Daria's Love
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Chapter 8; Wait Daria
Jerrold's POV
The next morning Prince Jerrold woke up in a room he didn't recognize. Had he been kidnapped? No. It wouldn't be this nice if he had. What was that sound. A soft tapping on the door that had woken him up. "Daria will be up in a half hour, Jerrold," called a feminine voice he soon recognized as Julie's. Then he remembered yesterday. What he had done to Daria and Julie. Julie had asked if he wanted to stay the night and he had accepted.
He got out of bed, he didn't have to change because he hadn't expected to spend the night, so he hadn't brought any other clothes.
He went to the kitchen where Julie was making eggs for breakfast. He sat down next to where Julie had been sitting, so that he would be across the table from Daria.
When Daria came to the kitchen a half hour since Julie had woken up the Prince, she had changed clothes and was now wearing a simple blue dress. As soon as she saw Jerrold she started to go back to her room, but Jerrold had caught her wrist and pulled her gently back into the kitchen and to her chair where he gestured for her to sit down. She did. Then he went to his own seat across the table from her.
"Daria, I'm sorry," he began. "I'm sorry that I killed Jack to get you. Then I threatened Julie to try to get you again. I'm sorry."
She looked him in the eyes. Her face had so many emotions he couldn't read it. He looked sorry, but she didn't trust him. How could she?
"Why did you threaten Julie?" she asked. He was supposed to become king, he couldn't just go around threatening women.
"I wanted you. I wanted you to be mine. I love you enough to kill for you. Why did you try to kill yourself last night?"
"Because then I would be with Jack. I had worked for months raising money for my dowry so that I could marry him. And then you came along and killed him as soon as I can marry him. If you love me, you'd leave me alone," she answered.
"Can't you give him a chance, Daria?" it wasn't from Jerrold who she thought it would be from, but Julie. "He loves you more than any man ever will!"
"Not more than Jack did!" Daria was crying again. Jerrold walked over to her, took hands pulled her up and kissed her on the mouth. In Frell it wasn't acceptable to kiss someone on the mouth until you were married, but he did.
She pulled away. She was frightened. If he would give up his honor and kiss her, he wouldn't hesitate to hurt her. She thought. What if he made her marry him then beat me? He must have been thinking that she was frightened, so he picked her up and sat down and put her on his lap. She shivered. He loved her. Maybe more than Jack had. That really scared her. She started crying again.
"Daria, if you don't want to marry me, you don't have to. I won't threaten you. I'm really sorry about yesterday. I hope you will forgive me," he said it then sighed got up, and placed her on her chair and made to move, but something caught his hand. It was Daria's!
"Jerrold, why do you want me so badly? What is different about me and other women? I have no social status which is what you should be looking for. Why me?" she asked. She didn't understand why he wanted her so badly.
"Daria, I want you because you're different. Your eyes, when you talk, light up with feelings and emotions. You are beautiful without trying to be. You have a personality. I love all of your features. Why shouldn't I?" he had just confessed his whole heart to her.
"You still shouldn't have killed Jack. You scare me. You act like you love me, then go and destroy any trust that you had built. Why couldn't you have just purposed and said all of that without threatening me and others that I love? I might have considered you, but now you scare me too much. If you are willing to give up your honor by kissing me before we are even engaged, I hate to think of what would happen if I married you. You could beat me or force me to have children against my will. I'm afraid of you. What happened to Prince Charmings?" Daria had just said everything that she had thought only minutes before.
"I won't I promise," he kissed her forehead. That was it. She stood up and swept from the room crying. Why did he have to be so two sided. He was wonderful right now, but last night he had scared her. He kept kissing her that scared her too. jack had kissed her, but she had loved him. She had kissed him too. Jerrold though, he was different. He was Prince, a murderer too. He had meant to kill Jack. She would hate him for ever because of that, but she also felt feelings of kindness towards him. He deffientally loved her. That was obvious, but why?
The last thing she heard was, "Wait Daria!" then she fainted from emotions.
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