The Red Herring: A Mikaelson Love Story

Chapter 5: The Impact of a Full Moon

The next day, while all of my friends were at school I went to the park to do some studying of my own. The fun thing about home-schooling is that you can dictate your hours, the boring part is being alone.

"On such a beautiful day like this one, you choose to have your head stuck in a paranormal occurrences textbook." I felt my heart flutter at the sound of Nick's voice but also felt my head explode with anger.

"What the hell do you want, you dick?" He sat down beside me on the bench and clutched at his heart.

"How you wound me." He said mockingly. "Maybe I'm here to see you."

"Maybe I would've reached that conclusion on my own, if not for the fact that you said you couldn't do this." I snapped.

"Feisty today, aren't we?" He said with a chuckle that made me want to jump into his arms. "What I actually said was that we shouldn't do it."

"And?"

"And that hasn't changed."

"So why are you here then?"

"Because even though this is a bad idea, I can't bring myself to do the sensible thing and stop things before you get hurt." He said, looking into my eyes with his gorgeously blue ones. "I guess I'm just selfish when it comes to you."

"From the second I laid eyes on you Nick, I knew you would never hurt me. I told you that I don't believe in monsters and even if I did, you aren't one. So why shouldn't we do this?"

"There are things you don't know."

"Then tell me."

"If I told you things would change."

"And why is that a bad thing?"

"Because not all change is good." He said with a sigh. "There are some sins that I fear are unforgivable."

"The whole point of sins is that they're forgivable. All of them. Just tell me."

"I can't." He answered. I turned away from him and he sighed deeply. "Don't be like that."

"Like what?" I said curtly.

"Upset with me." He turned me to face him and pulled me closer to him so that his face was mere inches from mine. He leaned in to kiss me but I turned my face away from him.

"I can't take you not being honest with me, Nick." I said putting my head back in my book. "Do you know that I have never told a single person what I did to Elena? Not one person knows except you, me and her. And I just met you. I feel like I can tell you literally anything and you don't feel the same. I can't do that to myself. I won't. If you don't have the feelings that I have for you, then maybe you were right and we should just cut ties now."

"The feelings I have for you are stronger than you know. Let me assure you that you do not have anything to doubt. But these feelings I have for you is why I cannot tell you because should you hate me for it, I fear I would break beyond repair."

I sighed and turned to face him again, already feeling exhausted despite the day only having been started. "Give me some time to think about it. And study please, I have grades to uphold."

"Paranormal occurrences are easy." He told me. "Vampires, werewolves, witches, doppelgangers and hybrids are real, zombies, unicorns, superheroes are not."

"Wow! Thank you, now I know all I need to know!" I replied sarcastically. "Also, hybrids aren't real."

"I beg your pardon?"

"They don't exist."

"Klaus is a hybrid, an untapped one at that but a hybrid nonetheless."

"How do you know that?" I asked him in surprise. "Do you know him?"