June 2nd 2012
Daphne and Tom were at the Tomlinson household for the usual Sunday dinner minus Elizabeth who was studying for her final exams.
Walking down the hallway to the kitchen she could hear a hushed conversation from Lottie's room.
"No you can't."
"Yes I think I can Lottie."
"No Louis she's ours!"
"You can't claim a person to be yours Daisy!"
"Yes we can!"
"She doesn't even like you!"
"Oh really? I'm pretty sure I wowed her with my fantastic singing in the car on Wednesday."
"We had her first Louis!"
"Dibs!"
"You can't do that!"
"Did you call dibs before Fizzy? Oh let me check no you did not so I win!"
"You can't ask Daphne out Louis!"
What.
Someone, a person living on earth wanted to ask her out? And that person was extremely attractive with a voice of an angel?
Not possible.
"Plus I asked Tom and he said I had his blessing!"
"What is this a date or a marriage proposal?"
So that's why he had been smiling at her and told her to wear "something spiffy" as he had put it.
Cheeky old man.
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"Thought I'd find you out here."
Daphne had escaped from dinner to get some fresh air. The whole meal was spent with her grandfather smiling at her, Mark and Johanna being oblivious, the girls glaring at Louis, and Louis trying to act as inconspicuous as possible.
Which failed miserably.
"I was wondering if-"
"I'm not allowed to date until I'm thirty."
Louis laughed at Daphne but quickly saw she was serious.
"You know parents are just joking when they say that?" He put her hand on her shoulder which made her shiver at the warmth in the relatively cool air. Louis took this as his cue to put his arm around her which just made her stiffen even more.
"I don't even know you." He chuckled at her while she maneuvered herself out of his arms. "Firstly you're beautiful when you get uncomfortable and secondly isn't that what dates are for? To get to know each other?"
Daphne was saved from answering by Johanna calling for her saying Elizabeth
needed her home and was freaking out.
"Can I take a rain check?" Daphne asked awkwardly shifting from foot to foot.
"I'll hold you to that."
