"Bye sweetheart." Klaus says as his car pulls into the driveway to my house. He turns his head and looks at me. He sends me a smile. Klaus' smile is far better than any other smile I've seen. I think it's because of the fact that he tries to cover his emotions so much that his smile is rare. I return the smile and he leans over, and kisses my cheek. He starts to pull away but I pull him back immediately. We just stare into each others eye for what feels like minutes, in reality it was probably only about ten seconds. I smile back then close the distance between us. My chest is against his chest and I lightly kiss his lips. I nibble at the corner of his mouth, causing him to chuckle. I pull back so our noses are touching and I giggle when I feel him playfully tickling my sides. He raises his eyebrows, obviously enjoying the new found fact that I am ticklish.

"D-don't!" I barely spit out when Klaus starts tickling me faster and more content. I roll my head back and laugh at the way he is tickling. "P-please!" I whimper as I start laughing even more. "K-klaus! St-top!"

"But I happen to like it when you laugh." Klaus whispers while smirking. He releases me and I fall back into my seat. "It makes me happy knowing that I'm the cause of it."

I sigh and try to catch my breathe. "Do," Breathe, "Not," Breathe, "Tickle," Breathe, "Me." I say each word in between a breathe of air, I'm out of breathe.

Klaus just laughs at my request and says, "Sweetheart, you better go inside." I just nod my head, I'm still exhausted by laughing so hard.

"Yeah." I say while I kiss him one more time before opening the door to his car. "I love you."

"I love you too, Caroline." Klaus says while giving me a warm smile. I sigh and walk into my house. My mom is sitting at the table, working on something. It's the same table that she told me the rules of loving Klaus, when I could see him, how I wasn't aloud to have sex, the normal mother daughter rules.

"Hey!" I greet her cheerfully. She looks up at me and her eyebrows rise giving me a questioning look. "What?" I ask confused by her look. Was something wrong?

"Nothing sweetie, you just look very... happy?" She asks while smiling at me.

"Is it a crime to be happy?" I ask while smiling with her.

"No, it's just very nice to see you so happy again, Caroline. I thought I lost your smile." My mom says looking down has if trying to forget an unwanted memory. I try and think of a time when she noticed I was unhappy. I know I went through a kind of depression, when my dad tried to change everything I did, but I never knew that my mom noticed. That was probably the worst time of my life. I was insecure and embarrassed with myself.

"Well, you didn't!" I exclaim happily causing her to chuckle.

"I like him, you know." My mom confesses.

"Like who?" I ask even though I know who she is talking about.

"Klaus." She says while our eyes meet eye contact, "He really cares about you. I could tell from the way he held you when I found out you were there in his apartment. He looked so scared to lose you." She closes her eyes and continues, "I can tell he genuinely cares for you... I dare say he loves you."

"He does." I confirm with a small smile on my face. "I love him too, I really do mom. He makes me feel... wanted." I whisper the last word while looking down.

My mom nods her head and sighs, "Sweetheart, I'm sor-"

"Don't!" I almost say, well practically shout. "No. I don't want you to apologize to me. Okay? Just don't. I don't need a reason, you don't owe me a reason." I say this part quietly, feeling bad for shouting at her earlier.

"Okay." She whispers. And there goes our bonding time.

"I think I'm- I think I'm going to go over to Elena's tonight. I will call you when I get to her house so you can talk to her." I say while I start walking out the door.

I dial Klaus' number.

"Hey." I whisper, trying to hold back tears.

"Sweetheart? What's wrong?" Klaus asks, he obviously heard me holding back tears.

"Can I come over, and spend the night?"

"Of course, you want me to pick you up?"

"Yeah, will you pick me up at the corner of my street?"

"Your mom doesn't know you're doing this does she?"

"She thinks I'm going to Elena's.." I confess.

"That means you would need your mom to talk to Elena..."

"I know. But she also knows I'm not going to Elena's. We got into a fight... kinda. Anyway will you pick me up now?" I ask not wanting to go into details.

"Of course." Klaus says before he hangs up.

I sigh and start walking to the corner where I asked him to pick me up at. Once I'm there I bury my face in my knee's. How did such a nice conversation turn into this? Honestly! After about ten minutes I see Klaus' car pull up beside me. I sigh and quickly wipe my puffy eyes. I know he will know I was crying, but maybe I could make it seem like I'm fine now.

Once I am buckled up I look over at Klaus who was already staring at me. I sigh and blink to hide the tears threatening to come out of my eyes. "You know, I don't enjoy it when you cry sweetheart," Klaus admits while reaching over and rubbing the tears off of my cheeks, "want to talk about it?" I shake my head and he just nods his head, showing that he understands what I'm going through. "You know, when I was little and I got in a fight with my dad, after he gave me a severe beating, I would always go outside and ride the horses, they were my neighbors. They let me ride them whenever I pleased. I always rode this called Frodo. It was an American Quarter Horse- a brown one with a black mane, it was my friend. Crazy as that sounds. I felt like when I rode him I could escape from anything, I haven't felt like I had anything else like him once he died. But then I met you, you're a strong independent young women, I didn't care that you are my student. I just wanted you. I wanted you because you are you. And that is all I want, you. So you don't need to pretend to be alright for my pleasure. I know something is wrong, I understand if you don't want to tell me. But at least let me comfort you."

"Thank you." I manage to whisper. He just nods his head and starts driving to his apartment. "I will tell you everything, later. We've got time. I promise I will tell you everything- just not tonight."

"I understand sweetheart, I love you."

"I love you too."

Omg this chapter sucks. I'm so sorry. There wasn't the scene in the classroom I promised, but it WILL be in the next few chapters. But I do have something planned for whats going to happen at Klaus' apartment so please don't hate me or be mad... I rushed to update because I think you guys deserve an update. So please review, it really hires my self esteem. Also I could use some help for the next chapter:

1.) Horse facts

2.) Cute dog breeds

3.) And perhaps some advice, like do you want more fluff or more smut because I am fine with either

Dedications: thekolbydiaries, meredith77, Jwakeel, Iansarmy, Klaroline-teenwolf, Chelsea, justine, EmmaRedVelvet, helfabulousgirl, arielmermaid, Rose Jean Black (sorry you didn't like the smut! LOL I will warn people next time!)

SO I LOVE YOU AND I DON'T WANT YOU TO HATE ME