Dinner tonight with Stefan Salvatore was amazing! For the first time in a really long time I genuinely enjoyed a celebrities company during an interview. I thought about the night all of the way back to my apartment, silently laughing to myself at all of the comments and jokes we made to each other throughout the night. Walking up the stairs to my flat, I hear the sound of The Killers blaring from my living room and out through the closed front door pulling me out of my reverie. Knowing that my neighbours will have a field day with this in the morning, I sigh and open the door to find my flat mate, fellow writer and best friend Caroline Forbes standing in her standard shorts and baggy t-shirt pajamas cooking in the kitchen singing very loudly to 'Mr Brightside'. Walking over to the stereo, I turn it down causing her to turn around to see who the culprit was.

"Elena!" She shouts at me "Why? That song is epic!"

Smiling I answered "Not when the whole floor can hear you Car."

Shrugging her shoulders she turns back to her cooking. "So how did it go tonight? Get the story you wanted?"

Sitting down on the sofa in the living room to take off my heels I answered "Yep. He seems like a nice guy."

"So who was it again tonight?" Caroline asked

I give her an 'I've-already-told-you-this-a-thousand-times' look "Stefan Salvatore."

"Ah yeah. Was he nice?" She asks

"He was." I answered getting up from the sofa to hang up my coat.

"Is he just as good looking in real life?" Caroline asks looking at me hoping. I hang my head preparing myself for where this conversation was going.

"Definitely." I say with a smile on my face. I hate to admit, but ever since he came onto the news, I had always found him attractive. I found myself looking up everything to do with him! I was so excited when I found out I had this interview with him that it was all I could talk about for 3 weeks straight! I just hope that I didn't make an arse of myself tonight like I normally do. Walking to pour myself a glass of red wine from the counter, Caroline looks at me and holds up an envelope with my name on it. Seems quite fancy. The name was written in a calligraphy-styled writing and the paper looked more expensive than the pair of heels I was wearing tonight.

Taking the envelope from her I ask "Who is it from?"

Shrugging her shoulders Caroline answers "I don't know. It turned up about 5 minutes before you did. Looked like it was something special. It was hand delivered from a guy in a suit and shades. Kind of dodgy-looking really if you saw it from an outsiders perspective."

Suddenly I wanted to hold the envelope like it was a bomb. Peeling it open very slowly, the invitation on the inside was just as fancy as the envelope it came. Reading the gold and black letters scrawled across the paper, I groaned.

"I got an invite to a party tomorrow night."

"Where to this time?" Caroline asked. I am not really a party person but because of the job I do I have to go to a lot of functions. I mainly just go there for an hour, get the story and main account of who was there and what happened that night and go. Something told me that with this party it would be exactly the same.

"Bonnie called up about 10 minutes ago saying there was this big birthday party in town tomorrow for a celebrity and that we should write a story about it. She didn't say who it was for, but then next thing I know a guy turns up with an invitation for you. Apparently you are on the guest list. Elena plus one" She says looking at me with a glint in her eye. I know that look anywhere. Whenever I get invited to a celebrity party she always wants to come with me if I gets a plus one. Normally I take her if I don't have a date but I make up for it with the gossip from the party afterwards if she can't go.

"Caroline...?" I say slowly "Would you like to come with me tomorrow night?"

She beams back at me running over to hug me. "Yes please! Oh I love you Elena! Thank you thank you thank you!" Jumping around and squealing like a school girl, she goes back to her cooking with a grin that stays on her face all night while I tell her in every little detail what happened tonight.

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Walking into the office the next day all of the females in the office wanted to know how it went with Stefan Salvatore last night. I tell them the same thing as always when I interview a celebrity. They were nice, charming and elaborate with their credit cards. This always makes the girls swoon and talk about them all day until the next celebrity interview happens and today was not going to be any different. To be honest I could tell them that the interview was a disaster and the guy or girl was an arsehole and they would still be swooning because 'they look so fit' or 'they were really funny on a tv show from the night before'. Doing my best to get my mind off last night before I went insane I walked off to my desk and grabbed my things for the morning meeting with my boss, Miss Bonnie Bennett.

Knocking on the door of her office I wait for Bonnie to open the door. "Morning" I said to Bonnie as I sit down with Caroline in the chairs in front of her desk.

Looking amazingly dressed as always in a plain black shift dress and matching black Christian Louboutins, Bonnie looks at us as she sits down behind her desk clearly in an upbeat mood.

"Morning all. How was last night Elena?"

"It went well. I'm sure it will make a great story."

"Good. Well as you know you are invited to a party tonight Elena. There will be a lot of celebrities there tonight and a lot of potential stories." She starts looking at us both." I'm guessing that since you got a plus one you are taking Caroline?"

Looking at Caroline I nod. Bonnie knows very well that I take Caroline whenever I have a plus one.

"Great. Then I want both of you on the story tonight. I want nothing left out. You will already know who it is for and the fact that it is a private party. It is very exclusive and was very hard to get you two in but Elena was requested to go with a plus one. It's a first that I know of that a celebrity this high up has asked for journalists to turn up to their events. So make me proud and wear something fancy. We don't want the photographers taking pictures of you in something drab. That'll be all." She said shooing us away to get to work. Arriving at our desks, I looked at Caroline puzzled with her returning the same look we clearly had the same question in our heads.

We both had no idea who it was for!

We had to do some digging...

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Arriving at the club for the night with Caroline we were still confused. We both had not managed to find anything about tonight other than what we already knew. So taking a deep breath and walking into the club we both had a look around to see what the fuss was about.

Walking in, you could tell that whoever it was had a lot of money. He or she wanted to make a big deal and show that they had money and knew how to spend it. The club was packed with all manners of people. Some people we already knew and some were people that were up and coming in the tabloids recently. Taking our coats to the cloakroom, we both grabbed a flute of champagne and started walking down the stairs to the large nightclub.

"Thank you so much for letting me come with you" Caroline squealed in my ear. She was always more excited about these events than I was.

"Anytime" I mutter back to her.

As a lot of the people that attended tonight were celebrities that we knew, we spent most of our time exchanging a lot of greetings and pleasantries as we walked through the room. It was quite nice being known by people without having to introduce yourself but it didn't help that I knew they were being nice to get a positive comment from me in the next article I write. After about half an hour, out of no where, Caroline and I heard our names being called.

"Elena? Caroline? Is that you?" Turning round to see who it was. We could not believe it when we saw our old friend from high school and old flame of Caroline's Matt Donovan. He was one of the very few who managed to make it big since leaving home and became a well known premier league football player. He in turn hugged us although holding Caroline a little longer.

"Wow it's great to see you! How have you guys been? I haven't seen you both in ages!" He exclaimed clearly nervous after hugging Caroline.

"We're doing great. We're both here as journalist." Caroline answered with a blush rising on her face.

"Oh well you best not put anything in from high school! Dont think the public would ever believe you" He said laughing

Many memories popped into my head then, but they all were drowned out by Caroline laughing a little over the top at Matt's comment while blushing profusely into her champagne glass to take a large gulp. It was a shame they both broke up. Caroline never really got over Matt but she knew they couldn't be together because of his career. She said that it was for the best at the time and that she was fine, but three months of awful pink fluffy pajamas and practically eating Ben and Jerry's out of business proved otherwise. I sighed in my head hoping that after tonight Caroline was not going to go back there. I managed to snap her out of it the last time by getting her to come with me to a party where Matt Damon was and I don't think that chance could ever happen again sadly. I even managed to hide the dreadful pajamas under lock and key until I thought she was over Matt!

But on the other side of things, it is nice to see Matt. I haven't seen him since his career took off and I missed him. We used to always hang out together and we all got quite close.

Pulling me out of my reverie and reminiscing, I heard Matt shouting "There's the birthday boy!" above the music pulling his arm out to the direction of an oddly familiar gentleman walking towards us. I tried to make him out in the dark. I could make out his dark hair, his tall stature, his chiseled cheekbones and the way he walked reminded me of...

Thank you guys so much for the comments! You all have inspired me so much that I am writing every night just to keep the story going! I am definately continuing this story and you guys will be seeing a chapter go up every wednesday :D I know this is kind of a filler chapter but trust me it leads onto what happens in the next chapter. I have an idea where I want to take this story and I hope you all follow it until the end :) Btw in answer to Carr's question I never thought about bringing Lexi into it but I think I will now. I miss Lexi in TVD!

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