Hey guys! Thanks for the reviews! And thank you to Sarah225 for reminding me to answer a question that was asked earlier by NinaD. We had actually answered the question in the first chapter but we had to republish the chapter and lost all of the notes. So, sorry about that! The movie that inspired us to write the story is called I hate love stories. This chapter has a sweet Klayley moment for you guys and some more backstory about Klaus and what happened to his family! Enjoyyy JJ

Chapter 7

Klaus's POV

Something started ringing and wouldn't leave his mind. It was disturbing his sleep. It got louder and louder until he woke up and looked straight at the time. Crap! He was late for work. He switched it off and saw Genevieve walking out of the bathroom. He had to get rid of her and go to work.

"Good morning, Klaus. Are we doing anything later?" she asked and Klaus looked around trying to find some sort of excuse to send her away. Besides it's not like he was planning to take this any further. He just needed some fun for one night. But he might have drank too much beer and now his head hurt.

"Umm actually I'm busy and the guy who owns this place will arrest you if he found out you're here. I'm not really allowed to bring anyone here!" he lied with the most ridiculous excuse but her expressions told him that she was buying it. Part of him thought of how stupid she was to believe it. Even he wouldn't buy it.

"Really? Are you serious? Why didn't you say so?" she asked shocked. Klaus looked at her and nodded. "Well I was pretty drunk last night so," Klaus said. Genevieve looked at him seductively. "Oh well, call me later then." Klaus nodded and said sarcastically, "Yeah, I'll do that" but she didn't know. He gave her, her jacket and shoved her out of the door. "Okay, bye now, go home." She was about to say something but he shut the door in her face and started to get dressed.

He drove to the office and ran towards the conference room when he saw Elijah and Marcel there talking. He entered the room fast and they turned to look at him. Elijah looked mad. But he started speaking calmly. "Hmm. Thank you for being so early Niklaus. You've been of great help. I asked you to be here at 7:30 am sharp. For your information, if you didn't already know, it's 8:45!" he said with his voice slightly raised. "Yeah, but I was just go–" before he could finish someone interrupted him from the door.

"–He was just going to get some things I asked him to get for the set earlier. I called him before he came in to go get them." Hayley said, looking at Elijah and then to him. He was surprised she was covering for him. He made a mental note to thank her later for that. He nodded when she looked at him. He looked at Elijah who was looking suspicious and Marcel just chuckled knowing exactly why he wasn't here earlier. "Oh, it seems I was mistaken. Sorry brother." He nodded and said, "it's… okay," feeling slightly guilty.

"Klaus, go and help Hayley with props and design and Marcel, go get Davina. Tell her about the production charts and their additions." Elijah said and with that everyone left. Once Klaus and Hayley were in her office, they sat down and took out some papers to start working on.

"Hey, Hayley, thanks for that. With Elijah," Klaus said sincerely. Hayley smiled and shook her head. "No, Klaus, thank you. For that speech you gave me yesterday, at Rousseau's." Klaus chuckled and looked down embarrassed. "Yeah I said a lot, didn't i? it was totally the beer's fault. I apologize." Hayley laughed. "No, it's the first time you said something that didn't make me mad." Klaus nodded while he looked away. He remembered her fit yesterday and asked her, "So you wanna tell me how it is with Jackson?" she sighed and smiled. "I love Jackson, and when I fight with him, I feel terrible." Klaus looked disgusted on purpose. "I'm telling you, it's a problem. You need help. With all this love crap." "No! I don't you do!" she said laughing. "I don't have a girlfriend so I wouldn't know." He said chilled. "Really?" she asked surprised. "Yeah. I only do one time things. Or dating for maybe a while but no commitment." She frowned and he asked her why. "You need to change, being committed is healthy. It's also great to have someone there for you all the time." He looked at her weirdly and she giggled, "Hmm… let me think about that…" he pretended to think and looked at her. "Let me see, nope still a no. Now tell me about Jackson. You were saying something?" "He left the country yesterday. But not before apologizing. And I did too. We're okay now I guess." At least she was back to being calmer and not angry with him all the time. "Wanna grab some lunch? While we work?" she asked and he nodded. "Sure let's go."

Once they grabbed all their stuff, they got to the restaurant near by the office and sat at a table outdoors. "You know how you told me you had a sister a week ago?" he immediately dropped his smile and looked away from her. She seemed to have noticed this. "If you don't mind me asking about her, that is." She hesitated but felt like he could tell her. He'd never told anyone before. So, he was a bit down on he topic but he felt like Hayley wouldn't judge. "No, no it's fine. Please, ask away, love." She nodded and asked curiously, "You said that you left home… why is that?" he sighed and looked at her and then down to his coffee mug.

"My sister, Rebekah, and I, we were very close. We used to tell each other everything. When I was a child my father, Mikael, used to abuse all his kid. He was a drunk and he probably still is. He used to leave Elijah in charge of all of us when he went out to drink and my mother would just sit home and cry all day. This went on for a long time. When we got older, like a few years ago, it just got worse. My dad would throw bottles of drinks on the walls and make a mess and my mother would do nothing to stop him. Rebekah would run away to Marcel every night because she was afraid of our father. Elijah and I couldn't take it anymore. We went to our mother to ask her to do something and we caught her doing drugs. We tried to stop her but she threatened to harm us if we said or did anything. That's when we'd all had it. My oldest brother Finn ran away with his girlfriend Sage, said he wanted nothing to do with our family. I felt the same way and I decided to leave and Elijah told me that he will always stick by my side no matter what. So he decided to come with me too. We were going to take Rebekah and Kol, our youngest brother with us but before we told them we started making plans to move to America. A week before we were going to leave, we got a call saying that our mom was dead and that it was because of the drugs. Rebekah was devastated and so was Kol. We all were, but them the most. We told them that we had to get away from Mikael and that we were moving to New Orleans but Bekah was too attached to our mother that she didn't want to leave. She lashed out of sadness and anger and said she never wanted to see any of her family again. Marcel's family was also moving to New Orleans so he was coming with us. He tried to convince Rebekah to come with us but she refused and it was quite evident that she wasn't going to change her mind. She disappeared the next day. So did Kol. We tried looking for them before we left but we've never seen them since. It's been six years."

When Klaus finished he still hadn't looked up at Hayley. He was looking at the table with cold eyes, completely blank. A single tear falling down his left cheek. He felt a hand on his back. He lifted his head to see Hayley's face. Her eyes wide and were red from tears, mouth slightly open. She looked at him for a couple of seconds and then gave him a long hug. He was on the verge of crying but he just closed his eyes tight and hugged her back. They stayed like that for a while until Hayley pulled back and smiled, tears still in her eyes. "You're okay, you know? You've come a long away. You and Elijah." She said and he smiled and nodded looking into the distance.

"Thanks Hayley." "No, thank you, Klaus. For sharing this with me. I am so very sorry." He just nodded and slightly smiled. Friendly Hayley was a good person, he was glad he could talk to a friend.

Hayley's POV

As Klaus told her the story of why he left, she felt more and guiltier for being that rude to him before. She couldn't believe what he and Elijah had been through. She couldn't help herself from shedding tears. She looked at him the entire time he told her the story and saw how hurt he was by his sister and brother not joining him and Elijah. Once he was done he just stared at the table and she sat in silence soaking it in. She put her hand on his back and he looked up. She could see how broken he was. She hugged him long and closely, and felt him hug back. They stayed like that for a couple of seconds before Hayley put a smile on her face and pulled away.

"You're okay, you know? You've come a long away. You and Elijah." She really felt like they had been handling this really well since she had no idea that the story was that intense. He looked at her and smiled then he looked away. "Thanks Hayley." And she was thankful for him being her friend. He really was a good guy under that annoying personality that she was getting used to. "No, thank you, Klaus. For sharing this with me. I am so very sorry." He just nodded and slightly smiled.

After a few minutes of silence, he spoke up. "So, let's talk about something else." He said taking out the work papers. They both took out their pens and started their work. "Oh, I know." "What?" she asked. "Elena Gilbert." He said and she looked up from her work. "The actress?" she nodded. "You know her?" she asked, surprised to hear Elena's name. "She's dating a friend of Elijah's and mine." He said. "Yeah? Well what about her? Is she here?" she asked even more curious and excited to see her old friend from college. "Well… yeah, haven't you heard?" "Heard what?" he chuckled not believing that she didn't know. She looked at him impatiently.

"Elena Gilbert and her boyfriend Damon Salvatore are the stars of Elijah's film." She said with a 'duh' tone. She just stared and him in shock not moving. Elena was here? She was the star of Elijah's movie? That was amazing. "She's dating Damon Salvatore?" she asked and Klaus nodded. "Yeah he's an old friend." "Wow that's great, she's been crushing on him since forever. Never used to hear the end of it." "Yeah, and she's also Elijah's fiancée's cousin." That was really cool. Small world. "Oh yeah, Elijah told me he's getting married. Good for him! When's the big day?" Klaus shrugged. "I don't know they haven't decided yet. Sometime in three weeks is what I've been told. Speaking of, what about you?" he said pointing to her engagement ring. She looked down. Jackson and her still hadn't talked about it. "I don't know. We'll be discussing it when he gets back to New Orleans." Klaus nodded. "Yeah well I better be invited, love" he said and she smiled. "Of course." She said and they spent the rest of the time discussing about work.

There ya go! Hope you enjoyed the chapter and next were gonna have Damon and Elena coming to the office. Also we're gonna have Klayley spending more time together at work :) And we're thinking of bringing Kol and Bekah to the story in future chapters, which may or may not be soon ;) Love ya :* :*