So, here is the second chapter, a bit longer this time. I only got one review and it was only after like 30 min after I posted the first chapter, but it really made my day, so thank you rjt040190, again for your kind words and I hope I didn't disappoint. Also, since I forgot to say it in the first chapter, this story is Forwood, and it will be mostly about them but I will probably include some other characters, such as in this chapter, because it will be needed. So yeah, on with the story.
I don't own anything, not Vampire Diaries, nor Candice Accola/Caroline Forbes, Michael Trevino/ Tyler Lockwood or any other characters and persons you may read here. Nor the plotline, apart from the words, because well, I wrote them lol.
"Okay so, first thing we are going to do it hang the outdoor lights, that way it will be done." Caroline told Tyler. She had a big carton box in her hands, which she then gave to him. "You are going to hold it, while I climb up and string them."
"Are you crazy Caroline? I will not stay down here and hold your box like a woman. I will climb and do the man's work. Besides you could fall and seriously injure yourself." For a moment, he didn't understand why she just stopped and looked at him like he had two heads, but he figured it out after.
"I mean… well I know you're stronger now and bla bla bla, but still, I can't let you climb up there, vampire or not!" He put the box in her hands, and started climbing the ladder, holding onto one end of the lights.
She couldn't believe he actually said that. Had Tyler actually forgot she was a vampire? How can that be? I mean, he was just as supernatural as she was, how could he really forget it? Why there was a tingling sensation in her stomach, she didn't know, but Caroline didn't mind it. She actually welcomed it. No one had made her feel so special, so… human in so long. She felt a smile forming on her face, and turned to Tyler, handing him nails and what not in order for him to hang up the lights.
"What are you looking at, Bonnie?" Jeremy asked his girlfriend.
"Caroline and Tyler. I couldn't hear what they were saying but she handed him the box and started climbing, he stopped her, told her something, then she got this dazed expression on her face, took the box he gave her and he climbed and then she smiled. Like and actual huge Caroline smile. And now I can't help but think that making Tyler help her was the best decision I ever made. She needs to get over Matt."
She took Jeremy's hand in hers and started walking back inside the house.
"I agree," he said. "I mean, since she became a vampire, she's different, not that bubbly anymore, and it is because of Matt I guess."
"Yup. Though I made Tyler help her, I don't know who invited him, but I'll probably kiss that person once I know who it is."
"Well then, glad it was me, because if you had kissed another guy, I would probably have to beat the crap out of him." Smiling broadly he added, "Though if it was a girl, I wouldn't have minded if you kissed her. Or made out with her, whatever."
Even if she was laughing at what her boyfriend said, Bonnie couldn't help but punch his arm. "You are such a hormone-driven teenage boy." She said jokingly.
"Well I have an idea about how to put those hormones to rest for a while," Jeremy said, wriggling his eyebrows. Bonnie just smiled and dragged him into a spare bedroom.
"Forbes. Caroline. CARE." She heard her name being called but only reacted at the little nickname he used.
"Yeah, I'm sorry. I drifted off for a minute." She looked up only to see him looking at her body, his eyes roaming up and down. Caroline couldn't help but blush and smile.
"I can see that. The lights are done. What else is there to do?"
"A lot," she said. Taking him by the hand, she dragged him inside to explain what to do next.
After a while, she realized she only had less than half an hour to get ready, so she bent up from where she was working and stretched lightly.
"Okay, so I guess we're done here. You can go home, get ready and I'll see you back here okay? And thank you for your help, I couldn't have done it without you." Caroline took a small step in his direction, and before he could say anything, she hugged him.
"What was that for," he asked after she let go.
"Just thanks, I guess." She blushed a little bit, and he couldn't help but smile widely.
"Well, actually, since I saw what time it was, I brought my things with me, so I'm going to get ready here if it's not a problem."
"Oh no, of course not. There is just one bathroom available though… Damon doesn't like to share, Stefan's room is off limits and the only other room that has a bathroom is… mine. Well mine, from when I lived here, when I was a new vampire." Smirking lightly, she added, "I hope you don't mind sharing."
"Oh uh… No not at all. I mean, it's better for the environment and stuff right?" he asked slowly.
"Environment? What?" Caroline was confused for a bit until she realized what he meant. "Oh no, haha, I didn't mean actually shower together. Just I shower, you wait, then I get out, do my makeup and my hair and in that time you shower." She couldn't help but giggle a little bit at his awkwardness.
"No, of course I knew that. I was just saying… um…" Tyler couldn't find the words he wanted to say, so just mumbled an "never mind" and just made a hand gesture that said "lead the way". She walked in front of him, waited for him while he went to his car to pick up his stuff and then lead the way upstairs. Getting in her room, she went to her dresser, took off her earrings, bracelets and whatnot, and made her way to the bathroom.
"Make yourself comfortable, it won't take long," she told him with a smile, before closing the bathroom door.
He heard the shower running, and let out a breath he didn't know he was holding. Having nothing else to do, he flopped on her bed and turned the TV on, but hit mute, just in case something happened and he needed to hear better. Of course he was lying to himself. He wanted to hear her singing, hear the water running, imagining it going down her hot, wet, naked body. Oh great, just fucking great, he thought. Now I'm starting to imagine her naked. What else? Dreaming about making her mine? Oh wait, I already did that! God, Lockwood, pull yourself together. It's just a chick. But he knew that it wasn't like that. She wasn't just a chick. Caroline Forbes was his everything, and nothing could change that. He just had to deal with it, probably for the rest of his life.
Oh great, Caroline thought, while getting out of the shower. Just great. How am I going to go out there, looking like this? Oh please, please don't be there, she chanted to herself while turning the door knob and pushing the door open. She found him on the bed, lounging casually, his eyes wide open starring at her.
"I just," she heard herself say, "I forgot my clothes. The um, the shower's all yours. I saved you some hot water."
"Oh yeah, don't worry. Thank you." Like a hot shower is what I need right now after seeing you, he thought. More like a freezing one. Tyler took his bag with him, and left the door slightly open, just to let the over hot steam out.
Caroline waited until she was sure he was in the shower, got changed and went back in to do her makeup. "Um, I'm in here, getting ready so don't freak out okay?" she said. "I won't peek, don't worry."
Only after having said that did she realize the shower glass was kind of see through. Oh god, oh god. This cannot happen to me. I cannot have anymore images to fuel my imagination, she thought. But being Caroline, she couldn't help but look, and she got caught starring at him.
"Like what you see, Forbes?" he said with a cocky smile on his face.
"Oh just get back to your shower, Lockwood. Don't get any ideas."
"Too late. You know, my invitation for a shower still stands. There is still some hot water left. Wanna try and steam this bathroom even more?"
"Oh you are such a dick sometimes," Caroline said blushing. She got her makeup finished, and walked towards the door.
"Fine, walk away. But don't say I didn't ask."
She just walked out and slammed the door, but couldn't help but hear his light chuckle. A smile formed against her will on her lips, and just went downstairs to get the party started.
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