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Summary: Elena left Mystic Falls after high school to go to college, having to leave everyone behind. Damon and Elena had a budding romance before she left for collage, now she's left heartbroken trying to get through college. What happens when a surprise comes for a visit after 5 years?
Pairing/Characters: Elena, Damon, Drew, and Cara. Damon/Elena.
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Rating: T
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Italics and Bold are Flashbacks and Just Italic is either text messages or diary entries!
College Away From You
Part One: 5 Years Gone
Elena walked around her small house that she shared with her friends Drew and Cara. She was now 22 years old. She had left Mystic Falls 5 years ago to go to College at the worst possible time.
Damon had stolen her heart the day she left. She remembered it all very well.
"I'm going to miss you Damon." Elena said as she stood by her car with everything packed away and ready to go.
"As much as I hate to admit it, I'll miss you too." Damon said as Elena hugged him.
Elena felt tears coming to her eyes as she let Damon go. She remembered when Stefan was finally well enough to come out of the cellar. He had gone back on the animal diet and wanted Elena back.
She had rejected his offer and Stefan had left Mystic Falls heartbroken. Elena had felt bad but after everything that's happened between them she just couldn't. Bonnie barely said 15 words a day to her and Caroline and Matt had broken up and Matt was trying to spend a lot of time with Elena.
Elena avoided Matt knowing that Caroline would flip if Matt tried anything on her. So she spent most of her time with Damon and Caroline.
Damon and Elena had grown very close and although they had the constant fighting they became the best of friends.
"Don't cry Elena." Damon said as he wiped the tears from her eyes.
Elena smiled to Damon and hugged him again, "Why is this so hard?"
Damon pulled back and smiled at Elena. "I don't know, In 172 years I've never been so upset to see someone go."
Elena nodded and grabbed her keys out of her pocket and turned around to get into her car.
She was then pulled back to Damon and his lips were against hers for the first time ever. Elena kissed Damon back as more tears fell from her eyes, and she could've sworn that some had been Damon's.
"Good-bye Kitten." He said as she walked back to her car.
"Good-bye." She said with a smile.
It had been five years since she had last seen Damon Salvatore. She visited Mystic Falls sometimes to check up on him but the boarding house was always empty.
She walked into her bedroom and saw her very modern themed room. Her friends were very colorful people but she wanted something a little darker for the room.
It had a black bed that was low to the ground with dark purple sheets. She had a black dresser, vanity, bookshelf and desk. She had a black vase with fake purple roses coming out of it and a small black couch on the side of the room.
She looked over to her desk and saw her schoolbooks piled neatly with paper and pens beside it with a black lamp.
She looked back to her nightstand beside her bed and saw her alarm clock. She had a very boring looking room unless you were her. She then looked to the top of her dresser to see her favorite part of her room.
There were 5 pictures on her dresser. There was one of Jeremy, one of Jenna, another of Caroline, another of her mother and father and then the last one. Damon.
Elena looked at the picture and smiled. She missed him so much. She wished that Damon would be home next time she visited, or at least come to visit her.
Elena grabbed her stuff for class and walked out of her bedroom.
"Let's go Elena." Drew called from the door.
"Sorry." She called as she ran to the door. Drew was tall and he had long straight black hair with blue bangs. He had his tongue, and lip pierced. He looked like an average Emo kid but once you got to know him he was so funny.
Elena walked out the door with Drew and said, "Where's Cara?"
"In the car already." Drew said.
Elena smiled at him and walked to the back seat of the car.
"Took you long enough." Cara said as Drew hopped into the drivers seat.
Cara was a little shorter than Elena and had curly red hair. She was very petite but could definitely put up quite the fight.
"Sorry I lost track of time." Elena said as Drew drove off to the campus.
"We need to get you out of the house. Maybe tonight we'll go out." Drew said.
Drew had been in love with Elena ever since he first saw her but he was positive that Elena didn't feel the same way so he kept it to himself. He had a girlfriend as well. It always hurt when a guy asked Elena out or tried to make a move on her, but her being Elena she always rejected them.
It was like she was waiting for someone.
"Yeah, we can go out for something to eat, go to the pizza place down the street."
Elena smiled and said, "Yeah, we'll go after class."
Drew smiled at her and parked at the entrance to the school. "See you guys after class."
Drew, Cara and Elena all parted their separate ways and went to class. After 7 hours of lectures, writing and reading they ended up meeting inside the school.
"Did you hear that Professor Gail is planning an exam for tomorrow?" Drew asked.
"He told us about that three weeks ago." Elena laughed.
"You really have to stop procrastinating." Cara said as they walked out of the school and into the parking lot.
"I don't procrastinate, I just relax then work." Drew explained.
"Yeah until it's due the next day." Elena laughed.
Drew laughed and then looked over to his car and saw a blue mustang sitting next to it.
Elena recognized the car but she just shrugged it off. There had to be tons of cars like that out there. It wasn't whom she was thinking about.
"Nice car." Drew said as they hopped into their Mini.
"Yeah." Elena simply said as she got into the car with Cara and Drew.
"To the pizza place Drew." Cara said. Drew laughed and drove off. Elena looked back to the blue mustang.
They arrived within a few minutes to the pizza place and went inside. "What are we doing tomorrow?" Cara asked as they waited for the pizza.
"I'm probably going to do nothing." Elena said as she took a sip of her diet coke.
"It's Friday tomorrow, and you aren't going to spend it inside like every other weekend. Best part is we don't have school all week! We only have like an hour of school until we're free to do what we want." Drew scolded.
"I'm aware, but don't we have exams tomorrow? We're going to have to be there later." Elena said.
"That doesn't mean we can't go shopping or something." Cara said trying to figure Elena out. They had been friends for years but she was so difficult.
"Maybe." She said as the pizza arrived.
They ate their pizza and they came to a conclusion of shopping tomorrow after class. Something that they did almost every weekend.
Elena, Drew and Cara walked out of the pizza place and Elena saw the same blue mustang sitting there.
Elena tried to ignore it completely and just hopped into the car and didn't say anything as they drove home.
"You ok 'Lena?" Drew asked as they walked inside.
"Yeah, maybe we should go and get you ready for the test tomorrow." Elena laughed.
"Fine." He pouted and walked in the house.
Drew and Elena sat in the living room and started studying until there was a knock at the door.
"I got it!" Cara yelled from her bedroom.
"Ok." Elena said as she went back to studying with Drew.
"It's Amanda and Vick. Let's go Drew." Cara yelled from the door.
"We have some double date thing tonight, I'll see you later." Drew said as he closed his book.
"Ok, just promise me you'll study a little more when you get back."
"Ok, mom." Drew said with a laugh.
Elena laughed and Drew walked out the door with Cara.
Elena spent the night cramming for the exam but when midnight came around she heard something outside the window.
She walked up to it and saw a shadow move. Elena got a little worried until she saw a black cat moving about. Elena sighed in relief and decided that she needed sleep.
She walked into her bedroom and changed into her shorts and t-shirt before hopping into bed and falling asleep quickly.
Elena woke up to someone shaking her. "Five more minutes Jenna." Elena muttered.
"No, Elena its Cara. We have an exam in an hour so how about you wake up."
Elena rolled over in her sleep and said, "W-what?"
"Get up! You slept in until 4! The exams in an hour."
"Crap." Elena said as she got up and walked to her closet.
"I'll be in the kitchen, you want anything?" Cara asked.
"Coffee please." Elena said as she slipped into jeans, t-shirt and her black jacket.
Cara walked out of her bedroom as Elena packed up what she would need for the exam. It was a huge one so she would end up being there until after dark.
Elena walked out to see Drew studying.
"Thank God you're here, I'm confused." Drew said as he sat there.
Elena laughed and quickly explained the problem and then got her coffee.
"Ok, we have to go." Cara said looking at the clock.
Elena, Drew and Cara dashed out of the door and this time Elena drove while Cara and Drew quizzed each other.
When they arrived at the campus they saw students starting to go in. They followed everyone in.
They made it with a minute to spare and the test began. They sat there for hours as the professor tapped a pencil on a book. Elena finally finished the exam and Cara and Drew weren't far behind.
Elena walked outside and waited out in the hall for them to finish up. Drew eventually walked out and walked next to her.
"Well that was hell." He said.
"Yup and now we're free for the week." Elena said as they waited for Cara.
They waited for about 10 minutes until Cara finally came out. "Have fun?" Drew asked. "Let's go get some coffee." Cara responded.
Elena laughed and they walked out of the school and towards the parking lot until Elena heard movement and stopped.
"Did you hear that?" Elena asked as Drew and Cara stopped.
"Yeah." Drew said as he backed up to Elena.
Elena heard the bush rustle and she turned to it and then there was a gust of window behind her.
The campus wasn't very bright. It was just illuminated by the streetlights.
Elena remembered when this happened to her in Mystic Falls. She wished she had a stake on her right now. She had gotten rid of her necklace but she loaded her watch.
Cara and Drew were freaking out and as she looked forward she saw a man step out from the darkness and into the light. Elena's jaw dropped.
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