Love Thy Neighbour (a Vampire Diaries fanfiction)

Chapter 8

"What do you think, guys? Are you up for it?"

Damon looked at the rest of the group, waiting for an answer.

"You know you don't have a choice, right? I'm just asking to sound polite."

"Yeah, sure, why not. It'll be fun," Enzo said.

"Sure," entered Kai.

"Count us in," added Klaus, referring to him and Kol.

"Well I'm obviously coming. You'd never forgive me if I missed your birthday," Stefan said.

"Damn right I won't."

Damon had gathered all of his pals to tell them of his plans for his birthday, which was next Sunday. He wanted something different, so he decided that he wanted to go on a camping trip for the weekend with his buddies, whether they wanted to or not. Elijah was the only one who was excused, because he had an important meeting he couldn't miss, and then had to leave for a business trip.

"Good! So it's settled. We shall meet on Saturday at 0700 hours."

"0700 hours? Are you kidding me? Why? Why this torture? Why?" Kai protested.

"Hey! Either you wake up willingly or I'll make you wake up... and you know I will," Damon retaliated.

"Fine."

"Maya, will you be okay for the weekend?" Enzo asked me. Caroline, Rebekah and I had also been invited along to know about the plans, God forbid we would wake up on Saturday and see them gone.

"Are you kidding? A weekend without all you guys, this is going to be the best weekend ever."

"Hell yeah," added Rebekah.

"What if a rat attacks you again?" Kai grinned.

"Ha ha. I'll move to Rebekah's or Caroline's."

"Nice to see we'll be missed," Klaus jeered.

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They went up in two separate cars, with Damon, Stefan, Enzo and Kai in one, and Klaus and Kol following them in another. While they were all looking forward to the trip, there were two particular people who weren't exactly eager with having the other around.

"Kai, what are you doing? That part of the tent should face this way. How exactly do you plan on entering the tent if the opening is blocked with a tree?"

"Well if you'd stop butting in every 10 seconds, Kol, I could actually concentrate. Go bother someone else," Kai replied, arranging the tent. Kol simply raised his arms in defence, backing away.

The others had long finished putting up their tent. Klaus was out looking for logs for the fire, and the others were simply watching, amused with the sight in front of them.

"I have a missing hook," Kai muttered. "Kol! What did you do with the hook?"

Kol was now on the ground, on his phone playing Temple Run. "Oh I don't know, I'm concentrating," he said with a smirk, not even bothering to look up from his phone. "Go bother someone else." Enzo tried his best to suppress a laugh when he saw said hook peeking out from Kol's back pocket.

"This is going to be interesting," he mumbled, as Kai swore under his breath.

"This is even better than I had expected," Damon told him, taking a sip of bourbon. "I actually don't have to miss my television now."

"KOL! I SEE IT! IT'S IN YOUR BACK POCKET!" Kai rushed towards Kol, practically diving on top of him.

"GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF ME YOU TWAT -"