The Only Hope For Me Is You: A Klaroline Fanfiction

16.

O holy night, The stars are brightly shining;

At the sound of the familiar Christmas carol erupting from her phone, Caroline rushed over to grab it. She glanced at the screen for a minute, a smile blossoming on her face, before answering it. "Merry Christmas!"

"Happy Christmas, sweetheart" Klaus replied. "I've got two excited elves here who are dying to talk to you."

She couldn't keep the smile from growing bigger on her face as the voices of the twins drifted through the phone. She could hear them arguing over who was going to talk to her first. Thankfully, their father had a way around it. "I'm going to put you on video, if it's okay?"

"Yeah, I'm good," Caroline assured him. It was late morning so she had been up for awhile. Her mom actually had the day off so Caroline had gotten up and made them a big breakfast for just the two of them. Afterwards, she had taken a shower and did her hair before dressing in her cream-colored dress that she planned to wear to the Gilbert's.

A few seconds later, the screen on Caroline's phone was filled with the smiling faces of Henry and Lexi. "Hey, there are my sweeties. Merry Christmas, you two."

"Merry Christmas, Caroline," they replied simultaneously.

"So I can tell that the two of you are about ready to explode, so tell me what you guys got for Christmas," Caroline told them. "One at a time though, and go back and forth. Henry first, then Lexi."

Henry glanced smugly over at his sister before he took his turn. "Dad got me a bearded dragon!"

"A dragon?" Caroline asked.

"Well, it's not really a dragon, it's a lizard but it's called a dragon because it looks like one. I got a tank and everything to take care of it," Henry explained enthusiastically. He went on for a few minutes telling her everything about his new pet and the book that came with it to tell him how to take care of it. "I get to keep him in my room until we leave on vacation, then Dad is going to have someone dragon-sit him."

"That's a good thing; after all I doubt we could take him with us," Caroline stated. "Alright, Lexi, what about you?"

"I got tickets to go see the gymnastics team when they come to town. You know the ones that were on the Olympics?!" Lexi squealed excitedly. "And Daddy said it would be just me and him."

For the next ten minutes, the twins rattled on about the presents they had received and catching her up on what she had missed since she had left Boston three days before to fly to her hometown for the holidays. It was weird to not be there with them. Once they had exhausted the conversation, she told them good-bye and told them that she'd see them in a few days before they handed the phone back to their father.

"Sorry to intrude on your holiday but they started begging me to call you as soon as they got done unwrapping their presents," Klaus explained. "They…they've been missing you a lot this week."

"No, I'm glad you called. I've been missing them too. I thought of them first thing this morning when we were unwrapping presents and the way their eyes would be lighting up," Caroline declared. "But I hope you know I'm not cleaning that lizard's cage. That is so not in my job description."

Klaus let out a chuckle at her statement and the look on her face. "Don't worry about it; Henry will be taking care of him. With a little help from me when he needs it."

"Whew, glad to hear that we agree on that," Caroline joked.

"How is Mystic Falls?" Klaus asked.

"Nice, but after a few days, it's starting to feel a little small. I've gotten too used to living in a big city," Caroline confessed. "But I'm enjoying seeing my family. Mom got a tree, which we decorated. You know when you grow up; the cheesy homemade ornaments are really embarrassing. Especially when you are an only child and you know you were the one to make all of them."