Apartment B-4

The Funeral

ELENA'S POINT OF VIEW

Mystic Falls. The place I never planned to return to. The place I'd been running from my entire life. I never thought I'd be here again. Now, I'm back.

My father's funeral was today. He died of a heart attack. Dean, of course, decided to come with. I appreciated that because I needed someone to be there for me, but my heart already hurt. I didn't need it to break anymore.

I was staring at the hotel we were staying in.

"Elena?" Dean caught my attention.

"Are you ready?" He asked.

We got in the car and rode to the funeral.

There were many people there. My father was a very popular man.

I was greeted by many people. It was mostly "How are you holding up?" or my personal favorite "It's sad that you hadn't seen him in a while. He would have wanted that before he died."

As much as I wanted to punch everyone in the face, Dean held me back.

Another younger woman came up to me. I didn't really know her, but I'd met her a couple of times and she was a bitch.

"Elena, how are you holding up?" She asked.

"I'm fine Bella," I told her getting aggravated.

"Oh you poor thing. It must be sad knowing that your father had to take care of himself. I bet he would have liked it if he had someone there for him instead of in a completely different state." She said.

"Yeah well I bet your ex-husbands would have appreciated your loyalty instead of sleeping with your future ex-husbands. That's okay though because you always have your plastic surgeon to sleep with," Dean told her.

She scoffed and walked off.

"Dean what was that?" I asked him.

"I didn't like the way she was talking to you," he said. "She deserved it."

"That was amazing!" I laughed. "Man, I've been wanting to call her out so many times!"

I noticed some people walking towards me. It took me a second to realize who it was.

"Elena," Jeremy said as he ran up and hugged me.

"Jer," I said hugging him back.

"It's so good to see you," he breathed into my hair.

"I've missed you so much!" I said.

"Hey what about me?" Bonnie said.

"You know I've missed you girl!" I hugged her.

"So you two huh?" I asked.

"Yeah Elena. I hope that's okay," Jeremy said.

"As long as you guys are happy," I told them.

"Jer I'm so proud of you," I said.

"Yeah yeah. No need to make this sentimental." He laughed and gave a weird look to Dean.

"Oh this is Dean," I said introducing them.

"Oh! This is Dean? Wow Elena. Nice work," Bonnie said.

I gave Bonnie the "look". The one that says "Shut up dude!"

Jeremy shook Dean's hand.

"It's nice to meet you," Dean said.

"You too Dean," Jeremy replied.

"Where's Caroline?" I asked.

"She's around here somewhere. I actually think she's looking for you," Bonnie told me.