As we arrived in the cab where the Gala was held, we got out and I stood there, facing the building with my mouth open. It was huge and I was just in awe of this place. Cami stood next to me, chuckling at me. "You might want to close your mouth before a fly goes in…."

I quickly closed my mouth, my face blushing. "I'm sorry… it's just… this place is incredible!" I say, picking up my court train as we started to walk towards to the door.

"I know, but wait until you see the inside, it's pretty awesome."


The Abattoir- Masquerade Gala

Omnificent POV

Rebekah and Klaus enter the party, arm in arm, taking in the dark, wild atmosphere. Acrobats perform, dancers handle exotic animals, and confetti falls, glittering upon the party guests.

"Well, this certainly is a fitting backdrop for tonight's events, I must say." Klaus says, observing the party.

Rebekah and Klaus spot Cami and Kayla as they enter the party, wearing white angel's wings and a vintage white beaded dress while Kayla wore her emerald dress with green fairy wings.

Rebekah looks pleased, but Klaus's smile falls.

"What's she doing here?" Klaus asks, looking at Cami then at Kayla. Kayla was looking around, looking in awe after the acrobats.

"What better way to distract Marcel then to put his very human, new girl in a room chock full of vampires? I don't know about Kayla, but the more the better." Rebekah smiles then cross the courtyard to greet Cami and Kayla.

"Hello, darling. You look precious. So do you, Kayla."

Kayla smiles back, nodding.

Marcel notices Cami's arrival from a balcony above.

"This party is ridiculous, but I think we could get to enjoy this place." Cami replies then make eye contact with Klaus, and nods at him. Kayla notices Klaus and almost let out a groan.

"Is he the infamous on-again-off again?" Cami asks Rebekah while Klaus strides over to join them.

"He's the brother, actually, and my sister is right. You do look stunning… so do you, Miss…?"


Kayla's POV

I felt butterflies in my stomach when Klaus stares at me, smirking. "So do you, Miss…?"

I cleared my throat. "I'm Kayla Henderson. It's good to see you again."

Cami interrupted us. "You clean up pretty well yourself."

Klaus smirks at Cami. "Well, don't be fooled, love. I'm the devil in disguise."

Rebekah spots someone and looked at us. "You three chit-chat. I need booze."

She leaves us alone with Klaus and I was so nervous to be with him. "Shall we?" Klaus offers both of his arms to us and Cami nods. "Okay."

Cami takes his arm and he waited for me so I decided to take his arm and we both walked with him across the courtyard.

As Cami and Klaus talk, watching Rebekah with Marcel while I was lost in my thoughts, watching the party until their conversation caught my attention.

"The guy of hers Rebekah was talking about…I'm sensing that would be Marcel." Cami says, looking at them.

"I wouldn't worry about it. Ancient history." Klaus says, looking back at Cami.

"I'm beginning to think your sister is a bit of a bitch."

Klaus lets out a laugh while I made my surprise face at Cami.

"It's as though she invented the term." Klaus says, staring at Cami. Cami also was gazing at Klaus; he seems drawn in for a moment, but catches himself, spotting Marcel getting ready to approach them.

Klaus looks at us. "Listen. Pardon me for a moment."

Klaus walks away from us; therefore, Marcel greets Cami. I stood behind Cami, observing Marcel.

He has dark skin, brown eyes, shaven hair and appears to be in his late 20's. He looks handsome and is very attractive which I don't blame them to have a huge crush on Marcel. However, the more I observe him, the more that I think I knew him from somewhere but couldn't my finger on it.

Marcel flashes his charming smile at Cami. "Cami."

Cami smiles back. "Hey. Killer party."

"Oh, it's more of a work thing. I would've invited you-"

"Oh no. We've been on one date. No explanation necessary. You do your thing, I'll entertain myself."

"What, leave you alone, looking the way you do? Hell with that."

Cami chuckles at him, nodding. "Actually, I'm not alone. I am with my friend, Kayla."

I moved from behind her to the front, nodding at Marcel.

"Kayla?" Marcel says, looking surprised.

"Yes, I'm Kayla Henderson. It's very nice to meet you."

Marcel flashes his smile at me, taking my hand and kissed it. "It's very nice to meet you, Miss Henderson."

I smile at him, blushing a bit. "I'm sorry, have we met before? I can't help but think that I know you from somewhere?" I asked, looking for any reaction on his face.

"No, ma'am. This is the first time that we have met. Now… Cami?"

Marcel lends out his hand to Cami, indicating that he wanted her to dance with him. Cami looks at me and I nod to let her know that it was okay.

She took his hand and they walked away from me. I was approached by a gentleman wearing a red mask and he asked me if I would like to dance with him. I agreed and joined him on the dance floor.


Omnificent POV

Cami and Marcel dance. Rebekah and Klaus watch them.

"I thought you said you were in community work." Cami asked Marcel.

"Community fundraising. Throw a party, folks open their wallets. It's kind of my thing. Guess I'm what you call a necessary evil."

"And Rebekah, she's one of your donors?"

"She's an old friend."

"Can't be that old. She looks younger than me."

"You'd be surprised. I was a kid when I met her. Enough about her. I just want to be right here with you."

(Across the courtyard, Klaus and Rebekah have their own conversation.)

"You really are a hideously evil little thing, aren't you?" Klaus says to Rebekah.

"Nonsense. They're perfect for each other. You wanted Marcel distracted—voila."

Klaus lets out a sigh, observing Kayla. She's dancing with some vampire in the red mask and was laughing at whatever he said to her.

"What about Kayla? Why her? Why not just invite Cami alone?"

"Because when I first met Kayla, I thought that she was very interesting….and there is something off about her, though, so I decided to invite her so I can observe her or…maybe try figure out something about her. She's the one who let you down in the bar, did she?"

"How did you know that?" Klaus asked, surprised.

"It's a secret. Oh look." Rebekah points out.

Diego enters the courtyard, and sees Marcel dancing with Cami, their faces nearing each other. Diego interrupts them and whispers in Marcel's ear.

Rebekah whispers to Klaus. "My cue to leave."

Marcel sees Thierry; he looks like he's barely containing his anger. "Excuse me." Marcel says to Cami and walks away with Diego.

Marcel walks over to Thierry and grabs him by the throat, pushing him away from the main party. Cami watches, her eyebrows knitting together. Kayla saw the same thing, still dancing, but started to watch the whole exchange between them.

"What the hell did you do?" Marcel says angrily at Thierry which Diego intercedes. "Whoa, not here. No, not here."

Marcel backs off; Klaus smiles; Cami watches, disquiet paralyzing her features.


Kayla's POV

As I watched the entire heated exchange between Marcel and some guy, I was so concerned for Cami. She had the look of apprehension on her face and I knew that she was not happy about Marcel. Klaus then joined her and that's when I decided to move over to Cami. "Excuse me, I'm sorry, but I need to go check on my friend." I told Matt and he nodded, letting me go.

As I arrived in time at Cami's side, Klaus was asking her if she was all right.

"He's got a temper, doesn't he? I guess this is the moment I remember I knew better." Cami says and walked away from us.

I stare after Cami's back then glance back at Klaus in anger. "Kayla…" Klaus was about to say, but I interrupted him. "Don't! Don't even bother." I say, walking away.

"Hey Cami! Wait for me." I say, running after her, which was very difficult to do in this dress with the train. Cami stopped finally outside with tears in her eyes.

"Cami… just forget him. He's a jerk." I say, letting out a sigh.

"I know…I just…I like him or more like liked him. God, I was so stupid!"

I caressed her arm in comfort. "No, you were not so stupid! You were just blindsided and plus…you just found out about his ugly…other side of him tonight, so it's better to know that than finding out later in the future. Trust me…now, let's get the hell out of here and go to the bar."

Cami lets out a chuckle, wiping her last tears away. "Going to the bar in our gowns? That's funny."

"Hey… we'll be the first to do it." I say, letting out a giggle.

Cami nodded, letting me to wrap my arm around her as we started to walk down the cobblestone sidewalk.

As we walked into the square of New Orleans, I was lost in my thoughts until suddenly I felt my head rush.

"Whoa." I say, stopping behind Cami and press my hand against my forehead.

"Kayla? What's wrong?"

I was breathing in and out deeply. "I feel dizzy… I need to sit down." I whisper, everything front of me spinning around and I knew that something was wrong. Suddenly, I get overwhelmed with a sharp pain in my head and I let out a cry, falling down to my knees. I could hear that Cami is calling out my name, holding on to me.

"What's wrong, Kayla? Kayla?" Cami kept asking me and I stared at her, breathing heavily. "I don't know, I don't know, something's wrong."

Then I shut my eyes again when the pain came back with a vision this time.


A small crowd of people watch a woman approach from down the street, chanting.

A man that I recognized earlier from the ball. He shouted out the woman's name. "Katie, no!"

Katie then waves her arm and a lamp's light explodes; all the men grab at their heads, falling down in pain. Marcel alone rises back up to face Katie, but she smashes another light with magic and Marcel goes down again.

I let out a whimper as I continue to watch the scene.

Marcel rises again, but Katie uses magic to break his bones, and he falls again shouting in pain.

Marcel again rises by some unknown force and Katie looks astonished.

"You're here to save your man. Well, come on, little girl!"

He growls as he runs to attack Katie, but she halts him with magic, and he falls down groaning. Katie lifts a wooden stake above Marcel.

"Die, you son of a bitch." Katie growls at him. The guy cries out at Katie. "No! Katie! Don't"

Then Klaus swoops in and snapsKatie's neck. She falls to the ground, dead.


My vision ended and I let out a heavy gasp, coughing. I was on the ground with Cami hovering over me.

Cami was caressing my head. "Hey… are you okay? Jesus, you scared me. You wouldn't say a word, just whimpering and you looked like in so much pain."

I let out a groan as Cami pulls me up straight, still sitting on the ground. "I…I don't know. That was a really bad headache."

"I think I need to take you to the hospital. It looked serious."

"No…" I shook my head, still covering my forehead. "No, I'm okay. I promise. Plus, it's really late and I don't feel like sitting in the ER all night. Let's just go to the bar and I promise you, I will go to the doctor tomorrow."

"Kayla…"

"Cami. I promise. Now help me get up." Cami stood up, pulling me up and I brush off my dress quickly.


At the bar

We sat down at the bar and ordered our drinks. Cami kept looking over to me to make sure that I was okay since I had my eyes closed, my fingers messaging my forehead.

I took my wings off and put it on the next stool. Our drinks arrived and we drank it slowly in silence, not saying a word to each other.

For the first time in my life, I felt exhausted and terrified. I have had visions in my dreams, but not consciously. I kept replaying the scene over and over in my mind and I didn't like it at all.

"Cami… I'll be right back, I'm going to use to the bathroom."

"Okay…let me know if you need anything."

I nod and went to the bathroom, locking the door behind me. I walked over to the sink and faced the mirror. I looked pale and had some traces of mascara on my cheeks from crying earlier when I had my vision. I took some paper towels and wiped the traces of mascara off my cheeks.

I let out a shuddering sigh when a flash of Katie dying went through in my mind and I let out a quiet sob. I just saw someone die and it was terrible. I stood for a while, trying to put the puzzles together about Klaus and Marcel and Katie.


Omnificent POV

Cami drinks a pint at a bar, still wearing her white dress. Klaus enters the place and sits next to her.

"Cami—"

"Don't even try it. I get the bro code. You're here to smooth things over for your friend. It's very nice of you, but—"

"But you've been hurt before, and you aren't taking any more chances."

"Something like that. The guy I saw tonight—not the guy I thought he was. And if he can turn on a dime like that—"

"Sounds like more than just a broken heart. Someone broke your trust. Camille, the brave bartender."

Cami and Klaus stare at each other. Cami swallows, looking like she might lean in, but Klaus blinks and breaks the moment.

"I'm sorry… But I need you to give Marcel another chance."

Cami clears her throat, feeling rejected. "Wow. I totally misread that."

"No. You read it quite well, but we all have our roles to play." Klaus decides to compel her right there. "You went to Marcel's. You danced. You feel badly that he had a row with this friend, but otherwise, all you remember is that it was perfect."


Kayla's POV

I decided to come out of the bathroom and when I came out and saw Klaus with Cami, I froze.

I felt the cold sweat breaking out, staring at Klaus as he spoke to her, staring at her intensely.

I back away slowly in hope that Klaus doesn't see me and shut the bathroom door behind me, locking it.

I could feel the panic bubbling in my chest and it got a little bit harder to breathe. I noticed there was a window above the toilet and that's when I decided to go out that way and avoid Klaus.

I took my heels off and climbed on the toilet, opening the window wide open. I throw the heels down out of the window, then grabbed onto my court train and started to climb onto the still of the window. Once I saw that it was not a long drop from the window, I look behind me to make sure that the door was still locked, and then counted to myself to three until I jumped and landed on my bare feet onto the soft ground, letting out a grunt.

I grabbed my heels and ran out from behind the bar and walked quickly to home. There was no way that I was going to see Klaus, not after what I had witnessed tonight.


Klaus's POV

After I had compelled Camille, I noticed the wings set aside on the other stool, which made me realized that Kayla is here. "Hey… where's Kayla?"

Cami looks over to the empty stool, and then looked back at me. "She went to the bathroom, but it's been a while. She had a horrific headache, which scared me a lot. I'm going to check on her. Excuse me."

Cami gets off the stool and walks over to the door. She then knocked on the door and calls out Kayla's name.

As I listened to Cami's voice with my supersonic ear, I had a feeling that something was wrong.

Cami walks back to me quickly. "Klaus, she's not answering and the door's locked. I'm scared. I think she may have passed out in the bathroom."

I nodded, standing up and walked with Cami to the bathroom. "I'll have to kick open the door."

I jiggled the doorknob and knocked one more time. Once I heard nothing behind the door, I tell Cami to back away so she did and I kicked the door open with one kick. Once we went inside, Kayla wasn't here and I saw the window open, realizing that she had sneaked out.

"What? Kayla is not here." Cami murmured, looking around and saw the open window. "Oh my god, she sneaked out. But why?"

"I don't know, but I'll go look for her. You go back to your apartment and stay there. Maybe she will come to your place. Okay?"

Cami nodded.

I quickly leave the bar and started to look for Kayla. I had a feeling that Kayla got scared when she saw me and decided tobail the hell out of the bar. I need to stopher and find out what she knows. Luckily, I picked up her scent and followed it.


Kayla's POV

After walking back to my place for the last 30 minutes and I knew that I had about 7 miles left to get there, I started to regret that I didn't call a cab. My feet were starting to hurt in these heels so I took them off and carried them underneath my arm. I was starting to get tired and I knew that I had to fight the fatigue so I decided to sing quietly to myself.

"Wake up, wake up, the sun cannot wait for long

Reach out, reach out before it fades away

You will find the warmth when you surrender

Smile into the fear….and let it play

You wanna run away, run away,

And you say that it can't be so…."

I heard the thunder rumbling in the distance and I knew that it was going to rain soon so I walked quickly until I got to the gates and let out a sob of joy.

I pull the gates open and started to walk down on the gravel driveway, which was very painful to walk on since I had no shoes on and I did not feel like putting the heels back on.

I let out a cry of pain as I stepped on something sharp, so I stopped to inspect the cut on my left foot.

I could see that it was a large piece of glass sticking out of my foot and let out a sharp hiss as I took it out of my foot. My foot was bleeding pretty badly and I had nothing to wrap around it so I had no choice but to limp on my way to the house.

Once I got to the front porch, I threw the shoes on the porch and crawled up on the stairs so I wouldn't have to risk walking on my injured foot.

I pulled myself up by holding on the rocking chair, and then started to unlock the front door when I heard thunder clap and the rain started to pour down heavily. I then grabbed the shoes and threw them inside and started to walk inside when I heard a whoosh behind me and I turned to see what it was.

I let out a gasp and rushed backwards before falling down on the floor in the foyer, facing Klaus standing outside of the door.

He was wet from the rain and he stared at me intensely, which got me so scared for my life.

I stood up and faced him.

"Klaus, what are you doing here?" I asked, breaking the silence between us.

"You sneaked out of the bar….why? Cami was worried about you."

"I wasn't feeling well, so I decided to go home." I stuttered, trying to think up a lie while trying to focus on not putting my injured foot on the ground.

"By leaving the bar out of the bathroom window? That's a strange exit, my love."

"I just didn't feel like seeing you tonight, to be honest." I blurt out, hanging on to the desk nearby me.

Klaus just smirks at me. "You're lying, love."

"No, I'm not. Now, I'm tired and I would like to rest tonight so good night," I said, reaching out to close the door when Klaus grabbed my arm and I let out a frightened cry, hitting him in the face.

He lets out a growl and pulls me outside, which I fell down on the porch. His eyes changed to yellow then back to normal and I let out a whimper, crawling backwards, leaving a trail of blood. I didn't even what the hell was happening so I started to panic and moved quickly backwards.

Klaus follows me slowly as I tried to get the hell out of here, but was stopped by the brick wall.

"Klaus, please just don't hurt me. Please…." I beg, whimpering as he slowly bent down in front of me.

"I won't hurt you, love. Now I need to know why you left the bar without letting Cami or the unusual exit that you took."

"I don't want to tell you, please. Please, just leave me alone." I let out a shuddering sob, staring at him.

His face got closer to me and stared into my eyes. "I want you to tell me why."

I was shuddering by then as I stared into his blue eyes and somehow saw all the suffering and pain in his eyes that he had gone through.

I wouldn't say a word to him so he moved back in surprise. "You're a witch, aren't you?"

I let out a gasp. "No, I'm not! I'm a human. Please just go home. Please…"

"No. You are a witch!" He growls at me and I let out a scream, kicking him in his pelvic area. He lets out a groan, falling backwards and I got up so fast, running into the house and he tried to go inside but some force stopped him from going in.

I was panicking by then and couldn't breathe.

"You'll regret this, witch!" Klaus screams at me, kicking the pot nearby him.

"I told you, I am not a witch! I know that I am not a witch! Go away! I don't want to see you anymore! Okay? Do you want to know why?! I saw you kill Katie tonight!"

Klaus froze, staring at me. "How the hell do you know that? I didn't even see you there."

I froze, realizing that I let out my darkest secret that I have kept with me all of my life.

"I… I get visions sometimes. Oh my god…. You're a vampire, aren't you? It makes sense now…. It all makes sense now since you move so quickly, your eyes and your face changes, but this house is actually preventing you from coming in." I say, letting out a chuckle. "How can I be so damn stupid? How can I not see this coming until now? Get the hell off my property now!"

Klaus slowly smiles at me which froze me. "Fine. You'll regret this though… I'll find out who you are and why you are here. Now…" Klaus straightens his suit and wipes the blood off his lip where I had hit him earlier. "I hope you'll have a good night, love and… sorry about the pot."

He smiles at me again and walks away slowly. I then closed the door quickly, locking it up faster than I have ever done. I turned around, letting out a sob and slid down against the door to the ground. I then wrapped my arms around myself, shuddering and sobbing at the same time.

What the hell am I going to do now?


I made it longer this time because I won't be able to update next week since I have my second biology exam coming up soon so I really need to study for it. Plus my friend's birthday is coming up next weekend so I am going to her party so I think that I won't be able to update soon until probably in two weeks, depending on my school schedule and exams lol. So I hope this is okay with you guys and thank you so much for following my story. I do hope to hear from you guys.

What do you think is going to happen next now that Kayla is starting to discover the real truth in New Orleans? It'll be interesting for sure. Do you think that she is a witch? Let me know guys! I hope you'll have a great weekend and a great week next week! :D