Two

"What do you mean, you're dropping out of Whitmore College?" Caroline shrieked at her best friend, Elena. Their first year had ended peacefully. No more doppelganger mess. No more Katherine. No more supernatural weirdness going on.

Caroline had a hard time believing that they had actually managed to finish their first year of college in one piece. And now Elena was telling her that she was no longer continuing her education and ditching both her and Bonnie.

"What it means," Elena shrugged as she started folding cardigan sweaters into a box. "Damon has been staying in Mystic Falls for over two years, sooner or later people are going to notice that he isn't aging."

"I know, but can't he wait three more years, oh I know what if he goes live far away and you can visit during vacations?"

Elena smirked. "Nice try, Care. But it will be good for us, I mean we're a couple now and vampires. It's normal that we want to get out of this little nest and explore. Besides what's the point in us getting college degrees? It's not like we can work at a hospital as a bunch of eighteen years olds."

Caroline sighed, clearly annoyed. A part of her knew that Elena was right, though another part of her hated that Elena wasn't even trying to convince Damon to wait a little longer. They were going to leave right away this summer to Japan or wherever they were going. "It's just everything is changing so fast. I mean Stefan is gone to Portland, you and Damon are leaving, I mean I just feel that everyone is getting separated and everything is changing so fast-"

"Change is good, Caroline." Elena tried to convince her as she pushed back a stray piece of blond curls. "And besides you still have Bonnie, you can continue your degree in drama and email me about all the awesome college parties you go to, maybe even a new boyfriend."

Caroline blushed and shrugged. "It's not like I have anyone in mind." Though the answer was a bit of a lie. She did have someone in mind. Except not Tyler, her ex-boyfriend, but Klaus.

A part of her hated that she was still so attached to the hybrid, especially since he had made her and her friends' lives a living hell, but a part of her couldn't stop thinking about him.

Being around Klaus was contagious and it was already affecting her mind. Caroline could swear that the sweater she had been wearing three months ago when he had last visited still had his scent.

It smelled like a combination of pine needles and musky cologne.

"Caroline? You ok?"

"I'm fine!" Caroline responded in fake cheerfulness. "Just a little spaced out. I'm going to get more boxes to pack before they come kick us out."

Bonnie sighed as she started dragging cardboard boxes into their dorm room. The school year had finally ended, now she only had to pack her stuff and head on home to Mystic Falls. Was Mystic Falls home anymore? She honestly didn't know.

Her mother was now a vampire traveling the world and trying to get over her depression and her father was well . . . you know dead. She felt the tears hit her eyes before she could stop them and not even the distraction from packing could be enough to make them go away.

It just dawn on her that every single one of her family members was dead or far away. Grams, her father, her mother. What did she had to look forward to this summer? An empty house and watching Jeremy flirt with his latest conquest from behind the bushes while waiting for supernatural species to cross her?

Her life was a combination of sad and pathetic.

Bonnie grabbed a tissue and dabbed her eyes. She wouldn't cry, not today. She was going to be happy for her and for her friends. Even though Elena was leaving she still had Caroline. Maybe the two of them could take a girls trip or something.

"Darling, don't you ever get tired of crying? I could fill a notebook from all the times you sobbed your little eyes out."

Bonnie held back an irritated sigh, it seemed that Kol was popping up more than usual. Maybe because he liked pissing Bonnie off or maybe because he was bored. Either way it was irritating. Well, at least he only did it when Bonnie was alone. "Really, don't you have anything better to do than to spy on me?"

Kol shrugged. He was positioned against the wall. "What can I say, the other side is boring, not much to do. It is much more fun coming to discuss with you. Don't tell me you're still sobbing your eyes out over the Gilbert boy."

Bonnie shrugged as she started hastily packing up boxes of clothes. "It's not about Jeremy. It's just everything is changing too fast. It's weird, and I really don't have anybody to go back too. I don't really have a family anymore."

"Welcome to the club, love."

Bonnie wrinkled her nose. "Last time I checked, three of your family members are still alive."

A trace of anger appeared on Kol's face, but then it quickly disappeared. "Yes, and they all have broken their necks to bring me back to life. If I remember correctly Elijah actually consoled my murderer."

"Elena didn't kill you."

"No," Kol approached her. "But she did spin the master web herself while pretending to be some innocent swan. She could give Katherine a run for her money."

Before Bonnie could asked how Kol knew Katherine, Elena appeared at the doorway holding a camera. "Bonnie, we're going to take some last minute pictures. Who are you talking to?

"No one."

Kol scoffed. "So I'm reduce to no one now. Lovely."

Bonnie threw him a glare.

"Bonnie, come on." Elena said impatiently.

"Coming."

"Yes, go on ahead." Kol said. "Go take goodbye pictures with my murderer. I'll be here, waiting. All. Alone."

Bonnie tried to ignore the empty pit in her stomach as she left the dorm room. She honestly couldn't believe that she was feeling sorry for Kol of all people.

Katherine watched the opened highway as she drove towards Mystic Falls. She barely noticed the Welcome to Mystic Falls sign as she passed. Today, would have been our anniversary she couldn't help but think. She didn't know if anniversary was technically the right word, but she and Elijah had meet on this day once they had put their differences aside and started searching for the cure and began to fall in love with her again.

That is until her two face hypocrite doppelganger came and ruined everything.

Katherine didn't even know why she was returning to Mystic Falls three months after she had turned back into a vampire. She was finally free. Klaus thought she was truly dead and Katherine was a vampire again. She had everything that she had ever wanted.

Except that she felt . . . lonely.

All this time she had spent 500 years running from Klaus and she was safe, now that he though she "died" so why did she feel so lonely? So empty? So unhappy?

She was even desperate enough to come back to Mystic Falls, a town where everyone hated her and where every single one of its residence had cheered and waited for her impending death.

Maybe Katherine was just the type of person to poke an angry bee's beehive.

Or maybe she wanted something to distract her from missing Elijah.

-End of Chapter Two-

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