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"Miss Gilbert it would be a little less annoying, if you would stare at something that is NOT me."
Elena blinked, a thing she did when she was confused and that wasn't unusual around Damon. "But Damon, I like staring at you and you know that," Elena said sadly. It broke her heart every time he behaved that way, and that was almost every time they interacted. That man was so insensitive that most of the times she believed that he wasn't even a human, and it was hurtful.
"Yes I know that. But I also know, that you know, that I think, that you're extremely annoying, childish and immature." Damon's tone was clipped and the glare he sent towards Elena didn't help her either. She quickly looked away to hide the hurt in her eyes. It were times like these when Elena wanted to do nothing more but run away from him, the times when he shattered her heart into a million pieces.
Elena blinked back a few tears and glanced at him. "I'm sorry for annoying you Damon and I hope that you're not angry with me," she said with so much innocence that it could have melted anything, anything but Damon.
He was staring out the window again, then he turned towards her with stone cold eyes. "I hope the apology sinks in this time." He eyed her a minute longer after that he switched back to his previous position, muttering something about stupid kids. 'Kids', now that caught Elena's attention.
"Damon I'm not a kid, I'm a girl, a young woman to be precise." She frowned.
Even without sparing a glance the man responded, "You're seventeen, Miss Gilbert, therefore a kid".
She huffed but replied, "Well whatever it is, I'm not much younger than you!"
"Oh you are very young." He did not like where this was going.
"What? I'm only like four years younger than you."
"Four and a half to be precise and five if you round it off."
"We are not rounding anything off! And besides it seems so cute that way," Elena giggled. Damon stared at her as if she had grown a second head; she simply smiled and continued her rant, "See, a guy should be older, stronger and authoritative; whereas the girl should be naive, fragile and dependent for a relationship to be romantic-"
Damon just couldn't take it anymore, "Quit ranting Miss Gilbert and try to focus on your day ahead at school."
"Sure as long as you'll be there." She smiled and batted her eyelashes at him.
Agrowl could be heard as he rolled his eyes. "Oh you know I'll be there, unfortunately."
After several rants and about a hundred eye rolls later, they reached Mystic falls High; your typical high school where life followed all stereotypes. Damon and Elena got out of the car and it drove away.
Damon's usual job at the school was to stand guard outside Elena's classes with a gun at the ready. Yes a gun, that was currently hidden underneath his suit along with God knows what? It was a mystery how he hid so much ammunition under his perfectly fitted suit without making them apparent. Perhaps it was another attribute he acquired somewhere along the way.
As they started walking towards the school building, Elena gave Damon a sweet smile, grabbed his arm and started searching for her friends with her eyes. Damon didn't try to extract his arm because he knew it would be futile. Believe it he had gone through this a thousand times, he would pull his arm out of her grip and she would grab it again and this would usually go on till they reached their designated destination.
They entered the corridors and that was when they encountered Damon's worst nightmares, namely Caroline Forbes and Bonnie Bennett. They were harmless of course, being teenage girls and all but for Damon Salvatore they were a set of sissy nuisances. As if on her own Elena wasn't enough already, nature had to add two of her best friends to the equation. Wherever Elena went, he went, they went, he had to endure them every time they were together, and God that was frustrating!
Damon observed Elena greeting her 'besties' as she referred to them, and they started chatting hurriedly. He found it really surprising, how women could talk so much in short spans. A high pitched voice brought Damon back from his dazed state.
"Hello Damon!" Caroline screamed and winked at him.
Ah Caroline Forbes another one of the many from Elena's school who had a crush on 'The Hot Bodyguard', seriously, now that was getting weird and old, Damon thought. To him Caroline was yet another average teen, annoying to the extent of madness, but bearable on his good days of endurance and not to mention that the girl had a good heart.
Whereas her other counterpart who was currently scrutinizing him with her judgy little eyes like usual, was a complete nuisance. In Damon's eyes Bonnie Bennett had some serious trust issues, and also the habit of sticking her nose where it didn't belong. She looked at him as if she was aware of all his ill intentions and his deeply hidden dark secrets; that actually didn't exist. It was funny really they were only a fragment of the Bennett girl's far-fetched imagination. Often he had overheard her telling Elena things like, "You might need protection even from him because I don't trust him…" or better yet, "he might be conspiring to kidnap you one day and ask for ransom …" and he won't even go to what she thought about Elena's infatuation with him, even there he was the bad guy. Whatever she said it sounded like a load of rubbish to him. He knew for a fact that he would give his life but never betray his employer, Mr. Gilbert trusted him with his most precious treasure, and he would never break that trust. His loyalty and sincerity were his pride and his pride ruled his life.
Coming out of his thoughts again, he did what he usually did, pretended that Miss Bennett wasn't even present. He inclined his head slightly towards Caroline and greeted her, "Good morning Miss Forbes," Then he turned towards Elena checked his watch, "Your class starts in five minutes, I believe we should proceed towards it now."
To be continued
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