~Chapter 5~

This Place

"So, Wilhelmina, where's my room?" he looked up to see Wilhelmina and Beau's eyes on him. He then realized that he'd just interrupted them from their conversation.

"Daniel, can't you see I'm busy?"

"Plenty of time now Wilhelmina, just tell me where."

"Go to the kitchen on your right and tell Wilma to prepare a room for you." she said and turned her head back to her son. Daniel just snorted and walked off, only not before saying "So good with keeping your guest happy." And nto so surprisingly, he heard her talk back, "You're an intruder to me Danny-boy.". He swallowed hard 'This is gonna be a long two weeks.' he thought, and entered the kitchen.

The size of the kitchen was a lot bigger than he thought it would. Three women were there, preparing something. "Who's Wilma?" he asked and got the attention of the one old woman in the room. "I'll take it your Wilma?" The old woman wiped her hands on a sheet of cloth and then offered a hand to Daniel.

"Yes, I am Wilma. Did Ms. Slater send you here?" she asked, observing Daniel. Daniel shook her hand, and gave her a smile while nodding to answer her question.

"She said to prepare a room for me to stay in." he tried not to sound too arrogant, but it came out so much that way. "Sorry, I didn't mean it to sound like that.." he apologized. Wilma eyed him again and asked him to follow her upstairs.

Once he was in the room, he sat on the bed. The room looked pleasant, much bigger than his room back in New York. It looked like those rooms he'd seen on TV shows, large, luxurious and always tidy. There was a king sized bed in the middle and a window behind the back board, but covered in dark blue curtains, but there were still glimpses of lights coming in the room from the outside. He sighed, while waiting for Wilma to come out of the spare cupboard, where he believed was where the bedroom stuff were stored.

"Uh.. So, Beau." Daniel tried to create a conversation. Wilma looked.

"What about him?" she said, her French accent showing now.

"He's Wilhelmina's son.. I just find that so weird." Daniel stood up to let her fix the bed, he crossed his arms and sat himself on a chair near the bed.

"She has a daughter as well you know." she looked up from ironing the sheets with her hands.

"I know about Nico. It's just hiding Beau from everyone.." she rolled her eyes. "Does Beau speak French too?" he asked randomly.

"He's bilingual, he speaks both English and French." Daniel nodded. "How about tu?" Daniel looked at her laughing, "Un peu." Wilma stood up straight and then walked to the door. Before walking out the door, Daniel said "Merci." to her for setting everything up for him.

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"Mom, why is he staying here?" Beau asked. Wilhelmina could tell her son was annoyed with Daniel being there too. She knew her son was thinking that she would split her attention to both Beau and Daniel. Which she wasn't really intending to do.

"He needed somewhere to stay sweety, and we need to discuss about some business. But I promise, it's not much business." she ran her hands through his hair and kissed his forehead.

"Mom, what about me?"

"You can have my attention anytime you want." she pulled the ten year old or a hug.

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The nest day, Daniel saw Beau from outside his window, he was in the garden. He was playing soccer, well football obviously, since he's in Europe. So he decided to go down and play with the kid, even though there was a slight throbbing in his brain, that he could feel a headache coming. Stupid time difference; and to think being an Editor in Chief, he would be use to it because of the traveling, but no. Before going he changed into something more sporty, a dark blue tracksuit bottom and a white T-shirt which said New York on the back. He smiled at the thought of himself packing his stuff two days ago. Betty insisted on packing the New York t-shirt, she said to attract tourist to come to their country.

"Hey, mind if I join you?" he asked, Beau turned to him and kicked the ball. Daniel caught it with his foot and smirked.

"Game on Meade." Beau said, which again reminded him so much Wilhelmina.

A/N: Here's to another chapter for this story.I'm really a late updater, forgive me for that, I will try to improve :P

And, by the way, I know I said on the last chapter that this one would be about them going bowling, but changed my mind, that would be in the next chapter though. Just read the preview ;)

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