She didn't even attempt to hide the pleased grin that spread across her face. "Learned all my tricks from the likes of you."
Laughing a little, Ileana told him, "I never said I wasn't dating. I just wasn't dating a cop." Ileana covered her mouth to stifle her laughing when she realized Stefan thought she was dating someone her age. It wasn't even a comfortable laugh, just a laugh of realizing how awkward this revelation was going to be. Cole was even older than Stefan, which just made it more obvious that this was not going to go over quite as well as she hoped.
"Well, uhm...He doesn't really have to worry about what his folks think," she told him, "he's...a little older."