I feel so bad! I just forgot to write! I am so sorry!

This chapter is a week after the next one, in time, if that wasn't clear from the chapter itself :)

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Begin Again

Cara woke up, only to find Kol gone. Her eyebrows furrowed. That was the third time this week! She rolled back and stared at the ceiling. Last week had been… strange. In a good way. Everyone had treated her like family, and they were there for her.

In the beginning, Elena had given her a look of sadness, but she shut that up right away. Sadness and pity wouldn't do her any good.

She also remembered Caroline's response to her hair. Cara chuckled at the memory. Caroline must have been screaming for 5 minutes while jumping up and down.

She sat up and looked around her room. Even though Kol slept here every night, it technically still was her room. She felt at home. That feeling had come quickly. She thought it was because she basically already felt like this was her home. The realization just took a bit longer to kick in.

She smiled softly, as she ran her fingers over her blanket, before sighing. She had felt like she could finally be happy, here, with Kol, and everyone else. She had thought Kol would be happy too, but he was the only one acting strange for the past week. Cara was worried. For the third night in a row she woke up to half an empty bed, with sheets barely used.

She got up and got dressed, staring at all of the clothes in her closet. A sudden feeling of despair washed over her.

What if Kol didn't want her anymore? What if he indeed got bored?

She got pulled out of her thoughts by Damon.

'A penny for your thoughts, Cara,' Damon smiled warmly at her.

'Or a dollar for your insides,' Cara immediately replied.

Damon's smile grew wider. 'Or a fortune for your disaster, sweetie.'

Cara's mouth fell open. 'Oh. My. God. You actually searched for that song?'

Damon nodded casually. 'I couldn't let you be in on something without me knowing what it was, now could I?'

Cara shook her head laughing. This was so Damon.

'But, where did the sad look come from? I thought you were all happy and giddy?'

Cara rolled her eyes, then sighed. She might as well tell Damon.

'Kol hasn't been sleeping here for 3 nights now… I have barely seen him all week, and when I do, he's all flustered and awkward. I think he's avoiding me.' Cara's shoulders slumped and a single tear fell out of her eye.

Damon grabbed her, and forced her to look at him.

'He is not avoiding you, Cara. The kid is head over heels for you!'

'Then why has he been acting so weird?' Cara asked confused.

Damon looked around uncomfortable. He tried to recompose himself fast by saying quickly: 'I think he is just trying to adjust to you officially staying here.'

Cara raised an eyebrow, and just stared at him.

'Really? That's the best lie you can come up with?' She shook her head in disbelief.

Damon looked at her with pleading eyes.

'Please, don't be mad! I might not like him one bit, but if he threatens me…' Damon shrugged. 'I know Kol well enough to act on his threats, so no way I am going to go against him.'

'Seriously? He threatened you? The son of a bitch,' Cara muttered.

In her head her thoughts were racing. What was so important, awful, horrifying, that Kol had to threat Damon out of telling her? She totally zoned out Damon's voice. If Kol wanted to keep this thing a secret so bad, it must be bad. Anger was rising up. She was not going through this again. She was hurt, that Kol could so easily turn on her, but her anger was more powerful.

She walked out of her room, shoving Damon to the side.

'Cara, what the?' Damon yelled after her as she ran down the stairs.

Like a tornado she opened the doors to the living room, where she saw Rebekah, Klaus, Elijah and Caroline. Their conversation stopped mid-sentence and they all looked guiltily at her.

This was what confirmed her suspicions. What was enraging her, was that they all knew! They all knew, and no one told her!

This was even worse than the time someone broke up with her over a text message.

'Cara,' Klaus said soothing. But before he could continue she turned around and ran back upstairs. She went into a storage room she walked in by accident a few days ago, and pulled out a suitcase. She dragged it to her room, and started stuffing her clothes and other things in. She left the dress. She bought so she could wear it for Kol. No need for that anymore.

When she closed the suitcase, she let out a long sigh. She turned around to pick up her shoes, when she saw Elijah standing in her doorway.

'Cara, what are you doing?' Elijah asked calmly, eyeing her suitcase.

Cara ignored him and grabbed her shoes, sitting down on the bed, so she could put them on.

'Cara?' Elijah asked once again.

'You're a vampire, right?' Cara asked.

Elijah nodded, surprised by the venom in her voice.

'Then that means you have perfect sight, which means you can see perfectly what I am doing.' She struggled with the laces, her hands shaking with anger.

'Why are you packing? Are you going somewhere?' Elijah asked, getting more confused by the moment. 'Did we do something wrong?'

Cara gave a bitter laugh. 'You are all acting like you're walking on a minefield around me, and Kol has gone MIA on me. I thought you were all over me being the sad girl who can't go home, but apparently you haven't.'

She stood up and grabbed the suitcase, pulling it to the ground.

'We don't think you're the sad girl anymore, Cara,' Elijah said softly, fearing where this was going. This couldn't go this wrong, now could it?

'Then you must be hiding something from me,' Cara said matter-of-factly. 'Kol threatening Damon not to tell me something, the rest of you shutting up whenever I walk in… If Kol is that over me, and you won't trust me with it, then fine. But then I am not staying here.'

She started to walk to the door, but Elijah didn't budge.

'Why would you think Kol is over you?' Elijah asked hesitantly.

Cara laughed. Not an amused one.

'See, you can't even ask that normally! I know he's over me. He hasn't slept in my bed for days, he is nowhere to be found all the time, and when I do walk in to him, he finds an excuse to leave again.'

She looked into Elijah's eyes.

'That's not really the relationship I want to be in.'

Elijah was taken aback by the anger that was shown clearly in her eyes.

Cara used that moment to walk past him and to drag her suitcase downstairs.

When she came into the hallway she could see everyone watching her closely, but not saying anything.

If she needed any more confirmation, this was it.

She blinked back her tears and walked out. There must be some sort of motel around here.

The moment Cara had shut the door, Klaus had grabbed his phone and walked out into the garden.

They could all hear him pacing, and him muttering angrily at the phone.

'Kol!'

'What do you think you are doing, you idiot?'

'I told you this would happen!'

'She just left, Kol! She packed a suitcase, and just left!'

'And then what? You're gonna spill?'

Just calm down, we'll figure something out. Just be careful in the meantime. She's been hurt enough, and I do NOT like this.'

Klaus walked back into the mansion, and found every one of them still sitting where he had left them. Except for Damon, who had gotten comfortable on the couch, during the drama.

'Why didn't you stop her?' Klaus yelled at him.

'She was already mad at me. Me trying to stop her would only make her leave faster. You really think I enjoyed that? If her scumbag of a boyfriend hadn't threatened me I would have spilled everything to her already! I told you she'd see right through this!'

'Guys…' Caroline spoke up softly. She still felt uncomfortable here. 'So what do we do now? She won't want to talk to any of us, now that she knows we have all been lying to her…'

'I have an idea,' Rebekah spoke up. 'Elijah, did she pack everything?'

'I can't say for sure she took everything, but she took a whole lot.'

Rebekah sped up and came back down a few minutes later with a package in her hands.

'Have this delivered to wherever Cara is. I'm sure one of your minions can find her without being recognized.'

She handed over the box.

'Don't peek, or I'll kill you,' Rebekah threatened.

'Anything else, miss?' Klaus sneered.

'Yes, there is. Tell Kol NOT to go after her, or everything will be ruined.'

Klaus eyed her suspiciously, but gave Kol another quick call.