Kai Parker ❦ Imagines

Imagine #7: Happy Hour

        KAI PARKER IMAGINES
07. HAPPY HOUR

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"He's been staring at you for hours." Damon grins, taking a large gulp of his bourbon. You respond with rolled eyes, but Damon knew you that he was right about Kai. Usually, Damon drank bourbon just for the hell of it. Seriously, every time you entered the mansion he would be holding a bottle of bourbon or whiskey.
In a way, you couldn't blame him for his uncontrollable urge to drink. You mean he wasn't even your boyfriend to even attempt to keep sober. Elena seemed pretty chill about his drinking, Damon raged regardless if he was drinking or not.

But luckily today, Damon had a real good reason to drink because Bonnie came back. Alright, enough with the Damon montage.
Your ultimate best friend since middle school  was finally back.
And your not talking about back from some topical paradise island. Bonnie basically went through portals, to like another dimension. Now how maybe people can actually say that that's happened to them? Your guess is not too many.

So maybe, yes, Damon was right about Kai and his staring habit. You mean come on, the guy had been staring at you since day one, but his stares seem blank.

Maybe every once in a while you'll catch him grinning at you, if you were lucky a wink. But whenever we're surrounded by people he seems more shelled than usual. You don't think it's being surrounded by everyone that intimidates him considering he's a talkaholic, you think it's because of you.
Just an hour ago the gang was playing Twister and Matt accidentally fell on top of you, the look Kai gave him was phenomenal.

He looked furious, you could have seen steam fire out through his ears making the sound of a boiling tea kettle. Kai sat diagonally across from Damon and you, taking slow and steady sips of his bourbon.
"Damon... I'm gonna go help ice the cake." you whisper, in his ear. He nods, and you stand up with Kai's eyes following you.

Damon and you had a little game you two loved to play, he called it Y/N's Happy Hour. Whenever he assumed a guy was "madly in love" with you, he hinted it. So to test his little theory you would leave the room or area, while Damon fished for answers. This tactic worked with guys you liked back and guys you didn't.

If the guy liked you back but the feeling towards him wasn't neutral for you, Damon would confuse his love for you and make the guy totally uncomfortable. He would try to convince the guy that you didn't like him back without you actually doing so. Damon had a easier time letting people off easy than you did.

If you liked the guy Damon would totally notice, but he'd still fish around for answers. If the guy felt the same way, bull's eye.

You entered the Salvortore kitchen, Elena, Caroline and Bonnie glare your way. "Hey, why the hell is the Bonnie decorating her own cake?" and the girls stop chatting.
Elena stands beside Caroline and slides a strand of her dark hair behind her ear. You approached Bonnie and took the icing smoother away from her, giving Elena and Caroline a disapproved look.

"Y/N, it's alright." Bonnie pleads, but you shake your head no. "You should be relaxing or bonding with your friends, not icing your own welcome back cake." and she holds her hands up in defense.
Elena tries to make her apology sound apologetic but she could use a little work. Bonnie joins her friends on a conversation, while you smooth out the cake frosting. Your only reasoning for entering the kitchen is to make it look like you were busy, when really you were listening to Damon and Kai's conversation.

"Soooo, Kai you must have been extremely lonely in that prison world." Damon says astonishingly. You continue spreading lays of the buttercream frosting along the four layer cake.

"Yes but I managed to get through those lonely times." Kai sighs, he doesn't seem interested in the conversation. It's like he wants to know why Damon is fishing for answers. "C'mon Damon." you murmur to yourself.

"Y/N?"

You drop the icing smoother, "Huh?" you mumble. The girls are staring at you and Elena laughs, "You said c'mon Damon, are you alright?" she asks, with a slight frown.

You chuckle in embarrassment, "Are you sure?" you question, trying to make her think she's heard incorrect. Elena frowns a little as if she's questioning herself, then she exchanges glares with Caroline who looks clueless.
"I guess I'm not." she laughs.

You clear my throat, Caroline parts her lips to give her input. "Elena, of course Y/N meant to say Kai." and Bonnie covers her mouth from surprise and Elena hits Care playfully. You pick up the icing smoother, "That's not true." you whisper loudly and assertive.

Caroline raises an eyebrow, "Oh C'mon Kai let's go upstairs, nobody's here anyways." she mimics you in an alluring matter. You roll your eyes, "Stop he might hear you!" you whisper loudly, but Elena stands with her jaw wide open.

"So you do like him?" Bonnie states and you shake your head, "No... No I didn't say that." but Caroline chimes in, "Oh come on! It's sooooo obvious that you like him."

Elena laughs, "She's right, Y/N."

"Totally, he's always staring at you. I'm pretty sure I caught him winking at you once." Care assures, trying to get the girls to add on. You wanted to argue but the girls were stating good facts, things you couldn't deny.

"I've noticed how distracted you were by Y/N?" Damon states, curiously. He wanted Kai to profess his love for you, but you doubt it was true. Kai it didn't seem like the caring-lovey-dovey boyfriend type.

                You sigh, "Okay maybe Kai does like me, Big deal?" you murmur shrugging your shoulders. Bonnie laughs, "Big deal? Yes actually that would be a big deal, falling in love is amazing."
                 Care smiles, "So do you like him?" and you stare down at the ice smoother, "Yes but that doesn't matter because we'll never happen." you laugh. Elena pouts and the topic seems to die down.

           You listen to the boys' conversation, "Listen Damon I understand what you're doing, looking out for Y/N. But if she wants to know if I like her, she's gonna need to ask me herself...... just between us, I do." and you smiled widely, because not only did Kai like you back. But he was expecting you to ask him yourself how he felt about you, but he had no need too now.