A/N: Hi! I am a huge fan of the Vampire Diaries and the pairing Delena. This is my very first fanfiction so please go easy on me, anyways. Enjoy! And thank you for taking the time to read this.
Reviews are much apprectiated!
Disclaimer: I do not own the Vampire Diaries or any of its characters, if I did Damon and Elena would be together and Stefan would have been killed off long ago.
In the night, in my dreams I'm in love with you
Cuz you talk to me like lovers do
I feel joy, I feel pain, cuz it's still the same,
When the night is gone I'll be alone.
Elena stopped when Stefan waved to her from across the restaurant. She couldn't help but smile to think that he had been waiting for her and just wanted to be with her; it was all she had wanted from him for the longest time.
"Hey Beautiful," Stefan said as he stood to greet Elena.
"Hi S-Stefan..." Elena stuttered and blushed. She had surprised herself, normally when she was around Stefan she wasn't so shy.
"You're so cute when you blush Elena," Stefan commented smiling, "come on and sit down so we can start this date."
Elena sat down in her chair across from him and looked into Stefan's eyes. He gave her an even bigger smile and stared back at her lovingly.
He regained his calm composure and began to speak,
"Elena, you're the most amazing girl I have ever met. You're selfless, intelligent, sweet, and gorgeous. You're the girl any guy would want to have and I'm so glad I finally decided to ask you out. You've made me fall in-"
"Elena, wake up. C'mon you promised you would drive us to the airport."
Elena frowned and suddenly felt herself being pulled away from Stefan and in a few seconds she opened her eyes, seeing the familiar shapes and colors of her bedroom.
"ELENA!" Jeremy called out shaking his half-asleep twin sister, "Wake up!"
"I'm up Jer! Please stop screaming in my face!" Elena called back sitting up in bed. She rubbed her eyes. Her brother, fully dressed was kneeling in the bed beside her, he spoke;
"Elena, me and Bonnie are ready to go, we have to leave."
"What time is it?"
"4 am."
"OH MY GOSH!" Elena scrambled to get out of bed and bolted to her bathroom to get ready.
She could hear Jeremy's laughter from the other side of the wall, "It's funny to see how fast you move when you realize you've overslept!"
Elena groaned and continued getting ready quickly. She thought about her dream sadly.
"Of course it was dream; Stefan doesn't feel that way about me. I'm still stuck in the friend zone with him."
Elena had a huge crush on her friend Stefan for the longest time and couldn't get him off her mind, or out of her dreams.
After finishing up in the bathroom Elena looked at her reflection in the mirror. Her normally straight chestnut brown hair was wavy and framed her face. Her chocolate brown eyes seemed dark as they blinked back at her. Her pale lips were formed into a sad smile as she thought about Stefan.
"Elena, hurry up!" Came her best friend Bonnie's voice from behind the door.
Elena quickly grabbed her purse and left.
Elena wrapped her arms around Jeremy and pulled him closer.
"I'm going to miss you so much Jer!" Elena whispered to her twin.
"Elena. I'm only going for a couple of weeks!" Jeremy chuckled.
Jeremy and Bonnie were going to Denver for a school trip and Elena knew she would miss her best friend and brother a lot so she drove them to the airport to say goodbye.
The twins stood in the airport terminal hugging goodbye as Bonnie reappeared from her run to the bathroom.
"Bonnie!" Elena cried, "Get in here!"
Bonnie giggled and wrapped her arms around her boyfriend and best friend. They all stood together like that for a while until Elena let go of them.
They walked away, hand in hand waving goodbye to Elena until they were out of sight.
She stood there staring into the distance for a moment until she realized she had to get back home in time for school.
She climbed into her car and filled her head with thoughts about Jeremy, Bonnie and Stefan; her best friends.
She was jealous of Bonnie and Jeremy's relationship, it was so easy-going, they weren't afraid to be themselves and love each other. It was so comfortable; when you see them together you can't help but think they had been together forever instead of only a few months.
She sighed, she wanted that with Stefan, that closeness in a relationship, but who was she kidding? He only saw her as a friend and would only ever see her as a friend.
After driving back from the airport, Elena quickly stopped at home to grab her bags before heading off to school.
Elena pulled her car into the parking lot of her school and climbed out. She spied her friends and bolted towards them, almost forgetting to lock her car.
Standing at the front doors of her high school were, Vicki Donavan and Tyler Lockwood; close friends of her, Stefan, Bonnie and Jeremy. With Vicki and Tyler stood the one person Elena could not wait to see.
She nearly swooned at the sight of him; his sandy brown hair had been styled perfectly, and his tight grey shirt clung to his body accenting his perfectly chiseled chest. His bright green eyes bore into her brown ones as he took notice of her quickly approaching him.
"Elena! Help me out here! They didn't believe me when I told them I beat the tenth round on your video game." Stefan pleaded.
She couldn't suppress a giggle as she remembered that night;
Elena's parents went out of town so she had invited Stefan and Bonnie to come over and hang out with her and Jeremy. However, the night ended up being much more fun than expected once Stefan uncovered her father, Grayson's stash of alcohol.
"Jeremy," Stefan slurred, "How do you play this thing?"
He was sprawled over the couch in the living room, his right hand clutched Jeremy's Xbox remote control and his right clasped a bottle of liquor. Jeremy's zombie game played on the television and by the game's sound effects Elena had assumed he wasn't doing too well.
Jeremy was in the kitchen spinning Bonnie around as they danced to Bonnie's IPod.
You can have it all,
Anything you want you can make it yours
Anything you want in the world, anything you want in the world
"You kill fucking zombies, what's so complicated about that?" Jeremy called out annoyed. Bonnie laughed as he pulled her into his chest.
Elena couldn't help but smile at this scene, all four of them were drunk off their asses either playing video games, dancing, or, in her case, watching everyone. Her friends and her brother were the craziest people she knew, but they were also the best. She was bouncing off the walls laughing her head off at random things going on around her; she felt like a little kid again no worries or cares just her and her friends.
Stefan let out an angry growl as he continually slammed his thumbs down on Jeremy's remote, trying to figure out how to kill zombies. Elena, in a fit of mercy, decided to go over to him and teach him how to play her favorite video game.
Stefan made Elena take second player and they both began to kill as many of the undead as they could.
"AHHHHHHHHHH! DIE ZOMBITCHES!" Stefan screamed, as his avatar fired his gun rapidly at the undead slowly coming for him.
"EAT LED!" Elena cried out between fits of laughter, this was so much fun!
Stefan suddenly screamed and chucked his remote at the television. "DAMN IT! I HAD YOU ZOMBIES, I HAD YOU!"
Elena continued her hysterical fit of laughter until Jeremy and Bonnie entered the room and tiredly plopped on the now empty couch.
"Stefan!" Bonnie gasped, taking note of the stats on the television "You two made it to level 11!" Jeremy fell off of the couch upon hearing this and tumbled onto Elena who was sitting at the foot of it.
"ELENA! YOU AND STEFAN BEAT THE UNBEATABLE LEVEL" Jeremy cried, hugging his twin sister tightly and laughing. This was an extremely monumental moment in the Gilbert household as the twins had never gotten that far, nor had anyone they knew.
Stefan and Elena grinned at each other, stood up, and began to jump up and down with joy. Chanting, "We did it, we did it!"
The four friends laughed and celebrated. Stefan picked up Elena and spun her around her living room making her giggle as Jeremy did the same with his girlfriend.
Stefan set Elena down and they stood there for a while, smiling into each other's faces when suddenly a phone rang, and Stefan had to leave Elena who suddenly realised; she really liked him.
"Elena?" His voice brought her out of her flashback.
"Sorry," she said quickly, "Umm yes, Stefan's telling the truth, but he never would have gotten there without MY help." She smirked at Stefan.
" Yeah, sure Elena..." Stefan retorted with an eye roll.
"Wow, and here I always thought level 10 was impossible to beat." Vicki said, shaking her head.
Tyler grinned, "It is, don't believe a word he says Vicki."
Stefan glared at Tyler and they began to roughhouse with each other. Elena rolled her eyes and glanced over at Vicki as if to say "Boys..." and Vicki smiled back at Elena throwing her hands up in the air exasperated before rolling her eyes and leaving her friends to fight.
She watched Vickie walk away and began to think about how Vickie had told her she had feelings for Tyler but was too afraid of being rejected by him... Reminding her of her own situation.
"If you're trying to strangle Mr. Fleming by using the force, it's pointless. That man has survived voodoo dolls, hexes and all other forms of black magic. He just won't die!" a voice exclaimed from behind her. Elena whipped her head around to see her closest friend Caroline glaring at their English teacher who was currently standing in the spot Elena was staring at.
Elena smiled and replied, "It would still be worth a shot. If he's gone I don't need to hand in my essay tomorrow. Have you started it Care?"
Caroline shook her head and shrugged, "He already hates my guts, why bother wasting any energy for him. He's just going to insult it in front of the class."
With Caroline and Mr. Fleming it had been hate at first sight. Ever since the day Caroline made the mistake of being late to his class causing her to run into her teacher while entering the class, making him spill his coffee all over himself and his lesson plan for that week.
Elena nodded her head and sweetly said, "He's a jackass Care, it doesn't matter what he thinks."
She looked over to check on the development of Stefan and Tyler's fight and realised they had disappeared. She sighed sadly and followed a fast-talking Caroline to their morning class.
The girls headed off and chatted about the newest episodes of their favorite shows, shoe sales and Elena's least favourite subject with Caroline; boys. Caroline's current love interest was a "cute" boy named Jacob Collins who Elena dubbed "major player".
"So I was walking to Biology right, and suddenly I hear someone call out 'shit!' So I turn around to see Jacob on the ground picking up all the papers that fell out of his bag. So naturally I help him pick everything up and place them into his bag. He smiles at me, says 'Why thank you Caroline.' winks at me and heads down to the Arts hallway."
Elena stared at Caroline who was clearly waiting for a reaction. "What?" she asked dumbfounded.
"Oh Elena, don't you see!" Caroline pleaded trying to prevent herself from freaking out at her friend.
"He's a dumb clumsy person who makes nice girls pick things up after him?" Elena said provocatively. She knew it would happen, that Caroline would crack and explode all over the place.
She smiled as she watched Caroline's bright blue eyes widen in shock, her hands flew to the sky, and her face became flushed with proof of her angry passion as she explained how, by knowing her name and smiling at her like that, Jacob may someday become hers.
Elena smiled good-naturedly and inwardly groaned. Caroline ALWAYS found a way to start her mornings with talk of Jacob's most recent activity and as soon as she would start she could never stop. Elena sat down at her desk and watched as Caroline (who was still gushing about her Jacob) did the same. Suddenly she spotted someone at the door.
She grinned as she watched Stefan walk into class slowly at the ring of the bell, Tyler at his heels laughing his head off.
Well they seem to be alright. Elena thought watching them sit down in their seats.
Caroline had stopped talking and began taking her notes out. Elena sighed, it was gonna be another very long day.
"And then of course I told Tyler to go away and get someone else's notes..." Caroline jabbered on to Elena, who was watching Caroline take her books out of her locker. Her mind was on Stefan, as it often was, Stefan had asked Elena to be his French tutor as he wasn't capable of teaching himself the language. Elena had immediately agreed and found it lovely that he had asked her of all people.
She stared at Stefan's figure from across the hallway and came out of her thoughts when Caroline waved her hand over Elena's vacant face.
"Ugh, Elena. When are you going to just tell him how you feel about him?" Caroline asked angrily shaking her blonde locks.
"Never Caroline, I just can't... I couldn't lose him as a friend. I mean, what if it just ends up exploding in my face and we hate each other? It's just not worth the risk, even if part of me thinks he might have feelings for me." Elena answered quietly. She wished Stefan did like her, and would tell her how he felt, just like in all her dreams.
Caroline groaned and closed her locker. She did not like Stefan, she pretended to for Elena's sake but underneath it all she felt Stefan didn't truly care for Elena, he only led her on to make her think she was special but had no feelings for her.
She continued her conversation about Tyler but kept a close eye on Elena, she wasn't sure whether or not Stefan liked her back but she understood Elena's thoughts on not telling him how she felt, they were good friends and she didn't want to ruin anything.
Elena wanted to scream. After returning home from school she had told her mother, Miranda, that she was going to the library and it had resulted in a screaming match between the two of them.
Just like every conversation does... Elena thought to herself as she listened to her mother drone on from behind the stack of papers she was looking over.
"I need you home to clean this house Elena! I'm going out tonight with your father and if this kitchen is not clean by the time we get back-"
"Mom! I can clean the kitchen when I get back okay? I need to go to the library!" Elena said frustrated staring daggers at her mother.
Miranda suddenly looked up from her papers to glare at her daughter.
"Why?" she asked narrowing her eyes, challenging Elena.
Elena hesitated, she had stopped telling Miranda about her life long ago, she had never felt comfortable or close to her mother which had made her pull away from her parents and became a cautious person. Miranda knew the names of the people Elena spent time with but she didn't know about her and Stefan's friendship. She had always believed the two only knew each other through Jeremy. Her parents were always quick to conclusions so Elena didn't tell them anything about him. And she was not about to start now.
"I have an essay to work on, in uh... French." Elena replied quickly, hoping, praying it would work.
There was a long silence as Miranda stared angrily at her. Elena took a deep breath and waited.
After an eternity Miranda accepted her lie and replied, "Fine Elena. But the kitchen must be spotless when I return."
Elena nodded, "Thank you," and raced out the door before her mother could change her mind.
It wasn't as if Elena enjoyed fighting with her mother, sometimes she just wished she had someone who could understand her and not treat her like she didn't matter. Her mother was a bossy and rude person who Elena felt detached from. Her father was no help. Grayson, a doctor, was always working and only ever spoke to his daughter about baseball which Elena disliked. The only person Elena felt that special family bond to was Jeremy; her best friend but since he had decided to get more involved in school and his girlfriend he began having little time for his twin sister.
Elena sighed as she neared the town library, she hoped Stefan would be there alone, if there was one thing she hated him to do it was invite other girls to hang out with them and completely ignore Elena.
She headed towards the library and noticed him standing in the lobby chatting with his friend Rebekah. Elena groaned, she liked Rebekah but barely knew the girl and didn't want her observing their tutoring session.
She was about to turn around when Stefan spotted her, "Elena!" he gave her a big smile and waved her over towards him. Elena gasped; it was the exact same gesture he had used in her dream.
Whoa, she thought
Rebekah smiled sweetly at Elena and mouthed the word "hi" Elena returned her smile warmly and turned to Stefan.
"Es-tu prepare?" Elena asked, bumping Stefan's elbow.
"What?" he asked looking dumbstruck.
Elena laughed, "You really need my help don't you? I asked if you were ready."
"Oh, um yeah. Hey Rebekah, wanna hang out and get a free French lesson from the genius herself?" he asked Rebekah, managing to turn Elena bright red out of anger and modesty.
Luckily she needed to leave but promised to return to get a book she needed.
"J'ai dix-sept ans. Quel age as-tu?" Elena questioned Stefan.
"Je suis cent-sept ans?" Stefan's French accent was pitiful and made Elena giggle.
Stefan blushed and asked, "Am I really that bad?"
Elena nodded trying not to laugh, "Well you just said 'I am 107 years old' so yes."
"Why am I even taking this subject?" Stefan asked rhetorically as he slammed his head on the table, "Elena, I'm hopeless, this is basic stuff I can't even get right."
"No Stefan, it's not hopeless. I promise you I'm not giving up until you're at least at a passing mark." Elena promised, placing her hand on Stefan's.
He sat up and glared at Elena's hand on his before swiping it away quickly and sighing, "Forget it. Enough studying for today. When did Rebekah say she was coming back?"
"She didn't."
"Oh."
"Are you sure you don't want any more help? I could give you my notes if you wanted." Elena asked watching Stefan stand up from their table and shake his head.
"No Elena, go home. Trust me; you've helped me more than enough. I'm just going to grab a bite to eat and head home." He snapped.
Elena was about to offer to eat with Stefan but she watched him retreat from her sight before she could even utter a "goodbye". She headed out and sighed.
Why was it whenever she left Stefan she felt hurt? Could they not just end on good terms instead of him saying or doing something to make her feel bad?
She climbed into her car, and headed home.
This routine continued all week, everyday she'd see Caroline and everyday she'd fight with her mother, to go tutor Stefan who left her feeling vulnerable and confused.
Until that next week...
Songs used: Another Night-Real McCoy
Give It Up to Me-Shakira (feat. Lil Wayne)