Caroline kept walking towards what she thought would be a comforting place. On her way in, Damon walked by. "is Stefan home?" Caroline raised her eyebrows bewildered. "He is" Damon looked downwards yet regained strength and stared at her with intensity "with Elena" he smiled with the corner of his mouth, letting Caroline notice his anger bursting. He stormed off, trying to make his gait steady and secure. She held her breath while watching the scene.
Elena and Stefan talking in the unused kitchen. She squinted her eyes in order to see better. "Are you okay?" Caroline sighed irritated, the old Elena was back. Not to say, Caroline didn't like her best-vampire-orphan friend to be back, but mostly she did detest those looks she gave when saying okay, emphasizing on the idea you were not. Stefan looked quite careless for the first time. He shook off her hand that rose over his tattooed arm, and with a smile replied he was indeed okay. "I don't know, it kinda seems we haven't talked in a while" she continued ignoring Stefan's attitude. "Oh I don't know…That might be because you probably slept with my brother"
"Stefan" Elena interrupted with her weary tone again. Caroline smiled from the outside "Burn"
"Any way Elena, I don't care, do whatever you want. It's always been that way, hasn't it? You've chosen and so have I"
Elena stuttered for an answer but Stefan caught an eye of Caroline staring from the outside.
"Hey guys" Caroline blurred trying to disguise the tension in the room. "I didn't mean to interrupt"
"You didn't" Stefan smiled at Elena "Elena was just leaving"
Elena closed her eyes and seemed to have left speechless, not completely closing her mouth in disbelieve. Caroline walked by her, as she walked heavily towards the door. When she left, Caroline's frown vanished and smiled nearly laughing.
"I guess she'll now run to Damon"
Stefan gave away a polite yet extremely cold smile.
"Jeez I'm sorry, I mean you were quite realistic there on your role of" she moved her fingers as inverted comas "I hate you Elena"
"But I don't, I just" he stopped suddenly searching for his words "decided to move on"
"That's great.." Caroline nodded surprised of such difference in opinion from the suffering Stefan of merely a day ago.
"What is it?" Stefan stared at her fidgeting hands, "I thought Tyler was back"
"He is" she smiled, lacking the honesty of her usual smiles. Stefan kept looking at her, gazing at her indecision before his eyes.
"I just mmm, I love him" she assured him, or herself "so much" he raised his eyebrows slightly
"It's just-" she stopped herself and breathed heavily "do you think bad guys can change?"
" bad guy huh? I think" he paused, leaving the corners of his mouth downwards, in a thinking manner "evil is all around us, we might as well embrace it", there was something in the way he said it, as if a secret was behind every single word and the smile that crept after it was the lock to the unknown meaning. The yet unknown reason very little were about to discover