22. Undressing Damon

"Stefan, it's your birthday! Go Stefan! It's your birthday!" Damon sang weirdly as he followed Stefan downstairs Me and Bonnie had completely planned our little...super awesome barbeque sleepover and everyone apart from Stefan knew about it.

"What time?" Elena asked me, and I knew she meant for later.

I signalled 7 with my hands.

"Alright, I'm go gonna see Bonnie and the others! I'll see you later birthday boy!" I smirked as I stood up. I raced over to the door but Damon was suddenly in front of me glaring. Eventually, he smiled.

"No goodbye for me?"

And weirdly, I kissed his cheek.

"That was nice." He winked.

I slapped his chest. "Go drink your wolfsbane."

10 minutes later, me Jeremy, Caroline, Bonnie, Jenna and Alaric were all in Elena's living room. We'd decorated the room with party banners and also made a huge fort with our pillows and blankets. We were all in pj's apart from Jenna and Alaric who would be leaving after they saw Stefan, and we'd ordered take out since the weather decided to spoil our amazing barbeque.

But luckily, I had a huge collection of saltannas!

So everything was fine!

Plus, there where potatoes! You know, the potatoes that they didn't have at the stupid smoothie bar? Those potatoes.

"When are they gonna get here?" Jeremy asked. Aw, he looked so cute! He was wearing little blue shorts with a shark t-shirt. He looked like an amazingly tall little 5 year old!

"Any minute now?" ELena guessed.

"Wait!" Caroline shouted, pressing a finger to her lips. "They're here."

"Hide!" I shouted.

We all hid in random hiding places and after not being able to find anywhere, I jumped on Ric's back. He seemed a little surprised but shrugged it off.

"Comfy up there?" He asked.

I giggled. "Yeah, it's all big and squishy."

"Are you saying I'm fat?"

"Oh, not only fat. Obese."

Ric laughed a bit and then we all grew deadly silent as footsteps were heard near the door. It opened, and Stefan and Damon walked through.

"SURPRISE!"

Stefan kinda jumped out of his bunny drinking boots. Damon laughed hysterically, and I jumped off Ric's back to head over to the 2 of them.

"Happy Birthday!" I cried and wrapped my arms around Stefan. He laughed into my hair and kissed my forehead.

"Your idea?" He raised an eye-brow.

"Me? No! It was all Klaus!"

"Never expected him to be the party throwing type." He admitted.

"He has a soft spot for bunny drinkers." I joked.

"Alright, give him to me!" Elena laughed as she practically threw herself on Stefan and kissed his lips. Everyone started saying happy birthday and yadda yadda yadda. And eventually we decided to open presents.

"They're in Elena's room, I'll go get them!" I said, and then sprinted up the stairs into Elena's girly girly room. Only, when I turned back round, Damon was there.

"What do you want?" I snapped. I really wasn't happy with Damon, he had just annoyed the hell out of me.

"Ouch, what's that tone for?"

"Like you even have to ask." I muttered.

Damon was suddenly in front of me and he grabbed my arm. "Nina, seriously."

I shrugged my arm off him and sighed. "I told you to wear pajamas."

After a little silence, Damon laughed his ass off.

"You little kidder!" He laughed. "I thought there was something really wrong with you!"

I giggled. "Well, I was expecting you to wear pajamas..."

He sighed. "What about I change into something then?"

"But you have no clothes." I pointed out.

"I sleeo in my boxers. Therefore, boxers are my pajamas."

"Oh." I nodded. "Well, do that then."

"There's a problem..."

"What?"

"I can't do that on my own..."

I was quiet for a few minutes, then I realized what Damon said and I dumped the presents onto the floor. Without thinking, I nodded.

"Put your hands on the end of my shirt." He whispered, taking a few more steps so his chest was an inch away from mine. He took my hands and placed my fingers on the edge of his shirt, and then I pulled it up; revealing his perfectly toned body.

Then, I slid it over his head.

Damon then took my hands again and placed them on the button of his jeans. I slowly slipped the button out of the hole and then Damon kicked the jeans of his feet.

He moved in closer.

"Damon." I sighed and his fingers brushed against my cheek. I wanted his lips on mine so much, but we couldn't. Not now.

"Damon, don't-"

"Don't speak." He murmured. "Please Nina, don't speak. Don't ruin this."

Damon then moved his hands down to my hips and in vampire speed, pulled me over to the bed and lay me down so that he was on top of me. His lips moved forward, and as they moved towards my lips, I quickly turned my head so they hit my cheeks instead.

"Damon, don't?" I pleaded. "Not here, now now. Please."

Damon sighed deeply, and then nodded. "Ok. Ok."

"It's ok." I soothed, sensing both our awkwardness.

But Damon got over it quickly, grabbed the presents and took my hand. I smiled lightly, took the presents into my hands and then grinned at Damon as his back turned.

Then I dived on his back.

"SURPRISE PIGGY BACK!" I screamewd.

Damon chuckled. "Always know how to lighten the mood, don't you Nina?"

I smirked. "Take me downstairs horsey!"

"We're not back to that again, are we?"

Instead of giving a straight answer, I looked around the room. "What can I use for seaweed?"

He laughed. "I guess so."

Damon began walking downstairs and once we arrived, everyone kind of gave us weird looks. THen I looked at the facts.

1. Me and Damon had been gone a long time.

2. He was now in his boxers.

3. It seemed like we'd had some kind of a making out session.

"PRESENTS!" I screeched, causing everyone to shrug their weird looks off. Damon set me down on the couch and I dumped the presents on the armchair. I guessed Jenna and Ric had already gone because they weren't here any more.

"You guys shouldn't have." Stefan said modestly.

"Alright we'll take 'em back?" Jeremy suggested.

"No, there's no need for that!" Stefan said, causing us all to laugh. Elena handed him her present and he opened it carefully. It was a necklace with the same symbol on it as the one he had on his ring.

He kissed her deeply. "Thankyou."

I handed Stefan mine and Damon chuckled. "What?" Stefan asked.

"I chipped in with this one and I think you'll like it." Damon explained.

Stefan rolled his eyes and once he opened the present, everyone burst out in laughter. Yesterday me and Damon had went to the mall and got one of those shirts done, where you have your picture taken and it comes onto the shirt. Me and Damon were acting like zombies and doing a 'rawr' face. Also, in white writing, it said 'I eat bunnies! Hear me rawr!"

"Thanks guys?" Stefan chuckled.

Damon patt his back. "I knew you'd love it brother."

"I do." He assured us.

After all the presents were opened, we went into the kitchen and sat at the table. Elena brought through a large chocolate cake and Bonnie lit the candles with her mind. Grinning, I whispered something in Bonnie's ear and she nodded in agreement.

"Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Stefan! Happy Birthday to you!"

Stefan laughed and then blew out his candles...but Bonnie magically lit one of them with her mind again. Stefan frowned, then blew it again. But Bonnie repeated the same action. And this went on for about 10 times until Bonnie finally stopped.

"Done." Stefan smiled.

But then Bonnie lit all 20 of them with her mind again.

"Bonnie!" Stefan growled.

She giggled. "Nina's idea!"

"Was not!" I lied.

About 10 minutes later, we were all eating cake in the back garden listening to Jeremy's ipod. He had one 'Green Day, Good Riddance (Time of your life) on it and it all seemed pretty dramatic.

"Everythings gonna change now, isn't it?" Elena asked, leaning on Stefan's shoulder.

"What do you mean?" Jeremy wondered.

"With Klaus and all of those stupid originals. I mean, anyone of us could die. I guess this is the last time we'll all be together properly, for a while at least."

"Elena that will never happen." I promised her. "We'll all be here for each other all the time. No matter what. RIght guys?" I didn't notice that during my promise, I'd took hold of Damon's hand.

"Right." They all agreed.

"This is getting so dramatic." Caroline pouted. "This is supposed to be fun, not all moody. We're gonna end up with as many frown lines as Stefan at this rate."

"SHe's right." Damon said. "Nina, lighten the mood."

Grinning, I reached over to Jeremy's ipod and then switched on a song without pressing play. I pulled everyone to their feet and made them promise to dance. Then, I pressed play and when everyone recognized the song, we all screamed it.

"Every day i'm shuffling!"