She checked her phone. Nothing.

"Caroline, are you listening?!" Tyler asked.

"What? Sorry , what did you ask?" she answered.

"Where do you want to go for lunch?"

"I fancy pizza or hamburger with french fries."

"Pizza or hamburger on your birthday? What happened to you Care, where is "Caroline´s birthday is the most important day in year" attitude, I thought that I´ll take you somewhere swanky and you want pizza?"

"Tyler, I would really like to go just to Grill, Matt is back from Europe so we can say Hi, ask him about trip and have lunch. Than we can go to Falls and then to the cinema, The Lone Ranger is on." she smiled at him.

"OK, if it´ll make you happy I´m fine with that but I wanted make this day special after everything happened in last 2 years and after fiasco on your birthday last year."

"Exactly, after last 2 years I just want ordinary day. If you´ll not bite me I´ll be happy with what I already drafted." She winked at Tyler.

"Fine, so let's go to Grill."

She checked her phone. Nothing.

It was narrowly few minutes after 11 p.m. when they went back to her house.

"I finally perceived what you girls probably see in that Depp guy. He was really good in the film." Tyler said.

She checked her phone. Nothing.

"Yes and we love him mostly because he is hot." Caroline smiled. "Thanks for the really nice day Tyler." She kissed him.

"You´ll not invite me in?"

She checked her phone. Still nothing.

"I´m sorry, I´m really tired and I´ll go directly to bed and sleep" she lied.

She checked her phone again. Nothing.

"Why are you checking your phone all day? Who do you expect that will congratulate to you? Your mom did it in the morning before she left to work, Matt with Jeremy had cake for you in Grill, Elena bought you 4 shots of tequila, even Damon congratulate to you. And you know, that Stefan is God know where and Silas will definitely not tell us where he is in next few months."

"I don´t know why I did it all day, I´m sorry. I just probably expected that Bonnie will call or text me and that she will tell me that she is ok and she´s coming home." Caroline lied again, because she came to terms with Bonnie ´s death better and faster than she expected. Probably because she was accustomed to be abandon. Too many people she cared about abandoned her in last few years and except for one, everyone died. The only person left town (and her) without any injury. And true be told, that person was not allowed to be truly injured or killed.

"I´m so sorry Care. I was not allowed to talk about that. You really look tired so I´ll go." He kissed her. "Sweet dreams Care"

"Sweet dreams Tyler, I will call you tomorrow morning and I would come to your place?" "OK."

They shared last kiss and Tyler was on his way to Lockwood mansion. Caroline watched him for a while and then turned around.

She checked her phone for the last time. Nothing.

"Did you really expect that he will recall your birthday with everything what is happening in NOLA Caroline?" she asked herself and started looking for keys in her purse.

She unlocked door and went directly to her room for pyjamas when she noticed familiar scent in the air.

"I already thought that he took you for trip to Europe or Asia according to you absence at this time of the day."

She blinked few times. Klaus was lying on her bed.

"Wh.. What are you doing here?"

"If I remember you have birthday, don´t you? So I came to say ´Happy birthday´ to you love." He get up and sat on the border of the bed.

"You could just text me."

"Do I look like a guy who congratulate by call-phone Caroline? Do I look like a guy who texting?"

"First of all, you don´t look like a guy who congratulate at all. And second of all, you proved that you are able to text in past few months." She took a seat next to Klaus.

"I did, didn´t I? And you proved it too. And don ´t look at me like that, I didn´t start sending messages to myself just 2 day after Graduation."

Caroline didn ´t answer just blushed a little. Klaus decided ignore it.

"I checked my house when you were with Tyler and I found something you left there." He dragged bracelet that he gave her a year ago from pocket.

"I didn´t leave it there, I … Fine thank you for founding it." She finally smiled.

"Your birthday present is waiting for you in the fridge."

"In the fridge? You have for me death body or what?"

"Of course, what else did you expect, real gift?" Klaus replied ironically.

Caroline stood up and went to kitchen followed by Klaus.

"Champagne? What do you think that I´ll get drunk and then do something stupid?" ´with you´ she added to herself.

"No but I know that in radius of 100 miles around Mystic Falls is not a good sale of wine or other alcohol and I thought that because of that fact you probably will not be allowed to have something really good at your special day and that maybe you would like to do with me something that didn´t got you angry when I lived her and when you were bounded to spend time with me."

"I wasn´t bounded to spend time with you. Well maybe once or twice when I was distraction but I was not angry or mad or any other negative mood all the time when I was with you. But true is that drinking was one of kind of spending time with you when I had really positive mood."

"See. Get glasses I´ll opened the bottle."

Klaus landed champagne into glasses, Caroline took one of them, he took the second.

"Happy birthday Caroline." She smiled at him and then looked at her watch.

"You caught it in last minute."

"Original in all way." He smirked.

"Don´t you want to sit in living room and tell me what is new in New Orleans?" Caroline asked after nip "My present taste wonderful by the way."

"I´m glad to hear it, I ordered it from France, it is one of the last bottle of one of the best vintage 1992. And about your question, I would like to talk with you, but I guess that we can find better topic than New Orleans and whole drama on your birthday."

Caroline sat down on couch.

"Well, my birthday ended 5 minutes ago so I don´t see anything bad to talk about the drama."

"I already tell/wrote you everything."

"´ I´m going to be father, Haley is mother of my child, Elijah wants our family reunited, I hate Marcel, I hate Haley, Rebekah arrived and looks like she doesn´t want to kill me´ is not everything Klaus!"

"Ok what do you want to know?"

"Everything, just like normal … friend"

"Alright friend ask me about anything what you want to know."

Caroline was asking a million questions about New Orleans and Klaus was fully honest with her. She found out that the last time when he saw Haley was in the cemetery when they told him the news because she was under the protection of Sophie and that neither of both of them wants to talk to each other and Elijah is pissed about it. She found out that he feels like Elijah is the one who want to have family/be father so he pushes Klaus into this whole situation and he admitted that he is MAYBE LITTLE BIT scared about this parenthood situation. She found out about the Camille girl/the bartender who spends time with Klaus and she got a little bit jealous about her. ´I´m the person who is supposed to be his friend.´ But she was more glad then jealous that Klaus had someone who is kind of his friend. She found out that Marcel wants Camille and that Camille wants to know the true about who they really are but nobody have told her yet. She found out that he spends most of time in bar and pretending that he is friend with Marcel or that he just sits on bench and watches painters on the street. Klaus seemed glad that Rebekah join him and their brother after the trip with Matt and true be told they had quite good relationship after many years. And Caroline asked about million next things.

With time the conversation turned to Caroline and situation in Mystic Falls. "I wrote you really everything. Tyler is back. Jeremy is back. Bonnie is death. Elena is with Damon. Katherine is human. Stefan is Silas´ doppelganger and Silas doesn´t want to tell us where Stefan is, his phone doesn't work and no witch want to help us to locate him." So they talk about everything and nothing, about her mother, about Rebekah/Matt situation, about films, about last season of Game of Thrones etc.

Caroline woke up in her bed next day about 11 a.m... Last thing she remembered was that she was lying on the couch with glass of champagne and that she was telling Klaus about the time when Salvatores came to Mystic Falls. She set up and listen the noises in the house. Nothing. She felt little bit upset.

Her phone started ringing. Tyler .

"Morning."

"Morning? It´s almost noon Caroline. You promised me to call me in the morning. Is something wrong?"

"I´m so sorry. I overslept." Caroline get up from bed.

"Overslept? You slept almost 12 hours?"

"I was really tired." She said when she realized that there was piece of paper on the cabinet. "I have to go but I´ll call you in hour ok?"

"Are you sure?"

"Yes I´m. Bye." She hang up on the way to cabinet.

Dearest Caroline,

I´m really sorry that I didn´t say Goodbye to you, but I had to go back to New Orleans already because Elijah thinks that I must be there 24/7 according to 10 missing calls and 20 massages he left me. You felt asleep in the middle of the sentence and you looked really tired so I didn´t want to wake you up. Thank you for really nice evening, well better to say night. I hope you liked your present but according to empty bottle I guess that you did ;).

I hope I´ll see you soon again.

Love

Klaus

P.S. I gave you the second bottle of the champagne into the closet so save it for the better occasion then getting drunk with me .

Caroline was sitting back on the bed rereading the letter for the fourth time. Klaus arrived to Mystic Falls just because of her birthday. He returned her bracelet. He bought her two bottle of expensive champagne. Then he told her more than she hoped in last months and at the end he carried her from the living room to her bed. (She realized that she would swear that she feel the pressure of his lips at the forehead.) And in the whole time he acted like a really good friend, even if both of them know, that they are not real friends. Not after everything what happened and with the future that they both know. They were friends, but not in normal way. They were friends in Klaus/Caroline´s way.

She read the letter for the last time. "However long it takes." he said 4 months before. After Graduation she thought that it takes least decades or centuries for her to really fall for him. But after he left to New Orleans and after the last night she realized that it probably takes just next few months, few years at the most. She took her phone and started writing.

Thanks for the best birthday party for two people ever and thank you for the present. I think I´ll save the 2nd bottle for your next visit because IT IS our thing. C.