The next day at school, Rebekah spent her entire morning feeling on the verge of snapping as she tried to block out the voices and stares of everyone else. She thought that things had gotten even worse, although she figured that it could easily just feel that way.
When lunchtime came around, Rebekah refused to hide and admit defeat. If she was going to sit by herself, she was going to do it with a little self-respect.
As Rebekah made her way to the table where she usually sat with Stefan, Tiki commented, "Oh look, it's Bitchy Bekah on her way to go sit with all of her friends… Wait, that's right. She doesn't have any. Even Stefan Salvatore can't stand her anymore."
A smirk formed on the blonde's lips as she stopped in her tracks and turned to face Tiki.
"What are you grinning at?" Tiki questioned. "Are you just happy to even have anyone talking to you?"
"That must be it," Rebekah responded sarcastically as many people at nearby tables turned to watch. "Because I'm just so honoured to have captured the attention of Pukezilla… I mean if we're exchanging nicknames." She shrugged.
Tiki's smirk crumbled as she asked, "How do you know about that? You didn't even go to our school then."
"You're right, I don't have any friends," Rebekah responded in a satisfied tone. "But even I have heard about you upchucking all over your teacher. I hear it was quite revolting. It's not really surprising that people still call you that behind your back all the time."
Tiki looked like a deer in the headlights as Rebekah walked off to sit by herself at her usual table. She'd been sitting for a few seconds before she noticed Caroline shooting her an approving smile.
People were just starting to gradually look away from Tiki and Rebekah when Stefan walked into the cafeteria. He was walking to go sit over with Matt and Tyler when someone stopped him by grabbing onto his arm.
He looked down and was more than a little surprised to find that it was Tiki.
"Why don't you come sit with us Stefan?" She asked as flirtily as she could manage. "I hear that you have nowhere to sit and there's plenty of room right next to me."
There was not plenty of room next to her; he would have to sit with absolutely no personal space. Besides, he could see right through the act and knew that it was just an attempt to pull him into the fight that she was having with Rebekah.
"Sorry, I'm not interested," Stefan said quickly before moving to walk away from the table.
Tiki, who had already been flustered enough from her encounter with Rebekah, quickly decided to turn the embarrassment onto someone else as she loudly questioned, "What, are you gay or something?"
"No, actually I'm not," Stefan responded as he turned back to face her. "But I'm also really not interested in you or being a part of your stupid plan to get back at Rebekah for not introducing you to Klaus. In fact, I'd actually rather date Klaus than you. And considering the fact that I'm the only one of us who's had an actual conversation with him, I'm pretty sure that I'd have a hell of a lot better chance with him than you would."
Little did Stefan know that the night before Tiki had unintentionally ensured that Klaus hated her.
Tiki turned her head to face Rebekah as she loudly commented, "Looks like you can't even get a guy friend without him only using you to try and get into your brother's pants."
Stefan immediately turned to also face Rebekah and commented, "You were right, she is a bitch."
He seemed to consider with himself for a second or two before he moved to go sit in his regular spot across from Rebekah, who grinned at him and commented, "Actually, Stefan, I'm pretty sure that the only bitch here is you."
Stefan chuckled a little and rolled his eyes before telling her, "This doesn't mean that everyone you yelled at deserved it, but I can see why it would get annoying fast."
"How about this," She told him. "I'll only yell at people if you agree that they deserve it… I mean you were right about Caroline and her friends not being that bad, so…" She trailed off.
"Hold on," Stefan told her. "Go back. When exactly did this happen?"
"Last night," Rebekah responded. "Turns out you're quite easy to replace."
He cracked a grin at her teasing before he asked her, "So how long do you think that it will be before you let me live down that bitch comment?"
"Oh, that's never happening," She continued to tease. "I mean, unless you do something even worse that I decide to hold over your head instead."
"Perfect," Stefan responded. "At least I have that to look forward to."
When the school day ended and Rebekah walked outside to find her brother waiting in the parking lot, she could already tell that nothing good could possibly come from it.
"What do you think you're doing here?" She asked angrily, which only caused her brother to grow a smirk.
"Well apparently people want to meet me," Klaus responded. "So here I am. Maybe now they'll leave you alone."
"Nik, don't," She told him. "I don't need your help."
"Who says that I'm not just doing this because of the chance to have hundreds of girls competing for my attention?" He questioned in an amused tone.
"I might have actually believed that when you first came in town, but now that you're obsessed with Caroline it's not very believable," She responded.
A crowd was already beginning to form a little ways away from where Klaus was standing, leaning against his car, so he spoke up loudly with, "I heard that some people here wanted to meet me."
Rebekah just rolled her eyes at her brother and walked away.
Caroline had been waiting for Elena and Bonnie to finish packing up their stuff, so by the time that the trio made it outside, the parking lot was already filled with people. Strangely enough, the people didn't seem to be making any effort to get to their cars or leave, they all just appeared to be crowding around something.
"What, did someone get into a fight again?" Bonnie questioned as she stared in awe.
"Well whatever's going on, there's no way that I can even get to my car, let alone out of this parking lot," Caroline replied.
As the girls got closer, they realized what the real source of the crowd was. It turned out to actually be Klaus, not a fight.
"I should have known," Caroline muttered. "Especially when it's right next to my car."
Half an hour later, the crowd had mostly dispersed and there were just a few girls left standing with Klaus. A few more brief minutes went by before those turned and headed towards their own cars.
"I didn't think that you were the waiting in line to see me type," Klaus commented with an arrogant smirk.
"Well that might have something to do with the fact that you made sure to block my car so that I couldn't leave in the meantime," Caroline responded.
"That's your car?" He asked in a tone of mock surprise.
"It sure is," She responded. "…So if I had to wait in line all this time, then can I at least get your phone number?"
"I don't really give it out, but I guess that I could make one exception," He responded. "As long as you swear not to give it out."
"Whoops," Caroline replied innocently. "I already wrote it all over a bunch of bathrooms next to 'Call Klaus for a good time'."
"So that's why I've been receiving all of these weird phone calls from strange men," Klaus played along with a grin.
"How come you never told me that you draw?" Caroline questioned him. "…Kol mentioned it."
"I'm sure he did," Klaus responded, not even a little bit surprised by that news.
"You have to show me one of your drawings," She told him.
"Why would I when you're already so impressed with my acting?" He responded in a light tone.
"Please?" She questioned, earning herself a chuckle from him.
"Well how can I say no to that?"
A few minutes later, Caroline and Klaus were standing in his house.
When he handed her a drawing of her, she stared at it in pure shock.
"Is the fact that you're being completely silent right now a good thing or a bad thing?" He questioned.
"It's…" She struggled to think of a word as she continued to stare at in awe. "It's beautiful." She looked up from it and turned to face him before asking, "Why didn't you tell me that you could draw like this?"
"I can be modest occasionally," He responded with a slight smirk.
"Very occasionally," Kol added on his way through the room. "Besides, I hadn't seen him draw anything in forever until he started drawing you."
With that, Kol walked out of the house to go meet up with Jeremy.
The next day after school, Caroline was hanging out at the Mystic Grill with Tyler. Everything seemed normal and fun until she began to laugh at one of his jokes and he leaned in to attempt to kiss her.
She quickly turned her head away and stopped laughing.
Tyler had thought that he had needed to give it a try and that he had needed to know. But now that he did know, he found himself embarrassed and regretting the decision.
"Ty, I'm sorry," She said quietly. "I just..."
"It's because of Klaus, isn't it?" He asked, not meeting her gaze. "You like him, don't you?"
"No," Caroline quickly responded. "It has nothing to do with him. You're like a brother to me, Tyler."
"Ouch," Tyler muttered under his breath as he quickly stepped past her towards the exit.
"Tyler!" Caroline tried to call after him, but he was already gone.
A/N: Please read and review! Okay, so there are I think three chapters left of this now and I'm going to try to get them all up before November 1st. During November I'll be doing NaNoWrimo, but I have an idea for a sequel of this that I could write in December. So please take a second and VOTE in a review for whether you would like to see a sequel after this or not. Thanks for reading and all of the support. I hope that you guys enjoyed the chapter! :)
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