[ That would be a good reason. Elena exhales, moves to sit next to Martha. ] I'm pretty sure my boyfriend did too. [ 'Boyfriend' should feel like a strange word to use for Damon, but somehow it rolls off her tongue without incident. She can't even argue the why he would call anything off either; she doesn't want this new complication to be real, to be an issue.
That doesn't mean she doesn't want to be with him. ]