It's a few movies later that Caroline shows up with Bonnie, an advertisement plays as Elena tries to make popcorn.
Elena helps her put Bonnie in the guest bedroom. She moves her bags from her room to the living room. The house is Ric and Jeremy's until she wakes up, she had to compel a lawyer for that to become legal, but they were going to use it more than she was. Caroline sits in the new armchair Damon had gifted Ric with, something about breaking his arm while they were drunk was scrawled on the note attached when it had been delivered. Elena didn't ask. Jeremy didn't even want to.
It's not until they order pizza for dinner that she asks for thirty minutes alone. They all agree, on the condition that she help them eat pizza, they ordered too much. So she sat, and memorizes it. She soaks up the attention and the night, the noise. The feeling of unity. The warmth. She memorizes the sound of their laughter, their voices. All carefully organized in her mind. She escapes, and goes to the cemetery. She talks to the people she won't even have a chance to talk to. Her aunt, and her parents, both sets. It's not quite thirty minutes yet, and she takes this feeling in. It's dark, and cold. A little lonely. But at least she isn't in the ground. She returns back to her house when it her phone says that it's been thirty minutes exactly.