Crazy/Stupid/Drunken LOVE
By AllenFrancisDoyle
Disclaimer: I don't own the Vampire Diaries. *Sad Face*
Authors Notes: Hey I know this chapter is a little late but I've been crazy busy for the last couple of weeks and haven't had time to edit. Let me know what you guys think, your reviews are what keep me writing! LOVE.
"How'd it go, mate?" Kol asked, rolling over in his bed to face Damon who had just come back from class. Kol wasn't surprised to see him. He was just surprised that Damon had been to class.
"I'm gonna go with not so great." Damon pulled off his leather jacket and sat on Stefan's bed, pulling his hip flask from his jeans pocket. "She just keeps pretending I don't exist. And I'm beginning to think that it's physically impossible to get that girl alone."
"It's been a week Damon. Did you ever think she just doesn't want to know you?" Kol laughed. Damon was not in a laughing mood and threw his flask across the room, missing Kol by an inch. "No need to get violent, mate. There are many other fish in the sea after all."
"It's not the point Kol! It's a matter of principal. No girl has ever forgotten me. I'm Damon Salvatore!"
"And she was drunk! And is now ignoring you. It could be worse of course. You could be Nik, his girl didn't even recognise him enough to ignore him." Kol picked up Damon's flask and had a drink. Why not he thought. He wasn't going to class today anyway.
"What are you two arguing about now?" Stefan appeared in the doorway, not surprised to find Damon there again. He and Klaus were still trying to find some kind of student accommodation. Klaus was staying with Elijah until then and Damon was basically squatting on Stefan's floor. Kol of course didn't mind this at all. He had a live in drinking buddy.
"Your brother is still hung up on that girl from the party last week and is now basically stalking her. It's pathetic really." Kol got a lamp thrown at his head for that.
"Stop throwing my things, Damon." Stefan sighed. Loudly.
"I'm not hung up on Elena! I would just like her to acknowledge the fact that she totally wants me. And I would like her to acknowledge this fact while sober!" Damon sprung off the bed then and left the room. No girl had ever successfully avoided Damon's attentions for this long.
"He's got it bad." Stefan stated, sitting down on the bed that Damon had just vacated.
"Where have you been anyway Stefan? You're out of here early every morning before I get up and don't come back until late. Don't tell me you're hung up on some pretty young thing too?"
"Just because you don't wake up until noon and are always passed out drunk when I come home, doesn't mean I keep strange hours Kol. It means that you do." Stefan laughed, gathering books from the shelf over his bed. Stefan was still surprised that half of his belongings were still intact after "the party".
"And where do you think you're going now? You only just got home!" Kol yelled, sitting up and throwing his legs over the edge of his bed.
"Sorry mom, but some of us plan on actually attending classes this semester." Stefan left the room leaving Kol to wonder what he was going to do all day. Kol was pretty bored of just hanging around the dorm room hung-over every day. He rooted around the pile of paper beside his bed before he found what he was looking for.
This could be interesting he thought to himself before getting dressed and following Stefan out of the dorm.
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Caroline, Elena and Bonnie were all sitting around a table in an off campus café eating lunch between classes when Damon walked by the window.
"There he goes again. I'm pretty sure he's stalking me." Elena held up her menu to cover her face.
"He is not stalking you Elena stop being so dramatic." Bonnie pulled down the menu and gave Elena a stern look.
"I know he isn't but it's just so awkward! I see him everywhere I go and it's like he knows me but I don't know him. It's just so weird." Elena went back to eating her salad and looking confused.
"That's what you get for getting inappropriately drunk and making out with strangers." Bonnie aimed this low blow at both Elena and Caroline.
"Hey! I've barely seen my guy since class registration. And he never says hi or stares at me weird like Elena's guy does." Caroline laughed. "He does help out in my Law class though. He basically just stands around and lets the girls drool all over him."
"Someone sounds jealous." Bonnie commented before hiding her face in her coffee.
"I am not jealous! I don't even know him! Why would I be Jealous?" Caroline half yelled at Bonnie over the table.
Bonnie just laughed and began to gather her things, almost forgetting her copy of Pride and Prejudice. "Yeah because you don't sound jealous at all. I'm heading back to class, I'll catch you guys later."
Bonnie made her way back to campus, coffee in hand. Her last class of the day was English Literature which was one of her favourites. She had just about settled herself into a seat in the lecture hall when she noticed someone move in beside her.
"Pssst. What are we doing in class today, gorgeous?" She turned towards the voice and recognised the guy immediately.
"Kol? I was beginning to think you were never going to come to any of your classes. Your name is on half of my class lists with 'no attendance' written beside it." Kol looked shocked for about a quarter of a second before painting his signature smirk on his face.
"Well, well, well and where have we met before? I'm sure I would have remembered someone who looked like you." Bonnie scoffed at his remark before turning to face him again.
"Technically we've never met. I was at a party in your dorm room last week. I was talking to your roommate Stefan while you were passed out in a drunken stupor. You snore by the way."
Kol looked confused before a moment of realization hit him and he began to laugh. "Yeah probably not my finest moment. It was a hell of a party though."
"Can you even remember it?" Bonnie laughed along with Kol, hitting him lightly in the arm. "And just for your information, we're studying Pride and Prejudice and we have a paper due next week."
"Damn. I don't suppose a very pretty girl would be willing to help out a guy who is in desperate need of a sober companion to complete a college assignment?"
Bonnie burst out in a fit of laughter at this just as their very pissed-off looking lecturer entered the room and gave both her and Kol an angry look.
"Maybe." Bonnie whispered in response to Kol's question. "We'll talk after class."
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Caroline was sitting in the library, and had been for the past three hours. She had a pile of Law texts sitting in front of her and was seriously reconsidering her last minute choice of classes. She sighed loudly, threw her head into her hands and wondered why she hadn't opted for Pop Culture.
"Having some trouble there, love?" She heard a voice ask from behind her. Caroline jumped and turned around in her seat.
"Jeez! Sneak up on someone much?" Caroline blushed and turned back towards her pile of books.
"It's a public library, Love. And I was just walking by, not sneaking up." Klaus threw on that smirk Caroline recognized from class. He threw it on for all the impressionable freshman girls who fawned over him.
"Yeah well still! What are you doing here anyway, it's late." Caroline started to gather together her messy notes and dropped them all over the floor.
Perfect Caroline thought. Just perfect.
Klaus laughed at Caroline's clumsiness and her question.
"I do go to this college too, Love." Kneeling down, Klaus began to help Caroline pick up her scattered notes. "What assignment is this for anyway? I think I did this case study in my first year."
"It's fine, I have them." Caroline threw her notes into her bag and started the process of returning the heavy reference books to their shelves. "And stop calling me love!"
Klaus laughed and to Caroline's dismay began to haul a pile of books back, trying to be helpful but in Caroline's frustrated state, she found him more annoying than she probably should.
She wasn't sure exactly what it was about him, but everything he did seemed to annoy her.
"When are you going to stop pretending last week didn't happen?" Klaus held his arm out and grabbed a book shelf in front of Caroline, blocking her way and forcing her to face him.
He had that smirk on his face again and Caroline almost faltered for a second before gathering herself and looking him straight in the eye. She was going for a strong, confident and careless look but she was sure the slight blush on her cheeks would give her away.
"Just so you know, I'm too smart to be seduced by you." Caroline held her stance and saw what she thought for a second was a genuine smile reach Klaus' lips.
"That's why I like you." Klaus replied simply, sliding a handful of books back on to the shelf and freeing Caroline.
Caroline scoffed and returned to the table where she had left her bag. She made sure it was closed tight to avoid another embarrassing clumsy moment.
"I'm majoring in Law, you know." Klaus had crept up behind her, almost making her jump again just with the sound of his voice. "And half of the books you were just studying from are completely useless. Trust me, I know from experience. I happen to have a few books that could be quite useful, if you want them."
"I think I'll do just fine on my own, thanks." Caroline threw her bag over her shoulder and started to leave before she heard that voice again. Stupid, sexy British accent!
"It's been a pleasure, as always Caroline. And do let me know if you change your mind and need my help with anything." Caroline turned back to face him just as she reached the door.
"I'd rather fail pre-law, drop out and live on the streets, but thanks." She shot him one of her most dazzling smiles before sauntering away.
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Bonnie was on her way back from her 'study session' with Kol. She couldn't say she'd gotten very much work done but spending time with Kol had been….interesting. He didn't seem all that interested in the work of Jane Austen but Bonnie found she didn't seem to care that much.
Bonnie was lost in thought walking down the corridor to her dorm room and nearly fell when she crashed into something hard. She looked up and saw Damon, also recovering from their collision.
"Oh hey, Bonnie." Damon said, bending down to pick up the book Bonnie didn't even noticed she had dropped. "You haven't seen Stefan around today have you?"
Bonnie scanned her memory for half a second.
"I saw him in biology this afternoon, but haven't seen him since." In fact, thinking about it, Bonnie hadn't seen Stefan outside class since the party.
"It's so weird, apart from class, I have no idea what that kid does all day." Damon looked thoughtful for a minute before sighing. "Thanks anyway Bonnie, see you around."
Damon walked back to his own dorm room (well technically Stefan's) and Bonnie continued back to her own room. Not that she knew him all that well but Bonnie thought Damon looked…kind of sad?
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Columbia University, New York City
"Stay tonight."
"You know I can't, I have class early in the morning, and I'll never make it back on time." Stefan pulled the blonde woman closer to his chest, resting his chin on her hair. "And besides, Damon and Kol are starting to get suspicious."
"Suspicion means nothing, they'll never figure it out." The blonde woman said, snuggling even closer to Stefan, relishing in the moment before it was gone.
"Maybe Kol won't figure it out, he's been fairly busy this week with all the parties, but Damon definitely knows something is going on."
"So typical of my brother. Goes to college to get drunk." Stefan laughed at her logic and began his move to get out of bed.
"He isn't that bad, Rebekah. He'll probably go to class eventually." Stefan was dressing himself and gathering his things. "They're going to find out eventually, you know."
Rebekah sighed.
"Like you said, Kol is too busy getting drunk! And I'm sure Nik is far too busy feeling self-important. I met with Elijah for lunch today and he seemed so caught up in something else he probably wouldn't have noticed if I wasn't there. My brothers' are hardly the most observant people in the world, Stefan." Rebekah dragged herself out of bed and put her robe on, meeting Stefan at the door to her apartment.
"I know your brothers, Rebekah. I'm living with one of them. I just think we should tell them soon."
"I know, Stefan but when we tell them, it won't be our little secret anymore." Rebekah slid her arms around Stefan's neck, pulling him down into a deep, lingering kiss.
Stefan was the first to pull away, but only because he knew another second of that kiss and he'd be back in bed with Rebekah in an instant. He sighed in frustration.
"I really, really have to go. Breakfast in the morning? In that little café off NYU campus?" Stefan asked, standing in the doorway.
"8.00am sharp." Rebekah replied, making her way back to her bed just as the door closed.
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Caroline was pretty pissed off by the time she made it back to her dorm. It wasn't just Klaus, as much as she'd love to blame him for her bad mood. It was a mixture of everything. The aftermath of that stupid party. Her stupid decision to study Law. Her stupid Law assignment that she was going to be up all night doing. And stupid, sexy Klaus! Urgh. Caroline Groaned internally.
"Why so grumpy?" Bonnie bounced down beside Caroline on her bed.
"I'm not grumpy, just….I don't know…frustrated." Caroline threw the pen she was holding at her notepad, seemingly giving up.
"Sexually frustrated?" Elena joined the conversation, a scandalous smile on her face, throwing in her inappropriate two cents.
"Oh, ha-ha Elena." Bonnie threw her arm around Caroline's shoulders. "Come on Caroline, you're Carline Forbes! You never give up on anything. I think we should take the night off work, put on some stupid DVD we don't have to think about, and just veg out in front of the TV. Everything will be better in the morning."
As much as Caroline knew she needed to get this assignment done, she could see Bonnie's logic. She needed some time off. Some time to do some not thinking.
"Sounds good to me." Elena piped up. "Especially after the weird-ass day I had. My pre-med professor was acting really weird with me during class today. He kept looking at me as if he knew me you know? Like that Damon guy except I know I never got drunk and made out with my professor. Did I?" She looked at Bonnie (who was laughing) for confirmation.
"No, Elena. I'm pretty sure it was just the one guy."
"Thank god." Elena looked only slightly relieved. "Now which shitty, mind-numbing chick flick should we watch?"