The Summer That Changed My Life

Chapter 5: Meeting The Other Brother

Stefan POV

I woke up refreshed the next morning and turned to look at my clock on my bedside table. My eyes widened when the display read 8.00am. Shit I'm going to be late. I hastily got out of bed and ran to the bathroom. I couldn't arrive later than Elena, I had to catch her before class started. I wanted to know more about her. With that big, brown doe eyes and extremely hot and flattering figure, who would pass up the opportunity to get to know her and maybe become her boyfriend? Gosh, I bet she's awesome in bed as well.

No Stefan. Don't think like that. Elena isn't some girl that you could have a one night stand with, the look in her eyes say it all. That the thing she values most is trust and how could I betray her trust by having a one night stand with her? 

Am I falling in love with Elena?

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I grabbed my signature black leather jacket and ran out to my car. My signature black jacket was a look that I had gotten from Damon and haven't forgotten since, even though my brother and me were not on good terms with each other. It was the only piece of memory of him that I held onto even though I despised him. Wearing the same clothes as Damon kinda brought me back to when we were younger and Damon would play with me. I'm turning soft! I'm supposed to hate my brother! What's happening to me?!

I shook my head and got into my car and started driving to school. Suddenly the car lurched to a halt and no matter how hard I slammed my foot against the accelerator, the car refused to budge. Dammit! I won't be able to catch Elena before class at this rate. Luckily the roads were fairly empty, so I got out of my car and called for the tow company to fix my car and half walked half ran to school. I only had fifteen minutes before school started and I sure as hell didn't want to be late. I silently cursed under my breath when I realized that because my car broke down, Damon had no choice but to pick me up from school and therefore would be seeing Elena. Great, just great, yet something else to add to my plate of problems.

In school

I arrived at school just in time as the bell rang. I already had all my books with me so I quickly headed to first period. I saw Elena waiting outside the classroom, frantically glancing around. When she saw me, her eyes immediately brightened up and she pulled me into class and we sat down just in the nik of time. My heart fluttered when I saw Elena waiting for me and I simply could not shake away the feeling that I felt when I saw her. Yeah, I was definitely falling in love with Elena Gilbert.

"What took you so long?" Elena's melodious, sweet voice floated into my ears.

"Sorry car broke down and..... well yeah I had to walk to school."

Elena giggled at me and nodded her head in understanding, then turned her attention back to the teacher to avoid getting caught. I didn't care about the lesson at all, I leaned back against my chair and stared at Elena's behind—her glossy stick-straight mocha brown locks and her amazing slim figure. Gosh , I so badly wanted her to be mine. 

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The end of the day finally rolled around and I suddenly remembered that my car had broken down in the morning. As I walked out towards the quad with Elena by my side, I took out my phone and dialed Damon's number. I hardly ever talked to him, so it felt kinda weird to talk to him on the phone. Elena noticed my discomfort and raised an eyebrow in my direction, I just shook my head and asked Elena to wait for me while I stepped to the side to call my brother.

"Yes Brother. What do you want?"

"Erm.... my car broke down.... do you er.... think you could come pick me up from school?"

"Fine... do I look like I have a choice anyway? Pick you up in about 10."

As I hung up, I thought about the phone call I just had with my brother. The background sounded extremely quiet and that was weird. He sounded annoyed, like I had interrupted him while he was doing something important. It definitely did not sound like he was at The Grill, neither did it sound like I had just interrupted his sex with some random girl. That was odd. I thought to myself. Then I remembered Elena. Crap! I had already left her standing alone there for nearly 10 minutes. I rushed back to Elena and found her using her phone.

"Heyz sorry I took so long. Want me to walk you back to the dorm? I have about 5 minutes to spare before my brother comes to pick me up."

Elena POV

"It's ok. I wanna meet your brother. I know you always have that deadly look in your eyes whenever you talk about him, but I don't think that he's that much of a jerk. I mean I have an older brother, and I admit sometimes he can be absolutely annoying, up to the point that I feel like killing him, but I'll always love him no matter what. I don't care about whatever you say. Just let me meet and talk to him just this once and if he really is what you describe him to be, I won't talk to him anymore after that ok?" I pleaded with Stefan and when I saw his face soften and a small sigh escaping his lips, I knew I had won.

Not long after, I heard a car pull up and a guy with jet black hair, ocean blue eyes and a familiar looking leather jacket stepped out. Whoa. I thought. That was one hot guy. I didn't even realize that he was walking towards Stefan and I. Wait was that hot guy Stefan's brother, Damon? Before I even had time to think, he was already in front of Stefan and I. I broke out of my dazed state when I heard Stefan introduce us to each other.

"Erm... Elena this is Damon and Damon this is Elena."

I looked up into Damon's ocean blue eyes and immediately noticed the sadness and loneliness that was in them. However, Damon quickly hid his flash of emotions with his cold front. His eyes stared back chillingly at me and I felt a shiver run through my spine. I frowned and thought to myself. What did Damon do that caused Stefan to hate him so much? And what was with his expression? I shook my head and turned my focus back to Stefan and Damon.

"Ok I'll see you back here tomorrow Elena!" Stefan yelled as he waved goodbye to me and walked towards Damon's car.

"Bye Elena, it was nice meeting you." Damon's soft voice floated into my ears. He took my hand and placed a soft kiss on my knuckles. A blush immediately found its way to my face and I quickly looked down to avoid Damon's gaze. 

"Bye Damon. Help me say bye to Stefan too."

I turned around and started walking back to my dorm that I shared with Caroline and Bonnie. All the way home, I thought about Stefan and Damon. Stefan had that look of hatred the last time he talked about his brother while Damon's ocean blue eyes told a completely different story. I wondered what the real story was between them and vouched to myself to get down to the bottom of the matter before Summer ended, even though I knew it wasn't really my place to find out the full story. But I couldn't deny how hot Damon looked and that night I fell asleep dreaming about those ocean blue eyes and jet black hair.

Damon POV

Reluctantly, I went to pick Stefan up from school. I had no choice. Mr Blue-eyed Boy couldn't get even a strand of hair on his head hurt. I had learnt the hard way when I was younger and there was no way he was going to re-live that horrible memory now that he was older. I pulled up to the quad, where Stefan told me he was going to be waiting and I saw him talking to someone and it looked like he was talking to a girl. I decided to annoy Stefan by interrupting his conversation to get back at him for interrupting my study session with Klaus. Childish you would think, but I didn't care.