Epilogue: Under the Stars

A Few Months Later. . .

"This was not how I imagine spending my senior prom, you should have told me that you were coming," Katherine chided Elijah as she passed him back the flask filled with whisky. They were both sitting in the hood of Elijah's car. "I wouldn't have bothered changing into this stupid dress."

Katherine was wearing a strapless, sea blue dress with matching shoes and her curls were extra curly for the occasion. Unlike when she had participated in the Miss Mystic Falls pageant she no longer looked scary skinny and had filled out more.

She was still force to go to therapy with little Dr. Rollins, but she no longer dreaded it as much and he had even been the one that encourage her to focus on designing fashion rather than be an actual model.

Elijah kissed her. "And miss how beautiful you look tonight?"

Katherine smirked at him. "You're smooth." She felt something hard jabbing her rib cage. "What do you have there?"

Elijah flushed as he opened the box and pulled it out, nestled inside was a silver necklace with a heart and pretty red stones. "It's a small present, I saw it at the store and I thought of you."

Katherine smiled at him as she moved it to the side. "Can you help me put it on?"

Elijah nodded. "Sure." He fastened the necklace and Katherine turned back towards him.

Katherine touched the necklace. "Thank you, for everything for being by my side even when I was a mess. Most people wouldn't have."

"It was my pleasure," He murmured as he pulled her close, Katherine nestled her head underneath his chest and gave a sigh of happy relief.

"Isn't your prom tonight?" Damon asked Elena as he passed her the plate of fries.

"It was, but I got my GED and I've never been one for prom." Elena shrugged, ever since Damon had popped in unexpectedly yesterday, he had a tendency to do this a lot she couldn't stop smiling. She wouldn't lie, the whole long distance thing was hard, but it was moments like this that made it worth it.

"I'm just saying that while the rest of your classmates are dancing to bad music we're at the bowling alley eating French fries and pizza." Damon smirked.

Elena rolled her eyes. "And something tells me that we're having much more fun than they are." She excitedly pulled out a folded piece of paper from her bag. "Here, read this."

Damon smirked. "Is this a love letter?" he unfolded it and started reading. "Dear Miss Elena Gilbert, the University of California Los Angeles is proud to welcome you this fall for. . ."he trailed off. "You're moving to California? L.A.?"

Elena was practically bursting with joy. "Yep, I got the letter yesterday and it's only thirty minutes away from your aunt's ranch-"she didn't even get to finish because Damon had started hugging her tightly. "So I guess this means you're happy?"

"More than happy." He grinned at her. "And I think that we should celebrate with something else other than pizza."

Elena wrinkled her nose. "And somewhere other than a bowling alley."

"You're extra happy," Silas told Amara as they walked arm in arm through the campus, since it was still a bit chilly the place was mostly empty. "Any reason why, or perhaps you're as ready as I am to leave this hell called high school?"

"Oh, come on," Amara rolled her eyes. "Are you really not going to miss this place?"

After a pause Silas said. "Fine a little, but we still have two weeks until we graduate."

"That's plenty of time," Amara said as they walked towards the soccer fields. She pulled out a ball. "When we first met, you hit me with a soccer ball do you remember."

"Vaguely, but yes." Silas said with a teasing smile.

"Well I challenge you to a game," Amara said. "Whoever scores first wins, and the winner has to kiss the loser."

Silas raised an eyebrow as he pulled her closer. "Is that a promise?"

Amara threw the ball in the air. "That's a promise."

The End

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