I promise Klaus is in the next chapter. I am sorry for the delay but I am trying to have the story Beta'd.

After the incident with Tyler, my father barely let me out of his sight without a detailed report of where I was going, who I was going with, and what we would be doing. My father made it a point to say illegal or not he still wanted to know where I was going to be. Today, for example, they suggested that I accompany them into town while they did some errands. Truth be told, I didn't mind all that much. It was actually kind of nice to belong somewhere. My dad and Steven had taken Anna to the the small candy shop, I was left on my own with the promise of meeting them at the Grill an hour later.

"Hey Blondie!" Damon called out to me from the other side of the street.

"Will you ever stop calling me that?" I laughed with an eye roll as Damon slung his arm over shoulders.

He does his eye thing, quickly dismissing my question. " Nah, Blondie suits you. Anyway I didn't stop you to discuss nicknames. I actually wanted to invite you to Elena's lake house tomorrow. It's kind of like our way of saying good bye to summer."

Great another party, and another ritual. I absentmindly rubbed my arms up and down as I consider his offer. " I don't know, after the last party I feel like I should lie low. Besides shouldn't Elena be the one to invite me?"

"I promise you there will be no Tyler, and as for Elena she has been trying to reach you." I mentally slap myself at the realization that I had forgotten my phone. " Come on Blondie what else are you going to do?"

I offer him a smile as he gives me what I can only assume are Damon's version of puppy dog eyes. " Alright I'm in. I just gotta check with my Dad - Dads I should say." That is twice now that I've had to mentally slap myself. I've really got to start including Steven.

Damon begins walking backwards towards his car as I make my way towards the Grill. " Just tell them that you are with me and they'll be putty in your hands."

I laughed at Damon's antics. Fortunately he was right. My father had grown a new found respect for Damon and once he learned that someone was going to be looking out for me, he readily agreed.

Elena's lake house is exactly as I expected. It is lavish and gorgeous. The party is already in full swing by the time that I arrive with Damon. Every where you turn the place was filled with half dressed teenagers.

"See Blondie just your typical teenage high jinx." Damon draped an over my shoulders.

"Oh yeah? That's what you said last time." I peered at him from the corner of my eye.

I am surprisingly, having a really good time. I spend a lot of my time talking to Matt. I like him a lot. We are going to become really good buddies.

"I still can't believe what Tyler did to you. Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to defend him or anything. I'm just surprised is all." Matt hands me a filled cup from the keg.

I refrained from answering. Truth be told I would really want to forget the whole ordeal and never have it brought up again. unforutnately, I was not that lucky. Tyler might have been excommunicated from their little group but Mason surely wasn't. More then once I caught him staring at me with nothing but loathing in his eyes. Part of me wanted to be brave and march over them demanding what his deal was, but another part of me, the self preserving part, knew that it was better to keep my distance.

Fate would intervene, as it was Mason that approached me. "Why is that you are the only one that has not gone into the water? I mean everyone else here has dived." He was challenging me. Out in the middle of the lake was an inflatable diving board.

"You do have a point Mason." I was not one to look a coward.

I made my way to the lake when something had caught my eye in the dirt. It looked like a locket on a gold chain. I picked it up with the intent of returning it to its owner when I got a shock, the locket opening. The picture that was inside was that of Isobel and my mother.

It was an odd place to find a piece of jewelry. It was extremely odd that I would be the one to find it after all of these years. I slipped it around my neck and took one of the paddle boats to the dive site.

Sitting one deck was Damon, Stefan, and Jeremy. "Hey Caroline." Stefan waved at me as he saw me approaching.

"I didn't take you as the jumping type." Jeremy added.

"Well perhaps you boys don't know that well." Maybe it was the alcohol, or maybe it was something else talking. Whatever it was it made me feel bolder, more confident. So not like me.

It happened so fast that I barely had time to process what was going. I had just done a flip off of the diving bored when I saw it. Her - I should say that I saw her in the water under me. Isobel. When I hi the water, everything went black.

"What is with you Blondie and near death experiences?" Damon cracks from above me. I vaguely remember what happened. One minute I was in the water and the next minute everything was going dark except for her. ISOBEL was there and she pulling me under with her.

"What happened?" I begin to seat myself up.

"You nearly drowned. Lucky for you John was able to get you out." Damon points to man over his shoulder that is easily the same age as my dad. "It was strange. One minute you were showing off doing flips on the diving board, hell you even did this fancy twisting back flip in. You were almost to the surface when you started screaming and crashed right into the water. We waited for you to come up but you never surfaced. Stefan, Jeremy, and myself tried to pull you up, but it was like something was pulling you under. I don't know what we would have done if it wasn't for John."

I looked at the man who standing behind and tried to stand up to only have him push me back down.

"Easy, easy. I'm Elena's Uncle John. You gave us quite a scare. Your foot got caught in the mud and you started to get pulled under. The trick is not to fight." John wrapped another towel around and looks me over. "I think you will be okay. I fear that there will be no more partying for you, though. Actually I think that's enough partying for all of you."

I could hear a collective groan. Great - now I am going to be known as the kill joy.

"If its okay with you Damon, I'm gonna give Caroline a ride home." It might have been okay with Damon but it was not okay with me. There was something about John that I did not like. "I think its best if her father hears what happened from me."

John and I rodein silence. I was not looking forward to having to explain to my father and Steven that I had gotten hurt - again.

My father was rushing out of the house when he saw the car pull up. "John what are you doing with my daughter?" My father's anger surprised me.

"I'm just brining Caroline home. She had an accident at the lake and I thought that you would rather hear from an adult rather than a few teenagers." John holds his hands up to defend himself.

My father's voice softens a bit as he leads me into the house. "Well we thank you, but I can take it from here."