Elena was nervous about the engagement party and wondered if she should have told her freinds beforehand, she was pacing back and forth in the bedroom wringing her hands and hadn't noticed Kol standing there taking in the beauty of this woman who was going to be his wife. He couldn't help but admire her dark blue dress that came midway up her thighs showing off her shapely legs in dark blue pumps that matched her dress. By the time his eyes made there way to her face she had stopped pacing, and saw him standing there looking sexy in his black dress pants and light blue dress shirt. The look in his dark brown eyes when they met hers made her catch her breath and the room was starting to feel warmer. Kol walked over to her and bent his head down to kiss the side of her neck making her heart speed up. When he leaned back to look at her face he smirked loving the effect he had on her.
"You look beautiful love. I would kiss you right now, but if I did we would miss our own party" he said.
"And you look very sexy and would love for you to kiss me...and you're right we would miss our party...so we better head downstairs" she said.
"I hear the doorbell so we best get down there to greet people, otherwise Rebekah will come up the stairs yelling that I am detaining you" Kol said with a chuckle as they left the room.
Once downstairs they could see Rebekah had accomplished what would take most people days to plan. She had used Elena and Kol's favorite colors for the decor of their engagement party, the dinnerware was purple and the centerpieces were red orchids. Throughout the ball room there were purple and red flowers of all kinds and on the entryway table sat a crystal vase with purple verbena and red lilies.
Shortly after everyone had arrived they all were standing in the huge entryway and had been handed flutes of champagne. Once he was sure everyone had a glass he gained their attention to the stairs where Kol and Elena stood.
"If I could have everyone's attention please" Nik said looking around before turning to Kol with a nod and headed down the stairs.
"First of all thank you all for coming, it means a lot to Elena and I. Especially on short notice because my brother is impatient, just kidding. The reason is because we wanted to share this special night with friends and family. I asked Elena to marry me and she said yes" Kol said, and he could feel her squeeze his hand tighter out of nervousness of what her friends might say.
"Congratulations" Matt yelled out with a genuine smile on his face.
"Girl get down here and show us that ring" Caroline said making everyone laugh.
"Be there in a minute" Elena called out, turning to Kol to give him a kiss.
"I love you" he said as they walked down the stairs.
"I love you too" she said smiling as Caroline walked up.
"Ok enough of that for now. Kol I'm stealing Elena for a few minutes" she said with a smile.
"Well that went well" Elijah said walking up to Kol with a flute of champagne.
"It did. Now she can relax finally" he said taking the champagne, flexing his fingers she squeezed.
"I take it she was nervous on what they would say?" Elijah said as Nik walked over to them.
"That went rather well, if I say so myself" Nik said smugly.
"Don't you ever get being tired of being so smug Nik?" Rebekah asked as she looked around the room.
"Not really" he said with a smile.
"I'm going to go find Freya" she said as she left her brothers standing there.
"Poor Elena isn't going to know what hit her when Rebekah starts to try and plan her wedding" Nik said with a smirk.
later that evening
"Well love I think everything went well tonight" Kol said as they were cuddling on the love seat in his room.
"It did go well, remind to thank Rebekah in the morning. I didn't get a chance earlier" she said yawning.
"Ready for bed?" he asked.
"You have no idea, I've been eyeing the bed the past five minutes" she said smiling as she got up to go get her pj's on.
"Glad to know I wasn't the only one, I just didn't want to move" he said with his usual smirk.
They both crawled onto the bed and under the covers where she rested her head on his shoulder and his one arm wrapped around her as they both drifted off to sleep.
