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Chapter 8

"Goodbye, Caroline." Klaus said looking into her eyes intensely. Caroline nodded keeping her gaze into his beautiful eyes. At her surprise he bent down and brought a hand behind her head to push her face toward his and he tenderly placed a small kiss on her cheek, keeping his lips on her skin for a little longer than what would have been a simple goodbye kiss between two friends, especially knowing that they would surely see each other the day after today.

Klaus eventually let go of Caroline and she looked at him with a shy smile on her lips and as red as a tomato before hopping out of the car hurriedly. Klaus smiled, amused. Caroline couldn't control the beatings of her heart as it was frantically hitting her ribcage.

Once she closed the car's door behind her and turned around to see Katherine's glare, she wondered for a moment if Klaus had kissed her because he had wanted to, or because he had wanted to piss Katherine off. Caroline felt disappointed all of a sudden, Klaus had kissed her cheek just after seeing that Katherine was there so it was surely why he had done so. Caroline lost her smile and walked toward Katherine not even sparing a glance at Klaus even though she knew he was still there.

Klaus observed Caroline as she walked toward the house, he couldn't take his eyes off of her, but it seemed the feeling wasn't mutual because not once did she turn toward him, she just walked into the house followed by Katherine who sent him a deadly glare before closing the door behind her. Klaus stayed in front of the house for a few more seconds lost in his thoughts.

He knew he had feelings for her, somehow Caroline was affecting him. Klaus had never cared for anyone beyond family. He had never cared for a woman, he saw them as nothing more than bed mates. He had tried, he had stayed with the same woman for two months once, her name was Tatia. But as much as he had tried he hadn't developed any feelings for her, of course she was beautiful, there was no denying that, but she was shallow and Klaus couldn't develop anything else than lust for her. And now there was Caroline, and he was finally developing feelings for a woman, he couldn't let that go, could he? Caroline had awakened something in his heart.

At some point Klaus had thought that it was simply not one of his capacities, we can't be good at everything after all. He had talked about it to his sister once while being drunk, it had been a mistake because after that she had made it her mission to find a woman who would provoke a reaction in him but she had given up after ending up with all of her friends crying on her shoulder with broken hearts. Klaus looked back up at the house in which the woman who had finally provoked a reaction in him was and a small smile appeared on his lips. She was in for something and she didn't even know about it.

Caroline entered the house and as soon as she was inside she took her Louboutins off and tossed them aside without a care in the world. She wanted to change as soon as possible, she wasn't comfortable in those clothes, she just wanted to put one of her large sweatshirts and one of her yoga pants before throwing herself in her bed or in the couch and watch TV while eating chocolate.

"How was the doctor?" Katherine asked from behind her.

Caroline turned around to face her and nodded to say that is went well and Katherine seemed to understand.

"I see that you and Klaus are getting cozy with each other." Katherine pointed out raising an eyebrow.

Caroline scoffed rolling her eyes.

"I saw that kiss." Katherine continued, "And I see the way you look at him."

Caroline looked elsewhere, of course Katherine would notice the way she looked at Klaus. Yes, she had feelings for him, who wouldn't? But she doubted the feeling was mutual and even if it was she wouldn't act on it. She had other things to deal with, she couldn't throw herself in a relationship, look where it had brought her with Tyler. She wasn't ready to give everything she had to make it work and end up being dumped in the end.

Katherine didn't have anything to worry about. Because she was worrying it was obvious, it even sounded like she was accusing her. It wasn't her fault, she couldn't control who she had feelings for.

"If you want my opinion, I think you should be careful, I've heard from his siblings that Klaus is the kind of man to play with women and throw them away once he's done, many have ended up with a broken heart, Rebekah said she doesn't have enough fingers to count how many of her friends ended up crying on her shoulder." Katherine related wanting to protect her best friend, Caroline had enough on her plate for now, a complicated relationship that could end up with a broken heart wouldn't help her.

"But I also think that if it makes you happy you should give it a chance, because you always smile when he's around and I love to see you smile. Because even though he likes to think he is heartless, Klaus has a heart and I see the way his smile grows bigger every time he manages to make you smile, I see the way he frowns when you seem in a bad mood, sad or angry, the way he looks at you when he thinks no one will notice." Katherine continued with a small smile.

Caroline looked back up at Katherine. Was she serious? Was it true? She hadn't noticed the way he looked at her, for her he looked at her like he would look at anyone else. What was Katherine talking about? How was he looking at her?

"But, Klaus? Seriously? Of all the men on this planet it had to be the one I hate the most, Klaus? Ugh!" Katherine exclaimed breaking Caroline thoughts, "I need a drink but I'll settle for a coffee." She said before walking toward the kitchen.

Once Katherine was gone Caroline smiled. She knew Katherine didn't really hate Klaus just like Klaus didn't really hate Katherine. Of course they weren't the best of friends but still, they were family since Elijah and Katherine were married.

After that Caroline hurried upstairs. Once in her bedroom she quickly took her clothes off and put a large sweatshirt and her yoga pants on. Oh God it felt good. She went in the bathroom and cleaned her face off of make-up.

The whole day at passed and Caroline, Elijah and Katherine were now seated around the table eating dinner. Caroline looked next to her where Klaus usually sat during dinners. It was weird to not have him here bothering her or telling her something that would make her angry. She had been here for over two weeks now and during all this time he had been around, now it felt empty, as if something was missing. And Caroline realized that she missed him already.

She looked away not wanting Elijah and Katherine to notice her. He had said earlier that he had appointments to visit flats because he was planning on getting his own place. But if he moved out it would always be like this, it would always be empty, he wouldn't be here to bother her or make her smile anymore. An idea came to Caroline's mind, he had proposed for her to accompany him to visit apartments, she would accompany him and she would always find something that wasn't right about it, that way he would have to stay here, with her.

She frowned, what was she talking about? She couldn't do that, he had a right to settle in his own place, he wouldn't forever live with Elijah and Katherine, it was temporary. She wouldn't forever live with them either, it was temporary as well, so maybe she could make him stay here until she left? Yes she could try to do that. But it wasn't right, what if it meant he would miss a good opportunity because of her though? Caroline wasn't someone selfish, or was she? Her thoughts were broken when she heard Elijah mention Klaus in his conversation with Katherine.

"I think you shouldn't have gone as far as telling, Niklaus not to come back here tonight." Elijah said looking straight at Katherine.

"It's my house if I don't want him here tonight then he won't be here tonight." Katherine said the anger clear in her voice.

Caroline looked between the two a little uncomfortable. Were they going to fight or something? She had never seen them fight before, it was so awkward. Should she sneak out of the table and go in her room? She felt like a child witnessing her parents fighting.

"It's my house as well and Niklaus is my brother. I invited him in our home and when I did so I wasn't expecting you to just kick him out." Elijah said seriously.

"I didn't kick him out, I said it would be better if he would spend the night somewhere else, it's just for one night, he's not gonna die I'm sure he is at Kol's and Rebekah's." Katherine exclaimed, "I know he is your brother but you can't always take his defense, I am your wife."

"I invited him in, I'm just saying that you shouldn't have told him not to come here tonight without talking about it with me beforehand." Elijah said calmly.

"You're still defending him." Katherine dropped her fork on the table, "And if I remember well you invited him into our home without talking about it with me beforehand."

"Of course I take his defense, he is my little brother." Elijah said doing his best to keep his calm but he really wanted to explode which was really unlike him.

"I'm your wife for God's sake. He is not so little anymore he can take care of himself." Katherine exclaimed. Elijah stood up without a word and started to walk away from the table. If only Katherine knew, but he had promised Klaus he would never talk about this to anyone, "Elijah, don't you dare leave this room! I thought you would support my choice, he was disrespectful toward me."

"You have a tendency to overreact so excuse me if I doubt he really was disrespectful toward you." Elijah turned back toward Katherine who was standing up as well now.

"Excuse me?" Katherine took a step back hurt, he would have stabbed her and it would have been the same.

"You don't understand, Katerina. Me and my brother have a past you are not aware of, I've never protected him, I've never been there when he needed me, his big brother, I always closed my eyes and acted as if it wasn't real, but it was real, he needed me." Elijah exclaimed his eyes filling with tears. The memories were still painful, the guilt overwhelming.

Katherine didn't know what to say. She had never seen Elijah like this, she had never seen her husband like that. What was he talking about? What was real? What had happened? It broke her heart to see Elijah like this, she had never seen him so emotional.

Caroline stayed in her seat observing Elijah astounded. Guilt, she would recognize the feeling among any other. She knew this feeling all too well. Maybe she had a lot more in common with Elijah than what she thought. It wasn't long for Caroline to understand that Klaus had been through something horrible and that Elijah could have had protected him but hadn't done anything. Like Caroline could have stopped screaming and Matt would have still been alive. She wanted to know, what had happened?

Elijah turned around and left the room hurriedly and Katherine stayed frozen for a few seconds before following after him.

Caroline looked around the room and released the breath she had been holding. She was praying inside for things between them to get better. Katherine and Klaus had fought about her in the first place and Elijah and Katherine had fought because Katherine had asked, or rather ordered, Klaus to spend the night elsewhere. But it wasn't her fault, it seemed Elijah was keeping things from Katherine and it also looked like it was really personal so she also understood Elijah, sometimes it was just more difficult than just saying everything to the person you love.

Caroline stood up and went upstairs in her bedroom. She didn't know where Katherine and Elijah were, she had the impression they were outside in the garden because she couldn't hear anything in the house. Elijah had surely went outside to breath some fresh air and Katherine had followed him. Caroline turned on her TV and settled in her bed under the covers trying to warm herself up. She was glad she couldn't hear Katherine and Elijah, she had no idea if they were still fighting or if they were just talking now but she didn't want to hear any of it, she felt like she was intruding on their privacy. Of course she wouldn't have been there Katherine would have related the whole thing to her but seeing it and hearing it wasn't the same.

Then her mind drifted back to Klaus. Elijah had made it clear that something had happened to him, but what? She had no idea. She wanted to know but she wouldn't ask anyone, she could tell when someone wanted to keep things secret. She had her secrets too. Of course she would love to know but since it concerned Klaus she would rather hear it from him.

Caroline decided to stop thinking about those things, it was none of her business. She extended her arm to the side and grabbed her phone that was on her nightstand. She looked through her phone and a small smile appeared on her lips when she came across the name 'My Man'. Was it how Klaus called himself in her phone? She decided she would change his name in her phone later, for now she just clicked on it to send him a message. Caroline typed her message and hesitated a few seconds before hitting the send button.

Caroline: Where r u?

Caroline put her phone aside as soon as she had pressed send. He wouldn't answer right away anyway, she had never seen him using his phone so she guessed he didn't use it much. Once it was sent she realized that he had put his number in her phone but he didn't have her phone number so he wouldn't even know it was her sending him a message. She thought about sending him another message to tell him that it was her but unfortunately her phone rang before indicating that she had received a message. Caroline picked it up and opened the message right away.

My Man: Is it my girl?

Caroline frowned, his girl? Maybe Klaus had a girlfriend and she didn't even know about it. It was true, maybe no one knew because it was something recent. It didn't even cross her mind that if it would have been his girlfriend he would have had her phone number in his phone. Maybe it was her sudden jealousy that was keeping her brain for working well.

Caroline: Depends, how is she like?

There, she would play along and see where this was going. She didn't even have time to think about it that she received another text.

My Man: Brunette, brown eyes.

Caroline felt anger coursing through her veins, here, she knew it, the bastard had a girlfriend and acted as if he didn't have one all the time. She hated herself for starting to feel something for that jerk, that asshole, that son of a bitch. Caroline went through her contacts and changed his name in her phone. Oh yeah and there was that, she doubted that brunette with brown eyes would appreciate seeing that he had called himself Caroline's man in her phone. She put her phone aside deciding not to answer and turned back toward the TV. After only five minutes Caroline received another text.

ASSHOLE: Caroline? You're still there?

Caroline frowned, he knew it was her? That bastard. She jumped when her phone rang once more in her hands.

ASSHOLE: Oh come on, it was a joke, love, you're my girl, answer.

Caroline: Just so you know, I changed your name to ASSHOLE.

ASSHOLE: I'll change it back tomorrow. And to answer your question I'm at Kol's and Bekah's. Why? Miss me already?

Caroline rolled her eyes as she read the message. Of course she missed him a little but she wasn't just going to tell him that.

Caroline: No, Kat and Elijah are having a fight.

ASSHOLE: And I care because?

Caroline: Wow, way to make me understand that I'm bothering. Have a good night and good luck with your brunette.

Caroline tossed her phone aside and turned around in her bed. She should have known he wouldn't want her to send a message. He had said it was in case she had a problem some day. She heard her phone ringing which meant she had a text but decided to ignore it, she wouldn't read it, she knew that if she read it she wouldn't be able to resist and she would answer. She heard her phone ringing a second time and turned back toward it. Maybe she could look and not answer.

ASSHOLE: No, it's not what I meant. I just don't want to talk about them, I want to talk about you. Your hopes? Your dreams? Everything you want in life?

Caroline scoffed and rolled her eyes.

ASSHOLE: All right then, if it's the only conversation you're willing to have I'll take that. Why did they fight?

A small smile appeared on her lips, it seemed she wasn't bothering him after all and he wanted to talk to her. She received a third message her phone still in her hands.

ASSHOLE: Caroline, please. Answer the message or I come over.

Caroline frowned, wow, authoritative. But she decided to call his bluff, he wouldn't come over just because she refused to answer his text. Her phone rang again in her hand.

ASSHOLE: I'm in my car.

Caroline's eyes widened, was he serious? No surely he wasn't.

Caroline: They're fighting because Kat kicked you out. Are you really in your car?

ASSHOLE: Finally, I really thought I would have to come over, yes I was in my car. They're fighting because of me?

Caroline: You're crazy. Yep, Elijah isn't happy because Katherine kicked you out, something about being your big brother and having to take care of you.

ASSHOLE: Crazy about you. I'll have a conversation with my brother. Can we talk about you now?

Caroline: Pfff! I'm tired, good night, Klaus.

ASSHOLE: Fine, sweet dreams, good night, Caroline.

Caroline turned off her TV and lied down on her bed facing the roof keeping her phone in her hand. It was weird, having a conversation with Klaus. Usually he was the only one talking and there was no come back coming from her but when they messaged each other they both talked and it was weird. Caroline wanted to ask him why he had kissed her earlier today, because he had wanted to or because he had wanted to annoy Katherine? She wanted to know so badly. And before she knew what she was doing she had sent him a message. Once it was done she closed her eyes tightly, what had she done? She shouldn't have sent that. If only she could un-send it.

Caroline: Did you kiss me to bother Kat?

Only a few seconds later her phone rang and Caroline hesitated. Should she read his answer? She was scared of what his answer would be. She felt like a stupid teenager talking to her crush and she hated it. She wasn't a teenager anymore, she was a grown up woman. She opened his message and read it.

ASSHOLE: What makes you think that?

Caroline: You did it just after noticing she was watching us. Please next time you want to annoy Kat I would appreciate if you would let me out of it.

ASSHOLE: It wasn't to bother her. I wanted to do it. Next time I'll make sure it's just the two of us, sweetheart.

Caroline: There won't be a next time, Klaus.

ASSHOLE: We'll see, love. My lips are already burning at the idea of touching your skin.

Caroline: What about your cheek? Isn't it already burning at the idea of me slapping you?

ASSHOLE: No I can't feel anything, I'm more worried about your glorious arse. Isn't it burning already from the spank you'll receive?

Caroline: GOOD NIGHT, Klaus.

ASSHOLE: I know you're blushing.

Caroline: I'm not. Shut up!

ASSHOLE: Good night, love.

Caroline put her phone on her nightstand and turned around in her bed. God he was right she was blushing, she could feel her cheeks burning. What an arrogant bastard. How many times had she mentally called him a bastard already? She couldn't remember but she knew that she had called him that a lot. It was unbelievable how he could affect her even when he wasn't physically present.

God she didn't want to be tomorrow, she would have to face him after that conversation. Really, sometimes it was just better that she couldn't have conversations anymore, at least she didn't say things she regretted later on, like asking people why they kissed her. That had been completely stupid.

But as much as Caroline didn't want to be tomorrow and face him, she knew tomorrow would come, and rather quickly, might she add. She would just act as if this conversation had never happened, yes, she would do that. Surely Klaus would forget about it, he wouldn't remember her asking if he had kissed her just to bother Katherine, and he would surely not remember telling her he would kiss her again. Oh come on Caroline, be a grown up! It's just a kiss on the cheek, how old are you?

Little did she know, Klaus wouldn't forget any of this.

So? What do you think about this chapter? I feel like the characters are a little OOC to be honest but I don't know.

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