Aria Gilbert (The Other Gilbert Girl)*HOLD*

Chapter 5

Damon's P.0.V

I saw Stefan kiss Aria, and her run inside. I couldn't pick up on what he said to her. Elena came outside yelling, this I heard. "What did you say to her to make her so sad? Well..." She stood there for a long time. He then wispered, "I kissed her." She yelled some more stuff that I didn't care to hear. I walked around the block till I found a way to Aria's window with out being seen. I heard her cryoing and it broke me. I didn't know why but when I was around her it was like all the bad stuff never happened.

I knocked on her window, and then slid it open. she was on her bed crying. "Go away Damon, I am not in the mood for games." I shook my head and said, "Me either, what happened? Why are you crying?" She laughed through the tears. "It's funny really, I thought for a moment I could be good enough..." I tilted her head up and asked, "For who? To me your always good enough." She laughed again. "Don't get mad but, of course you would say that. You're just like me broken on the inside." This time it was my turn to laugh. I laid on her bed, next to her. "I am so sleepy, and hungry and dead. I want to just die on the inside." Aria said with a big yawn. She rolled over on me again and fell asleep.

This felt good, right. Normal, unlike her encounter with Stefan.

Stefan's P.0.V

I shouldn't have let her go. I shouldn't have kissed her either. But I wanted to and now I was waging an internal battle. Of heart and mind. Technically on paper Aria and I worked, but in my imagination Elena and i always worked. Because she looks like Katherine, or because somewhere deep down you want her to be. Something in my head told me. No. That is not the truth. The truth is you want Aria because it was ment to be. But you can't not have Elena either. Make things right with Elena and see if you two have the same connection you have with Aria.

Aria's P.0.V

Death from humiliation, wouldn't come fast enough. But Damon had. He was perfect, but not like Stefan. He was somehow more. In theroy we would have worked. In the real world we would be broken. Good thing I had Damon. Now if I could figure out all of the animal attacks, weird sightings of unhuman things, and my memory gaps, I knew I could be happy. Putting others first.