A/N: OK so I know I told the readers of my other story that I wouldn't start this one until I finished the other one, but I'm actually a little ahead of schedule on Redemption so I figured, why not! I was way to anxious to hear your thoughts on this story, and if it's even worth continuing, let me know what you think!
"I can't believe you talked me into watching the notebook…" he says while stretching out on my couch
"I don't know what you expected; you know that if you don't bring your own movie over we're stuck with Caroline's selection to choose from" I shrug, and lean over to grab another piece of pizza off the table
"Are you going to Stefie's big birthday bash tomorrow?" he asks
"I have a final in the afternoon, I probably won't be done in time to make it to dinner but I'll probably be able meet you guys at the bar afterwards or something"
"Ugh skip it, you already know you're graduating, finals don't matter anymore"
"You know I can't do that Damon…" I shake my head
"I know" he sighs "you're the perpetual perfectionist. I just want to see you have a little more fun" he smirks
God I love that smirk
"And I will… after graduation. Besides I promised Caroline I would at least make an appearance… otherwise I think she might've killed me" I joke
"I can't believe that woman is going to be my sister-in-law" he pretends to grimace
"Oh please you secretly love her"
"They're too young" he shakes his head
"They're not too young" I amend
"Yes they are; if I had married the girl I wanted to marry when I was twenty-two it would've been a disaster, thankfully I'm much to level headed for that" he smirks
"You level headed?" I scoff "besides… Rose cheated on you, you had no other choice. Caroline would never do that to Stefan and you know it" normally I would never say that to a person, but Damon moved past it a long time ago
"Exactly… which is only proof that if I had married her at twenty-two, I would've been divorced by twenty-three" he smirks
"Thank god for that too, now you can run around with as many women as you want without answering to anyone" I tease
"Is that so? Then why are you always grilling me about my liaisons" he teases back
"Someone has to look after you… remind you to buy condoms… those types of things"
"What would I do without you Gilbert" we both laugh
"Alright, I better get to bed; I have class early in the morning"
"Yeah me too, now that I have a bog boy job and all" he says sarcastically
"Oh yeah, I forgot to ask you how you're liking it" I ask
"It's advertising… what is there to like, I make up bullshit all day so people will buy some piece of shit merchandise" he smirks
"So in other words you love it" I say, reading him like a book
"Yeah I love it" he agrees, and we both laugh
"You can just stay here if you want" I offer
"And look like I'm doing the walk of shame in the morning?" he acts shocked "I'd love to" he kicks his shoes off, and sprawls out on the couch
"Don't tell me you have spare dress shirts in your office desk like Don Draper" I tease
"Wouldn't you like to know Gilbert, wouldn't you like to know" he winks
"Goodnight Damon" I say with a mixture of giggles
"Night 'Lena"
The bar is packed tonight, glancing around for my friends I finally spot them at a couch in the corner
"Hey guys" I say and take a seat next to Damon
"You made it" Caroline shrieks even louder than normal
"How much has she had to drink?" I ask Damon
"Too much" he laughs
"Ugh, why don't you guys ever stop her?"
"Because drunk Blondie is always so much more fun" he shrugs
"Heyyyyy, that's not true" Caroline slurs
Damon just laughs and I can't help but join him
"Here, drink this" Stefan comes back from the bar with a glass of water
"Hey birthday boy" I stand to hug him
"Thanks, I'm so glad you could make it"
I've always liked Stefan, just not like I like Damon; which is funny because Stefan and I are so much more alike, we're both English majors, we like the same books, the same music, the same movies, and we both have very old souls.
Damon on the other hand drives me completely insane, we don't have much in common except our need to be right all the time, we argue about everything, we rarely agree about anything yet, everything about him makes my stomach do flips... I guess opposites really do attract.
Well… kind of, since Damon doesn't reciprocate my attraction
"Will you dance with me" Caroline asks Stefan, I can tell she's trying her hardest not to slur
He shakes his head
"But it's my birthday" she pouts
"No, it's his birthday" Katherine comes sauntering over, correcting Caroline
"What if I told you I had a very special birthday dance planned for you" Caroline says seductively, she probably thinks she's whispering but we can all hear her
"I think we'd all like to see that" Damon says and wiggles his eyebrows at Stefan
"I would say you should probably save it for when we're home alone" Stefan glares at Damon
"Oh for god sakes just dance with the girl, have some fun" Damon laughs
Stefan finally caves and pulls Caroline onto the dance floor
"Hey Kat, when did you get here?" I lean in to ask her
"Oh I was at dinner with them earlier, I was just in the bathroom when you got her" she smiles
"Where's Bonnie?" I notice our other best friend isn't here
"She home studying, you know Bonnie, she doesn't like to leave anything to chance" she laughs, Katherine is Bonnie's roommate, she's also become a good friend of ours over the past four years at Columbia
"Sounds like someone else I know" Damon nudges me
"Hey! Better safe than sorry" I say back
"Someday you're gonna regret that motto" he says with a raise of his eyebrows
I swear I see something in his eyes that I rarely get to see, it's almost like lust and it sends an electrifying feeling right to my core
Some random guy walks over to our table and asks Katherine to dance, interrupting our moment
"And then there were two" I say
"Wanna dance?" Damon asks
It's not rare for him to ask me to dance when we're out, we both like to dance and we're usually the only single ones in the group
"Sure" I stand up and follow him on the dance floor
The beat is a fast one so we start swaying together, Damon grabs my wrist and spins me around so that my back is to him, he wraps his arms around me so that my back is pressed against his chest
I sway my hips a little against his front and I can feel the affect I have on him through his tight jeans, I'm not stupid, I know I'm an attractive girl and he's a man after all, it's a natural reaction, it doesn't go any further then that .
"I've never met anyone who can move their hips like you" he says in my ear
"Oh please, with the multitudes of women who occupy your bed all the time I'm sure that's not true"
"Whoa, I was talking about your dancing skills, who said anything about a bed… get your mind out of the gutter Gilbert" he teases me
"If you think my hips move good now" I smirk suggestively
"You're a dangerous woman Elena" he smirks back
It's not rare for us to flirt either; it's something we just sort of fell into when we met four years ago
The tempo of the music speeds up, and so do our dance moves, I continue grinding into him as he holds one hand against my stomach, the other sliding up and down my arm sensually
I try to keep my bodies reaction to him minimized, but I can never seem to control the goosebumps that erupt every time he touches me, I just hope he never notices
"I love how responsive you are to me" I feel his breath on my ear, and I instantly feel more liquid pool between my thighs
I know he means on the dance floor, because we've always been good dance partners, always anticipating the others moves, but my lust makes me want to tell him that I would be much more responsive without our clothes on
"I need to get some water" I spit out before I manage to say something that I would regret forever
I break free from his hold on me and make my way to the bar, after I get my glass of water I sit back down on the couch
I need to pull myself together, I can't let my feelings runaway from me like that…
I don't ever want to say anything that could ruin my friendship with Damon, our friendship is more important to me than anything else.
I glance back over to the dance floor and notice that Damon has already moved on to Katherine; I feel a pang of jealousy shoot through me
This is ridiculous Elena, get a grip I tell myself, Damon tells me about all of his girls, and the only thing he has ever said about Katherine is that he think she's a little bitchy sometimes, he's never even mentioned her being attractive.
Although she is, she has the most beautiful curly hair I've ever seen, legs a mile long, and the curves a Victoria secret model would sell her soul for… she wouldn't go there though, my friends know about my secret feelings for him and they would never do that to me… even if I am too scared to ever admit my feelings to him
I turn back around and take a long gulp of my water, willing the images of them together to leave my mind…
After the song ends Stefan and Caroline join me on the couch
"What are you doing all alone over here sulky" Caroline asks
"I'm not sulking, I'm just tired… some of us had finals today you know" I defend myself
"So… I saw Damon leaving our apartment early this morning" She wiggles her eyes suggestively
"Ew, Care… that's my brother, and she's my friend. Can you please save it for girl's night?" he shakes his head
"Relax Stefan, there's nothing to talk about" I laugh
"Ugh you guys are so boring, I can't believe you're both still sticking to the 'we're just friends' story after all this time"
"That's because we are just friends…"
"Friends don't look at each other the way you guys do" she pushes
"Well it doesn't matter anyways, I don't want to ruin our friendship, he's always there for me, and I don't know what I would do without him"
I tell myself not to look back at the dance floor again, but I can't help it, I'm drawn to him like a moth is to a flame
When I glace over I can't find him or Katherine anywhere
"I wonder where they went" I try my best to sounds like it's no big deal, despite my bad feeling about it
"They probably just went to the bar for a drink, or outside for some air or something" Stefan says, trying to comfort me
"Probably" I agree
"'Lena, stop worrying, Kat would never go there"
I nod
She would never go there…
Its girl code right?