The next day, Bella woke up with her head filled with questions that she wanted to ask Klaus and as soon as she found him, she asked them. He seemed pleased to see that she was truly interested and answered everything as truthfully as he could. A couple of times he wondered of he should risk upsetting her by telling her the truth but she took everything in without judging him… She was great!

All in all, her questions were light… Did he meet Shakespeare? What was his favorite part of history? His favorite decade and why? She wanted to know what he had seen, who he had met…

He enjoyed telling her about the people she had heard of and telling her how they truly were in real life. It was refreshing to be able to talk freely to someone he actually cared about…

They talked all day until it was time for them to get ready for dinner.

"I'll pick you up at your cabin in an hour, is that okay?" he asked her.

She nodded and left in the direction of her cabin, leaving him alone with his thoughts. Somehow it was very important for him to leave a good impression on Bella's mother and he absolutly needed to be perfect.

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Right on time, Klaus knocked on Bella's cabin door and was welcome by her smiling self in one of the dresses he had bought for her the previous day. He also noticed the way her heart beat faster every time he smiled at her. The nervous blush on her face showed him that she was very aware of things and was trying her best to stop her heart. He decided not to tease her about it.

"You look beautiful!" he greeted her with his charming smile.

"Thanks… It's your dress who does the entire job!" she said.

"The dress isn't doing anything Bella… You're the one who makes it beautiful!" He replied as he offered her his arm and guided her toward the dinning room they all agreed to meet.

"So, are you excited?" he asked her.

"I haven't seen my mother in a week and a half and I'm going to introduce her to a thousand years old vampire… Maybe a little!" She giggled.

"Well, she won't know anything about the vampire part! All she'll know is that I have more money than I know what to do with and that I am a student!" he said.

"A very talented Art student who still refuses to show me his drawings!" Bella complained a little.

"Well, how about I promise you to show you one of my drawings if tonight goes well?" He suggested.

"Okay then!" She smiled brightly, feeling like she had won an argument when she knew she didn't.

They arrived at the dinning room right on time but Phil and Renee weren't there yet. They went to their table and talked easily until, 15 minutes later, the couple arrived.

"Bella honey, we're sorry for the delay but… You know how things get…" Renee said.

"Mom… Don't worry, I was expecting you to be late. Klaus, this is my mother Renee and my step-father Phil. Mom, Phil, this is my friend Klaus." Bella replied nervously as Klaus, being his ever charming self said:

"It's very nice to meet the two of you. Congratulations on your wedding!" Klaus said, his accent charming Renee immediately.

"Nice to meet you too!" Phil said.

After that, they all sat down around the table and got to know each other.

Renee of course was completely under Klaus' spell and was ecstatic that her daughter made such a friend.

Of course, she felt that there was something more going on between Klaus and Bella but she knew her daughter enough to know that she would be responsible and would probably wait until there was something more serious before she said anything official.

"Bella seems to like you…" Renee said after her daughter left the table to go to the bathroom.

"We're good friends." Klaus nodded.

"We both know that it's more than that… I see the way you look at her Klaus… But she's not even 17 yet and she's never even had a boyfriend… You can't rush her into anything she's not ready for!" Renee said.

"Don't worry, I won't." Klaus replied with a small smile.

"Good…" Renée replied just as Bella came back.

Phil and Klaus got along relatively well and the conversation flew nicely between the four of them. Of course Klaus had managed to charm the couple easily and they absolutly loved him. Renee was glad to see her daughter had made such a good friend and didn't seem bothered by the age difference.

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"Well, I have to say that it went very well…" Bella said later after Phil and her mother left them to go have some fun in the pool.

"I have to say that your mother is…surprising…"

"Something tell me that 'surprising' isn't the word you were going to use…"

"I was going to say child-like actually…free-spirited…" he replied with a smile, a hand on her back, guiding her through the corridors.

"Yes… It's the way she is…"

"Anyway… Since everything went well during the dinner I believe I owe you one of my drawings… Come with me!" He said, guiding her toward his room.


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