Eat Me

Chapter 10: Respect Me

Respect Me

A few weeks later. . .

"Ugh! I hate this!" Elena said to no one in particular, especially since she was alone in Damon's room. Well, she guessed it was her room now too, since she had been living there for the past few weeks.

After her parents had kicked her out, she had taken residency at Damon's house, more specifically in Damon's room. If his parents saw anything strange about that, they didn't comment. They had barely acknowledge Elena, even though she had tried to tell them how sorry she was. It was clear that they didn't care and besides they spend more time outside that in their own house.

A lot had changed in the past few weeks. For one both she and Damon had gotten jobs in order to start saving for the baby. Damon worked as a mechanic's aid fixing cars and motorcycles, while Elena had gotten a job at a small market a few blocks away from Damon's house as a cashier.

Neither of their jobs were fabulous, but it was a start and besides she didn't want to live in Damon's room forever and it was too small for a crib.

Elena tied her shaggy, brown hair into a ponytail and looked at herself in the mirror and sighed as she remember another big thing that had changed. Even though she was only a little over two months pregnant and baby bump was already starting to form and news had spread quickly that Elena was pregnant.

Elena shut her eyes as she remembered those horrible days, her teachers' disappointed looks while her classmates whispered things behind her back and practically thought that she was a slut.

After two weeks of torture she had dropped out of high school, she was eighteen and going though that every day was not worth the torture, Damon had quit too. School was out of the question now anyway, they needed money.

Damon's parents had made it clear that they weren't going to help and Elena's own parents were out of the question since they avoided her like the plague now. Katherine had promised that she would try to convince them too otherwise and although Elena appreciated her sister's concern, she knew it was a lost cause.

The door opened and Damon came in like he always did wearing greasy clothes and smelling like tires.

"Hey," Damon said as he gave her a soft smile and kissed her forehead.

"Hey," she whispered back as Damon touched her cheek. As much as Elena hated to admit it, her relationship with Damon had changed as well, though Elena wasn't sure if it was for the better, they were both stressed and worried which didn't add well towards the relationship. "How was work?"

"Decent, you?"

"Well, a little old lady shouted at me for three minutes because I couldn't remember how much a bag of oranges cost. That was fun." She said sarcastically.

Damon kissed her again. "It will get better."

"I doubt it. But thanks for trying."

The doorbell rang and Elena frowned. "Were you expecting someone?"

Damon shook his head. "It's probably Katherine again bringing you animal cookies." Out of pity, Katherine had taken the habit of bringing Elena's favorite animal cookies every week to take her mind off things.

She shook her head as she went to answer the door. "No, Kat went to go visit Elijah at college."

She opened the door and stopped short when she saw Jenna. "Mom?"

Jenna gave her a nervous smile. "Hi, sweetie, Damon I came to talk to you may I come in?"

"Lexi, can I ask you something?" Amara said looking over her history textbook. Amara had gotten stuck with an asshole for a history teacher and Lexi, who had the same teacher had offered to help her study.

"Sure." Lexi said as she grabbed a piece of gum, she offered some to Amara, but she shook her head. "What's wrong, you look worried."

"I am and Tessa is the problem," she rolled her eyes. She knew that Tessa was capable of going through with her crazy threat and she had avoided Silas for the past few weeks, thankfully Silas had been so busy with soccer practice and his own friends that he had hardly noticed. "I noticed that she's a little obsess over Silas."

"A little?" Lexi scoffed. "Crazy is more accurate." She paused. "Oh, no don't tell me that Tessa is giving you trouble."

Amara squirmed in her seat. "A little, but I can handle her," she lied. "I was just wondering, if you don't mind me asking, what's the relationship between her and Silas? They seem to be . . . close."

Lexi let out a small laugh. "It's kind of a fantasy relationship, and I'm talking about Tessa for that part."

Amara looked confused.

Lexi elaborated. "Look, Tessa, Silas, and I grew up together, I don't think childhood friends is the right words, but whatever. Anyway, since middle school Tessa has, had this huge crush of Silas and well you know how moody my brother can be. When she asked him out in our ninth grade, he rejected her and she was furious. Tessa has been trying to get him to date her for years and you can see how determine she can be. Silas gets freaked out about her though, and I admit she can be pretty scary."

Amara looked relieved. "So she and Silas never dated?" Good, at least she wouldn't come off as a roommate stealing an ex-boyfriend.

"Nope, in her head maybe," Lexi looked at her curiously. "You have nothing to worry about."