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Chapter- 4

Caroline stormed out of the car with anger raising inside her, which she didn't know the reason to have it on the first place. She should have been happy that she didn't made him a ripper and plus she couldn't have killed Sarah even if she had tried to, but she felt this choking feeling inside her which was telling her to run away as far as possible.

"Caroline, wait….. What did I said wrong?" Stefan was out too, following her in the middle of the barren road. He wanted to tell her how he feels, how he wants her presence so much in his life that being without her is killing him each and every day.

"Just go away Stefan. I don't want to be around anyone right now. And that includes you." She said without even looking at him.

"Caroline, I know I should have told you everything sooner, but then your emotions were rising and then you shut me out, and I didn't have the chance to tell you about this." Stefan tried to put his point but it wasn't working. Caroline was walking in human speed and not with the vamp speed, as she was scared of her vampire side now, too scared, that her brain was still telling her that she did destroyed Stefan in spite of knowing the truth. And Stefan was just behind her, not daring to go and just block her.

"Caroline, please…" He stopped at his place, voice almost trembling. Listening to the pain in his voice made Caroline froze at her place, as if her brain was screaming at her for doing this to him yet again. She turned to face Stefan. They were ten feet away from each other. When he saw that now they were facing each other, he felt of jumping into the conversation and tell her how badly he wanted her to turn it on that he plot his ripper drama, but the words wanted to fall in the pits of his stomach. Caroline just stared at him, looking at him angrily.

"You really should have told me before." Caroline finally spoke. The silence was itching her brain out. "Do you have any idea, how am I feeling in these past few days. I am having nightmares about you being the ripper and killing Sarah, I blaming myself for everything which is happening now. I have lost faith in myself, I don't even want to see a mirror as it scares me to death that I will become her and will again try to ruin you." She said madly while her voice was increasing in volume with each words. "I am scared of my own shadow Stefan, because all this time I was thinking that I have hurt you. I started hating myself so much that I almost removed my ring from my finger and went into the sun." She said, angrily but the tears have started dropping from her eyes which she always tries drink in and never wanted to show anyone.

The moment she said her last line, Stefan was there in front of her, closer than he ever stood. He looked at her angrily. "Say that again?" He was mad. How can she think of killing herself? The thought of her being away from his life was already giving him chills, but the thought of never to see her face again snapped him. "How can you ever think of a suicide? I am sure somebody must have walked in to you when you were thinking of this, otherwise you would have already executed your plan." His was so mad at her that he didn't realized that it was scaring her. Whenever he took one step forward, she took a step back.

"Yes, and that's because you never told me the truth." Caroline stated. She didn't wanted to look weak.

"So you wanted to burn yourself? Do you have any idea if…" he stopped in the middle as he couldn't say the word dead in the same sentence which included even her name. Caroline tried to take another step back but he grabbed her arms with both his hands. He was so strong that he almost pinned and glued her on her position. "What if I would have lost you? What if the next day I would have gotten the new about this? Caroline Forbes, do you have any idea what it would have done to me?" he said sharply, shaking her with his each word. Caroline wanted to speak but he wasn't finished yet. "You said, that you were having nightmares which were haunting you for the past few days because of me, but what about the millions of haunted visions which you just gave me right now by saying that you didn't have the strength to live the life." They were inches away. If anyone of them moved, their lips would have touched, but they were standing looking at each other. "Never… Ever…. Say… that you don't want to live, because you will have to live for me. I have lost you so many times because of me being the jerk, I am not letting that happen again, even if the damn fate wants that, I will bend that road which leads to the present or future where you are not here with me." Stefan said softly leaving his sharp tone he used before.

"I know we are friends, and you have these promises to keep, one to me and one to my mother, and you will feel guilty if you couldn't. But, you can't just be here for me every time, Stefan. I almost tricked you in having sex with me." She said looking down embarrassed on the things happened between them when he didn't felt anything. Stefan laughed sharply at her. Does she not even listening to what I am saying? He thought. His anger was out of this world now.

"You think I would have done something like that, if I didn't wanted to? Caroline, the person who should feel guilty about taking advantage…. is me and not you. I was the one who kissed you both the times and…" He brought Caroline a little closer to himself, and whispered the words right near her lips, as if they were brushing each other. ""And I know I am being selfish but…. I want these lips to be kissed only by me for the rest of this eternal life." And then he kissed her passionately.

All this time Stefan couldn't get any idea or words for telling her how he feels, or what tag he should give to his feelings for her, the only person whom he consulted in these past few years was his best friend, his best girl. So, without her he felt helpless in realizing things. And this time too, she was the only one who brought out the truth out of nowhere from his heart and he just said it.

After a long moment which felt like seconds to them, they broke apart. Caroline didn't said anything. She was too scared for this to be her imagination, but today Stefan was surer than ever what he wanted.

"One of us should probably say something." Stefan said remembering their first kiss. This made Caroline a laugh. She had tears of joy in her eyes.

"Go for it." Caroline said and they both just stood their smiling at each other.

"Although I do wanted to ask one thing." Asked Caroline all of a sudden. Stefan just nodded for her to go on while he was too busy brushing her hair with his fingers.

"Where were you taking me right now?" asked Caroline

"Uh…. It was a surprise… which you ruined so… let's just forget about it." He told her. This was his way of playing with her. He knew her too much and so he knew she doesn't like any secrets between them.

"How can I forget now when you gave it the name of the surprise? I have all the rights to see how did you planned to win me back." She told him challengingly and this made him laugh that she figured it out that he was planning to win her back.

"Well, I will take you, but you have to stop distracting me now." He said and started kissing her again.