Another Chance: As a Human

Chapter Seventeen: We Got Him

Shortly after I made the announcement I get a group text from Caroline telling us the time and location. I pick up two different dresses, a black long sleeve fitted lace dress and a short strapless fitted light blue dress with lace down the sides. I hold them up in front of Silas and smile.

"Which one?" 

He looks in between them for a couple of seconds and then moves forward towards me. He bows his head down to my ear.

"That depends, which one do you want to be ripped off of you?" 

"Mmmm, blue it is." I smile as he walks past me towards the mirror.

"This isn't a tie event is it?" He asks

"No, if I was throwing a tie required party I would need a good couple of weeks to plan it. This was a last minute "truce" party." I make air quotations around truce.

"So does that mean-" I cut him off with my finger

"Not here," I whisper "They can hear." I point from my ear to the door

"I think they all left." 

"I wouldn't be too sure. We should check first before we go 'blowing our cover'." I whisper the last part

"Good idea. You check downstairs, I'll check the upstairs." He suggests

"How about this? You go check downstairs and I will check up here. I'm too lazy to go down the stairs." 

We both go our separate ways and he goes downstairs, I make a beeline to Stefan's room and I get to the doorway and Qetsiyah is sitting on his bed.

"Hey, where's Stefan?" I ask, leaning against the door frame

"He's in the shower." She answers

"And you're not in there with him? Shame." I get off the doorframe and enter the room.

I sit next to her on the bed and she sighs.

"You okay?" 

"Yes." She snaps

"You don't seem okay." I say

"Okay, I'm not. I hate how Silas just walks around acting like he didn't fuck me over two thousand years ago, then he just switches from one doppelganger to another. It makes me angry." 

"I wouldn't have taken you as a curser. If that's the case-"

"It is." She cuts me off

"Shouldn't you be angry at yourself then?" I question

"What do you mean?" 

"You switched from Silas to Stefan, How is that any different than him switching from Amara to me?" I cock my eyebrow

"He was just head over heels for her, claiming she was his one true love. Then he just switched to you." 

"Let me ask you this, Are you still in love with Silas?" 

"No." She answers quickly

"Don't lie. I know he is your one true love, I know love when I see it. It's not the fact that he switched from Amara to me, it's the fact that he isn't with you." 

"I'm happy with Stefan." She states

"I'm sure you are Qetsiyah, but no one can fight their feelings over their one true love. I certainly haven't gotten over mine." 

"Who is your one true love?" 

"Do you even have to ask? You know who it is, but Stefan is never going to love me back and I have accepted that. It's time for you to accept that you are not Silas's one true love."

We hear footsteps and Stefan is standing by his bathroom door. He has a towel hanging on his hips and one slung over his shoulder, his abs glistening with droplets of water. I got off the bed and turned to Qetsiyah

"You definitely should have joined him." 

Stefan looks at me and I smile towards Qetsiyah.

"I'll go now. Good talk Qetsiyah." I turn around and walk out the door

"Close the door please Katherine." Stefan asks

"Sure thing Stef." I say and close the door

I walk back down the hall and happen to bump into Silas. 

"Downstairs is clear." 

"Stefan and Qetsiyah are in his room. No one else has rooms up here accept Stefan, us, and Nadia. We should go get stuff for the party and we can get ready at the dorms. Bring our bags, we are going back tonight."

Stefan's POV

"What was that about?" I ask opening my closet door 

"Nothing really."  She states

"Doesn't seem like nothing, you're upset." 

"We just talked. That's all. I was upset, but now I'm not." She smiles

"You can talk to me when you are upset, even if it's about Silas." 

"You heard the conversation." She says

"I did. Whatever feeling you still have for Silas, it's okay. I love you and nothing will change that." 

"You love me?" She asks

"I do." 

She stands up and walks towards me. She presses her lips to mine and we kiss for a few seconds before she pulls away. 

"I love you too." 

I pick her up and lay her on the bed and she laughs.

Katherine POV

"We have an hour and a half until we get to the dorms, we should talk about, you know, last night." Silas speaks

"I'll need more than an hour and a half to talk about that."

"Why so long?" He questions

"Well we'll need to talk about what happened, what's going to happen, do we get together or is it strictly sex. Things like that."

"That's easy, what happened was great and I loved it." 

"So did I." I smile at him and he returns it

"It's not going to be strictly sex, we know the feelings we have for each other and I would like to explore them more." 

"How did you go from saying that even though I look like Amara, my face makes you want to throw up to you being in love with me?" I ask

"I realized how great you actually are."

"Not as great as Amara, I assume," I say 

He reaches over and grabs my hand.

"Amara is dead. I've accepted that, have you?" He asks 

"Of course." 

"I just have one more question." He looks at me

I turn my head to face him.

"Did you say 'I love you' last night?" He asks 

I stay silent for a few minutes while he parks. 

"We're here." I say before unbuckling and getting out of the car