HHHHey everyone!! I just got so excited that I got my first review, and 56 hits in the first hour that I decided to reward you guys with another chapter!! Well, okay, I was so excited about my story that I already knew what was going to happen, so I just wrote it and wanted to post it right away..lol..Hope you guys like it!! It picks up where the last chapter left off, in Daniel's POV!
"Father, I-we were just having dinner together!" Daniel stammered. He hadn't realized anyone had taken pictures. This could be disastrous.
"DINNER TOGETHER! I NEVER WANT YOU TO SEE THIS GIRL AGAIN! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?" President Richards was more than angry, he was absolutely furious.
"No Father! I will see who I please when I please. I will not allow you to constantly be running my life the way you run the country, or the way you run your staff, or even the way you run your wife. I have done everything you ever wanted me to do. I have gone to the school you wanted me to go to, studied what you want me to study. I have done everything you ask, and yet you still are not happy. Why can I not satisfy you?" Daniel didn't mean to explode like that, but all his emotions had been building up, and he just couldn't handle it anymore.
"Satisfy me? You should be satisfied with yourself. I am only doing what is best for you Daniel! I have sent you to the best college in the country, helped you get a start to your career, and this is the thanks I get? You will not speak to me in the manner you just did. I am the President of the United States, and you will respect me!" His father was going red in the face, and Daniel would not take another word.
"You're wrong!" Daniel said quietly. He wanted to shout, but knew that a calm voice would have more effect.
"I beg your pardon?" His father said indignantly.
"I said you're wrong. You are not the President of the United States to me. You are my father." With that, Daniel left the room, and the door shut with a resounding click. He walked into his room and collapsed onto his bed. He would see Chelsea again if he wanted to. His father would not stop him. He was going to run his own life from now on.
Chelsea's POV
Chelsea had no clue that Daniel was going through the same thing she was. Her father had seen the paper, and he knew what had happened. He also realized that she had lied to him, and she knew this could not end well. Right now she was waiting in her room for him, and she felt like she was ten years old again, instead of twenty one.
"Chelsea Lena Walters! What on earth did you think you were doing? You lied to me, which is bad enough, but then you go out with the son of my worst enemy? The man who uses me like some sort of puppet? The son of the President? What were you thinking!" Chelsea sighed as her father yelled at her. She knew this would happened eventually, she just didn't think it would happen so soon.
"I'm sorry Father. I should not have lied to you, and I was wrong to do so. I do regret that, and I am very sorry. But I am not sorry I went to see Daniel. He is nothing like his father, he is sweet and kind, and he likes me for who I am, not who my father is. And I feel the same way about him. I want to see him again, and I will not let you keep me from him. I don't want to marry some stuffy senator who is twice my age. I want to marry for love, just like you and Mother did." Chelsea knew she was treading on rough ground. Her mother was a touchy subject for her father, and they had never really talked about what happened, but Chelsea had always wanted her father to love her, but she knew he resented her. He resented her because she reminded him of his wife.
"Chelsea, I will not allow you to see this young man again. If you go against my wishes I shall be forced to punish you. Is that clear?" Her father waited for the response she should give.
"No father, it isn't clear. I will see him again." Chelsea hoped her voice sounded firm enough.
"Very well then, since you insist on defying my wishes, you will be treated as a defiant child. I will punish you just like when you were little. Firstly, you will not leave this room. You are to stay here until you see common sense. Secondly, I will not allow you to have your cell phone. It will also be taken away until you agree with me. I hope that you come around soon." With that, her father left the room, and left Chelsea furious behind him.
"This just will not do!" Chelsea paced back and forth, finally deciding to creep out. Her father was asleep by now, and so, she crept out of her room, and down the stairs. She left the house quietly, and walked down the driveway to her car. She got in, and risking waking her father, started it, and drove to the White House. She stopped at the security gate.
"Excuse me Miss, but what is your business here, and pray tell what is your name?" The security guard looked bored.
"I am Chelsea Walters, daughter of Secretary of State Edward Walters. I am here to see Daniel Richards." Chelsea said steadily. The security guard checked, and then turned to her.
"Go ahead. There will be a guard waiting at the door." The guard opened the gate and waved her on.
"Thank you," and she drove through the gate and down the driveway. Once inside the house, a guard led her to the sitting room, where Daniel was waiting.
"Hey!" he smiled softly at her. "You're pretty daring to come here when my father all but hates you. How did your father take the news?" He pulled into his arms for a hug as he spoke.
"Well, I'm grounded to my room, and I can't have my cell phone." She laughed, "But as you can see, I didn't take my punishments seriously."
"No," Daniel laughed, "I can see you didn't. Are you okay?"
"Yes, I am fine, I'm just tired of my father running my life all the time. I want to be my own person, and I want him to want me to marry for love. But I don't think he will ever see reality." She smiled at Daniel. Feeling impulsive, she reached up and kissed him passionately. They were both so caught up in the kiss that they failed to her footsteps into the room. They both whirled around when the President spoke.
"What is going on in here!"
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