Author Note: Oh My God. Guys! :D I'm happy that so many people seem to be enjoying my fan fiction.

Thought I'd incorporate what I forgot in the first chapter. So my fan fiction (if it's not obvious now) takes place after 5x11. I've also elected to omit Klaus' child. Don't know how it would work with what I had in mind for the story...so there's that. If I missed anything, well, oh well. And thank you for the views, follows, and favorites! XD you guys, are awesome!

Kickstarts

You want me to come over
I got an excuse
Might be holding your hand
But I'm holding it loose
Go to talk then we choke
It's like our necks in a noose
Avoid the obvious
We should be facing the truth.

-Example

Ch 4

A week and the last session later~

"Oh my GOD, Caroline! I just-"

For once in all of Caroline's months of knowing this girl was amazed to see her roommate struck speechless. By what, she couldn't have told. "Moxie, spit it out," she had one more assignment to do before she was going to call it quits for the day and sleep for a thousand years. She was slowly burning her short candle at both ends and maybe a bit in the middle. Since Moxie finished the painting and turned it in for a grade, Caroline had been too preoccupied with way too many things to even acknowledge that she lived with anyone at all. Why did she do this to herself? True she wanted to get her schooling done and over with. She wanted to be able to say 'I worked as hard as I could and got to where I wanted to be because of that'. But after years of doing the same thing, which basically meant more than should be physically possible, she was tired. Tired of always doing what she thought had to be done. It was supposed to be about her now. Not the need to fulfill some imaginary quota of classes and activities. Who was telling her she needed to take these classes? Or be active in these clubs? No one!

It didn't matter in the end. This was how she lived her life. It was easier to be occupied with other things. Left her with no time to dwell on how lonely she was feeling. Sure she had her friends but there was something missing. And she knew what it was, she missed having someone to tell all her secrets to and her insecurities. Sleeping on their chest. The feeling of skin to skin. His eyes. His lips. His voice.

Caroline stopped her thoughts before they went. Jesus Christ! She was thinking about Klaus! Oh. My. God. What was wrong with her. Now that the painting was finished she wasn't supposed to think of him. At all! Dammit Moxie, you're ruining all of my hard work! She felt like screaming into a pillow, let out all of her frustrations with one solid screech. But her friend was talking again and if she didn't pay attention she'd probably get a pillow, to the face. She looked at her friend with slightly weary eyes, "Yes, Moxie? What is it, spit it out? I'm sort of busy right now." Her eyes grazed her assignment. She sent it a glare before she looked back at Moxie.

Her roommate had whirled around the room in the short time it took Caroline to address her. The girl had picked up things put them back down, gathered her materials in an attempt to clear some space but quickly gave up on the effort and decided to try sitting. Her legs were bouncing up and down in rapid succession, "I just can't believe my luck! My teacher has been able to snag a gallery for a night and everyone gets to put up a painting!"

Caroline blinked, waiting for the rest that her roommate clearly left out. She waited but the pink bubble of energy didn't budge, all the while bouncing in place. What on Earth does she want me to do? Guess what piece she's going to put in? Fine. I'll play her game. But what on Earth has she done recently? There were her studies from class. What were they again? Like small portraits? Weren't they on portraits now? Wait...wait a minute...no...no, no, no, no, no, "No."

Moxie's face fell. "But CAROLINE," she whined, with a heavy emphasis on the -line. She put up her classic pout for as an extra feature.

"No." Caroline was firm in her words. "You promised me!" The world was surely going to crash around her, any minute now. But it didn't and for a few seconds that really aggravated her off. The bottom line was that the other girl had promised her. Gave her word and she was going to go back on it? No, that was something she didn't tolerate. When she was given a promise you were supposed to keep it. End of story. "Moxie-" she didn't know what to say really, she was too livid.

"But it's my art! And it'll be up at a gallery! This is all I've ever wanted Caroline! Please let me do it!" Her voice rang out in such a way that made Caroline feel guilty. Wait, why was she feeling guilty?! She wasn't the one going back on her word! Besides, she was naked in the painting! What if a classmate saw?! God, the dread that gave her was enough to make her slightly nauseous.

But it is her artwork. That voice inside her head, that made it its job to go against her initial thought process, spoke up. That doesn't matter! What about how I feel?! I don't want people to see me like that. What's wrong with it? Nothing was wrong with it she just didn't want to be seen naked. Be it a painting or any other way.

"Caroline," her voice was soft now. A comforting change to how her thoughts were racing around. "Just think about what I'm asking. It's art. No one who sees it will think anything but that, okay? It's a completely professional atmosphere."

The floor was more than welcomed to swallow her whole now. She didn't want to admit it but she felt like not caring about the whole ordeal. Why should she? It was going to be out of her hands anyways, and she knew it. She just didn't want to admit defeat, in fact she detested it. Caroline Forbes was by no means a quitter.

By now Moxie had been so silent, Caroline forgot she was still in the room. She felt bad for the whole ordeal, really who was she to deny another person's rights. It was her art after all. And even though she knew she was in the right she decided to cave just a little. Moxie was a friend after all. And she never wanted to let a friend down if she could help it. She swallowed her pride, "Moxie?" The other girl looked up a glimmer of hope in her eyes. Caroline continued, "When's the premier?"

P.S.

Sooooo close to finally getting Klaus in this thing! Also I feel like this was a short chapter...idk. maybe that's just me but again, Thank you for reading it! :D