Caroline had a hard time falling asleep that night, so much had happened in the past three days that she couldn't get her head wrapped around it. Kol and Rebekah being original vampires, the weird dude she runs into in the hermitage and then the bar. Weird. She just had too much to process, after hours of thinking and reassuring herself of her circumstances she managed to fall asleep, not that vampires needed to sleep, but she liked to feel human sometimes and sleeping helped with that.
Kol hadn't slept all night, this life was too good to be true and he just didn't want to wake up to something different. He was afraid that if he fell asleep, he'd wake up to the days where he was daggered and his family was at war with each other. He was grateful it was now dawn; he got up and showered, wrote on his diary then opened his closet to find something that will impress Caroline. He looked at his closet for a few minutes, moved a lot of things around but couldn't decide on what to wear so he decided to get Rebekah's opinion on it, he figures she would know what Caroline will like. He knocked on her door but she didn't reply so he walked in without another thought.
"Oh come on" He jumped on her bed, causing her to jump in fear.
"What the hell is your problem?" She pushed him off her bed.
"Why are you still sleeping, we finally have nothing to fear and you're using to sleep?".
"Leave me alone Kol" She pulled her blanket on to her face.
"Bekah, Please?" He said with under his breath, hoping she wouldn't hear it but she did and it caused her to set right up.
"What did you say?" She asked in shock.
"I am not repeating myself" He got up and walked back to his room, He decided to look at his closet again and after a few minutes, Rebekah showed up and stood right behind him.
"Excuse me" She pushed him aside, and begun to move around his stuff.
"Hmm, This." She picked up a dark black jean. "And this." She picked a black shirt that had some architecture work on it. "And this" She gives him a jean jacket and begun to walk out of his room. "Oh, and don't wear those shoes". She said and he nodded.
Kol reached the school in time and begun to look around for Caroline. He knew Caroline was a socialist and everyone knew her so he went from person and person asking about her but no one gives him the answer he was looking for. He walked into his first-class to find Bonnie with Elena and they looked at him as he did the same. He walked up to them and smiled. "Hi. I am Kol" He said awkwardly.
"Hi." They both replied.
"I am Caroline's friend, I was just wondering if she was at school?" He asked, almost blushing.
"Uh, she is. But she is doing homecoming stuff today" Bonnie explained.
"So she will not be around until after school" Elena finished off.
"Oh. Thanks" He said and walked to the back of the classroom to take a seat. Elena and Bonnie exchanged a look and then Elena pulled her phone out and winked at Bonnie.
She decided to make a group chat and add Caroline and Bonnie and name it. 'Caroline's Got A New Boy Toy".
Caroline had been busy all day and her phone kept buzzing so she decided to turn it off. It was now 2:44 PM and she had done enough, she decided to sign out and go home early. She picked her bag and realized she had her phone off for the day. She decided to turn it on and check on the current affairs, rather than planning home-coming stuff any longer. Her phone turned on to three hundred messages on a group chat from Bonnie and Elena called 'Caroline's Got A New Boy Toy"; her first reaction was serious? But then she decided to read from the beginning to see what was going on.
Kol? What?OMG
She finally decided to reply to their unstoppable messages.
*That's enough* she wrote and hit send. * He could need some assistants, doesn't always have to be with the wrong intentions* she pressed send again.
She was so into her messages that she didn't realize she had walked out of the school and into the parking lot. DAMN IT. She turned back to walk to the other side of the school, where she could catch a bus or a cab.
"Caroline" She heard a voice call and she turned to find Kol shouting from his car.
"Hey" She shouted back as she put his face in place. He runs to her and soon was stand an inch away from her.
"Where are you going?" He asked hesitantly.
"Home," She said sarcastically.
"Obviously," He said and they both laughed. "I meant, why were you walking that way?" He pointed to the bus station.
"Don't have the car for the day" She explained.
"Let me drop you?" He asked with a seductive smirk and Caroline agreed with a nod.
They walked to his car and took their positions. "Mind if I grab a coffee on the way?" She asked.
"Only if you buy me one too" He joked and she smiled. After a few minutes they reached the coffee shop and they walked to the café and got their coffee. They were having an intense conversation about which soccer league was the best when a little kid runs into Caroline and caused her to slip, fortunately, Kol caught her in his arms in time but her coffee spilled all over him.
"Oh my god, I am so sorry," The kid's mom said but Caroline smiled at her.
"Don't worry about it?" She said before she realized she had spilled all her coffee over Kol. "OMG, I am so sorry" her face turned red from embarrassment.
"It's okay," He said. "Though I cannot drop you like this, my house is on the way." He said with a little smirk. "If you don't mind?" He finished.
"No Of course not," she said still embarrassed.
They drove to the Mikaelson mansion in silence but when Kol parked he looked at her and smiled. " It's okay Caroline, I'll just be a minute. Come in?" He asked. But she just nodded.
She stepped down his car and her eyes laid on the beautiful architecture in front of her, "Wow, your home is stunning" She said.
"My brother, Nik. He designed it" Kol explained, as Caroline admired the beautiful building before her. "Let's go in," He said and she followed him inside to the biggest living room she has ever been in, even bigger than the Lockwood mansion's living room.
"Do you belong to any lords? royals?" She asked suspiciously, the only reason Tyler had a home like that was that his dad was the mayor, no one in their group had such riches; not even the Salvatore.
"Why do you say that?" He laughed at her question.
"I don't know, you don't just have a house like this when you're a normal teenager you know" She explained.
"Yeah, I know. My dad was a British lord" Kol said but he didn't bother explaining it further and Caroline didn't bother asking.
"That explains it, " She said with a beautiful smile and Kol returned the gesture.
"I'll just be a minute," He said and begun to walk to the stairs, Caroline looked around the house and admired it's beauty when Elijah walked in from the entrance door.
"Good Evening," He said gentlemen like.
"Good Evening," Caroline said a little nervous, she wasn't sure who he was but she was sure it wasn't Kol father. Bonnie had mentioned his parents passed out a few years back. "You must be Nik?" She asked the only name she could remember besides Rebekah's.
"Elijah, Elijah Mikaelson" He put a hand forward and Caroline held it in hers quickly.
"Caroline, Caroline Forbes," She said and before she can explain who she was and what she was doing them, Kol appeared at the top of the stairs.
"Elijah".
"Brother," Elijah said politely.
charming... Caroline shrugged her thoughts off, but Kol's older brother was in a suit and a handsome, well-spoken man in a suit was Caroline's weakness.
"This is Caroline, my friend. And Caroline, this is my oldest brother Elijah" He nodded and Caroline smiled at him. " Ready?" He asked Caroline and she nodded. "Okay Brother, see you later".
"Goodbye Mr. Mikaelson," She said to Elijah.
"Call me Elijah" He insisted.
"Elijah" She repeated. "It was a pleasure," She said.
"Pleasure is all mine," He said and after a last smile at each other, Caroline followed Kol outside the mansion and into the parking lot. Kol opened the door for her and she took her seat, that is when she heard a car park on the opposite side of Kol's car, but she couldn't see who came out of it, due to Kol blocking the mirror view.
"Nik" She heard Kol shout, but she didn't hear a reply. When she finally stretched a little to see who it maybe, he was walking towards the front door and his back was towards her. Why does he seem so familiar? ugh, I think too much. Her thoughts were distracted when Kol slammed the door behind him.
"That was Nik" He shot a look to the doo
"Your other brother?" She asked.
"Yeah, you remembered?" He smiled.
"You do realize you only told me that thirty minutes ago right?" She joked and he just smiled at her.
"He is bringing girls home already?" Klaus said to Elijah as he walked in.
"That's his friend," Elijah said with a sigh.
"And you believe that?" Klaus asked smiling suspiciously.
"I do, at last, he is our brother and from our time," Elijah said in Kol's defence.
"That's the most pathetic excuse I have ever heard" Klaus laughed as Elijah had just told him a joke.
"Jealousy is a bad trait brother" Rebekah's voice came from behind them, and they both turned to find her standing at the door.
"Jealousy?" Klaus said sarcastically.
"Come on Nik, Tatia turned you and Elijah into a fool and ever since you've never found another girl" She walked closer and placed her hands on the coach Elijah was seated on.
"That is a brilliant observation but irrelevant to the matter," Klaus said now a little defensively.
"Right. So you're telling me you can bring yourself to love and trust a girl as you did once to Tatia?" Rebekah challenged her brother.
"Enough Rebekah" Elijah intruded.
"Why should I stop? or is it hurting you too?" She had no offended her eldest brother too and although she regretted it only a second later, Elijah got up and left.
"I have found someone worthy of interest" Klaus spoke again, angry at Rebekah's challenge.
"Is that so?" She laughed and Klaus got angrier. " How am I to believe you're not making this up, and we'll compel a girl" She had taken the matter too far.
"In time you will know and it'll be sooner rather than later," He said angry and stormed off the house as Rebekah smirked to herself for having successfully hurt her brother.
Kol parked outside of Caroline's house and she stepped, close the door then leaned on to the window. "Wanna come in?" She asked.
"Another time".
"Thank you Kol," She said with the most beautiful smile. Kol would have sworn his immortal heart skipped a beat. She began to walkway when Kol, came to his sense again.
"Caroline" He shouted and she turned to listen to what he had to say.
"Want to grab dinner tomorrow?" He asked embarrassed at how he had worded it.
"That's not really how it goes down, but considering your British...I'll gives you another chance" She smiled and walk into her house, closing the door on Kol's face.
Caroline. He said to himself with a sigh before driving out of her parking lot.