~ Over 100 reviews. Thank you.

~ The chapter starts out with a flashback to what happened when Chelsea and Damon return back at the boarding house. Also a little Klaus flirting with Chelsea.

~ I want to say that if it comes to the point where Chelsea picks Damon, that doesn't mean Klaus will stop trying... and vise versa. I want to do season 4 with Chelsea after it airs... which will be awesome.

susl, BlueEyedGriyffindor, VampirePrincessGirl1309: If it comes to the point to where Chelsea doesn't choose Klaus well, we'll just have to see. I'm writing two endings. One where she ends with Damon, and the other with Klaus.

grapejuice101, wildkat395: When I wrote the last chapter, that's what I was leaning towards. The moment when they were making out was making me think that is how season 3 should end... with Damona and Chelsea. I guess we will just have to see.

holly: I do have a couple of other stories right now... and one of them the OC is going to end with Damon.

Psycho17: I thought Jeremy should have something to say... he usually doesn't, so I thought that he should get some time. Chelsea is going to let Klaus know what Kol did... and he won't be happy about it. If there is one thing that Damon and Klaus can agree on is punishing Kol for what he did. Damon is Damon. Chelsea will talk to Damon and it 'might' get better between them. Klaus won't like it though, but that won't stop him from going after Chelsea.

storylover3: Klaus actually is going to get more personal with Chelsea...

~ After reading the reviews, the chapter ended up changing a bit. I had it all planned out, the chapter, who Chelsea would end with, but this chapter and the reviews has changed. I will still include an alternate ending, but I'm not going to tell you what is the real ending until after I post it.

ENJOY!

Chelsea's POV

I walked into the boarding house, with my suitcase in my hand. On the way back from Denver, Damon and I didn't speak a word to each other. There were times when I thought he was going to say something, but he didn't. I didn't say anything to him, but that was mainly because I was thinking. I thought of the other times we fought. He would flirt with me and I would ignore it and I kept telling him that I wasn't coming back. Damon would never give up, even when Rose and Andie came into the picture. Thinking about the past and now makes me think I changed. The whole time I spent with Klaus over the summer I never stopped thinking about Damon. I kept thinking about being in his arms again, feeling his touch, and hearing his voice. That time was different, we were different.

After being back I went straight to Damon, even with the flirting from Klaus persisting. Damon and I together felt like old times, when we didn't fight. I was ignoring my other feelings though, the ones that were starting to develop for Klaus. I think that the reason I kept going back to Damon was because there was nobody else that was like that to me, no one I could go to. There is someone now. I should at least give him a try…. right?

I kept thinking about it as I walked into my room before setting my suitcase at the edge of my bed. I walked over to my drawers and opened one. The pictures that Klaus drew for me were the only things in it. I held then in my hand and looked at them. They were perfectly drawn and beautiful in every way. I put both of them on my mirror, between the frame and the glass. Every time I would walk in my room, I would be able to see them.

I could see his reflection in the mirror, but I looked away and pretended I didn't see him. I opened up a different drawer and pulled out a light pink tank top and dark pink pajama pants. For a second I considered changing in front of him. I started to walk towards my bathroom, but he appeared in front of me, blocking my path.
"Chelsea." He said, hiding the obvious hurt. "I'm sorry."
"It's okay." I said as calm as I could.
"No, it's not Chels. I overreacted."
"Yeah you did Damon." I reluctantly looked in his eyes. "I'm not sure it matters though."
"Of course it matters." He gently cupped my cheek with his hand rubbed his thumb against my skin. "I shouldn't have acted like that. It's just when it comes to you I can't control what I say." I let out a breath and gave Damon a small smile. "I love you."
"I love you to, but…" I took my free hand and held his wrist "…I don't know if we can be together right now." Sadness appeared in his eyes as he looked into mine. I took a deep breath and slowly took his hand from my cheek. "There are too many things going on right now. We just need a break Damon. Just from all the kissing and me waking up to you in my bed."
"I get it," I let go of Damon's hand ", but I do love you. Even though I don't like the idea, if you need a break then I'll let you have one." All I could do was give him a small smile. He gently kissed me on my forehead before looking in my eyes. "I hope you come back to me in the end." I didn't say anything as he walked out of my room. I let out a deep breath and decided to take a bubble bath before I went to sleep.

I laid on my bed with my eyes closed. My body was awake but I didn't want to move. I tiled my head to the side and lazily picked up my phone. There was a voicemail from Klaus and a missed text from Caroline. I decided to listen to the voicemail.
'Hello love. I'm just checking up on you to make sure that my brother didn't hurt you. Let me know when you get this, I have something I want to ask you.'
After listening, I kept the message, but didn't return his call. Instead I looked at the text from Caroline.
'Call me when you wake up.' I let out a breath before dialing Caroline.
"Hey Chels. Where are you?" She asked when she answered.
"In my bed. I just woke up." I told her.
"Well come to school." She said, almost like she was bossing me.
"Why? We don't even have school today."
"Hello…You need to help set up for the decade dance."
"Another one? Haven't we learned from the last two?"
"I will make sure no one dies, okay?" I couldn't help but let out a little chuckle. "Just come to the school before I come over and drag you out of bed."
"Okay, fine. Let me have breakfast and let me do other morning stuff and I'll be there to help you."
"Good. See you soon." She said in a cheery mood before hanging up. I set my phone on my bedside table before forcing myself to sit up. 'Not another decade dance' I thought to myself. The only part about the dances I like is dressing up. I don't really like to dance much and when you add in the fact that dances in Mystic Falls have something bad happens at dances.

I stood up from my bed, grabbed my phone, and went downstairs. I went into the kitchen, placed my phone on the kitchen island and started making a pancake. It's something quick that I can technically eat with my hands, if I didn't put syrup on it. I made sure chocolate chips were in the mix before I put in on the skillet. My phone vibrated and I picked it up.
"Have you been avoiding me love?" Klaus asked when I picked up.
"Ignoring one call and not calling back hardly counts as avoiding." I turned to the pancake, keeping my eyes on it. "By the way, you might want to punish Kol."
"Why? What did he do?"
"Oh nothing, just break my arm and hit me in the legs with a baseball bat."
"Remind me to tear out his liver."
"I'd rather break his arms and then leave him by himself in the woods." Klaus chuckled as I held my phone between my cheek and shoulder as I checked the pancake.
"I should give you tips on torturing."
"I'd rather watch than do the torturing." I flipped the pancake. "Besides, if I ever did torture someone, I think I've watched enough horror movies to know what to do." At that moment I could tell Damon was standing at the doorway, looking at me. I could feel his eyes, but I chose to ignore it.
"I didn't know you had a dark side."
"Apparently you weren't paying attention much over the summer." Klaus let out a chuckle and I looked for a plate. "Killing those people and helping with those werewolves in Tennessee is a bit into my dark side…that you brought out I might add."
"I do bring out the worst in people."
"Not all people." I looked for pancake syrup.
"Now that we have that out of the way, I have to ask you something."
"Is it the same thing you left the message about?"
"No. I wanted to ask if you were going to the decade dance or not."
"Well, Caroline is making me help decorate, so she will probably make me go to the dance." I said as I put the pancake onto the plate. "Why are you asking?"
"Rebekah convinced me to go. Guess I'll see you there." Klaus said before hanging up. I felt a smile on my face as I hung up. All of a sudden my thoughts were on what I should wear. Should I try to find a dress similar to what Rebekah was wearing when she got out of the coffin, or should I find something different? I almost forgot about the pancake before the scent of chocolate chips wafted up my nose. I took a deep breath, breathing in the scent before turning off the stove.

"You're not going to make me breakfast?" Damon asked.
"No." I put some syrup on the pancake. "I almost forgot you were there."
"I figured that." He said quietly. "You're going to the dance?"
"Yeah. Caroline is going to force me if I didn't anyway." I reluctantly looked at Damon. He was giving me a look that made me think he didn't believe me.
"Haven't you learned from the last two decade dances?"
"That's what I said to Caroline. She promises that no one will die this time." I said as I took a fork out of the drawer. I picked up the plate and was going to walk out the kitchen, but Damon blocked my path. "Can you please move Damon?"
"I just want to talk."
"We can't right now. If I don't get to the school, Caroline is coming here and dragging me there." Damon looked at me, with sadness in his eyes. After a moment he gave me a small smile before stepping aside. "Thanks." I said quietly before walking to my room.

I walked into the school gym, drinking from a thermos. It was filled with a mixture of blood and orange juice. I saw Caroline look at me.
"You're here." She said with a smile on her face. I closed the thermos before giving Caroline a one armed hug.
"Well, I didn't want you to drag me out of the boarding house to here."
"I would have done it to." She said with a smile before looking behind me.
"What are you doing?" I looked and saw Jeremy and Matt. They were hanging cardboard stars from the ceiling. "You can't just hang them! They're supposed to trickle down."
"Trickle?" I asked Caroline.
"Yes, trickle." I just rolled my eyes as I walked with Caroline to Elena, who was standing at a table.
"Hey." Elena said to me.
"Hey." I said as I set my thermos down.
"Look at them all bromancy." Caroline said to Elena.
"Yeah I asked Matt to help Jeremy readjust." Elena said to us. "He got him his old job back at the grill."
"That was nice of him." I said to Elena before looking at the stuff on the table.
"Jeremy has got a lot on his mind. The whole thing with Alaric has got him really stressed out." There was a silence between us as Elena and I looked through the stuff on the table.

"So who are you bringing to the dance?" Caroline asked both me and Elena.
"What do you mean? I thought maybe you, Bonnie, Chelsea, and I could go as girl dates." I let a small smile appear on my face when Elena said that to Caroline. Caroline let out a small chuckle.
"Bonnie has a date." Caroline said.
"What?" Elena asked.
"Jamie called and wanted to see her so she asked him." Caroline said to Elena before she turned her head to me. "What about you? Are you asking Damon to the dance."
"No, actually I'm going with someone else." I said, avoiding, looking at Elena or Caroline.
"Who is it?" Caroline asked, in her gossip voice. I didn't look at her, which probably made it worse. "Is it who I think it is?" I knew Caroline more than likely had a small smile on her face.
"Maybe."
"It's him, isn't it?" I looked up at Elena. "You're going with Klaus."
"About time." Caroline said.
"What?" I asked, slightly shocked. "He caused everything bad. The sire bond made Tyler bite you, he turned Stefan into a ripper…"
"And you like him." I looked at Caroline. "You know you do."
"Okay, so I do."
"You admitted it. That's the first step." I gave Caroline a 'really?' look.
"Why are you supporting me and him together?"
"I never said I did, but it's only fair. You've been with Damon since like forever and you're not now. I've watched The Bachelor, fair is fair. It's Klaus's turn. Though, I'm always going to be biased for you and Damon." I gave Caroline a small smile.
"Why don't you ask Stefan?" I asked Elena, changing the subject from me and Klaus.
"I can't ask him on a date." Elena said.
"And why not?" I asked.
"Yeah, why not?" Caroline asked Elena. "You have to ask Stefan, he's your epic love."
"I agree with Caroline." I said before picking up my thermos.
"Okay, relax." Elena said. "I'll ask him after we are done decorating." Elena said to Caroline as I took a drink from my thermos, almost emptying it.
"Stop drinking and help us." Caroline said. I closed the thermos, set it on the table and helped them decorate the gym for the 1920's decade dance.

~ What do you think of the chapter? I honestly didn't really know what ending I wanted more, Chelsea with Klaus or Chelsea and Damon. After reading the reviews... I think it might have made me more for one. I'm not going to say what one though *insert evil face here*
~ The conversation between Chelsea and Damon at the begging may not have gone completely the way I wanted it to, but I was thinking. For the prequel 'Into The Darkness' Chelsea acts a certain way with Damon, and that made me think about how she should act in this. I hope to get the first chapter of that up within a week of the last chapter of this story, which would be the middle of next month or so.

~ What will Chelsea wear to the dance? Will something happen between her and Klaus? What will Damon's reaction be seeing Chelsea and Klaus together? What do you think will happen in the next chapter?
~ I'm on the edge on how I want the next chapter to end. It will either end with Chelsea and Klaus or Chelsea and Damon... please tell me how you think it will end.

~ The next chapter will be 5/29/12

R&R 'till the next update