To be honest he may have been hiding but only a little as Caroline dressed and got ready for work the next morning. He didn't want to risk saying something bonkers and getting her upset with him once again so he lay low taking his time getting ready himself.
Ready in fact, to go into the studio downtown today to make preparations for his impending visit to Mystic Falls. Though he'd rather not go it was important to his sister who had expressed as much in every call or text she sent in his direction.
While he adored his sister Caroline was really the powerhouse in the decision making and his need to not have her angry with him. He just had to get though the next week and things would go back to normal, he told himself over and over again when the seconds began to press on him.
He didn't see her until that afternoon when she dropped in at his studio unexpectedly, "Hello Love," he greeted her with an effortless smile beguiled by her beauty.
"Butter up another roll with that smile I won't eat your carbs today," she warned as she hugged him already falling for his wiles as he sniffed her hair.
He held her a second longer than necessary not that she minded, she had missed him today and hated leaving things unsettled with her best friend in the entire world. Enzo would probably have her head at that statement but it was the truth, Caroline thought as she squeezed Klaus once more.
"What brings you by?" Klaus asks as he pulls away picking up his brush again to take another swipe at the canvas hoping for lush lines.
Caroline blushes, hands behind her back as she utters, "This," and surprises him by pressing her hands to his cheeks and her lips to his.
"Caro-" he begins to murmur when a moan escapes her lips at his taste and he dives in for another taste leading her back with his hands on her back and waist right to the small raggedy sofa he's had since university setting her on it.
Her body hums, thrilled, she had known this kiss would be good but her nerve endings were coming alive, so this was what it was like to kiss Klaus Mikaeslon. She thought she might do it again and again the weekend that came just in case she never got to do it again.
"Just thought I'd see what it was like," she whispers as he peppers kisses along her jaw and neck like he can't think about anything else but her taste. A dream on her part.
"Always thinking ahead," Klaus mumbles as he climbs off of her frame pulling her up with him so they're both sitting down next to one another.
"What's going on here?" Marcel asks surprising the pair, more Caroline than Klaus. The brit had simply forgotten he was in the room the entire time.
"Caroline, planning, that kind of thing. I did mention we were going back to that wretched one pony town, hadn't i?" Klaus asks his friend in one breath.
"You mentioned it," Marcel says looking like that cat got the canary as he rubbed his hands together unsure of what to do with himself, "Does Enzo know?"
"No! And don't tell him or he'll insist on coming," Klaus says of the man who runs his daily operations and thinks himself the better man of Caroline's life.
"I'd love that," Caroline speaks up finally over the stunned moment she received at seeing Marcel watching her get the best kiss of her life.
"You would," Marcel buts in as he finds himself having pillows from the sofa hurled in his direction, "I see where I'm not wanted," he bites out in laughter.
"What the bloody hell were you thinking pulling a stunt like that?" Klaus demands to know the second Marcel is out of earshot as he turns on his best friend facing her directly.
"I was thinking I needed to get the awkward kiss out of the way before this weekend because my mother is like a hound," she tells him with fire in her eyes.
Klaus groans, she was right, her mother would have caught them in a lie, she just might too, he hadn't thought so far ahead or that this would come to pass ever. In fact he wasn't doing much thinking because all his pants wanted him to do was get more and taste more bits of her.
"Company coming up the stairs," Enzo calls disrupting them before they can fully talk, "IF I peek will I catch you ravaging one another?"
"Mother fucker," Caroline mutters about Marcel as she feels Klaus' hand on her thigh squeezing in reassurance when all she wanted was for him to raise his hand a little higher.
"Cheeky," Enzo utters, "I wonder what you call me," he says as he takes a seat in between both Klaus and Caroline.
"Mostly I just tell her that you're fired," Klaus replies without a hint of irony.
"Please, I run this show," Enzo says waving his hands in a flamboyant nature.
"Okay, well I'm leaving," Caroline says steadily getting off of the sofa without any help which she internally applauds herself for.
"I'll walk you," Klaus says dashing her hopes of an easy exit as they leave Enzo grinning on the sofa.
"You know I'm coming too, right?" Enzo calls as they descent the stairs.
"You're so not," Caroline shouts back, the side of her face bumping into Klaus' arm makes her shiver as he holds her hand tightly as if she might run away.
"Sorry about, them." Klaus sighs rubbing a hand down his face.
"No worries, kinda asked for it attacking your face like that without checking," she mumbles looking at her shoes.
"Packing just about finished then?" he asked as he looked at the syncing feet pound the floor with every step.
"Just about," Caroline mimics his accent as she nods making him smile as he shakes his own head.
- So sorry it's so short but I wanted to get this out quickly and the next chapter is already half done. Love to hear your thoughts.
