Crazy/Stupid/Drunken LOVE
By AllenFrancisDoyle
Disclaimer: I don't own the Vampire Diaries. Yet.
Authors Notes: Follow the Mystic Falls gang to New York University. This story is completely AU. Klaroline? Delena? Kennet? Stebekah? You know you want to.
Today was going to be a good day.
This was all Caroline could think as she took in her surroundings. New York was even more unbelievably beautiful than she had ever imagined. And New York University was a lot bigger than she thought. The sheer size of the buildings made Mystic Falls look tiny in comparison.
Caroline refused to admit she was lost. She leaned against a doorway and stared down at her map (which she had been studying for the past month!) before it was ripped from her hands.
"Elena! When did you get here?" Caroline yelled, pulling her dark haired friend into a hug.
"Just now! Isn't this great, I've already been invited to like ten parties! Why aren't you at the dorm? I thought you'd already be unpacked by now." Elena started pulling Caroline along by her side.
"Where's Bonnie?" Caroline asked, looking all around for any sign of her friend.
"Oh she text me about an hour ago when she arrived. She's in our dorm, hiding from all the fun."
"From all the chaos you mean." Caroline said as a crowd of students pushed by her and Elena on the stairs they were climbing. "Were they carrying kegs?"
"Yeah, probably for some dorm party or another." Elena answered as she pushed Caroline through a door at the top of the stairs. Elena sighed loudly before joining Caroline in the room. "Home Sweet Home".
Their dorm was enormous. Then again, given the price of it, it should be. Bonnie was already unpacked and was placing a few picture frames around the room when she heard Elena and Caroline come in.
"What took you guys so long? I've been waiting over an hour for you!" Bonnie exclaimed, pulling her two best friends into a tight hug.
"Bonnie, we saw each other yesterday, stop trying to hug me to death!" Elena said as she made her escape and jumped onto the nearest bed. She pulled an array of multi-coloured flyers from her bag and waved them around in the air. "Which party do you think we should go to? Or should we try to hit them all?"
"Elena! We have to be up early in the morning if we want to get into the classes we want. It's first come first serve and I don't want to be stuck with all the left over classes that no one else wants!" Bonnie said as she joined Elena on the bed.
"Yeah Elena, I don't think going party mad tonight is such a good idea." Caroline chimed in, pulling her suitcase over to the last remaining bed.
"You guys!" Elena yelled, picking up a pillow and throwing it at Caroline's head. "How many times are we gonna have a first day in college? We didn't come all the way to New York to sit in our dorm! Everyone's going to party tonight, they're all going to be noisy so we won't be sleeping anyway! We may as well be the people doing the partying!"
Unfortunately, Caroline saw Elena's logic.
"She does have a point Bon. I mean, I did see a few guys carrying kegs into a dorm just down the hall." Caroline sighed but internally, she was already picking out her outfit.
"I'll go to the party or parties, or whatever. But neither of you can complain tomorrow if you end up studying something really terrible for the entire semester!"
Bonnie didn't even get to finish her sentence properly before she was enclosed in a bear hug by both Caroline and Elena.
It was only 8.00pm but the music was already so loud that Caroline, Elena and Bonnie could barely hear themselves think. They were still in their dorm room having a few pre-party drinks (except for Bonnie who was sticking to her no alcohol vow) and finishing getting ready when they heard a knock at their door.
"I'll get it!" Elena called out as she was making her way to the door, nearly tripping over her still packed suitcase on her way.
She pulled open the door to reveal a dark haired man, probably around twenty or twenty one wearing all black and a smirk on his face.
"Well helloooooo there." His smirk only grew bigger as very obviously checked Elena out. But in her very short, very tight red dress, who could blame him?
"And who would you be?" Elena asked, smiling right back at him.
"Damon Salvatore, dorm down the hall, massive party going on, not enough beautiful women. What do you say?" He finally looked over Elena's shoulder and noticed she was not alone. "Your friends are very much invited too." He added, giving Bonnie and Caroline a quick nod and an eyebrow raise.
The guy was obviously drunk. He tried to take a step back and stumbled slightly, falling against the doorframe. Bonnie stifled a giggle and Caroline nearly choked on her vodka.
"We very much appreciate your invitation, Damian was it? But eh we kind of already have plans. But you have a good night now." Elena nearly fell over herself laughing when he left.
"God! I hope there are still some sober guys left when we finally get to an actual party!" Elena said while still half laughing and poring herself a fresh drink.
"Go easy on the alcohol Elena!" Bonnie yelled, reaching for her phone simultaneously. "I'm setting my alarm for 7.00am and if I can't wake you, I'm going to the class selection without you! The same goes for you Caroline."
"Bonnie you worry too much! We're eighteen, we're freshman, we're going to our first real college party where there are bound to be hot older college boys! I would gladly take a semester of an extra boring class for all that!" Elena finished her mini speech and began checking her makeup and touching up where it was needed.
"Well you can't say I didn't warn you." Bonnie joined her by the mirror adding yet another layer of lip gloss.
Caroline wasn't as sure about partying anymore. She had the classes she wanted listed in order of preference and sitting on her dressing table. But she'd already drank a substantial amount of alcohol and what Elena said was true.
They'd never get another first night in College.
Her head was pounding. She felt as if she'd spent the night banging her head against a concrete wall. Her mouth was dry and she was totally going to get a glass of water. As soon as the room stopped spinning.
Caroline pulled the duvet back from over her head and groaned loudly.
"What time is it? What happened to me?" She moaned, her voice husky and dry.
From across the room Caroline heard a voice sounding as pained as hers. She searched the room before her eyes found Elena, sprawled on the cream carpet on the floor a few feet away. Elena found her phone lying beside her head.
"Get up Caroline! We have twenty minutes to sign up for classes!" Elena screamed, pulling herself up off the floor and flinging her suitcase open, grabbing the first items of clothing she found.
Caroline wasn't exactly sure what was going on but she followed Elena's lead and started to dress herself. She caught a quick glimpse of herself in the mirror and nearly screamed at her own reflection. Caroline was shocked back into reality and began to ready herself at the speed of light. She removed her make up quickly and found her list of classes praying to god that she'd still get at least a few of them.
Literally about five minutes after waking up, Caroline and Elena (and coffee) had joined the rest of the freshmen queuing up trying to get the classes they wanted.
"I think I'm dying Caroline." Elena mumbled into her coffee, adjusting her sunglasses over her bloodshot eyes. The girls were standing near the front of the queue for psychology.
"Trust me Elena, I know how you feel." Caroline replied feeling almost close to tears. Caroline and Elena had (very luckily) gotten almost all of the classes they had wanted. The last on both of their lists was anthropology which had just stopped accepting new students.
"What class are we going to take?" Elena asked, glancing over her shoulder before letting her head fall into her hands in obvious pain.
"The only classes with spaces left are art history, pop culture and pre-law." Caroline answered, pondering her options.
"Well I'm already taking pre-med so law is definitely out of the question. Art has never really been my thing either so I think pop culture is pretty much my only option." Elena decided whilst scribbling her name next to Caroline's on the Psychology class list.
"I don't know Elena, I kind of like the idea of pre-law. Caroline Forbes. Lawyer. I think it has a ring to it." Caroline almost smiled while saying this before the pain in her head became too much and she gave up.
"Well we don't have to take all the same classes you know, we can be all independent for at least one class." Elena answered walking away from Caroline and joining the short queue for pop culture. "Meet me over there when you're finished." Elena pointed towards some tables a few feet away.
Caroline joined the line for law just as Bonnie was leaving it.
"Well, well look who's finally alive! I did try to wake you two up but no way was I missing out on my classes just because you two overindulged last night." Bonnie said, obviously trying not laugh at the state Caroline was clearly in.
"Don't worry about it Bon, we got almost all of the classes we wanted anyway." Caroline replied, stepping up to the front of the line.
"Well hello love. Looking a little worse for wear this morning aren't we?"
Behind at the little desk where the sign-up sheet was sat a very attractive blonde man with a very sexy British accent. Caroline was taken aback for about two seconds before replying.
"Well thank you very much for that, Mr. Obvious. Because I didn't feel shit enough already without you pointing that out to me." Caroline scrawled her name on the list before turning her back on the stranger and sauntering away, an amused Bonnie following her immediately.
They found Elena sitting at the table where they'd agreed to meet. Caroline threw her bag down and collapsed into the chair beside Elena.
"When did it become okay for random guys to point out how bad you look when you're hung-over?" She grabbed her now empty coffee cup and slammed it back down onto the table.
"Well he's hardly a random guy Caroline." Bonnie commented, sitting opposite Caroline and Elena.
Both girls have her a very quizzical look.
"How much do you guys even remember about last night?" Bonnie asked, trying hard not to laugh.
Caroline thought back to the night before but found very little in her memory. Alcohol, dancing, hot boys, alcohol, puking and more alcohol. But no one stood out and she was pretty sure she'd remember a hot guy with a sexy British accent.
Caroline looked over to Elena and found the same blank stare on her face that she must've had on her own.
"I remember bits and pieces." Caroline answered, not exactly lying, not exactly telling the truth.
"Well you obviously don't remember the hour you spent totally making out with that British guy. Or the half hour you spent trying to persuade him to come back to our dorm. Luckily enough for you, he wasn't nearly as wasted as you were." Caroline looked over her shoulder and caught British guy's eye for just a second before turning away, mortified. Elena burst out laughing at this, holding the table for support.
"I don't know what you're laughing at Elena, you spent your time last night with really drunk guy. You know the one who came to our room last night before we went out?" It was Caroline's turn to laugh now.
"What? Eh no. I think I'd remember if I made out with drunk guy last night." Elena was clearly in denial.
"Whatever you want to believe Elena. But you can ask him yourself, he's coming over here like right now." And sure enough there he was, not looking too fresh himself today. Like Elena, he wore dark glasses over his eyes.
Elena groaned loudly for the millionth time that day,
"Come on lets go before he gets here!" Elena pulled Caroline to her feet and started walking briskly in the opposite direction.
Drunk guy called out a quick hello. Clearly they had not moved swiftly enough. Elena turned to face him, plastering an awkward smile on her face.
"Oh hey…Damien. We're in a real rush, see you later yeah." She continued to pull Caroline away, Bonnie following behind them.
"It's Damon actually." Drunk guy replied but the girls barely heard them. He was drowned out by Bonnie's laughs and Elena's almost crying.
I'm thinking of doing the next chapter from the boy's point of view, so let me know what you think! Updates should be about once a week.
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