Chapter 2 – Elena´s story
"When will Elena finally tell us what this night is about?", Bonnie asked excitedly. Elena, Caroline and her were sitting on Caroline´s bed. They had the house for themselves because Caroline´s mother had work to do, like always. "Not yet, I told you we´ll wait until Rebekah arrives", Caroline explained. Bonnie rolled her eyes on her friend and Elena nervously played with her hair. She didn´t expect Rebekah to come. She didn´t like the Original but furthermore she felt uncomfortable about telling her the story. But Caroline made clear that Rebekah was pretty nice and that this would be a good evening. Caroline heard a parking car and she jumped from her bed. "There she is! You guys: play nice and just give her a chance, okay?", she looked at her friends with a serious face and they just nodded in agreement. Caroline smiled and she walked out of the room. Slowly Bonnie and Elena followed her, not really happy about the arrival of the fourth girl. Caroline was waiting in front of the door until it knocked. She took a deep breath, smiled friendly and opened the door. "Hey Rebekah, it´s good to see you...", she started when her face suddenly fell down. Bonnie and Elena tried to resist their laugh. "You like running into Original hybrids, don´t you love?", a smiling Klaus was standing in front of Caroline. She blushed immediately and she quickly looked to the ground. "What do you want?", she asked with a hard voice, what didn´t impress Klaus at all. He was smiling even brighter and he answered: "Oh well, my sister told me you´re doing a girls night and she asked me to drive her". Now Caroline saw that he was holding a big pink bag in his hands and she assumed it couldn´t be Klaus´. Now Rebekah appeared behind him with a big box in her hands. "He´s right. Oh, I brought some champagne and some blood-bags, it´s my favourite, A negative", Rebekah smiled friendly while she pointed at the box. "...and I bought some sweets, in case you don´t have any. That´s right, isn´t it – you need sweets for a girls night, right? Well anyway...", Rebekah suddenly stopped. Perplexed she looked at Caroline. "What is it?", Caroline asked bewildered. "I can´t get in!", Rebekah said and Caroline´s eyes widened at once. She completely forgot that! "Oh my god, I´m so sorry! Wait...I´ll just call my mom to invite you in", Caroline mumbled, while she quickly searched the house for her mobile, what made Klaus laugh quietly. He found her adorable when she got nervous...well honestly he always found her adorable. Elena cleared her throat, what interrupted Klaus´ thoughts. Caroline had obviously found her mobile and she whispered "I´m so, so sorry!", while looking at his sister. "I don´t want to interrupt you love, but where should I put this?", Klaus asked and he pointed at the pink bag in his hand. He never got why his sister´s stuff always had to be pink, it was such an awful colour. "Oh, in Caroline´s room. You could give it to me, I´ll put it there", Elena offered politely. Of course she knew that Klaus wasn´t able to get into the house, because he was a vampire and he wasn´t invited in. Klaus smiled mischievously because now he knew that Caroline kept it a secret. Even better, he thought as he decided to tease her a little. Caroline looked at the two Originals in front of the door while talking to her mom and when she saw Klaus´ smile, she knew what he was about to do. "No, no, no, don´t...", she said quickly but Klaus already stepped through the door. He laughed slightly when he walked towards her room to put the bag in it. When he came back his sister was still standing in front of the door, gazing at him like he was an alien. He took the box from her and when he went to Caroline´s room again, he couldn´t hold himself from smiling about the dumbfounded faces of Bonnie and Elena. When he came back the second time, he watched Caroline giving her phone to his sister, who smiled and said: "Thank you Sherriff Forbes". Then she gave the phone back to Caroline and finally stepped through the door. Klaus noticed Caroline´s deadly glare on him so he went outside but he turned around once again. "Oh and Caroline", he started. Caroline shyly looked up to him and he added with a mischievous smile: "I see you kept the present. It was easy to find after your room didn´t change since the last time". The three other girls´ mouths popped open and Caroline blushed immediately. "Shut up!", she hissed with an indignant face, before she slammed the door right in front of Klaus´ face. But his smile only got even brighter and he added loudly: "I´ll see you tomorrow Caroline!"
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Caroline slammed the door and took a deep breath, before she turned around just to look into three questioning faces. "What? It´s nothing special...", she said. The three girls tried to resist their laugh and Caroline rolled her eyes on them. That was truly embarrassing and she was sure she couldn´t escape this topic anymore. "I´ll see you tomorrow Caroline!", Klaus said loudly from outside and Caroline froze in her movement. She had already heard those words from his mouth once. It was the day of their date...well it wasn´t really a date, it was just in exchange for one of his hybrids. Moreover it was the Miss Mystic Falls pageant and you couldn´t call that a date either. Why was she even thinking about this? The three other girls couldn´t resist their laugh anymore, so they burst into laughter at once. Suddenly Caroline remembered that she wasn´t alone and she blushed immediately – she was sure she would invent new shades of red this day. Ashamed she speeded to her room, followed by three laughing and giggling girls.
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They sat down at Caroline´s bed, while Caroline quickly looked at the present, which was lying on her bedside table. She wasn´t sure if she should put it away because there were two other vampires in the room, who would notice that. She just didn´t want anyone to find it because...actually there was no reason for that – no one knew that it was a present from Klaus. "What was that about?", Bonnie interrupted her thoughts. Three prying pairs of eyes looked at Caroline, who pretended she didn´t know what Bonnie was talking about. "What do you mean?", she asked innocently. She knew she was a bad liar and she knew her friends would notice it right away. "You know exactly what I mean", Bonnie said while lifting one eyebrow. "That was...nothing...", Caroline muttered, feeling the gazes on her skin. "For god´s sake, we´re here to talk about Elena, now aren´t we?!", she tried to defend herself. "Right, I´ll tell you everything...IF", Elena pointed out "You, little Miss Caroline will tell us what´s going on between you and hybrid number one". Caroline´s eyes widened. She didn´t want to talk about THAT. And anyway, why did Elena always call him hybrid number one?! Yes, he was a hybrid, the first of his kind to be exact, but he still had a name after all. What? Stop Caroline, you don´t have to defend him! "Fine", she finally gave in because she wanted to hear Elena´s story. "So what is the secret? What is this night about?", Bonnie asked excitedly. She knew that Elena´s emotions were back on but she didn´t know why, just like Caroline and Rebekah. "Right, you want to know why I turned my emotions back on...", Elena started. Rebekah became really quiet because she didn´t know anything about these girls. She was pretty nervous but she was happy to be a part of this. "So, four months ago I left Mystic Falls and I went to New York. I always wanted to see it, so I lived there for a while. One day, it must have been around the first week, I went to a park in a little town near New York. I sat down at a bench to wait for the proper...meal to walk by, when I heard a man´s voice", Elena explained. Rebekah grabbed a pillow and hugged it, while Bonnie lay down at Caroline´s lap. "What did the man say?", Caroline asked excitedly. "Elena? nothing more, just my name. But it was enough, I knew who it was right away. It was Elijah", Elena nervously looked at Rebekah. She knew that the blonde Original would always protect her brothers and after Elijah was one of them, she didn´t know how she would react. "I looked at him and he smiled friendly at me. I didn´t smile back, I didn´t want to smile but I felt the urge to do it though. That was the point where my humanity tried to come through the first time. Of course Elijah noticed that I wasn´t myself anymore. I mean, the last time we saw each other, I was still human...". Elena smiled slightly when she thought about it. "Well to make it short, we talked a little and when he found out that my emotions were off, he...kissed me", she added. Bonnie shrieked in excitement and Caroline clapped her hands. Shyly Elena looked at Rebekah who, to her surprise, was smiling bright. "Was it a good kiss? I mean, he looks like a good kisser", Caroline asked smiling. The three girls looked at her with raised eyebrows and Caroline chuckled lightly. "What? I don´t have anyone to kiss, you could at least tell me how it felt", she giggled. Elena smiled and she closed her eyes to remember exactly how it felt. "It felt good. I mean, when his lips touched mine I felt like...my heart was on fire. It was epic! And then it just happened, my emotions were back on", she took a deep breath before she opened her eyes again. "Oh my god, Elena this is...this is amazing!", Bonnie shrieked. "Yes it really is...and then we spent the last four months together. We talked and it was just like the time when I was still human...I felt good", Elena smiled and Caroline thought that she looked very happy. "And where is Elijah now?", Rebekah asked, obviously curious. "When I decided to come back to Mystic Falls he told me that he would come with me. You know, I fell for him instantly and he loves me and...", Elena sighed. "Wait that means my brother is back in town?", Rebekah asked excitedly. She didn´t see him for such a long time and she missed him very much, so the fact that her brother was finally back made her really happy. For a few seconds no one said anything until Caroline finally hugged Elena and whispered: "I´m so happy you´re back, I did really miss you!". She gave Elena a quick kiss on her cheek before she sat back and smiled friendly, knowing that her time had almost come to talk about Klaus...
