Sorry it's taken me so long to post the next chapter. Hope you guys enjoy!
Chapter 5
The next day turned out to be the most uneventful day Caroline had experienced since becoming a member of the undead.
She sat through a number of boring lessons and spent a bit of time listening to Elena complain about her Salvatore brothers before it was acceptable for her to make excuses and go home.
Not that she didn't love Elena but listening to her talk about Stefan and Damon every second of every day was starting to do her head in and was she the only one who remember that she had dated Damon too? Wasn't it a bit strange for Elena to talk with her about him? But apparently no one else even remembered her brief experience as Damon's personal chew toy.
Caroline entered her house to find that for once her mother was actually home!
"Hi mum?" Caroline greeted her mum
"Hello Caroline, I'm just on my way down to the station, I'll be back late, have a good night alright?" Her mum said whilst she grabbed her car keys.
Strange, thought Caroline, it almost seemed as though her mum was desperate to leave the house! And what was with the small grin tugging up the corners of her mums mouth?
Caroline dropped her bag on the kitchen table and went up the stairs to her room.
As she entered her room something barrelled into her and she was suddenly captured in a pair of strong arms.
Before Caroline could retaliate the arms swung her round and she found herself looking up at a familiar face
"Tyler!" She exclaimed happily!
She threw her arms around him in way of greeting and sighed happily as his familiar scent entered her nose.
"Hey babe!" he replied "Did you miss me?"
"It's felt like forever" Caroline admitted
""Your mum let me in" Tyler explained
Caroline's eyes flashed in understanding.
"That's why she couldn't stop smiling" realised Caroline.
Sometimes Caroline really did love her mum!
"It's also why she left the house" explained Tyler wiggling his eyebrows cheekily at Caroline
Caroline relaxed as Tyler's comforting mouth crashed into her own. She sighed as his hands began to caress her back and gasped as he pulled her body flush against his own.
His tongue demanded entrance into her mouth and she allowed it access happily. Caroline hands grabbed Tyler's hair to pull him even closer and before she knew it she was falling backwards onto her bed.
Tyler began kicking his shoes off as he began pulling Caroline's top up over her head, however as he was doing so he accidentally knocked over hair bedside drawers!
"Shit!" he exclaimed as the drawers toppled and emptied all of Caroline's things onto her bedroom floor.
Tyler stopped what he was doing and bent down to clear up the mess he had made
"Tyler don't bother" gasped Caroline, "just come back up here!"
"Tyler?"
"Caroline what is this?" Tyler asked as he stood up
Caroline felt her heart stopped as she realised what Tyler had in his hand. The second drawer down, that's where Klaus's picture had been stored, the same picture that was now clenched angrily in Tyler's hands.
Caroline let out a small desperate laugh "That? Haha that's nothing, just a drawing"
"From Klaus!" shouted Tyler waving the picture inches from Caroline's face
"What happened whilst I was gone Caroline?"
"Nothing!" yelled Caroline back getting annoyed now
"What so you're telling me that Klaus draws pictures for everyone else as well? Hmm? That's its perfectly normal? Why do you have a fucking picture of you drawn by Klaus Caroline?"
"Tyler it doesn't mean anything!"
"I think I should go" Tyler said
"What! Tyler what are you talking about? It's you I love not Klaus!"
"Then why did you keep the picture Care? Tyler asked quietly
Caroline stuttered "I..I..I don't know" she whispered looking at the floor
"Well until you can answer that question, I think it's best we don't see each other anymore"
"Tyler please" Caroline was crying now, "please don't go"
"Then throw it away Caroline, just throw the picture away" said Tyler handing her the beautiful sketch of her and the horse.
Caroline looked at the picture and held it in her lap; she looked so beautiful in the picture, like an angel. She didn't look like that in real life, she didn't glow with light and she didn't have the sweet serenity shown on that Angel's face, did she?
Caroline clutched the picture in her hands unwilling to destroy such a work of art, her fingers traced the words Klaus had written at the bottom and caressed his signature.
She looked up to see Tyler watching her, and through watery eyes she gave an almost invisible shake of her head.
She saw Tyler's eyes fill with pain and anger and watched as he turned away from her, pausing only to say
"I'll see you around Care" before he gently closed her bedroom door and let himself out.
Caroline burst into tears and she thought her heart would explode as she buried herself into her pillow and cried herself to sleep.