I am sorry for not being able to update sooner, but I have so much to do and I'm in my summer home at the moment so I've kind have been spending all of my time at the beach. Yeah, yeah - I know, what a terrible life I lead. ;) I wanted to update last night but then I started watching the opening of the Olympics and I just couldn't stop watching it - have you watched it? It was absolutely great!

Okay, our heroes our now on their third destination in the beautiful capital of Germany, Berlin. Berlin is definitely the favorite city of the young people in Europe, I guess. It has a lot of different things to see and the party scene is absolutely amazing and that is what attracts young people from all around the world, not just Europe, to come to Berlin. So, our lovely heroes are spending their first day in Berlin and yes, finally we will meet Miss Elle.

I want to thank you for all the reviews and PMs. Seriously, you are the best and you keep me so motivated that I can't even think about not finishing this story. You have asked me a couple of questions about myself and I'll answer to the two of them. First of all, I have to say that I am not a royalty but I have been blessed to see a lot of beautiful cities, hotels and restaurants, and that is everything I will say. ;) I will still hide a fact from what country I am but I think you will guess this pretty easily when our heroes visit my country. ;)

I do not own anything except the idea.

So, that's everything from me - I hope you will like the chapter 8.


"And the air, and the sun, and the sky... everything is different in Berlin" – Damon has said as he walked out of their the Adlon Kempinski hotel that has been situated in the heart of the historic Berlin, in the street called Unter den Linden Strasse (Under the linden trees street), and also, once a part of the Eastern side of Berlin. Damon spread out his hands like he tried to reach up at the sky and turned around himself. "Can you not feel it? Gosh, people, I am so in love with Berlin that I could just stay here forever" - he said and started walking towards the famous Brandenburg Gate, the former gate of the city. "Don't you just feel the same?"

Caroline tried to follow Damon as she walked next to Elena and Bonnie. Trying to catch up with Damon was almost impossible for both the girls and the boys. Damon fell in love with the city when he first visited it, and that was two years ago. According to Damon, everything about Berlin was different because Berlin itself was just so much different than the rest of the cities in the world. It was the muse of the many artists, the welcoming home to the many people who came here in their search of the better life, the city of the great history, the city of all the good and all the evil.

Berlin was one of those cities which one either loves or hates - there is nothing in between when it comes to Berlin.

"Ich bin ein Berliner" – he said proudly as he has turned around, now facing Caroline, Bonnie, Klaus, Stefan and Elena. Everybody laughed at him. Caroline secretly looked up at Klaus who has been now telling Elena a story about his and Damon's first trip to Berlin and. as she could read from Elena's face, the story has been quite amusing apparently. He smiled as he was talking and his cute dimples have simply shined on his face. His eyes were smiling too and he looked so beautiful wearing just a simple black pants, a grey henley shirt and his military jacket that he simply adored. Caroline sighed.

After the talk she had with Elena and Bonnie a couple of days ago in Paris, Caroline still wasn't sure what should she do or should she even do anything. Things were always complicated for her and now, as she grew older, things have got even more complicated and this whole thing with Klaus was the most complicated thing in her life. She liked him a lot and he, according to Bonnie, liked her back but even if that was a truth, he still has a girlfriend that will come to Berlin in just couple of hours and to whom he has bought a beautiful pair of diamond earrings in Cartier on their last day in Paris. Elena said that those earings must have been just a present based on a guilt Klaus felt because of the whole "sharing-bed" night with Caroline. Honestly, she couldn't stop thinking about that night and the morning after when they had a little talk and when he cupped her face with his hands and when one part of her had a feeling that he was about to kiss her. And that part would kiss him back and jump on him right there in the kitchen, but the other part of her, the rational one, was smarter and more responsible. That was the part that told her to leave.

"Caroline, are you hungry too?" – Klaus said to her as she jumped in surprise. She has been so lost in her thoughts that she didn't even notice him walking by her side. She looked at him and saw his face that was smiling to her so happily. He was probably happy because Elle is coming today. She sighed.

"Hungry? But we have just had our breakfast" – she said and looked in front of her only to find Bonnie and Elena carefully observing her whole interaction with Klaus with a smile. Bonnie winked at Caroline and Elena smiled. Caroline was so happy in that moment that she has finally told her best friends about Klaus. All the three of them spent the whole flight from Paris to Berlin, imagining how will Elle look like and is she really such a great person as Klaus had told Caroline.

"Exactly my point, love. But Elena and Bonnie are apparently extremely hungry" – he said and looked up at Elena and Bonnie who were nodding with their heads as a sign of agreement.

"But Klaus, as I have said" – Bonnie came to Klaus and Caroline, "Stefan and Damon will go with us and you and Caroline, as you two obviously aren't hungry can go to the Brandeburg Gate and we can all meet there or somewhere else in the city. There's no point of you going with us if you aren't hungry" – Bonnie said and crossed her arms.

"But why do I have to go? Stefan is going with you the two of you, and I'm so not hungry" – Damon said as he stood next to Bonnie and smirked at her.

"Because, you silly Damon Salvatore" – Elena said, "the three of us" – she pointed her finger at Stefan, Bonnie and herself, "have never been in Berlin and we could get lost and it wouldn't be nice to loose your brother, your future sister-in-law and your favorite Bon-Bon or would it, Damon?" – she looked at him with the cutest smile ever that has been also know as Elena Gilbert's "you-will-do-whatever-I-want-because-I'm-too-cute-to-say-no" smile. Damon rolled his eyes at her but threw his hands up in the air as the sign of defeat. Elena smiled wickedly because her smile once again did all the work.

"That works for me" – Klaus said and looked up at Caroline who was now staring at the two of her best friends. She was sure that the two of them have been up to something. Did they just pretend to be hungry so she could spent some time alone with Klaus?

"Sure, that it is okay with me too" – she said with a smile and they've parted. After a couple of seconds, as she walked down the Unter den Linden street towards the Brandenburg Gate with Klaus, Caroline's phone buzzed. She took it out of her pocket and saw a text from Elena.

"Caroline, dear, you owe as two McSundae's because aren't we just the best friends ever?

Bonnie & Elena, xx"

So they really had something to do with this whole thing. She has never thought that Elena and Bonnie could be so mischevious but what the hell? She definitely won't be the one who will complain about it. She smiled and looked up at Klaus who was looking in front of him with a smile covering his face.


"So, do you have any wishes to see something special in Berlin, Caroline? They are still not here and they are not calling us, so it would be stupid to just wait for them here under the sun" – Klaus politely asked as he was taking off his jacket while they were now standing in front of the great Brandenburg Gate, the spectacular and the magnificent mark of the German history.

Caroline smiled and carefully thought about his question. Did she want to see something special? Well, she wasn't so sure about it because she never knew much about Berlin except from the historical side, and she was more than certain that they will see every possible history sight because, after all, Damon's major is History.

"Well, I don't know. Do you have any suggestions?" – she said and he looked at her.

"Well, we could pass under the Gate and then go down the Strasse des 17. Juli and just walk through the Tiergarten, the beginning of the Western Berlin when the Berlin was divided. And Tiergarten is close to the Brandenburg Gate so we could easily go back to the others when they finally come here" – he said and smiled. Gosh, could he just stop smiling? He looked too good for his own good.

"What is a Tiergarten exactly? A garden?" – Caroline asked and he laughed.

"Well, it is a rather huge park actually, but if you translate the name to English it means an animal garden" – he politely replied never taking his eyes off her.

"So it is a huge park in the middle of the city just like a Hyde Park in London or Central Park in New York, right?" – she said and he nodded.

"Exactly that, love. It is gorgeous and you will enjoy, I assure you" – he said with a smile and started walking towards the beginning of the Tiergarten. Caroline couldn't do anything but to follow him.


Caroline and Klaus were tangled deeply in a conversation, hidden under the shades of many trees around them, as they were walking through the gorgeous park of the Tiergarten. Caroline couldn't help but to admire both the Tiergarten and Klaus, once again. She liked to talk with him. He was always, or most of the time, so relaxed and he knew everything about almost every possible topic she could think of. She knew he had an amazing education because of attending Eton and now Oxford, and she knew that he speaks four languages: English, French, German and Spanish. She was simply amazed and she just couldn't stop admiring his intelligence because it was so mesmerazing and magical, and just that precise thing that've made him so perfect to Caroline.

"I'm not so fond of Lady Gaga or Pitbull, you know" – he said to her as they were now talking about their favorite music, "I'm more of a Beatles guy" – he said with a smile.

"Who's your favorite?" – she asked him.

"My favorite Beatle?" – he asked her and she nodded. She was sure he would pick somebody else than John Lennon but who would it will be, she had no clue. "Well, John Lennon is not, that's for sure" – he said and Caroline smiled. One point for her. "I'm not so big fan of ... well, I think I will go with George Harrison. What about you, love?"

"Well, first of all, I have always been more of a Rolling Stones girl" – she said and he lauged but motioned her to continue. She stopped walking and looked at him. "What, Klaus? Mick and Keith definitely rocked the sixties and seventies. And what the hell, they are still rocking it. And besides Mick was totally cute when he was young" – she said. He looked at her now with just a smile on his face. They were standing in the Tiergarten and looking at each other.

"I know, love" – he replied.

"Know what? That Mick was cute when he was young?" – she asked with a smile.

"I know that you are a Stones girl" – he simply said and started walking. She run towards him to catch up with his quick steps.

"Oh yeah, how do you know that, Klaus?" - she asked him and he looked at her.

"You have a lot of fire in yourself" – he said never taking his eyes of her. "You are passionate, you are strong, you are beautiful, you are full of light and you have that spark in your eyes that will never ever fade."

Caroline was looking at him not knowing what to say and how to react at his words. Sure, he gave her compliments before but this was more. This was something she didn't expect from anyone ... not even from her own parents. But there he was, looking at her, saying all those beautiful words so seriously. He had a little smile plastered on his lips but it wasn't a joking kind of a smile, and his eyes looked so kind. He meant every word he had just said to her and she was caught of guard not knowing what to do. She just walked by his side quietly thinking about his words and he remained quiet also until he suddenly stopped walking.

"And you know what? I bet that Keith or Mick would write to you a thousand songs if they knew you back then" – he said and she laughed, thanking him in her head for saying something, so that she couldn't be stuck in one of her rare speechless moments anymore. But she couldn't stop thinking did he really think that she was passionate and strong and full of light.

"You really think I'm all those things?" – she asked boldly and he nodded with a smile on his face. He looked at her and she saw how his eyes were going all over her face. He sighed, touched her right cheek and moved her hair behind her right ear. He looked at her now straight in her eyes.

"I think you are all of those things and even more, love" – he said, moved his hand from her and started walking faster. "Come, there is something I want to show you" – he shouted at her.


Caroline stood in front of the big gates in the middle of the Tiergarten or in the very end of it because she was absolutely sure she had no clue where she was and that she would be lost without Klaus.

"You are taking me to the ZOO?" – she said and he nodded with a huge smile. In that very moment, he looked like a little boy and Caroline couldn't help but to smile too. She liked those childish moments of his, when he would be happy as a little child because of something. His eyes sparkled with joy and happiness and he looked so beautiful in those moments.

"I'm taking you to the ZOO" – he happily said and went to buy two tickets.


"Klaus, I'm so not going in there" – she said stubbornly as they have stood in front of the reptiles house. Claroline had a huge fear of snakes ever since she could remember and she was so scared of them that she couldn't watch them on TV yelling every time she accidently saw them, and whenever she saw them in a newspapers, she threw the papers as far as she could from herself. She had this terrible feeling that they will become alive and that they will bit her or eat her or something else terrible. Her friends and parents were thinking that she was a crazy little creature but she just couldn't help herself. She remembered that when she was eleven years old, she actually went to the local ZOO with Elena, her younger brother Jeremy and Elena's parents and they saw a huge python that they could touch or hold. Jeremy, as the real show off at the time, even hold it, and Caroline, because she wanted to prove that she was just as brave as Elena was, touched it but it never helped her to overcome her fear.

"But I'm coming with you" – he said as he stood in front of the few steps that lead to the entrance of the reptiles house.

"No, I'm not going inside" – she said and moved a step back from him. He rolled his eyes at her but with a smile on his face.

"Caroline..." – he started but she stopped him.

"No, no and no. I'm so not going in there. I will wait for you until you come back" – she said and he slowly approached her.

"Caroline, I'll be with you and I promise you that nothing bad will happen to you" – he said and she looked at him with a still visible fear in her eyes.

"I'll stay with you and I'll never let go" – he asked and he offered her hand. "Do you trust me, love?"

Caroline looked at the sincerity in his eyes and she swallowed. Did she trust him? Above everything, she trusted him. Maybe not with her mind but her heart trusted him above everything and as she mentally kick herself once again because of her stupid heart, she accepted his hand. He squizzed it firmly and started walking into the home of the many reptiles never letting her hand from his own.


Caroline and Klaus walked around the reptile house and were looking at all the different kinds of crocodiles, lizards and snakes and somehow, she didn't feel so scared. She kind of enjoyed it, and her hand being held by a certain man that got more and more place in her heart with every day, certainly helped.

"How come you love so much the ZOO?" – she asked him and he, still holding her hand in his as he had promised, smiled as he stood in front of the large iguana.

"Whenever we went to some city, Mary, our nanny, took me and my siblings to the ZOO. Finn and I loved it so much that we could stay here for hours and Berlin's ZOO, is one of my favorite ones in the whole world. I feel good here and being here takes me to that simpler times when I had no worries on my mind" – he said and she smiled.

"You can let me go now" – she said and took out her hand from his. He looked at her skeptically.

"Are you sure, love?" – he asked her and she nodded.

"I am. I feel safe and I'm sure nothing will happen to me" – she said and walked towards the cobra terrarium. Klaus chuckled and followed her never taking his eyes off her.


"Klaus, I can't see where this one is. It should be a big yellow one and it is to been seen absolutely nowhere" – Caroline shouted at Klaus who was a few metres away from her watching a huge python sleeping. She couldn't believe that she has actually been able to walk all by herself around the terrariums full of reptiles that could kill her in a second. She looked at him and couldn't believe how safe she felt with him. The only other man she would go inside the house full of reptiles was her Dad. She remembered how once Tyler tried to convince her to go inside the reptiles house in their local ZOO with him, but she refused because she was certain that Tyler would totally forget about her fear and talk about everything that snakes could do to a person and... ugh, she couldn't even think about it. And now, she was here with Klaus, in one of the largest ZOO's in the world, in the house full of monsters and she wasn't scared at all.

"Klaus, I seriously can't s..." – she started but then started yelling and running as fastest as she could towards the exit door. As she was searching for the big yellow snake, the snake slowly glided in front of her lowering from the ceiling and on the glass just in front of Caroline's face. Caroline run as fastest as she could and didn't stop until she was out of the house of the monsters. She breathed heavily. Klaus ran to her and as he saw her being in a complete shock and with a face full of fear, he hugged her tightly.

"What happened, Caroline?" – he asked her with an obvious worry in his voce as he was still hugging her. She leaned her head on his chest and was now listening to the beats of his heart that were slowly helping her to calm herself down. She couldn't believe he was hugging her and comforting her in the middle of the Berlin, on a such public place, and she couldn't help herself to wish that they never part. She couldn't believe how he makes her feel when she is near him and she closed her eyes and counted to ten so she could be sure that she wasn't in some kind of a dream.

"Caroline, are you alright?" – he asked her while slowly lifting her chin up with his right hand as his left hand was still lying on her back. She looked at him and smiled as soon as she saw his face. She almost forgot about the whole snake incident when she saw his smile.

"I am, I am... I just got little scared when that monster... ugh, I can't even think about it" – she said and he smiled at her, his face relaxing when he saw that she is okay.

"Come, love, let's leave those horrible monsters behind us and get you a big double chocolate ice-cream, what do you say?" – he said to her as she smiled as soon as she heard the word ice-cream. They walked leaving the reptiles behind them and with Klaus's hand still around her shoulders.


They sat on the bench in front of the cage with lions and they slowly ate their ice-cream as they were both mesmerized with the beautiful and yet so powerful animals. Caroline always felt a huge love and respect towards the wild cats even though she wasn't fond of the house cats. But lions, tigers and pumas always had her intention and one part of her dreamed about having a cute house in Kenya, just like Meryl Streep has in one of Caroline's favorite movies "Out of Africa", and being surrounded by lions, giraffes and elephants.

"What are you thinking about, love?" – Klaus asked her as he sat next to her with his hand resting on Caroline's shoulder. He never let go his arm off her shoulder and she didn't mind it or did she feel weird. To be completely honest, she felt like it was the most natural thing ever and she actually, didn't even notice that he kept his arm around her all this time. It was as his arm has always been a part of her shoulders.

"About living in Kenya and about lions. Don't you just love them?" – she asked never taking her eyes off the lion who had just stretched in front of the two of them as if he was trying to show them all of his strength and beauty. There was no coincidence that lion was the king of the jungle because he looked so powerful, wise and beautiful and he would need only a second to protect his loved ones.

"A little lioness, aren't you?" – he asked her with a smirk. She looked at him and laughed.

"Why do you say that?" – she asked and he shrugged as he looked in front of himself carefully observing the lions in the cage.

"You are beautiful, strong and as I've had said before, you have so much fire in yourself just like the lionesses have, and above all, you are as brave as they are" – he said to her and she smiled at him while blushing. But all of a sudden, Klaus jumped from his seat looking around himself and Caroline looked at him completely confused.

"Come, we have to go" – he said and motioned her to go as he started walking away.

"Klaus, what's happening?" – she asked still not knowing what was going on.

"Paparazzi – that's what happening. I'm pretty sure one paparazzo took a couple of pictures of us and I wouldn't be surprised if he has been following us this whole time. I can never ever have some peace" – he said as Caroline nodded and then her phone rang. Caroline opened it never leaving her eyes from Klaus who was now somehow angered.

"Hello?" – she answered not even knowing who was on the other side.

"Have you enjoyed in your time with Klaus?" – Elena said.

"Uhm, yes. Listen, where are you?" – Caroline asked not wanting to talk about Klaus in front of Klaus.

"We are in the centre of the Tiergarten" – Elena said.

"We'll be there in couple of minutes" – Caroline said and hang up.

"Elena says they are in the centre of the Tiergarten" – she said to Klaus and he nodded as he started walking in front of her. Caroline shrugged and frowned a little bit as the Klaus's mood has obviously changed.


"There you are" – Bonnie ran to Caroline and hugged her.

"We are so sorry for not calling you but we kind of have waited too long for the food to come and than we couldn't move because we simply ate too much" – Elena offered and Bonnie smiled.

"And I spent the first day in Berlin watching those two eat" – Damon smirked and looked up at Klaus who looked really serious. "What's with you, Klaus?"

"Paparazzi" – he said and looked at his watch. "Look, it is 3:34pm and I have to go to pick up Elle" – he said and looked at Caroline, "at the airport at 5:00pm so I have to leave you."

When Caroline heard the name he had just said, she felt like she was woken up from the most beautiful dream she ever had and was now back in the terrible and cruel reality. By spending her whole day with Klaus, she completely forgot about the little fact that his girlfriend Elle, that didn't like Caroline at all, is coming to Berlin this afternoon. His girlfriend that will now have every right to be hugged and held by him, every right to be called "love", every right to be protected by him and every right to share a bed with him. Today, finally, she will meet the infamous Elle.

"Sure, mate, just go ahead. And Klaus, yeah, what about later? What's the plan?" – Damon asked him as Klaus looked at Caroline once again but now breaking his gaze to look at Damon.

"Let's just meet at the Lorenz Adlon, the restaurant of our hotel, at 9:00pm" – he said.

"Oh, I get it, mate. You need some Elle time in bed, right?" – Damon said and laughed at Klaus who just shrugged and looked at Caroline again. With one last look at her, he was gone.


"So, how did it go, Care?" – Bonnie asked as she made sure that Klaus was too far away to hear them. Caroline looked up at Bonnie not knowing why would she ask her that already when Damon and Stefan stood next to them.

"What?" – she tried to pretend that she doesn't have any idea about what Bonnie was talking.

"Oh, don't worry, Blondie, we know" – Damon said with a smirk.

"Elena! Bonnie! God, why did I even told you anything? Gosh" - Caroline said as she could feel how the anger inside of her was growing.

"Caroline, they aren't stupid and besides, I had to tell Stefan so he could play along and Damon figured it out by himself" – Elena tried to explain to Caroline who was standing with her arms crossed on her chest.

"Yeah, having a second breakfast was a little bit odd for the two of them" – Damon offered as he tried to get Caroline to calm down but it was unessuccesful.

"I can't believe you! Now everyone will know and he will know and... I don't want him to know. I just don't" – Caroline said and sat on the bench that was behind her.

"Look, Care, it's okay for us to know. We want you to be happy and we think" – Stefan said as he looked at Elena, Bonnie and Damon, "that you could be happy with Klaus."

"Blondie, I know my best friend and I can assure you, that even though he may be not aware of it or he is just hiding it to well, he likes you back" – Damon said as he sat next to Caroline. Caroline looked up at Damon who was smiling at her.

"You think?" – she asked him and he nodded.

"I know him, Care. I know him really good and one part of him is enchanted by you and the other part, unfortunately, is having feelings for Elle and I think that he is lost and doesn't know what should he do. He is a good guy and even though he is in a lot of ways like me, he is already a man I will probably never be" – Damon said and Caroline smiled.

"So, what should I do, Damon?" – she asked wanting of Damon to make her a map of the battlefield with every move she should make to conquer Elle and to be with Klaus.

"Blondie, as much as I love you and want you to end up with my best friend because you really do look good together, that's a path you have to find out by yourself. If you really want him to be yours, you have to find a way by your own" – he said and stood up.

"We are by your side, sweetie, and we are all cheering for you" – Elena said and hugged Caroline. Caroline couldn't stop smiling as she heard Elena's words... her friends were by her side and they were cheering for her. Her friends, and even Damon, wanted to see her with Klaus.

"Thank you, guys" – she said with a smile and they all smiled back as they were now all being tangled in a group hug. After a couple of seconds, Damon broke it off and coughed. Everybody looked at him.

"Well, after this whole Blondie and Klaus thing is settled, I think we should go out and check out the Bundestag, the German Parliament building. After all, we are in Berlin, aren't we?" – he said and everybody laughed.


It was 08:23pm and Caroline was kneeling in front of her suitcases not sure what should she wear for the dinner. It had to be something sophisticated and beautiful and yet sexy and daring. But she was becoming more and more desperate because as more as she tried to find something like that in her suitcases, she was sure that she didn't own a piece of clothes like that. Sure, she could wear this green dress with a huge cleavage but it didn't look tasteful enough and she didn't want to look tacky in front of the perfect Miss Elle. God, Elle. Who knows what will she wear – probably something sophisticated and beautiful and yet sexy and daring... in other words something perfect and exactly something that Caroline wanted to wear. Caroline tried to imagine how Elle looked like and all could she think of was a mix of Cruella de Ville and Maleficient. Caroline sighed – no matter how she tried to imagine Elle as something terrible, she has been perfectly aware of the fact that Elle was the girl who managed to tied up Klaus in a serious relationship. She was the girl that he is slowly falling in love with, and Caroline will tonight finally get to meet her.

"Why are you kneeling in front of those suitcases" – Bonnie asked Caroline as she stepped out of the bathroom with the white towel wrapperd around her body, "and why is our room such a mess?"

"I don't have anything to wear, Bonnie. I've looked through all of my clothes and I just don't have anything good enough to wear and Elle will probably wear something great and she will look like Cruella de Ville on her best day or something" – she said as she threw herself on her bed.

"What?" – Bonnie said as she started laughing at Caroline. "Did you just say Cruella de Ville?"

"Yes" – Caroline shouted, "I don't have any idea how she looks like so to me she is a mix of Cruella de Ville and Maleficient" – Caroline said and they both started laughing. "Do you think she is pretty, Bonnie?" – Caroline asked Bonnie, who was now sitting next to her.

"I don't know, sweetie, but I am sure that even if she is pretty, you are ten times prettier than she is" – Bonnie offered. "And, speaking about pretty, Elena, Stefan, Damon and I've bought you something today" – Bonnie said as she stood up and opened a closet from which she has pulled out a big black bag on a hanger.

"What is this?" – Caroline asked watching carefully every movement of Bonnie who was now opening the black bag and pulling out the most beautiful dress Caroline has ever seen. It was an ice-blue short dress designed by Elie Saab with the details that looked so feminine, and with a sheer fabric on the top that added just the right touch of the sexiness to the dress. On the waist it had a little silver silk fabric that was something like a belt but much more softer and classier. Caroline was speechless because of the beauty of the dress. It was just what Caroline had in her mind - the dress was sophisticated and beautiful and yet sexy and daring.

"Do you like it?" – Bonnie asked.

"Do I like it? Bonnie, I'm in love with it. It's the most beautiful dress I have ever seen and..." – Caroline said as she stood in front of the Bonnie and now was looking at the dress. She still couldn't believe that Elena and Bonnie found something so beautiful for her. "But Bonnie, how, when? I don't get it how have you been able and when you had time to find such a beautiful dress."

"Well, we actually didn't have our second breakfast today so we went to do some shopping and the best place to not be accidentely discovered by you and Klaus, was a Kurfurstendamm street, the most famous shopping street in Berlin, that is full of the shops with the designer clothes like Gucci, YSL, Chanel, Prada, Burberry... oh, we have to go there again one day, Caroline, so you could see it with your own eyes" – Bonnie smiled.

"Bonnie, this is the dress by Elie Saab, oh my God. How much did you pay it? Because it is probably too expensive and we can not afford something like..." – Caroline started talking but Bonnie cut her off.

"Stefan and Damon paid for the dress" – Bonnie said and Caroline looked at her in a surprise.

"What? But when did you bring it to the hotel because when we met today you haven't had any big black bags with you."

"Oh, that. Well, the store send it back to the hotel so we could hide it from you... And Care, as we have told you earlier, we are on your side and we are cheering for you, sweetie. We want you to be the most beautiful girl tonight and with that dress, you will. Trust me."

"I can't believe you, guys. I have to call Stefan and Damon to thank them because this is just too much" – she said and Bonnie smiled.

"You will thank them later when they see how beautiful you look like wearing it" – Bonnie said and Caroline hugged her.

"Thank you so much for everything, Bonnie" – she said and kissed the little dark skinned girl on the both her cheeks.


"Caroline, oh my God, you look so beautiful" – Elena practically yelled as she run to Caroline who stepped out of the bathroom wearing a beautiful Elie Saab dress that fitted her perfectly. Caroline wore her hear in a bun with just a few locks falling on the both sides of her face. Her make-up looked flawless and Caroline looked like a true Greek godess. She looked up and saw her friends waiting for her – Elena, Stefan, Damon and Bonnie were all in her and Bonnie's room, and were patiently waiting for her to come out of the bathroom wearing her new dress.

"Caroline, you look simply breath-taking" – Damon said as he approached her and hugged her. She smiled.

"Damon, Stefan, I want to thank you for the dress. It is something that I don't deserve and I..." – she started talking but Stefan cut her off.

"Caroline, you are our girl, our friend and all in all, an amazing human being, and if someone deserves that dress, then that is most definitely you" – Stefan said and winked at her.

"Besides, you will pay us back in a couple of years when we will need to borrow that Paris's penthouse from Klaus and you" – Damon said and everybody laughed.

"Are we ready to go? It's 08:56pm" – Bonnie said and in that time Caroline phone rang. She looked at the display and saw that her Mom was calling her.

"Guys, you go. My Mom is calling me and I'll come to the lobby as soon as I'm done, okay?" – she smiled to her friends.

"Say hi to my favorite sherrif in the USA" – Damon said as he closed the door of her room.


When Caroline came to the lobby of the Adlon-Kempinski Hotel, it was already 9:14pm. She looked around herself and noticed that her friends weren't here so they have probably went to the restaurant. She walked slowly towards the restaurant but she was so lost in her thoughts and so nervous because she will finally meet Klaus's girlfirend that she didn't even notice how every single person, that was in the lobby at the time, turned around their head to observe Caroline better. She hasn't even noticed how a little girl took out of her phone and took a photo of Caroline with it, as she whispered to her mother if that woman was a real princess. Caroline hasn't noticed how the waiter in the hotel's bar almost smashed all the glasses around him or even how a husband almost got a slap from his wife because he couldn't take his eyes off Caroline.

When she entered into the restaurant, once again she didn't notice how every single head turned to see her - this true star, this beauty that shine tonight so bright in the hotel Adlon-Kempinski.

"Miss, are you in the company of Mr. Mikaelson?" – an older man, probably a restaurant manager, asked her. Caroline nodded and without a question followed the man towards the biggest window of the restaurant that had a view of the Brandenburg Gate. Just in front of the window was a table that has been filled with a group of young people.

"Mr. Mikaelson, the young lady has finally arrived" – the man said to the Klaus who slowly turned his head so he could greet Caroline. But the words never left his mouth because all he could do was to stare at this beautiful young woman that was standing in front of him with the most beautiful smile he had ever seen. She looked completely breath-taking and she certainly took his breath away.

"Caroline, dear, you've made it" – Damon said with a smile and broke the silence as Klaus tried to collect himself.

"Yes, Caroline, you are here at last" – Klaus mumbled still quite confused and never taking his eyes of Caroline while the young blonde woman next to his right side coughed. He suddennly woke up from the trance he has been in and looked at the young blonde next to his side.

"Caroline, meet Elle, my girlfriend" – Klaus said while the eyes of the whole table have been glued now at the two blonde girls that were each standing on one of Klaus's side.


So, what do you say? We kinda have meet Elle but not really, have we? Well, the next chapter will be all about her. I wanted to give Klaus and Caroline a one day without her in this chapter and I think that was a good idea. It's just that something has to make his decision in the end even harder and what the better why of achieving this than to spend a day with Caroline?

I hope you liked how the whole gang is cheering for Caroline to be with Klaus, and even Damon who is like his best friend and who knows Elle. ;)

Well, yeah, I have to go to the beach now and you can tell me what do you think, how do you feel about our heroes and whatever else you want. :)