The joys of spring (Caroline)

YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE YOUR EYES

if ten million fireflies lit up
THE WORLD AS I FELL ASLEEP

The Spring Fling was soon approaching and as usual Caroline had taken it upon herself to be put in charge and plan every single detail of the event that was to take place. Some people wondered why the blonde would even volunteer and put so much of her time in planning a school dance. Didn’t she have better things to do? Especially now that she was a vampire? But Caroline didn’t see it that way. The girl liked to hold on to the human aspects of her life as much as possible. Although she would live forever as a bloodsucking creature, she still enjoyed school dances, cheerleading, and planning events. What was it about these humanly things Caroline found appealing? Maybe it was the normalcy of them all. Normalcy that didn’t involve curses, cures, sacrifices, the killing of 12 hybrids, drowning the mayor…

At that thought Caroline stopped thinking on that. Today was supposed to be normal, it was supposed to be productive. And Caroline couldn’t be at her most productive state if her mind was somewhere else the whole time. Today she and Elena were going out to shop for the decorations. They needed colorful streamers, beautiful flowers, and other spring-like decorations to put about the gym and give it an elegant and natural feel. And this dance had to be perfect! Spring was about new beginnings, hope, that even after the harsh winter things still live. Symbolically it connected with the girl and the current predicament they had all been put through. And it gave hope that after everything, they would still go on and never give up. That maybe good things may happen to them one day! That something for once may actually go their way and no one would have to suffer.

Finally she arrived at the town square and stopped in place immediately, seeing who it was waiting where Elena was not found. Finally it occurred to her to check her phone where she found a text from Elena… that the girl had other things to do and sent Damon. Seriously! What was this supposed to be? Bonding time? Couldn’t Elena have found another time to try and get them to bond or something? Now she had a dance to plan and she didn’t want to deal with Damon in the midst of her planning. But she couldn’t do it all alone, she gave a defeated and irritated sigh putting her phone back away and walking to the older Salvatore Brother. “Hey Damon. Okay, so a few grounds rules in order to make this as painless for the both of us. I need serious opinions, no snarky comments, no distractions. I have a dance to plan and I intend on actually getting things done. Understood?” She asked as Caroline was already getting into her control-freak ways that always happened whenever she was put in charge of an event and things changed.

YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE YOUR EYES

if ten million fireflies lit up
THE WORLD AS I FELL ASLEEP

Caroline knew exactly who it was who she was talking to and the hopes of him following any of these rules or even being slightly tolerable was very slim. Okay, maybe Damon wasn’t as bad as Caroline usually made him out to be. But he was irritating! And arrogant! And sort of an ass at times. Not to mention their past wasn’t exactly the most delightful… nor did he ever apologize for what he did either. But why would he? She was human back then and he probably just found it a natural part of life. But it seemed everyone had forgotten about that, it was put behind them upon Damon’s so called redemption. But to be fair he did save Caroline’s life once or twice. Sure the only reason he did so was for Elena’s sake, but it still did kind of mean something. And despite how deep Damon got under Caroline’s skin… she would save his life as well if a situation ever called for it.

But those nice and sweet thoughts of saving his life and how he wasn’t even too bad were immediately lost as words came out of his mouth. “Aw, Damon. I didn’t realize you wanted to get your nails done. If that is really such a problem we can go right now.” she began with a fake smile and a mockingly sweet tone. “Oh definitely, you could use a puppy. It may actually be your only friend.” Caroline retorted with a smirk. But since when were these types of comment not common between the two of them? It seemed as if it was Damon’s goal to irritate her to no end so she merely returned the favor. Although the blonde did wonder how long the two of them could last without any sort of snarky comments exchanged.

It would have been a lie if Caroline had said Damon didn’t catch her off guard when grabbing her arm and pulling her slightly towards the shops. Well maybe if he was in a hurry to get this over with. “Fine by me, let’s just make this quick because I didn’t ask for your help either. But unfortunately Elena bailed and she left me with you so I guess we both need to get over it. I swear, she probably chose you as a replacement in hopes of bonding time between us.” Caroline said as a small chuckle managed to escape at the thought of the last part. Caroline and Damon bonding!. It was something that could never happen. After all, both made it clear that they only tolerated the other for Elena’s sake. But Caroline wasn’t going to befriend him for Elena’s sake. Any sort of friendship between the two would require an apology from him… and him getting over his pride and making the first move of a truce as well.

“First we need some nice colored streamers… I was thinking like a green and blue type theme with them. Those seem to be spring-like colors.” She said as she began to walk towards one of the stores deciding to make the best of things until everything got handled. “As for the dress, well I was planning on it. But I can save that for a later date, just for your sake because that is the merciful person I am.” she teased slightly before opening the door to one store and holding it open while she waited for him to follow behind her. This would certainly prove to be an interesting day… and Elena so owed her for this.