She splashed the cold tap water on her face, attempting yet again to clear her muddled thoughts. It was hours since the incident, but her emotions were still strong and raw.
After allowing a few heart broken tears to fall, she finished her shift at the Grill, barely conscious of what she was doing. She swiftly made it back home without running into a familiar face and found the house empty, luckily able to avoid any confrontation by her mom about her red eyes.
Rejection is a hard enough to deal with as a human, let alone as a vampire. With her heightened emotions, Caroline's 'acceptance' process was even harder to go through.
She attempted to distract herself by performing menial chores, anything she could find to busy herself. The plan worked for a short time until she started on her homework, a thousand word essay on Gothic novels. She soldiered through half of the introductory paragraph before breaking down and crying. The tears fell silently and she bit her bottom lip in an effort to stop the sobs. She tried for half an hour to continue writing before giving up and simply crying.
She had hoped that after crying for an hour her heart wouldn't hurt as much. She was wrong. The pain was still sharp in that fragile organ of hers. Her sadness, instead of dying slowly, sparked her anger at him. She screamed at the walls of her room as if they were his ears. She called him every bad name in the book and assaulted one of her pillows, imagining it as his head.
Yet after all the sobbing and shouting, her heart continued to thrash in pain. Worse, though, was that she knew that she still loved him and she hated herself for that.
Sighing, the blond vampire looked over her reflection and took in her tear stained face and red eyes without interest. It didn't matter how she looked right now. She knew that, despite everything, tomorrow would be Caroline Forbes the Ever Bubbly Senior whose heart was unscathed by unrequited love.
She opened the door to her bedroom, feeling in need of another scream session. She almost jumped when she entered her bedroom. The subject of her shouts as well as the harbinger of her heartbreak sat at the foot of her bed, looking…bored.
The vulnerability the young vampire had felt moments ago dissolved and her anger at the hybrid steeled her against being civil towards him.
"What do you want, Klaus?" She asked impatiently, returning outwardly to her regular self.
That's a good question. "Just dropping by to say 'Hello', love," He said lightly. He glanced at her briefly then let his gaze wander about the bedroom, attempting to seem disinterested.
She almost winced at the sound of the nickname. "You've said 'Hello' so you can leave now."
"Actually love, I think I'll stay awhile," He spoke in a low voice, leaning back with that smug air of his.
"Seriously, Klaus, I'm not in the mood. Leave." She stepped towards him threateningly.
How is it that even in her anger the sound of my name from her lips makes me feel so alive?
"I'd rather stay."
"I swear if you don't leave, I will throw you out myself!" She placed her hands on her hips, her blue eyes wide icy with pain and anger.
Suddenly he was off the bed and standing in front of her. He looked down at the stubborn baby vampire and admired the flush in her cheeks, her sky eyes wide with passion and her fair hair wild around her face. His thoughts tailed back to their previous conversation. She truly is beautiful when she is angry at me.
Caroline met the Original's gaze with her own cool stare, only partly irked by his wordless staring. Being so close to him allowed her to feel the slightly uncomfortable intensity from his green blue eyes and see the uncharacteristically messy look his hair had.
His lips turned in to that smirk she so loved hated and she spoke to her into a teasing tone, "I'd like to see you try, Barbie,"
She bit her lip to hold back any remarks. She gently placed her hands on his chest and his heart beat quickened. Damn.
"Don't. Call. Me. Barbie." She enunciated each word with a shove until he was pushed into the wall. The structure shook momentarily from the force, causing a framed photo to crash onto her wood floor.
Klaus pushed himself off the wall, mildly surprised at the strength she possessed. In the next second, he held her roughly against the door to her bathroom with his arms pinning her shoulders. He didn't know what he planned to do. Pinning an enemy was an instinctively.
"Let me go," Her eyes narrowed as she looked up into his face. She didn't yell. She only squirmed in his hold, trying to break free.
Klaus barely heard her. His mind was processing the current situation. His hands were on her shoulders, her warm body was only inches from his and her lips were even closer. At the moment, his guard was down and all he wanted to do was press his lips against those of the stubborn girl in front of him.
So that's what he did.
DA DA DA DAAAA! …Guess what? It's not the end! :D
Come on, you couldn't expect it to end so simply. That's not how Caroline is.
Trust me, the next chapter is the finale! And it will be wicked. Well…..to me it will be. Thank you so much for reading and reviewing. Please continue to do so! IT really means a lot to me! :'D
PS I am going to post a klaroline one shot called BORED soon. This week or the next. So keep an eye out! Thanks again! :D