One of the guys

Better or Worse

Stefan's POV

Laying here on my bed was better than being at some dumb pity party Damon is having down stairs, I cant believe my parents left me here with him. Were not kids that they cant go out on a date. My phone dinged and it was a drunk text from Damon again! This one said; "Little bro, come down and have a drink with me." It's been like this for the past... I looked at the time above my messaging and it was 11:04. He's been at it since noon, I'm surprised he's not passed out on the floor or dying from alcohol poisoning after how much he's consumed.

I put my phone on my blue striped blanket before heading down the hall towards the stairs to see what disaster my idiot brother has made. Walking down the carpeted steps, I kept my head down looking down at the little designs that it has. I wanted to be surprised when I see how he left the living room.

Surprisingly the living room wasn't destroyed no broken bottles or cups, no booze spilled on the eighteenth century rug, the red curtains showing a glimpse of light through the middle gave the room an ominous effect. That rug he loves it and I don't think he would do that. I can't believe he's going crazy over something that has happened more times than anyone can keep track. I sit on the brown suede sofa and recline it. I sit and watch him make a mess of himself, I feel like I should take pity on him I mean this is something big for him, I wonder if him and Katherine are going to last any longer. Damon is what society has labeled him as a ladies man, and being here with Katherine where she keeps him in check is good for him. Now that he's going off to California to study at Brown, I don't know if he wont have a wandering eye for some beach blonde honey with a sun kissed tan.

Just the thought of people with a sun kissed tan Elena popped in to my head and her smile and her chocolate brown eyes and how she's dating Matt and she's like one of my best guy friends, and I'm back. If this is how Damon is acting then I wonder how Kat's taking it. You would think that he'd be at least a bit happy not having to argue with her.

"Hey Damon!" I shout over the top 70's rock he has playing.

"Little brother so good of you to join me." He slurs a bottle of bourbon in his hand. I just shake my hand and offer my hand to help him up stairs. He brutally slaps my hand away and shouts at me to leave him alone, he will find his own way to his bedroom.

I roll my eyes at my older brother who is throwing a pity party for himself when he should be celebrating this is Brown were talking about, a prestigious school. I ignore the other thoughts that are running through my head about my brother and went back to laying on my bed before I got to comfortable someone was throwing rocks at my window, if it was those rotten brats from down the street their in for it.

I snuck up to the window not making to much of a shadow and pulled back the black-blackout curtain and looked out the window. A small rock was coming towards me and my reflexes kick in and I flinched as it hit the glass. I laughed at myself for gorging that there was a three inch thick glass between me and the outside. There was someone in baggy jeans and a black over head hoodie. I gave a questionable look before opening the window. This someone took off their hoodie showing the messy brown hair that was pulled back into a pony tail. Elena waved and told me to let her in. I nodded at her and shut my window before passing Damon who was now passed out on the couch and unlocked the door. Elena helped me carry Damon up stairs she was reluctant because he kept calling her Katherine and trying to kiss her. She 'accidentally' helped him walk into the side table and faked a sorry before we left to my room. We threw ourselves on my bed and laughed about nothing.

I didn't know if I should take the initiative and talk about whats happening between our siblings or what, thankfully she began because I didn't want to make it sound awkward.

"So... I talked to Katherine and she's devastated. Do you know how hard it was for me to see my sister cry for five hours and when she wasn't crying she just stayed numb and I felt useless. She told me about Damon, and I can't believe he got into Brown! Not that it's a shocker but I thought he would stay close. All Kat talks about is three things; Your brother, her looks and school. It was a bit sickening how much she talked bout him, but I want her to be happy." Elena sighed her shoulders dropping. I pondered the idea of strong, occasionally cold hearted and twisted sister crying over someone like Damon; a stuck up, ladies man. Elena was stuck in this state of thought and I knew just the way to get her out of it.

" Come on, get up." I shoved her and she slowly came out of her daze and nodded my head towards the door and silently told her to follow me. The walk to the car and the drive was silent we didn't say much she just stared out the passenger window and let her sister problems bother her. When we pulled into the lot she looked around like she was lost. She came to and she looked at me with a killer smile, and a sly look in her eyes.

She was hopping to the service center and got our helmets, bats and coins. When that red light came on and the ball came at 55 miles per hour she swung like there was no tomorrow. After hitting a few balls, I asked her if she felt better the smile and the way she looked as if she wasn't carrying the world on her shoulders.

After the cages we went to the Mystic Grill for some chili cheese fries and pink lemonade. The other guys were there so we just grabbed a seat and talked about sports and video games and when the topic of girls came up no one even noticed Elena, she's just laughs and shakes her head adding her two cents and carrying on eating her fries.

"Okay top Ten List of girls that you'd date or would date again on campus." Someone from the table asked and we just started throwing out names shaking our heads and questioning some answers, I threw out a couple names myself before we just started joking around and bagging on each other. One by one we each got up and left till it was Tyler, Elena and me. We were just laughing and talking about teachers when Tyler just blurted out that he was seeing Caroline.

Elena and I both looked at each other jaws dropped because they were like polar opposites he was cold and she was hot. When we came to and Tyler had a smirk on his face, I shot a look at Elena — asking if she knew about this — just lifted her shoulders not knowing either.

We asked the usual question; when, how, why didn't he ask her out before. He answered calmly like he was expecting us to question him. He knew we wouldn't tell anyone so basically he entrusted us with his deepest secret.

"I'm planning to make things official on Monday take her on a date, pick her up at hers and all that stuff that girls like." He laughed as if something about it was funny. We paid the check before heading to our cars and going home. I waved at Elena from the drive way as we were heading toward our own house doors, I could smell my moms cooking through the door before i even walked in. I didn't have the heart to tell her that I already ate because she spent so much time slaving over the stove after a long day at work that denying a plate would be wrong. So I sat at the table with my family and talked about our days before saying goodnight and heading our separate ways. I did five reps of twenty sit-ups, push-ups and pull-ups before jumping in the shower can be able to wait to take the sweat off and cover myself in the smell of Dove Men's Body Wash.

I put on a pair of red checkered boxers and black Pro Club sweats before getting under the covers and getting the best sleep of my life. 

A/n: Beginning edited ending not, this is totally half assed and I'm sorry but I've given up on TVD so I'm just writing to write, and this is the last thing on my mind. Next chapter coming sooner than this one I promise and you guys can hold me to that two weeks tops.