Chapter 2

Giving In

When they kissed. Before- During- After.

Before.

Caroline caught her first animal. She was as jolly as any vampire could ever be. Leave it to Caroline to make killing and sucking a cute animal look like a joyous event. At the moment she was happy. But it still tugged at her conscience knowing she attacked a furry little animal that could do no harm. She was able to be happy about it when she saw that Stefan looked almost proud of her. That she could feed on her own if she wanted.

She had her eye on her next target when Stefan had eyes on his. Caroline. He'd figure two lessons in one. Feeding, and fighting.

He watched as she was prepping to pounce, but before she could, he did. He trampled his weight onto the newly turned Vampire and watched as her eyes widened and had no idea what was happening.

"The element of surprise. It'll get ya every time. That's why you have to be on the look out at all times. Your enemies could come out of no where and-, well this is where you'll end up." His gorgeous smile flashed down to the girl beneath him as she studied his face. His eyes, chiseled jaw, structured cheek bones, and how infectious his laugh was. Wait? Stefan was laughing!

This only made Caroline laugh in return.

"Ugh. Fine. Point proved." She groaned and pretended she hated being pinned underneath him. Feeling his body vibrate from his laughter.

Stefan seemed stubborn and wasn't letting off. He was practically sitting on her. So within a flash, she made her way on top and latched her hands on top of his wrists holding him down. No more surprises!

Except for his bottom half. Shoot! She thought as he lifted his legs and curled them around her waist as he rolled her off of him and gained the control once again.

Caroline tried shimmying her way out from underneath Stefan but he was too strong. So she did the only thing she knew would be effective.

She started tickling him. Yes, she knew it was childish but whatever worked. Right? He lost his focus and found himself being straddled by Caroline. Stefan lost all control when-.

During.

Carolines' lips surrounded Stefans'.

In all honesty, she had no idea what she was doing. Obviously she knew how to kiss, but she didn't know what had prompted her to do so. Her and Stefan were building a friendship. Elena was one of her best friends. And she had Matt.

None of this stopped her as she remained straddling Stefan and kept kissing him. She would've stopped long ago but something unusual happened.

She felt the older and stronger Vampire return the kiss. His lips moved back with hers and his hands managed to escape her hold and he ran them down her back and held them at her sides. His tongue traced her bottom lip and ever so lightly took his teeth and nibbled the just-licked lip.

Finally there was a break between them.

Caroline sat up straight while still on Stefan and just stared into his mesmerizing eyes. She could get lost in them for hours if she ever had the opportunity to. That's what scared her.

After.

It took only a flash for Caroline to be standing on her feet and away from the thing she knew she could never have. The thing that belonged to her bestfriend.

Even though Caroline was facing the other direction, she could tell Stefan had remained on the forest floor on his back. She didn't know if he stayed there because of shock, or because he was letting her have a head start.

Until she blinked her eyes and suddenly saw him standing in front of her. Looking away, of course. Neither one of them were holding eye contact. Understandable.

Flashback over.

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Stefans' p.o.v.

Of course things would change after that. I'm not sure how. I don't even know what it means. But that moment meant too much to just brush it off. It's not even up to us. There's Elena. The last thing I'd ever want to do is to hurt her. She means too much to me. But now it's not that black and white anymore. I'd have to tell her and then what?

She forgive me and I pretend Caroline means nothing? Impossible. She not forgive me and I pretend she never meant anything? Still impossible.

I can't not tell her. She'd know something was up. Caroline and I would act differently around each other and Elena would be suspicious. Not necessarily of that, but she'd know something happened.

No. She'll know. But then what? And Caroline isn't even single. She's got Matt and even if I told Elena, that doesn't mean she'd tell Matt. Would she?

p.o.v over

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Elena Gilbert. She got out her journal and let go of her emotions.

Nov 07, 2010

That bitch has ruined everything. She comes back and poses as me. How dare she? And to Damon? Make him believe it's me and have him kiss her? And as if that wasn't enough, she goes after Caroline. Caroline was never even supposed to know about Vampires. And now she is one? She's a Vampire and with Stefan. Of course she is. He told her he'd protect her and show her how to handle being a Vampire. I didn't know that meant spending every minute with her. Obviously it hasn't been "every minute," but still. He's with her and not- Ugh, what are you thinking Elena? He loves you. And Caroline is your friend. She'd never do that.

It doesn't mean that I'm not jealous of what they have now. He can go to her and talk about what he's going through and she'll actually know what it's like. What he has to deal with every day. I'll never be able to know what it's like. He'll confide in her about things that I'd never understand. Used to he'd just go to Damon. But now he's got Caroline. And Caroline has him. Not in the way that I do, but in a way that I never will have. If she has a problem about anything "Vampire" and he'll run to her rescue. And what's worse is if he ever needed help, and there was nothing I could do, he'd go to Caroline. She could help him in ways that I couldn't.

Oh God, Elena. What are you doing to yourself?

Her pen scratched through the paper so heavily it threatened to rip several times. The pages had dents in them and it was obvious someone very frustrated not only let out their sadness, but anger as well.

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Caroline.

She remained standing there. It'd been several minutes before anyone had said anything. All she and Stefan did was stand there in silence. Finally she sneezed and Stefans' instinct was to say, "Bless you."

With no reason at all, they both started to laugh. Stefan eventually saw Carolines' beautiful blue eyes again and his smile had brightened.

He was so screwed.

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