Chapter Four: Girls' Night Gone Complicated
Caroline Pov
"Chinese food or pizza?" I asked my two best friends.
"Like you have to ask." Elena chuckled.
"I would look it up." I said as I grabbed my phone.
I unlocked it with my fingerprint. As soon as it unlocked, I stared at my home screen wallpaper. It was a picture of Damon and I. He had his arms around me. I was smiling brightly as he looked at me. I think Stefan was the one that took this picture.
"I'll do it." I heard Bonnie say, interrupting my thoughts before she grabbed my phone from me.
"So this thing with you and Damon is over for good?" Elena asked.
"Yeah. It is." I responded before getting lost in my thoughts.
Yeah, it's definitely over between us. Now he and Alison, i think that's her name, can be together again. Like I care who Damon is with at the moment. As long as the kids are with him and safe, it's all that matters to me.
"So, what are we going to do about this movie situation?" I asked, changing the subject. "Oh how about we watch the notebook?" I squealed.
"How many times have you watched that Care?"Bonnie asked.
"That's not the point." I said.
"Well, yeah I mean...hey." She said to Jenna, who just came into the kitchen.
3rd Person Pov
"What's going on?" Jenna asked.
"Um girls' night." Elena responded.
"Oh." Jenna nodded slightly.
"How are you doing?" Elena asked.
"You heard about my fight with Ric." She sighed.
"He feels terrible." Elena told her.
"Is this some kind of disguised attempt to cheer me up?" Jenna asked unamused to the idea.
"No. No, this is about us girls hanging out." Elena justified. "And, you know, we'll be here if you happen to want to talk or…"
"Because I am a winner when it comes to successful relationships." Caroline said sarcastically interrupting Elena.
"You too?" Jenna asked, now amused.
"You have no idea." Caroline sighed.
"Ok then..." Jenna started to say as she went over to the fridge. "It's this whole Isobel thing. He's hiding something from me." Jenna sighed as she got a drink and closed the fridge.
"Mhmm right. He had no right to hide such thing, He should've come clean as soon as he found out." Caroline said.
"Yeah, relationships are all about trust." Jenna pointed out. "How am I supposed to trust him if he's hiding something from me?" She asked.
"Right." Caroline nodded. "He thinks he's protecting me from the heartbreak and pain but it's not his job to protect me. I can protect myself. I am a strong, independent woman." She said proudly.
"I'm with you there." Jenna nodded in agreement.
Elena and Bonnie looked between the two women who were comprehending their break up/fight. It's just so complicated. One hid the fact that his supposed dead wife isn't actually dead but happens to be a vampire. The other hid the fact that their children were supposed to be powerful witches that the witch coven tried to get rid of in the late 1800's but failed because of some witch relative. The supernatural world in one is complicated but this,whatever these two women are going through is on a bigger level complicated.
"If I may play the devil's advocate, ladies." A voice startled the girls.
The person with the voice came into voice. Damon Salvatore.
"Damon, what are you doing here? Where are the kids?" Caroline asked him.
"Calm down Care, they're with Stefan...and Katherine… and Alison." Damon trailed her.
"Don't." Caroline scowled at him. "Only the people who I'm friends with can call me that. And I'm pretty positive you are not on that list." She told him.
Caroline felt uneasy at the fact that her children are with some other women. They are with their real mother, the one that was supposed to give birth to them in the first place.
"As I was saying, to play the devil's advocate, maybe there is a great reason why he didn't tell you or why he's not telling you. Maybe he was just trying to protect you for what is,were,are to come." He justified toward the two unsettling women.
"Well, that's not his call to make." Caroline said. "I deserve to know." She justified. "Whether it could cause me pain and suffering, I deserve to know." She added.
"Sometimes it's harder than that." Damon told her softly.
"Not if it's somebody you care about, it isn't." Caroline told him.
Damon was silent. He doesn't know what to say next. Whatever he says doesn't justify what he did. It was wrong. It was wrong for him not to tell her, even if he wasn't positive before. He should have told her. She carried his kids for seven months. They are her kids too.
The other three women stared in silence at the two recently broken up couple, wondering what would happen next. Surprisingly nothing else happened. They expected Damon to defend himself but instead he gave up fighting. He gave up fighting with the woman who gave him a purpose in life beside being a monstrous animal that didn't care about anything or anyone else beside himself.
"I um I should get back to the kids." Damon said before he left as the four women stared at him.
End of Chapter