A few of the nearby people began to cheer as Caroline slowly pulled her lips away from Klaus's, leaving her arms still wrapped around his neck. A few seconds passed as they tried to process what had just happened before either of them moved.
"Oh my god! …Oh my god! Did I just- Why did I-" She stammered out as her grip on him loosened.
As he watched, Klaus realized that she seemed to be more surprised by her actions than he was.
"Caroli-"
"I have to go," She quickly interrupted him.
"What?" He asked, but she had already turned and stepped off of the table. "Caroline, wait!"
It was too late; she was already pushing her way through the crowd as she desperately tried to figure out why she had just done that. As she pushed her way past people, she heard a girl commenting, "If I'd known that you could just pull him onto a table and make out with him, then I would have done that the instant I spotted him."
Like that wasn't bad enough, she practically walked into Tyler as she finally began to near the exit. Caroline shot him a guilty look before she weaved through the crowd and pushed herself out of the doorway.
Klaus was still a little dazed as he got down off of the table, the question that he had wanted to ask Caroline still on the tip of his tongue. Was that kiss really all an act?
"Can I talk to you alone for a second?" Jeremy asked.
"Sure," Kol agreed as he got up from where he was sitting in the midst of a group of girls.
A minute or two later, the pair were standing in an empty hallway upstairs.
"Well, you've got me alone," Kol pointed out in his usual suggestive tone as a tilted smirk formed on his lips. "What are you going to do with me?"
Although he was acting like his usual flirty self, Kol was a little nervous that Jeremy was going to bring up the kiss and that things were going to become awkward between them. He was pleasantly surprised when rather than talking about the kiss, Jeremy kissed him again instead.
By the time that Monday came around, Caroline had already been avoiding Klaus for a few days. Well, she had mostly just stayed at home and avoided everyone. She had hoped that that way she wouldn't have to try and explain what had happened at the party to anyone when she still didn't understand it herself.
Unfortunately for her, it became clear that the time for avoiding the situation was over. The instant that Caroline walked into the school, Bonnie and Elena both began to smirk at her.
"So what's it like kissing a famous actor?" Bonnie asked in an amused tone, either not noticing or caring that Rebekah was standing at her locker and well within ear shot.
"I'm not talking about this right now," Caroline responded.
"We so knew that there was something going on between you two," Elena bragged.
"Didn't everyone?" Rebekah asked as she walked past the group on her way to her class.
"So are you two together or not?" Bonnie questioned once the girl was gone.
"I said that I'm not talking about this now," Caroline pointed out, mainly because she had no idea how to answer that question.
"Oh come on, you're the one who is always demanding details out of us," Bonnie pointed out.
"At least tell us if he's a good kisser or not," Elena added. "Then we won't bother you about it for the rest of the day."
"Fine," Caroline said, giving in as the slightest of smiles formed on her lips. "He's a ridiculously good kisser."
The fact that he was such a good kisser only made things more difficult. Caroline had told Klaus that nothing was going to happen romantically between them, she had told him that she couldn't handle getting involved with anyone who was just going to end up leaving like her dad had, and he had agreed to try for just friends.
The thing that annoyed her the most was that she couldn't even try and blame this on Klaus because he hadn't been the one who had made the first move. Sure he had been flirty, but she was the one who had really screwed up the friend thing. It was her own fault that she was in this mess right now.
Both of the other girls began to grin at her, thrilled that they had gotten at least some information out of their friend.
"So what exactly happened before you two started making out on a table?" Bonnie questioned.
"You're not allowed to ask me anymore questions about it until tomorrow, remember?" The blonde asked in a triumphant tone. "So I guess that you're just going to have to wait until then."
She was relieved when the bell rang loudly then. That meant that she could go to class and leave that conversation, at least for the time being.
"Well then be prepared to be completely bombarded by questions tomorrow," Elena joked as she closed her locker… Or at least Caroline hoped that she had been joking.
As Caroline was sitting in first class, her phone began to vibrate in her pocket and she quickly pulled it out since she was about ready to fall asleep from the documentary that they were watching anyways.
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
I hear that I missed quite the display on Friday night.
Caroline had forgotten that Klaus's name was still the one that he had put in her phone while insisting on giving her his number. She made a mental note that she really needed to get around to changing that, yet she made no move to do so now. Instead, she frowned in confusion at the contents of the text, which didn't make much sense coming from Klaus.
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that it's Kol. I got bored and stole Nik's phone again
So I take it that things are even more complicated between you two now.
From Go to Hell:
What makes you think that I'd want to talk about this with you? Especially when I haven't even talked to Nik about it yet.
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
You still haven't explained why your name is 'Go to Hell' in his phone.
And you just called him Nik.
From Go to Hell:
No I didn't. You did.
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
So did you.
From Go to Hell:
When?
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
"Especially when I haven't even talked to Nik about it yet."
Caroline looked back through the texts that she had sent him and was surprised to find that he was right.
From Go to Hell:
Oh.
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
Am I ever going to get an explanation on the contact name thing?
From Go to Hell:
Why don't you ask him?
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
Because he's asleep still. And I plan on deleting all of these texts and pretending that I never touched his phone before he wakes up.
From Go to Hell:
It's not like you didn't see the contact name last time you took his phone. You could still ask without him knowing that you took it again.
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
True, but last time he was too exhausted and distracted by nightmares to even get mad at me for taking it. Reminding him that I took it will only lead to a long and boring lecture and having to put up with cranky Nik.
From Go to Hell:
What makes you so sure that I won't tell him that you took it again?
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
Just a feeling.
Besides, I could tell him that you've been calling him Nik all the time behind his back.
From Go to Hell:
So you could lie without proof.
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
Other than that text.
From Go to Hell:
Not if you've deleted the text before I tell him. Besides, that would just be proving that you stole his phone. Plus your whole plan is relying on the idea that I would care if you told him.
From Irresistible Hunk I Want in My Bed:
I like you, Caroline.
Damn, I can hear him getting up.
When Caroline arrived in her last class of the day, she timidly walked over to her regular seat next to Tyler. He'd said that they were okay now on Friday night, but that had also been before she had quite publicly kissed Klaus, which had been not very long after she had assured Tyler that nothing was going on between her and Klaus.
She was more than a little relieved when Tyler shot her a sheepish smile as she sat down beside him.
"Does that mean that you're not mad at me for kissing Klaus?" Caroline questioned.
"I'm not mad," He responded. "Not anymore. I already told you that you don't have to pretend that there's nothing going on with you two just for my benefit."
"I wasn't," She told him. "It was for my benefit. I'm just having a harder time pretending lately. I don't even know why I let myself kiss him."
"Sure you do."
Caroline didn't get the chance to respond to him before their teacher began to hand out tests to the class and the room went silent.
A/N: Please read and review! I've got a question for you guys. Would you like to have more of Kol and Jeremy in future chapters or less or do you like the amount that there is? Please tell me what you think. I hope that you guys liked the chapter and I'm going to try to update sooner next time. Oh, and a huge extra special thanks goes to gooddame for helping motivate me to finally get this chapter finished and up :D
And special thanks also goes out to the incredible reviewers of the last chapter: gooddame, edwardsoneandonlylove, chibichibi98, klaroline4everlove, karmen238, Draco-Harry-Lover-1, Iansarmy, Mystery Girl3, WeasleysGroupie, daisywoolmer, ferrylis, redbudrose, riahVDlover, romanticpacificist69, Aleesha, MyloveforKlaroline, Cevangelyn, LitLover 101, MartaS, April420, annalouise92, klarolineshipperxoxo, and the anonymous guest reviewer :)
REVIEW ANSWERS:
chibichibi98: Happy New Year to you too. :) I know, I'm a little late. It's February... Sorry.
klaroline4everlove: Happy New Year! :) Sorry that I'm so late...
daisywoolmer:Thanks so much :) I'm really glad that you've been enjoying the story. :)
redbudrose: Caroline's been hesitant to date Klaus mainly because with him being an actor he's pretty likely to leave and she doesn't want to get attached to someone else who is just going to leave like her dad did overnight a few months ago.
romanticpacifist69: Happy New Year to you too! :) Sorry that I'm so late because this is my first update on this story in 2014.
MartaS: I'll try to have longer chapters in the future, but I can't guarantee it.
April420: I hope that you had nice holidays too and Happy New Year to you too even though it is well past the holidays thanks to my complete lack of updates in the last month. Sorry for the wait. :)
klarolineshipperxoxo: Thanks so much. :) And yeah, I find it strange how a lot of stories on here have Finn being so nice when he was such a jerk to his siblings in the show. I could see having him be nice some of the time or start to fix his relationships with his siblings, but it seems like he should at least be a little bit cold when it comes to the other Original children. Anyways, I'm really glad that you like the way that I portray him and that you're enjoying the story so much. :)