Here’s an email my friend received from L.J. Smith.
“Hi Emily—

Thank you for your beautiful email. I completely understand why some fans get overeager—and especially if they think there is bad news for them. I hope that you will enjoy Midnight, as it is truly the story of Damon finding his deepest feelings for both Elena and Bonnie—and his feelings are definitely not platonic. In fact, to be blunt, without Bonnie and something that Bonnie does at the end, Damon would be permanently dead.

But right now I have to tell you something that makes me so sad and devastated—as bad, in fact,...

I think it is safe to say that Stefan and Elena are destined to be together for all of eternity. That goes for the novels and the TV show. The way I see it, the growing support for Delena (which mostly came from the CW show, let's face it) will, in my opinion, have absolutely no influence on the epic love story that is Stelena. Even though Delena seems to be the so-called "majority" in terms of popularity, let's not forget that just because a majority of fans ship a couple, doesn't make that pairing better then the couple who has the supposed minority support. I say this because I have seen...

I decided to post this article just so that I can clear something up that has been literally bothering me for quite some time. I have seen many Delena fans going around on all of the social sites, and forums and they have managed to label their ship “Twin Flames”. Now, I admit, every time I see such a thing, I really do get strongly irritated and annoyed because it couldn’t be farther from the truth. And also, many Delena fans like to call Stelena just “Soulmates”. Well, I’m here to tell you that it’s not as simple as it sounds in regards to Stelena, and Stelena are not just “Soulmates”....