Knowing Caroline for as long as you have felt like a blessing. At a young age, you had promised to say best friends forever, no matter what — and that’s exactly what you did.

You were there for every boy she had thrown herself at, there to pick up the pieces of her heart they had broken, you were there when she became a vampire and despite not really knowing what to do, you had helped her adapt along with Stefan. You were there when her mom died, and you even stayed when she shut her humanity off.

You had both been with numerous people throughout the years, but your heart always found itself wanting Caroline.

You pushed the feeling down, swearing to not break the promise of best friend’s forever. What you didn’t know, was that Caroline had spent the years longing as well.

You understood her on a different level than anyone else, and you were also one of the few people to truly love her through and through, and one of the few people who really saw her and wanted to stick around, even when things got messy.

Despite your feelings for one another, you both hid away in other people, hoping the feelings would eventually die out. But they never did.

Your friends weren’t oblivious — they could pick up on the tension between you two, could read the unspoken feelings — and they often teased you two about it.

Bonnie and Elena encouraged Caroline to just talk to you after having to listen to her rant one day, and despite being stubborn at first, Caroline agreed it was for the best.

It took a while, some difficult conversations, but you finally talked it out, and your relationship has been going smoothly ever since.

That’s how you found yourself here now, years later, squished together on the couch for your weekly movie nights, some rom-com playing on the TV. She was yours — finally yours, after all this time.