So, Caroline Forbes thought that hardest thing in her life was Calculus, but she later learned that trying to determine and put a label on what she and Klaus were - was even harder. She didn't even want to think about the Stefan situation, hell, she wanted it to disappear.
She wanted the kiss to stop playing in her mind like a broken record. But she can't think about her own problems, Bonnie has bucket loads of drama, and she surely doesn't want to hear any of Caroline's.
"How many times do you need to check your phone?" Bonnie asks, peeking over Caroline's folder, a hand propped on her hip.
"Sorry." Caroline bashfully puts her phone back into her pocket, "Stop freaking, your Mom will be fine."
"No offense or anything - but my Mom is about to turn into a blood sucking vampire and there is nothing I can do about it." Bonnie looks down the road uneasily, "How am I supposed to be calm?"
Caroline takes a deep breath, "Deep breathes, Bonnie, deep breaths!" She repeats, "She'll still be your Mom."
"But she is hardly my Mom." Bonnie says dryly, "I barely know the woman, and now we're unloading a bunch of supernatural stuff on her - how do you think she'll react to see the town I've been living in is crawling with monsters?"
Caroline licks her lips, "Um, I don't have the answer for that."
"Exactly." Bonnie takes her hand off her hip, to run it momentarily through her hair, "So what's up with you and the Originals, how'd the dinner go?"
"Well, I didn't die, so that's a pretty good sign so far, right?" Caroline puts a hand over her forehead to shield the sun from her eyes.
Bonnie laughs a bit and then she notes a car coming down the road, "Is that Stefan's car?"
Caroline feels her throat go dry, her palms are getting sweaty and her stomach is erupting, oh god, anyone but him.
Bonnie is full-on glaring at his car as he pulls up to the sidewalk, climbing out in a very model fashion. He takes off his sunglasses and puts them into the crook of his v-neck, flashing the invisible paparazzi a white toothed smile before turning to the girls, strolling over to them.
"Don't you know any better then to come here?" Bonnie interrupts whatever strut he seemed to be putting on, whatever confidence he was oozing seemed to slowly simmer from his normally calm exterior.
"I wanted to make sure you were okay." Stefan says, staring straight ahead at Bonnie, "I know it must be hard."
Bonnie rolls her eyes, letting out a angry huff of air, "Hard? Are you kidding? I hate vampires, and now you and your stupid brother have turned my Mother into one! I just got her back, and you go and turn her into one of you - I'll wither away and die and she'll be young and alive forever."
Stefan's eyes glaze over with guilt, "I can't fix what he's done-"
"This stupid shit always happens to me!" Bonnie isn't done, a vein is popping out of her neck, she's seriously pissed, Caroline notes.
"Hey, Bonnie.. shhh.." Caroline wraps a arm around her shoulders and rubs her shoulders seemingly soothing, but Bonnie is too angry, she shrugs Caroline off.
"No! I won't be quiet! I've been quiet for far too long, just doing whatever you told me to do - all in a desperate attempt to kill Klaus and keep Elena alive in the process! If you want to kill Klaus, then you have to kill Elena too - don't you see it? They're connected somehow." Bonnie points out, as if it's never been bluntly obvious before.
"Bonnie?" Bonnie's Mother calls from the house, then more panicked, "Bonnie?"
Bonnie looks towards the house, only returning her eyes to Stefan to glare at him before darting off towards the house, "I'm coming!"
Stefan and Caroline are left alone, and she shifts uncomfortably.
"Caroline." Stefan says easily, a smirk set between his lips, the lips she had kissed were now perched in a amused grin.
Caroline turns a bright red, reminds herself to stop staring at his lips and respond, "Stefan." She says with queasiness in the pit of her stomach.
"So, how are you and your boyfriend doing?" Stefan asks, then noticed her shifted eyes, "Or have you two put a label on it yet?"
Caroline glares at him, "I don't think you'd care even if it had a label on it." She turns away from him towards the house, her mind set on beginning to stalk towards the house, but he grabs her arm and swings her back to him in a remarkably close embrace, his fingers lingering on her elbow. Her breath catches when she notes how close they are, his cologne and musk is coming off of him in waves, making her dizzy.
"You're right, I probably wouldn't care." Stefan breathes easily, a smirk resting between his lips.
"So, cocky Stefan has returned to Mystic Falls." Caroline pokes him in the chest, "Maybe you do have a little Damon in you."
Stefan tilts his head to the side, a cocky grin between his lips, "The difference between me and Damon, I go after what I want."
"Elena?" Caroline takes a cautious step towards him, her eyebrows raised, a questioning hand on her hip.
"Not even close." His hand goes on her waist, and she can feel her face heating.
Caroline's eyes do a painful jump as she staggers away from him, "This is weird - you're my best friend's ex boyfriend - psycho gone ripper.."
"Just shut up and kiss me." Stefan crosses the space between them and collides his lips with hers, hard and fierce, something sexy and dark layering the kiss.
He's pulling her closer to him, pressing her body against his despite her weak and feeble protests.
Abby decides to come out of the house at that moment, testing Bonnie's new spell, she eyes Caroline and Stefan, "Bonnie, I don't recall you telling me your friends were so close." She turns back to the house and Stefan and Caroline sprang apart from each other. Caroline shoves him away from her so hard that he falls on the grass, his fingers trace his burning lips.
Bonnie comes out of the house, eyeing the two, "Uh, I wasn't aware of this either." She says.
Caroline's eyes are wide, and she bolts. She seriously just takes off, drowning in her own embarrassing for not pushing him away sooner.
Was she turning into some vampire slut or something? Because if she was, she would be doing a lot of running.
So, as she sat in a small cafe she found hidden in the corner of down town, she let her own guilt eat her up. The cafe workers watched her cautiously, but they resumed serving customers despite her distraught form.
"Hey, never thought I'd find you here." A voice says, and she looks up to see the familiar eyes of Tyler. Her heart does a painful leap.
"Me neither." Caroline says, taking a sip of her frapuccino, avoiding his eyes, "Why are you here?"
"They make the best coffee here." Tyler shrugs, putting his hands into his pockets, "So I heard."
Caroline looks up at him, hoping her eyes don't seem too panicked, "Heard about what?"
Tyler sits across from her, leaning his muscular arms across the table, "That you saved Klaus by telling him about the linking spell. Elena told me."
"It was a accident." Caroline quickly says, trying to avoid his overwhelming eyes.
"I know." Tyler looks over at her, "I'm sorry, if I came on too strong. I know you want nothing to do with me because of the sire bond..."
Caroline pauses.
"I won't push you anymore. If you don't want to be with me, fine. But stop treating me like I have a various amount of STDs or something." Tyler runs a hand through his hair, staring at her through jaded eyes, "I'm sorry Caroline."
Caroline grimaces, looking away from his overwhelming eyes that seem to be burning a hole into her face, "It's fine, don't worry about it."
Tyler sets his palms on the table face up, staring at them hard, "I'm going to try to break this sire bond, Caroline."
"You tried that before and you killed my dad." Caroline hesitantly breathes, looking up at him.
"Is that why you're so angry at me all the time?" Tyler asks, his voice rising, "I didn't kill your Dad. He could have chosen to stay alive, but he didn't."
"He wouldn't have had to make that choice if you didn't want your sire bond broken!" Caroline's voice rises a few pitches, her hands gripping the edge of the table.
Tyler looks down at the table, closing his eyes for a moment, "Caroline, you can't imagine how sorry I am."
"I know you're sorry, Tyler." She breathes, "But that doesn't mean I don't miss him every single day." She stands up from the table and almost bolts for the door, her feet not taking her fast enough to the door as a stunned Tyler Lockwood puts his face in his hands, willing the tears to remain in their sockets and not come dripping down in angry puddles.
The sun is setting when she leaves the small desolate cafe, letting a light glow surround her, ultimately calming her down as she rounds a corner towards her house.
With everything going on in her life, she didn't want to deal with any of the Originals, but her plans are altered when she spots Elijah making a bee line for her.
"Caroline, it's getting late." Elijah says when he finally reaches her, setting his hands in his pockets.
Caroline nods, jerking her thumb in the direction of her house, "Just about to head home. Long day."
"You smell like him." Elijah says, quirking a eyebrow, "Tyler Lockwood."
"Yeah, he came up to me in the cafe I was in." Caroline shrugs, trying not to let hurt flash across her eyes.
"It was about your father." Elijah says it more as a statement instead of a question.
Caroline nods, swallowing hard on the pain that seemed to be building up in her throat, "Yeah, basically. He told me he was going to keep trying to break the sire bond.. then I reminded him what happened when he tried to do that last time.."
Elijah grimaces at this, "I forgot to apologize for the loss of your father. Despite his bad tendencies, he was still your father, and you loved him very much."
His pity for her almost sends her flying, it hits her hard, and she feels the pang of his loss even harder then ever.
"I did." She confirms, her voice choking up with emotion, "I better get home, my Mom is probably freaking out."
Elijah nods, "Yes, you should." He begins to walk past her, brushing his arm with hers, "Oh, and Caroline. You make my brother very happy."
Caroline flashes a bright red, but then she beams, "He makes me happy too." She confirms, then strutting away from him in the direction of her home. Feeling much better then she had seconds before.
Going home, she takes her jacket off and spots her Mother in the kitchen, cooking some noodle-y concoction that she estimates is some kind of Pasta.
"Hey Mom." Caroline sets herself at the kitchen table, taking off her heels, "What's up?"
Mrs. Forbes turns around from stirring her pasta, "You are in so much trouble."
Caroline freezes midway of taking off her heel, "And why is that?"
Her Mother then raises up a note in the air, with much fancy handwriting that resembles Klaus's, "What is this?" Her mother unfolds the note and realizes that there is a picture inside of Caroline shopping with laughter highlighting her face.
"It's a drawing Mom." Caroline impatiently says, hoping to waft off the Motherly fumes by playing it off as someone else's drawing.
"We agreed that you were done with Klaus." Her mother sets the drawing on the table in front of Caroline, "I want you to be safe."
Caroline huffs and looks away from her Mother, "We didn't agree, you forced me. Haven't you read the tragic teenage novels? You always know the girl never listens to her Mom."
Mrs. Forbes glared at her daughter, pulling out a chair roughly from the table and sitting across from Caroline, "I can't keep you safe if you won't listen to me!"
"Maybe you shouldn't be listening to Stefan! You've met Klaus! Does he really seem like the guy that Stefan described?" Caroline snaps back.
Her Mother pauses for a few beats, "Hardly." She admits.
"Exactly Mom, Stefan was lying to you." Caroline reaches a hand across the table and takes her Mother's in hers, "Trust me, I know what I'm doing."
"Oh god Caroline." Her Mother hiccups, "I'm just so worried. I never wanted this to happen - I wanted you to get married, have kids, get old... stay human. I would have never moved to Mystic Falls if I knew this would happen to you."
Caroline grimaces, looking down at the table, "Me too, Mom, me too."
After a long exhausting day, she's relieved to find her favorite Original in her bed, looking straight up at the ceiling, his arms propped behind his head in amusement.
"Well, where have you been all day?" Caroline asks when she enters her room, quietly shutting the door behind her, "I thought you'd be out taking innocent lives."
Klaus pulls himself up, "Have you always thought of me as so senile?"
Caroline shrugs, slowly smiling to herself when she turns her back to him to sort through her clothes for pajamas, "Of course not."
"You've always been quite the terrible liar." Klaus says, his eyes dreamily tracing outside to the window, "Elijah informed me, about your run in with Tyler."
"So you've been stalking me too?" Caroline turns to throw him a curious look.
"Hardly." Klaus says, plucking his phone out of his pocket, "Elijah has picked up the habit of 'texting' so now he's been texting me everything he sees."
Caroline takes the drawing out of her pocket, holding it up for him to see, "If you're going to leave me drawings, put it in a place my Mom won't find it."
Klaus smirks, "But I'm taking you liked it?"
"I didn't know you were a artist." Caroline says, taking her shirt off and replacing it with a tank top, then doing the same with her pants.
"Have been for a while, some of my drawings are hanging up in a museum in Rome, I did promise to show you the world, did I not?" Klaus questions.
Caroline smiles, "Yeah, you did. But I still have high school to get through, then there's the issue of telling my friends that I'm off to explore the world with the villain that everyone is trying to kill."
Klaus grimaces at the last part, "I nearly forgot about your friends trying to kill me 24/7."
Caroline hums to herself, "Hmm, so you have? Obviously they aren't trying so hard anymore."
"I think I may be seeing light at the end of the tunnel." Klaus lets out a low chuckle before getting off of her bed and wrapping his arms around her waist, his neck nestled into her neck, "You look ravishing in silk, love."
Caroline giggles a bit, "What is with you and saying 'ravishing' and 'love' around me?"
She can feel Klaus smirking into her neck, "I just can't help it, love." She can feel his smirk grow bigger when he says love.
Caroline turns to face him, and she can feel guilt spreading across her like a fire when she see's Stefan's face for a millisecond in her minds eye.
"I need to tell you something."
He prompts her to go on, but she can hardly speak, her lips are dry as she says them.
"Stefan kissed me today." That's all she says, and his eyes widen.
"What? The nerve of the Salvatores." Klaus lets out a furious growl before heading for her window with angry footsteps.
Caroline rushes after him, gripping his arm in her hand, "Please, don't hurt him." She says meekly.
He whirls on her, gripping her by the arms, "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't go rip his heart out right this minute!"
Caroline's eyes are wide and frightened, "Because, I want you to stay." She says softly.
Klaus's lip puckers and he kisses her, hard and long, as if he's trying to claim her. She can feel his thoughts through her lips.
Damn you Stefan Salvatore, she is mine and you best not forget that, you will not be the one that takes me from her.