Hey guys, here's the third chapter. I hope you enjoy!

Chapter 3: Conflicted Emotions

Caroline quickly pushed the thought out of her mind that he had strategically placed their chairs, because if she was being honest with herself then she'd realize that she didn't actually care all that much. If she was being completely honest with herself she'd actually admit to in her mind that she enjoyed being so close to him.

Focus, you can't think like this. You can't like him; think of all of the things he's done to make you hate him. She scolded herself.

Despite this mental scolding, she knew deep in the back of her mind that she could never shake her feelings for him, and that, she knew would inevitably keep getting stronger if she kept up with her art lessons. It's obvious that he had feelings for her too. She just had to be brave enough to take the leap and tell him that her act of hating him was just that, an act, and that she truly does like him.

She jolted back into reality trying so hard to ignore the closeness at which they sat. Klaus handed her the sketch pencil and a sheet of paper.

"First I want you to start with the simple simple exercise of sketching out some circles. You can't learn how to become a good artist until you have mastered complete control over the connection of your hand and your mind. You have to be able to map out the complexity of each thing you draw, and be able to capture the image completely from your mind." He instructed.

"Ok, I can try that." she closed her eyes and tried to imagine the most perfectly round circle she could imagine before putting the pencil to the paper and drawing her first circle.

After she had finished she pulled back her hand and examined her work. She scowled, and shook her head in disapproval. The lines of her circle were pretty smooth, but the whole circle itself was pretty lopsided, and looked very egg shaped.

Klaus leaned over her shoulder to check how she did. He didn't say much, but just kept looking at it until finally he said,

" Looks like your mind is a little out of sync with your hand today." He grinned while saying this, knowing he risked getting slapped within such close quarters with her, but she did nothing except scowl at her circle as if willing it to be round.

Caroline decided to try again; she closed her eyes and repeated the imagining process, and when she opened them Klaus's face was inches from hers and he leaned in and pulled her into a kiss.

At first when this happened Caroline was so shocked and immediately had the instinct to pull away, but she said to herself, "No, I can't avoid these feelings anymore, I have to show him how I actually feel. I'm done hiding this."

She moved in closer and kissed him back, enough so that he realized she actually meant it. After a few seconds they broke apart mostly because of the fact that they were both still shocked that it had happened in the first place.

Caroline pulled back a bit, and for a while they just stared at each other until Klaus brought his hand up to stroke the side of her cheek.

"Caroline," he paused, "Will you be my girlfriend?"

Barely leaving a second between him asking she said, "Yes, I will."

Klaus started smiling and mentally screamed yes!

Caroline was thinking, Wow, if every drawing lesson turned out like this one I'd ask for one every day!

Caroline cleared her throat and said, "Soooo ummm, are we going to get back to the drawing lesson or was that all for tonight?"

"We can do a bit more if you'd like to." He replied

She nodded, he said "Ok, your circle isn't bad it just needs to be less like an oval. At least it's nice and smooth around the whole thing, not mountain shaped like I've seen before."

Caroline nodded and picked up the pencil again from where she dropped it before their kiss. She was about to try and draw another circle, but Klaus reached over and put his hand over hers and he said,

"Here, let me help you out a bit."

When he did this she became hyper aware of his hand and how it felt on hers. She tried to not let it show on her face the effect it was having on her; he guided her hand so that it made one of the most perfect circles she had seen in a while.

"Woah, how'd you do that? You did that so easily and it looks perfect." she wondered

"I've been doing this for a while now love; I've had a lot of time to practice."

Klaus had Caroline practice drawing some circles on her own, and she almost got them right, but they were still a bit lopsided. He had her move on from that for then, and showed her how to make things on a drawing three dimensional. He taught her about perspective, shading, and other art techniques. He showed her all sorts of different things, and had her practice them until she was decently good at doing them. They drew and drew and had so much fun together that they didn't even notice the time.

"Oh my gosh," Caroline exclaimed, " look at what time it is!" She stood up with so much force that she bumped into the table and messed up Klaus's drawing he was working on.

"Easy there my lovely, what's the big deal about what time it is?"

It was 10:15pm, and Caroline's mom got home from work around 10:30 each night.

"My mom gets home in 15 minutes, and if I'm not home before she is, she'll start asking a lot of questions that I don't particularly want to answer, given your track record with her and this town. Shit! I am a fricking vampire, technically an adult, but i still worry about what my mother thinks. What am I thinking? I can do whatever I want, I'm 18!"

Klaus suddenly started laughing, she could tell he was trying not to let it out, but he just couldn't help himself. He just thought it was so funny how Caroline changed her outlook on the situation so quickly.

"Well then, let's finish up with this for tonight, and go watch a movie or something." he suggested

" Alright," she said cheerfully, "what movies do you have?"

" Elijah and I rented this movie that is supposedly really funny, but he bailed on our planned movie night so we can watch that if you want." he offered.

" Ok, I'm good with that."

" Ok, let's go to my living room then." He got to his feet and walked to the door.

When they got downstairs, he went over to his movie cabinet, and grabbed the movie.

" Oh Dodge Ball! I heard that was pretty funny too!" she commented.

" Yep, shall I pop us some popcorn for the movie?"

" Yeah, I'd like that." she responded as she flopped down onto his cushy couch.

After Klaus had popped the popcorn he put the movie in, and sat right next to Caroline. He scooted closer to her and put his arm around her shoulders. It was getting cold in the large house so he grabbed a blanket off the back of the couch and wrapped them up in it.

The movie began and they both couldn't help but laugh when Patches yelled "If you can dodge a wrench, then you can dodge a ball." and chucked a wrench at the guy's head.

The movie drew to an end, and when it showed Goodman fat at the end Caroline screamed "EWWWWW!" and buried her face in Klaus's shoulder. " UGH, I'm pretty sure that I'm going to be scarred for life now."

Klaus just chuckled and rubbed her head, and that is where they lay for a while until Klaus noticed that her breathing had slowed and she had fallen asleep.