Oh, shut up. [ she knows he's teasing. she also knows that talking about being in pageants and homecoming parades doesn't exactly paint a picture of a super cool big city girl — but she's never been one of those, and she wouldn't know the first thing about trying to pretend to be. she's always been the little girl who dreamed of winning miss mystic falls (and then did), who made a wedding inspiration album at eight, who planned the policeman's raffle every year since she was thirteen and who never missed an opportunity to run a committee or plan an event. ] Like you're so much cooler.

[ he wasn't. but neither was she. they were both out of their element here in different ways. ]

I kind of like what I'm finding, though. It's different, but... [ a pause as they reach the door, and whether or not he plans to open it for her, caroline does it anyway. she's impatient. he can pull out a seat for her, if he really wants to. ] I don't know. There's a lot of stuff that I don't understand, but I'm just trying to take it one day at a time, you know?