XVI

"What is this?" Caroline sounded both confused and irritated. Irritated because the police had asked her to file a report about all the stuff that had been stolen and confused because Klaus had handed her a key without any explanation. Caroline didn't even recognize the key and speaking of Klaus didn't he have a job?

"That love, is the key to our new apartment." Klaus said simply as if it should have been obvious.

Caroline gave out a low laugh. "Excuse me?" when she saw that Klaus wasn't laughing, she frowned. "You can't be serious?"

"Oh, I'm entirely serious, love." Klaus said. "Your store was robbed and it wouldn't be a surprise if a burglar entered your apartment with your short attention span, now you may not care about the safety of our child, but I do."

Caroline narrowed her eyes. "Excuse me? I do care about the safety of our child and if I remember correctly much earlier than you ever did!" she sighed and tried to be patient. "Klaus, what happened to the store was an unfortunate accident, but that doesn't mean that you have to go all paranoid and move in with me."

"I don't like your apartment," he said as if that was the biggest issue. "Our new apartment is much bigger and with better windows, I honestly don't understand why you're so upset, Caroline."

"Because," Caroline said exasperated as she rubbed her temples. "Just because we are having a child together doesn't mean that we're doing the whole family thing."

Klaus cocked an eyebrow. "Meaning?"

Caroline's face grew purple as she tried to control her temper. "Meaning, that after you made my childhood a living hell and then I ended up pregnant, doesn't mean that you can just stomp in here and start barking orders about what I do with my life. I know that this may be a foreign concept to you, but we're in this together. Which means that we decide things together." Not to mention that they still had to figure out things like child support.

Klaus was obviously annoyed at Caroline. Apparently he was used to being in control, though Caroline wasn't going to be making things any easier. "Fine, but at least look at the apartment, Caroline. It's certainly much prettier than the one you have, not to mention it's certainly roomier and has enough room for a nursery."

Caroline sighed. "I don't know."

"Please, for me." Klaus gave her the most innocent puppy dog eyes that she could hardly say no.

"All right," she groaned, but gave him a warning finger. "But if I don't like it, it's going straight back to the market."

"So how is your little love nest with Klaus?" the tone of sarcasm was obvious in Katherine's voice as she handed Caroline her ice tea. They were in Katherine and Elijah's apartment, since Elijah was at work the girls had the place to themselves.

"Shut up," Caroline rolled her eyes. "And it's not a love nest, because if it was a love nest I would actually have to be in love with him."

"And are you moving with him? Your first grade arch enemy? That's bold." There was still a twitch of a smile playing on her lips. "Oh, come on don't frown, you have to admit that it's a little bit funny."

"Fine a little," Caroline admitted. "And about moving in, we'll I decided that he can move in, at least until the baby comes. We both agree that it's going to be more difficulty for me to do things as the weeks go by."

Caroline and Klaus had seen the apartment that Klaus had picked out yesterday. Caroline had to admit that the apartment was lovely, at least Klaus had taste. It had three bedrooms, one for her, one for Klaus, and one for the baby. A spacious kitchen and living room and even a small outdoor patio.

It had been a hard decision, but Caroline had agreed to let Klaus move in temporarily until the baby came, later they would solve whatever needed to be solved.

Caroline pushed back a dark blond curl. "But let's talk about you, are you actually quitting medical school."

"Postponing it, maybe," she bit her lip. "It's just it's so tiring and you know that Elijah works even more than me, I just feel that it's going to be even more difficult with twin babies. Elijah asked me if it wouldn't be better for all of us if I took a break at least for now and maybe go back to my studied later."

"Or become a baby making machine." Caroline teased.

Katherine playfully threw her a pillow. "Oh, shut up, at least I'm not moving in with the control freak who used to torture me in elementary school."

"Don't remind me." Caroline said. "Oh, I know since you're going to have this free time, at least until the twins come why don't you help me reopen my store and maybe plan a better budget? I always been lousy at math."

A smile spread on Katherine face. "Forbes, you have yourself a deal."

Caroline didn't have a whole lot of stuff in her apartment and Klaus had insisted that they move his furniture into their new apartment and to hire people so the move took less than a day and by the following day everything was done to Caroline's expectations.

Klaus couldn't anticipate living with her for a week, let alone a few months. He got his first surprise when he entered his apartment one day and saw that something was wrong. Or most likely smelled that something was wrong.

The entire apartment smelled like a combination of fish, burnt toast, and seaweed. He rushed into the kitchen, convince that Caroline had burnt down the kitchen or something, but found the blond in sweatpants half eating a salmon sandwich on half burned bread.

"Is that an apricot," Klaus frowned when he saw what was in the center of the sandwich. "With marshmallows?"

She nodded, as if was perfectly normal. "You want one?"

"Caroline, that's disgusting."

"No, it's not." Caroline insisted. "It's great, it really helps with the cravings."

"You were craving that?" Klaus asked as he took a seat at the table and watch as Caroline ate her sandwich, most girls that he usually dated didn't even meet him without makeup, but Caroline didn't seem to care that she was in sweatpants with her hair a ponytail.

"What's wrong with it? And why are you staring?"

"Oh, nothing."

-End of Chapter Sixteen-