-𝗗𝗘𝗖𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗦 𝗗𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘-

  -ˋˏ✦❘༻᯽༺❘✦ˎˊ-

"CARE, WHERE AM I SUPPOSED TO PUT THIS THING?" Cecile was holding a chandelier prop in her hands, wondering where this was going to go. Quite frankly from the weight of it, the chandelier could be a hazard if it fell.

"You know what, if Rebekah wanted to hang this monstrosity she should have shown up to do it herself." Laughing lightly at one of her best friends, Caroline took the chandelier out of Cecile's hands.

As Caroline bee-lined to Matt and Jeremy to complain how horribly they were hanging up the stars, Cecile felt large arms wrap around her waist.

"Hello, darling." The all too familiar voice of Kol soon sent shivers down her spine. She felt him place small kisses on her neck, but she backed away reluctantly, not really the type of person for too much PDA.

"We're in public," Cecile mumbled while trying to contain her smile, but Kol couldn't help but show affection for his gorgeous girl.

"Oh come on love, it's not like you don't love it."

Cecile would have been totally fine with the affection, but just not in public. She saw that Kol was looking at the props, furrowing his eyebrows at the horribly made props.

"The real thing is so much better," Kol said, referring to the poorly made prop chandelier. Cecile started to explain to him how it's a party prop and it's not supposed to mimic the actual thing.

"Speaking of this dance, when were you going to ask me to be your date?" Cecile looked at Kol with a sarcastic scoff.

"What makes you think that I was going to ask you?" Kol only flashed his signature smile and grabbed her hands, immediately placing a small kiss on them.

Cecile wanted to ask Kol about the decades dance, but she didn't want to give it to him that easily. For punishment that he would make assumptions that she would automatically ask him, Cecile had to mess with Kol for a little bit.

"Do I have to fight you to consider your decision?" Kol started to get a little handsy with Cecile's waist, but before he could go anywhere far, she slapped his hand, making him wince.

"Not a chance, Mikaelson." Before Cecile could take another step, her vision soon got blurry again. The headache started to surge through her brain and made the girl almost fall down, but Kol caught her in time so she wouldn't hit her head.

The worried look on Kol's face soon caught the attention of the other friends as they ran up to the barely conscious girl. Everyone started to crowd over Cecile, but Kol shooed them away with his intense glare.

"Woah, what happened?"

"I don't know she just fainted." Cecile could hear the frantic voices of her friends calling her name, but she couldn't talk or wake up, no matter how hard she tried.

The pain in her head was excruciating to the point that pounding her head on the gym floorboards could have helped with the pain. Out of nowhere, Cecile suddenly woke up, sitting up immediately, almost bumping heads with her friends.

"Woah, Woah, don't take off our heads, it's just us, love." Cecile soon calmed at Kol's voice, but it was odd to her that the pain would come and go just like that.

"I think I should get some rest before the dance. Can you take me home?" Cecile asked Kol, who immediately nodded.

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Cecile started to brush down her dress which consisted of the 1920's style flapper fringed dress with beautiful iridescent pearls.

Due to the bathroom being crowded as per usual, Cecile decided to go to the mirror in her locker to touch upon some details. She pulled out her red lipstick and smacked her lips once more. As she closed her locker, Kol's face soon appeared right in front of her.

Kol just stared in awe at Cecile. She in a dress from his favorite era did something to him. " What do I have something in my teeth?"

Before Cecile could go back to the mirror in her locker, her movements were interrupted by Kol grabbing her hands gently, his eyes staring intently into hers.

"No, it's just that, you are absolutely beautiful, darling. I'm in tears because of how gorgeous you are." Kol literally shed a small tear which made Cecile blush immensely. She wiped away the stray tears on his cheeks and gave him a small kiss on the lips. She wanted to question what she and Kol were, but decided to do that later.

Kol led Cecile to the dance floor and they were caught in the middle of a slow song. Kol being the gentlemen he is, stuck out his hand for Cecile to take. "My love, may I have this dance?"

"Of course." Cecile then took Kol's hand and started to dance in beat with the song. Scooting closer to his body, Cecile could feel his calm heartbeat. She admired the black tux he was wearing and the slicked-back hair was definitely hot in her opinion.

"I like your hair like this, you should put it in this style more often." Kol only laughed as he raised his eyebrows proudly, reminiscing back on the 1900s look he once had before.

"I say the same for you, love. The 20s would've suit you well."

The pair danced for a while longer until Cecile saw Damon and Stefan rush out the doors. She could sense something was wrong, so she took Kol's hand and dragged him out the doors.

"Woah love, I know we are both in a mood, but I don't think it's wise to do it in a class-"

"Shut up for a second please." Kol quickly shut his mouth as Cecile continued to drag him out the doors to the front school, seeing Stefan, Damon, and Jeremy.

"Guys, what's going on?" Cecile continued to walk towards her uncles, as did Kol, but before she could walk any further, Kol let his hand go, being barricaded off by a barrier spell.

Looking at Jeremy, he explained to Cecile how Esther is back and took Elena. Cecile wanted to save Alaric, but she knew it would be a suicide mission. She was about to walk back to her uncles and Kol but was cut off abruptly with burning pain in her wrist. Letting out a cry of pain, Kol's first instinct was to be by her side, but that was difficult considering he was bonded by a barrier spell.

Jeremy was the one to help her and Kol couldn't help but feel a tad jealous, but all he wanted right now was to know why Cecile keeps feeling pain. A strangled cry left the girl's mouth, making everyone worried about her. Their eyes soon widened as they saw markings starting to carve into her wrists.

"That's my mother's doing. She used to give us this marking when she would punish us. But now she's doing it to Cecile." Kol's eyes widened as did the Salvatore brothers. He was not sure why his mother would target Cecile. Perhaps it was collateral damage, but Kol wouldn't allow his mother to hurt her.

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When Cecile woke up, she fluttered her eyes open to find out that she was in her room. Kol was at her side with his eyes filled with utter anger.

"Kol? What's wrong?" Kol's head whipped towards Cecile immediately, glad to hear her voice.

"Cecile, you're awake. I have to talk to you about something." Intrigued on what Kol meant, Cecile propped herself in a sitting position, all ears for what Kol had to say.

"That mark on your wrist...my mother did that to you intentionally. She was trying to kill you, Cecile and it's all my fault." All of this information that was being thrown at the girl, made her head spin.

She looked down on her wrist to see the mark was not there anymore. "Bonnie was the one that got rid of the spell. I owe her, I suppose." Cecile knew that Kol was happy that she was okay, but she also sensed that there was something else eating him up.

She could sense the uneasiness in Kol's face, so she decided to get closer to him and hug him from behind, but he simply pushed her off of him, making Cecile scoff.

"Kol, what is wrong with you? Why are you like this?"

"I don't think I can be with you anymore, Cecile."

dun dun dunnn cliff hanger hehe. i hope you all enjoyed this chapter!! also i'm editing this at 3am so i apologize for any typos lol.