Caroline leaned into his touch, seeking the solace she knew she could find there as she shut her eyes. No, it wasn’t simple, but there lives had stopped being simple so long ago. Even before the Salvatore brothers had come to town. The days of hide and seek and catching fireflies in the summer had run out on them years before, replaced by different challenges, and then after that turned on their heads by the supernatural element thrown into the mix. Nothing was ever going to be simple for them ever again.
“I don’t think anyone knows what to tell me,” she murmured, fingers curling into his shirt as she hugged him, not as tightly as she could. She’d learned to be careful with her strength. Especially around Matt. “I don’t know what to tell me.” Or why her head and heart were such a mess.
“I love Tyler and that makes it even more confusing. I miss him so much. But then every time we had me go to be the distraction, to try and get whatever it was needed out of Klaus, I kept seeing new pieces to him. Parts that I really liked, that I’ve been drawn to?” Like a moth to a flame. If she got too close would he burn her up? “And then here. Everything just got flipped around, Matty, and I can’t even describe what its like when we talk. When I hang out with him for a few hours I either come home mad as hell or so damn happy I could burst. And then I think of everything and hate myself a little more.”