"And I am feeling so small, it was over my head, I know nothing at all."
Sometimes he wondered if he made the right choice, asking Caroline to leave with him, and he hadn't really had to ask, in the end, she just told him to wait while she packed, he guessed that maybe she too was sick of Elena's indecisiveness when choosing a brother.
So they'd left. At first it was just a road trip, with him behind the wheel of an all American muscle car that he still couldn't help but smile when thinking about it, she told him it made it made him seem less broody.
But eventually, they ditched the car for a plane and that's when he started to regret his decision to bring her along.
"And I will stumble and fall; I'm still learning to love, just starting to crawl."
She didn't know what she was doing to him, how hard he had to resist staring into her baby blue eyes all day, or trying to stop himself from running his hands through her golden blonde hair, he almost cracked when they were living in Brazil and he saw her in bikinis almost every day.
"Say something, I'm giving up on you."
They were living in London when they ran into Damon and Elena and they invited them out for drinks, Care told him she wasn't feeling well but convinced him to go out with his brother and his ex-girl, he would have preferred to stay with her, help her feel better.
And then he got home, and before he'd even reached the door he saw it, on the doormat.
He read the letter and then ran after her.
He didn't care how long it took; he had a reason to search.
"Anywhere I would have followed you."