31. Smart asses, puppies and attempted canabilism

It's been 1 week since the full moon, and 3 days since Jeremy brought up the most obvious fact that we had failed to discover.

"Wasn't Elijah supposed to kill Klaus?"

"I dunno." Damon said. "He was either gonna kill him last week, or on the next full moon."

"Life is so confusing." I said.

Anyway, that was 3 days ago. 3 days later me, Jeremy, Elena, Damon and Bonnie were sat at a table in the grill. Well, they were. I was lying on the table. I wasn't aloud to move either, because I would knock over everyones drink.

Matt came over, raising an eye-brow at me. "You alright?"

"Peachy." I replied. "Can I get a coffee?"

"Sure. Anyone want anything else?"

"Nachos!" I added.

"Bourbon." Damon said, not leaving my eyes.

Matt nodded and then walked off to get our drinks. Damon smirked at me and then took my hand, rubbing it between his own.

"Sure about that coffee?"

"Yeah, why?" I asked.

"Maybe cause it's your 4th?" Jeremy snickered.

"I'm so not kissing you until you go brush your teeth." Damon teased.

"You know you can't resist my girl smelling lips." I joked.

"Girly smelling?" Bonnie asked.

"Inside joke." Damon explained.

Matt came back to the table and handed Damon his bourbon, then set my coffee next to me. He placed the nachos on my stomach, and I kept breathing in and out to make the bowl rise up and down. I ended up in hysterics and Elena moved the bowl from me.

"She's a keeper." Matt joked.

"She's also mine." Damon added, before shooting Matt a glare. Matt held his hands up, laughed and then walked away back to work. "He annoys me."

"He's a friend." I said.

Damon shook his head. "Eat your nachos."

"Don't tell me what to do, bitch."

"Don't tell me what to do, bitch." He mocked.

"Bleugh."

"Bleugh."

"And you guys love each other?" Bonnie asked, laughing. Damon laughed with her, and then using his freakishly quick speed, pulled me down onto his lap.

"Damon!" I squealed. "Someone could've seen!"

"Relax." He murmured, nudging his nose against my cheeks. One of his hands locked under my chin and then his lips pressed off mine.

"Told ya." I smirked.

"Told me what?"

"That you'd kiss me."

"Shut up." He muttered and then brought his face forward to kiss me again. I closed my eyes cheesily, but opened them once 4 seconds passed and I had no kiss. "Teased ya." Damon whispered.

I slapped his arm. "Not funny. I wanted a kiss."

"Aw, I'm sorry. You know I love you baby." He murmured and then gave my lips a quick peck. After that, I leaned down a rested my head on his shoulder, then swung my legs around to place them on his knees.

Elena shifted. "Guys, I know this is completely out of the subject. But I think we all know we have to discuss how we're going to find Stefa-"

"No S word!" I shouted, hiding into Damon. "We came here tonight so that we could forget about all the crap that's happened to us lately. We saw no C word, no T word, no S word, and above all, no frigging K word. Kapeche?"

They all nodded. "We'll talk about it tomorrow, okay?" Damon said.

I nodded. "Yeah. Just not tonight. We're supposed to be having fun."

Damon kissed my cheek. "Whatever you want."

"Ooh guys!" Bonnie squealed. "I was walking to my house yesterday and I saw this dog, so being me, I went up to the dog and in my little doggy voice, started talking. Then, I thought about telling the dog to sit to see if it did, but I just had to think it! At first I thought, pretty weird, and forgot about it. But then I got curious and in my mind, told it to roll over. And it did! I can control animans!"

"Bonnie the dog whisperer." Jeremy teased.

"You look like a dog." She muttered.

"I want a puppy." I whined. I looked at Damon and gave him my sad eyes. "Pwease can we get a pwuppy? Pwetty pwetty pwease?"

"Are you forgetting that Stefan drinks animal blood?" Damon smirked.

Then, he realized that he had talked about Stefan as if still here, and he sighed. I could tell Damon was upset, all of us were. We loved Stefan. We loved Caroline as well, and I loved Tyler.

But we had to move on.

It was the only way that we could make it through.

"This is kind of awkward." Jeremy said, putting an arm around Bonnie.

I nodded in agreement. "I know. We should go canibal or something."

"What?" Elena asked.

"We should go canibal. It's a good way to clear up awkwardness."

"I practically am canibal." Damon reminded me.

"Smart ass." I muttered. Damon laughed and downed his bourbon.

"We should go out." Elena said.

Bonnie grinned. "To Las Vegas."

"Lets go!" I screamed, standing up and jumping up and down.

Damon frowned. "Are you sure? I mean, after what you've just been through..."

"It's the perfect way to take our minds of everything." I smiled. Damon rolled his eyes and stood up, walking away. I ran after him and jumped on his back.

"Does that mean yes?" I asked.

"Of course it means yes." He smirked.

"Where are you guys going?" Jeremy called.

"Packing!" Damon replied.

Grinning to myself, I knew that the next few days were going to be very, very interesting.

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                                                         ***The Next Day***

"Can't believe we're actually doing this." Bonnie said as we walked onto the plane. I had been on Damon's back but this stupid work man had told me to get off.

"It was your idea." Jeremy pointed out.

"Oh yeah!"

Damon led me over to our seats. There was a boy who seemed around 17 with black hair and golden streaks sitting in the window seat. I went next to him, and Damon on the left side of me.

"Hi." I smiled, deciding I didn't want to be awkward. "I'm Nina."

The guy smiled. "Max." He held his hand out and I shook it, then Damon's head kind of popped passed me.

"Damon Salvatore." He said, doing his fake smile. "Where you heading Max?"

"Considering this plane goes to Las Vegas...Las Vegas." Max replied. I smirked, and Damon laughed his fake laugh.

"Where've you come from?" I asked, trying to lighten the move.

"Georgia." He smiled. "What about you guys?"

"Virginia."

"Cool! That's not too far away from where I live."

"I know. What are the chances?" Damon smirked. "Well, Maxi-"

"Max." Max glared.

"I like Maxi. So Maxi, now that we've gotten aquainted, I'm going to talk with my girlfriend and her alone." Damon said, grabbing my hand.

I giggled a little. "He forgot his cranky pills." I explained.

Max raised an eye-brow at me and then I turned to face Damon. "No need to be rude."

Damon sighed. "I just want you all to myself, ok?"

I giggled. "That's fine."

                                                         ***After the Flight***

Turns out Max was staying at the same hotel as us, much to Damon's dislike. Who cares though? I wanted to have fun!

We were all sharing a big room, with seperate rooms to sleep in. Me and Damon were sharing, of course. Bonnie and Elena and Jeremy were sharing, as well.

"Ooooh alcahol!" I said as I ran over to the huge cabinet of alcahol. Damon had done a little compelling, and well, everything was free and we got loads of beer.

"No drinking!" Elena ordered.

I pouted. "But I wants my drink."

"Come on, Elena. You drink." Jeremy smirked.

Elena sighed. "Fine, but not too much. I don't want you and Damn having-"

"Blah, blah, blah!" I screamed. "Don't say that word! It'll give him ideas!"

Damon ruffled my hair. "Already had it, baby. Come on, it's late, I'm tired. I need Nina cuddles."

"You're so cheesey." I muttered. I hugged the others. "Night night!"

"Night!" They called after me.

After getting into my pajamas, watching Damon get down to his boxers, and settling into bed. I smiled cheesily at the ceiling.

"What the hell?" Damon smirked.

"Nothing." I said. "I'm just...happy for the first time since...you know."

Damon wrapped his arms around me. "Want me to make you happier?"

"Yes."

Slowly, he moved his lips to my neck. "I love you."

And yes, I was happier.

                                                       ***Stefan's POV***

Klaus smirked at me. "Know where we are?"

"Las Vegas." I snapped, already impatient. I wiped the blood off my lips and then looked at the hotel in front of me. "Are we staying in there?"

"No." Klaus said. "But you're going to kill the people in that room."

Nodding, I shot myself up to the balcony which Klaus pointed to and I looked through the window. Oh God.

"I may be a killer, but not my brother." I stated. "He's the reason I'm here, remember?"

"Not him." Klaus said, appearing behind me. "The girl. She's supposed to be dead. So how is she alive?"

"No idea." I lied.

"Kill her then."

Looking at Nina inbetween Damon's arms, I nodded.

"I'll kill Nina."