Another chapter. :) Thank you for the reviews. I'm so glad that you're all enjoying this story. This is a light happy chapter. :) Hope you all enjoy.
A week had finally passed and the first day of spring was only a day away. The spring festival in town would be the following day and Dani, who usually enjoyed it, was feeling anxious about it. Edmund and his father, Philip Atwood, would be at the festival. She was nervous as to how Kol was going to behave seeing a person who was clearly not in his favor. But she was even more nervous on how Kol and Edmund were going to get along. She didn't know why she was so worried about it but she was. Nothing that she could do would be able to calm her nerves.
Dani sat at her window, her knees pulled up to her chest, with her head laying upon them gazing out the window. Her mother had come into her room and had begun to search through Dani's closet for a nice dress that she could wear tomorrow for when she saw Edmund.
"What about this one?" Mrs. Wright held up a light pink colored dress. She looked at the dress and then to her daughter. "It's very pretty."
Dani turned her head and nodded before she looked back out the window. She didn't really care for that dress. In fact Dani really didn't care to choose a dress out for tomorrow because her mind was preoccupied with other thoughts. Like what she might do if Edmund and Kol came to exchange blows. Edmund was a very proud sort of man and Kol was playful to say the least. He got a kick at pushing people's buttons, something Dani would never understand.
"Danielle you could at least pretend you were you interested." Mrs. Wright sighed. "Try to be helpful."
"What mother?" Dani turned to look at her. "How may I be of some assistance?"
"A little less sarcasm please." Mrs. Wright shot her daughter a look before walking back over to the closet and began to look through her dresses again. "Do you know Edmund's favorite color?"
"No." Dani answered.
Mrs. Wright shook her head. "Well what color does he like to see on you?"
"I don't know." Dani shrugged. "He's never said."
Mrs. Wright turned, looking at Dani, her hands on her hips. "That was no help at all Danielle."
"Forgive me, mother." Dani dropped her legs so they laid flat against the seat. "Tomorrow I shall make it a point to ask him what color he favors."
Silence fell upon mother and daughter. Dani couldn't remember the last time that her and her mother had a meaningful conversation. Mrs. Wright usually spent her time with Christine, talking about suitors among other things. While the only time her and her mother spent talking was when she was explaining on how a proper young lady of Dani's age acts. And scolding her for daydreaming.
"Speaking of that I've been meaning to discuss your growing friendship to with Mr. Mikaelson." Mrs. Wright clasped her hands together in the front.
"How does Edmund's favorite color remind you of Kol?" Dani asked.
Mrs. Wright gave her a pointed look and in return Dani stared down at her own hands in her lap and began to play with her fingers. It was a valid question or at least she thought it was. It was only a matter of time before her mother decided to comment on her and Kol's friendship. She supposed that she was going to scold her for being friends with a man that apparently belonged to Christine. How dare she insult her sister like that. Oh, wait no, Dani thought, not insult embarrass. Because apparently Dani was always embarrassing someone in the family and not just herself.
"I worry about you becoming too close of a friend to Mr. Mikaelson." Mrs. Wright sat on the edge of Dani's bed, looking at her daughter.
"We're friends mother. That's all." Dani said.
"You spend an awful lot of time in each others company." Mrs. Wright said. "I've never seen you so comfortable with another person before."
Dani sighed. "Well then we're good friends. He just has a way of making me feel naturally comfortable in his presence."
"Exactly." Mrs. Wright said.
Dani turned her head to look at her mother with a questioning look. What had she done now to displease her mother?
"He's from London, Danielle. He's older than you." Mrs. Wright gave Dani a look. "You do not have the experience that he has."
"Assuming you can only get experience from London." Dani sighed.
"Honestly, what is with your attitude today, young lady?" Mrs. Wright shook her head. She sighed again and gave a quick glance around the room before she looked at her daughter again. "I fear he's attracted to you only for your virtue."
"Mother!" Dani's face flushed.
"You are naive to these matters, Danielle." Mrs. Wright stood up from the bed, lifting a hand to her daughter. "You wouldn't know if he was or wasn't!"
Dani turned her body so that she was fully facing her mother, with her hands placed on either side of her on the window seat. "Mother, he is not after me for my virtue. We are friends. That's it." Her face still red. "The only thing he seeks from me is entertainment. Mere amusement. That's the only interest he has in me."
"And it's that thought, Danielle, that makes you naive." Mrs. Wright sighed.
The house was quiet later in the afternoon. Maura and Jamie had gone for an afternoon walk and Dani had been invited to go along but she denied the request. She wouldn't have been able to enjoy the walk because she would be weighed down with troubling thoughts. She knew Maura would question her about it and she didn't particularly want to talk about it. Dani would know that Maura would agree with her mother on the matter concerning Kol and would warn her again about becoming too close to him. Why were there double standards? Why did she and Christine have separate rules. Christine could get as close to Kol as she wanted but if Dani dare to strike up a friendship with him, he was after her innocence. But he wasn't after Christine's.
So she sat on the couch in the sitting room working on her sewing, alone with her thoughts. She couldn't even enjoy the quiet because of her maddening thoughts. Her mother thought her naive. Dani was not as naive as people thought her to be. She could make her own judgments on character. She was angry that people thought other wise.
"Ouch." The needle pricked her thumb.
Looking at her thumb, she watched as a small drop of blood appeared from under the skin. The red standing out against the pale of her skin. She put her thumb to her mouth and sucked the blood from her skin.
"You're troubled with thoughts."
Dani jumped and looked to the door way of the sitting room to find Kol standing there. "What?" She looked down at her thumb.
"You pricked yourself." Kol said.
"Yes, thank you. Because I was unaware I had done so." Dani frowned.
Kol smirked moving into the room. "So harsh."
Dani shook her head her focus back on her sewing. She continued on with her sewing and ignoring Kol's presence until she heard him sigh loudly. Glancing up she found standing beside one of the chairs that were in the room.
"What's wrong with you?" She asked.
"I'm bored." Kol sat upon the arm of the chair before he fell back into the seat of it, his legs dangling off the arm of the chair. He looked over at her, a look of innocence upon his face. "Entertain me, Ellie?"
"Entertain yourself, Kol." Dani shook her head.
She was too busy with her thoughts to entertain Kol at the moment. She now understood why some people wanted to punch him or became annoyed with him so easily.
"What is wrong with you?" Kol asked.
"At the moment?" Dani looked at him and he nodded. "Being annoyed."
She hoped that would make him shut up, to drive him from the sitting room, but it didn't. If anything it gave him pleasure, her being so cross with him. He had never seen this side of her before and he was loving every second of it. His eyes were twinkling and a smirk was forming.
"Why not have Christine entertain you?" Dani asked.
"I'd much rather have you entertain me." Kol replied.
Dani rolled her eyes. "You're so childish."
Kol swung his legs around to the side, so that he was sitting properly in the chair, his feet planted firmly on the floor. He knelt forward with his arms resting on his knees and his hands clasped together. His entire attention was focused on her, a smirk on his face and a twinkle in his eyes. "And you're adorable."
She couldn't stop the skip of her heart or the way her cheeks turned red. She let out a shaky breath and only paused in her sewing for a second not even. She didn't dare look up from her sewing but she heard a light triumphant laugh come from her side where he sat in the chair.
He sat back in the chair with his hands laying upon his chest a smirk on his face and his eyes set directly on her. Kol was amused.
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The next chapter will consist of the spring festival which means Danielle & Edmund talk and (drum roll) Kol meets Edmund. So basically a dramatic chapter next!
