The next morning, Caroline is gently woken up by some stubborn sunrays falling through one of the large windows. First she begins to move only slightly, but then opens her eyes slowly and has to blink several times to get used to the sudden influence of light. Sighing, she wants to turn around and pull the blanket over her again, noticing that she is not in her own room.
Now, wide awake, she quickly sits up and looks around the room. Where is she? "Is Sleeping Beauty finally awake too?", a voice unknown to her sounds: "What a miracle! She quickly turns her head in the direction from which the voice seems to come.
There, in the door frame of the room, stands a man with black hair and bright blue eyes, as well as pale skin. Shocked, she recedes and instinctively tries to cover her body with the thin blanket. Only now does she really realize that she is naked underneath.
"Who are you and where am I?" she still asks quite perplexed and notices how she suddenly creeps up on a bad feeling. "I am Damon and you are in my house', he crosses his arms with a grin on his lips in front of his chest and leans his shoulder against the door frame as he looks at the part of her he can see.
"Please be nice to our visiter, Damon," someone puts their hands on the man's shoulders. Then a second person appears in the door frame to whom Caroline can assign the new voice. It takes a few seconds, but then she remembers that the blonde boy is the new classmate Elena claims to have stumbled into. Caroline remembers at the sight of him that she has picked up somewhere that his name is Stefan.
"I always am," the dark-haired man grins and turns to his brother. "Where am I exactly," Caroline asks after watching them for a while. "Where you fell asleep after your hot night, Blondie," Damon grins and steps into the room.
But Stefan stops Damon and steps in his place: "I really have to apologize for my brother. He really has no manners. I'm Stefan Salvatore." He gives her a friendly smile: "We just wanted to let you know that we made breakfast and that you're welcome to eat with us if you want". "But if you want to try to sneak out, that would be fine with me, too," Damon says of herself and then fortunately disappears from her field of vision. She still looks quite irritated at Stefan, who gives her one last friendly smile and then leaves her alone as well.
When the door falls back into the lock, she is relieved and lets herself sink back into the sheets. What was that all about? She sighs unhappily as she suddenly remembers what happened last night.
This strange Klaus actually managed to get her into bed last night. Normally the blonde never does that, but the man had something so attractive and mysterious about him that she couldn't resist. However, she didn't expect that she would wake up alone in a strange house the next day. Especially since she hadn't even planned to fall asleep in the strange bed.
She quickly rises from the bed and sets off to search for her clothes, which are scattered all over the room. Without thinking long and hard, she puts on her clothes from last night and checks if she still has all her valuables. Fortunately nothing is missing and she takes a look at the display of her mobile phone. Damn, it's already after noon. She doesn't need to go to school anymore. Especially because she doesn't want to face the questions of Bonnie and Elena.
As quiet as she can, she opens the door and sneaks up to the stairs. She wants to descend it as quietly as possible, but the penultimate step creaks suspiciously. She stops for a moment to make sure that no inhabitant of the house has heard her, and then stops at the landing to look for the exit.
Following her instinct, after a few metres she arrives in a spacious room with a fireplace next to the two large windows. The room looks old, but in a pompous, elegant way. For a moment she stops and lets her gaze wander. She immediately notices the picture frames on the fireplace. They show different people and she thinks she can make Stefan and the man from last night out of the corner of her eye. But she is no longer allowed a closer look, because she hears another voice behind her at this moment: "So you really want to leave without saying goodbye?"
Feeling a little caught, she drives around and sees Stefan, who smiles at her a little amused but friendly. Immediately she feels her cheeks getting warm and threatens to turn red. "I'm sorry for T-Tut," she says with surprising uncertainty, which actually doesn't suit her at all. However, this situation is more than embarrassing for her. After all, she is in a strange house and has slept there without permission. And then she gets caught by both of them.
"It's all right," he says honestly and steps aside so that she gets a glimpse of the front door. She also smiles gratefully as he makes it clear to her that he won't stop her if she leaves now: "Thank you". He just nods to her and she quickly walks towards the exit. Although this Stefan seems to be really nice, the whole situation is so unpleasant for her that she just wants to leave.
When she has opened the door, she turns to the blonde again: "It would be really nice if you wouldn't tell anyone at school about it". His corner of his mouth goes up and he winked at her: "It's a matter of honour." Then he puts his finger on his lips and tells her that this will remain her secret. She can't help grinning and repeats his gesture before leaving the house without another word.
As soon as the door behind her has fallen into the lock, she quickly runs over to her car and starts the engine a little hastily. Her heart is beating strangely fast and she can't wait to get home. The day is already over for her. After all, she already knows that it won't be easy to explain to her mother why she didn't go to school today and even less why she spent the night somewhere else.