Klaus and I walked to his ridiculously expensive sports car and he opened the passenger door for me. I climbed in and he gently closes the door. I watched as he walked gracefully to the driver side, surprisingly not flashing. Once he's in he closes the door and looks towards me.

"So where to sweetheart? Big graduation party tonight?"

I sat staring at my phone in my hand completing what I should do. We sat there quietly; he patiently waited for me to speak. I turned my phone off and finally looked towards him. "I want to go with you." He looked at me shocked and I realized what I said. "Not to New Orleans," I rushed out. "I …." I raked my fingers through my hair and sighed. "I want to stay with you for the night. But only if that's okay with you." I looked down, afraid of rejection. Everyone thought I had Klaus wrapped around my finger but who could possibly tame the big bad hybrid? Definitely not a girl from small town Mystic Falls. When he didn't respond immediately I thought the worse. "If you don't want me to you can just take me home."

Slowly I look up to him and tried to read his face but he had his walls up. He turned on the car and drove in the direction of his home, or should I say mansion. After he stopped the car in front of the extravagant home, ever the gentleman, he came to open my door and help me out.

We walked inside and immediately went into his living room where he poured us drinks.

I nervously sat on the couch and downed the glass he handed me in one gulp.

"Never took you for the shy type Caroline."

"Yeah well, you've barely said two words to me so I think I have a right to be nervous right now."

He smiled.

"What are you doing?"

"Well I thought we were having a drink." He looked pointedly at my empty glass. "What? Can't have more than one?"

"You don't have to do this."

"Do what?"

"Get drunk to calm your nerves and then sleep with me as some kind of farewell or thank you for allowing Tyler to return. Even if you do not believe me now, I will be your last love."

"Klaus"

"Don't worry. We can still have a good time." He walked over to me, grabbed my glass and walked to the bar to refill it. As he did so I watched him the entire time.

"You scare me," I whispered quietly. So quietly that a human wouldn't of heard me. He paused as he was in the middle of refilling my glass and then continued with the task.

"After all this time you still think I could hurt you?"

"I'm afraid to be with you."

"Caroline"

"No, don't. Let me say this while I actually have the courage to," Caroline took a deep breath, "Ok, so, when you were gone Silas came to me as you and basically he got me to admit that I was scared of being with you. Afraid of loving you." Caroline rushed the sentence out hoping more to the fact that maybe he wouldn't hear the last part. "I'm scared of being with you and giving myself completely to you. I don't want to be hurt. I've been hurt too many times in the past …. I appreciate your gift. I …. I still want to be with Tyler but, …. For tonight I just want to be with you." Caroline finally looked up slowly and looked into Klaus's eyes.

This is something that was constantly stuck in my head after I watched the Graduation episode of TVD. I decided to write it down as a way to get it out. It's more of a scene than even a one shot since it's so short. I barely even edited so I apologize if there's errors. As of now I don't have plans to continue it since I'm trying to focus on my other story, Strength to Forgive, but I definitely have ideas for it. Let me know what ya' think. - BIANCA

BTW: I don't own anything involving TVD.