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It's A Boy Girl Thing
Ch 12. TGIF Part 1
Elena fell asleep Thursday night while listening to Damon's band's playlist on his iPod, so it's not surprising to her that she wakes up Friday morning with the songs stuck in her head. She is surprised that she feels the urge to pick up the guitar though and start to play. Damon never taught her how to play the song stuck in her head, only played it for her once, but…somehow, when she picks the guitar up, her fingers know where to go.
No fucking way…Elena thinks to herself, Damon was right. His fingers do remember what to do! She picks at the strings quietly and listens to the tune. It's the song! She smiles through her confusion and wonders how in the world this is possible. Fingers don't have memory; brains do. How do they know what to do?
Instead of wasting more time trying to figure out why she can miraculously play the song, she hurries to get dressed so she can tell Damon the good news. All she has to do to play the songs is listen to the iPod. That sounds crazy…but it worked. This must be another strange side-effect of Ayana's body-swapping spell. No point in trying to figure out why it's working; it is what it is.
Unfortunately, Elena doesn't catch up with Damon in the morning, so she doesn't get a chance to tell him. Most of the day, Elena is pre-occupied wondering what will happen at band practice later, and then how the date with Klaus and Caroline will go, so she soon forgets about her new discovery. She can't believe her and Damon made it through the week without killing each other, or damaging their reputations further. She probably shouldn't think things like that…you know, being jinxed and all, she just may cause their luck to take a turn for the worse.
Nah. Elena shakes her head. Things are finally getting better.
"Hey, my brother," Klaus calls as he catches up with Damon right after the last bell rings, "What's up?"
"Hey," Elena greets with a smile, "How's it going? So, did'ya figure out what we're gonna do with the girls later?"
"I've been thinking," Klaus sighs in exasperation. "But, dude, I don't know what we can do. I want to do something different from all the usual boring dates, but I'm practically broke, and Caroline is going to hate me."
"We don't have to do something that costs a lot of money," Elena says, hoping not to come off sounding too un-like Damon as she suggests, "We could just go to dinner and hang out, or go to the movies or bowling or something."
"Nobody goes bowling anymore," Klaus complains, "Not since like the 80's. I want to do something Caroline will actually like, and remember." He gives Damon a warning look before adding, "And don't be a dick. You know how long I've been waiting for a chance with Caroline. It has to be special."
Damon might have given shit to Klaus for being so sentimental about this date, but since he is housing a girl in his body, and that girl is Elena, she replies, "Well, I could talk to Elena and see what Caroline likes to do. And we'll figure it out at Ric's."
"All right," Klaus agrees, "That's a good idea. But practice is in less than two hours, so you better be ready when I come to get you."
"I'll be ready." Elena promises.
At the Gilbert residence, Damon arrives home, without Jeremy, and goes up to Elena's room for a shower. He is determined to shave Elena's legs, without cutting them this time, for the date later tonight. He thought having to shave his face was hard, but this is a pain in the ass. Shaving legs is like way more trouble than it's worth. If he were born a girl, he bets he'd be one of those ones that insist on being au natural and has armpit hair rivaling the length of the hair on his head.
Thank God he's not actually a girl.
After shutting the water off, stepping out, and wrapping Elena's body in a towel, Damon goes to her bedroom to get dressed. He drops the towel to the floor before realizing Elena is sprawled out on the bed. Surprising the both of them, Damon lets out a high-pitched scream.
"What was that all about?" Elena asks with a confused laugh. "It's just me! And I texted you…"
"I was in the shower," Damon replies, blushing red from embarrassment at being so caught off guard. At least it is only Elena though. He doesn't have to cover up his naked body because it's actually her naked body. He slips into Elena's robe and sits down next to his body on the bed. "What are you doing here? Don't tell me you forgot everything I taught you yesterday."
"No," Elena shakes her head, "Actually, even better...you were right. Your fingers do remember how to play the songs! Last night, I fell asleep to your CD, and I woke up this morning and I could play 'Blood Brothers'. It was the strangest thing ever. Want me to show you? I brought the guitar."
"Uh, yeah I want you to show me! There's no fucking way you can play 'Blood Brothers', I only played part of that song, and I was just messing around." Damon's eyes are wide and he motions for Elena to hurry and pull the guitar out of the case.
"I know, I know," Elena says, still just as baffled by the phenomena as Damon is. She settles the guitar in her arms and starts to play the song that has been stuck in her head all day. The guitar is an electric, and she's not plugged in to an amp because Damon's is at Ric's house, but Damon can hear the song clearly that Elena is strumming.
"Holy shit..."
"It's crazy!" Elena comments, "I don't know how it's happening, but I can play it. I wanted to tell you earlier, but I haven't had the chance all day."
"It doesn't make any sense," Damon states, "You couldn't play the songs last night. What the hell happened?"
"I don't know, Damon," Elena shrugs impatiently, "But at least now I can play something later that won't totally suck."
"You were doing pretty well playing 'Miss Mystic Falls' last night," Damon reminds her, still not wanting to believe she can magically play guitar over-night. He doesn't want anything to do with anymore witchy magic crap. It has only gotten them into trouble so far. "Maybe you should just play that one instead. Distract the guys with the competition sign-up sheet. I bet they never finished filling it out."
"I thought you'd be a little excited about it," Elena admits, frowning, "Wasn't the whole point of the lesson to teach me to play? Who cares how it happened as long as I can play?"
"Because it's too weird!" Damon admits, "I don't know what to think of it, and I don't like that."
"Well, in our situation, I don't think this is the worst thing that could happen," Elena insists. "Anyways, that's not the only reason I came here. Klaus wants tonight to be something memorable, but he doesn't know what to do. What do you think? I said I'd see what Caroline likes to do."
"Why the fuck are you asking me then?" Damon asks with a laugh. "I have no idea. I've never even been on a double date before."
"God, you're no help," Elena groans. "Come on, you said you want Klaus to be happy, right? He's not going to be happy if Caroline is bored on his date. What can we do?"
"You're Caroline's best friend," Damon points out, "Don't you know what her idea of a perfect date is?"
"She changes her mind like every day," Elena says, trying to think of the last time Caroline talked about going out and what she wanted to do. "She likes to feel special, and she thinks a guy who gives flowers is definitely a keeper. She wants to be entertained and she always says she'd like to date someone spontaneous. She hates movie dates because you can't talk to the person you're with. She loves to eat and loves dessert. She likes to drink too, but obviously we can't do that...um...she'll do anything she can still dress cutely for. I don't know. That's all I know."
"Okay, so then what's the problem?" Damon queries, solving their problem with two simple suggestions, "Let's go grab some food at the Grill, and we'll play pool: girls versus boys. If the girls win, we pick what we do next; if the boys win, you and Klaus will decide."
"That sounds fun," Elena says, "And I bet Caroline will think it's fun too."
They both hear beeping from outside, and Damon announces, "That's Klaus. You gotta go."
"Already?" Elena glances at the clock, complaining, "You take a longer shower than I do; I was waiting forever." As she packs Damon's new guitar into the guitar case, she says, "I should have forty bucks or something in the drawer of my night stand. Can you grab it for later? And don't read my diary!" She grabs the guitar case and runs out of the room.
Damon yells after her, "You keep a diary?" Shouldn't have told me that...Damon was never too good at resisting temptation. Elena pretty much just encouraged Damon to read it. She really should have known...
"So, I should buy her flowers then?" Klaus was asking, as he drove Elena to band practice. "I've only got fifty bucks to my name, and I need to save some for gas..." Klaus smiles sheepishly.
"It'll be enough," Elena says, "Buy her a rose; just one. Girls love roses. And we'll all split the cost of dinner. That's the whole point of a double date."
"If you're sure..." Klaus says slowly, disbelieving Damon really knows how to impress a girl like Caroline. She's not like the girls Damon usually goes for; slutty and stupid. Caroline may be slightly shallow, but she's smart and determined and so beautiful. "I can't wait. I don't even think I'm going to be able to practice. I'm just going to be staring at the clock waiting for it to be time to go."
Elena chuckles, "I'm sure Ric will understand. Oh, hey, that reminds me. Did we finish the paperwork for the competition? It's due today, right?"
"Uh, I don't know," Klaus answers, "I know we started it...Ric has it." He returns the subject to the date, "So what are we going to do after dinner?"
"Well," Elena says, acting as though she is re-telling tips given to her, Damon, by Elena, "Caroline likes to do something spontaneous and out of the ordinary, so we're going to challenge the girls to a game of pool. If they win, which they will, they get to choose what we're doing next."
"I like it," Klaus says with a grin, "So then the girls will definitely like whatever we do, because they're picking it."
"Exactly." Elena smirks. She's getting pretty good at that. It's actually kind of fun, too. And, Damon looks sexy when he smirks. But she'll never tell him that. "Think we could get any alcohol for tonight? Might be fun for later..."
"We can see if Ric has anything," Klaus suggests. Ric isn't twenty-one, but he's good friends with the bartender at the Grill, and he sometimes gives Ric a bottle or two of 'damaged' products.
When asked, Ric's reply is a sarcastic, "So, what, I don't see you for a week and a half, and you think I'm gonna just give you alcohol? For free?"
Elena doesn't know Alaric too well, and she especially doesn't know his sense of humor, so she's not sure what to say. "I-uh...sorry? I can give you money..." Alaric has light brown hair and blue eyes and looks almost the same as he did two years ago when he graduated, which is the last time Elena saw him. He graduated when she was a sophomore, so it's not like she had class with him or anything, but she saw him around. She doesn't know that he's a jokester who generally uses sarcasm to convey humor, and it's hard to tell if he's kidding or not if you don't know him. Damon would have known he was kidding.
"I was kidding!" Ric shakes his head and laughs while he asks Klaus, "What's up with this guy?"
"Your guess is as good as mine," Klaus replies with a shrug. "So is that a yes?"
"You're going out with Caroline Forbes tonight?" Ric repeats Klaus' words, before he asked about the alcohol. "Hell yeah I've got a bottle for you. I've got two bottles for you." Then he turns to Damon, frowning, and questions, "What are you doing going out with Elena Gilbert?"
"We're just friends," Elena explains, getting a little sick of repeating this excuse to people. "And Caroline was the one who wanted it to be a double date. I only agreed for Klaus."
"So you don't have feelings for Elena," Ric asks, one eyebrow raised in disbelief, "At all?"
"No..." Elena says unconvincingly.
Ric and Klaus exchange glances before cracking up, "Bahaha! Okay, Damon, I believe you!" Ric rolls his eyes, "Klaus told me about how you've been together almost every day, passing notes, and trying to keep it a secret. Something is definitely going on."
"Are we here to practice, or are we here to throw around crazy accusations?" Elena demands. "Don't you guys want to see the new guitar?"
That distracts them for the moment, and Elena pulls the guitar out and passes it around to Klaus and then Alaric. Then, Elena focuses them on finishing their competition application, which they attach to an e-mail and send right away. By the time they're finished with all of that, they have less than an hour to practice some songs. They start with 'Miss Mystic Falls', which is the most recent song the boys wrote, but after they play through the song a second time, Klaus wants to take a little break.
"I think I need a drink right now," Klaus admits, "I'm nervous."
"Make one," Alaric suggests. "But we gotta get through a few more songs. We haven't practiced in almost two weeks."
"I know," Klaus comments with a laugh as he runs off to the kitchen to grab a beer or something. "I suck today!"
While Klaus is gone, Ric brings up Damon's neighbor once more, "So you ever gonna tell us what's going on with you and Elena?"
Elena shrugs, insisting, "It's nothing. I'd tell you if it was."
"Just seems kind of weird that you two start hanging out, I don't see you anymore...she breaks up with Stefan," Ric points out all the reasons it looks like Damon and Elena are sneaking around together, "And now you're going on a double date with her and Klaus. It's not really like you."
"I don't know what to say," Elena shakes her head.
"What happened with Rebekah?"
Elena thinks up something Damon might say, and shrugs, "I was bored of her."
"Thank God," Klaus says dramatically as he comes back in the room with a beer in his hand, "I was getting so sick of her hanging around."
"Not me," Ric pumps his eyebrows up and down as he smiles suggestively.
"You can have her," Elena says with a roll of Damon's blue eyes.
"All right, what should we play next?" Ric directs them back to the task at hand: band practice.
"Blood Brothers," Elena says, before they can suggest a song she doesn't know. She's really only comfortable playing these two. She hasn't practiced any others, and she doesn't know if she can count on Damon's finger picking up the song right away. She's still not sure how that works, so she doesn't want to push her luck.
Klaus and Ric are all right with the song selection, so they begin to play. Elena likes this song. She likes Miss Mystic Falls too, but she feels like the guys wrote it making fun of girls like her so it's not her favorite. It has a catchy beat, and some cool guitar riffs. The words are fun to sing, but not so fun when you are a girl and it's kind of an anti-girl song. Whatever though. Boys will be boys.
Damon tries to stay away from Elena's diary; he really does, because he knows she'll be mad to learn he invaded her privacy. He wouldn't want to look, would never have known it was there, if Elena hadn't said something about it, though. And if he wasn't so damn bored...
So Damon is very bad. He opens the diary.
The first few pages are 15-year-old Elena, re-capping her entire 15th birthday party, which is where she received this diary; from her Aunt, Jenna. Damon skims through Elena's relatively normal, boring summer, and then skips ahead to the start of Sophomore Year. He sees something about himself straight away:
Well, the Salvatores were gone for the summer, but now they're back, and that means Damon too. I wish they'd left him behind in whatever country it is they visited this year. I almost thought I finally had a Damon-free schedule, but nope, that'd be asking too much. We have P.E. together after lunch:( And today, he announced to everyone that my boobs have finally started growing 'into something more than just nips', as he put it. I hate him.
Ouch. Damon doesn't remember saying that, but he believes the words written in bubbly, girly hand-writing. He was an asshole. Who is he kidding? He is an asshole, especially to Elena. Being sort of nice with her for less than a whole week doesn't make him no longer an asshole.
He reads on until he gets to an interesting passage from the beginning of October, one month into the school year...
Dear Diary-
Today might have been the best day of Sophomore Year yet. Matt Donovan asked me to the Homecoming Dance! It was right after lunch and before P.E. (perfect timing, if you ask me) He was so cute! His face turned all red, even his ears, when he asked me, and I...I couldn't say no. He's cute and funny and cool. And he's not like all the other boys who act like a girl should feel special just for being asked out. That's really why I said yes. He was nervous, so that means he felt he had something to lose asking. That's sweet. So I said yes, and he smiled so big. It was so adorbs! He has the dreamiest blue eyes...
I can't wait for Homecoming!
Hmm...so that's where Matt came into the picture. Damon wonders if that's when Elena lost her virginity, but he's interrupted by his, well Elena's, phone. It's Caroline.
"Hey Care," Damon greets, "How was the game?"
"We did great," Caroline replies happily, "Team lost the game though."
Ha ha. Stefan lost. Damon has to take a moment to laugh about that.
"So, I'm on my way over your house," Caroline announces, "I just grabbed my stuff so I can change and get ready there."
Damon thinks it's a little rude she didn't even ask, but he assumes that's normal Caroline Forbes behavior. "Sure...come on over. I'm in my room."
"K, see you in five!"
Crap. Now Damon really feels guilty for reading the diary. He feels down-right caught; almost like Elena just walked in on him reading it, but she hasn't. And he hasn't even gotten to the good part yet! He wants to know about Elena and Matt's relationship. What did he do to her? Why did he leave? Why did he break Elena's heart? He slams the diary shut and puts in back in the drawer where he found it.
Now he'll have to find out the old-fashioned way...ask her about it.
"Can I come to your place to get ready?" Klaus asks before stating, "I need to shower. I was going to ask you to mine, but...Rebekah will probably be there, and I figured it'd be best to avoid her. She's still pretty pissed that you dumped her."
"Yeah, good idea," Elena agrees with a sideways smile. "Look! Flower cart!" She points at the flower stand this man in a white van always sets up at random street corners. He moves around every couple of weeks. It is totally by coincidence that it happens to be right near Alaric's on a day they need flowers.
"Nice, dude!" Klaus pulls over next to the flower stand and purchases one red rose for Caroline. He asks 'Damon' if he wants to buy one for 'Elena', but the raven-haired teen declines. After getting back in the car, Klaus makes the assumption, "You already fuck her then?" Based simply off the fact that Damon doesn't want to buy Elena a flower.
"Oh my God, Klaus," Elena laughs at his blunt question. "No! Jeez, you don't believe me? She just broke up with Stefan at the beginning of the week; I'm not rushing anything."
"So then you do like her?" Klaus says with a sly smile. He got Damon to slip, or so he thinks.
Walked right into that one...Elena thinks. Well, who cares if Klaus thinks Damon likes Elena? It's just Klaus. He's infatuated with Caroline. It's not like he's going to judge. "I don't know, maybe."
Klaus laughs, "I knew it. Why were you being such a sneaky bastard about it?"
Elena shrugs, "Because, like I said, she just broke up with Stefan. I don't know how I feel about her. I'm just taking it slow. Who says she even likes me?" What she means to say is, does Damon even like her? Because she thinks she might like him...Again, hard to decipher true feelings while under a witch's spell, so she truly doesn't know how to think about all this.
"Why was it so fucking hard for you to admit that?" Klaus reminds, "You know we've been best mates for four years. I think I know you by now. Elena's like gotten in your head, dude." You have no idea how right you are, Klaus, my man. "But I'm not saying it's bad."
"It's not?" Elena notes, "It'll never work with hi-er, her. Stefan wouldn't let it happen anyways."
"Since when has Stefan stopped you before?" Klaus asks without thinking. "Well, except for that one time, but that was four years ago now. If you really like Elena, Katherine shouldn't matter anymore. If it does, maybe this is still about revenge, and you've been doing it so long you've got your head all fucked up."
That might actually explain Damon's feelings, if it were Damon sitting beside Klaus. But it's Elena, talking to Klaus about her feelings for Damon. And she doesn't have a Stefan/Katherine revenge-seeking vendetta. Elena shakes her head, mumbling, "Maybe you're right."
"Who gives a fuck if I'm right?" Klaus asks after noticing Damon's unhappy expression. "We're going out tonight, right? So just worry about tonight. We're gonna just party and..." He turns up the radio and starts singing along, "Bullshit! And party, and bullshit! And party, and bullshit! And party, and party..."
Elena has to laugh at Klaus' sing-along to Rita Ora's song, and maybe he's right. Fuck the problems for right now. Tonight is more about Klaus and Caroline. She and Damon are there to make sure their night is fun and special and memorable. It doesn't matter how she feels for him when she's stuck in his body and he's in hers; they've already established that. She is just going to take this night for what it is, and that is a night out! It'll only be fun if she lets it be fun. I guess I deserve to have a little fun...
Please Review! TGIF Part 2 will be posted most likely tomorrow, if not, then Friday:) Suggestions for the date are more than welcome; leave your idea in a review or PM me:) I watched this movie on Netflix the other night called Triple Dog and they played some crazy dare game, it was good...I was thinking maybe Caroline suggests they do something like that. What do you guys think? If you like it, give me some ideas for dares(: If you don't like that idea, let me know what you think Caroline would like to do...
-BecomingScarlett