Caroline's pissed off at me, but since when is that new? [ he says, drawing back from the embrace.
because it is new. he and caroline had found their footing again, a way to be friends -- good friends -- in the wake of their failed relationship and everything that had destroyed that spark between them. and now things were crumbling all over again, because he was keeping a tight lid on things she wanted to know, but he refused to tell her. ...that, and he was paling around with rebekah, something else caroline vehemently detested. ]