Both Elena and Caroline was spending their afternoon sitting in Caroline's kitchen while the girls were in the living room watching their all time favorite Disney movie Beauty and the Beast, and Miranda was up in the guest room taking a nap. It's been only a few days since Elena and Damon had their weekend alone together, and Caroline and Elena had a lot to catch up on.

" So, how was your trip in New Orleans?" Elena asked. Elena has been dying to know about Caroline's week there, she just never gotten the chance to ask until now.

Caroline shrugs her shoulders as she placed two coffee cups on to the table as she sat back down." It was nice actually, I mean it's way different then it is here and of course Mystic Falls." She answered with a small smile as she took a sip of her coffee before setting the cup back down.

" Like what did you do there? I'm sure you went sight seeing." Elena said with a smile as she also took a sip of her own coffee. Elena always wanted to go a place like New Orleans but she knows that her and Damon could never afford it.

Caroline nods her head as she answered Elena's question. " Rebekah gave me like the whole tour of the city. It was a lot of fun actually. My first night there Rebekah and her husband Marcel had invited me to have dinner with Elijah and his wife Hayley."

Elena raised her brow for a moment." Are you talking about the same Hayley that slept with Tyler, back when you two were still together? That's who Elijah married to?" Elena asked in complete shock. Elena remember back when they were still seniors in high school that Caroline told Elena about some woman named Hayley was staying at Tyler's house.

Caroline sighs heavily as she rolled her eyes." They weren't sleeping together. Hayley was just another wolf that Tyler met while he was up in the mountains. She was helping Tyler break his sire bond to Klaus." Caroline said as she shrugs her shoulders. True at first Caroline thought Tyler was actually cheating on her with Hayley the moment Caroline first met her. But Tyler told Caroline the truth about the reason why Hayley was staying in his house.

" Speaking of Klaus, did you ever see him while you were there?"

Caroline sighs as she nods her head." I sorta ran into him on my last day there. He was just visiting his daughter Hope before heading back to New York." Caroline said as she took another drink of her coffee as she cleared her throat and decided to change the subject.

" So, how are things going with having Jeremy around?" Caroline knows how much Elena loves her little brother and besides Damon. Jeremy is the only family Elena has so having him around must be good for Elena.

" Everything is good. Jeremy has been spending a lot of time with Miranda which is a good thing since I still want them to have that special relationship and bond. Still driving Damon crazy as usual." Elena said with a small chuckle." Oh yeah, Jeremy and his new girlfriend just moved into their new place."

" Oh wow really? Caroline asked in shock as she didn't realize Elena's little brother had already moved into their neighborhood. She remembered Stefan sorta mentioned it to her last night after they made passionate love to each for almost three hours last night. She just didn't realize that Jeremy and his new girlfriend already did though.

" I mean that's good that Jeremy is gonna be around more." Caroline said with a small smile as she started to think about her mom and how she still wishes that she could still see her mom everyday like she used to, but sadly Caroline can't since her mom is now dead, and even though Caroline can't talk to her mom anymore. At least she still has memories that had shared with her mom, that will cherish in her heart for the rest of her life.

Elena nods her head as she smiles brightly." Yeah, it is and it gives Jeremy and I a chance to sorta rebuild our relationship." With Jeremy away in art school and of course with Elena under the sleep spell that Kai had once put her under, because he linked her life to Bonnie's. Elena has missed so much of Jeremy's life and now that she's awake and her life is no longer linked Bonnie's since Bonnie was able to undo the spell. Elena can finally be part of Jeremy's life again and a be sister to him again.


Damon and Stefan was sitting around the bar in the bar that Damon has been helping with the construction with. The same bar that he's hoping to own one day. As Damon took a drink of his bourbon and set his glass down and looks over at Stefan for a moment as he noticed that Stefan hasn't said two words since he walked into the bar and sat down.

" What's on your mind little brother?" Damon asked Stefan as he poured himself another glass of Bourbon.

Stefan snorts a little as he took a drink of his beer." What makes you think that I got something on my mind?" Stefan asked back.

Damon shrugs his shoulders as he took another drink of his second glass of bourbon." Oh, I don't know. Maybe it has to do with the fact, we both been sitting here for twenty minutes and you still haven't said a word. So whatever you gotta say. Just spit it out brother.".

Stefan sighs for a moment as he set his beer bottle down." I met the person Karen hired to take over her morning shifts." Stefan said as he ran his hand over his hair and exhaled deeply.

" And that's a problem for you?" Damon asked in confusion as he didn't understand why Stefan was being so weird about it. " Who's the person that Karen hired?"

Stefan sighs once more." It's Valerie, Damon. Karen hired Valerie to work at the bakery."

" Valerie? The heretic that you ran away with while that vampire hunteress kept chasing you? The same Valerie who was pregnant with your child, while we were still human back in 1863? That's who Karen hired?" Damon asked as he brought his brows together.

Stefan nods his head as he took another drink of his beer." The very one."He answered as he pinched the bridge of his nose as he closed eyes for a moment." I don't even know how the hell I'm going to tell Caroline that Valerie is back in our lives or the fact that I'm gonna be working with her."

" You still don't have feelings for Valerie do you?"

Stefan glares at Damon for a moment." Are you seriously asking me that question."

Well, it's a simple question Stefan yes or no. Do you still have feelings for Valerie or not?

" No of course not.Caroline and I are married now and we have been married for a year now. So no I got no feelings for Valerie whatsoever. Besides it's been over between Valerie and I for a long time." Stefan said as he exhaled deeply.

" Then little brother, telling Caroline about Valerie, shouldn't be a problem. "

" Yeah, I guess you're right." Stefan said with a shrug as he ran his hand down his face. But he already knows once he tells Caroline that Valerie is back into their lives and is now working at the bakery. Caroline is not going to be happy about it. Considering how Stefan knows how much Caroline actually truly hates Valerie.

AN: Yeah bringing Valerie into the story just sorta popped into my head lol. Anyway here's a new chapter and I'm truly sorry for making you all wait for an update. Hopefully this chapter made up for it and hopefully I still got some readers. I will try my hardest not to make you guys wait forever. Happy Reading everyone!