Well, this sucks. As if the first three days he was here weren't filled to the brim with things he didn't want to deal with or think about, let's add Christmas into the mix. It doesn't feel like Christmas, given that it's supposed to be early June (late May? TVD your timeline...) for him. He just graduated, and suddenly it's Christmas? Still, the atmosphere does him no favors, only serving to remind him of what happened last Christmas and how his inability to deal with that tragedy drove him to run off to the lakehouse to assist Damon in training Jeremy rather than stay behind and help Tyler deal with the loss of his mother. And now he was living in the house that was home to three dead Lockwoods, and one that was on the run.
Didn't really put him in the Christmas spirit -- or make him want to leave the place, to be completely honest.
When Rebekah returns, he's lying on the sofa in the living room, some knock-off Nintendo DS in hand, busy playing some game that likes to think it's one of the Final Fantasy games, but isn't. "Over here."