Hey guys, sorry for the wait been really busy with exams and stuff over the past week or so, but to make up for it I've managed to get chapters 4 AND 5 done for you and am gonna do a double update. Chapter 4 is a bit of a filler chapter, things a bit more juicy coming in chapter 5 and 6. Anyway hope you're enjoying and please review! Thanks!
Caroline walked slowly home from her lunch date with Elena, she could have caught a taxi but thought she could use the walk to decide how she was going to invite Enzo to this get together without it seeming like she was asking him out, although Enzo would probably take it that way no matter what she said. Caroline laughed at the thought, he would probably be more smug than usual in enjoying Caroline inviting him to a party, and showing up without her mystery man wasn't an option, so it would take some convincing, she got the impression that Enzo wasn't the club going kind of guy.
As Caroline approached the boarding house, she paused outside looking up at the building, she thought to herself that she was being silly, she planned to knock on his door and tell him they were going to a club tonight and that was that. She strode inside and up the stairs, laughing to herself at how much Enzo would hate the idea of going to some nightclub, although Caroline knew without a doubt somehow, that he would do it, for her.
Caroline stopped outside his door and knocked in her playful way, she had grown slightly excited at the idea of having a good flirt with him again, she would never admit it out loud but she secretly enjoyed their interactions and his charming playfulness.
Her knock went unanswered.
She knocked again a bit louder this time, but unfortunately she didn't get another glimpse of his bare chest.
Caroline assumed he wasn't in, she had never imagined him having a life, that sounded really bad but he had always been there, she had never known him to be out doing normal things. It wasn't that surprising now that she thought about it, he couldn't be there night and day to answer to her every back and call. Caroline shrugged and turned to head back to her room, perhaps Elena wasn't going to get to meet her mystery man after all.
Caroline swung open her door absentmindedly and stopped with a fright when she saw Enzo lounging on her bed reading her copy of Cosmo from the plane.
Maybe she was right about him not having a life.
"Ah modern women, all bosom no mystery.." Enzo's eyes lifted from his magazine and he looked up at Caroline.. "Present company excluded." He added playfully.
"Seriously? What the hell Enzo don't you have any boundaries?" Caroline hissed at him in mock anger, but secretly her heart was racing at the surprise that was Enzo sitting on her bed.
"Come on sweetheart, isn't this our thing?" Enzo teased, putting the magazine down and sitting up to look at Caroline.
She rolled her eyes with a resigned look and a hint of a smile at his breaking and entering.
"I knocked, I'm beginning to think that's an alien concept to you" Caroline said sarcastically as she turned to close her door before turning back to look at Enzo, her eyes softened and she smiled at him so he knew she wasn't seriously angry.
"Well you're not kicking me out so I think I'm good." Enzo teased, lounging back with his hands behind his head.
"Don't tempt me!" Caroline said over her shoulder with a giggle as she headed to her closet to hang up her jacket, her comment was met with a booming laugh from Enzo's direction. Safely where he couldn't see her with her back turned, Caroline grinned to herself.
She then turned on her heel and resumed her attempt ant nonchalance and walked over towards Enzo, who was now sat comfortably on her bed with his hands clasped in front of him while he lounged. Caroline walked towards the bed and leaned against one of the posters at the bottom of the bed and crossed her arms.
"So what did I do to deserve yet another abrupt visit?" Caroline inquired, with a sarcastic tone to her voice.
"I thought we could continue our chat from this afternoon, we've still got lots to talk about." Enzo grinned.
"That we do, too much, if we got through it all we'd be here all night." Caroline said while casually sauntering back over to the wardrobe and slipped off her boots.
"I certainly don't mind that gorgeous." Caroline heard Enzo call after her as she once again had her back to him and could safely grin to herself at his flirtatious comment.
She sauntered back over to the bed and sat with her legs crossed at the bottom of the bed. She leaned back against the poster and looked at Enzo's smug smile, she rolled her eyes.
"That's not gonna be possible, we have plans for tonight." Caroline said assertively in her no nonsense attitude.
"Oh do we?" Enzo said with a suggestive raise of his eyebrow.
"Don't give me that look, you're coming out with me to some club Elena invited me to." Caroline told him with an apologetic look on her face, she knew it wouldn't be at the top of his favourite pass times.
"And why am I coming?" Enzo asked Caroline with a quizzical look on his face, yet he still looked quite amused at Caroline asking him out.
Caroline sighed with a slight grin as she noticed Enzo enjoying her grovelling. "Well if it were up to me you'd be safe and sound in your room, but I was cornered and don't have a choice but to invite you."
"Oh don't lie you're dying for me to come Caroline." Enzo grinned.
Caroline did actually want him to come, least of all due to the fact that he was a vampire and she wasn't quite used to controlling herself in big crowds of temptation, and most of all that she was enjoying their flirtatious encounters.
"Don't flatter yourself, Elena asked why I was late for our lunch date and although I tried my best not to mention you she got it out of me, and now she's insisting I bring you or she's gonna set me up with her new fling's horrible brother." Caroline said matter of factly.
Enzo looked at Caroline with a grin on his face, he was enjoying this. The thought of him and Caroline out having a good time filled him with excitement. Although he didn't care much for nightclubs he wasn't going to object to a night of booze and dancing with her, she would make it tolerable, hell she'd make it more than tolerable. He wanted to make work for it and tell her he didn't want to go, but he just couldn't, he had already decided that he was going.
"Fine. If I must. Who will be there?" Enzo added with a sigh.
"Good. Elena's invited a few people, this guy she's seeing and his brother and some people from her new work. I haven't met them yet, she says that's the whole point we have to meet new people being new here and all. Anyway, the only people I know are Elena and her new interest stefan, the bartender from that bar the other night." Caroline rambled on but stopped when she noticed The surprised look on Enzo's face.
"What?.."
"Elena's guy is called Stefan? What bar were you in?"
"It was called Cross Keys I think, why?"
"Bloody hell.." Enzo dropped his head back and laughed.
"What Enzo, what is it?" Caroline demanded.
"I know stefan, and his horrible brother." Enzo informed Caroline, while till chuckling to himself. "Didn't know Damon was here." He added, to himself more than anything.
"Wait what? How do you know them?.. Wait are they?.."
"Vampires? They certainly are love." Enzo grinned.
"Oh my god.. What the hell. How do you know them?"
"I hardly know stefan, I've only met him a few times, he's the more boring of the two brothers though as far as I'm aware, probably why he's playing human working behind a bar, anyway it's Damon I know. He's my Friend." Enzo said with a distracted smile on his face.
"When did you two meet?" Caroline asked genuinely interested.
Enzo's face fell slightly, like he was recalling a bad memory or something.
"A long time ago.." He said quietly, still displaying a sad look on his face. Enzo hated thinking about that time of his life, it was responsible for so much grief and pain he still felt today, though Damon was the one good thing he got out of it, the two had been through it together.
Caroline wanted to change the subject quickly, she hated seeing him in pain and didn't want to be responsible for that look, but she also didn't want to skip over his distress like it didn't matter, she really just wanted to see the cheeky arrogant bastard he always was, that she was slowly growing very fond of.
Caroline bravely sat forward and reached over, placing her hand on his face, her thumb grazing his cheek, just like he had done last night to console her when she was thinking about how alone she'd been.
"Hey… Are you okay?" She said softly.
Enzo froze at the contact, she had never been the one to initiate it before, his heart raced as he looked up to find her looking at him with a concerned expression, maybe she did care.
"Do you wanna talk about it?" Caroline said carefully.
Enzo's eyes softened and he seemed to calm down a bit. He lifted his hand so it sat on top of Caroline's.
"That's a story for another day sweetheart." He said sweetly, "besides.. We've got more pressing matters to deal with like what you're going to wear tonight" he smiled his mischievous smile and raised an eyebrow at her, he was back to his usual self.
"Shut up!" Caroline scoffed and rolled her eyes at him, then smiled back.
Caroline sat back on her heels on the bed and broke the contact before lifting a pointed a finger to him.
"Were leaving at 7 o'clock, don't be late!" She teased as she resumed her place on the bed where she sat back and smiled at him, her smile was met with an amused expression that said "oh I wouldn't dare sweetheart.".
Caroline was frantically running around her room trying to get ready for her night out, everything was done except her choice of outfit, Enzo's comment from earlier on about what she'd be wearing was still lingering in the back of her mind and it made her nervous because she knew he was thinking about it. Her choice had to be perfect.
Caroline's hair was done in a classy up do, with just a few strands of hair framing her face, partially because she wanted to look sophisticated but mostly because she didn't have enough time to curl it properly. Caroline sat on the floor raiding through her suitcase, she hadn't packed much, but luckily she he grabbed her favourite pink dress while grabbing clothes before she fled.
It was quarter to seven, the main reason she was running so late was because her and Enzo had sat and talked for hours, they laughed and laughed, Caroline had quite enjoyed it and the pair could barely tear themselves away from each other long enough to go and get ready for tonight. So now Caroline found herself with just under an hour to get ready, she could do it but would have preferred to take her time and not be rushing around at the last minute.
Caroline lifted up her pink dress to examine it, she couldn't remember the last time she wore it but knew it was perfect, she could never go wrong wearing this dress. Caroline stepped towards her closet where nearby stood a full length mirror, she pulled the dress over her head and lowered it down over the length of her body. The dress was a pastel pink, and was tight, hugging all of her curves in all the right places, it had thin straps which stretched over her shoulders and reached down to just above her knee, and showed just the right amount of cleavage balancing sophisticated and sexy. Caroline placed her hands on her hips examining herself in the mirror and swayed from side to side with a grin on her face, oh how she'd missed this dress.
At ten to seven there was a knock on the door.
"Shit! He's early." Caroline said to herself
Just then she heard an echoing voice from outside the door.
"Need I remind you of our super sonic vampire hearing abilities love?" Enzo said, Caroline could practically hear the smile in his voice.
Caroline skipped over to the door, patted down her dress making sure she looked okay before swinging the door open.
There he was.
Enzo scrubbed up well she must admit, he was a sight to behold. He wore a white T-shirt, dark jeans and a black leather jacket. The T-shirt was tight, hugging his figure in that same way it had in his room earlier on that day, and it still had the same effect on Caroline, she felt like a school girl swooning at the sight of him, though she hoped it wasn't obvious.
Enzo's heart stopped for a second at the sight of her, I mean yeah she was stunningly beautiful always but she looked like an angel. He hadn't seen her properly done up like this yet, it had only been semi-casual attire. That dress. He wanted to push her up against the wall and never mind going out. How could she manage to look so classy but sexy all at the same time. Enzo's eyes wandered quickly down the length of her body, he was totally addicted to her. His breath hitched in his throat as he met her gaze and she gave him a devious smile, he thought just for a second that he saw her bite her lip slightly, or maybe that was just wishful thinking, when she had done that earlier in the day the effect on him had been something he hadn't felt in a long time, it did things to him.
"You knocked." Caroline said in mock surprise.
Enzo cleared his throat, "Well I figured this time there was a good chance you could actually be indecent." He said honestly, remembering his remark from yesterday when she scorned him for barging in.
"Well come in, I'm not ready yet." Caroline said as she walked away from his vision.
Enzo wandered into the room and sat on the bed where he had been earlier and watched her walk around the room gathering her things.
"You know you're the one that told me not to be late.." He watched with an amused smirk as she moved around the room and added the finishing touches to her look.
"I'm not late, you're early!" Caroline replied playfully.
Enzo watched as Caroline sat down on her dressing table chair and painfully slowly bent down to her feet to put on her shoes, God she was wearing heels too, that was all he needed, the sight of her in that dress and nice pair of heels would surely drive Enzo crazy. She then stood and grabbed her coat, swinging it round over her shoulders and on.
"Ready?" Caroline asked watching as Enzo stood from her bed.
"As I'll ever be gorgeous." Enzo said in his low husky voice as he walked towards her and held out his arm for her to take.. "Shall we?"'he asked.
Caroline laughed and rolled her eyes, while placing her arm through his as they walked towards the door and left the room. As they walked arm in arm out of the room Enzo looked down at Caroline..
"You look stunning by the way if it isn't obvious" Enzo said softly.
"Thank you." Caroline said looking up at Enzo through her lashes.
And with that the two walked together downstairs and out to the street to get a taxi.