Chapter 1:

"Come on Elena we need this!" I whined as I dragged her to the car as she dragged her feet on the walkway from the boarding house, "Plus, you already agreed!" I reminded her.

"I changed my mind Care… after everything that has happened-" she said in a low voice.

"It's because of everything that has happened that we need to do this! It's a tradition and I will not sit and let it pass by!" and I saw a small grin spread across her features at my familiar dramatics, but I wasn't wrong. Every senior class snuck into the school at night at the beginning of the year to set up pranks for the following morning; it was an expected and tolerated tradition… and this year would top all the rest.

"It just… I don't know. It doesn't feel right without Stefan…" she said as her expression fell again and I had to suppress the sigh that built up within me. I noticed that over the summer, with Stefan gone with the notorious Klaus, who I had yet to even meet, Elena had been spending quite a bit of time with Damon. But I couldn't really blame her because I had been spending more and more time with Tyler, helping him on full moons and through his transitions, as well as just enjoying being his girlfriend.

"Elena… I get that you're upset about Stefan leaving… but our lives can't stop. We need to keep on living so that Stefan has something to come home to" I smiled at her, and my sympathy grew as her chin trembled. She loved Stefan, he was her epic love, but he had made it very clear that he needed to do this thing with Klaus and that he doesn't want to be with her anymore; although I was pretty sure that was for her protection. "Tyler and Jeremy went all the way to Rustville to buy supplies and the text has already gone out… and it'll be fun! I promise to let you brood tomorrow, and I'll even bring the ice cream" I wiggled my eyebrows at her and she finally cracked a smile and nodded, rolling her eyes in submission. I happily resumed pulling her down the path and into the car.

The ride to Bonnie's house was quiet. I gave Elena her space to get into the right mindset for tonight as I mentally ran through a checklist in my head of things that still need to be bought or prepared ahead of time. Did I write superglue on the list for Tyler?... And what if they didn't get enough plastic cups? I specifically wrote 700, but could that have looked like 100? And then there's the dominos and clothespin traps… and the balloons. And then there was the issue of Matt not answering any of my calls and texts over the last two days. He seemed to be struggling, and the more me and Tyler tried to help the more distant he got.

"Earth to Caroline" Elena said as she waved her hand in front of my face and I snapped back to the present.

"Are we going in or…" she gestured to the left and I noticed that we had pulled up in front of Bonnies house and we were just sitting in the car. Probably not the safest way to drive…

"Oh god… I'm sorry I just have a million things on my mind" I laughed and we moved to exit the car and walk up the front path. Elena kept shooting me strange glances but I just ignored her… she didn't know what it was like to always be checking things off of mental lists and preparing and volunteering for a hundred things a week. Bonnie answered the door with a smile and ushered us inside to a world of chaos. Tyler and three of his teammates were in the living room blowing up balloons, and he grinned at me as he tied his balloon, making my heart skip a beat. A few of the cheerleaders were in the dining room organizing task lists and sectioning off areas of the school and I smiled as other classmates filed around busy with other tasks. I waved to Tyler as I walked across the entryway and into the dining room to look over the other cheerleader's plans. Everything seemed to be in order and surprisingly well organized, except…

"Pamela, the toilet paper is for the pool area, to be flung across and hung from all of those raptors…" and she nodded along and scribbled into her notebook, "And Dana, the balloons are for the football players to tie up with the netting in the cafeteria; the gym will be filled with the cups of water" and she too started scribbling into her own notebook. The rest of the details looked to be in order and I threw myself into the rest of the planning as the sun finally set, and then there was nothing to do but wait. As evening turned into night the pizza was ordered and the shots were taken with toasts to the best senior year ever… and then finally it was almost late enough to pack the cars and head to the school.

I excused myself from the group and headed down the hall to the bathroom. Everyone was excited and happy and some were even a bit tipsy, I shook my head and smirked at my reflection in the bathroom mirror. My phone buzzed in my pocket and I eagerly looked down at it, expecting to see Matt's face, but it was my mom's.

"Hey mom, what's up?"

"Hey honey, I just wanted to call and check in since I'll be at the station all night" her tired voice said over the line.

"Everything is fine. I'm at the boarding house with Elena and Bonnie right now and-" but I cringed as a loud cheer and laughter could be heard through the door. Even though prank night was tolerated I didn't want to broadcast to the sheriff of the town that it was happening tonight.

"What was that?"

"The TV, Damon refuses to turn it down!" I huffed in annoyance and my mother chuckled.

"That sounds like him. Well alright Caroline, goodnight. I'll see you in the morning sweetheart"

"Alright mom, love you"

"Love you too" and the call ended. I immediately dialed Matt's number for the fifth time that day and again it went straight to voicemail… I sighed in frustration. After washing my hands and fluffing my hair I exited the bathroom, closing the door behind me, as I felt strong arms come around my waist.

"Feel like heading back into that bathroom?" Tyler's deep voice asked, his breath brushing over my ear, and I grinned as I quickly spun in his arms to face him.

"And why would I want to do that?"

"Because it feels like I haven't been inside you in weeks!" he groaned as he started to kiss my neck, and I felt that familiar bubble of annoyance grow in my chest.

"Tyler, stop…" I sighed as I pushed against his chest. We had sex three days ago, and I felt like every conversation with him since then had been about a redo… most conversations actually.

"What Care!" he said angrily as he finally stepped back, but he didn't remove his hands from my waist.

"I feel like all we ever talk about now is sex Tyler! I'm sick of you always turning every conversation around to that!" I said angrily, finally getting it off my chest after weeks of holding it in.

"Well I'm sorry that I love my girlfriend and I just want to show her that!"

"That's such bullshit Tyler" I sighed and I move to walk around him but he grabs my arm tightly, wrenching a gasp from me. "What the hell Tyler"

"I'm sorry okay Care… I don't mean to make it seem like sex is all that I think about. It's just that I'm still so new to being a werewolf, with all the hormones. And I thought that you felt them too-"

"I do Tyler, I just have the ability to let other things occupy my mind now and again. Trust me, vampire emotions are stronger than anything I have ever felt and it took me a while to get a handle on them, but I did, and so can you"

"Your right. I'll make more of an effort… Do you forgive me?" he asked, his eyebrows raised in question and I couldn't help the small smile that spread over my face at his comical expression. I did care about Tyler, and I knew how much he struggled with the heightened emotions of being a supernatural… and of course I didn't want to ruin tonight.

"Of course I do" and he grinned in return and swooped down to kiss me deeply before releasing me to put his arm over my shoulder and we made our way back to our classmates.

Less than an hour later we were all loading everything into the cars and were driving to the back of the school. I fished out the set of master keys I had compelled off of the janitor and unlocked the cafeteria doors and then everyone was off on their missions. Tyler and the rest of the guys started tying the netting to the ceiling of the cafeteria as everyone continued to carry supplies into the school under them. I lost track of everyone as they were busy with their tasks, but I quickly found Elena and Bonnie and we set to work setting up the clothespin traps in all of the freshman homerooms. After another hour Tyler came to join us. We kept as many lights off as possible, mostly trying to navigate all of the traps and halls with flashlights… and then the door opened to the room that we were working in and a few of the traps snapped up.

"Oh come on! Seriously! Do you know how long it took us to set all of these up?" I exclaim as Matt turned on the light to the classroom, looking extremely surprised and very sweaty.

"Forgot about senior prank night, huh?" Tyler asked from behind me, where he leaned against the wall.

"Apparently…" Matt said as he looked around the floor at all of the traps

"How could you forget? We've only been waiting for this since like freshman year" I ask in indignation.

"Yea if I'm doing this, then you're doing this" Elena said from her seat on a desk, gesturing between her and Matt with a grin.

"I'm kind of surprised that ANY of you are doing this…" and Tyler threw his hands up in annoyance with Matt's statement, having heard my many ramblings about keeping with human traditions and milestones.

"Caroline's making us" Bonnie said from her seat on the desk beside Elena

"We are seniors…" I begin calmly, "And these are the memories that will stay with us forever and if we don't make then now then-"

"What's the point of it all" Elena finished my sentence with another grin.

"Go ahead make fun, I don't care" I say with a huff

"You guys are all lame and I've got 2 more classrooms to prank" Tyler said as he walked past us and out of the room, and I gestured to him in triumph, at least someone was in the pranking spirit. And then Elena hopped off of her desk and made her own way to the door, and I was worried she was throwing in the towel…

"Hey where are you going?" Bonnie asked

"To superglue Alaric's desk shut… I'm making memories" she grinned over her shoulder at us and skipped into the hallway and out of sight

"I love you!" I laughed as I called after her. Sometime later Bonnie disappeared with Matt with the promise to put him to work, so I went around to the different areas of the school to make sure everything was being done. The gym was slowly filling with cups of water, the stairways had been blocked off with caution tape, the cafeteria was done with the net system rigged to the main entrance, the teachers toilets were being superglued shut… but nobody had taken care of the door handles yet! So that is what I found myself doing, working in a slightly different wing of the school as I poured a glob of honey onto each of the classroom door handles. I was just about done with my first container of honey when I felt arms come around me and a kiss against my hair and I knew it was Tyler.

"Do you think Matts going to be ok?" I asked over my shoulder, having been unable to get his unhappy expression out of my head from earlier.

"I'm kissing you and you're wondering about your ex-boyfriend?" Tyler asked with an annoyed sigh, and I turned around to look at him.

"I am asking if you think that OUR friend, who we both love, is going to be ok" and his expression turned serious as he considered my question.

"I think he probably doesn't have a lot of people to talk to anymore" Tyler answered seriously, "I think he's struggling more than he lets on… I think that I love how big your heart is" he smiled as he leaned toward me a bit.

"I just want this school year to be great, you know? Everyone to be happy. Even in the midst of all of the unhappy bits" I frowned

"I'm happy" Tyler said with a small smile, breaking out my own smile in return and I bent forward and laid my lips against his. The kiss quickly heated up as he backed me into a nearby wall. I closed my eyes as his hands traveled up my waist to cup my face with his fingers tangled in my hair, and I ran my hands up to rest on his muscular shoulders. I brushed my body lightly against his and he returned the favor by crushing his hips against mine as he secured me tighter against the wall. I grinned against his lips and blurred our positions, so that I was the one pushing him against the wall. He smirked down at me and ran his hands from my shoulders, down my sides and around to squeeze my rear.

"I'm stronger" I teased

"I'm bigger" he teased right back as he pulled my body flush against his, grinding his hips against mine as he continued kissing me. I quickly got more and more turned on as his lips traveled from my lips down to my neck and I sighed… but then Tyler's head shot up as we heard a door close nearby, and we focused our hearing for the noise of an approaching classmate. After a moment of hearing nothing I turned my attention back to him and laid a light kiss against his lips, smiling contently.

"Should we-" Tyler began to ask, but then stopped short as his eyes flicked to something over my shoulder. I didn't even have time to wonder or look around before I heard a loud crack and everything went black…

I'm sorry it took me so long to start the sequel! I rewrote this chapter like 4 times, never fully satisfied with how I was portraying the characters, especially Caroline. It's hard going from my own version of her, to how the show portrays her… at least at first. Obviously I am going to change the plot of the story and even gradually change Caroline and a few of the other characters to suit my own diabolical needs, but I wanted to start out authentic TVD.

Let me know what you think and if you have plot ideas that you would like to see!

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