Adam nodded, understanding in his face. "Diana was mine...you think it's going to be like the stories, you grow up with them, fall in love with them, date them...and everyone has it planned out of marriage and babies and your parents keep watching you, those dopey grins on thier faces of how the future is perfectly aligned...and then something upsets the balance."
In Elena's case, her parents died, in his...he met Cassie. "The perfect life isn't anymore, you realize things are dead and you never know when that happened."
He was absently petting her hair, running his fingers through the silken strands, untangling it from her fall. "Let me guess, then you met Mr. Vampire and suddenly everything was new and exciting again?"