A/N: Hey everyone! For those of you who have read our fics before, sorry its been so long since we've posted anything we've been crazy busy this new school year. For those of you who are new to our account, hope you all enjoy this fic and be sure to read some of our other TVD stories! Now, just to give you guys some background info for this fic:
Caroline is Damon and Stefan's cousin. Liz is dead so Caroline and Bill live with Bill's brother, Jullian Salvatore, his wife, Lily, and her sons, Defan. As for the Mikaelsons Freya and Finn are in college and Kol and Rebekah are attending boarding school in London (they will make appearances eventually) Ester died several years ago so Klaus and Elijah live with Mikael as well as Katherine and Elena. Katherine and Elena are twins and have been close with the Mikaelsons since they were young so after their parents died they moved in with them and have been living with the Mikaelsons ever since. Mikael and Jullian are the heads of two rival mob organizations and their children are heavily involved in the crime of it all. For the most part, all the characters in this fic grew up together in Mystic Falls, but all the Mikaelsons have attended boarding school at some point (hence the lovely British accents)
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There was a time before all the guns and violence found its way into the life of Caroline Salvatore.
Those days were long gone now but as she studied a polaroid picture taken years ago she couldn't help but miss them.
"Lemonade! Lemonade for sale!" Caroline had yelled, her voice being much too loud for her small figure. "Come get some lemonade! Only a dollar!"
Her cousin, Damon, had smiled at her as he counted the money they had earned so far.
"Come get some-" Caroline's shouts had been seized by the sight of two Mikaelson brothers, Klaus and Elijah, setting up their own stand right across the street. She placed her hands on her hips glaring heavily as Klaus waved to her, a cheeky smile on his lips.
"Damon! Look," she announced, and Damon's smile was replaced with a frown as he caught sight of the Mikaelsons.
The next few days had been filled with arguments. They were all still far too young to be aware of the real arguments happening between their families, the ones that involved a lot more than just lemonade.
Caroline and Damon eventually won. This was due to the fact that Caroline promised Klaus she would kiss him if only he ended the Mikaelson Family's 'Lemonade Land'. Klaus had at first claimed he had no desire to kiss her, even mentioning that she clearly had cooties. But one hour later he approached her and told her he agreed to the deal. They then shared an awkward, messy kiss. Being that they were 8 at the time it was not only their first kiss together but rather both of their first kiss ever.
They made a deal not to tell anyone and that was the end of it.
Caroline scoffed shoving the picture of her and Damon's lemonade stand into her dresser drawer. She would forever regret letting her first kiss be with that idiot. The enemy.
"Caroline!"
She sighed at the sound of her uncle's voice.
"What?!" She screamed out, quickly closing the dresser drawer and turning to her mirror to make sure her hair and makeup had not changed since she last checked it five minutes ago. After a minute she paused realizing Julian had yet to reply. Her uncle had an incredible skill of calling out her name as if it were the end of the world and then not replying to her when she questioned what he required.
"So annoying…" She muttered as she rushed out of her room and down the stairs, taking them two at a time. It was a miracle that she didn't trip given the heels that she wore.
"What is it?" She questioned again as she came into view of her uncle who sat on the couch reading the newspaper.
"I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday my love-" He froze as he looked up from the newspaper catching sight of what she was wearing. "What is this?"
"A dress."
"Says who?"
"Calvin Klein!" Caroline whined tugging down at the fabric of the dress, hoping to make it seem more appropriate for her uncle.
"Change. Now." He ordered, looking back to the paper in a way that said 'Conversation Over'.
She rolled her eyes turning back to the stairs just in time to collide with her cousin.
"Hot dress. Don't tell me we have a party to attend!" Damon stated teasingly as he looked her over.
Caroline grinned. "We do. Don't tell me you forgot?"
"Forgot what? That it's my favorite cousin's birthday!" He exclaimed before pulling her into a hug.
A giggle escaped Caroline's lips as she hugged him back tightly. "I'm your only cousin, idiot."
They both laughed at this comment until Julian's voice cut through the room. "Caroline. Change. Now."
Damon rolled his eyes slightly, "Come on Dad, it's her 18th birthday let her live a little."
"Do not encourage your cousin's radical behavior. Birthday or not I will not be allowing my niece to leave this house looking like a whore." Julian spat out glaring heavily at his oldest son before setting his eyes back on Caroline. "Now darling, go change while Damon and I have a nice talk about his behavioral issues."
Caroline sighed but nodded obediently before heading up the stairs. Julian and Damon's argumentative screams followed her and she couldn't help but slam the door extra loud as she entered her room.
"Happy birthday to me."
The piercing ring of the doorbell rang through the Mikaelson house causing Klaus to glance up, but not he nor anyone else made any move to answer the door.
The doorbell rang again.
"Someone answer the bloody door!" Klaus said with an eye roll.
"You have two working legs don't you?" Katherine retorted with a fake smile.
The doorbell rang again.
Klaus rolled his eyes yet again. "Elijah!"
Elijah sighed. "Niklaus, I'm correcting Elena's French homework." He replied, continuing to type quickly on his laptop as he spoke.
The doorbell rang again.
"So your creepy crush on my sister has left you paralyzed?" Katherine reasoned with a grin, resulting in another sigh from Elijah. "How come you never do my homework, Lijah?"
"Katerina, I am not completing Elena's homework I am simply revising it so that-"
The doorbell rang again in a continuous echo as if a young child was repeatedly slamming down on the button.
Klaus groaned. "Bloody hell!" He muttered as he made his way to the door, yanking it open to reveal one of his least favorite people dressed in a dragon costume. "What are you doing here Joshua!"
"Klaus! Um, hi, I was just um, I'm sorry if that bell ringing was aggravating you, I didn't mean to uh, you see I just have a very important invitation here and uh did you get a haircut because it looks great totally great and scary, not that I'm calling you scary, not that you're not scary if you want to be and um I just-"
"Spit it out already!" Klaus complained, having enough of Josh's typical nervous rambling.
"Right, uh, is Katherine here?" Josh questioned as he shuffled through his bag pulling out a golden envelope.
"Yes."
"Great! Well, I have an invitation here for her that I was instructed to give to her and only her so do you think that maybe you could get her, I mean, please."
Klaus narrowed his eyes. "Who exactly is this invitation from?"
"Well, I'm not really supposed to say-"
"Joshua!"
"It's from Caroline Salvatore! It's an invitation to her 18th birthday party tonight. She has me running around in this stupid costume handing out these invitations, not that I'm complaining! I mean it's totally fine and-"
Klaus ignored the blabbering coming from the idiot in a dragon costume on his front porch as he snatched the golden envelope from Josh's hand. He ripped it open to find it was indeed an invitation to Caroline's party that would be commencing in less than an hour. On the bottom of the card in the perfectly elegant script that could only belong to Caroline Salvatore was a message specifying that Katherine was not to bring her sister or any Mikaelsons with her tonight. Klaus couldn't help but smile amused by this message.
"Uh, if Caroline asks will you tell her you never saw the invite because she said she would cut off my legs and feed them to me if you or-"
"Goodbye, Josh!" Klaus slammed the door shut before the blubbering dragon could get another word in and made his way back to his family's sitting room to find Katherine now had Elijah's laptop while Elijah tried, with very little success, to take it back.
"Who was that Niky?" Katherine questioned as she continued to type away on the laptop while holding it out of Elijah's reach.
Klaus rolled his eyes at the nickname. "We have a party to get to, I suggest you two get ready."
Katherine and Elijah both looked to him confused so he tossed the invitation to them and Katherine quickly picked it up scanning the piece of paper. "Funny, because it looks more like I have a party to go to that you are very clearly banned from."
Klaus shrugged with a smirk. "Wouldn't be the first time we crashed a Salvatore party."
Elijah sighed. "Niklaus, is this truly a good idea?"
Klaus rolled his eyes as he ignored his brother's question and began to make his way to his room.
"Be ready in twenty minutes, we wouldn't want to be late."
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