Disclaimer: I do not own the familiar characters they all belong to JF. I do not own the song "Untouchable " either it belongs to Taylor Swift.
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Untouchable like a distant diamond sky, Mmmm
I'm reaching out and I just can't tell you why
I'm caught up in you, I'm caught up in you
Untouchable, burning brighter than the sun
And when you're close I feel like coming undone
A week after the ball, Lady Elizabeth found herself waiting for Charles's letter. She's been waiting all week but receive none. She kept repeating to herself that he promised to write and she knew that he's not going to break it.
After getting dressed for the day, she made her journey from her room to the sitting room where she found her mother cross stitching.
"Good Morning Mama" Elsie greeted as she walked up to her mother to give a peck to her cheek.
"Good Morning, darling girl" Lady Gaisabeth eyes twinkled at the obvious cheeriness of her daughter at this kind of hour. Her daughter never woke up early.
"Why are you up so early? " Lady Gaisabeth asked, eyeing her daughter.
"Nothing Mama. Are the telegrams arrived yet? " Elsie picked up the discarded The Sketch paper.
"No yet. Are you waiting for something? " Lady Gaisabeth raised her eyebrow inquiringly at her.
"Who would write to me? " She avoided her mother's inquiring eye.
"I don't know maybe a man named Charles Carson" Lady Gaisabeth watch as blush made appeared on her daughters cheek. She should've known. Elsie opened her mouth to retort but none came out. She hated the fact that mother really knows best. She's still hoping that Charles will write to her and kept his promise.
"Telegram, your ladyship" Barrow suddenly appeared and walked to give her Ladyship letter.
"Is there a letter for me,Barrow?" Elsie kindly asked.
"None,milady" Elsie frowned. It seems her judgement is wrong,Charles don't know how to keep promise. She shouldn't have push herself to him, why would he like her. He must've been courting a lady somewhere. Little did she know that Charles wrote a letter to her mother and father. As her mother read her letter, Elsie excused herself and made her way to their garden.
Lady Gaisabeth just finished reading the letter when the door suddenly opened revealing her husband. He wore a smug smile.
"Guess who's here" Lord Eric made her way to sit next to her wife.
"Who? " She dropped the cross stitch she was making and paid attention to her husband.
"Lord Carson" He simply stated.
"Which one? " Although she already know what who it was, she just want to make sure.
"The younger one, of course" He wondered why Lord Carson came to visit it's very unlike them to pay a visit. Maybe they were not the real reason why he visit, it may be his daughter.
"Well what are you waiting for? Are you not curious why he's here? " Lady Gaisabeth grinned. She stood up and made her way to greet their guest.
"Do you know where he is? " He smirked at her.
"Of course, where do you think our visitor always stay" She let out a laughed as she walked out of the room. They came upon the library where the young Lord Carson was waiting for them.
"Good Morning Lord Carson. How may we help you? " Lady Hughes greeted.
"I was hoping to have audience with you and Lord Hughes" Ever since the ball Charles cannot stop thinking about Elsie. He didn't know but he was captivated by her. And Now he wants to court her.
"Well, here we are now. Please have a seat" She gestured. Lady Hughes knew what was going to come. Charles took the invitation to sit. He was getting nervous. He knew that it's only been a week since they meet and asking to court her without knowing her that much yet, seems a bit ambitious of him. Nevertheless he summon up his courage to talk to them if he wants to pursue her.
"I just wonder if I can court your daughter,Lady Elizabeth" he paused, " I know it's been only a week but I like your daughter. I want to court her and if she wants us to move slowly then we will. But the decision was all yours, her parents, if you didn't want me to court her then I won't even if it will break my heart. " He finished his practiced speech. He observe their reaction but their faces were blank, they didn't express any emotion.
There was silence around the room, he can already hear his heart heart that already breaking every second not getting any answers from them. Lady Hughes wanted to laugh at the look of Lord Carson, she knew that their faces were blank.
"Of course you can" Lord Hughes observe the look of relief on Lord Carson's face. But he was not finished yet so he continued, "but one word that you push her into doing something without her permission, I'll make sure that I will ruin your life. You can now go see her, I'm sure you know where our garden is" They all stood as Charles express his gratitude and the promise that he's not going to push her into things or hurt her.
Elsie was just sitting when she saw someone heading towards her. She assumed that it was his father but when the person come closer she saw that it was Charles. She didn't know what to do but to stand still and wait for him.
"Good Morning, Lady Beautiful " Charles greeted. She wants to hug him but circumstances were rather different, they're not courting yet and he might be here just to say that he's going to marry someone already.
"Good Morning to you too but I'm not beautiful" She bowed her head and pushed the word aside because she knew that she's not beautiful.
"To me,you are" Charles said seriously. She was taken aback by his seriousness. She look up at his eyes to see that he's looking at her like she was the most beautiful thing he have ever seen.
"What brings you here? " She broke the spelling.
"Well I promise you that I'll write to you but I've been preoccupied that I forgot to write. I just dropped to apologize for my tardiness " he reached the conclusion that he won't tell her yet, not until he gets to know her better.
"You don't have to apologize. Shall we sit here" She gestured to the garden chair.
"Of course." He replied as they sat down.
"You're putting the Georgia's star to shame with the shine of your eyes." He stated as he look intensely at her eyes.
"You talk like that you make me want to check the looking glass to see if my hair's tidy" she blushed.
"Get away with you. " He looked at her playfully.
"What really brings you here? " Elsie did not believe a word he said earlier about just dropping there and apologizing to her.
"I've asked the parents of a girl if I can court her and turns out they said yes" in that answer Elsie wanted to cry, she knew she shouldn't keep her hopes up.
Charles couldn't believed what he was seeing in front of his eyes, did just Elsie look like she's going to cry at his statement? But still he wouldn't tell her yet.
"Oh, good luck with her, I wish you all the best" She managed to cover her feelings and just let him be.
"Thank you. I'll need that" He replied. They finished their talk and Charles walked Elsie back to their house and made his goodbye.
Lady Gaisabeth saw her daughter's unshed tear, she knew that Charles didn't tell her yet as all gentleman would because they only knew each other for a week but she's glad Lord Carson already asked for permission.
"Oh darling girl, what happened? " She acted like she don't know anything as she went to comfort her daughter.
"He's courting with a girl" Elsie stated which made her tears fall down.
"Sure he is but did he mention who she is? " She asked, she felt Elsie shook her head and he continued " if he didn't that only means two things, he's either lying or that the girl is you" She pushed Elsie a little away from to look at her in the eyes.
"That's impossible" She wouldn't dare thinking Charles as a liar.
"Who knows? " Her mother shrugged.
In the middle of the night
When I'm in this dream
It's like a million little stars
Spelling out your name
You gotta come on, come on
Say that we'll be together
Come on, come on
A/N:
Sorry if there's any wrong grammar or typos. I always reread the chapters but found none. Just tell me guys if it's getting worst.
Sorry for the delay because I have a daughter who's very active in their school and she joined every activities they have.
And sorry for the short chapter but I'll make sure that next one is longer.
I still appreciate a review or two. Thank you for reading.