Chapter 5

When Elena had come home after her first day of work, everything seemed the same. Grayson had fallen asleep as the TV played the news while Miranda and Elena were reading their books. Elena's eyes were practically glued to the book when her mother asked her a peciuliar question.

"Why don't you call one of your old friends?" she asked, "I heard Vicky's back in town."

Elena didn't have the gut to tell Miranda about her breakup with Matt. Her mother loved Matt so much. She thought that he was a nice guy and thought he was "the one". She knew that if she didn't tell her mother now, she would just keep on bringing up Matt or his family.

"Mom, I broke up with Matt a few days ago."

"Oh," her mom was obviously taken aback and shocked to hear this news. You could also hear a little bit of dissapointment in her voice. "Well just because you are no longer dating Matt, doesn't mean you can't hang out with his sister." she said.

"And tell her I work as a carnie? No thank you."

The next day at Adventureland, Elena had to station the milk toss game. She thought that she would be able to have the guy with the icy blue eyes work with her. She hadn't seen him since their awkward stare down yesterday, but she had thought about him. She wondered what he was doing, working at Adventureland.

"Yo!" a guy called for Elena. "Give me five rings." Elena obliged and retrieved the rings for him. As she was placing the rings towards him one by one, the guy started talking to her. "Did you hear about the fat lady that fell off the paratrooper." Elena wasn't that interested in the conversation, she already knew that the rides here weren't safe whatsoever. She didn't want to come off as rude so she kept the conversation going.

"Oh really, is she okay?"

"I don't know." he said quickly, "Hey you know what, give me 10 of those rings." As soon as Elena turned to get the rings for the guy, he changed his mind and said "Make it 15." this guy was the worst at making decisions.

Meanwhile, there was a guy playing the game while Elena had her back turned away. He had a kid right next to him. He lifted the kid up and got him to place the ring on one of the red bottle caps.

Elena had turned around just in time to see the guy place the kid on the ground. "Hey we got a winner!" he exclaimed.

"Uh, sir I saw you holding him over the bottles and that's, uh cheating." she said nervously. She didn't know how to the approach the situation.

"He won it fair and square so you need to give him a prize." the guy said.

To Elena's surprise, she heard the guy who she was helping out before start to talk. "Yeah, I saw it!" he said. She quickly got on to what they were doing. They were partners and they had planned this whole thing out, just so they could win the giant ass panda. If Elena gave away that panda, she would lose her job only on the second day, and she really couldn't do that.

So she decided to tell them the truth. "Guys, I could lose my job." she tried to say. Then, the guy yelled to the crowd of people, "This bitch is trying to rip off a kid."

Damon's POV

I was stationed right next to the milk toss. I heard some guy yelling something so I turned to see what was going on. It was the girl. It was the girl with the big brown eyes and long hair again. There was some controversy going on and she looked so scared and helpless. I quickly caught on to what was happening. This guy cheated and wanted the giant ass panda.

I started to panic when I saw the guy pull out a knife. "Why don't you give the fucking panda." he said to the girl. The color drained out of her face when she saw the knife. That's when I decided to intervene.

"Here you go, here's your panda" I said to the douchebag.

The guy thanked him and walked away with the giant plush toy.

"Yeah, am I going to get in trouble. No one's ever supposed to lose the giant ass panda." She sounded so worried.

"Is it worth getting knifed over?"

"No," she said quietly, "Hi, I'm Elena Gilbert. I just started working here"

Elena.

It was a beautiful name and it fit her perfectly.

"Damon." I replied.

I decided to joke around with her a little bit, since she was new and I like her. "Sucks that you're going to lose your job on the second day, Elena." Her face immediately looked pale.

"No, no. Shit! I-I need this job." She sounded honestly worried, as though the rest of her life depended on this one crappy job.

"Kidding." I say. She looks so relieved- it's actually kind of cute.

"Tell Ric that you lost the giant ass panda at knife point."

At that moment, I heard Tyler shout, "Yo, Katherine!"

Oh god. Katherine. That manipulative bitch. Why did every guy at Adventureland crush on her? I mean, she's married. Katherine just gave a small smile to Tyler and walked away with her guitar in hand and sunglasses on.

"Who's that?" Elena asked. I honestly didn't want to have to be the one to explain who Katherine Pierce is.

"Oh, just the maintenance girl." I say. Kat wanted to be a singer, yet she never really got through with it. She has her own band, but they never play anywhere. The reason she became the maintenance girl was because Ric was her family friend. He taught her how to fix rollercoasters, and I have to admit, she's really good at it.

Regular POV

It was closing time so everyone gathered at the parking area. Elena saw Tyler smoking a pipe. It had been a long time since she had seen someone smoking a pipe.

"Are you smoking a pipe, Tyler?"

"Yeah, believe it or not it relaxes me."

Damon started walking towards the group. "Hey Elena." he said.

"Hi."

"You guys want some of this?" Damon took out a flask filled with alcohol. "I bagged it from Jenna."

He poured some into Elena's and Tyler's drinks.

"Lou Reed? I'd like to tee him." Caroline said pointing at the Lou Reed shirt Damon was wearing. "You know about Katherine and Lou Reed, right?" Caroline asked Elena.

"Nope." Obviously she didn't. It was only her second day here.

"Guys, she doesn't know the legend!" Caroline exclaimed.

The whole group started gasping, everyone except for Damon.

"Katherine once jammed with Lou Reed." Tyler said.

"Really?"

"True Story."

"Lou Reed?"

"The Lou Reed."

"So Katherine's like a real musician?"

The crowd of people just started saying things like "Yeah." and "Of course!" or "She has her own band!"
Damon just eyed the group of people. He was the only one there that knew what was true and what were lies. He liked how Elena was different. She didn't just hear what people told her and accept it, she questioned everything.

"You gotta get a little dick with it." Caroline said.

"You perv! She's married!" said Lexi, one of the girls who manned the rides. Elena looked at Damon and saw how uncomfortable he was. Did he have a past with Katherine? Why did she keep on thinking about girlfriends that Damon has?

"Nice pipe, grandpa!" said Lexi's brother as he threw a corn dog at Tyler's face

"Ugh, I'm so sorry about my brother, he's such a douche." Lexi apologized to Tyler.

Elena was supposed to go home with Caroline that day. A car honked twice and Caroline said, "Looks like its us. Let's go panty stain!" signaling to Elena. It was really embarrassing for her especially because it was in front of Damon.

"Panty stain, that's mean." Elena said to the group of friends. She turned to leave when Damon started talking.

"Hey, I could give you a ride, if you want." he asked.

Elena immediately jumped at the option. "Really?" she asked, "Caroline I got a ride!" she exclaimed. She got back to Damon and asked for the second time, "Really?" Damon just smirked and nodded.

"Thank you so much." she said, "I got a ride, you can go, goodnight." she told Caroline.

"You got a ride?" Caroline questioned.

"Yeah."

"Then, uh, why don't you, uh RIDE THIS!" and then, Caroline tee'd her.

"Oh my God!" Elena groaned in pain. She didn't understand why Caroline does this type of shit. Hell, she even did it back when they were four years old.

"Elena!" Damon exclaimed while picking her up, "You okay?"

"Uh, yeah."

"What the hell was that?" Damon asked her.

"It's just my life."

Yay! Chapter 5 done. Next chapter is the car ride home. Btw the character listings go like this.

Elena= James

Damon= Em

Rebekkah/Tyler= Joel (Confusing but Rebekkah's not longer going to be in it)

Katherine= Conell

Lexi= Sue

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