"Are you gonna go?" Carly stuck her head in my room a little while later.

"No," I answer, not looking up from my homework.

"Why not?" she said disappointed.

I sigh and look up at my sister. She had a hopeful look in her eyes.

"One, because he's a complete stranger that I just met today and for all I know, he could be a serial killer," I answer. "And two, I have homework to catch up on."

"C'mon Hanna," she whined. "This could be a once in a lifetime chance. Plus, he was so handsome when he came to the door."

I understood that she was only twelve and she still believed in romantic fantasies, but her naivetés could be a little annoying sometimes. I envied her because she didn't know yet how cruel the world could be.

"Fine," I sigh. "I'll go."

"Yay!"

Yes, I was going to go. Only because I was never going to hear the end of it if I didn't and also because I wanted to confront him and see what his problem was.

I get up off of my bed and walk towards the door, not bothering to change.

"You're not going to change?" she asked, surprised.

"I'm not treating it as a date," I answer, starting down the steps towards the front door. I look at Carly. "I'll be back in a little bit. If I don't come home, tell Ryan because he knows what this guy looks like."

I close the front door shut behind me and start on my way towards town square. Again, my body started to tingle with anticipation, knowing I was about to see him again. My feelings made me feel very stupid, especially because my mind was trying to stay alert and not give in to the giddiness I was feeling.

I'm so stupid for doing this, I thought. I shouldn't be meeting a guy alone I'd just met a few hours ago.

Carly could be right though, the irrational part of my mind chimed in. This could be a once in a lifetime chance. This may never happen again. Plus, he's hot.

The internal war within my head continued as I drew closer to the square. Right now I didn't know what to do. I could turn around and go back to my house and pretend this never happened, or I could continue to the square and let curiosity get the best of me.

You know what they say, curiosity killed the cat.

In the end, curiosity won and I continued towards the clock tower that loomed in the distance ahead.

I arrive at the clock tower and look around. There are townspeople milling about the square, but no Kol.

Wouldn't it be funny if he stood me up when I was the one who was originally going to stand him up?

"Hanna," I hear a voice behind me.

I turn, and see Kol standing there. The traitorous butterflies swirled in my stomach, along with the giddiness that seemed to envelop body.

"I was getting worried," he admitted. "I thought you stood me up."

I was going to, I thought.

"You're lucky curiosity won over rationale," I say, keeping my guard up and trying to fight the giddiness and butterflies.

"Meaning?" he looked confused.

"For all I know, you could be a serial killer," I explain. "Me coming here could either be the worst mistake of my life, or the best mistake of my life. I'm waiting to see how this night turns out first. Plus, I want to know what you want."

"What I want?" Kol asked.

"With me, I mean," I say. "At the Grill today you just stared at me when I bumped into you, you said nothing. Which if you ask me, that's kind of rude."

"I apologize," he says, smiling. "I was just stunned by your beauty."

I bust out laughing.

"Dude," I say, trying to conceal my laugh. "That has got to be the worst pick up line I have ever heard and I've heard some pretty bad ones."

I don't know who this guy was kidding, starting off with a line like that.

"It was pretty bad, wasn't it?" he smirked.

"Yeah," I smile.

"Well," he said. "I did think you were beautiful when I saw you enter at the Grill earlier."

I could feel my cheeks getting red.

"I guess…" I trail off, trying to hide my face from his view.

I felt his fingers under my chin, pulling my face up so he could look into my eyes.

"Why do you doubt your beauty?"

"Because when I was younger I got called ugly a lot," I explain. "It messes with your self-esteem. I never really got over it. Kids can be cruel."

"Anyone who thinks you're ugly is blind," his eyes were kind, and I could tell that he meant it.

I smiled.

"Would you like to walk around?" he asks.

"Yes," I say, still smiling. "I would like that a lot."

We started walking around downtown Mystic Falls, talking. We talked about our childhoods, our families and siblings.

"Wow, and I thought I had a dysfunctional family," I say after he told me a story about his brother Niklaus, who he called Nik, and how he liked to control all of them and threw a fit whenever he didn't get his way. "Your brother sounds psychotic."

Kol shrugged. "It's nothing we can't handle. All of us are used to it by now."

I really hoped that I would never have to meet his brother Nik.

"See, the only problem I have with my brother is that he's kind of a man-whore," I say. "It's like he has a new girlfriend every week. He dumps one when another, better option comes along. I swear one day he's going to regret it."

"He probably will," Kol says. "Karma can be a bitch."

I nodded my head in agreement.

We walked in silence for a few minutes. I felt the agonizing urge to take his hand and I wondered if he felt the same way. The air was almost electric between us, I was waiting for us to catch on fire.

"So what brings you to Mystic Falls?" I break the agonizing silence.

"My family," he answers. "We lived here when I was little, but we moved after my parents split."

"Oh," I felt sympathy for him. "I'm sorry. Why did they split? If you don't mind me asking."

"My father found out that my mother had been unfaithful," Kol explained. "Her indiscretion led to the conception of my brother Nik. He didn't find out about it until well after Rebekah and I were born."

"That must've been so terrible," I say.

"It was," he admits. "But no matter, I'm glad to be home."

Neither of us said anything for what seemed like a while.

"Are your parents still together?" he finally asks.

"My dad died from leukemia a few years back. It was horrible. I hated seeing him suffer like that. I don't wish that on even my worst enemy."

Before I realized it, we were standing on my front porch. I hadn't noticed that we'd started walking back towards my house.

"May I call on you again sometime?" he asked in what almost seemed like an old fashioned manner.

"Yes," I smile. "You may."

He slowly leans down to kiss me and when our lips met, I could've sworn fireworks went off. The electricity had turned into a flame and we were both lost in time and in each other. Our lips moved in perfect synchronization, to perfect puzzle pieces fitting together.

After what seemed like hours, I pulled away from him.

"I'd better go inside," I move closer to the door. "Goodnight, Kol."

"Goodnight, Hanna," Kol turns away and starts walking back down the driveway and into the night.

As I watched him leave, I felt like I was a princess watching her prince charming going off onto some journey, anticipating the next time she'd see him. I also felt very, very stupid because I'd sworn to myself I wouldn't get caught up in this and yet, here I was, smiling like an idiot.

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