Thank you hayleyb29 for good ideas, I'll use them in next chapters. And thank you everyone for your feedback.

Chapter 16

Mr. Nice Guy

Selene washed her face with cold water. She hadn't really slept so well. How could she face Kol after last night? Like that dream itself hadn't been embarrassing enough, and then she had accused him for it. He would probably never stop reminding her about that. Selene took a deep breath and get dressed. Her own clothes felt safer than the ones Kol had bought her so she chose a long colorful skirt and a white sweatshirt with pictures of butterflies in it. Kol was sitting on the couch watching some morning talk show.

"Good morning", he said smiling.

"Good morning", Selene replied cautiously.

"So, I was thinking that this would be a good day for some education."

"Education?" Selene repeated.

Kol was smiling charmingly.

"Yes, as I told you I have been away for a while so I have missed out a lot of things. I would like you to start teaching me today."

"I…sure."

Selene definitely hadn't expected that. She couldn't help but wonder what the catch was.

"Great, but first we need some breakfast. How about I call to the room service, what would you like to eat?"

"I'm really not that hungry…"

"Don't be silly; don't you know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day? You have to eat something!"

Ok, now this was really creepy.

"What's the catch?" she asked.

Kol looked surprised.

"Excuse me?"

"Why are you acting like this? Why aren't you making fun of me or something?"

Kol stood up and took a step closer to her. He was still smiling.

"Listen Selene, I want to apologize about last night. That wasn't really…considerate of me."

Selene was stunned.

"You…want to apologize?"

Kol looked amused.

"Wow, you must really think I'm a complete jerk. Yes, I know how to apologize. I shouldn't have embarrass you like that, I'm sorry."

Selene wasn't sure what to think.

"Can you forgive me?" he asked.

"Sure", Selene murmured.

"Thank you. Let's have that breakfast now, shall we?"

Selene let Kol order the breakfast. She still had a bad feeling about this. He was definitely up to something. Hopefully he wasn't going to make her see any dead bodies today. Selene shivered. What if he wanted to punish her for slapping him? She should have control herself. He was the guy who killed people and toyed with them just for fun so she really didn't want to know what he would do if he would get mad at her.

"I would like to apologize too", Selene said when Kol had called to the room service.

He turned to her.

"For what darling?"

"I shouldn't have slapped you…I'm really sorry…"

He smiled and touched her hair.

"Oh, don't worry about that. And it wasn't like I didn't deserve it."

"No, no, I shouldn't have…"

He placed his finger on her lips.

"Let's just forget all about the last night, shall we?"

Selene nodded.

"Yes. Thank you."

He touched her cheek gently and kissed her forehead.

"My sweet Selene."

They ate very nice breakfast. Selene almost started to relax. Maybe she had been wrong. Maybe his apology had been sincere. She wasn't a fool so she didn't think that he would suddenly stopped being a monster but maybe there was a hint of something else in him. Or maybe it was just his mask. In that case this would be just a part of his game. It felt like she had been with him forever. And yet she still couldn't understand why he wanted to keep her around. Surely there would be more interesting people to toy with. There was nothing special about her.

"What are you thinking sweetheart?" he asked smiling.

"Nothing… Or actually there's something I would like to ask."

He looked curious.

"Go ahead."

"You can go anywhere, do anything with anyone. So why do you want to waste your time with me?"

He raised an eyebrow.

"Waste my time with you? I would hardly say that. And as I told you before you are my…"

"Type, yes, I remember, but I still don't understand what you are getting from this."

He was quiet for a while.

"Maybe I don't want to be alone."

Selene was staring at him disbelievingly.

"You can't be serious."

"Why not? You think I don't have any feelings?"

Selene didn't know what to say. She actually hadn't thought that he had any feelings, except maybe some sadistic pleasure.

"Maybe we should start studying", she murmured. "What would you like to learn?"

Kol smiled.

"Well, let's start with computers; you know how to use those things?"

"Yes, I know the basic things but…"

"Perfect, then you know more than I do. I got a laptop; just show me what to do with it."

"Ok."

Selene tried her best to explain to him how to use the laptop. She didn't really feel that she was qualified to teach anyone, she didn't know so much about computers herself. But Kol seemed to be very fast learner. It was almost like he would already know these things.

"It's truly amazing what people have invented during the last century", he said.

Selene looked at him.

"So, where were you?" she asked before she could stop herself. She had wanted to ask many times before.

Kol grinned.

"I was dead."

Selene's eyes widened.

"Dead? As in…dead?"

"Yes, my brother stabbed me in the heart and put me in a coffin."

"That's…I…"

"Yeah I know, he's a dick."

Selene started to laugh. She couldn't help it.

"I'm so sorry, I don't mean to…"

Kol looked amused.

"Don't worry about it. I like to hear you laugh."

Selene cleared her throat.

"So, you were dead and suddenly you just…weren't?"

"Yes, pretty much."

"It must have been strange to wake up after a century."

"Yes, you could say that. But at least there are a lot of new things to see."

"That's true. I can't even imagine…"

"So, how about you?" Kol asked.

"What about me?"

"I just told you some very personal things about myself, so now I want to know something about you."

"There's nothing to tell", Selene murmured. "You already know about my family, so…"

"I know that you have two brothers but I don't know anything about your parents. Are they still alive?"

"As far as I know but I really don't want to talk about them."

"Not good parents, huh?" Kol asked sympathetically.

"I'm sure they tried their best."

Selene bit her lip hoping he would let this one go. Her family drama was the last thing she wanted to talk about.

"Hey, it's ok", Kol said and wrapped his arms around her.

It was a strange gesture but Selene didn't mind. It was actually nice that someone was holding her, even if it was Kol. He was stroking her hair and suddenly his hand was caressing her back.

"What are you…"

Before she could finish her sentence he kissed her. She pushed him away angrily.

"What do you think you're doing?"

"Oh, come on darling, relax…"

Selene stood up.

"Right, I get it, you think that all you have to do is pretend to be nice to me and I will just spread my legs for you?"

Kol looked surprised. Then he was smirking.

"Well, if you insist…"

Selene ran to the bedroom and slammed the door shut. She felt like an idiot. How couldn't she saw what he was doing? She wanted to kick herself. Stupid, stupid, stupid… Apparently he had invented a new game. She wasn't going to let him win.