Jeremy slowly looked up. The future hybrid was sitting on his bed already dressed and reading. Jeremy wanted to laugh. Seriously the room couldn't have been empty. Just to give him long enough to pull himself together.

" I almost kissed Elijah." It came out so fast that it surprised him. Jeremy covered his mouth as if that would stop the words from reaching Klaus.

There was a quick look of surprised on the vampire's face but then it was back to normal. Klaus closed his book and placed it on the table next to the bed and then gestured for Jeremy to sit on the edge of the bed.

Jeremy hesitated. He hadn't meant to say anything and not that it was out he had no idea how to go about explain it with saying something he shouldn't.

He rose to his feet and sat on the bed, once seated Klaus moved to sit next to him.

"If I remember him being a man wasn't the problem?" Klaus asked but continued on before Jeremy could answer. "Neither was his vampirism. There was someone else?"

Jeremy was mad. When he and Kol had talked about it, he thought that he could trust the other vampire to stay quit. He should have known better. He went to get off the bed, but Klaus's hand on this shoulder stopped him. Well more like the strength behind the hand.

"Before you going yelling at Kol, he never said a word. You are in a house full of vampires. Private conversations are a luxury."

"Oh." Jeremy relaxed.

He sat there in silence for a moment almost forgetting the vampire. But a squeeze from the hand still on his shoulder reminded him. "What had he asked," Jeremy thought.

"Oh yeah, there was…. I mean there is someone else. I think. "He sounded a little pathetic to himself.

"I mean, I know there is something between me and K.. this other person but neither of us have acted on it. We have a messed up history." Jeremy stopped. He needed to be careful with what he said but he needed to talk to someone. Why that someone had turned out to be Klaus he wasn't sure, but in this moment it felt right. "He is a vampire too, but when I met him. I didn't know that. Hell, I didn't even know what vampires where. He was just a nice guy that wanted to be my friend. Or so I thought." Jeremy sighed. He could still remember the way they met.

He had been walking to class, when he bumped into someone.

"Shit," he cursed as he tried to save his books from hitting the ground. He heard the other person swear as well as they reached out to try and help. The both failed and the books ended up tumbling to the ground. Jeremy quickly dropped down and started picking them up.

The last one appeared in front of his face, causing him to look up. And his stomach rolled. The guy was attractive. Not something Jeremy normally went with when he first met someone but it was true.

"Got 'em all mate?", the stranger aske and Jeremy smiled.

"Yeah, thanks." He said standing up.

"Don't thank me, I'm the one that caused you to drop them. Wasn't paying attention." He looked at some papers in his hand, and from the angle Jeremy could tell it was a class schedule.

"You're new?" He blurted out and then blushed, way to go Jeremy, he scolded himself.

The guy just smirked, "Yeah"

"Lost?" Jeremy asked. He knew he was late, but it would be rude not to help someone.

"Of course, this place is bloody huge." Jeremy stuck his hand out and waited for the other student to give him the paper.

Turned out they had that class and two others together.

It wasn't until they walked into the class room Jeremy remembered to ask the other his name.

"Kol."

It didn't take Kol long to become a fixed point in his life. They hung out at school and after classes. The weekends where always the best Kol, tended to stay that night at his place and they played video games all night or watched movies. Kol had a habit of sneaking in some kind of booze.

Jeremy had been happy. He thought he found a best friend. Something he had needed, since he had arrived in Denver he had felt like something was missing and had no one to talk to. But when Kol appeared, that changed.

He had tried to ignore the flirting from Kol and tried to push down his own attraction to the other kid. He had been so unsure and nervous about his feeling.

Now he was unsure again, and stuck in an even more confusing situation.

He sighed.

"What changed?" Klaus asked, sounding strangely sincere.

"My sister," Jeremy said. Something must have showed in his tone because the vampire raised an eyebrow. "Ummm she knew about vampires. She had one compel me to make me forget about them. When she met him she told me what he was. There was a fight between her… friend and mine. Turns out they didn't like each other." That was almost the truth.

"I left with her. I was made he was lying to me, he knew who I was the whole time." He growled, he was still so angry at Kol for betraying him.

"I was pissed. But more recently, we ended up….." He hesitated. "Umm we ended up traveling together, and it was almost like before. I started to trust him again and there were a few moments that it seemed like there was going to be something more. And because of our past I kept ignoring it. I think he was too." He took a breath. He felt a little better getting this all off his chest. Despite the things he left out.

"Then well I meet Elijah and Kol and all this stated happening." He sighed as he finished.

"And Elijah?" Klaus asked. It was a little weird how normal Klaus was being. Jeremy would have figured Klaus to throw him out of the room or simply ignore him. Instead the vampire was sitting here asking him questions and not one sounded like it was a mockery or joke.

"I don't know." Jeremy whispered.

Klaus chuckled.

"If you did not know, you would not have wanted to kiss him." There was a little bit of his normal smugness but he just said it as a matter of fact.

"I mean, I know I like him." Oh, god. Jeremy thought, I sound like a girl.

"I'm drawn to him. I being around him, I know he cares about me and is even protective. There is just something about him that makes me want to be in his company." Jeremy didn't know how to express that he felt safe around the vampire. "And I know I wanted to kiss him. "

"Then why stop?" Klaus was watching him. Jeremy didn't even have to look up to feel the vampires eyes on him.

Jeremy groaned, "I guess I would have felt like I betrayed K… Kaleb." It was the only name he could think of off the top of his head.

"Jeremy." He felt the bed shift as the vampire got up and moved in front of him.

"If you have no way to speak with this Kaleb and ask him about his feelings, then you should at least speak to my brother. Elijah is better at understanding people then me or Kol. He would have better advice. And it would help him understand why you ran out of the room instead of kissing him." Klaus was smiling.

"If after speaking with Elijah, you still need someone to talk to. Come to me or better yet Rebekah, she knows a great deal about falling in love."

"I'm not…." Klaus just held up his hand to cut Jeremy off.

"Maybe not, but from the way you speak of both Kaleb and Elijah you are close." Jeremy lowered his head into his hands.

He wasn't in love. Right?

He couldn't be. He had thought he was in love before with Viki and Anna but this felt different. This was more intense, more passionate, and a hell of a lot more confusing.

He didn't hear Klaus leave the room. Nor did he hear Elijah enter. It wasn't until someone sat down next to him that he looked up.

He blushed, when he saw Elijah,

"umm…" Elijah quickly placed a figure of his mouth.

"Let's got for a walk. You heard Klaus no such thing as private in a house for a vampires."

Jeremy should have been more surprised that Elijah had heard their talk but he just nodded. He quickly pulled on some clothes that Elijah had brought in and then followed the vampire out of the house.