A/N- Hey, sorry for the long, long, long wait. But I HAVE A LAPTOP NOW! So that means more frequent updates now that I don't have to type it all up on my phone.
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Enzo's View
Staring into the fire I hear the front door close, I jump up and run to it. "Damon! There you are! Where have you been?" Damon stares at me confused.
"I was at Elenas," he says as we walk into the living room. "Jenna wanted me to cook for her and Jer tonight because she was going out."
"I thought you hated her right now, she brought something you told her in privet into an argument. She broke your trust." I sit down, he sits opposite me.
"And I forgive her, so what?"
"You forgave her? Just like that?" I raise my eyebrow.
"Yes…"
"Do you remember Kelly?"
"From kindergarten? Yeah."
"Remember how you trusted her that you liked Fran. She told everyone. And to this day you have never talked to her."
"What's your point Enzo?"
"My point is, that was something small, this wasn't. And I know it hurts you that it was her."
"Why would it hurt more because it's her?"
"Are you still going to pretend you don't love her?"
"How many times do I have to tell you, she is just a friend."
"You can say it as much as you like, but you'll never mean it Damon. Whether you like it or not you love her man, I know you. I know you don't want to admit it because you're scared of getting hurt, and I understand that, I do. I can't guarantee you won't get hurt. But I can guarantee the risk will be worth it." I nod to him and leave the room to go to bed.
The Next day
Elena's view
I pick up my phone and look at the text from Damon.
See you in 40 –Damon
Good, forty minutes, gives me time to call Bonnie.
"Hey," She says answering.
"Hey!"
"You seem in a good mood. I thought you would still be upset about Damon."
"He forgave me!" I can't stop the smile from forming on my face.
"Wow…really?"
"Yeah!"
"Well that's great! I'm surprised…"
"You're surprised?"
"Well yeah. I mean, you did bring something he only told you into a fight, that's the no go zone for you guys."
"But he forgave me."
"I know, and in happy for you, I'm just surprised is all."
"Well you shouldn't be. We always fight."
"I know you do. I'm just surprised that he forgave you so quickly, you went too far."
"Good way to ruin my good mood Bonnie."
"I didn't mean to do that Elena. I just-"
"It's none of your business." I hung up on her, and got changed. My good mood now ruined.
I know what I did in the fight with Damon was wrong, I know that, I do. But I don't need to be constantly reminded of it. Damon forgave me, so everyone else should get over it too.
As I pick up my bag, there's a car horn outside.
Damon's View
"Hey." Elena says as she jumps into the car. She's in a bad mood, no nickname for me, no calling me grumpy, she addressed us both together. And she hasn't made some comment about me looking at her through the mirror, which she would normally make a joke about. I look to Enzo and shake my head, telling him no jokes today. He nods and I drive us to school.
When I park Enzo jumps out of the car and walks to the rest of the group. Elena takes her time, then leans against the car, I stand next to her.
"So are you going to explain to me why you're little Miss Grumpy this morning."
"I'm not grumpy."
"And I'm not amazingly handsome." I smirk, I see a small smile sneak onto her face but she stops it. "What? No come back? Come on Elena, what's wrong?"
She sighs, "it's Bonnie. On the phone she said how she's surprised you forgave me because I went too far."
I look ahead of us. "Well she's right, you went to far, but you know that, and I forgave you about it. It doesn't matter what they think Elena. It only matters what we think. She isn't you, she isn't me, so why does her opinion matter?"
"I know, but, it's just, I still feel really bad about it and I don't like being reminded of it all the time."
"I know, but just ignore her okay."
"Yeah, you're right." She said with a small smile.
"About me being handsome? Yeah I know I am," I smirk, she laughs and playfully pushes me.
"Oh shut up," she laughs. I've succeeded, she smiled, woo.
"Come on grumpy," I sling an arm over her shoulder as she laughs and we walk to everyone else.
"Elena I-" Bonnie starts as soon as we reach them.
"Bonnie, don't, I don't want to know." Elena says before turning her attention to the others. "Hey guys. Enzo you rushed over here quickly, were you in a rush to see someone in particular?" Elena says in a knowing voice.
Enzo looks to me as if asking if he could make any of his 'funny' comments, I shake my head, one wrong comment and Elena might lose it again. "Well I was just dying to see this pretty blondes face again." He turns to Caroline and she blushes slightly.
"Yes, well she is very beautiful." Klaus says walking over to us and standing on the other side of Caroline. Her blush deepens.
"Now, now Klaus, lets not throw that word around. I'm the only beautiful one here," Rebekah stands by Enzo, and shoots Caroline a glare.
"Well I think all of you young women are beautiful," Elijah says with a smile. He addressed it to all of them but looks to Hayley after. Could he be more obvious? All the girls blush and go into a chorus or 'awhs'.
All of us guys look to Elijah and he shrugs. With one comment he manages to get every girl in the group to blush. Maybe I should take some tips from him, not that I need them for any particular reason. "Well no one can deny my brother is smooth." Klaus says with a small laugh.
"Come on, get to class, you'll be late." Rick says joining us.
"Well surely if you aren't there yet, then you won't know if we're late," I smirk playfully.
"And if we get there at the same time?"
"Then you can't say we're late without admitting you're late," I laugh.
"Clever, come on lets go." He says, we follow after him, laughing slightly.
At Lunch
Elena and I sit waiting for everyone else as she tries to take some of my brownie.
"Elena, we haven't argued, therefore you can't eat my food." I say eating a mouthful of it.
"But Damon, please!" She begs.
"Well since you were all upset this morning, and to keep you happy, you can have some."
She breaks off a bit. "Damon I love you!" she says with a smile, before putting some into her mouth. I smile at her and her slight blush, then I realise the others have joined us.
"Earth to the happy couple, are we interrupting something? I think I heard an 'I love you'." Enzo says as they sit.
I roll my eyes, "first of all, we aren't a couple. Second of all, no."
"And finally, I said 'I love you' to him because he gave me some brownie." Elena finishes.
"Well if all it takes to get a girl to love you is giving her some brownie…" he picks up his brownie. "Here Caroline have some brownie." We all laugh as she blushes, and accepts it. "Well, anything you have to say?" he asks as she finishes it.
"Mhmm," she nods, "I love…" he smirks looking at her, "this brownie." We all laugh, including Enzo, putting everyone in a lovely, happy, mood.
But of course Bonnie couldn't keep her mouth shut.
"Elena, can I talk to you please?"
"Bonnie, I don't want to hear it. You can think what you like, you can all think what you like, but Damon forgave me, so you should get over it. Mine and Damon's relationship is none of your business!" Elena says, by the look in Bonnies eyes she isn't willing to just let it go. Girls. I rest my hand on Elena's back, in hope that'll keep her calm-or clamer.
"That's my point! You aren't in a relationship! You act like you are but you aren't! You argue all the time, eat each other's food, and all is forgiven. You crossed the line and yet he forgave you straight away. I don't agree with that. I think he has every right to be mad at you still, but I'll be mad for him instead."
Elena goes to reply but I place my arm around her waist, and it stops her.
"Bonnie, learn to keep your opinions to yourself!" I say, my arm still around Elena. "Yes, we aren't in a relationship, yes we argue then eat each other's food and forget about it, and yes she crossed the line." I continue, "But I forgave her! She was sorry, she didn't mean to, and I wouldn't want to lose her over some stupid fight! As for you not agreeing with me forgiving her and being angry at her 'for me,' it has nothing to do with you so you have no right to be angry, and since you aren't me you have no right to disagree with me over who I do, and don't forgive." She slouches into her seat. "So, let's all stay out of each other's business and we'll get along fine." I remove my arm from Elena, and she grabs my hand and stands up, our hands still interlocked.
"We're going. Don't want to be around someone who thinks we shouldn't be friends." She pulls my hand up, so I stand up with her, and we walk off. I know she's upset and doesn't mean anything she's saying, but it's better for me to stay by her side and wait for her to break down, then be there for her, than it is for me to let her go by herself.
The second we are right by my car, still holding hands, she starts to cry to I bring her into a hug. "Shh, it's okay, come on Elena, don't cry, shh." I say as she sobs into my chest. I lift her head up and wipe her tears, "come on, don't cry, she isn't worth it."
"B-but s-sh-she i-is ri-right!" She continues to cry as she pushes herself against me again, her head on my chest again.
"No she isn't. I forgive you Elena that's all that matters." She nods. "Come on now, you're too beautiful to keep crying," I say wiping away her tears, she blushes.
"You think I'm beautiful?" Her voice cracking slightly because of her crying.
"I'd have to be blind to think otherwise." I give her a genuine smile. "Of course you're beautiful, the most beautiful girl I've ever seen, don't let anyone tell you otherwise."
"Thank you," she smiles and leans up to kiss my cheek, as she pulls away she looks me in the eye.
Honestly, I don't know where all of the honesty about how I don't want to lose her, and how beautiful she is came from. I couldn't stop myself from saying it. Before I had realised what I was saying, I had said it.
"Did you really mean it when you said you didn't want to lose me?" She asks, looking me in the eye still, she's too captivating like this. I step to the side and lean against the car, as she is doing.
"Yeah, of course. I know it's out of character for me to be all honest and meaningful because I'm not that person, I'm just not, and everyone knows that. But, I am being honest and meaningful when I tell you this. I really don't want to lose you, if I did I don't know what I would do." I look to her, to find her already looking at me. "And Enzo is right, I love you Elena, I've tried to deny it for a long time but I can't, not anymore. Since Enzo came back I've realised that it's worse to hide feelings than to get them in the open. And I guess Enzo being here has made me realise that I love you and have done for ages."
Next thing I know her hands are cupping my face, and her lips are on mine. As much as I love this, and love her, even though I've only just admitted that to myself, and to her at the same time, this isn't right.
"Elena," I whisper as we pull apart. "I don't want you to feel that you have to do that, that you have to be with me, because you don't. I'm not expecting you to want to be with me, or love me. I just said it without even thinking. And we aren't good together Elena, this is the longest we've gone without fighting, we'll both get hurt if we do this, Bonnie is right."
She keeps her hands on my face and smiles slightly. "Now aren't you the one that says to ignore other people, it's only our opinions that matter? Yes, yes you are. And you're right. So what if we're bad for each other, who cares? We always argue, but we always make up. Even yesterday when it was our biggest one you forgave me, Damon. I love you."
I smile and kiss her again.
"Are you sure about this?"
"Yeah. I mean when I imagined all the possible ways we would get together this wasn't one of them, but that doesn't matter."
"You imagined the ways we could get together?" A big smirk forms on my face.
"Ah there's that smirk of yours, I was worried you were going to be all emotional now with no smirks ever again." She laughs slightly. "But yes I have. One way was you just kissing me at the lunch table and then asking me out, that was one of the more basic ones."
"More basic? Well one day you're going to have to tell me all of them. Right now however," I rest my arms around her waist, "I want to take you back in the cafeteria and show you off to everyone."
"But me and Bonnie just argued-"
"And now let's go show bonnie how wrong she is and that we make a great couple, and a really hot one."
"Mhmm we do make a hot couple," she kisses me.
"Okay, well unless you want this to go further I suggest we go back inside to everyone else." I smirk and she nods her head. We lock hands again and walk back in.
As we sit at the table everyone looks at us, apart from Bonnie who glances quickly at us then looks back down.
"So, where'd you two go?" Enzo asks.
"Well the happy couple had a chat." Elena says, smiling as I sling an arm over her shoulder.
"You can't use my nickname for you, mainly since you aren't a couple."
"Uh, Enzo," Elijah says joining the conversation. "I think that they're trying to tell us they're together, correct?" We both laugh and I kiss her head. "I shall take that as a yes."
Enzo claps, "finally, you finally told her!"
"You knew?" Elena asks.
"We all knew," Klaus says with a smile.
"Typical." She says causing everyone to laugh.
Bonnie is yet to react at all or look at us, but I ignore her teenage drama.
"I love you," I say to her, and give her a quick peck on the lips.
She smiles, "and I love you."
"Thank you for not saying 'too.'"
"What? Why?"
"Because it sounds like you're agreeing with me."
"Okay. If it makes you feel better I'll never agree with you," she says with a smile.
"Accept for the fact that I'm hot."
"Well, that goes without saying."
"Oh get a room you two!" Caroline laughs.
Since I don't like to be told what to do, I kiss Elena.
"Oh god, I'll throw up," Stefan says. I smile into the kiss, as does she.
A/N- okay, I know it seems rushed and stuff, but there'll be flash backs and stuff so it'll make sense.
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