A/N- Hey, sorry for the wait, I still can only do this on my phone so it's just more difficult. But anyway, thanks for the review YAZMIN V! Hope you guys enjoy the story, I'll try to update sooner. Thanks for reading :)
Damon's View
"She won't give up on it, you know she won't," Alaric says from the other side if the room.
"Well she will until next year."
"Do you really believe that?" He asks getting another drink.
I look at him, "nope. But as long as everyone distracts her she will soon forget."
"In your dreams buddy." He smirks before taking a drink.
"Got a new buddy now have you? Here I was thinking I couldn't be replaced." A Familiar voice says, but with a new accent.
"Enzo?"
Elena's View
"Caroline, you're obsessed with him," Bonnie says sitting on Caroline's bed along side me.
"I am not." I share a glance with Bonnie, we shake our heads. "Now which one do you think Klaus will prefer? The tight jeans or the short and flowy dress?" I shake my head yet again.
"Why is it you fall for like every guy but I can't find one that I like?" I say laying down, while sighing.
"Yeah, you just don't like anyone do you Elena." I can see Caroline rolling her eyes.
"What's that meant to mean?"
"Oh come on it's so obvious you and Damon have a thing. You just won't admit it yet." Bonnie puts in.
"Excuse me? You mean Damon Salvatore? The guy I argue with practically every day?"
"And flirt with everyday. Face it Elena you notice everything about him. You know him better than even Stefan does, he looks out for you all the time." Caroline says. "Now before we deal with that issue, I am meeting up with Klaus and have to get changed. So if you wouldn't mind..." She pointed toward the door.
"Have fun with Klaus," I say as I leave the room confused. How can anyone think there is ever anything between Damon and I? I mean he won't even tell me why he stays in him room for a week every year!
Damon's View
I stare at him, looking him up and down. It's impossible.
I sense Alaric looking at me before he speaks, "so you're the famous Enzo? I've heard about you."
"Well I'm flattered. Glad to see he still remembers me, even if he won't speak a word."
"Enzo, what are you-how are you here?" I finally manage to say.
"I'll leave you to it. See you in class Damon. Bye Enzo." Alaric says before going towards the door.
"You'll be seeing me in class too. I'm a new student." With that Alaric leaves.
"I need a drink." I say walking over to get one.
"Drinking before noon? Haven't seen each other for years and yet we've develop the same habits it seems," I give a half smile to him and hand him a glass.
"So how did you end up back in this sorry town?" I say as we sit.
"Well I managed to get out of that home," I give him a confused look.
"But you aren't 21."
"I caused such a hassle they thought it was easier to let me come home, as long as I am with family of course..."
"But your family-"
"You're the next best thing. They agreed to so here I am." He raises his glass and then takes a sip. "Would have been here a week sooner, but you know tradition."
"You still keep to it?"
"Don't you?"
I give him a smirk. "I have a present for you."
"And I you. Even after all these years you still brought one."
"I hoped you would come back."
"And I have so let's swap. Ready?" He says holding it be hind his back.
"One."
"Two."
"Swap!"
As soon as we take each others gift we start to laugh. "Bourbon!"
I hear the door open and close as we sit back down and continue to laugh.
"Damon I'm back!" Stefan's voice shouts from the hallway. "Everyone is coming over in about an hour," he says walking into the room then stoping. He looks between Enzo and I, "sorry do I know you?" He asks Enzo, I smile as does he.
"I'd be surprised if you remembered me. After all I left when you were four." He says standing again.
Stefan looks him up and down. "Enzo!"
"Stefan!"
"What you doing back? Why'd you leave in the first place? Damon refused to tell me."
Enzo looks to me, I shake my head. "Never mind why I left, important thing is, I'm back and I'm you're brother."
Stefan's smile turns into a confused expression. "Brother?"
"Long story. So what's this about people coming over?"
"Just a couple of friends."
"At least now I'll have another drinking buddy who will suffer through with me." I say getting another drink.
"They can't be that bad. I'm sure I can make some fun out of it." I smile, oh how I have missed this guy.
Later
"Okay, so we have Caroline, aka blondie number one. We have blondie two, also known as Rebeckah, also new. Her two brothers, Elijah and Klaus. Klaus and Caroline kinda have a thing going-"
"Something I can stir up, great." He says, I smirk at him.
"Then we have Tyler, Matt, Bonnie." As I finish pointing to the people Elena walks through the door at the other end of the room.
"Who is that?" He says pointing at her and raising his eyebrows.
"You don't remember her? That's Elena Gilbert."
"Well age has been good to her." He rubs his hands and starts to walk over to her, before he can I put my hand in front of his chest, blocking him. He looks at my hand and back to me. "She yours or something?"
I laugh slightly, "no she's single but I'm not letting you hurt her."
"I won't."
"Stay away from her."
"Oo protective Damon, just a friend eh?" He raises his eye brows, "okay I won't try anything." I nod.
"Got yourself a new friend Damon?" Elena says walking over to us.
"I wouldn't exactly call me new love," Enzo says.
"I'm Elena, you are..."
"Enzo."
"Sounds familiar."
I shake my head, "that's because you know him."
"Now now Damon, she was only four at the time."
"Wait...Enzo..." She thinks for a minute, "Enzo as in put gum in my hair and paint it, while I was asleep?"
I almost spit out my drink, I forgot about that. Enzo grins and shrugs, "glad to know I was remembered." I smile, I can't believe he's back. "Now I'm off to mingle," he starts to walk away then turns and winks at me, I shake my head.
"So he was like your only ever friend right?" Elena says moving to stand next to me as I keep an eye on Enzo.
"Wouldn't you consider yourself a friend of mine?" I ask winking.
"Why did he leave?"
I face her, sighing I say, "it doesn't matter, all that matters is he's back." And with that I walk off.
Enzo's View
Friend, sure. Damon protective over a person? Defiantly not 'just a friend.'
But I can play around with that tomorrow. First, let's meet Caroline and check out my competition with Klaus.
"Hey I'm Enzo, great to meet you," I say with my most charming smile to the beautiful blonde in front of me, "You're Caroline right?"
"How'd you know?" She says with a smile.
"Damon gave me everyone's name. He said 'the beautiful blonde is Caroline.'"
"I believe you'll find I'm the beautiful blonde. Not her, my names Rebekah."
"He also mentioned you, you're very beautiful too." I turned my attention to the guy next to Caroline. "You must be Klaus?"
He puts his hand out, I shake it, "yep, my siblings and I are new too, I'm guessing Damon already told you that?"
"He mentioned it, I only just got back so the majority of our conversation was 'remember when.'" I say with a smile.
"Got back? So you use to live here?" Another guy asks joining us. "Sorry, I'm Elijah," we shake hands.
"As a matter of fact I did. Only for a few years, then I had to leave."
"Leave? Why?" Caroline says as we sit down.
"Never you mind Blondie," Damon says as everyone else joins us. "Let's not have group bonding time over the past. There isn't enough bourbon in the world."
"So you and Damon use to be good friends?" Elena says sitting down by Damon.
"Still are."
"So you would know why he stays in his room for the same week every year?"
I look to Damon, he hasn't told them, fair enough, I'm surprised he hasn't told Elena though. I'm going to have so much fun here. "As a matter of fact I do," her eyes lit up, she leans forward. Damon rolls his eyes and puts his hand on Elena's stomach and pushed her back, not in a harsh way, more gentle, caring. She looks at him, before sighing. "However, it's up to him who he tells."
She sighs again, then gives Damon the puppy dog eyes, causing us all to laugh a bit.
"You can't refuse my puppy dog eyes, can you Damon?" She says to him.
"Because that's not flirting," Caroline whispers to me causing me to smirk.
"Keep dreaming Elena." He turns away from her, she sighs and slouches further into her chair.
"Why won't you tell me?" She asks him, pouting even though he isn't looking at her.
"Because, a, it's none of your business, and b, I don't want you knowing every little thing about me."
"They always like this?" I whisper to Caroline, she laughs slightly.
"Every single day."
"Sexual tension much?" This time Elijah and Klaus hear to and try to hide their laugh. Damon raises his eye brows at me, I shrug, playing innocent, though he knows me better than that.
"I don't know much about you."
"Really Elena," Bonnie says, "what's his favourite colour."
"Black," she says immediately, we all stare at her, bare Damon who shrugs, "come on that isn't hard, he's always wearing it."
"Well, she has a point," Stefan says.
"Let's not quiz the happy couple-" everyone looks at me laughing slightly, apart from Damon who is sending me daggers and Elena who is doing the death glare, "oh sorry, not couple, friends, on each other." I smirk to Damon who simply rolls his eyes, this will be fun.
But the mission at hand, what I have to beat; Klaus.
"So, Klaus, what type of stuff you into?"
"Art, drawing, painting."
"Oh not what I'd expect from a guy like you."
"Well, Klaus is very surprising." Caroline says looking to Klaus with a surprise."
"Yes, well we can all be surprising can't we?" I say, I notice Damon smiling slightly at he takes a sip from his drink, Elena gives him a questioning look, then I looks to me, I give her a smile.
There's a knock at the door, everyone looks around each other, as if making sure every one was here. "Right, well I'll go get that." Damon says placing his drink down and going to answer the door.
"I thought everyone just walked straight in here," I say and everyone nods.
Damon's View
"Oh, hey, sorry but I'm new," the girl says from my door.
"We're just stacking up on the newbies this year aren't we?"
"Right-"
"Damon where is your- Hayley?"
"Elijah?"
I look between the two, god everyone is just falling for each other these days.
"Damon can she come in?" He says still looking at her, I roll my eyes.
"Damon? As in Damon Salvatore?" I give her a forces smile. She smiles back, "I've heard about you."
"All good things I hope?" I say with a smirk, "come in Hayley, I'm sure Elijah will be happy to introduce you to everyone?"
"Of course, right this way," as they walk side by side Elijah turns around and gives me a mouthed 'thank you.' I smile back.
Everyone is like love birds. It makes me sick.
Enzo's View
"So we're all pretending that Damon doesn't like Elena?" I say to Caroline as everyone goes into separate conversations.
"Pretty much, they'll get there in the end."
"I'm going to have fun with them in the mean time."
She looks at me, as if trying to figure out if I'm joking or not. "Look, I've known you for about an hour, so I can't tell you what you should and shouldn't do, but I can give you some advice." I raise my eye brows at her. "No one gets any where near Damon and Elena's relationship. They have a, uh, different type of dynamic to everyone else. It's like their emotions are heightened around each other, like they consume each other. Beautiful to watch, sometimes, but to get in the middle of it, to try and push things, it's a death wish."
I give her a smile, "you're very beautiful and clever Caroline," she smiles. "But when it comes to Damon I'm the expert in that department. He needs a little push sometimes."
"Maybe you use to be an expert, and maybe you'd like to think nothing has changed, that he hasn't changed. But when you left, he had never been in love. And even if he doesn't admit it, or doesn't even know yet, it's obvious he is now, you noticed it as soon as you saw them together. He doesn't need to be pushed anymore, he has to figure it out on his own." She says with a helpful smile, I smile back, but I hate being told what I should and shouldn't do.
"Everyone, I'd like you to meet Hayley, she's new too." Elijah says walking back in with a girl and followed shortly by Damon, who simply retakes his place next to Elena.
"What is this? Year of the newbies?" Tyler says, I couldn't help it, I laughed a little, he has a point there are five new people now, that is a lot.
"Hayley, this is my brother Klaus, and sister Rebekah, Stefan, Caroline, Enzo, Tyler, Elena, Damon, Bonnie and Matt." He says pointing around the room.
"Hey," she says before she and Elijah sit down together.
"Why is everyone moving here? Why mystic falls?" He swings his arm around the chair, just happens to be where Elena is sitting.
"It's more special than you realise," Klaus says looking into Caroline's eyes, I though I was going to gag.
"That was a cheesy line, and that's coming from me," Matt says causing us all to laugh and Caroline and Klaus to blush.
"Oh shut up Matt, I thought it was sweet," Caroline says, both her and Klaus start to lean in.
"Get a room!" I say causing them to jump apart.
Later
Hayley's View
"So you're the girl my brother has been constantly thinking about." A blonde says coming over to me.
"Uh you're Rebekah right?" I ask, remembering people's names? Not my specialty. She nods. "Well considering I only met Klaus tonight, I'm presuming you mean Elijah?"
"Correct."
"Well I don't know."
"It's clearly you. Elijah is never so rude as to invite a person into a home that is not his."
"Well, Damon did let him."
She rolls her eyes. "Look, you and Elijah clearly like each other, I'm not going to get in the way of that, nor is Klaus. But hurt him, use him, or manipulate him in anyway, and you'll regret it."
"Is that a threat?" I ask standing up too.
"Not a threat, it was a friendly piece of advice."
"Well you should know I tend not to listen to what people tell me."
"Maybe you should start."
"I'm not changing to please you blondie."
"Hate to interrupt your little argument here but, WILL EVERYONE STOP USING MY NICKNAME?!" Damon shouts the last bits, causing Rebekah to look at him, before turning back to each other, then walking away.
Damon's View
Dropping Elena home
"It's going to blow up between Rebekah and Hayley isn't it?" She says as we pull up to her house.
"Probably," I say.
"Damon, why won't you tell me? You should tell someone at least, and I'm not the worst person around."
"Well aren't we building quite a little ego for ourselves?" I say, I turn to her and see concern and interest mixed into one. "Okay, I will say it has to do with Enzo's parents. But that is all I'm willing to tell you."
"Enzo's parents? But how do they relate to anything?" She asks.
"I said that's all I'm telling you, and I meant it."
"Okay, well thanks for the lift Damon." She gets out the car, just before she walks away I roll down the car windows.
"Elena," I say, she turns around. "You are by far not the worst person around." She smiles at me before waving and walking into her house.