Chapter 15

The next day dawned with a bright sun.

"Wanna go into town today? If I stay here any longer I'll screetch"

Damon asked. With his slept in pj bottoms, bed hair, bleary eyes and the blue toothbrsu poking forom his muoth, he was utterly adorable.

"Sure"

Bella was still tangled in the sofa bedding. They had agreed to take it one day at a time and so she hadn't gone back to bed with him. If Damon was hurt, he made a good show of concealing it.

When the producers sent a black SUV to take them to town two hours later. Damon's mouth fell open. Bella was clad in a mini skirt of bright yellow, lime and orange, thick diagonal lines and a black halter top that was simultaneously tight and loose in all the right places.

"Something wrong?"

Bella asked him with hints of a smirk playing on her lips. Damon snapped his mouth shut

"Nothing. Now that you're finally ready, can we go?"

He said with shadow of his usual snark but with his blue eyes dancing. Bella rolled her dark ones and moved to the front door.

"Are you coming then?"

With his smirk planted in place Damon walked past her and to the car. The twenty minutes ride was silent but with the kind of friendly and nice silence.

It was broken only when the driver told them how their mic's would work and that neither should/could be far away from their assigned camera man. Damon rolled his eyes and took Bella's hand.

They arrived at Mystic Falls a little after noon and SUV let them out at the park right across the street from a place called Mystic Bar & Grill.

"What now?"

Bella asked Damon who towered over her. Still holding her hand Damon motioned to the establishment

"This is the one and only place to go to, in this town"

Bella chuckled and nodded. Pushing her sunglasses to rest on the top of her head she replied

"When in Rome..."

They were crossing the road when suddenly Damon wrapped an arm around Bella and lifting her on air swap places with her. When he put her back down he had one hand in the air. The hand had a faded red football in it. Bella gasped

"Do I want to know what that got here? On frickin' camera?"

Bella whispered in Damon's ear. he scrunched his eyebrows and pointed to his brother on the other side of the small park

"Wanna play Damon? The 4 legged ones are kicking our butts"

Bella looked at 'the four legged' and rolled her eyes

"I should have known"

Stefan was wearing a shirt and was standing next to a blond bombshell. Near them were no others than Jake, Seth and Embry. The 4 legged ones. Did that make the blond bombshell also a vampire?

"I'm in"

Damon put Bella down and pecked her lips before running to his brother and the rest of the supernatural beasts in town. Bella blinked and walked after him and to the bench were Elena was sitting along with a cute blond and another girl with curls

"Hey"

"Here to cheer?"

Elena asked after giving Bella a hug. Bella snorted

"I don't cheer"

"And yet all the guys I want go after her"

A voice reached them. It would be nasal had its owner not been laughing with the blond girl

"Jess?"

Bella laughed hugging the curly haired girl.

"What are you doing here?"

"I have the weekend off and wanted to visit but the producers said 'no' after the jake fiasco"

Jessica said sitting on the bench.

"I'm Caroline. And I know the feeling, all the guys I want go after her"

The cute, preppy blond said with annoyance lacing her voice as she jerked her head towards Elena who gasped but didn't reply. Bella bit her lip as she noticed Caroline and Jessica conferring to who's the hottest of the players. She blushed catching Ebry's knowing smirk. Next to her Elena had the same blushy, knowing smile. the two girls exchanged a laugh.

"Who's the husky one?"

Caroline asked.

"Which husky one?"

Bella retorted.

"The one with the ball"

carline pointed to Seth. Bella had a side smile

"He's Seth. You're good as long as his sister likes you but she doesn't really like anyone"

Caroline turned to Elena, her blond curls bouncing

"Do you like him 'Lena?"

"No"

Replied the brunette girl confused. Caroline smiled a big sunny smile

"I'll try my chances then"

"That's hurtful Care"

Elena said while smiling. it seemed to be a conversation the two had had before because Caroline shrugged

"Yet truthful"

Closing her eyes Bella rested her forehead at Jessica's shoulder, her body shaking with quiet laughter.

To Damon's surprise, the Team-Vamp lost. The 'three dogs' as he insisted on calling them, had whopped their collective asses while being ogled by the girls. He blamed Lexi for that, which refused to try and use her low cut top to help them win. When he told her that she flipped him the bird and made plans with Stefan to hit the movies that night.

The ever party-happy vampire chuckled and went to the girls. Elena and the girl who wanted to be on the show with him were talking while Elena's two sidekicks were flirting shamelessly with the dogs while head-dog was talking with Bella hugging her and she was smiling at him.

Would she be mad if Damon ripped his arms? Especially the right one that was currently pushing a stray curl behind Bella's ear. The frizzy haired chick grabbed his fist

"They've always been this close but there's nothing sexual or emotional in it. They're like siblings. Don't let it ruin your chances"

Jessica told him quietly. Damon contemplated snapping her neck but he had a distinct feeling that it would be a bad idea, so he gave her a tight smile and pulled his hand free.

Suddenly he didn't feel like coming to town was a good idea. He had to share her and sharing was one thing Damon did not do.

Putting his black shirt back on, he left it open and marched to them. He could feel smoke coming out of his ears

"Sorry you lost man, maybe another time"

The dog told him with a knowing smirk.

"Strange, I don't think I lost"

Damon gave him a smirk and stood close to Bella who rolled her eyes at the macho show.

"Jake, cool it. Damon, behave or we're going home, right now"

She scolded them both. Of course it didn't work on either man as Jake was too used to it and Damon had perked up by one word.

Home.