Who: Caroline & Stefan When: Saturday Night; After this. Where: Their place What: Setting some things straight Warnings: Fluff
Caroline couldn’t help but feel that maybe she stepped over a line. Why did certain things become so petty to her? Caroline knew she should have just kept her mouth shut about Stefan talking to that girl but she didn’t and now she wondered if maybe Stefan doubted her ability to doubt him. Caroline knew that Stefan wasn’t that kind of guy, the one that flirted and made eyes at other girls while in a relationship with another but Caroline’s could be so self-absorbed in her own jealous tendencies that things got blurred and she saw things that weren’t really there. So, yes, she thought that maybe Stefan was being a little “nicer” than usual but Stefan was a nice guy. She couldn’t hold that against him, right?
She was just being silly or that’s what Caroline was telling herself. Caroline knew that she needed to have more confident and tell her heightened emotions to snuff it. While things between her and Stefan hadn’t been easy they had seriously been trying to make time for themselves after the whole flu debacle. They weren’t really together due to their issues with Stefan focused on helping who he could and Caroline unable to think of anything but helping Elena with Bonnie. She was glad that things were settling now and Caroline wanted to get back on track with the person who mattered most.
She didn’t have anything fancy for them to drink but there was some left over bottles of cheap champagne that Caroline saved from the beach party in the fridge. She cracked one open and poured herself a glass, embarrassingly drinking the first one too quickly as she waited. She was pouring her second glass when she heard the door open, her eyes lifting just as Stefan stepped inside.
“Stefan, hey,” Caroline greeted, standing up without the glass in her hand because she didn’t want to make Stefan think that she was sitting there drinking her woes away. “Before you say anything I just want to say again that I was wrong to think what I was thinking. It’s not really the kind of relationship I want to have because I do trust you. You’ve never given me a reason not to.”