Eat Me

Chapter 17: Thieves

Thieves

"What are you doing here?" Elena asked as she stared at Damon. She closed the door so that her sisters didn't listen in. Damon looked generally the same, but to Elena he might as well be a whole new person. He looked so different and even in the short time that he had left, he even looked more mature. "I thought you were still in California."

"I was." Damon gave a small shrug. "I guess I just missed the rain here. Or the people."

Elena let out a small laugh. "You came back to visit your parents." She guessed.

Damon nodded. "But like always they seem more interested in their jobs and cell phones than me."

Elena put her hands on her hips. "Their lost. Though I must admit I wonder why you would leave such a pretty girlfriend you know during holiday season and all."

Elena flushed. Stupid, stupid Elena, had she really just blurted that out.

Damon looked equally confused. "Girlfriend, what girlfriend?"

There was no use, she just needed to go with the flow. "You know the picture that you took with that pretty blond girl back in California."

Damon burst out laughing which only heightened Elena's annoyance. "You mean my cousin? I hate to break it to you, but Callie is my cousin and fifteen."

Elena felt her pulse relaxed. "Oh, you're cousin. Wow, I didn't know. Well, it was good to see you Damon."

Damon gave her, his famous smirk. "Nice to see you too Elena, say hello to your sisters too . . . I can see that Amara is back."

"How do you-"Elena turned around and barely saw a glimpse of Amara and Katherine trying to move away from the window, where they had been looking at them. She tucked back a piece of dark hair. "Sorry about that. So see you around?"

Damon nodded. "You bet."

Christmas was a quiet affair this year and the three girls and Jenna spent it alone this year, and even though Jenna had made a wonderful dinner and Alaric had sent many presents, it still wasn't the same. So the girls were happy that at least the first major holiday was over. Now they only needed to worry about New Year's.

"You're dating someone?" Katherine asked her brown eyes wide in surprise as she stared at Amara across the table who was trying not to blush. "What do you know our little Amara is growing up."

"Shut up, Kat." Amara giggled. "You're making it sound like it's a big deal."

"It is a big deal." Elena confirmed. "So what's the name of this mysterious boyfriend?"

"Silas." Amara said. "He goes to my school and he has a twin sister, Lexi. But please don't make this a big deal than it really is, we've only been dating for a few weeks besides if my roommate Tessa were to find out she'll kill us both."

Katherine scoffed as she started braiding her hair. "Screw Tessa."

Amara turned to Elena. "Enough about me, I would rather hear about you and Damon. Did he come back for you? Are you back together?"

Elena shook her head as she took a bite from her cookie and rolled her eyes at Amara's romantics. "He didn't come back for me, he came back to visit his parents. He just came to say hello, we're not together."

"Damon, is back?" the three girls flinched as they heard Jenna come into the room. Their mother had been so stressed out about the divorce that she was almost always in a foul mood.

Elena spoke up. "Yes, he just came to say hello, he's visiting his parents. He's been living with relatives in California."

Jenna nodded. "You should invite him to New Year's dinner, we are probably just going to be having Chinese or something."

All three girls were stunned by Jenna's invitation, they knew that Jenna didn't hate Damon as much as Alaric, but it was still a big step up.

"Sure," Elena told her. "I'll tell him. Thanks mom."

"Thanks so much for my Christmas present!" Rebekah squealed as she pulled out an Aqua blue dress that Katherine had bought for her. Since the girls had spent Christmas with each of their families, Rebekah had invited Katherine over to exchange gifts.

Katherine smiled as she turned on the music. "I knew you would love it, now mine."

Rebekah handed her a wrapped gift and Katherine pulled out a pretty black and silver dress. "I love it! It's going to look so good with those new black high heels that I bought."

"Let's try them on," Rebekah flipped her blond hair. "Let's see which one of us looks more gorgeous."

"You're on, Mikaelson."

Each girl slipped on their dresses and Rebekah's aqua blue dress fit perfectly, but Katherine was frowning at her reflection in the mirror. The dress was her size, but it fit in all the wrong places. The dress looked sloppy against her small frame and did her breasts seem smaller? It needed to be tuck at the waist and honestly it looked like she was wearing her mother's clothes.

"You're unbelievable."

Katherine turned around and snapped at Rebekah. "Excuse me?"

The blond was frowning at her. "Well, you are. Are you blind? Can't you see what you're doing to yourself?" she poked one of Katherine's ribs. "Kat, how long have you've been doing this?"

"Doing what?" Katherine snapped.

"Starving yourself."

Katherine flushed. "I'm not starving myself! Where the hell did your get that?"

Rebekah crossed her arms over her chest. "I'm not blind, Katherine, I see you. You don't eat, your starve yourself all day, you get dizzy, your irritable, I just want to help-"

"Well, do me a favor and stay out of my life!"

Rebekah's eyes filled with tears. "I'm just trying to help."

"Well, I don't need your help," Katherine snapped as she took off her dress and put on her jeans and sweater. "And keep the dress, because I don't think I want to be your friend anymore."

Amara could feel her pulse raising as she looked out the window and saw that the mailman was barely approaching her house. She didn't know why she was so nervous about receiving the daily copy of the student's literal magazine, The Venue. It wasn't as if she had turned in something to be published, but she was still nervous nonetheless.

Before break she had written a short story about a human girl being in love with two vampire brothers, but she had never got the guts to turn it in to get it published, she wished she had. She opened the door startling the mailman.

"Your letters, miss." The mailman said as he handed her several letters and a thick booklet.

Amara nodded her thanks as she placed the bills on Jenna's desk and grabbed the literary magazine. She skimmed through the first few pages there were mostly filled with holiday poems and short stories

Something however, caught her eyes at the last page. It was her story, her vampire love triangle story, but how? She had never turned it in to get published. At the bottom was the author's name-Tessa Gold.

Amara felt her cheeks burn. "What-"

At that precise moment the phone rang and Jenna answered it. "The Pierce residents . . . yes, this is Mrs. Pierce, Amara's mother . . . drugs? There must be some mistake . . . Amara would never. . Yes, I'll hold."