A/N: This is set during season 4. For the purposes of this story Kol & Jeremy didn't die, but Tyler was run out of town.

Caroline Forbes was sitting alone at the bar of the Mystic Grill when someone sat down in the seat next to her.

"If you're here to start drama, then come back tomorrow," Caroline commented as she glanced over. "I've already had enough of that lately and I'd like just one day off."

She was sick of all of the drama that had been going on during the last while. Elena had become a vampire and was sired to Damon. Stefan and Damon were constantly busy trying to break the sire bond and figure out whether her suddenly heightened feelings for Damon were caused by it or not. Being around Elena at all required walking on egg shells since Elena knew what Caroline's opinion on the subject was and didn't like it one bit. Tyler had been run out of town and they had broken up when he left. Bonnie was spending all of her time trying to get control of her magic. And needless to say, there was always the underlying Klaus drama.

"If I was here to make trouble, I doubt that your warning would stop me," Kol pointed out.

"True, but it was worth a try," Caroline responded. "And there was always the small chance that I would be able to ignore it until tomorrow."

"Well I'm not here to start anything," Kol told her. "I'm just bored."

"I wish that I was," Caroline said with a slight laugh. "I hardly even remember what it's like to be bored because now there's always some problem to keep me occupied… Whether it's mine or somebody else's."

"You realize that it's usually a lot easier to avoid all of the drama in town if you leave the town for a while," Kol pointed out.

"Yeah right," Caroline said sarcastically. "My mom would kill me and I can't just leave everybody when they're depending on me. They need me."

"I didn't say that you have to leave for long," Kol commented. "But if you're already avoiding the drama for the night, then you may as well go have a little fun before it catches up to you."

He grinned over at her.

"You want me to leave town with you to go out for a night of fun?" Caroline asked skeptically.

"Like I said, I'm bored," Kol told her. "I could use the company and the fun. And you could use the distraction. I mean unless you want to keep sitting here alone for the rest of the night.. because that would be perfectly fine with me."

Caroline debated it for a moment, considering the worst that could happen.

"Fine," She agreed. "But no flirting."

"I wouldn't dream of it," Kol promised. His words weren't very convincing since they came out dripping with suggestion.

Caroline rolled her eyes.

When they got into the car, Kol instantly cranked the radio.

"I'm sure that Elijah and Klaus love riding with you," Caroline said sarcastically.

"Elijah just ignores the music and tries to pretend that it isn't there," Kol answered. "And Nik almost never lets me drive while he's in the car. The last time I drove him anywhere, he ripped the stereo out of the dash… So now I take his car as often as possible and leave the speakers blasting for when he turns it on."

"I'm surprised that you haven't gotten daggered for that," Caroline commented.

"Nah, I just got a few choice words," Kol said with a smirk. "Daggers are more to keep us from leaving or betraying him."

"So where exactly are we going?" Caroline asked.

"I have no idea," Kol replied with a smirk.

A few minutes later, a city appeared in front of them.

Kol drove through the streets until he found somewhere he liked and parked the car.

"You took me to some random night club?" Caroline asked with a raised eyebrow as she got out of the car.

"What were you expecting?" Kol asked in an amused tone as he got out of the door and headed towards the entrance. "Some hoity-toity art gallery or something?"

"I don't know," Caroline admitted. "Maybe."

"That kind of thing's more Nik and Elijah's type," Kol commented as he cut to the front of the line.

He compelled the bouncer to let them in and then walked inside without checking to make sure that she was following him.

They made it less than ten steps into the club before a guy came over and asked Caroline to dance.

Caroline hesitated to respond and Kol seemed to notice.

"Go on," He whispered in her ear. "It's not like he can hurt you even if he wanted to."

"Sure," Caroline told the guy who had asked her as she let him lead her away from Kol.

Caroline was so used to having to act mature and having everyone else telling her to be careful and that she shouldn't do things. It was weird hanging out with Kol and strangely enough getting the chance to act like a normal teenager again. She was surprised to find that she actually was enjoying herself.

Caroline danced with the guy for a couple of songs before she excused herself and went to go buy herself a drink from the bar.

Without using compulsion, she convinced the bartender to serve her without checking her ID and to make her drink on the house.

As Caroline drank, she saw Kol leaving from the group of girls that he had been dancing with to head over to her.

"So is it my turn to dance with you?" He asked.

"Sure," Caroline said, deciding to completely let go of any reservations that she might have had.

As they drove back to Mystic Falls, Kol asked, "So did I make a good distraction?"

"Surprisingly yes," Caroline told him.

"Where were you with my car?" Klaus asked once Kol entered the house.

"I took Caroline for a drive," Kol responded. "I didn't think that you'd notice."

"Why would she go with you?" Klaus asked.

"Maybe because I'm fun to be around," Kol responded as he left the room.

Klaus wondered what was going on and if his brother had even been telling the truth, but didn't bother following Kol out of the room to try to figure it out.

Kol hadn't been expecting to enjoy Caroline's company as much as he had.

Jeremy Gilbert was the closest thing that he'd had to a friend, other than his family, in a long time. And Jeremy had dropped him as soon as he found out who Kol really was, although Kol had liked pretending to be his friend more than he would like to admit.

Now Kol was hanging on a little too tight to the hope that he might be able to have Caroline as a friend since he hadn't had a real one in so long.

"Hey, where were you last night?" Bonnie asked the next day at school. "I went to your house looking for you, but you weren't there."

"I was out with Kol," Caroline responded.

"Kol?" Bonnie practically spit the word out. "Since when do you hang out with Kol?"

"I don't," Caroline responded. "I mean not really. It just kind of happened."

"Whatever that means," Bonnie responded. "Please tell me that you aren't going to fall for that jerk."

"I'm not," Caroline promised. "We were both bored so we decided to go do something. And he actually isn't that bad."

"Sure he isn't," Bonnie said sarcastically.

That day after school, Bonnie and Caroline had cheerleading practice.

As practice was about to start, Caroline's phone received a new text message.

From Kol:

Did you enjoy going back to all of that high school drama?

"Who's texting you?" Bonnie asked.

"No one," Caroline answered as she quickly typed back a response.

From Caroline:

It actually wasn't so drama filled.

"Meaning that you don't want me to know who," Bonnie pointed out. "Why?"

From Kol:

Well there's a reason that I don't do the whole high school human act like Rebekah does.

"Because it's Kol and I knew that you would act like there was something going on when there isn't," Caroline told her friend.

From Caroline:

Because it's so much more fun to sit at home bored all day?

I've got to go. I've got cheerleading practice and Bonnie doesn't look very happy with me right now.

A/N: Please read and review! I hope that you liked the beginning and thanks for reading :) An extra special thanks goes out to Look At My Comment for giving me the idea for the story :D