Everybody Talks: A Klaroline Fanfiction

Chapter 18

Caroline rolled over and hit someone next to her in bed, shoving them over so she could have more space to stretch out. A dull thud and a disgruntled "oof" came from the floor. Her eyes opened and she saw Elena rubbing her head and yawning.

"Ow Care," she said.

"Oops," Caroline said, "sorry."

After polishing off the champagne, movies, and junk food last night the three of them had decided to slumber it in Elena's bed like they had when they were teenagers. Hearing the noise, Bonnie began to stir on Caroline's other side.

"What time is it?" She asked sleepily.

"Nine," Elena said checking her phone.

"Too early," Caroline complained, her voice still thick with sleep. She was still on Klaus's rock star sleep schedule.

"I should get up," Bonnie replied, "told Jeremy I'd have breakfast with him."

"Yeah, Elijah has already texted me twice this morning."

Caroline laughed. "Didn't peg Elijah for the clingy boyfriend."

"He's not clingy," Elena protested standing up from the floor, "he just misses me and is very open with his feelings. We have a very mature relationship."

"Oh mature of course," Caroline teased, "come on tell the truth…he has this secret wild side right? All those quiet, stuffy suit wearing men do. I've read 50 Shades of Gray."

"Nice try Caroline, I am not dishing details about my sex life with Elijah."

"Oh come on Elena," Caroline said, "just between us girls?"

"Nope," Elena smiled grabbing the hairbrush from her vanity and running it through her messy curtain of hair, "no 50 Shades between me and Elijah."

"You're no fun," Caroline pouted, pulling her hair out of the bun she had wrapped it in the night before.

"Well I will say…knowing how to act has come in handy a few times."

Elena winked turning her attention back toward the mirror. Caroline and Bonnie exchanged shocked, open mouth glances before bursting into a fit of giggles.

Caroline reached over to the nightstand to look at her own phone, a little disappointed that she hadn't received any texts from Klaus over night. She shrugged it off though, thinking maybe he was just being a good boyfriend and giving her space.

As she got dressed, she started feeling more and more nervous about the conversation she needed to have with him that day.

After talking with her friends last night, she realized that being with Klaus was worth all the privacy invasion and crazy fan-girls and gossip and judgmental looks. Because she loved him. She wasn't a stranger to love, she had been in love with boyfriends before but for some reason this time it seemed different to her. With Klaus, it was more significant, more real, and more important. But that also made it more intimidating. It was like being an acrobat. She was used to walking the tightrope and had done it a million times, but now she was out there without the safety net.

She wasn't willing to give up her job opportunity in Chicago. Elena was right in saying that she couldn't just follow Klaus around and be nothing but his girlfriend. She had to be smart about the situation. Doing the long distance thing would suck, but she knew that she would rather have him long distance than not have him at all. She just hoped he felt the same way. They had made it work over the summer and they could make it work now. In fact, they had more reason than ever to make it work now, or so she hoped.