βRight. My mistake.β He nodded solemnly, taking a sip from his bottle. βMuch healthier. Dead people are terrible conversationalists, but at least they donβt interrupt.β
Elena gave him a look and closed her notebook. βDo you need something, or did you just come here to annoy me?β
Elena glanced at him βYou know, you donβt have to keep me company if you donβt want to.β
Damonβs jaw shifted slightly. He looked at her, his blue eyes catching the faint light from the street beyond the cemetery gates.
βWho says I donβt want to?β He replied
βBesides, I figured youβd appreciate the company. You know, considering youβre spending your Friday night talking to dead people.β
βIβm writing.β She said as she looked at him slowly moving her hand from her chest.
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The graveyard was quiet, the kind of quiet that made every little sound feel louder than it should have. The wind rustled through the trees, lifting a few strands of Elenas hair as she sat on the ground, her diary resting open in her lap.
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βSeriously, Damon?β She asked, pressing her hand against her chest. βDo you ever announce yourself like a normal person?β
βWheres the fun in that?β He pushed away from the tree and walked towards her, glancing at the headstone beside her.
of bourbon dangling loosely between his fingers. He wore that infuriating half smile of his looking entirely too comfortable for someone whoβs just crept up on her in a graveyard. His eyes flicked briefly towards the notebook before returning to her face.
βYouβre going to give yourself hand cramp if you keep glaring at that notebook like itβs personally offended you.
Elena jumped at the sound of his voice her pen scratching across the page. She looked up sharply to find Damon leaning against the trunk of a near by tree, a bottle
She stopped at his name, the pen hovering above the paper. Damon Salvatore. Even thinking about him was enough to make her roll her eyes, which was ridiculous considering he wasnβt even there. Or, at least she assumed he wasnβt.
some habits are impossible to break. She wrote about all the people she missed, the things she wished she could change, and the one person who somehow managed to make her life considerably more complicated just by existing.
down made any of it easier. At least here, surrounded by the dead, nobody expected her to be ok.
She pressed her lips together as she stared at the last sentence sheβd written before letting out a quiet sigh. Dear Diary, she began again, because apparently even after everything
The tip of her pen moved slowly across the page, pausing every now and then as she searched for the right words. Sheβd been out there in the graveyard for nearly an hour, trying to make sense of everything that had happened lately, though she wasnβt entirely sure writing it
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