"Your always home alone." Kol pointed out as he lounged on her bed casually. Avery shrugged, "My dad is here, there and everywhere." Avery muttered taking a hand through her hair which had been freshly straightened.

"Except here." Kol noted.

"Yeah well your here now so or would you rather it be me, you and my dad." She probed slightly amused at herself.

He shook his head as a cheeky smirk took over his face, "No, because I wouldn't be able to do this." Before Avery could speak he moved to place his lips on hers. Her fingers had got tangled into locks. They'd been so engrossed in each other she almost completely forgot track of time. " Oh shit Kol!" She squeaked. "If I don't start getting ready then we're gonna be late!" Elijah had invited her and Kol to dinner and Avery wanted to make a good impression. Which meant coming on time and with a gift, while also looking good and it would be impossible if she continued making out with Kol.

Kol honestly didn't know why Avery was making such an effort he didn't care about his families silly dinner party but he was glad Klaus wouldn't be present just him, Avery, Elijah and probably Rebekah. Or probably not Rebekah.

After what seemed like hours, Avery was done. She'd put in time and effort in getting ready, she wanted to make a good impression. She knew Elijah would be polite and accepting, it was Rebekah that Avery knew would probably be iffy.

Her makeup had done dramatic and sultry. Her outfit was a runched deep, velvet red dress, a pair of louboutins. He rolled his eyes dramatically. "Done darling? I thought you were gonna take another century!"

She rolled her eyes at his exaggeration, "I only took a few hours. Stop being such a drama queen."

He scoffed, "A few hours, felt like a few centuries!"

"God Kol your such a diva. Seriously I'm going to change your name in my contacts to drama queen."

Before Kol could retaliate, Avery's phone buzzed. Grabbing her phone she noticed the message was from Rose.

Hey bitch wanna grab a bite to eat?!

Not today bitch. Tomorrow?

Kol raised his eyebrow at her. "Something wrong?"

She shook her head. "Nah just was making some plans for the weekend." She confessed. His eyebrow still raised, "And what plans would that be?" He mumured while pulling her by her wasit closing the space between them.

"In going out eat with a friend tomorrow."

"And then after that you'll be free." He finalized, although it was ought to be a question Kol had turned it into a statement, very solid statement. Avery rolled her eyes at his clear-cut question.

"You know that's suppose to be a question not a statement, but the way you say it make it sound like I have no choice." He allowed his famous smirk to grace his handsome face.

"Of course you don't darling." He teased.

Rolling her eyes at him, she attempted to remain apathetic as she turned to glare at him, "First of all darling, I don't take orders from you or anyone for that matter but if you buy me some food, you might be able to convince me to lower my standards to the likes of you."

He opened his mouth to reply but his phone began buzzing. "Is that Elijah?" She questioned he simply nodded.

"We should go then because we are gonna be late." She told him. Inspecting her outfit and makeup she nodded and set off. Avery was nervous approaching the Mikaelson compound and she knew that if she didn't control her heartbeat they'd be able to detect it and detect her anxiety. Kol had swiftly led the way through the foyer to the dinning room. It was beautiful, the walls were painted a light colour with a dark oak dinning table placed in the centre of the room. Elijah sat on one of the chairs while Rebekah on another.

She felt out of place as a sense of discomfort washed over her. She never had a steady relationship with her own family but here she was running with another Avery tended to be a reserved person and desired to remain that way, however she knew despite her desires she'd have to force herself to be more sociable. Elijah was in his usual attire which was a suit and Rebekah wore a royal blue gown, which mad Avery wondered how she wasn't roasting.

Rebekah hadn't made any snarky comments during dinner, which was surprising because usually Rebekah always had something to say, as did Kol but they always managed to muster some respect for Elijah at times. It made Avery wonder why, but then again he was extremely noble, and kind hearted it was kind of impossible to not respect Elijah.

"So Avery, which area do you live in?" Elijah questioned making small talk between the pair.

"When I first moved to New Orleans I lived here in Berksfield but then after we moved around a lot and now we currently reside in seventh avenue, but I doubt we'll be their for long it dad has a really bad habit of moving around." She confessed.

"You were not born here?" He queried the young girl, who shook her head. "No after my Moms death we moved around a lot until we finally settled in New Orleans." Elijah had assumed Avery was born in New Orleans.

"Oh I am sorry for your loss." He murmured sympathetically. Avery shrugged, "it's was ages ago anyways." She muttered not particularly enjoying this information aloud she never liked confessing her mother's death aloud.

The conversation turned into a rebekah centred one, in which Rebekah spoke alone discussing all things Rebekah while everyone else prayed for ear plugs and an off switch to Rebekah Mikaelson.

It seems Kol had voiced her thoughts as he rolled his eyes annoyed, "I feel like my immortal ears might bleed from all that rubber jabber leaving your mouth sister."

"Well by all means brother; leave." She retaliated snide commented with a bitter smile.

"I intended to." His chair roughly scrapped across the wooden panels although he didn't mean for the action to be so harsh it did and made Avery cringed at the noise. She decided to make this her opportunity to leave aswell, "Thanks for the food it was really great but it's getting kind of late and my house is quite far away.."

Elijah nodded, "It was my pleasure, do come another time." She smiled polite nodding. As she followed Kol to the foyer she was too busy engrossed with her own thoughts she hasn't realized anything until she felt Kol stiffened in front of her. Snapping into reality she noticed the devilishly handsome male, he had curly golden locks and his eyes were a deep blue with hints of green, Avery could imagine the colour change that would occur in certain lightings. "Nik." Kol hissed bitterly. His word dripping with venom.