Hello again everybody I hope everyone is having a wonderful 2009 so far. I know I am. I have 3 days off from school and am trying to make the best of it. Though it's really 4 days considering that all my teachers will have us watching the presidential inauguration on Tuesday. So I would suggest to everyone (In America at least) to watch the inauguration it only happens every 4 or 8 years and it's our 1st African American president. So it's historic and for all the history loving freaks like me who want to watch it, I hope your teachers let you. Moving on, this is chapter 7 and I'm going to spend all weekend working on it so that hopefully it will be long. As a little preview this chapter is going to have a lot more Lizzie/Darcy and you get meet Richard Fitzwilliam.

Also because I want to keep this story 3rd person but still have Lizzie's thought's. They are going to be italicized. Here's Chapter 7.

Lizzie's thoughts.

Cell phone texts: Charlotte.

Cell phone texts: Lizzie

Disclaimer: I own anything you don't recognize, if you do recognize something I don't own it.

Why the hell is he here! Lizzie thought inwardly scowling. After hearing what he had done to George she had avoided him all week long. A fact that was harder to accomplice then she would have liked. She glared at him now. Why did he have to go ruin my spring break even though I really should have seen this coming.

Lizzie was broken out of her musings by Char nudging her in the ribs. Brought back to reality she started playing the piano which she had forgotten that she was sitting there. Lizzie decided to play the most classic song she knew on the piano, Do Re Mi from the Sound of Music. She was hoping that by playing she wouldn't be bothered by Darcy. She was very happy when he didn't come over to the piano instead he went to sit by his cousin Anne, who Lizzie hadn't even noticed before. Anne was a very thin girl with glasses and what looked to be a sour and bored expression on her face. Wither she was a sick girl like in that horrid movie (as that's what she now called it) or just plain unpleasant like her mother Lizzie couldn't tell. Lizzie soon finished her song, and Charlotte and she went back to the couches where everyone else was.

"Ms. Bennett, Ms. Lucas these are my nephews William and Richard who are spending their spring break with me." Mrs. DeBourgh told the girls as they sat down.

"We've met William before." Charlotte told the old hag nodding to the taller of the cousins.

"Yes hello Charlotte, Elizabeth how are both of you?" He asked politely but it didn't seem polite to Lizzie.

"Considering you saw both us in band class this morning we're fine." Lizzie said smartly but Darcy didn't seem to notice. His cousin however came over to sit next to the ladies on the couch.

"How do you do I'm Richard Fitzwilliam," He said with a big smile "Seeing as you all ready know that lug of cousin of mine you ladies wouldn't mind talking with me would you?" he asked.

"Not at all" Lizzie said with a smile. Finally someone interesting to talk to. "I'm Lizzie, and this is Char though I'm sure your cousin has mentioned us." Lizzie asked with a raised eyebrow at Richard.

"Not at all you would think my cousin would have mentioned that two lovely ladies go to school with him." Richard said with a smile "but he never has, what has he been thinking."

"Really Darcy," Lizzie turned to look at him. "I sit with you every day at lunch and you couldn't mention me to your cousin? I'm hurt and offended, I hope you're happy" She said finishing with a little sigh as though it really upset her.

"Terribly sorry Elizabeth I didn't know you cared," Darcy said before he went back to talking to his aunt who looked like she can't him not talk to her for a second. This response was ignored by Lizzie who spent the next several minutes just talking to Richard and Charlotte. Richard she learned was actually a freshman in college at Rochester University. A very nice college that most of the people who went to her school ended up going to and she found out that is where Darcy and Charles would be going to when they graduated from Meryton. When Lizzie asked why Rochester Richard told her that Darcy had been offered a full scholarship plus it was by where his family's company was located. Lizzie knew which company because of George and she knew that when he turned 18 he would become CEO of Pemberley Press and would own a small part of Barnes & Noble. She gave Richard her number because he said he may need to escape from De Vil and would let her know if she wanted to do something, this was told to both the young ladies. The only bad part off the evening was when Richard had decided to call her runt because she's only a freshman in high school, which got him a slap on the shoulder. They left the house soon after and Charlotte and Lizzie started to text each other on the short ride to Mrs. Joanne's house.

Lizzie you're a sly dog I hope u know that. Charlotte told her friend.

What do you mean Char???

You know darn well what I mean you got 2 hot guys phone numbers in the same day!!!!

I didn't mean to plus it doesn't mean anything Richard just wants it cause he'll be bored and Michael just wants me to come help his drumline.

Still!!! 2 guys, a senior and a college freshman gave you there phone number you must like like one of them.

What! I don't like like anybody.Well that's not really true. Lizzie thought. I would love it if George would ask me out, she blushed.

Good you better not like anybody else cause I've started planning your wedding to Darcy for you. Plus since he's rich you can have what ever you like.

I do not Darcy repeat I DO NOT LIKE WILL DARCY

The Nile is a river in Egypt Mrs. Darcy. Charlotte started to hum the wedding march next to her. Lizzie didn't even bother to text her back just glared and mouthed I hate you to her friend, who mouthed back love ya.

When they made it to Mrs. Joanne's house, Lizzie was glad to see that it didn't resemble Rosings park (Which she found out was the name of Curella De Vil's mansion) but was a nice 2 story farmhouse. Lizzie was pleased with the inside to, nice comfy furniture meant to be sat in not just for decoration. Mrs. Joanne showed the girls to the room they would be sharing. A nice sized room with 2 twin beds and a TV on the dresser, but what Lizzie liked best about the house was the view from the window. You could see the mansion in the distance and the areas surrounding it. Lizzie also found that later that day that see could climb out the window and onto the roof. Then get on top of the window and lean back and she watched the sun set that from what she thought was the perfect spot. After she made that discovery and told Charlotte it was time for dinner and Mrs. Joanne asked the girls how they liked Rosings.

"The building was a bit to gothic for my tastes," Lizzie told her host. "But the grounds looked beautiful. Is there a chance that I could look around them tomorrow? I don't get a lot of chances to walk in someplace that could be considered a wood."

"Certainly" Mrs. Joanne told her "The woods here don't get walked in a lot and as long as you're careful I see no reason why you couldn't, how about you Charlotte how did you like it?"

"I thought that it was a nice place although Mrs. DeBourgh's daughter seemed rather quiet to me is there anything wrong with her?" Char asked while stabbing her chicken with her fork.

"Ms. DeBourgh suffers though frequent colds and isn't as active as she would have been if she wasn't sickly." Collins butted in before Mrs. Joanne could finish.

"Doesn't she take medicine?" Lizzie asked with her trade mark eyebrow raised.

"No it is too hard for her to take the medicine it makes her cough more." Collins said looking smug that he had answered Lizzie's question.

"She just needs to take some sugar haven't you heard the song 'a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down' in Mary Poppins?

"That's just a movie." Collins shot back.

"Maybe so but that girl looks like she needs some sugar in diet and turn her frown upside down." Lizzie with a smile. All talk of the DeBourgh's was put to an end after that and they went to bed not long after.

The next day Lizzie woke up fairly early for her around 8 o'clock which wasn't to surprising considering she was still on her school schedule. She was surprised when she woke up that both Collins and his mother were already downstairs eating breakfast.

"Good morning I didn't think anybody would be up this early." Lizzie told the pair as she took a sit at the kitchen table and Mrs. Joanne put some pancakes on her plate.

"Well I have to go to work soon and Ben here is coming with me so we have to get up early." Mrs. Joanne said putting hers and Collins plates in the sink. "You and Charlotte are free to raid my movie collection, and keep yourselves entertained. Maybe you can go walk around while you wait for Charlotte to wake up." Mrs. Joanne suggest as Lizzie ate her breakfast.

"Yeah that sounds like a good idea plus Charlotte won't wake up till round 10 or 11 so I can take my time walking around." Lizzie remarked before finishing her breakfast and waving good bye to the two as they drove to Rosings. Why they drove on such a beautiful day was beyond Lizzie. The house was only half a mile from the mansion but she guessed that Mrs. Joanne would have to shuttle things back and froth between the houses.

Grabbing her new book out of the room she left Charlotte a note and walked out into the woods. She couldn't help but smile as she walked though the vast woods that surrounded Rosings. She guessed that they must all belong to Mrs. DeBourgh or they would have been thrown down for developments. Imagine what it would be like to live in a house that had woods like these surrounding it. I would be in heaven to walk and see all the nature out here. I love living in Longbourn but I can never walk around town. Streets don't have the same effect that nature has on a person. Here you could probably discover a new grove or walk every single day. She rambled in her thoughts like this for a while before finding a path off the main one that looked interesting. Deciding that she couldn't get lost to bad she took the path and followed it for about 3 quarters of a mile before finding a beautiful little grove. Pulling her camera out of her pocket thanking her good fortune that she had remembered to bring it, she started taking pictures of the grove to show Jane later. Surrounded by thick trees on all sides there was what looked to be a very big peach tree that must been growing there for a long time before Lizzie was even born. Lizzie let out a little laugh of happiness. This was exactly what she had hoped to find in these woods but she didn't think she would find it on her first day. Moving over to the tree she sat down on the grass and looked up at the tree before grabbing a ripe peach from one of the lower branches, and taking a bite out of it. She laughed again thinking of what Jane would say if she knew Lizzie had just probably ate someone's fruit without knowing if anything was wrong with it. 'Lizzie' Jane would say 'you have no idea where that fruit has been or if it's been contaminated in some way or another. Someone could have done something to it'. Lizzie laughed again. That's Jane for you one of the most mothering girls I know always worrying about one thing or another. With this Lizzie pulled out her phone and saw that it was only 9 in the morning so she decided to stay where she was for a while and read her book. She had left Charlotte a note so she didn't need to be back any time soon. As long as she was back to eat dinner at Rosings that night, with Darcy she thought with a scowl. But she wasn't going to let him bother her and she started to read her new book. Within 30 minutes though Lizzie had fallen asleep curled up in a ball under the tree with her book lying discarded next to her. Obviously her body didn't get as much sleep as it could have the night before, and with the serenity of the little grove had been enough to make her fall back asleep.

Lizzie slept peacefully for about an hour completely unaware that during the last few minutes of that hour she was being watched. Will Darcy had decided after breakfast to get away from his aunts house before she could start asking him business questions. He was very much surprised to find Lizzie Bennett curled up in a ball under the tree in his favorite grove. After watching her for a few moments he decided it would be best to wake her up.

"Wake up Elizabeth" he said gently shaking her till she looked up at him with a sleepy glare.

"What Darcy?" She grumbled before sitting up under the tree "How did you find me?"

"This has been my favorite grove since I was a boy and was forced to come visit my aunt. I was shocked to find you here though." He told her before taking a sit next to her and grabbing a peach from the tree.

"You've been escaping from you aunt for a while then haven't you?" Lizzie said rubbing her eyes as she wasn't still completely awake yet.

"Yeah as you've noticed Elizabeth my aunt can be very trying on a person if you're around her for long periods." Darcy said in a dry completely honest voice that made Lizzie laugh.

"Yeah I got that impression last night." Lizzie said and mumbled under here breath so Darcy wouldn't hear. "I did wonder where Curella left the puppies though." She didn't whisper this softly enough though as Darcy laughed and smiled. Lizzie was momentary stunned at Darcy. Even though she would admit that Darcy was handsome before when he smiled he looked like some god and coming from Lizzie that was a complement. He had a dimple when he smiled and his blue eyes seemed brighter. Wow Lizzie thought with a smile. He really is handsome I wonder what he would look like with his shirt off… Stop it Elizabeth Ann you hate him. Remember what he did to George how he ruined his family's chances.

"So do you like puppies Elizabeth? He asked with that dimple showing. Must ignore it. She thought feeling really stupid that her hormones which had never bothered her before when it came to boys were now kicking in full force. I must be close to my period.

"Yes I do." She said turning to him deciding that she might as well have a nice conversation with him.

"What kind do you like best?" He asked taking a bit out of his peach and leaning back on the tree.

"Yorkies and Beagles are my favorite, but I also like Golden Retrievers and Huskies but my dad would kill me if I ever brought one of those home." Lizzie told him with a smile.

"So he wouldn't kill you if you brought a Yorkie or Beagle home?" Darcy asked looking very amused. Normally Lizzie would have been upset at his cockiness but she was in a good mood and they were having a nice conversation so she didn't get upset.

"Well yeah because of our cats, they don't mind dogs but they can't be around big dogs. It doesn't really matter any way though." She said frowning.

"Why not?" Darcy asked looking genuinely curious.

"Cause my dad said that the only way I can have a dog is if it was a gift for my birthday, and as Jane would be the only person who would get me one and I saw her sneaking a box into our room on Monday I know I'm not getting a puppy." Lizzie said with a frown.

"Well don't count on it maybe you have a friend out there that would get you a dog." He said with a smile and pulled his phone out to look at a text. Lizzie was shocked that he would be so nice to her. Maybe he's not as bad as I thought. As soon as she thought that she completely threw the thought out of her mind. That's preposterous.

"Elizabeth would you like to come swimming with Richard and me at our aunt's pool?" Darcy asked her looking up from his phone.

"Random much aren't you Darcy." Lizzie told him with a smile. He rolled his eyes.

"Richard just texted me saying he's going swimming and wants me to come back. I thought I would ask you if you wanted to come." He finished looking at her with a strange look.

"I don't have a suit." Lizzie said "Plus it's to cold to swim isn't it?"

"My aunt has a heated pool and I'm sure Mrs. Joanne wouldn't mind letting you borrow one of hers." He said and helped her stand up and picked up her book that had fallen to the ground.

"It's already 10:45 Charlotte's probably wondering where I'm at." Lizzie tried again.

"Well I'll walk you back to Mrs. Joanne's to get the suit and I'll ask Charlotte if she wants to come along to." He said and they started walking back to Mrs. Joanne's which took a good 20 minutes. "By the way Elizabeth when is your birthday if you don't mind me asking?" Darcy asked as they came upon the house.

"Next Friday March 28th." She told him and let him into the house. It didn't take Lizzie long to find Charlotte had left her a note saying that she was going up to Rosings to be with her aunt and ask her about the history of Rosings. Lizzie smiled at this no matter how horrible the building looked now; Charlotte loved old buildings and the history that went along with it. She told Darcy this and ran upstairs and found out that Charlotte had brought her bathing suit (for whatever reason) and borrowed it. She came back downstairs and the two walked off to Rosings with very little conversation. Darcy it seemed to Lizzie looked oddly concentrated on something. He led her around some gardens and to the back of the building where Richard was diving into a pool.

"Hi!" Lizzie shouted and waved as Richard got out of the pool.

"Alright Darce you brought a friend to swim with us." Richard said on seeing Lizzie. Darcy just nodded and went to get changed into his suit. Lizzie jumped into the pool and grabbed hold of a noodle that had been floating around and sat on it.

"So Richard way do you call Darcy by his last name and not William?" Lizzie asked.

"It's simple his 1st name is the same as my last so I just call him Darcy." Richard said before jumping into the pool making a big splash. Lizzie just nodded as she had forgotten Richard's last name and now just assumed it was William. Darcy came out a few minutes later and all of Lizzie's hormone thoughts came back in a heart beat. He has a six pack! Isn't it bad enough he's got beautiful dark brown curls and a dimpled smile. No he has to have abs too. Why does my enemy have to be movie star handsome? She decided to do some underwater laps for a few minutes after that. She spent a fun day with the two for a long time as Charlotte had heard them and started to swim to. This started a game of chicken where Darcy and Lizzie were against Richard and Charlotte, Lizzie didn't pick these teams. Neither the less, Darcy and Lizzie managed to win all but one when Mrs. DeBourgh came out and yelled Darcy not expecting him to be swimming, and Charlotte grabbed Lizzie by the shoulders and threw her down.

"Cheater!" Lizzie shouted at her friend and started to splash them.

"Am not plus you and William won every other game." Charlotte splashed back. Their little fight was put to an end by Mrs. Joanne saying it was time to go back for lunch. Waving bye to the boys the girls got out of the pool. Lizzie didn't even notice Darcy's eyes following her as she got out of the pool she did notice Collins though. Lizzie glared at him as if to say don't you dare try it you little freak. As they went back to the farmhouse, Mrs. Joanne told them that Mrs. DeBourgh had some unfinished business and they weren't going to be able to go there for dinner. This killed Collins but did nothing to the girls, who after spending a few hours there didn't want to go back. After lunch the girls decided to watch some movies, it took a while but they decided on watching the 1st 2 Harry Potter films. By the time they were done it was dinner.

"So what did you do with the boys Lizzie?" Mrs. Joanne asked the girl who shrugged her shoulders.

"I met Darcy walking (she didn't dare say he woke her up) and we talked a little and he invited me over to swim so we swam." Lizzie said going back to her food. Charlotte caught her eye and gave her a look that said you better tell me what really happened and not the G rated version you told my aunt. Lizzie nodded and finished her dinner. The next day Lizzie was back at Rosings because Richard had texted her saying he was bored. So Lizzie, Charlotte and Richard watched the final 3 Harry Potter movies in the DeBourgh's movie room. Darcy came in during the end of the 3rd movie when asked where he had been all he said was 'I had some business' and that was the end of it. Mr. Stone statue had returned, and Lizzie was thoroughly disappointed. She had liked the Darcy she had saw yesterday, but when Charlotte brought up that Lizzie would be 15 in a week she forgot about and tried to get Charlotte to tell her what she was getting for birthday.

When they got back to the house that night Lizzie had every intention of going to her spot on the roof after dinner and listen to some music when the doorbell rang. Mrs. Joanne came in with a big wrapped present saying it was for Lizzie. Very curious as to what it was she grabbed the card and sat next to the present.

Dear, Elizabeth

I hope that you will like this present even though your birthday's not for a week, and I should tell you that this present has all its shots.

From,

A friend you can count out.

"What in the world?" Lizzie said as she finished reading the card.

"Well open the present silly." Charlotte told her coming to sit beside her. Lizzie nodded and untied the bow and opened the box. Lizzie gasped and started to cry as she saw a little beagle puppy leap out of the box and into her arms. Charlotte squealed at the puppy with a big red bow tied around its neck. The puppy was adorable it couldn't be more then 2 months old and it had the cutest face. Mrs. Joanne stood next to her son smiling at the picture and her son looked dumfounded. Unable to stop smiling at the puppy Lizzie turned to Mrs. Joanne.

"You don't mind him being here do you?" Lizzie asked with a smile.

"Not at all do you know who gave him to you?" She asked.

"No I mean the last person I told I wanted a dog was Darcy and Richard (It had been brought up) but I've been begging for one for a long time now. I don't know who gave it to me." Lizzie said with a smile.

"What are you going to name him Lizzie?" Charlotte asked as the dog ran around the room. Lizzie looked at her friend with a smile.

"Cadence that's what I'm going to name him." Lizzie said with a smile as Charlotte groaned.

"Of all the names you could have picked from you name him Cadence?" Charlotte asked.

"If it had been a girl it would have been Allegro, but as it's a boy it's Cadence. Do you like the name Cadence?" Lizzie asked the puppy after she picked him up and laughed. She turned towards the window and could have sworn she just saw someone run away. It wouldn't be till a few days later that Lizzie really looked at the card and figured out who the puppy was from. If she had looked at it better before maybe she could have stopped herself from saying some hurtful things.

Well I hope you all enjoyed that chapter if you didn't the only thing I can tell you is to stop reading. I know the story line didn't really progress much but I really wanted Lizzie to see Darcy's kind side. Also if you can guess who gave her the puppy you can have a free fake cookie. Any way I'm not going to say much but I am going to say thank you to supersaiyanx for being the single soul to review. It doesn't take much people if you just write Good Story or I liked it I would be happy. So please review. That's all I'm going to say I hope everyone liked it.