At lunch time, Caroline was surprised when Rebekah pulled her aside before she could make it to the cafeteria.

"What? Come to finish that insult from the other day?" Caroline asked her.

"No," Rebekah told her. "Look, it's not really a secret that I don't like you. Or that you don't like me for that matter. But for some reason Nik does like you."

Caroline was less than eager to have that conversation and just responded with, "Yeah, I know. But thanks for the recap."

When she turned to walk away, Rebekah stopped her by speaking up once again.

"Do you even like him at all?" She asked, causing Caroline to turn around and give her a look of disbelief. "Because from what I've seen, you don't even like him, you just keep him around for the attention."

"That isn't true," Caroline told her. "He gets on my nerves sometimes, but I do like him." There was the tiniest fraction of a pause before she thought to add, "As a friend."

"Well to me, it seems like you hated him for no reason while you knew absolutely nothing about him," Rebekah responded. "And you act like he's the one who has so many walls up, when really you refuse to let him in and he walks around telling you how he feels."

"Look, I get it," Caroline said, feeling anger boiling up inside her. "We don't get along and you don't want anyone, especially me, stealing your time with him."

"No, you don't get it," The other girl said sternly. "You think that you know how much he cares about you and you think that you understand how much it means that he told you, but you don't. Nik doesn't tell anyone about Henrik. And I don't mean that he doesn't tell many people, I mean that he doesn't tell anyone. He's only told you. The only other people who know just remember it from when it happened."

Caroline was taken aback by that, but quickly tried to cover it up.

"And for a long time he didn't even admit that he was having the nightmares," Rebekah continued pointedly. "He only did when he couldn't try to hide it for any longer. But you… He told you right away of his own free will and he's talked more to you about it than he has to anyone else, including his own family. And you are so oblivious to everything that it hurts."

The other girl was unable to completely mask the surprise on her face as she defended, "It's not my fault. I didn't ask him to tell me. And shouldn't it be a good thing that he's actually willing to talk to someone about it?"

"It should be," Rebekah agreed. "But it depends on the person that he talks to. You don't even realize the fact that if you betray his trust or hurt him that his walls are going to go right back up and double in size."

"I'm not going to hurt him or betray his trust." Caroline said angrily through gritted teeth. "He's my friend and I already told you that I care about him."

"I really hope that you're telling the truth," Rebekah responded before she turned to walk into the cafeteria.

Caroline followed behind her, thinking that she had wasted enough of her lunch hour on the other blonde, only to stop in shock next to an already still Rebekah.

It was hard to determine who was more shocked, Rebekah and Caroline that Stefan was sitting at Caroline's usual table or those at table about the fact that Rebekah and Caroline had entered the cafeteria together.

Stefan had walked in with Matt, who had been in his last class before lunch. They had been talking as they walked and somehow Stefan had ended up at Matt's table, which probably had a lot to do with the fact that Rebekah was nowhere to be found anyways.

Caroline and Rebekah quickly composed themselves and then walked to sit on opposite ends of the table with Rebekah next to Stefan and Caroline next to Bonnie.

Stefan had been hoping that Rebekah would at least make some form of attempt at making friends with the others at the table, but instead she mostly just acted as if they weren't there.

"You know, you don't have to always hang out here in the hopes that I'll show up. You could just ask me to meet you here."

Caroline turned around to see Klaus smirking over at her and she instantly noticed just how much better he looked. Clearly he'd been sleeping better and for once she was happy to see that egotistical smirk spread across his lips.

Although Elijah had told her that this happened every year and that Klaus was usually back to normal after about a week, she still hadn't at all been expecting him to look that much better. She hadn't really believed that it was possible after how broken he had looked the last time that she had seen him.

A wide smile formed on Caroline's lips as she quickly wrapped her arms around his neck to pull him in for a hug. She rested her head on his shoulder, unable to believe how relieved she was that he was feeling better. As she held him tight, she wondered when Klaus had weaseled his way into meaning so much to her.

He chuckled a bit as he hugged her back. "I was expecting an eye roll at that, but I'll take this instead."

During the last hug that he had gotten from her, he had been too upset to properly appreciate it or even reciprocate it. But now he was able to hug her close and thought to himself that he'd like to hold her like that forever.

As she released her hold on him, she told him, "I'm pretty sure that you're the one who comes here looking for me."

He shrugged innocently. "Maybe."

The smile on his lips faltered slightly when he noticed that her lips had transformed from a grin into a straight line as she seemed to be thinking about something.

"What's wrong, Love?" He asked.

"I have to tell you something," She said after a brief pause.

The serious look on her face made him more than a little nervous.

A/N: Please read and review! I hope that you guys liked the chapter and thanks for reading. I'll try to have the next update up sooner, although I make no guarantees. And honestly I know that this is kind of a short chapter, but short chapters are easier to get up and a lot easier for me to edit, so I'm not going to worry about the chapter lengths too much anymore because they're going to end up being whatever length they end up being no matter how hard I try to contain it. Sometimes I end up writing really long chapters and sometimes short ones, so we'll see what we end up with.

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