Begin Again

Chapter Five

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CHAPTER FIVE-Begin Again

Lexi's P.O.V.

It's cold when I walk into the living room. Turning on one of the lamps and relishing in the silence that I finally have after putting Abrielle to sleep and taking a shower, winding down for the night. I'm exhausted though, tired from the whole week and as I sit in my thin bright yellow t-shirt with my black sweat pants, my hairs thrown into a high ponytail when I lean my head back against the couch and close my eyes for a second, exhaling deeply.

But, just as my heart starts to calm and my body begins to relax from its tense stress from the new case files and finding another inexpensive day care for Abrielle. The persistent knocking on my front door to my apartment jolts me out of my blissful state.

"It's past 10 at night." I mumble to myself, closing one of my open case files that I had planned to look over before I go to sleep tonight. But, the knocking continues and when I softly shout out towards the door to cut it out and suddenly whoever's behind it stops. Yet, I still gravitate towards the door and pull the door handle open to see what moron is disrupting my peaceful state.

Part of me is surprised to see him. He's still wearing part of his uniform, a dark pair of boots, a sweatshirt is slung over his shoulder and his dark brown hair is a total mess. "Hi." He says simply as I shake my head at him, trying to figure out what the hell he's even doing at my apartment, especially this late at night.

"What are you doing here, Kol? How do you even know where I live?" I ask him, watching as he takes a step forward, looking down at my thin t-shirt, smiling gleefully when he locks his gaze back onto my face and he clears his throat. "You..Um..You left this at the station today. I have no idea what it was doing in the kitchen. But, It had your address on it and it was still sitting there when my classes and training was over. So, I thought that I'd return it to you." He explains. I watch as he slips off the strap of Abrielle's diaper and changing bag and hands it to me, his rough hand grazing against my own as I smile and let out a nervous laugh.

"I was actually wondering where that had gone today. Elena had me drop off Stefan's credit card to him at the station and I had to change Abrielle, I guess I was in such a hurry that I must have thought that I already had placed it back inside of the car. Uh, thanks." I tell him, watching as he smiles and nods.

"No problem, Alexia." Kol says, a lingering gaze upon me when I shift my weight and my hand grabs the door, telling him in a hurried tone that I have work to do and that I need to get going.

"Who does work past 10 at night?" He says with a laugh, looking up at me with a smirk and then looking past me, probably at the messy state of my apartment with its unfolded baby clothes, toys scattered everywhere, sketches with ideas for Abrielle's soon to be 9 month old birthday party.

"You draw too?" He asks, curiosity hitting his tone as I take a step back and open the door wider, quickly realizing that he's actually interested in my life.

"Yeah, I'm pretty crafty when I need to be. Look, Kol. Don't you have someplace else to be..A girlfriend you should get home to?" I ask him, opening the door a little more and stepping back when I cross my arms over each other, never even uttering a word more than my question that stays between us.