A MYSTIC FALLS LOVE STORY

CHAPTER 4

I wake up to see that it's 5am i roll over and try to go back to sleep that's when i remember stefan i roll to see the bed empty and a note on the pillow " dear kat i should be back before you wake up but just in case i'm not i went out to get some things i will be back soon love stefan" i wonder what he went out to get that's when i remember stefan's question he asked me before i fell asleep last night oh god what do i say to him i always imagined that he would be the man i would marry but after everything that we have been through could i actually marry him frustrated i shake the question from my brain and get up and get ready for the day. I get out of the shower and see that it's only 7am i go to the kitchen to try to find something to make for breakfast that's when i heard the door open " oh hey you're awake sorry it took so long it took me forever to find what i was looking for in this crazy ass town" i try to stifle the laugh that threatens to bubble up with no luck i start to laugh at him " its los angels what did you expect this isn't mystic falls this isn't a small town where you know the mail mans name" " very well said and why is everything so expensive i just spent fifty dollars on two pairs of jeans" " that's california for you everyone here has money so everything is more expensive than anywhere else" " i noticed anyway i hope you haven't eaten yet i bought breakfast for us" he pulls out two plates and wine glasses and places them on the table " that smells amazing what all did you get i'm starving" " i bought bacon eggs and biscuits and gravy and to drink i brought you a blood bag of b positive your favorite and i got me a bottle of bourbon" "wow thank you stefan you didn't have to do all of this for me you know that right" " i know that i just feel like i have a lot of things to make up for and i know how much you love food so i figured this would be a good start" " hey now easy" i laugh at him he walks closer to me and pulls me into his arms and kisses the top of my head " i am truly in awe of you after everything i have done to you, you still manage to be nice to me and not hate me and i truly thank you for that i don't know what i would do if you hated me" i could see the pain in his eyes he really meant everything he was telling me " i have to be honest with you stefan i did hate you for a really long time i loved you with everything in me then you left me to be with elena you have no idea how bad that hurt me it took moving across the country and making new friends and a new life to repair what you broke but after a while the pain disappeared little by little until one day it was completely gone and so was my memory of you it was like you never existed like that part of my life was a bad dream but then you show up and boom a rush of emotions a rush of memories it was like the wound that took so long to heal busted back open it took everything i had not to break down right there in front of everyone it was in that moment that i realized i still loved you and seeing you was like a dream i never thought it would happen i loved you so much stefan you have no idea how much i did you had all my trust and now idk if i can ever trust you again and i'm ready to forgive you but forgetting is a harder fight" i realized i was telling him all my feelings that i had kept inside for the last 200 years it felt good to finally be able to tell him how i truly felt about everything that had happened between us i look at stefan to see tears rolling down his face i felt my heart break a little more i didn't mean to upset him he just needed to know the truth " you said loved is that still past tense do you still hate me" i was stunned by his question he really does still love me " no stefan it's not you just have to give me time to get over everything to build back trust with you ok if you can give me that i promise you stefan i will love you forever just give me time" i wipe the tears from stefan's face grab his face in my hands and tell him what i have been dying to say all day " that's my way of saying yes to your question from last night" i see a big grin come across his face he picks me up and swings me around the living room laughing " yes yes yes i am the luckiest man in the world i love you katerina petrova forever and always baby"