The next day Caroline found herself worried about Klaus once again as she went to school. She debated texting him, but didn't want to wake him up if he was actually getting some sleep in finally.
When she passed Rebekah on her way into the cafeteria at lunch time, she debated asking her how Klaus was doing, but decided against it. She figured that she probably would just end up starting a fight and not even getting any real answer. Besides, the fact that she was back at school instead of at home with him again said that he had to be doing at least a little better, didn't it?
Rebekah didn't say anything as Caroline walked past her table, but apparently her facial expression spoke for her.
"Did you ever consider that the reason that you two get on each other's nerves so much is because you're so similar?" Stefan asked her.
Rebekah wrinkled her nose up, "Don't even say that. I am nothing like her… And you just implied that Nik is following around a girl that's 'so similar' to me, which is disgusting."
"That's not what I meant," He defended. "I'm just saying that you're both super competitive with each other and participate in a lot of the same things."
"So what?" Rebekah questioned.
"You're just a lot more similar than you think," Stefan commented. "You both play the tough act and try to pretend that nothing hurts you, even though it does."
"Right. And you're the expert on this because…?" She challenged.
"I used to hang out with that group when I first moved here," Stefan responded with a shrug. "And she's not that bad."
He was still somewhat friends with Tyler and Matt since they were all on the football team together. Rebekah had known about that, but not about the rest of the group.
She grabbed the nearest food off of her plate and threw it at his face.
"What was that for?" He asked.
"For listening to me complain about them all the time and not once telling me before now that you used to be friends with them," She responded, feeling as if she was about start blushing at any moment.
Before he could respond a girl came and hovered at the edge of their table, seeming to be unable to move or speak.
"Do you want something?" Rebekah asked. "Or did you just come to stare?"
She knew that had come off as more bitchy than she had intended it to, but she couldn't quite make herself feel bad about it. She was already in a bad enough mood and it was nice to have somewhere to let a little of that anger out.
She ignored the look that Stefan was giving her as the girl nervously sputtered out, "I just wanted to ask, I mean everybody's been talking about it, but nobody really knows- I mean there's theories, sure, but…"
"What?" Rebekah asked with an edge to her tone. She was not in the mood to try to figure out what the hell this girl was talking about as she nervously tiptoed around the subject. "Just spit it out."
"Rebekah," Stefan said in a warning tone.
She rolled her eyes at him, but then gave the girl a slightly friendlier look as she waited for her to finish her question.
"I just wanted to ask why your brother was getting so drunk," The girl said. "Everybody's talking about it, but it doesn't really seem like anyone knows… And now he just kind of disappeared for a couple of days when he used to be at the Grill every night and-"
Rebekah's death glare made her stop talking. She didn't have to ask which brother the girl was talking about.
"I have zero interest in further fueling the gossip about my brother," Rebekah told her. "And I'm sick of everybody here prying into his life."
She continued to give the girl an icy glare until she was halfway across the cafeteria.
"That wasn't harsh at all," Stefan muttered sarcastically.
Rebekah rolled her eyes once again as she groaned dramatically before she complained, "I'm so sick of them. All of them… Your old friend, Caroline, came over last night to play with Nik's emotions some more. And they're all just looking to be the first one with a story about him."
"So you're just going to treat everyone like that because you assume that they're going to be horrible?" He questioned.
"Just forget about it," Rebekah muttered. "I'm just cranky from everything that's been going on."
Caroline was sitting at home, trying to get her homework done, when she couldn't stand it for any longer. She had to text him.
Kol was walking down the hallway when he heard a cell phone beeping.
He followed the sound into Klaus's room to find his brother's phone sitting on top of a dresser with the light flashing. Kol looked over at his brother to see that he was dead asleep, snoring lightly.
Kol smiled a little as he picked up his brother's phone and headed out of the room before opening up the text.
From Go to Hell:
How are you today?
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
Why does Nik have you as 'Go to Hell' in his phone?
Are you some kind of stalker or something?
From Go to Hell:
No, it's Caroline. Why do you have his phone?
She was surprised that Klaus hadn't changed her name in his phone, although it wasn't like she had changed his in hers either.
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
He's asleep still and it was beeping.
Caroline had been home from school for almost an hour, so that was more than a little surprising to hear that he was still asleep, especially when he had been barely sleeping all week.
From Go to Hell:
Still? Well at least he's actually sleeping.
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
Yeah… Guess which sibling I am.
From Go to Hell:
You're Kol.
Kol frowned a little when she responded back so definitively and immediately, she hadn't even given a second's hesitation to try and consider it.
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
Well that wasn't as fun as I was hoping.
From Go to Hell:
You called him Nik, so it was either you or Rebekah. And Rebekah hates me, so she would have just been yelling at me.
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
Rebekah doesn't tend to get along with other girls, especially ones that Nik pays more attention to than her.
From Go to Hell:
Why?
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
They used to be a lot closer before he left. She just got him back and she doesn't handle sharing very well.
Caroline thought about that for a second, wondering what to say back.
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
So what's even going on with you two? Obviously he likes you, but I've seen you both looking like you hate him and like you like him since I got here…
Kol looked up as his brother walked into the room.
From Go to Hell:
We're friends, but it's kind of complicated.
"What are you doing with my phone?" Klaus asked.
He seemed too exhausted to even be properly upset about it.
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
Wow, the cliché rejection was so strong there that I actually feel rejected when it isn't even me that you're talking about. He's up now.
"Talking to your not girlfriend," Kol said as he looked up from the phone. He was surprised when that didn't earn him anything more than a nod.
From Go to Hell:
Did he have more nightmares?
"She wants to know if you had nightmares again," Kol said, looking up at his brother again.
"Nowhere near as bad," Klaus responded. "Basically I had one and then managed to sleep for the rest of the night."
"And day," Kol added, causing his brother to give him a look of confusion.
"What time is it?" Klaus asked.
"Quarter to five," Kol replied as he typed out a text.
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
One and then he slept like an overgrown baby with stubble.
Two mornings later, Klaus seemed to have majorly recovered. At the very least he was putting on a good show and managing to sleep normally again.
Jeremy walked into the Mystic Grill on his way to meet his sister when he noticed Klaus and someone that he hadn't seen before sitting at a table with two giant bowls of nachos.
"Dude, how stoned are you?" He asked as he paused at the table.
Klaus had gotten his appetite back and seemed to be trying to make up for a week of barely eating in one day, so Kol was pigging out with him, just glad that his brother was getting back to normal.
"Maybe I just like nachos," Kol responded innocently as he looked up at Jeremy with a slight smirk.
Jeremy gave him a look that showed that he didn't particularly believe him, but didn't say anything before he walked away again.
Not long after, Rebekah walked in and went to sit with her brothers and began to eat with them.
"You're going to get fat, you know," Kol told her, earning himself a glare.
"You're an ass, you know," She retorted.
A/N: Please read and review! I know, I suck. It's been a little over three weeks since I last updated and I'm sorry. I promise that I'm going to try and get the next chapter up way quicker. I hope that you liked the chapter and thanks for reading! :)
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