Daria's Love
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Chapter 9; Emotions
"Daria, Daria," someone distant said frantically, "Wake up, Daria!"
It was Jerrold he was holding her still since catching her when she had fainted. She struggled to get away from him and in the process nearly falling down because she was still wobbly from fainting. Jerrold caught her and held onto her to keep her stabilized.
"Let go of me!" Daria said trying to break free of his grip on her upper arms. He was taking her to a kitchen chair.
"You can't walk, you're too unsteady," he replied exasperatedly. She was getting on his nerves, but he loved her. He kneeled in front of her.
"I won't marry you. Never!" She was crying again, but she shouted it between breaths. "How would you like it if as soon as we could get married and you were in love with me as much as you say you are and then another girl went and killed me then asked you if you wanted to marry her?"
"I do love you! I'm sorry that I killed your beloved then replaced him with someone worth your while!" Jerrold shouted at Daria. He was mad, really mad. Everyone knew to never get the Prince mad at you.
"I told you I was afraid to marry you for this reason. You're yelling at me and are really angry and it's scary. Why do you want me so badly when you can have anyone else?" she was talking calmly now. "And you just said that Jack wasn't worth my while. You were being an arrogant, cocky brat!"
"I'm sorry," then he was about to leave until,
"Wait!" it was Julie. "If you love her why are you leaving? You killed an innocent man to be with her and now you're just going to leave without her? Why haven't you tried to work it out with her like you said you would?"
"I did..."
"No, you didn't you made a bigger mess than before! Now both of you are to go for an hour long walk and don't return until you have reconciled each other. Get to know each other. Now leave!" she shooed the two out of the shop and shut the door.
"Where do you want to go?" asked Jerrold. "Do you want a tour of the castle and what your like could be like?"
"Might as well. Do you think she'd let us in early?"
"She might, but I won't," he replied angrily.
"Was that a threat?"
"Depends on how stupid you are. Are you going to run away or are you going to marry me?"
"You said you wouldn't threat me any more! What are you doing?" she screamed at him as he closed the space between them completely and picked her up and kissed her on the mouth, again.
"Daria, I love you. Why won't you marry me?" he asked as he carried her towards the castle.
"You scare me I don't like it when you kiss me. Especially on the mouth without me telling you can. You love me to much. I'm afraid you'll force me to do things with you I don't want to. You've already forced me to kiss you twice, on the mouth which isn't acceptable until after marriage."
"Jack didn't give up his dignity for you? I will any time. I love you. I don't want to scare you, but Julie said that you could spend the night with me tonight if you wanted to and I told her you would. She packed a bag for you. Today is only for us."
"I don't want to spend a day or night with you! How did you manage to trick her into that? See this is why I'm afraid of you. You go to fast with relationships. You don't respect me and what I want or how fast I have to go to even think about marriage!" she was really nervous now he kept coming farther and farther up her body with his hand.
"I don't care at this point. I love you and I will marry you. Julie is a fairy and she said we were right for each other. I am going to trust her and marry you. We have a lot in common you know," he wasn't headed for the castle any more he was headed for the river. "We both have bad tempers, we both are orphans, we both," he stopped suddenly when Daria slapped him.
"I don't know what is wrong with you, but you need to put me down and quit acting like you've had too much alcohol! You are really scaring me and I don't want to marry you because I don't trust you. You have already mistreated," she stopped. The Prince was towering over her his hand was ready to strike her at any moment. She just glared at him daring him to do it.
Then he began to laugh! She got even madder at him! How dare he laugh at her! He just looked at her and then said, "What's wrong?"
She gaped at him. A second a go he was about to hit her, the he began laughing, and now he asks her what's wrong! What is going on here.
He frowned at her.
She was truly terrified. "Don't hurt me. Please just let me go home," she started crying again. He hated it when she cried. He walked over and wiped away her tears.
"You want to go home we will go home."
"You... you were about to hit me, then you started laughing at me, and now you are being nice again. Who are you???"
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