Caroline could not fall asleep easily that night. She was haunted by the sudden meeting with Klaus. But even more uneasy was she about what he had claimed to know about the past months. Mrs. Juliana had said she remembered a blonde young man that was so many times here that she assumed him to be Caroline's boyfriend. For any other girl this could have been the explanation but this is where it got tricky for her. Caroline did know a lot of people and some of the guys were even blonde but none of them had ever visited her at home. She did not know what to make of her thoughts. She finally fell asleep after she had successfully convinced herself that her neighbor had her confused with somebody else. There lived a lot of people in this building and maybe she had a doppelgänger next door. That thought made her smirk. Klaus would definitely like that. Maybe that was even the person he had been getting close to. Well, she thought shortly before falling asleep, that would have been the first time that an identity thief had done some good.

Once again she woke up to the sound of the machines outside her house. She considered for a short moment to go outside and compel the construction workers to stop what they were doing and let her sleep. But she knew the consequences this kind of behavior would have for the workers. If she just snuggled a little bit more maybe she could ignore the sound. The thought of snuggling brought her back to what Klaus had said yesterday. She could not believe that she had even considered believing anything of it. Since she was awake anyway she decided to get up and have breakfast. She yearned for a strong coffee.

Caroline had never had a steady job in Mysitic Falls since she had always been a student. But here she had to sustain herself and she did not feel comfortable with the thought of using compulsion for everything. During the past months she had worked at several places. She wasn't in need of a lot of money. She had to pay her rent and some groceries like coffee and the occasional drink. At the moment she was working 12 hours a week at a café near her home. It was cozy and small and only open in the afternoon. She loved the smell of coffee that always hung in the air. The cakes were not really to her liking since she was more a cookie kind of girl but she occasionally took some left overs home. Today she was looking especially forward to her work at the café since it would take her mind of what had happened yesterday. She spent her morning walking through the city and reading on a bench in a small park close to her home. Her employer an elderly lady called Inês liked it when she came already half an hour earlier into work and helped her prepare the first round of coffee and the counter with the cake and pie.

Work at the café was rarely exhausting during the week and it was a normal Thursday afternoon with few customers. Caroline was relaxed and happy until she saw Klaus walking in. He looked around for her. He waved to her and when she did not wave back he shrugged and sat at an empty table close to the window. She ignored him for the next ten minutes although he followed her with his eyes everywhere she went.

"Did the young man over the order already?" asked Inês all of sudden. Caroline jumped a little bit. She had been standing next to the counter and had waited for someone to signal her that he needed something.

"Who?" asked Caroline in an innocent voice.

"The blonde one who has been starring at you all the time, my dear Caroline!" said Inês chuckling. Caroline pretended that she had just spotted him, smiled at Inês and went over to Klaus table.

"I already thought you would never take my order. This way this café will never get a good online rating." said Klaus smirking when she arrived at his table.

"What can I get you?" asked Caroline in her waitress voice that she always used for customers that looked like they were going to be difficult.

"Are you not going to ask me how I knew where you worked?" asked Klaus.

"I'd rather not know. It is probably going to creep me out." answered Caroline honestly.

"Well, I am going to tell you anyway." Klaus insisted. Caroline rolled her eyes and hopes that Inês was not listening in. Her English was not perfect but she would probably understand most of what was said. "I know where you work because I have been picking you up from work for the past few weeks nearly every day. Your boss name is Inês and the best pie here is the strawberry-chocolate cake that you sometimes take home because you know I like it very much. I can also tell you your salary or the exact day you started working here." He grinned satisfied at her.

"Well," she said mockingly "it is great that you took the effort to google this place and the average waitress salary in the city but I still do not have any memory of having met you here. Therefore I am still convinced that you are lying. Now, what can I get you? Maybe a piece of strawberry-chocolate-cake?"

He smiled: "Well, I obviously have not convinced you of our joint past. I have no idea what happened to you but I can assure you I will make you remember." For a second she saw a suggestive grin on his face that immediately morphed into an affectionate smile. "And yes, I would love a piece of strawberry-chocolate-cake and a cup of coffee."

She wrote down his order and turned to leave. Then she looked at him over her shoulder and said: "Did you ever consider that maybe you are wrong and are imagining things? Because I am definitely not!"

She served him his coffee and cake and went back to the counter. She hesitated for a second and then asked Inês: "Have you ever seen that customer? He said he has been coming here a lot lately!" She could here Klaus chuckle slightly on the other side of the room. Of course he had been listening in with his vampire hearing. Inês took another closer look at him and shook her head: "No, I would have remembered him if he had been here. I have never seen this man." All of the sudden Klaus chuckle died away.

Over the next few days Klaus seemed to be everywhere Caroline went. It was as if he had learned her schedule and all her favorite places. He appeared at her favorite bookshop, her preferred restaurant, walking in the small park close to her house and even in the drugstore where she bought her shampoo. He never made any kind of advances towards her but he was like a shadow she could not get rid of. Everywhere they met he tried to talk to her and after a while she got tired of putting him down. Every time they talked he would include personal details about her last few months in the conversation. There were things that only she knew or that could have been only known by someone who accompanied her on her trips through the city. He knew of her attempts to start Yoga, but there were only classes in the morning at eight and so she only went once and he talked of that crazy night where she had ended up dancing on the table of a gay bar. He knew which movies she had seen in the past six months and whether she had liked them or not. She was starting to get spooked by what he told her yet still refused to believe what he said.

Although he seemed to know so much about her he suffered severe setbacks whenever he claimed that someone had seen them together. Except Mrs. Juliana nobody seemed to remember seeing them together at any place.

She did not even notice how much time she was actually spending with him until she got a call from a friend asking her to go out with him and his friends. It was Friday night and Caroline realized that she had not seen anybody except Klaus in the past two weeks. She cursed herself for not reacting earlier and accepted the invitation gladly. After work on Friday she went home to get ready to go out with her friends. She knew that she still had lots of time before leaving but she loved the feeling of getting ready and preparing herself for a night out. She took a long relaxing shower using her favorite body wash called "Humor" which always made her smile when reading and smelling it. Since she lived alone and nobody could look inside her bedroom she dried herself and left her towel in the bathroom. Naked she walked in her room and looked at herself in the mirror. She was glad she had been turned at a good point in her life when she was thin and beautiful. Suddenly she noticed a movement in the mirror and turning around she saw Klaus in a corner of her room smirking at her. Suddenly she realized she was buck naked and speeded back into the bathroom cursing out loud. With her huge towel wrapped around her body she came back to her bedroom where Klaus had seated himself on her bed and was trying to look as innocent as possible.

"What the hell were you thinking? You can't just come in here without being invited." She shouted at him. His grinned just resurfaced on his face: "Relax, love. It's not like I haven't seen you like that. But I am glad that you refreshed my memory on this subject." Suddenly he had to duck away because Caroline had thrown a pen at him. He was prepared for the next one and caught it before it could penetrate his chest. "Well, sweetheart, that is not how you greet a surprise guest. Why don't you give me hug instead?" He started laughing.

"I'll give you something if you only think about coming closer to me. I don't care what you imagined in your fantasy what we have done I can assure you that you have never seen me naked with my consent. Therefore I assume that you are just another spying pervert who sits at night in a girl's window and watches her change."

Klaus looked seriously offended but then said with a suggestive look in his eyes: "I swear to you that the only times I have seen you naked I always had your full consent. I think you generally called out your consent and my name quite loud."

Caroline blushed a little bit at his insinuation. She knew she was loud but until this moment no one had ever complained. As if he could read her thoughts he added: "Not that I am complaining, I like women who know what they want." Again he grinned at her.

She shook her head to get rid of the thought of them in bed. She knew he was a good kisser even if she had only kissed him in Tyler's body. If that was a sign for the rest of his performance than I have been a lucky girl, she thought. She immediately dismissed that thought. With all his talking she actually started to believe what he was saying which was ridiculous. She suddenly realized that she was still only wearing a towel while he watched her intensely.

"Seriously, what the hell are you doing here? Why can you just come in? I mean you can't just come in. That is not okay!" She concluded lamely.

"Well, first off all, I don't have to be invited in because only a vampire lives here even if it's a rather lovely one like you. Second I wanted to talk to you about tonight's program and ask you if you would like to go dancing with me." He smiled at her.

"Well, first of all," she mocked him "you can't just walk in here whenever you feel like it. It doesn't matter if I am a vampire or not. It is simply rude. And second: No, I do not want to go dancing with you tonight. I am going out with a few friends of mine. And even if I wasn't I would not want to go out with you!"

"Well sweetheart, that is very sad but I of course respect your choice. I'll be off then. I'll see you soon." With that he got up and jumped out of the window as if she was living on the first and not on the eighth floor. She shook her head being quite certain that before the night was over she would see him again.

A/N: What do you think is he just pretending or did Caroline really lose her memory? Love, Santavica