Chapter 5

I'm curious to know exactly how you are
I keep my distance but that distance is too far
It reassures me just to know that you're okay
But I don't want you to go on needing me this way

And I don't want to know if you are lonely
Don't want to know if you are less than lonely
Don't want to know if you are lonely
Don't want to know, don't want to know

The car ride to Elena's place was really quiet. Nobody said a word the whole entire time. Damon put in a cassete that play Dont Want To Know if You Are Lonely. Not knowing what to do, Elena just turned up the volume and bobbed her head to the music. Damon smiled at the little gesture and Elena just studied his face. She rested her head back and closed her eyes, just listening to the music. Damon looked back at her and gave her another smile that made her heart flutter.

Even though they had arrived at Elena's house, they both just sat in the car, talking and drinking from the flask.

"Oh shit!" Elena exclaimed. Miranda was peering out of her window looking into Damon's car. "Sorry, just my mom. She's just really nosy." Taking a swig from the flask, Elena looked up into the window and gave a small wave, hiding the flask so her mom wouldn't see it. "She used to read my journals, so I started writing them in Italian." Damon looked up at her with an incredulous look on his face. "Yeah, I took Italian for a year. Went through an awkward phase."

"So Tyler told me that you were going to go to Columbia as grad school."

She had only talked to Tyler for a few minutes. She didn't think that he had taken in any of the stuff that she had said, but she was proven wrong.

"Yeah."

"Wow, that's impressive. I'm going to NYU right now." Damon replied

"Really? That's cool. Maybe I'll run into on the streets of NYC."

"What are you studying?" Damon took this time as an opportunity to get to know Elena.

"Journalism. I want to report on the real state of the world. Like Charles Dickens, for example, he wrote what you might call "travel books" but he does it in prison and mental asylums." Damon loved how passionate she was about journalism. It was like she was meant for it. Even though he didn't know much about the topic, he still supported her on it.

"That's cool."

"Yeah is it?" she asked hopeful. She sounded as though nobody enjoyed hearing her talk about journalism.

"Yeah it's really interesting. But why do you have to go to grad school for that." Damon felt a little dumfounded on that part. He felt humiliated when Elena just looked at him.

"No, no that's a good question, but actually journalism is very ivy league, very exclusive." she said, "It's stupid. I think my mother would rather write Internet's Fortune 500 Company* or something like that"

"Well, fuck that right."

"Yeah." she turned to look at him. He looked amazing at night. His raven black hair and icy blue eyes stood out so much in pitch black night.

Damon sighed, "I gotta go," he looked down to the seat, "I have to meet a friend."
Elena was dissapointed that he couldn't just ditch his friend and just be with her for the night. Then she remembered that he was hers.

"Okay, thanks for the ride." she breathed out.

"Anytime."

She opened the door and walked over to the door of her house. She looked back to see Damon driving off, just like Bonnie.

Damon bit his lip during the drive over there. He didn't want to have to leave Elena for this. She was so sweet and down to earth, not like any of the other girls that he had met. They were all stuck up and bitchy, they just wanted him for his looks. He drove up to Stardust. Stardust was the bar that almost nobody went to 'cause of their terrible service and horrible music.

If Damon had a choice/say in things, he would have never left Elena's side. He pulled into the parking space and went inside the bar.

Elena was standing beside Katherine as she fixed one of the games she was manning.
"So, I heard you jammed with Lou Reed." She tried to spark a conversation just so things wouldn't be so awkward.

"Well don't believe everything you hear." she said looking up at her. She looked a lot like Elena, but when it came to personality, they were polar opposites. Katherine was straight forward and didn't really like to talk to people. She thought that she was above them all. Elena was down to earth and caring, something Katherine could never be.

"I'll tell you about it one day." she said to Elena.

"Where does your band play?" Elena wanted to get to know Katherine better, just like she had with Damon.

Katherine sighed and said, "Shit holes around town. I could be a better musician. Start a new band out in L.A."

"Los Angeles?"

Katherine nodded, "Yeah, it's going to be cool. Going this winter." Katherine was leaving Long Island? She was going to risk losing everything she has back here and go to L.A. to pursue a dream that may never come true. Elena thought that she was fierce and filled with ambition. At that specific moment, a kid who had probably been riding a rollercoaster, vomits right next to Elena. Katherine just stares at the boy, grimacing.

"You get better at avoiding that." she says as though it's a daily routine.

Damon walks up to the two of them. "Hey guys. There's a party at my house tonight. My dad's out of town."

Elena was confused at first. Why was Damon telling her this. She caught on to what he was trying to get at.

"I'm invited?" she asked. He thought it was adorable the way that she questioned everything.

"Yep." he said popping the p, "that's why I'm telling you." he gave with an obvious look.
He then turned to face Katherine, "Katherine, you in?"

"You kiddies have fun." she said, and Damon quickly walked away.

"He's cool right?" he asked Katherine. She just gave a nod and went back to work.

When Elena had arrived to the party, she noticed how huge the house was. She wondered why Damon would ever need a job at Adventureland.
She spotted Tyler and Lexi together next to the ping pong table.

"We're having a ping pong tournament!" she exclaimed. It was obvious that she was tipsy.

Then Elena saw Damon. He was passing out drinks to people at the party.

"Hey!"
"Hey" Elena said back nervously. It was the first time she had been to a party since the whole Matt breakup.

"Nice house." she said to him. It was lame but she wanted to lead up to the question that had been nagging her since she saw him.

"Thanks."

"So why the hell are you working at Adventureland if you have a house like this?" She was straight forward and down to the point this time.

"Well, you know my dad's a doctor. It's been his life long dream for his son to work at Adventureland." he said with a smirk playing on his lips.

"High hopes." Elena joked with him.

"It also gets me out of the house." he elaborated.

"So, we can drink your parents booze?" Caroline asked Damon. It was weird seeing how things change so much from when Elena last hung out with Caroline.

"Absolutley!" Damon said in a carefree tone. She liked how laid back he was. He didn't stress over things like she did.

"Awesome" Caroline said and she left to go find the alcohol.

"I actually brought you something for the party" Elena said while taking out one of the blunts that Bonnie had given her. Damon eyed the blunt.

"What's that?"
"It's a joint."
"Oh!" he said happily and laughed.

Everyone was passing around the joint and taking a puff of it. Damon looked at Elena the whole entire time. He never expected Elena to have a joint. She was now filled with surprises for him to uncover, but it wasn't like he didn't have his own secrets too.

"I'm going to go for a swim." he said, "Anyone else want to join?" he knew everyone was too high to even notice him, everyone except for Elena. She got up and left with him to the pool. She just guessed that she would need to swim in her bra and underwear. Damon jumped into the pool wearing only his boxers. He started to swim around and dip his head inside the cool water.

He wondered what Elena would do. Would she get to scared and back out or would she man up and go inside the pool with him? He could feel his errection coming up when he saw her take off her shirt. She had really nice curves and her boobs were perky. He was starting to regret swimming.

"Is anybody else coming in here or is it just us?" she asked.

Damon just shrugged, "I think it's just us."

With that, she took off her pants and jumped in the pool. A splash of water hit Damon and he smiled.

"See, it's not so bad." he said.

"Yeah, it's okay."

He started nearing her and getting closer. The paddled around for a few seconds.

"Do you have anymore of that pot?" Damon asked her.

"Um, yeah, at home. Why?"

"We should make pot cookies together." he said. Elena started to giggle.

"Think about it, it would be so much fun!" Damon said. "Have you ever done it?"
"I haven't"

They started to babble a bit and making jokes and just laughing. Elena came closer and closer to him and then dunked his head under the water. He came back up and did the same thing to her. When they came back up, Elena was laughing and screaming for Damon to stop tickling her. He picked her up and put her on the ledge of the pool. "I'm going to get a drink." Elena said while getting up.

"Towels are over there." Damon said as the picked one up and wrapped it around her body. He was about to get up to get a towel too when he saw he had a boner. "You coming?' she asked. "Um yeah, I'll meet you in a second."

"Okay?" she didn't know why he wouldn't come out of the water, but she just left to go inside the house.

"Shit." he said to himself. He slowly climbed up the steps in the pool, making sure to cover up his boxers.

"Boner!" Caroline screamed out, "You got a boner Damon!" she was so drunk that she was yelling at the top of her lungs. The small crowd of people started to laugh so Damon jumped back in to the pool.

Damon had made it back into the house safely. He spotted Elena eyeing his records. "Nice collection." she said.

"Thanks."

She walked over to the table filled with framed pictures. Her eyes caught one that had some girl with makeup caked on her face and her hair looking so fake.

"Who's that?" she asked.

"That would be my step mom." he said, "I don't think there are any pictures of my mom in here. She died two years ago."

"Oh, sorry."

"My dad remarried last year to that bitch Pearl. You see that unholy abomination on top of her head? That her wig."

"Is it?" Elena said holding the picture in her hands.

"She had a nervous breakdown when her husband divorced her. She lost all of her hair. I would feel bad if she wasn't such a status obsessed witch."

Elena smirked at the remark. Damon seemed like he truly hated Pearl.

"I'm buzzed. You?" he asks.

"I think I am." They just looked at each other for a long time. That was until Elena saw Lexi's brother peeing on the window and laughing.

"What?" he asks when he notices her looking at something.

"Nothing." She said quickly.

"Okay... I'm going to see what they're doing," he pointed towards Lexi and Tyler, "Wanna come with?"

"Of course, yeah."

When the party was over, Elena had been the one to drive Caroline and her over. Caroline was definitely drunk and Elena was just a bit buzzed. Her night with Damon was really fun, especially the pool. Caroline stumbled out the car.

"You okay?" she asked Caroline. Caroline had then vomited all over the car.

"Okay, um, goodnight Care!" and walked towards her house.

He was cleaning up the house when he got the phone call.

"Hello?" he asked

"Hey," he went on with the conversation, "no, the party broke up pretty early." he talked through the phone.

"Sure, come over now."

Yay! Done with chapter 5! Sorry Caroline is so OOC, I just needed someone to be Freego and she was the only character left. OoOo who was Damon talking to on the phone?

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