Dalila Rose Bennett

Dalila smiled at the woman. “ We do have a mystery book of that sort over this way.” She lead her toward a display off to the side, Books on the table wrapped in fabric. “The fabric gives you the genre, so these” She picked up a book wrapped in detective style fabric. “Is a mystery where was this one here is a romance.” She said the other book in a fabric covered in hearts.

#margarette

dukehawthorn

“I’m thinking I should start a list of all the books I want to read.” Duke looked over at Dalia. “You want in on this challenge?”

@dalilarosebennett

#mm: presidential ball #colescamander

Dalila laughed and set her stack down on the counter beside him. “I’m in. Though I don’t know if my list has an end to it.”

#duke

colescamander‌:

“I didn’t know how to be a good boyfriend, I didn’t know how to manage it all at once, and I guess I lost the most important thing to me in the end,” Cole replied. “I tried getting to that reading, just know I did.” Cole took a drink of his champagne. “Uh, the dragons are fine, one is sick though, we’re trying to figure out from what.”

There was a lump in her throat that she swallowed down with the last of her wine. She closed her eyes as he took the change of topic she had offered. There was a tone to his voice that still, despite her wishes, calmed her nerves. “That’s not good. Something you can fix I’m sure?”

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#ignore the smile #and end?#colescamander

colescamander‌:

Cole nodded in understanding. “I understand, I guess maybe it’s too much to ask.”

Dalila nodded before giving a wave and walking away. She just wanted to go home.

colescamander‌:

“You were always on my radar, everything I did was for you, even though I didn’t show it. You were always on my mind though,” Cole replied. “But I was so scared of destroying everything that I worked for, that maybe I destroyed possibly one of the only good things I had in my life anyway.”

Dalila fell quiet as he spoke, she needed more wine for this. She could feel tears and emotions she didn’t want to deal with. But for once since the break up there wasn’t any anger building up. “It never felt like it. Not once we were out of school, we moved out together and I rarely seen you. I could barely get you to come home for dinner let alone make it to the one thing you promised to be at.” She sighed, shaking her head. “It was always about you, I got lost in the shuffle. I let myself get lost in the shuffle.” She shook her head one more time. “How um, how are your dragons? Still enjoying the sanctuary?” She wanted to change the topic, anything to keep from crying in public.

colescamander‌:

Cole let out a laugh, it was airy ad sad, but it was there. “I didn’t let things hold me back because I nearly died,” he said. “I was scared, I am scared.” His voice got quiet. “I’ve always been scared. Of doing everything. But I do them because I didn’t want to die without doing them. Coming from a guy who could die pretty easily, I figured I take those chances. But doing things, like what I do, well that’s me, and I’m not me if I don’t do them. I guess maybe that’s the real reason I told you I couldn’t take off from my job, because without it, I wouldn’t be me, and you didn’t deserve that. It would be like if you took away the books from you, that’s just, well, not you.”

“But you were me...you were everything to me and had you asked me, no when you asked me to be there, where ever it was for you I was there. That’s....that’s all I wanted.” Dalila replied, her words paused and rushed all at once. She sighed, brushing a loose strand of hair from her face. “I never asked you not to be you...All I wanted was to at least be apart of you. To be on your radar.”

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#Here we go again #colescamander

colescamander‌:

“I guess, maybe the worst thing is that, all those years are friendship are gone because we’re done. You were my best friend, my family,” he replied. “Is it too much to ask if we could try to be friends again? Or at least maybe try and think about it.”

Dalila bit her lip, taking a heavy breath. “Maybe you should have realized that when you had me.” She said as she straightened up. “I don’t....I don’t know if I can do that Cole.”

colescamander‌:

“And you always look nice in a ball gown, well you look nice in everything,” He replied. “I think she just wants us to be happy, or she does it without meaning to. Though this whole crowd situation is a mess for my anxiety.” He leaned against the wall. “You always made me feel like I could conquer anything with you.” He sighed. “I guess I didn’t realize how much I needed that till you were gone.”

Dalila went quiet for a moment at his words, leaning next to him on the wall after a moment. “You’re kidding me right? Me? Who would rather be reading a book than living the story?” She shook her head. “No, no you are the adventurous one. Never letting things hold you back.”

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#colescamander #Here we go again

colescamander‌:

“I don’t know if I wouldn’t want to see you again,” he replied. “I mean, you came here, right?” He raised his eyebrows. “I think there’s a part of you that I still a part of me.”

Dalilas breath caught at his accusation. He wasn’t wrong but she didn’t want to admit that. She had been trying so hard to move on and that....that wasn’t helping. “Over ten years of friendship doesn’t just go away over night.” She shrugged as Dudley came running back to her and she gave him a good rub before connecting his harness once more.

colescamander‌:

Cole let out a small laugh, most of it into his glass. “I’m not drunk enough to deal with everything right now,” he replied. “Ember was the one who told me this would be fun.”

“I swear she just likes to torture us.” Dalila joked with a shake of her head as she grabbed another glass from a passing waiter. “You look good, all cleaned up like that. I always did like how you looked in a suite.” She complemented, a little more tipsy than she had originally thought.

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#colescamander #Here we go again

colescamander‌:

Cole winced when she said what she said. Not because he didn’t want to hear it, but because she was right. He was bad at being her fiancé when they were together, work got in the way and he choose that. “You’re right,” he replied. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry for everything. For now to what happened when we broke up, to when I was a bad fiancé. I know. I’m sorry.”

Dalila was quiet as he apologized, watching the dogs before her eyes fell to look at her hands. “So am I....” She sighed, shaking her head before getting up and whistling for her dog. “I’m off Sunday and Thursday every week. So if you want to go in without seeing me there’s your chance.”

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#colescamander #she's got some pent up emotions #Here we go again

colescamander‌:

Cole bit his lip anxiously, and there was a part of him that wanted a drink for how stressful this was right now. He usually didn’t drink, but he did in stressful situations. He shrugged at Dalila’s question, anxiety building in his stomach. “I guess I wanted to see you, talk to you. Maybe I wanted to know if we were good. It was kind of a spur of the moment thing.” He sighed. “Maybe it was a bad idea. I’m sorry.”

She scoffed. “Because talking to me is something you are so good at.” There was a bite to her voice, some old bitterness that hadn’t washed away with time. “Maybe it was. But then again, it was more about you than me anyway right? You wanted to see me for your own well being, your own piece of mind. Your own closure. It’s always been about you.” Dalila let her hurt spill out, she couldn’t control it when it had been so built up. When it felt so much like he hadn’t thought about her at all. He had nothing to talk about. He just wanted her to say they were okay so he would feel better about himself.

colescamander‌:

“God, it’s like you’re everywhere now,” Cole said knocking into Dalila, slightly thankful he didn’t spill his drink on her. He was tipsy, so it was no surprise that he was speaking to Dalila with no sign of anxiety. If he wasn’t drinking, he’d be a huge ball of anxiety just being in the room with this many people. Cole looked her up and down, and he was absolutely speechless, he thought she was gorgeous, and he didn’t know what to say.

@dalilarosebennett

Dalila nearly spit her own drink out at the sight of him. “Cole? What...what are you doing here?” She asked, before looking at her glass and finishing it off. She was going to need a better buzz than she had going. “I’m going to kill your sister for not tell me you were coming.”

#mm: presidential ball #cole

Dalila walked into Beggars Hole looking around for Ember Scamander. She had a bone to pick with the older girl. When she found her free of customers she made her way to her. “Why didn’t you warn me he was in town?!”

#ember

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