I felt like I had walked around for hours and I probably have it was getting dark the sun was gone and the night sky was slowly appearing. If I could have guessed the time I would say it was around 6.00pm but I wasn't sure because I had left my phone in my purse back at the house. He hadn't came looking for me which was just as well it give me time to think about everything. Of course I hadn't went far but walked around the beautiful forest area close to the house my mind racing with continuous thoughts of the situation I was now in. Klaus was the bad guy or so I was suppose to think, he had done so many bad things to the people I love, my friends but yet I was beginning to see past that because we had all done things we regretted hadn't we? A lot of his troubled life I would relate back to his childhood his father seemed to have treated him like he didn't matter and lets face it his mother wasn't winning any awards for mother of the year either not that I was thinking that was an excuse but it was a trigger and perhaps a little friendly closeness could change some of that. I knew he would never change completely but I had saw another side of him a softer side a more vulnerable side which lead me to know he was capable of feelings and wasn't love the most powerful emotion of all? Despite what he said when I told him I knew he loved me and he brushed it off to be me hallucinating I hadn't been because I still believed he did, that he does Klaus loves me. I walked back towards the house but instead of going inside I made my way towards the lake noticing a small wooden ladder used to get in a assume, I walked over talking over my shoes I walked frontwards and moved down a few of the steps before sitting down on one of them. I wasn't in the water just enough so my feet brushed of it. The water wasn't cold but it wasn't warm either just the right temperature though I didn't plan on getting in there could be anything in those waters!
''that was a very long walk''
I heard him say coming from behind me but I didn't bother to turn of course I knew it was him
''I needed some time to think''
''care to share those thoughts?''
''No not really''
I whispered back looking to the side of me where he stood of course I couldn't see his face only his legs I turned my head to look back at the water
''when I first became a vampire I was horrified.. scared I wasn't going to make it and I honestly didn't have a clue what was happening to me.. how was I going to go without giving into the urges to drink person after person and what was my parents going to think''
I paused for a second and just as I did he set down close by me
'''then my mother found out and she accepted it because I was her daughter and always would be though matter what I was and then there was my dad he hated what I had become and that pained me... It hurt me so badly that my father the man who raised me could feel this way towards me''
I found myself having to stop again as my voice became shaken with emotion and a my eyes watery threatening to spill tears.
''but then before he died he told me that I was good that despite being a vampire I was a good person and that he was proud of me and sometimes I don't feel like I am... I have blood on my hands we all do but that doesn't mean we have no humanity..we do.. you do''
I looked towards him and I was a little surprised he wasn't shaking his head and telling me I was wrong but instead he was looking at the water ahead of us before he turned to look at me
''My Mother always treated the other differently to me.. her time was shared amongst the others but I got very little of it and then there was my father he made every day a day for me to fear''
he paused and looked ahead of him before looking back at me again I was glad he was talking to me it felt like he hadn't told anyone this.
''he resented me they both did.. I was the mistake that she created by a dirty affair with a werewolf and then when we turned she placed the curse upon me and I was so angry and I have been every since... I have spent most of my life built on hatred and anger... a thousand years is a long time to be angry''
''you don't have to be angry now''
I said softly looking down I saw his hand was rested on the side so I slowly edged my own hand closer to his on till it was on top of his own and I give it a comforting squeeze
''I have saw this other side to you a more softer, relaxed, human and should I say fun side''
I said with a slight laugh as I let go of his hand he laughed slightly to which was always a good sign
''fun huh?''
he smirked and I wondered what he was up to and then I felt a slight push and I fell forward into the water my head going under for a moment but I moved my arms and legs and was up to the top of the water again he was laughing
'''I'm glad you find this funny.. my dress is ruined my hair is ruined and there could be sharks in this water''
''oh don't worry about the sharks love I'm pretty sure there isn't any in there''
I couldn't help but laugh myself I wasn't mad even if I ranted a little about my dress and hair but with a slight smirk with vampire speed I leant up pulled on his legs and pulling him in. when he resurfaced I laughed
''now that was uncalled for''
''no? Well it seems like justice to me''
I smiled and laughed and so did he it seemed like we were both having a good time and relaxing around one another. I could feel the ladder against my back but I didn't make an escape out of the water and he was moving closer to me.
''you weren't hallucinating''
he said softly and I automatically knew what he was referring to this was his way of telling me that I was right that he was in love with me. I didn't get a chance to speak or respond in any kind of way before he moved closer until his lips were touching my own kissing me softly. My back was against the ladder and his hand was on the side of it and the other was at the side of my face. This was real he was actually kissing me and this time it wasn't a dream. My instincts kicked in my eyes closed and my lips parted below his own kissing him back. This was nothing like the dream and I hadn't given his kisses enough credit, his lips were soft and kisses were gentle and my body was filled with a warm fuzzy feeling I was sure if I was human my heart would be hammering in my chest. After a few moments I broke the kiss and opened my eyes to look at him. I think he thought I regretted it but I just needed a second to process the fact I had just kissed him and after I had that few seconds I reached my hand round the back of his neck and closed my eyes pressing my lips against his own kissing him once again only this time I was the one who had started this. He responded instantly only this time although the kisses where soft I felt the sense of longing as he moved closer to me I felt his hand move to my waist lifting me up onto the ladder step and he edged closer to me I wrapped both my hands around his neck. He broke the kiss only to move along my jawline which felt amazing but not as amazing as it felt when his lips were all over my neck. I bit down on my lower lip to stop or muffle the sound of enjoyment that escape me. I allowed one of my hands to move up the back of his head running my fingers slightly threw his locks I was enjoying this moment until I heard the sound of my cell phone ringing coming from inside the house. Sometimes vampire perks were annoying
''just let it go to voice mail'''
he whispered against my skin and I was considering it until the call stopped then my phone rang again. I sighed and gently pushed him back
''I have to answer it there could be something wrong.. something Silas related''
he sighed slightly then moved so I turned so I was facing the steps and I walked up them grabbing my shoes and making my way into the house. My dress was clung to my body and my hair was wet mainly at the ends. I grabbed my purse and pulled out my cell phone to find it was Bonnie. Suddenly I felt bad not so much as regret for what had happened minutes ago but I felt bad because by being here and more so by kissing Klaus I was betraying my friends.
''Hey Bonnie.. what's up?''
I said trying to sound chipper like I didn't have a single thing to feel bad about, Bonnie spoke briefly to me about Elena continuing to show no sign of being the Elena we all loved again and honestly I didn't know how we were going to get that Elena back now that she had turned of her humanity and forcing her to turn it all back on probably wasn't the way to go about it so I couldn't ask Klaus for help on this one.
''well I'm out at the minute my mom told my cousins had came home from Australia so I went to my aunts house to visit them''
I lied and it felt horrible but if she really knew I was here alone with Klaus it wouldn't go down so well with her or with anyone. She said her good byes and as did I and then the phone cut off.
'''Let me guess you want me to take you home now?''
he asked with a sigh as I had my back to him, I thought about it for a second was it really fair for me to just up and leave? I looked over towards the cake's we had not yet ate or the wine we hadn't drank before I turned to look at him
''No I can stay for another little while but''
I paused and looked down at myself the dress was soaked literally to my skin it was clung to me everywhere which he probably enjoyed the sight of but I couldn't sit like this I needed to change but into what?
''I need change do you have an old shirt or something I can borrow? and we could light the fire and I could put my dress near it to dry it out before I do go home''
he nodded and walked towards the stairs in order for me to follow him, I heard the water within his shoes squeak as we walked upstairs. When we got to a bedroom that he entered I stood outside it with my arms folded across my chest as if to cover myself up more. I didn't want to enter his bedroom there was to much temptation for us if I went in there. After a moment he came out with a black shirt that I knew would come past my thigh so that was fine.
''thanks''
''the bathroom is right over there love''
he pointed it out to me and I headed for it closing the door over, it was grand red marble bathtub and sink area probably one of the few bathroom's in this house I thought. I pulled of my damp dress but let the underwear on. I then pulled on his black shirt and as I did I caught a scent of it one I had smelt being so close to him. A mixture of cologne and just him, I stepped closer to the mirror grabbing a towel I used it to dry my hair of slightly. It wasn't in perfect curls now but it still was curly and now less damp I was fine to go out there and face Klaus again the man who I had just kissed in the lake.
