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Secret Love

Story 3

Chapter 1

Caroline was watching Tyler, making sure that he really was back to normal. She had planned on going to see her dad over Thanksgiving break. Plans changed though and she had decided to stay home and make sure somebody was looking out for him. He had decided it was a good idea to jump in the swimming hole at his house.

It was freezing cold out and the water had been half frozen over. She blamed the other cheerleaders. They had dared the entire football team; Tyler wasn't just going back down. He'd ended up with worse cold he'd had since eighth grade. However, she had taken care of him the entire weekend.

Right now she wished school hadn't started back up because she wanted to be still in his bed. She wanted to still be holding him and taking care of him. Nobody really did that for him, he hadn't fought her on it either. He had just let her take care of him and make sure he ate. She hadn't wanted him in the ER cause he got dehydrated.

It was so hard watching and not being able to even hold his hand right now. All weekend they'd watched bad TV or movies. She'd made him soup and got him to finally drink ginger ale. Soup and crackers with ginger ale was only thing he could keep down.

She put her head down against her arms thinking back to last night. He had started feeling better and he'd thanked her. It was the first time he had talked since Friday night. His throat had hurt so bad she had made him write what he wanted out.

Tyler couldn't remember why he'd agreed on keeping their distance at school or in front their friends. All he wanted to do was to go over and hug her. Where that thought had come from he had no clue, but it was there. She was bringing this other side out in him he had buried so long ago.

She didn't complain that he was sick. She had just lain beside him and it had made it feel better. She had even sang out loud to him when he thought he wasn't going get any sleep because his ribs hurt so bad from the cold. He didn't feel hundred percent, it was more like a seventy-five at most, but he wanted to be here today.

He still didn't get why she'd stayed there with him. She had willingly missed seeing her dad to take care of him; nobody put him first until her. School was technically over, but he knew Caroline was waiting for Bonnie and Elena. Matt had given him a ride not wanting to be asked again by Bonnie if he was dating Caroline, like the last time he'd rode with Caroline and her. Until Caroline said she wanted to tell the others he wasn't saying a thing.

After another minute he just said screw it and walked over to the picnic table sitting down across from her. They were friends so why couldn't he talk to her it was obvious she wanted him there. He just knew that she needed him there. He sat down watching her for a minute, her eyes were half closed. He knew she could see him though.

"Hey, are you feeling okay?" Tyler asked when she didn't raise her head.

Caroline gave him a smile perking up a little, "I am doing better now," she said if she hadn't promised Elena and Bonnie a ride home she would ditch now. School was out, yet she was waiting on her friends. She wanted to hang out with them, but this morning had started into a lecture about not getting too close to Tyler. That boat had done sunk; she was head over heels for him. Her heart was never going to recover if this went south. The idea alone made her want to cry.

"I can always come over to your house later, another night of your cooking and I think I am never eating anybody else's," he said giving her a smile.

He wasn't lying either he could eat the chicken soup she'd made every day. It wasn't from a can or even the Grill's recipe, it was her own. She had modified one she found online. The way she mixed just the right stuff in the soup and not a ton of the spices either. It had made it perfect almost. She had promised to cook a homemade pizza casserole when he felt better. He could eat her food forever he thought watching her smile.

She had walked out his shower this morning with a towel wrapped around her. She had looked beautiful without any make up on her. Caroline didn't need any of that; she could wake up and look wonderful. She complained about looking a disaster, but he told her other wise. He no longer cared if she wanted to talk until she was blue in the face, he'd listen to her. She tended to ramble about things sometimes and he just let her.

Caroline had stolen his heart; he knew he was done for just looking into her eyes. The way she smiled at him and the hugs that he knew didn't mean she was pitting him, they were just hugs. He would deny it till hell froze over, but he even liked cuddling up with her. The way her hair always smelled like strawberries and her skin like watermelon.

The way she felt in his arms, the way her eyes widened right before she came. It was everything about her the way she said his name when she was cumming, the way she text him every morning and night, and the way she said everything would be okay. It would be okay, because she was his and nobody was going take it away. He would fight to keep her; put him in a ring with thirty guys he'd take them just to have her every day.

At some point in between the conversation on what she was craving to eat and if they thought Duke would win their next game; Matt, Elena and Bonnie walked up. Elena was holding Stefan's hand letting Caroline know she had a ride home. Matt was leaving, which meant he had to go or walk home. He wasn't in the mood to walk yet so Tyler got up. He wanted to kiss her, but he fought that urge before he let his hand touch her side when he left. Bonnie couldn't see what he'd done; she'd probably thought he had just picked up the pen he'd dropped on purpose.

Caroline didn't look up at Bonnie knowing her friend was going give her that look. "If you want to be with him then I'm not going stand in the way," Bonnie said when Tyler was out ear shot.

Elena seemed to think that Caroline and Tyler fit. They could understand each other's losses; Caroline's lack of a mom being a mom, his dad more likely taking anger out on his own son sometimes. If she thought about it all of them had parent problems really.

She had no mom, her dad was gone all the time, but she had her Grams. Caroline's dad was with another man, her mom ignored her. Matt's dad was never in the picture, his mom was always a drunk and never around. Not to mention his sister was running away all the time, and this time wasn't different. She still hadn't been found.

Elena lost both her parents in a car crash. Tyler's dad was a dick that treated him like crap, his mom was little better, but not by much. The woman was still a bitch and the whole town knew it. That was just their life though. They had made friends into an odd family like, but lately things had just been different. It all seemed to have started after ninth grade really, but the most recent was last spring.

"It's complicated, Bonnie, and I can't risk loosing what I got," she said, it wasn't admitting they were together, but it didn't deny it either.

"Just remember condoms, birth control and not get too jealous if a girl hitting on him," Bonnie said, she knew how Caroline could get. She was insecure about things, and tended to get jealous. One person knew the secret but then again Elena would probably know by tonight if she didn't already.

Caroline just nodded not saying a word because she didn't have to hide who she was. Tyler liked her jealous side. It turned him on to know she was jealous if a girl was flirting with him. He didn't take it the wrong way like some guys would.

He just kissed her when they were alone and she knew he was hers. They hadn't even had a fight; it scared her though because it meant if they had one it might be worse. She pushed the thought out of her mind before walking to the car with Bonnie.

Caroline did wonder if they should use more than her birth control for protection. She knew that the idea of a family was there, but not right now. She wondered if he would still be hers. She could imagine their kids with the boys having his looks and the girls hers. She wanted four kids, two of each so they would always have somebody to play with. If it wasn't for her friends she would have been lonely as a child.

She didn't know what had brought on her thinking about kids or a family with him. However, it was a dream she had. Tyler being hers forever and the four kids she thought of. She even had some of the names picked out and an idea of a house she'd like too.

A nice two story with big backyard, swing set with slide and monkey bars, two dogs and the house would have an art studio like. She loved seeing his art work; he could make a future of it. She always told him how wonderful the drawings were. It was his secret and Caroline knew that his parents probably didn't know.

TBC

AN: One more chapter of this two chapter story in the series.

AN2: So did everybody see last nights VPD episode. It's kind of freaky how wrote the story where I thought Tyler was at then bam that is what happened on the show, well him turning till he fixes his self not showing up at the grave with her. Loved how Caroline told Klaus off about letting Tyler go. Anyway hope you enjoyed this chapter more to come.