The Second Life Of Stella Salvatore

A Day Off From Drama. Or Not.

Stella's POV:

About two months after Klaus cured Mom, he and Aunt Caroline moved back into the old Mikaelson mansion. Klaus had become Hayden's legal guardian and Hayden was forced to move in with them. I don't think Hayden really minded though. He was just glad to have found his father. He even got his name changed from Corley to Mikaelson, so he was now Hayden Mikaelson. Everyone was bustling around the house with excitement and talking non stop while getting ready for the wedding everyone needed to have after all the terrible things that had happened. Yes, it was Klaus and Aunt Caroline's wedding. And it was today.

I could hear Mom upstairs complaining that she looked like a giant beached whale in her bridesmaid dress and I also heard Dad telling her that she didn't look huge. That she looked beautiful. Mom's been very hormonal lately which has been tons of fun. She was so hormonal that she started crying while watching Finding Nemo with Ivy because it was "so sad that Nemo was taken from his father". Between Mom constantly crying at anything and everything and everyone invading the house to get ready, it's a wonder Dad has any sanity left. I have to admit that it was good to see Dad smile again though. I'm glad we were able to get Mom back.

Hayden came over, being my date and the son of the groom, and we snuck away from the chaos into one of the upstairs closets where we were currently doing unspeakable things. He had pushed my shirt up and was gripping my bare waist and kissing my neck while I moaned. I tangled my fingers in his hair as he pushed me up against the only open wall of the closet. We've been doing this a lot lately. Mostly to make up for not seeing each other.

"Stella!" I heard my mom calling me from downstairs where most of the chaos was going on. I groaned in annoyance while Hayden nipped at my lip. Not breaking the skin though. He would never forget the talk I had with him about the consequences of biting me. "Stella, get down here and get your dress on! We have to leave for the church in thirty minutes!"

"Coming, Mom!" I sighed before kissing Hayden one more time. I then fixed my shirt and my hair before sneaking out of the closet. Hayden laced his fingers through mine and accompanied me downstairs.

It was a mess. There was all kinds of crap everywhere. Clothes and shoes were strewn in every place imaginable in the living room and boxes along with tissue paper were everywhere too. It was like a dressing room on steroids. And guess who's crap dominated the whole thing. Yep. Aunt Caroline's. The women were in the middle of the mess searching for a lost shoe or earring while the guys seemed to be huddled over where you could actually see the floor. Except for my dad. My dad was over with my mom helping her get her shoes on since she couldn't see her feet due to being heavily pregnant. Yeah she cried about that too.

While he was kneeling, Dad leaned over and kissed Mom's bulging swollen stomach with tenderness. He was pretty much like that when Mom was pregnant with all of us. I'm secretly hoping number four will be their last, but with them there's no telling. I'm actually surprised there's only four of us and not more. "God, I'm so over being pregnant." Mom started complaining again. "I can't even see my feet to paint my toes. And I like painting my toes."

Dad was smiling at her and kissed her stomach again. "If it'll make you feel any better, I'll paint your toes for you. How does that sound?"

"Really? You would do that for me?" Her smile was huge.

The look he gave her was one I had hoped to receive from a guy ever since I was little. The one obvious thing in his eyes was simply love. He deeply loved my mother. I believed he loved her so much that his love could break any compulsion. I believed their love was so great it could overcome anything. "I would do anything for you, Elena, because I love you so much."

"I love you too, Damon." Mom said then grabbed him by his fancy white button up shirt and pulled him to her resulting in an obviously passionate kiss. I expected them to break apart but it went on a few minutes longer than necessary and I swear I thought I just saw them using a little tongue. Gross.