Elena let out at a loud scream, but Stefan managed to cup his hand on her mouth quickly enough so that it sounded muffled. He did not want to wake up Damon... especially at this time in the night.

"Shh Elena shh it's Stefan. It's me, you're ok" He said reassuring her and slowly taking his hand away from her mouth.

"Stefan?" She said looking up at him. Stefan's face blushed red with embarrassment. His face was so close to hers that he was grazing directly into her eyes. Elena could feel his warm breath on hers and she was suddenly washed with guilt. She had just kissed his brother...in front of him! She knew that he was watching, but for some reason she felt empowered by the idea that she was kissing her best friends brother. Calming herself down, she propped herself up in bed so that Stefan could sit down next to her. He clearly had had too much to drink and instead of sitting down, he flopped onto the bed and landed on his back so that he was lying across the bed. Elena could not help but erupt with laughter of her best friend's actions. He was so sweet when he was drunk and he clearly needed some attention. She sat him back up again.

"There you go Stefan." she grunted finally getting him to sit up by himself.

"Why were you kissing Damon, Elena?" Stefan randomly blurted out. He did not really want to know the answer himself but his mouth was in control at the moment... not his head. Elena looked back at him shocked by his question. Shit! Stefan saw them two kissing on the dance floor! The atmosphere in the room suddenly became awkward. "I...I...I don't know. It just happened..." She wanted to admit to him that she liked Damon and the kiss did mean something to her, but Stefan cut her sentence before she could say anymore.

"Well... what about me? Why Damon? Why can't I be the one to kiss you? I mean... it's not like we have not done it before..." He stated. Elena looked at him even more shocked. Even though Stefan was drunk, he always had a way with words and tonight he was on top form. Elena could not answer him. She did not know HOW to answer his question. Did she like Damon? Yes it is a school girl crush but was it anything real?...Suddenly something that Stefan had said had caught her off guard.

"Wait.. WHAT? What do you mean we have kissed before?" Elena asked slightly annoyed with Stefan at the moment for saying something like that to her. Stefan nodded his head with exaggeration. "Yes Elena! We have kissed! We kissed at the party the other night!" Suddenly Stefan stopped as Elena's face turned to shock. Suddenly it all came rushing back to Elena...the drinking...the laughing...how close they were together...the kissing... Elena did not know what to do at that moment except stare at Stefan. She remembered liking that kiss and wanting to do more of it. But was it a mistake? Does she want to do it again? All of these questions blasted through her mind while she stared at Stefan. He was just sitting there slightly swaying from the amount that he had drunk and just waiting for her to say something.

"Stefan...I remember kissing you." She finally said

"And..? He prompted "Why then would you kiss Damon and not me? I mean... I'm better looking than him!" He said with a silly grin on his face. Clearly the seriousness of the conversation was lost on Stefan. Stefan put his hands on his hips, poked his chest out and gave a massive grin. Elena had to laugh at his posing and shoved him to stop it. She moved so that he could join her in the bed. She did not want to move him back to his own bed tonight. The poor boy needed taking care of in his state. He settled himself down into the bed and carried on talking.

"Tonight was fun Elena" Stefan said "I love bender weekend...we should do more stuff like this more often!"

"I loved it too." She said. Suddenly hearing a light snore, she looked down she saw Stefan sound asleep in the spot she was in. She decided not to wake him and rolled over to her side of the bed and fell asleep too.

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"What do you think you are doing Elena?" Bonnie exclaimed. Elena, Bonnie and Caroline were sitting in the grill having a cup of coffee when Elena decided to spill the whole conversation with Stefan last night to them. She needed her friend's advice. Waking up to Stefan next to her was nice but the conversation from the night before had her reeling. They had already kissed before? He wanted to know why he can't kiss her? She had kissed Damon IN FRONT of Stefan!? Everything was confusing to her and she did not know what to do next. Luckily no one was awake when she left the house this morning. She left a note to Stefan to say she was leaving and to tell Damon that she had gone as well since e put her to bed last night and left to meet the girls. "Elena this is serious! You kissed Damon and now you remember that you kissed Stefan the night before?! What is going on?" She asked. Elena did not know how to answer

"I don't know" Elena answered eventually "All of this is so sudden. I mean you know that I have always liked Damon, and the kiss was amazing! But something about remembering kissing Stefan last night has got to me. I don't know that I like Stefan - I mean don't get me wrong I have thought about it - but what kind of relationship would we even have? I would not want to ruin the one we have now if I told him that I would like to kiss him again if doesn't want to."

"Well.. first things first, you need to talk to Damon. You two kissed last night and it is going to be awkward either way you look at it. Maybe this morning if you see Damon, you can work out how you feel about him and sort out Stefan in the afternoon. You never know. They say that when best friends hook up it is for life!" Caroline said grinning from ear to ear. She was always one for the soppy romantic novels and films. She loved a happy ending.

"That's because you have always wanted me and Stefan to be together!" Elena interjected

"That's because you two would look so cute together. Anyone who sees you two would think that you like each other! Sometimes I just want to bang your heads together and say 'Get a move on and do it already!'" She answered. Elena just rolled her eyes. She never saw Stefan as something more than a friend but now that the conversation last night and the memory from the other night has made her start to question her feelings for Stefan, she thought maybe she might be right in that her and Stefan could give it go...