'The Vampire Diaries': Candice Accola Dishes On Caroline's Birthday, Tyler's Future, Daddy Drama

After being absent from the epic midseason premiere of "The Vampire Diaries," Caroline (Candice Accola) returns for her 18th birthday party in this week's new episode, "Our Town."

The only catch? She doesn't really feel like celebrating. Even the undead have their emotional breakdowns. And we can't really blame her. With all of the angst in Mystic Falls, we can understand why she's not in the mood to party. She is, however, in the mood for tequila, but we'll get to that later.

HuffPost TV chatted with Accola about Caroline's broody birthday, her future with Tyler, and the Forbes family drama.

This episode is going to focus on Caroline's 18th birthday, but I hear that she's not too excited about it. So what can you tell me about that?
Caroline's 18th birthday is the first time that she's truly realizing that her being a vampire is going to hold her back from a lot of firsts and a lot of moments in her life that she's, since this moment, been looking forward to. A lot of people look forward to their 18th...

My name is Ellie Brooklyn Greene, I have 2 sisters, a dog German Sheperd named Jezebel, I live in Brooklyn, New York, my favorite actress is Candice Accola because she is way prettier than Nina Dobrev... Sorry Nina, I love to watch The Vampire Diaries, 16 Candles, and Glee sometimes. I'm the captain of the cheer squad and champion swimer I can hold my breath for 2 minutes and I can sing very well. Some say I'm another triple threat to all the actresses out there. I want to meet Candica Accola and Kayla Ewell. I were boot heels and black jeans and shirts that say I'm with stooped. Some people say I look like Bella Thorne because of my bouncy long red blond and brown hair. I think my attitude is more goody to shoes not dumb dance diva. Haha. My favorite song to listen to is Me Against The Music Glee version. My friends like to call me girl scout going on shining star of LA. My dream is to be an actress on The Vampire Diaries.

Vampire Diaries' Candice Accola on
Caroline's Feelings for Klaus and Tyler's Whereabouts

The surprisingly touching birthday moment that The Vampire Diaries gave Caroline and Klaus was just the beginning. At the Originals’ fancy ball in tonight’s episode (The CW, 8/7c), the hybrid and the blonde vamp get even closer. But how does she really feel about him, and where in the world is Tyler? TVLine went to Candice Accola for answers.

TVLINE | When you read the script for “Our Town” and saw the Klaus/Caroline scene, what was your reaction?

Even though we don’t really know what is going to happen, sometimes you get very vague plot points. The writers say, “This is a possibility that we’re looking into.” There’s been a thousand plot points that have never come to fruition, but this one has kind of been tossed around. We’ll see. The characters are just so unlikely [together]. What I love about it is that it does very much harken back [to Season 1] when [Caroline] sits down with Bonnie and is like, “Why does Elena always get the guy? Why is it never me? I try so hard. Why isn’t it ever me?”...