Beautiful Accident

Chapter 19: Long Time, No See

"So" - Caroline said with soothing, but 'I-need-something', tone of voice while rocking Lara in her arms. This afternoon, she went to the town to buy something new and appropriate for the dinner Stefan and Elena are hosting for Tyler. When she was heading out of her favorite store with couple of bags in her hand which contained few possible outfits, across the street she noticed the cutest baby dresses in the shop window. She never even noticed baby stores around the town before, and now they seemed to pop up in every corner. She bought two matching dresses for the girls and insisted they wear them tonight. Elena dressed Lara in no time, but Stefan was still having problems with putting a dress on Emily. Elena raised her look from the oven, in which were mini pizzas Stefan prepared, and Elena was supposed to keep an eye on them. "For how long do you know Tyler?" - Caroline asked while trying to pull her finger out of Lara's hand to fix her crumbled dress.

"Oh, since High School, but we weren't really friends then, only acquaintances. We became friends in college. We bumped into each other after a week, and since we were alone in the new town, we started hanging out" - Elena explained. She came closer to Lara and pulled her fingers over her head, messing up the little bundle of light brown hair she had on her head. She tried to take Lara out of Caroline's hands few times already, but Caroline wouldn't let her.

"I see" - she said while frowning at Elena, when she noticed she's trying to take the baby out of her arms again. So Elena chuckled and backed away. Caroline managed to pull her finger out of Lara's hands, which made her fuss, so Caroline straightened her dress in a hurry and placed her finger back in Lara's hands. Just as she did so, Lara jerked her leg and messed the dress up again. Caroline huffed, and Elena laughed lightly. "And how is he?" - Caroline raised her look and locked her eyes on Elena's face.

"Look Emily, auntie Caroline is trying to catch one more helpless fish in her net" - Stefan entered the room early enough to catch up on about who the two of them are talking about. Caroline turned her head to him and stuck her tongue out before turning her head back to Elena. Stefan chuckled lightly before lowering his look down at the smiling baby. "What are you smiling about?" - he said gently as he had put the palm of his hand on her belly and started cuddling her. She was clearly enjoying it since her smile was becoming wider and wider every second until it finally turned into a low, silent moan that resembled a laugh, which was the closets thing to a laugh she could do at this age.

Upon hearing her sisters voice, Lara reacted by jerking her legs in Caroline's arms. Stefan sat on the chair next to Caroline so the babies can be near each other, but Emily did not like the idea of them sitting, so she started fussing into Stefan's arms. He pouted at her, trying to calm her down, but since this little human in his arms was one of his three week spots, he stood up and started walking around the room, cradling her slowly in his arms.

He's going to spoil them, Elena often thought as she watched him with their daughters.

And both of them knew that was a fact.

"I don't think he's your type" - Elena said as she sat on the chair across Caroline when she accepted the fact neither Stefan or Caroline will give her one of the babies to hold.

Caroline raised her head to look at Elena and cocked her eyebrow at her. "And what is my type?" - she asked curiously with a cocked eyebrow and a mischievous smirk on her lips.

Elena's face expression became serious out of worry she offended Caroline, but deep down she knew Caroline doesn't get offended that easily and that she's probably overreacting, so she decided to keep calm. "Well, you know, he's not a kind of a guy who would elope to a deserted island and have sex on the beach 24/7" - Elena said cautiously, awaiting Caroline's reaction.

The lines of Caroline's face softened and she giggled, putting her hand over her mouth to suppress the sound of her voice. When the giggling stopped she removed her hand from her mouth and raised her eyebrow. "After they meet me, every guy is that kind of a guy" - Caroline said in vain. Sometimes, when it came to Caroline, it was hard to spot the difference between her being vain and her being confident, especially for people who knew nothing about her.