Chapter 7.
Tic. Tak. Caroline looked like she was dreaming with her eyes wide open, while she was staring at the clock above the whiteboard. It was her seventh class that day and it had just a few minutes till the end. She didn't seem to be interested to hear her biology professor as she lectured about the human bones.
She was somehow certain that there was no need for her to listen, not after she read an entire book on the anatomy of the human body when he was 15 years old. It was huge book, it weighed more than her and almost all the words in it were professional words, words that only doctors could understand them. But she didn't give up, she read and read, took a hell a lot of notes and finally, she did it. So, yeah, there was no need for her to listen now.
For a second she pulled the look of the watch and looked around. Honestly, she was not surprised by what she saw. On the first desks sat those who were really trying to learn something from that lecture. It was interesting for Caroline to observe them, they never lift up their eyes from the professor, but all the time they would take notes of what she spoke. Caroline started doing that, but when the professor said there was no need for it and that all is written in the book, she lost interest in the book and her speaking. Even though Bonnie was not in that class, and Elena was not even in that school, she could imagine them sitting there. Also Caroline, in her former school, sat in the front benches. And she didn't care if everyone else thought that she was a geek.
After them followed those students that although they sat in class and listened, they understood nothing, and after a while they would give up and simply opened the phones and start to send messages. Today, she was sitting there, on one of the desks in the middle. Here she can imagine Matt and Stefan, especially because the fact that they do not understand anything of biology.
And finally, there were students who were sitting in the last benches. The very thought of them, Caroline would burst of laughter because they were the most fun to listen to. Always talking nonsense and never listening to the professor, they're made of paper airplanes, as they are in first grade. No class would be the same without them. And of course, these benches belonged to Katherine, Taylor and, although he was not as old as them, Damon. In fact, even if she did not know him well, she could say that Kol belong there too.
Caroline smiled with the thought of those old days, but only for a second because she kind of cared what others would think if they saw her laughing alone.
Tic. Tak. She looked again at the clock and this time she could swear that the arrows did not move from the last time she looked at it. It began to annoy her, just as Klaus pissed her off before classes.
Nik. Klaus. Niklaus. Why did he care how I called him? She thought in herself. Why do I care how he reacted?
But she knew the answer of that question so well. She knew that from the second she saw him, there was a new feelings discovered, something like butterflies in her stomach. What? Scientists say that 99% of teens spend the day thinking about attractive people. It's not my fault that that stupid British guy is one of them. But she wouldn't admit that to nobody, even not to herself. So she had to forget it in the shortest time possible and concentrate on something else. But all thoughts returned to him, to his eyes, his accent, his lips... She dreamed of his lips, his damn lips…
Srrrr. The sound of the school bell brought her back in the real world, where Niklaus or Klaus or just Nik, was not the person she expected to be. She collected the books and put them in her bag. At that point, she noticed how her earring is missing.
Ugh not again. It was a common habit for her to lose the earrings. Her mother cannot count the money she has spent on new earrings for her only daughter. She knelt down to look for it, as everyone else slowly left the classroom.
At that moment, Kol came through the door. He smiled when he saw Caroline panicked and confused. "Are you trying to be slower? They are going to lock you all alone if you don't harry up." He couldn't stop laughing.
Caroline looked at him really quickly. "Don't just stand there, help me out. I lost my earring."
"Oh, the same earring that's stuck in your hair?"
Kol slowly moved to her, still smiling. He reach his hand to help her unstuck her earring. "Here you go, princess. Now can we hurry up, please?" He said while he grabs her hand and they left the classroom.
Caroline was still confused, but she didn't have other choice, but to follow him. "We? What do you mean 'we'?"
"I mean, my brother left me all alone and said to find a way to come back home myself, and by myself he meant to find you so you can help me." He stopped for a minute to explain her, but then he moved on.
When they were outside, Caroline couldn't resist not asking little more about his brother. "So, he is like that, huh? He leaves you when you need him?"
"I don't think that that he had learned how to really speak with people, how to understand them. Even when he's around them, he's a loner." Kol answered without looking at Caroline, like he's totally not interested in the conversation they were having, but he search for something with his eyes. "Well, where is that bus?"
"We are supposed to wait over there, next to the coffee shop." Caroline said quickly, and then she returned to her previous question, hoping wouldn't find that suspicious. "You sound like you don't really trust him. Your brother I mean. Why?"
"For God's sake woman, you're asking me if my brother is 'one night stand' or 'relationship' guy! Well then the answer is little bit of both." Kol started speaking lauder so everyone could hear him. On Caroline's luck, there was nobody around. "I can set you up with him, if you want to?" A big smile appeared on his face, but he had to admit that he saw Caroline's the edges of the mouth crook.
"W-What? N-No. Never in a million years." Sometimes Caroline really wishes to think with her mind before she open her mouth. She spent asking a lot of question for 'never in a million years'."Not after this morning." She said quietly, hoping he wouldn't hear.
"What did he do to you?" He asked. She just looked at him and rolled her eyes. They looked left and right so they can cross over the street, when Kol suddenly realized what is going on. "Oh, I get it. He is not your favorite person in the world. Well, princess, welcome to the club. Other members – my other siblings."
"So you have unstable relationship as brothers?" Caroline asked while they sat on the bench next to an old man who was reading a newspaper.
"I am going to stop you right there. I don't want to hear your philosophical thoughts. We are who we are. And we are good like that. There were a lot of things in our family that happened that brought us together. Nik isn't the oldest one, but he is the one who always expect our trust."
"And d-do you? I mean, do you trust him?" Caroline asked with sweet voice.
"Are we really going back to that? Not always." Kol calmly responded and stood up. "I am going to get myself a coffee, do you want one?"
"No, thank you."
Kol was bored in the bus, playing something on his phone, when the bus suddenly stopped. "Wait, why are we stopping? Will they just leave us here?" He asked Caroline, who had already stood up.
"We are stopping because this is the last stop. From now on, we continue on foot."
"Oh, you have to be joking." He didn't stop complaining even when they were walking. "If I was in New York, they would not just let me to walk for a miles, on foot."
"If you are so sick of this place, why did you come here?" Caroline had to ask.
"Because back there, I affect my father's and my brother's business. And here, I can'f do that. I am as far as way possible from my friends and the paparazzi."
"You left your friends there? That is kind of sad. I am sorry." She looked with compassion.
"You know, the saddest part is that I am now sure that they were not my real friends at all." They stopped walking because they were already in front of Caroline's house.
"Well then, if you stay around long enough, be sure that that is going to change." Caroline said with a smile, while she was opening the gate.
"Thank you, Care. Is it alright if I call you like that? I heard your brother calling you, so..."
"Of course it is alright. Goodbye Kol." She waved his hand and entered the yard, where she politely greeted Harry. Although her day did not start perfectly for her, it turned out to be just the beginning of a new friendship.
Okay, so this is what happened: I deleted the last few chapters of the story for editing a year ago and I totally forgot. I'm such a bad writer, I know. I'll post the old ones and maybe continue with the new ones. I'm very thankful for all of your reviews, favorites and follows because they encourage me to keep writhing. And also, you, the one who's reading this right now, remember, you're beautiful and awesome and I wish you have a great day.
