This is the Christmas' eve of our favorite gang, so enjoy!
At Christmas's eve dinner, they were always by themselves or at least that happen after Nono's death, so quickly the Dinner turn into a couple of pizza boxes and a marathon of Christmas movies, after all why would they need a big table just for two?.
Damon didn't mind, but deep down he knew Stefan didn't like it, Thanksgiving and Christmas were special nights, nights that you were supposed to spend with your family, talking about their lives and how much everyone missed everyone. Sadly Lily and Giuseppe had only cared about those holidays while they were kids and once they become teenagers they thought their sons wouldn't mind to have a broken Christmas, obviously the gifts were always in time and on point, in someway his parents tried to satisfy all their needs and wishes, everything but their quality time, apparently that was too much to ask.
So when Damon was invited to Caroline's Christmas Eve dinner he didn't hesitate and accepted. He knew Stefan would love to spend time with people he liked specially now that he had the opportunity.
"Have the gifts?" Stefan asked, the young Salvatore didn't want to forget the presents, apparently Caroline, Tyler and Bonnie had the habit of a presents exchange so this year Stefan was included and he brought the idea of include Damon and 'T.B.S.C' accepted
"Sure, bro, you ready?" Damon asked and he smiled once he noticed how excited Stefan was
"Yeah, just let me fix my hair"
Damon rolled his eyes, his younger brother surely had an obsession with his own hair.
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Caroline was ready to impress. it was December and it has been snowing almost all day but that didn't stop the pretty young girl to dress in a beautiful red dress with some black boots and to not feel too cold she wore black stockings. Liz was shocked when she saw her daughter dressed like it was fall time but Caroline explained her that they didn't need to dress that much because they have a thermostat so they just needed to heat it up, Liz obviously shook her head, why would they do that? but Caroline being Caroline decided to turn it a little higher once her mother left the dinner room
Caroline had no idea what that would cause.
Hours later everyone was at Caroline's , Bonnie and Grams had arrived first and they didn't want to be rude but they were feeling really hot, what was going on? Bonnie was wearing jeans, withe boots and a white sweater she had a black coat on but after she arrived, some minutes later, she felt like burning so she took it off, actually she wanted to take her own white sweater off!.
The next ones where the Salvatore and both of the brothers started to fan themselves minutes later they where at Caroline's, Stefan took off his blue coat and Damon his black one, now both of them were just with grey sweaters and still they were feeling like showering already.
Caroline started to realise everyone was starting to feel uncomfortable but she really wanted to keep her red dress on, Stefan had complemented her about it and that meant her plan was working so she couldn't stop it, sorry everyone but she wouldn't give up.
By the Time Tyler arrived everyone at Care's were sweating, red faced and wishing some fans as gifts. Except for Caroline she was looking perfect.
"Okay what is wrong with all of you?" he said but then he didn't have to wonder anymore because he felt it, the heat, that horrible and hot as hell heat. "Caroline why your house is in summer time while outside is snowing?" He said as he started to take his hat off
Caroline blushed and realized this was going too far, everyone was starting to feel like dying
"Care you sure your Thermostat is okay?" Bonnie said fanning herself
"Uh...maybe it's broken" the blond girl lied
Liz and Sheila had been at the kitchen the whole time so they thought the heat was just in the kitchen, huge was their surprise when they felt how hot was in the living room and how the kids were close to dehydration.
"Caroline, oh my god! Did you turn the thermostat higher than it should be?!" Her mother asked and Caroline ran to fix the degree. Once Caroline came back she felt so embarrassed and now she was wearing a red sweater and jeans, she felt so stupid.
"I guess it got fixed, huh?" Tyler said but he wasn't fooled he knew why Caroline had done this, he knew her from years by now, so it wasn't hard for him to know this was because she wanted to wear that red dress for Stefan, he shook his head, why Caroline was doing such a things, she didn't have to do this things for a man.
When Damon finally felt like he could breathe again, he started to help Bonnie to fix the table.
"For a minute I was contemplating taking my sweater off but then your Grams would have hated me even more" he teased and Bonnie giggled "she'd thought I was trying to impress you"
"Idiot, she doesn't hate you, she ...well she just sees you as an old stranger guy trying to talk with her lovely granddaughter"
Sheila was staring at Bonnie and Damon every now and then while she talked to
Richard and Carol Lockwood, Tyler's parents. since Bon and she had arrive, Sheila helped Liz in the kitchen, and once the Lockwoods arrive Liz asked her to please go and talk to them after all Sheila was a guest too.
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Caroline was still feeling a little awkward so she decided to stay in her room till the Dinner time but a knock at her door surprised her, she thought it could be Bonnie but actually was Stefan.
"Oh, Stefan uh, this is my bedroom, the bathroom is at the end of the hall" Caroline explained, she thought he had confused the doors
"Care" he chuckled "I know I was just... trying to check up on you, are you okay?"
This really surprised Caroline and she let him in.
Caroline didn't know Tyler saw the moment when she let Stefan get inside of her room and at that exact moment his blood raised. Tyler was done he has been waiting to go and talk to Caroline, he wanted to show her the present he had bought for her but now... It was too late.
Bonnie and Damon had fixed the table and now he had lead her to the backyard. Outside was snowing so both of them decide to put their coats on and go and talk outside.
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"Best Christmas ever?" She asked
"When my parents actually tried to be there and Stefan got to see them , his happy face was priceless, was the best gift for me" he said smiling at the thought "yours?"
Bonnie and Damon had decided to play 21 questions because both of them had so many wonders about the other that they thought it was a good idea
"The last one I had with my mom and dad" she said sighing
"Oh... What happened? Divorce?" He asked trying to not sound so crude
"She died...and he changed" He quickly frowned and realised he really needed to know more about her
"I'm really sorry Bonnie, I didn't know" he said holding her hands,"I'm sorry, what happened with your dad?"
"He died in an accident years later, but as I said ever since my mom died, he wasn't the same"
"Wow... Sounds hard" Damon said
"It's okay, I'm okay now" she lied
"Wanna talk about it?" She shook her head and he nodded "okay your turn, shoot me a question"
"Why Did you decide to come to Mystic Falls?" He quickly looked down
"Because of my ex, we ended things in bad terms and didn't want to stay in New York" Bonnie nodded
"I see, Katherine sounds like a horrible girl, but are you okay now?"
"She is and yeah, I'm okay now" he lied
Bonnie felt like she already hated Katherine, she had no idea what she looked like but for Damon's words she wasn't worth it, she had betrayed Damon and hurt him so deeply, it hurt her to see his friend that sad. "You know Damon, she doesn't deserve you"
Damon smirked and looked at her "she doesn't?, I don't know Bon...maybe I'm not worthy" he tried to make it sound as a joke but Bonnie knew he actually felt that way. "Who's turn?"
"I don't know" Bonnie said playing with the snow, trying to catch it
"Why aren't you into relationships?", Damon asked her
"Why would I want that?, I'm happy like this" She said and once he was too busy rolling his eyes at her she throw a snow ball at him "sorry!" Bonnie said but obviously she didn't mean it, she had no idea what she have done.
"THIS IS WAR!" Damon shouted and their snow battle started
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Tyler felt alone and not just because Bonnie was busy with Damon, but because even if she were free how would he explain to her that he was starting to feel things for Caroline? How would he tell her without looking like a fool, Caroline would never see him like a possible love interest let alone fall for him, he felt so bad, in which moment he had felt for his best friend? Why? In what moment her smile turned to be something he chased and in what moment she turned to be the most beautiful girl he had ever seen? He hated to feel this way and he hated that she would never feel it back, he started to wonder what was he doing there? If he weren't there no one would notice so he decided to leave, go for a walk after all he would be here before dinner time and no one would notice his absence. He thought.
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Caroline was so happy to be in her room with Stefan she felt it was so intimate and she was starting to blush once Stefan had said she had a lovely smile this because she was laughing, smiling and giggling, because for some weird reason everything that Stefan says was funny and interesting for her, obviously this was an effect of falling for someone.
"This may sound weird but you remind me an old friend I had, her name was Lexi" he said smiling and this hurt Caroline for the millionth time
"Uh... Your friend...huh" Caroline sighed
"Yeah, but you are prettier" he said and this brought her happiness once again but she looked at her hands ...she knew Stefan Salvatore her major crush only sees her as a friend a pretty one but still a friend, she sighed.
"Caroline maybe we should go and check on the others, I haven't heard of them" Stefan said and Caroline nodded
"Stefan wait, I was your secret Santa" she stood up and showed him his present "Hope you like it" she said smiling one more time.
Stefan smiled back and opened his present it was a foot ball and she had wrote a in it '#1'
"Wow ..thank you Care, I love it" he said and hugged her
"I do think you are the number one Stefan" she said still in his embrace, he smiled
"You are the best Care" she broke the hug and remind him they needed to look for the guys.
Quickly the blond girl and the dirty blond guy were searching for Bonnie and Tyler, they found Damon and Bonnie in a snowball war and both of them laughed, but Caroline slightly frowned, where was Tyler? She wondered before she felt a snowball threw it at her, Stefan was the one who threw it. She frowned at him but didn't throw a ball ...she was wondering where could Tyler be so she went inside to cheek up on him, leaving Bon against the two Salvatores at the Snow battle
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Minutes latter while Bonnie and Damon were doing Snow angels for some childish reason Caroline was worried because she had gone inside her house and Tyler was nowhere, so she had decided to call him just to realize his phone was off
"Guys! Guys! Tyler is not in the house" Caroline said worried and the group frowned
"What?" Bonnie asked standing up and cleaning herself from the snow
"I called him but sends me to voicemail, his parents are here, I think they have no idea!"
"Okay relax Caroline, maybe he just went to buy something" Damon tried to be rational
"I haven't seen him in a while being honest" Stefan said staring at the guys and all of them agreed, they haven't seen him in a while.
"Damn it, why would he leave?" Caroline wondered, she was oblivious of his feelings for her, but she felt so bad, how could he leave and no one has noticed it! Damn it they were supposed to be friends!
"Okay, look we need to make this look as normal as we can, or his parents will freak out, I'll go look for him you stay here and pretend nothing is going on" Damon said but quickly all of the teens wanted to go with him "guys if we all go it would be too weird" he explained
"I'll go with you" Caroline said and he nodded
"Okay, Stefan, Doll you both have the hardest job, act like nothing is wrong, okay?" His brother and Bonnie agreed as they saw them walk into the house to leave and look for Tyler they had 2 hours before dinner.
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Damon and Caroline had been looking for Tyler since an hour and nothing was working, Caroline had been calling and calling him and he didn't answer, Caroline was nervous , where is Tyler?!
"Okay, he's not at the Grill, nor his own house, any other place he could be?" Damon asked as he drives his Camaro
"No, I mean, where could he be?!" She said, her mind was blocked because of her nervousness
"Blondie, I need you to think, where do you think Tyler could be?" Damon was nervous too, if Tyler come to Caroline's before them Bonnie had agreed to sent him a message but that hasn't happened so he is still out there AKA still missing.
Caroline tried to remember where could he be and after some seconds everything was clear and she knew where could he be.
"Drive to the woods, now" she said and Damon looked at her like she has gone crazy
"Caroline, the woods? In less than an hour will be midnight is dangerous" he said but she reaffirmed herself
"I know what I'm saying Damon, drive me to the woods"
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Bonnie and Stefan had decided to say that Tyler Damon and Caroline went to buy some last minutes presents, Tyler's parents and Liz frowned it was really late why would they do such a thing but Stefan assured them their kids were in good hands because Damon was with them. obviously after this cover they hoped Damon and Caroline would comeback with Tyler if not their lie would be exposed.
"45 minutes to midnight and we have no text from neither Damon nor Caroline let alone Tyler" Stefan said worried and Bonnie nodded they were at the porch
"I know but, I know they'll find him, they have to" she said bitting her lower lip and to this Stefan hugged her
"Maybe it's not the best time but...Merry Christmas" Stefan was her secret Santa
Bonnie smiled ripping the envelope and she was surprised
"I know you don't like relationships but I guess you deserve some romance in your life" he joked and she laughed her present was a copy of Romeo and Juliet
"Woah...Thank you Stefan, it's really deep" she teased but actually she was glad with her present "Now, let's wait for Damon and Caroline to find Ty"
"It's okay Bonnie, they'll find him" he put an arm around her shoulders and she didn't protest since they were on the porch, he knew she was probably cold.
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Damon followed Caroline till a little cabin at the woods Caroline explained to him that it belonged to Lockwood's and everytime Tyler had felt sad when they were kids he always went there, now the obvious question if Tyler was actually inside was why had Tyler felt sad?
"I'll talk to him, you stay here" Caroline asked Damon and even though he didn't agree with all this he nodded.
Caroline opened the Cabin's door , she knew where the key was hidden.
"What are you doing here?" Tyler asked obviously his eyes were red, he had been crying too
"Tyler...what's wrong?" She asked once she closed the door and walked towards him "Tyler seriously what are you doing here?"
"The real question is why aren't you with Stefan" at this Caroline frowned
"What?" She didn't understand his point "okay Tyler you've been drinking do you have any idea what would happen if your parents see you like this?"
Tyler knew she was right, his parents would have kill him, okay not literally but they would be mad at him, that's why he had decided to stay there.
"Leave Caroline, is Christmas Eve" he said trying to dry his watery eyes
"I wont, no without you" she said and walked towards him "Tyler please talk to me what's wrong?"
Tyler wasn't feeling like talking he was feeling like shit. he was sad and now embarrassed
"Caroline please just leave me alone" he said in a pleading tone and she frowned
"You don't want to go to my Christmas's eve? Fine!" She stood up and walked to the kitchen
"What are you doing now?" He asked as he stood up
"I'll stay here and have a Christmas Eve here with you!" Caroline said determined and Tyler could swear he was falling more in love with her
"No, you don't have to" he said but Caroline interrupted him
"Tyler Lockwood do you have any idea how worried I've been? I've been looking for you, Damon is outside and Bonnie and Stefan are at my house trying to pretend everything is cool, we were worried about you! And if you think I'm leaving without you then you are out of your mind!"
Tyler couldn't contain himself Caroline was so perfect even when she was mad and as he was hearing how worried had she been for him he felt the impulse to kiss her. But he didn't.
"Caroline...just.."
"No, I wont leave without you, Tyler damn it what is going on?!" She asked desperate to understand why he was acting this weird
I love you, he thought, he wanted to say it, damn he wanted to scream it, he loved Caroline Forbes, he was in love with his best friend and he wasn't sorry because, she was unperfectly perfect.
"You wont tell me? Perfect, what do you want for dinner? " She went looking from the refrigerator to the cabinets "cereal? Or ...bananas?, Yeah we don't have many options...but.."
"It's ...a girl" suddenly she hears Tyler say and she turns around
"A girl?" Caroline was confused and now she wanted more explanation
"I.. I like this girl and well today I realized she feels nothing but friendship for me, it hurt me" he said feeling so exposed in a way he was actually saying the truth just not telling who this girl was
Caroline was so confused, how she never noticed? How she never realized he was falling for someone "Tyler, but you didn't have to leave" she walked to him and hugged him "Tyler, you are our friend, our best friend!, You should have talked to me, oh god, specially me, I've been bothering you about Stefan, I would have been there for you" she said breaking the hug just a little so she could look into his eyes
Tyler knew he couldn't even if he wanted talk to her, how could he, specially when she is so into Stefan, he sighed. "I couldn't, Care"
"Why? Why can't you talk to me? Who's the girl? Do I know her?" Caroline asked and Tyler felt chills, now what was he supposed to say?
He tried his best to change the subject but Caroline being Caroline wouldn't let it go and she already had an idea of who that girl could be, she was about to say the name when Tyler interrupted her
"I was your secret Santa" he said extending a little box
Caroline opened it and it was a gold bracelet , Caroline loved it it was beautiful. "Tyler, I loved it!, Thank you so much!" She said and hugged him
"I really want to mind my business but we have 15 minutes to be at Caroline's" Damon said with a forced smile, he knew if they didn't get to the dinner the adults wouldn't be too happy with him and he didn't want Grams to hate him even more.
Caroline blushed since Damon found them hugging and Tyler quickly looked away from her, quickly the 3 of them walked to Damon's car and he drove as quickly as he could, he had to be careful after all it was starting to snow again.
The way back to Caroline's felt awkwardly silent, no one shared a word.
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Bonnie and Stefan hug out of emotion when they saw Tyler walking to them, Bonnie quickly hurried to hug him
"Tyler oh my god! I was so worried" she smacked his arm "I hate you! Why did you do that to us?"
"I'm sorry Bon wasn't my intention to worry your little head" he said lifting her up as he hugged her, she giggled
"Man, I was worried about you too" Stefan said and Tyler and he hugged in the typical manly way
"Group hug!" Bonnie shouted and the teens hugged even Caroline
"The Best Shit Club!" Bonnie shouted and this shown them how happy she must have been feeling since they know she hated that name
At this Damon frowned, what is 'the best shit club'he asked to himself
And once Bonnie saw him she opened an arm for him and he shook his head but once Tyler opened his arm too Damon chuckling hugged that crazy gang. Minutes later everyone was inside but Bonnie because Damon had stopped her.
"The Best Shit Club?" He asked arching an eyebrow
"Well you know, T.B.S.C are our initials so we decide to create a gang club with those letters" he smirked at her explanation
"Nice" He said looking into her eyes "look up" she frowned but quickly throw her head up and realized there was a mistletoe
"Uh... Is that a mistletoe? Is this a trap?" She asked with a little smirk playing in her face but quickly got surprised when Damon placed a soft sweet peek on her lips
She was surprised because it lasted just 5 seconds, she opened her eyes and frowned slightly at him and before she could say something he explained himself.
"You hated your first kiss, well hope this one was better" he winked at her "but don't get used to this, it wont happen again" she laughed
"Yeah sure, you my friend are the one in danger to fall for me" she teased and he laughed
"Guys Dinner is fixed" Stefan said and both hurried inside the house.
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Dinner went good and Bonnie was happy that things were back to normal even though she still wanted to know why had Tyler left, that was something she still had to ask him.
And while Bonnie was wondering why Tyler had left and where Caroline found him , Sheila had her own head full with thoughts about Damon and her grandchild, she didn't see their kiss but she could feel something had happened because Damon kept bringing up how sweet is the tradition of the kiss under the mistletoe. Sheila would keep an eye on him.
"Quarterback can we talk for a second?" Damon asked and he stood up walking to the backyard
"What is it?" Tyler asked confused
"I'm your secret Santa" Damon said smiling and handing him his present it was a leather jacket
"A leather Jacket...well thank you" Tyler smiled big
"What can I say? Every man should have one" Damon smirked and Tyler nodded he was ready to go inside when Damon spoke "it's hard to fall for the wrong person, but maybe you should fight for her, blondie seems to be worth it" and once Tyler was shocked he didn't have idea how Damon could have noticed
"I'm not into Caroline...she's just my" Tyler tried to explain but Damon cut him
"She was worried for you, maybe she doesn't know yet but she feels the same way for you"
Tyler stood there in silence, wondering if this could be true but suddenly a known voice was heard.
"Ty, Stefan is looking for you, he said you both need to talk about New Year's plans" Tyler couldn't keep talking about it now that Bonnie was there so he just left, Damon knew his secret.
"What happened Doll already looking for more kisses?" He teased and she laughed shaking her head
"I'm your secret Santa, asshole" she said smiling
"Woah, my Santa is kinda rude isn't she?" He said as she handed his present to him
"Just open it!"
Damon was shocked, it was a nice book in blank with a fancy pen, he frowned
"You told me once you wrote a song for that awful ex of yours, so I got the impression that you are one of those guys who enjoy writing, please tell me I wasn't wrong" Bonnie said and bit her lower lip, nervously.
"Nah, you got it right" he said and quickly hugged her "Thank you Bonnie"
He was impressed, Bonnie had discovered one of his biggest secret... His passion for writing, he still wasn't sure if he should tell her about his real dream job but ,maybe someday.
"You didn't like it" she said sighing and he chuckled
"Come here little you" he hugged her lifting her off the ground and spinning with her
"Damon! Stop!!!" She laughed
"Bonnie!" Damon quickly left Bonnie save in the ground and Bonnie look terrified at her grams "Bonnie, Caroline is looking for you, maybe you should go and talk to her"
Bonnie nodded and walked inside but noticed that her Grams was staying "Grams?"
"Go Bonnie, I'll talk with your friend"
Bonnie didn't want to leave them but Damon nodded "Go Bon, I'll gladly talk with your Grams"
The young girl walked alone inside the house looking for Caroline
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"What?" Bonnie was shocked she couldn't believe what her friend was telling her and now she was more than confuse "Caroline, no ...you are wrong" Caroline had told her all the story of how she found Tyler and all the drama of why he had decided to leave but that wasn't what surprised Bonnie the most , in fact what it was the hardest thing to believe was Caroline's thoughts "Care, there is no way"
"There is Bon, I know, it's crazy but I do think Tyler is falling for you" Caroline said and Bon just shook her head, Tyler? Falling for her? No, there was no way.
And Bonnie was right, Tyler was falling for Caroline Forbes but sadly the blonde cheerleader was too focused on her own crush that she couldn't see how wrong she was.
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"What do you want with my granddaughter?" Sheila didn't beat around the bush
"Ma'am, I can assure you ,Bonnie and I, we are just friends, there is nothing more" Grams knew he was saying the truth but what if with time his intention change?
"Look you are a city man, you suddenly came to this little town found a nice girl and found her interesting? I'm not sure if your intentions are entirely pure with Bonnie, but hear me young man, you can't fool me, I don't trust you, but I do trust my grandchild and if she likes to spend time with you, I wont forbid it but listen clear if you hurt her, I'll come for you" Sheila said and she didn't even wait for a response, she left Damon there with his thoughts
"I'll never hurt her" he said to himself since Sheila was already inside.
Hope you enjoyed the Christmas' eve of our gang, there was a Bamon kiss but is pretty platonic (Gosh I feel so Plec) lol . but my point is they are just friends...for now, about Caroline she is starting to realize she should leave her feelings behind and Ty has no idea what he's gonna do now that Damon knows his secret. and what about the Grams-Damon 'talk' Does she really hate him? will see.
please review and let me know what you think.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!