AN: Hey guys! Sorry its taken so long, I've been super busy! Anyway thank you all sooo much for all the reviews/follows/favorites. It's really a great feeling to know that someone not only read my work, but took the time to review it, and maybe wants to read more, so thank you! Okay here's chapter four!

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It had been a week since her meeting with David at Corteo's. The same meeting that condemned her to spending the next two weeks with Niklaus Mikaelson. And, it was safe to say she was slowly going insane. She had spent every day of the last week with Nik and he was driving her crazy. She knew from the very beginning how cocky he was, and how much she hated his general personality. But she found that the more time she spent with him, the more every little thing he did got on her nerves. The way he wore his sunglasses inside. The way he always walked a little behind her. The way that whenever they were out to eat he shamelessly flirted with the waitresses. It was all infuriating. She didn't really get why though. She knew she was being irrational, and that the things he did shouldn't have been bugging her as much as they did. But for whatever reason she had spent the entire week thinking about Nik, and trying to figure out why he got to her so bad. So far, no luck.

Today she was supposed to meet him at the beach so they could talk about their characters together. According to Nik, "the beach helped him think." Bullshit, she knew he just wanted to see a bunch of girls in bikinis. Pig. But then again, it couldn't hurt to get some sun while she was internally wasting away with Niklaus Mikealson. At least then a little good come from their time together.

He was supposed to pick her up in ten minutes, and then they would head to the beach together. She was wearing a plain coral bikini, which suited her skin tone, and a simple white sundress over it. Her hair was down today, she had let it air dry that morning so there were lots of tiny curls in it. She had a pair of sunglasses on her head, and a small bag over her shoulder. In the bag she had a bottle of water, sunscreen, and the script to the movie.

They had just been sent the final script yesterday and it was amazing. Even though they haven't even started filming yet, the movie already had a pretty big fan base. It was based off a hit series of novels, and as a result, there was already a lot of attention directed toward the movie. The studio hadn't announced that Caroline and Klaus had been cast in the lead roles yet though. They wanted to wait till filming began to do that, something about announcing it at the perfect time leading to more media buzz. She really didn't understand it, but honestly she didn't really care. It looked like the media already knew they had been cast together anyway. Paparazzi had been following her and Klaus around all weekend it was crazy unbelievable. Caroline alone attracted enough attention, but combine her star power with Nik's and they had half of the paparazzi in Hollywood following them around constantly.

She looked at her watch, it was one o'clock. Nik should be picking her up about now. She headed downstairs, walked outside, and was immediately hounded by paparazzi, who were waiting for her. She slid her sunglasses off her head, and over her eyes as she waited. Thankfully, Nik showed up a few seconds later. He stopped next to her and she hopped in the car. She buckled her seatbelt, and then they were off.

Caroline let out an exhausted breath, the media always made her feel so unsure of herself. It freaked her out a little when she thought about how much the world knew about her private life. She knew what it took to be a public figure, but sometimes it was just a lot to handle. Klaus peered over at her from the driver's seat, noticing the distraught expression on her face, suppressed the need to say something rude and sarcastic. He turned to her, and instead went with, "Is something wrong, love?"

She looked over at him, her eyes skeptical.

"Even if there was, why would you care?"

"Maybe I don't," he said, but he knew it wasn't true. For some reason he actually did care.

"Maybe I just don't want your Debby Downer attitude hanging around today, alright?" he continued, smirking over at her, trying to regain the arrogance in his voice.

She looked at him and rolled her eyes, "Well maybe I just can help but feel depressed around you" she said mockingly back. He laughed and looked back at the road, that was the Caroline he had grown to hate.

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When they got to the beach, they grabbed two chairs out of the back of the car, and walked to a more secluded part of the area. Luckily, they had lost the paparazzi on the way, so hopefully they wouldn't be able to find them here. They set up their chairs down by the shore. Caroline slid off her white sundress, and started putting on sunscreen. The moment she pulled off the cover-up, Klaus couldn't keep his eyes off of her. She was completely ravishing. There wasn't a woman on the beach who could even compete with her sexiness at the moment. Who would have thought that little annoying Caroline has such a banging body. He was lost in his thoughts, still staring at her legs, when she looked over at him.

"What?" she said innocently

Klaus shook his head, damn, he would have to play this off really well to get away with staring at her. Think of something sarcastic, think of something sarcastic…

"Nothing Forbes, you just don't look absolutely hideous, that's all," he said with a cocky grin, raking his eyes over her body.

She scoffed. "Gee Nik, what a compliment, every girl loves to hear they don't look absolutely hideous," she replied sarcastically. God, he was such an arrogant, asshole.

Finally, Caroline sat down and pulled out her script. She turned to face Nik, but he was just sitting there looking at her.

"Did you bring your script?" she asked, looking at him warily. How were they supposed to discuss their characters, if he didn't have his script?

"I already read it," Klaus said, matter of factly.

"Well yeah, so did I but you said you wanted to figure out your chara-" she started to say but he cut her off.

"No, Caroline, I already understand who my character is. I just want to know him, in relation to your character. I have to understand your character, to truly understand mine, after all, they are part of each other are they not?" Klaus said, looking at her expectantly.

Caroline was shocked. What the hell just happened? Had Klaus actually made an insightful remark about the movie, or was she dreaming?

"Wow, you actually do want to talk about the characters" Caroline said, slowly still processing this surprising fact in her head. Maybe working with Klaus wouldn't be so bad after all.

At her remark Klaus smirked, his eyes twinkling with the pleasure of catching her off guard, and never one to not take advantage of the upper hand, he leaned forward and said with fake pity in his tone,

"Aww, Sweetheart, did you really think I invited you solely for the pleasure of your company?"

And bam, asshole Klaus was back.

Caroline scoffed at his stupid remark, and replied sarcastically, "No, Nik, I'm sure you invited me entirely out of the kindness of your heart."

"You know love, if you don't want to talk about our characters, there are other ways to really understand a character," Klaus said mischievously, leaning forward in his chair.

Caroline rolled her eyes.

"Oh this ought to be great" she said sighing. "What Nik, what other ways are there" she said apprehensively, already knowing his response would be stupid.

"Well," he leaned towards her in his chair, "I have always been a fervent supporter of method acting." he purred, cocking his eyebrow, and smirking dirtily.

"Ughhh," Caroline groaned. "You are such a pig, I just can't even deal with you right now," she said getting up, and walking towards the water.

"Oh come on, love!" Klaus yelled after her, laughing. "It was a joke!"

Still shaking his head with laughter, he watched her standing at the water's edge. God, she took everything so seriously. She really had to learn to lighten up a little. She tried too hard to be perfect, it had to be exhausting, maybe if she wasn't so stuck up like that, she would be less horrible to hang around, he thought. But what could he do to lighten her up a little… He wondered about possible solutions, as he watched her tentatively sticking her foot in the water, testing the temperature. Then it came to him.

He stealthily snuck down to the water's edge where she was standing. She was still stuck in that pattern of sticking her foot in the water, and then quickly removing it. He smiled in anticipation, this would be great. Just as she was about to stick her foot in the water for the millionth time, he swooped in, grabbed her and threw her over his shoulder.

At first, she had no idea what was happening, so she simply let out a surprised gasp, once she realized she was over his shoulder, however she screamed, "Nik!"

He was laughing as he trudged deeper into the water. Her little fists kept hitting his back, in a week attempt to free herself.

"Nik, you asshole, this is not funny!" she yelled at him, as he kept walking farther in, ignoring her, and not saying a word.

"Nik!" she yelled again, "I swear, if you don't put me down this instant, you will regret it."

At her words he laughed even harder, then, finally ending his silent treatment, said with a smirk, "As you wish, love," and he threw her in the water.

She screamed as she went under. He laughed while he waited for her to come up, and when she finally did, he laughed even harder. Her hair clung to her face, and her neck, a wet blonde mop. Her teeth were chattering, and her eyes were glaring at him, furious.

She started walking toward him, and when she reached him, started punching his chest.

"Nik, you little bastard!" Caroline screeched, but that just made him laugh even more.

When she realized the hitting wasn't working. She started splashing him with water, while mixing in curse words. He was still laughing until all of a sudden he stopped, and yelled "Aghhh!"

Caroline stopped splashing him for a second, "What?" she asked, concerned.

"I got some salt water in my eyes," he whined, rubbing his hands against his eyes.

She stood there, staring at him for a second before she started to giggle. And pretty soon, her giggling turned in to full blown, body shaking, laughter. At the sound of her laughing he whipped his head up, looking at her. He had never heard her honestly laugh before, not once in the last week together. And god, was he missing out. Her laughter lit up her whole face, making her seem innocent, and carefree at the same time. He couldn't help but smile at the sound of her laughter, and pretty soon, he was laughing too. They both stood there in the ocean, splashing each other, and laughing like little kids. Eventually, they packed up, and headed home, both consumed with thoughts of the not terrible time they had had together.

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The next morning Caroline was awoken by the sound of her phone ringing.

"Ughhh" she thought, "seriously, can I not get a moment of rest."

Once she opened her eyes, she immediately thought of the day she had had yesterday with Nik. It had started off bad like all the others, he had taunted her, and she had taunted back. But then, in the water, even if it was for only a little while, she had had fun. Actual, honest to goodness fun. She couldn't even remember the last time she had laughed like that it had been so long.

Still thinking about the previous day, she reached over to her nightstand and looked at her phone, looking down at the screen, her eyes widened in surprise and confusion. She had ten missed calls from Tyler.

"What the hell" she muttered

She opened her phone to call him back, when it started ringing again, it was Elena this time. She pressed enter and Elena immediately started talking.

"Caroline, it's me, listen I have some news you won't like, I'll be over in five." and with that she hung up.

She looked down at her phone in confusion, "What the hell?" she repeated.

She got out of bed, and threw on a robe, then headed to the kitchen to start brewing a cup of coffee, looks like she would need it this morning. As she was pouring her coffee, Elena marched in the door, not even knocking.

"Hey, what's going on?" Caroline asked

Elena looked frazzled, like she had been up since the crack of dawn or something.

She looked at Caroline, and then said nervously, "Listen, I have something to show you, and you're not gonna like it…"

Now she was beginning to panic. What the hell could be so bad that Elena was this frazzled? She watched as Elena reached into her bag, and pulled something out. She then hesitantly, held it out to Caroline. Caroline put down her coffee, and took the papers Elena was handing her. When she looked down, her face drained of all color, and she could hear her heart beating in her chest.

Because in her hands, Caroline held a magazine. And on the cover, was a picture of her and Nik, with big bold words that read, "Caroline caught cheating with Niklaus Mikaelson!" And at that moment only one thing was running through her head. Oh shit. Tyler.

AN: Okay review and let met know what you think! I think things will start to get pretty interesting in the next chapter ;)