Tyler woke up the next morning and Caroline was gone. He rubbed his eyes and looked at the clock, only to realize that it was five o'clock in the morning. She probably woke up, felt uncomfortable with their sleeping arrangements and bolted. She was still hopelessly in love with Matt after all. He probably should have done the gentleman like thing and slept somewhere else, but once she cuddled up close to him like that; doing the gentleman like thing was thrown out the window. He decided to get up and make his way to his comfortable bed. With Caroline gone, the floor just wasn't doing it for him.

As he picked up his pillow he heard an exasperated sigh. He looked behind him, only to see Caroline staring at him with her arms crossed. "Please, please, please tell me you're not one of the psychotic early risers that gets up at the crack of dawn every day."

He looked at her in shock and said, "Definitely not, but you appear to be. I woke up and you were gone. I couldn't hear you anywhere, so I just figured you had gotten up and left. After sleeping on the floor all night my bed was calling my name."

"Oh, praise the lord" she said. "It's Saturday and I am going back to sleep." She made her way over to the couch and laid down.

"Where were you?" Tyler asked.

"Well, I woke up because I was hungry. I just wanted to get it over with it, so I went hunting, and now I don't have to worry about it for the rest of the day." She said all of this with asatisfied smile that made Tyler chuckle.

"What?" she asked.

"Nothing, don't worry about it." Tyler said as he laid back down on the floor. He wasn't, EVEN, about to tell her that he was feeling all giddy inside because she didn't seem freaked out by their extra close contact last night.

"What are you doing?" she asked angrily.

"Jesus Caroline, now what am I doing wrong?"

"I thought you were going to your bed, but now you're lying back down on the floor."

"I was moving to my bed because I thought you were gone, but you're not; therefore, I am going to stay out here with you. I am not going to leave you by yourself."

She shot him a look or irritation. "Tyler, I am a vampire for god sake, I think I can handle myself if something were to happen. I am fine; you can go sleep in your bed."

He ignored her and adjusted to a somewhat comfortable position on the floor. She then sighed and moved from the couch on the floor next to him.

"What are you doing?" Tyler asked irritated.

"Well, if you're not going to go sleep in your bed, I am not going to sleep on your couch." Caroline then rolled over and closed her eyes. Just as she was starting to feel relaxed Tyler grabbed her and threw her over his shoulders.

"What the Hell are you doing?" she screamed as Tyler carried her up the stairs. He didn't answer. When they were finally up the stairs Tyler walked into his room and set Caroline on his bed. He then grabbed a pillow and an extra blanket and made his way over to a couch that was on the other side of his room.

Caroline couldn't help but chuckle as she said, "You're impossible Lockwood!"

Caroline was out within five minutes. Tyler on the other hand was wide awake. If he had been a little more coherent at the time, he might have thought twice about putting her in his bed. Now all he could do was think about Caroline being in his bed, and how he wanted to be in his bed with her. After about thirty minutes of daydreaming and watching her, he finally forced his thoughts elsewhere and drifted back to sleep.

He awoke a few hours later to Caroline sitting in front of the couch starting at him. He sat up and rubbed his eyes till her face became focused. "Do you have to be such a creep Caroline?"

"Well, what would you have liked for me to do to occupy my time…snoop through your room? You're a grouch in the mornings Tyler Lockwood."

At that he smiled and asked her what she wanted to do today. "Did you want to go talk to your mom? I could go with you if you want."

She smiled and said, "Thanks, but I don't really want to deal with that today. Let's do something fun. Things have been so crazy; I just want to forget about it for today and pretend like we're regular teenagers."

With a smile he said, "Ok, sounds good to me. What did you have in mind? I am down for anything."

Two hours into shopping Tyler deeply regretted those five words and made a mental note to never use them again. As Caroline tried to enter another shoe store Tyler shot her the death glare. She smiled and said, "Don't worry this is the last one. You can pick what we do next."

Forty-five minutes later, Tyler finally got to tell her that they were going to go to his family's lake house. "We could go to the grocery store to get stuff for lunch and then hang out on the lake for the rest of the day."

She smiled and said, "That sounds perfect, and I can wear my new swimsuit!"

"Whoa, your telling me that I sat through nearly three hours of torture, and I somehow missed out on swimsuit shopping. What the hell Caroline?" She just giggled and started walking towards the grocery store.

After finally deciding on what to have, and several trips around the grocery store Caroline said, "Tyler, I think we have everything we need."

He looked at her, and then the cart, and then back at her. "We have everything but beverages."

She smiled and said, "How does Coke sound?"

"It's a miracle, finally, something we agree on!"

Caroline just laughed and followed him to the drink isle; where he continued to ramble on about missing swimsuit shopping. When they spotted the Coke it took them a minute to actually pick it up because they had to debate between bottles or cans. Tyler eventually grabbed the bottles and said, "Caroline, this was my activity choice for the day; therefore, I have the ultimate decision making authority for the time being". She just laughed and said ok as they made their way to the checkout counter. As they left the drink isle their cart slammed into someone else's causing them to laugh even harder. They stuck their heads around the corner to see who they hit and their expressions went blank. Tyler looked at Caroline who was visibly in shock, and then turned back to Matt.

"Hey Matt, sorry about that."

Matt looked at Tyler, and then Caroline, and then back at Tyler. "Uh, yeah no problem man. What are you two out shopping for?"

Caroline finally snapped out of it and answered, "We were going to hang out at the lake house today, and we were just buying some stuff for lunch."

With a torn look on his face Matt said, "Oh, well have fun." and took off to the opposite end of the grocery store. Tyler looked at Caroline and said. "Are you ok?"

She gave him a halfhearted smile and said, "I am not going to worry about that right now. We are having fun today. Remember?"

"Ok, well after that little run in I am thinking there is something else we need to get."

"Tyler Lockwood, look at this cart. What else could we possibly need?"

"I am thinking you need to use your little mind compulsion trick and score us some alcohol."

She returned his devilish grin and said, "You know, I think that can be arranged."

They rushed through the checkout line. They never spoke of it, but they both knew they did it because neither one of them wanted to run into Matt again. Caroline was still heartbroken over the deal, and things were just awkward between Matt and Tyler. Tyler had a lot of built up anger towards Matt, and he just didn't know how to handle it.

They packed up Tyler's truck and Caroline worked her magic at the liquor store. Caroline then called and checked in with her mom telling her that she was going to be hanging out with Elena for the day. After that they headed towards the lake house with the windows down and the music on. They didn't say much during the trip, and normally the lack of conversation would have driven Caroline nuts. She thought about that as they pulled into the driveway and smiled. She never would have guessed she would feel comfortable enough with Tyler Lockwood to sit in the silence with him.

They ate the lunch Caroline cooked them. She had tried giving Tyler cooking lesson number two, but he wasn't having any part of it. He used some lame excuse about going to check out the boat and making sure it had gas.

They both cleaned up the kitchen after lunch; and then he showed Caroline to the bathroom so she could put her swimming suit on. Once she had changed she made her way down to the dock where she found Tyler already floating in the water.

"Jerk, you didn't wait for me?"

"I thought about waiting, but I had two valid reasons not to."

"Oh really, and what are those?"

"Well for starters I did go shopping with you today, and it took you about thirty minutes in the dressing room every time you tried on a new outfit. Second of all, I am a werewolf, which I am sure you haven't forgotten. I have that whole heightened temperature thing going on, and standing in the heat can be quite miserable sometimes. The cool water makes me feel so much better."

"It did not take me thirty minutes in the dressing room to try on an outfit."

"Oh Forbes, but it did." Tyler said with a devilish smile.

Caroline said, "Whatever Tyler" as she proceeded to take her swimming suit cover off.

Tyler was about to say something, but was rendered speechless as he saw her standing there adjusting her new bikini; he had never been so mesmerized by a girl. He wondered how he had known her his whole life and never really noticed how beautiful she was. When she finally looked up their eyes met and Tyler needed something to say since she had just caught him staring at her.

"I am still pissed at you for letting me go to the sports store while you went swimming suit shopping Caroline. You could have filled me in; after all you did drag me around shopping all morning."

Caroline laughed and said, "You'll get over it. I saved you from looking like a pervert who was only in the swimming suit section to stare at girls. Mystic Falls is a small town; it would have gotten around quick."

Tyler just shot her an annoyed look and thought to himself, "It wouldn't have been a problem because I am pretty sure the only girl I would have been staring at was you."

Tyler got out of the water and walked towards the boat. "Want to go for a ride?"

"That would be amazing!" Caroline said.

They both hopped in and rode around looking at the gorgeous views. Caroline sat at the front of the boat looking at the scenery. Tyler spent most of his time staring at Caroline.

"Hey, I know of a good cliff we could go jump off of."

"Tyler Lockwood, you are crazy if you think you're going to get me to jump off of a cliff into the lake."

"What, it's not like you wouldn't heal if something went wrong." he said while laughing.

Caroline walked over and punched him, probably a little too hard and said, "Yeah, I am still not convinced."

"Ouch, okay okay! I will just head back to the lake house then. We are probably an hour away."

"Okay Captain!" Caroline said as she laid at the front of the boat to soak up the sun. It felt so good on her cold skin. "I am so glad Bonnie made me this ring. I would be so depressed if I couldn't lay out in the sun like this. It is so relaxing"

Tyler shot her a confused look and said, "What are you talking about? What ring?"

"Oh, I guess I never did tell you about that. Vampires aren't supposed to be out in the sun. If I didn't have this ring on I would burn to crisp and die. That's one thing I learned the hard way when I first turned."

"Nice to know, if I ever need to keep you contained I will just steal your ring."

"I would like to see you try Lockwood."

When they made it back they played in the water for a while before heading back up to the lake house as the sun set.

"Tyler, is it ok if I take a shower? I am feeling pretty gross."

"Yeah, that's fine. I will probably take one two. You can use the bathroom you changed in. There are towels in the cabinet."

When she was done she put on a cute pair of sweats and a t-shirt she had bought while shopping earlier that day. She went looking for Tyler and she didn't have to go far, because she found him passed out in the bed outside the bathroom she was in.

She looked at the clock, "Man I didn't think I was in there that long." She tried to nudge him awake but had no luck. Realizing how tired she was herself she laid down next to him and quickly drifted to sleep.

Tyler woke up the next morning and found Caroline curled up in a ball next to him on the bed. As he shifted himself Caroline woke up to find Tyler staring at her.

"Who's the creepy one now Lockwood?"

"Not even comparable Caroline. I just happened to look over at you. You on the other hand were sitting on the floor intensely staring at me yesterday."

She shot him a look, and then stretched on the bed before setting up.

Tyler sat up next to her and said, "Well its Sunday, what are we going to do today?"

"As much as I really don't want to I should probably go talk to my mom about everything. Try and figure out what my next move is."

"I will be there if you need anything Caroline."

She looked at him and then gave him a big hug. "Thank you Tyler, I am so happy you're back in town!"