Hi everyone! So if you read my authors note, you saw that I lost the new stuff I wrote in this story but I worked hard and i remembered what i wrote. Honestly, the original was so much better than this because it was off the top of my head and I wasn't trying to remember what I wrote before. Although, i finished and this is chapter three! I hope you enjoy!

We got to the restaurant and he came around to my side to help me out.

I ended up right in front of him. My body was pressed up against his and neither of us knew what to do so we just stood there. He closed to the door behind me and smirked. "Shall we?" He whispered against my lips.

I swear my heart dropped down to my stomach. But I smiled back at him. "Please." I said and took his hand he held out for me. We walked into the restaurant and were immediately brought to the table.

We were each poured a glass of red wine right when we sat down. We looked at the menus and after deciding what we each wanted we set them down and started talking. "So, where did you grow up?" I asked.

He smiled. "LA." He said. "Yeah, I'm a Cali boy." He said. I didn't mean to show the surprise that probably was all over my face. "What?" He asked with that beautiful smile.

I shook my head. "Nothing. I just didn't imagine you as a Cali boy." I said blushing. He laughed.

"You said you grew up in Virginia?" He asked. I nodded. "Did you play any sports in high school?" He asked taking a sip of the wine.

I started laughing. He looked at me confused. "I could never play a sport. I am too much of a klutz." I said.

He tilted his head. "You can't be that bad." He said. I raised an eyebrow at him as I kept laughing.

I nodded when I was done. "Yes I can. I was a cheerleader for three years in high school and I was at first the bottom one where I hold up the girls that are on top. Katherine was the other holder and my friend Caroline was the back spotter. So we were doing fine until I had an itch on my leg and I picked my foot up to itch my leg because my hands were kind of busy," I started. "I lost balance and the girl on top fell from the top and landed on top of me. She broke her ankle and was out for the season. Then they moved me up to the flyer because I was light enough too. But the real reason was that all I had to do when I was up there was put one hand on my hip and the other in the air so I was okay." I finished.

Stefan was laughing a lot now. "I'm sorry. That's really funny." He said as his laughing subsided. I waved him off. "I'm just trying to figure out how you surf." He said.

I shrugged. "I don't know. Surfing has always been different for me. I went to UCLA with Katherine and since freshman year we have been going to the beach and we learned to surf and just got obsessed with it." I told him. He nodded. "I'm guessing you played sports though." I said smirking.

He nodded. "Soccer." He said. I again looked at him surprised. "Yeah, I've been playing soccer longer than I've been surfing." He said.

I stared at him for a second just smiling. "Sorry, I just didn't expect that." I apologized.

He shook his head. "It's fine." He said. Finally the food came and we ate, talked and laughed the whole night.

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We got back to my apartment building and Stefan came around again to open the door for me. I "accidentally" ended up the same way as before. I was pressed against him and our lips were barely touching.

Instead of him saying something, he leaned in and kissed me sweetly. I kissed him back just as softly. The kiss didn't last long and then were started walking up to my apartment. "I had a really nice time tonight, Elena." He said stopping in front of my door.

I nodded. "So did I, Stefan." I said. We stared at each other for a few seconds before he leaned in again and kissed me. This time I put my hand on the back of his neck and deepened the kiss.

It lasted a while before the door behind me swung open revealing Katherine. "Oh, I'm sorry," She said quickly. "I heard voices, I'm sorry," She said closing the door again.

I looked at Stefan embarrassed. "Sorry." I said. He shook his head. "I'll call you later?" She asked.

He nodded. "Yup." He said smiling. "See you later," He said before walking away. I watched him go before going into my apartment.

I saw Katherine standing on the wall and I jumped because she scared me. She was smiling widely and it was kind of creepy. "I'm guessing it went well?" She asked.

I shook my head and scoffed. "Better then that. It was amazing." I said and walked into my room to get some sleep.

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It's been a few days since our date. We have been texting since then. We haven't met up at all again but at least we were talking. Right now we were texting and he asked me a question that I froze to. 'Do you want to come surfing with my friend and I today?' He asked.

I didn't know how to answer. I don't really want to surf with him because he's so good and I'm…not. 'Maybe. Can I ask Katherine if she wants to come too?' I asked. He replied back right away. 'Of course, I'll text you where we decided to go.' He sends back to me.

I put my phone down and breathed in and out. "Kat?" I shouted through the apartment. She came into the kitchen looking tired and bored. "Do you want to go surfing with Stefan and his friend today?" I asked.

She piped up quickly. "Yes! We can take my car! I want to show off to Mr. Three-time-Surf's-Up-winner that I can be just as good." She said confidently. I wish I had her confidence. "Where are we going? Malibu? Venice? Where?"

I opened my mouth to answer but I got a text from Stefan. 'We decided Malibu. We are probably going to be there around 4.' He said. I looked up at Kat again. "Uh, Malibu." I told her. She clapped her hands excitedly and rushed into her room to change.

I slowly got off the chair and went into my room. It was already 3:30. I kind of wanted to show up late, but I knew that would just be rude. I walked into my closet and picked out a Victoria's Secret bathing suit. It was hot pink and it went around my neck but I held up everything up there and covered it.

I made sure that it looked fine under a rash guard because they were tight and I didn't want my bathing suit awkwardly sticking out. I was done and I took more breaths before going into the kitchen where Katherine was eating a power bar.

She looked at me. "Ready?" She asked. I hesitated but nodded. "What's wrong?" She asked.

I shrugged. "I don't really want to go surfing with the Stefan Salvatore." I said quietly.

Katherine rolled her eyes. "Oh my god. How did I know this was going to happen?" She asked. I looked at her confused. She suddenly grabbed my shoulders. "Elena Jenna Gilbert. You are so much better then I am at surfing and your scared to surf with Stefan Salvatore. You're probably as good as him for gods sakes." She said.

I shook my head. "No I'm not." I said. "But whatever." I grabbed myself a power bar and walked to the door. I put my hand on the knob before calling to her. "You coming or what?" I asked. A minute later Katherine came in with her bag that I'm sharing with her for today because I don't know where mine is.

She shook her head and we walked down to the garage where we keep out surfboards and where her car is. I saw her two door Jeep Wrangler sitting there. It usually has a top but she decided to take it off so it had no roof. We strapped the boards in the back and got in.

She started driving but stopped outside the parking garage and put on her music. The song 'Cruise' came on by Florida Georgia Line. It was the perfect song right now. We put our sunglasses on and she started driving to the beach. We sang the three songs that played until we got to Malibu beach.

I froze when Katherine parked. "Just pretend it's you and I surfing." She said comforting me.

I nodded and breathed before getting out of the car. We got our boards and as were walking to the beach I saw Stefan getting out of his car. He was shirtless already. He was in a bro tank that showed off his muscles and I almost dropped my board on my feet.

I saw another guy coming from the passenger side and noticed it to probably be his friend he was talking about. As they got their boards out of the bed of his truck and started walking over they saw us.

Stefan smiled at me as they got closer and I smiled back while blushing. "Hey," Katherine said to them.

Stefan moved his eyes from me to her. "Hi." He said simply. We started walking onto the beach and Katherine and I putting our stuff down. I watched as Stefan peeled his shirt off showing his gorgeous abs but I swallowed and kept waxing my board with Katherine.

Katherine sighed as she finished. "Can we get in the water already?" She asked. I laughed and we all went over to the water. There weren't that many other people surfing today but the waves were fantastic.

I was a little calm right now so we all just sat on out boards. "So what's your name?" Katherine asked Stefan's friend.

He looked over at us. "Niklaus. But you can call me Nik." He said. I heard his accent by him just saying his name.

Honestly, it was kind of sexy. But then I saw Stefan smile and I almost tilted off my board. "I'm Katherine and that's Elena." She said. I waved slightly.

There was a really good wave coming. I would have probably taken it if Stefan hadn't been there. I looked over to Katherine shaking my head before taking my board and going under it smoothly.

I didn't notice until I came back up that Katherine stayed too. Stefan and Nik rode it out. "What the hell?" Katherine asked me.

I shrugged. "Sorry. I panicked." I said. She shook her head. A few minutes later Stefan and Nik came back.

Stefan looked towards us. "What's wrong?" He asked probably seeing Katherine's annoyed face and mine blushing.

Katherine opened her mouth to tell him what was actually wrong but I cut her off. "Nothing. We just missed it." I told him. He nodded and paddled over to Nik for now. Katherine looked at me shaking her head. "Next good one." I said.

Soon enough, the next good one came along. I started shaking my head to Katherine but she splashed me. I rolled my eyes and got ready to take the wave. I stood on my board and was riding it finally. I did two sharp turned at the top before the wave came over me and I was riding in the tunnel that it made.

I came out and rode it until I couldn't anymore. I paddled back to them and dunked to fix my hair so it wasn't all over my face anymore. "You're really good, Elena." He said.

I blushed and moved closer to him. "Thanks. But not as good as you." I said. He rolled his eyes and leaned in to kiss me. I was surprised but I kissed him back.

I didn't know what this meant. We were kissing in public. Does this make us a thing? I'm so confused. "Hey love birds!" Katherine's voice said, breaking us apart. "What the wave." She said. We quickly went under because it was too late to ride it.

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Stefan's POV

I watched Elena ride a few more waves after her first one and she was amazing. We were back on the beach now. Elena was complaining about how her rash guard is chaffing her. She started peel it off and I couldn't take my eyes off of her. She had an amazing body. "I hate these things." She said and threw it on her bag.

I felt Nik whispering in my ear. "I do too." He said jokingly. I elbowed him in the stomach. He had a girlfriend who happened to be one of my good friends. He grunted. Katherine and Elena looked over at us confused.

I looked behind me to see Nik straightening back up. "Elena." I said turning back to her. "Want to go for a walk?" I asked. She smiled at me and nodded taking my hand that I put it out for her.

We walked down the boardwalk holding hands. "You're really good at surfing, if I didn't say it enough before." I said stopping us in our tracks.

She blushed and looked down at her feet. "Thank you." She said. "I have to admit. Today was fun." She said.

I smiled down at her. "I'm glad you had a good time." I told her. I couldn't resist anymore. Her lips were so attractive right now I had to kiss her. I pulled her closer to me by her waist and kissed her.

He linked her arms around my neck and deepened the kiss. We kissed for a while before she broke apart. She kept her arms around my neck though. "I want to take you out again. Tonight." I said.

She bit her lip before nodding. "Alright. Should I dress like I did the other night?" She asked.

I shook my head. "Nope. Just dress how you would everyday." I said. It was then I realized that we were only in our bathing suits and it was pretty much skin on skin. Not that I minded but I just thought it was weird.

I kissed her one more time before taking her hand and started walking back to Nik and Katherine.

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