I needed sassy Caroline...Caroline deals with the break up with Tyler with the help of a certain original hybrid.
"Come on Caroline, you never miss a dance!" Elena pleaded trying to pulling Caroline out of her bed.
Elena and Bonnie were both dressed to the nines ready to go and were trying to pull a pajama clad and bawling Caroline out of bed.
"No! I was supposed go with Tyler and now…and now…" Caroline stumbled out, launching back into her waterworks.
Bonnie rolled her eyes and yanked Caroline out of the bed. Caroline flashed her fangs in protest but Bonnie just threw her a look of whatever. With a nod to Elena, she went over to Caroline's closest and pulled out the soft yellow dress Caroline bought weeks earlier.
Shoving both Caroline and the dress into the bathroom, Elena said "Screw Tyler, he was an ass so this is what you are going to do. You are going to pull yourself together and get dolled up. Then we are going to go to this dance and you are going to show him exactly what the hell he messed up. You give him no mercy; just show him how hot and fabulous you are!"
With that promise Elena shut the door. Caroline stood there a minute more, wiping away tear from her face. She never hated Tyler so much before in her life, damn him for breaking her heart. Now she didn't want to go to the stupid spring fling dance, she had never gone without a guy before and the thought terrified her. She could just imagine now all the whispers going around the dance floor about her breakup.
"I don't hear you getting ready!" Elena shouted through the door.
Bonnie's voiced joined hers, "Don't make us come in there and do it for you!"
"Alright! Just hold on, I'm trying to stop thinking of all the ways I can murder Tyler," Caroline bellowed back.
She was furious now, done throwing the Caroline pity party. Elena was right she was going to show Tyler exactly who he jerked around with. Caroline hung up the dress and got down to business, turning the water on. Caroline Forbes, former Miss Mystic Falls, did not let boys walk all over her.
Forty-five minutes later, all three girls were walking up to the dance arms linked and laughing. Caroline paused for a minute at the doorway of the gym, the blaring music blasting through the doors, deafening her.
Bonnie jerked when she realized Caroline was no longer in step with them, "Caroline, come on."
Caroline's face faltered almost ready to cry again but then she snapped out of it, dazzling them both with flashing smile.
"Let's go find us some hot boys to make out with," she said as she waggled her eyebrows.
Bonnie and Elena laughed hysterically and they entered in the room, letting the music take them away.
Caroline found herself actually enjoying herself as the more time went by. Elena never ditched her and Bonnie for Damon who was sulking off in the corner. A familiar musky smell drifted past her and her nose following to the source of the amazing smell. Somewhere in the midst of teenagers Caroline could see Klaus dancing away with some little brunette. Caroline scoffed at the sight but she wasn't sure why.
She saw Klaus' eyes flicker straight towards her, his piercing gaze trapping her in an iron hold. He let a slow, smug smirk spread across his face as the brunette who was dancing with him had no idea what he was smiling at. Someone crossed in front of Caroline breaking the moment, shaking her head she went back to dancing.
Klaus kept popping up over the dance floor throughout the night and Caroline tried her best to ignore him but she couldn't shake the feeling of wanting to claw out the eyes of every girl he danced with. A sigh of relief escaped when she realized he never danced with the same one.
She wouldn't admit but she was looking for him constantly. The urge to see who he was dancing with next was too strong; she had to know what girl would fall next on her list of people to hate forever. With each new dance partner his eyes would find hers, he never looked at his at partner, only her. It was intoxicating, the breath catching in her throat as he stared at her.
A tap on her shoulders and a very familiar smell washed over her. Caroline instantly felt her temper flare, dropping her eyes away from another eye sex moment with Klaus. Spinning around Caroline clenched her fists as she came face to face with Tyler. His face looked apologetic and sad, but Caroline wasn't having it.
"What the hell do you want Tyler?" she snapped.
Elena and Bonnie seemed to disappear all of sudden or maybe it was just the red rage goggles zeroing in on Tyler. She was so sick of him, the entire year had been a roller coaster ride and every since he broke the sire bond it was a roller coaster that was speeding down to its doom.
"Come on Care, I didn't mean it. I promise, just let me make it up to you," Tyler pleaded trying to grab her arm.
Caroline wrenched her hand from Tyler red definitely clouding over her eyes, "No Tyler, that's the thing; you meant every word. I can't ever be a wolf so stop trying to make me one, okay. Just back off already and get out of my face."
"Care!" he shouted after her but Caroline was already disappearing back into the crowd to drown him out.
She grabbed a cup full of some punch from the refreshment table that somebody no doubt already spiked and knocked it back. Yep, someone spiked it-she relished the faint burn of alcohol.
A dark chuckle sounded over her shoulder. Tossing the cup in the garbage, Klaus came round to her front with a smirk planted firmly on his face. Seeing her seething expression Klaus dropped the smile replacing it with a concerned expression. Caroline didn't like it; she'd rather deal with the smirk. Concern meant caring and that is not something she wanted to do at the moment.
Klaus reached out a hand to her shoulder and Caroline smacked it away. "What's wrong sweetheart; the dance not up to your liking?"
Caroline all but smacked him. He was trying to be jovial and she was too pissed off to deal with perky hybrids. He damn well knew why she was upset; he had been watching her the whole evening.
"The dance is fine, now its participants on the other hand not so much," she spat out
Klaus snorted at the comment and stepped closer into her, his eyes heatedly boring into hers like they had the whole night. Caroline felt the surge of emotion spike through tilting her head towards his just wanting to be closer. She couldn't deny that seeing him dance with all the other girls from her class made her want to just jump him so no one else could. Caroline froze realizing what she thought. Nope, not happening.
Stepping back from him, Caroline gave him a fake smile, "Run off and find your next dance partner, I'm sure they are just lining up to dance with you. Just don't drain them dry please. I don't want another lecture from my mother."
Caroline spun on her heel and walked away from him throwing a little extra swing in her hips. God, telling him off felt good. Approaching the door someone latched onto Caroline's arm, yanking hard.
"Hey Caroline, stay the hell away from my date. Just because your boyfriend broke up with you doesn't give you permission to go stealing other people's dates," someone snarled.
Caroline pulled away furious, it was the brunette she had first seen Klaus dancing with.
"Excuse me?" she snapped.
She finally placed the girl's face; she was from her biology class. Caroline never cared to remember her name because she was constantly trying to one up everyone. Now she was trying to tell her off? Caroline pinched the bridge of her nose to push back the overwhelming desire to rip out the girl's throat. The familiar ache of her fangs pressing against her gums throbbed in her mouth. It was not the night to get on her bad side. Shaking her head in anger, Caroline's eyes caught Tyler out on the dance floor with some girl grinding into him and to her great surprise she felt nothing.
"Bitch, I'm talking to you!" apparently the brunette was still rambling on.
Caroline shifted her gaze from Tyler back to the fuming girl in front of her. She just kept going on and on about Caroline following Klaus the whole night, blah, blah, blah. Caroline didn't listen because she got a glimpse of the devil himself back out on the dance floor throwing a searing look her way. Caroline watched him part his mouth and his tongue dart out and lick his full lips. The little action made Caroline's stomach flip flop into somersaults.
Shifting back to the sniveling girl Caroline rolled her eyes, "Seriously just shut up already, he was never yours. If anyone's he's mine."
A series profanities streamed out of the girl's mouth as Caroline walked away making a beeline for Klaus. She couldn't care if Elena or Bonnie saw, even less if Tyler saw. Her plan had to come to the dance to find some hot guy to make out with and all she wanted was Klaus not some teenage boy with stupid hormones. Was she going to regret this in the morning? Probably, but at the moment she could care less.
Klaus had the widest grin on his face when she reached him, "So I'm yours then, love?"
Caroline blanched not realizing he had heard her words but honestly she should have known better by this point. Fisting her hands into the lapels of his jacket, she pulled him forward, the mirth in his eyes matching hers.
"Oh shut up and kiss me before I change my mind."