Dangerous Minds

Chapter Seven

A/N: Hey all! Thank you guys so much for the support and reviews for this story. I'm so happy that a lot of you are liking it and finding it interesting. I want to say that this chapter is going to set things in motion for the rest of the story and that things are just going to be getting even more complicated.

*Please note that there are flashbacks in this chapter which are in italics and that this chapter has a small time jump of 4 MONTHS. So, in the story at this point Elena and Stefan have known each other for a total of six months.

Anyways, hopefully this won't be too confusing for any of you because I really tried to explain things the best I could.

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Dangerous Minds- Chapter Seven

-Elena-

"Are you that we should do this today?" I had asked him nervously as he tugged on to my arm and pulled me along with him into the church. It was a beautiful sunny day as the sun shinned down upon my face and I smiled up at him. Stefan had done exactly what he had promised, wearing his neatly pressed black tux with a pair of black dress shoes that were nicely polished. The smile on his face was one that I will never forget- pure happiness. "We're going to be late birthday girl!" He shouted back at me as I stood on the steps, glancing up at the large red colored brick building with an awe struck expression on my face, feeling as if it was all a dream. I was going in there with the guy I've started to really care about so that we could confess our emotions and feelings without any barriers.

"Take a picture of us!" Stefan heard me shout out, causing him to turn around and shake his head.

"Elena, we're just doing this for fun." He had replied simply, extending out his hand to me anyway, even if he had thought it was a stupid gesture. I didn't care because in the moment when he pulled me close to him and kissed my cheek. I knew, something within my heart told me that what he and I had developed in this short amount of time wasn't just some high school romance. I could feel him placing his arm around my lower back while he whispered into my ear softly. "I'm falling in love with you, Elena."

I can't control my racing mind tonight, memories are overwhelmingly flooding it. There are so many things that I should have said on that day with Stefan at the church, there are so many things that have brought us closer since then and yet in these last six months that we've known each other. Tonight, I've never felt more further away from him than I do now. My 18th birthday had come and gone and two weeks after my birthday. I found myself saying goodbye to both Jillian and John for the first time, watching them leave to live their new lives without me. After weeks andmany failed attempts at trying to reason with them to not sell my childhood home that I had grew up in, they finally did. Jenna came back into my life around the same time that the house finally had a for sale sign up in the front lawn and told my uncle and my aunt that it was better if I left for Texas in the middle of my junior year. Neither of them said a word. They suggested instead that her and I live in an apartment or that I switched school, just until the school year was over and then we'd leave Mystic Falls for good and I could start fresh in Austin, Texas like she had originally planned when I met her.

I can hear them fighting over me some more. They've been doing it for the last two hours on the phone. He tells her to not bring me home with her and then Jenna rebuttals with saying that she's the only family I have left and that she can't possibly understand why he doesn't agree upon this anymore. Caroline calls me the minute that I can hear Jenna's yelling increase and she's nearly screaming at him while he shouts out over the speaker phone.