Innocence

Chapter 14: Pre-Birthday Shopping

During our make-out session, I was surprised Damon didn't, you know what to me because he was getting pretty into it. I stopped him after a while. "So, Scarlet. Are we dating now?" He asked me curiously.

"Um, I'm not sure. I guess we can maybe go on a casual date to the grill or something and then decide." I replied.

"Ok, but you must know that if Klaus gets in between us, I think it's best to go to him in that situation." He stated clearly.

"Ok. Yeah, sure. I can do that."

"Ok. Great." He said, "I'll text you soon." He got up and left the room, and he left the house. I then came downstairs, and everyone looked at me.

"So, what did he have to say?" Care said looking at me curiously.

"He basically just said that Elijah misses me and wants me back and that he'll do anything to get me to go back to him." I said bluntly.

"Oh." Elena said, "Well, let's get back to the movie!" I sat down next to Elena, and we watched the movie. We fell asleep at around 3am because we were gossiping about other people at school, and the guys after the movie ended.

The next morning, we all woke up at 11am, with our popcorn bins on the floor. I was the first one to get up, and I walked into the kitchen to make myself some French Vanilla coffee with the Keurig coffee machine.

I checked my phone. More messages from Elijah. Ugh, go away. My coffee finished brewing, and my phone started to ring. It was Elijah. I will literally break my phone. I didn't pick it up, and I put my phone on silent. But then, I thought that it would be best to block his number so he can't even call me or text me. And so I did. I was relieved that it would finally end my headache. Then Rebekah's phone went off, and she lazily woke up to answer it.

"Hello?" She said in her sleepy voice. She had the call on speaker.

"Hello, Rebekah? Is Sheriff Forbes home at the moment?" I heard Elijah, and I instantly got annoyed.

"No." She replied.

"Good lord. Scarlet has not answered my calls. Is she ok?" He asked.

"She's fine." Rebekah said.

"Well can I talk to her?" He asked. Rebekah looked at me, and I shook my head no.

"Unfortunately, you cannot. She's still sleeping." She answered.

"It's 11 in the morning, sister."

"Well, brother. It's needless to say that we went to bed at 3am. She doesn't want to talk to you. I think we all made that pretty clear last night when you visited." Bekah said.

"Sister, she blocked my number. I have no way of communication unless I find her when she's out." Elijah stated.

"Let's keep it that way." Bekah said, "Good day, brother." She hung up the phone and put it down on the counter next to my phone.

"Thank you." I said.

"Your welcome. Just let me know when you need anything. Come on, let's go." She said, taking my hand.

"Where are we going?" I asked curiously as she dragged me upstairs into my room.

"We're gonna go shopping. I'd love to get you some new jewelry for your party." She replied.

"What if Elijah finds us?" I asked scared.

"It's ok. If he does, then let me deal with it and you'll go to the car." She replied as we reached my room.

I went into my closet as Bekah changed into her clothes from last night. I looked through my closet and I put on a navy blue dress with combat boots, and a black leather jacket. I let my hair down, did my makeup, grabbed my phone and purse, and headed out with Bekah.

~Time skip~

We were driving around town when we found a Forever 21 shop, and Bekah handed me a debit card. I was confused. "What's this?" I asked curiously.

"Take it. It has $1,000,000 on it. It was unused from my brother Finn. He won't mind." She smiled.

"Rebekah, I can't take this...it's wrong." I said.

"Nonsense, take it. You can get anything you want." 

"Are you sure?" 

"Absolutely. I wouldn't just give this to nobody. Your one of my best friends. We can find your jewelry in here, and even some new clothes. As you know, we have booked and planned everything, so we just have to show up next Saturday at 5:30pm to get settled. After all, we did invite 250 people." She replied as we walked into the store.

"Yeah, your right. Thank you so much Rebekah. I don't even want another gift from you." 

"Oh well, your going to get a new gift at your party anyway, so..." She replied smiling.

"Oh, god.." I said walking around. 

As I walked through the store, I picked out some shoes, jewelry, and basically anything else that I could find that was cute and adorable. I tried all of the things I picked out on, and I ended up purchasing a cute white sweater, blue ripped jeans, a red scarf, brown boots, and nice jewelry that would compliment my dress perfectly. After we left the store, we went to the food court to get some brunch, since we didn't eat anything in the "morning". We ended up going to some Greek place, and we both got gyros. We sat down at a table, put our bags to the side, and ate. We talked about the table arrangements, and I also told her that I invited Elijah back before we broke up. She said, "Well Scarlet, if you don't want him there, then I guess I can try to convince him to not come, but I'm telling you right now, he's going to budge to come and you'll never hear the end of it. So, I would just let him come anyway." 

"Ok..I guess I can't shut him out forever. I mean, I just don't want to see him now. I'm not ready to talk about what happened." I replied. We talked about Elijah, the party, and a lot of other things while we ate. After we ate, we walked around to some other stores, and bought more clothes, and we finally got back to the car at around 4pm. I got in the car with Rebekah, and I was starting to think about how my birthday was in 2 days, which was Tuesday, and today is Sunday. I am so excited for it. 

~Time skip to when they reach the house~

When Rebekah pulled into the driveway, I saw him standing by the door...Elijah.