauty.

"Hello my dear," she greeted me as she smiled kindly at me.

"Listen can you do me favor? I'm going out for a little while, so could you nurse Alex for me? He's asleep already, but he might want to eat something soon," I whispered to her as I slowly handed her Alex.

"Sure, no problem," she replied whispering, as she took Alex into her arms, cradling him.

I know she would love to spend some time with him. Jenna loved to babysit him, even when I sometimes didn't need her to. She never had any children of her own, and when she ended up losing my brother Jeremy, her nephew, she tried her best to take good care of me. Even though she went off the rails for a little while. When I told her I was pregnant she begged me to stay in town. She convinced me that she would help in any way she could, but I knew I had to leave.

When I returned from boarding-school, she welcomed me with open arms and she was now doing her best every day to make up for the lost time, now that she's sober.

I arrived at the grill half an hour later. Since it was still two o'clock in the afternoon, the grill wasn't so occupied so I managed to find a perfect booth easily. I slipped in a back booth where I was barely visible and took in my surroundings.

I noticed there were several men drinking beside the bar, and I suddenly realized that one of them was Damon Salvatore. He was drinking scotch, as always.

I quietly sat in my booth as I ordered an omelet and a bottle of water, since I didn't get to eat that morning. I started drumming my fingers softly against my table as I waited for the waitress to bring me my drink. I felt a shadow creeping near, thinking it was the waitress I looked up smiling, ready to thank her, but I soon found out that it was Damon.

"Good afternoon," he greeted me smiling.

"Hi," I waved as he kept walking nearer. He arrived and sat down in the seat opposite of mine.

"So, what brings you to the grill this fine afternoon?" he asked dramatically while smirking his signature smirk, his blue eyes twinkling. I was about to say the real answer, but then I would expose Alex so I quickly came up with a lie. I was becoming a pro these days in creating lies.

"Oh, I was supposed to meet a friend, but she cancelled in the last minute," I replied, laughing nervously nodding, in attempt to hide my true agenda.

"What a coincidence you found me instead. No need to stay alone now huh?" he said still smirking.

"Would you like something to eat?" he asked as he grabbed a menu and started skimming the lists of food.

"Actually I just ordered," I answered, straining my neck in search for the waitress, hoping my water would arrive soon. I was about to wave at the waitress as soon as I spotted her, but he beated me to it. She quickly came hurrying towards us.

"Yes, sir?" she asked eagerly as she leaned in, exposing her cleavage. Well, she spoke more to Damon then to me, but whatever. He didn't even look at her once, but smirked.

"I'll have what the lady just ordered," he replied, still smirking and his eyes never leaving mine.

"Of course," she answered huffing as she left our booth stamping her foot, knowing her plan to seduce him didn't work.

"Well, that was rude of her," I muttered under my breath. Damon just laughed lightly.

"Now, where were we?" he asked as he flashed a smile in my direction, making me smile back without hesitation.

It was probably 5 o'clock in the evening when I decided to head home.

"I had a lovely time, Damon, again," I told him, smiling shyly while I stood up to leave.

"Me too, Lena," he replied back softly as a smile crept across his features.

"I'll see you around," I said back to him as I headed towards the door. I turned around as I turned the knob, and found him there, smiling at me. I waved at him and felt a smile creeping across my features once again.

I arrived at my car and slowly drove back home. As soon as I got there I turned off the engine, hopped out of my seat and closed the car's door behind me, twisting my key to lock it. I fished the house-keys from my bag, unlocked the creaking door and closed it behind me. I made my way to the kitchen to find Jenna feeding my little one.

"I can take over now Jenna. Thank you for everything," I thanked her kindly, as she handed Alex over to me.

"Anything to help," she replied with a smile while standing up to leave, "I'm going to take a nap now, Elena," she continued as she left the kitchen. I nodded at her and sat down quietly on the couch, slowly feeding Alex as I kissed him repeatedly on his nose, forehead, cheeks and everywhere possible. I'm so lucky to have such an amazing son, I thought as I hugged him closely to myself, kissing him once again.

I heard a faint knock on the door. I felt surprised. Who could possibly be here? I thought. I knew I wasn't expecting anyone and neither was Jenna since she left to sleep. I stood up, still with Alex in my arms, as I crept near the door. I opened it slowly only to reveal a genuine-smiling Damon Salvatore.

His grin vanished quickly as soon as his eyes flickered from my face to my son's. Our son.

Fuck!

A/N: What did you think? A little cliffhanger ;) Now I'm gonna need about 10+ reviews to update till the end of this week, because I only got 4 in the last chapter D: I only wrote till chapter 13 (next chapter) for now. So I have no idea where the story's heading now. I'm trying to make the chapters longer :) They're usually about 1,200 words, now this one and the next are both about 1,500. Even for those who are reading my other story 'My Doppelganger' I'm going to make the chapters longer and better with more details. I hope you enjoy it guys!
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