Delilah sank down to sit on the couch at the sound of Daniel shutting the front door, where she stayed for long after he had left. Her eyes continuously gravitating towards the sleeping baby in the room with her as she replayed the conversation with Daniel in her head too many times, realising once again that she had really admitted to being a mother. Something Delilah had never even considered until it was thrown onto her, perhaps due to the lack of maternal - or… paternal, for that matter - figure in her life. But maybe she could be the mother that hers wasn’t. Was that even possible for Delilah Hawthorne?
After perhaps too long a period of time, Delilah finally stood up, deciding she probably needed to make an appearance at the lock-in - because people would notice her absence. As Lily-Ann’s maid walked past her to leave, Delilah chased her up, paying her an overly substantial amount to look after the baby while she was going to be gone a few hours, giving her very specific instructions on how to look after him, ones that she had learnt the difficult way, before getting changed and leaving.
She arrived at school, realising when she got there how stupid the lock-in was. No tasks, no points, no Blue Royalty. What was the point in being at school, then? Delilah entered the auditorium where her eyes were instantly on the group that was forming in the centre of it, which she soon joined to realise they were all playing Seven Minutes in Heaven. Entering the circle, she watched as the bottle spinning started to slow down, and eventually point at the space she had just occupied. “Huh, that was quick,” Delilah stated through a small laugh as she looked up to see Brandon Marshall.
They both left the circle, and Brandon soon asked her where she wanted to go. “What, the storage closet and an empty classroom? What are we, freshmen or something?” Delilah replied with her eyebrows raised, unsure how it wasn’t an obvious choice. “Come on, then,” She insisted, brushing past him as she walked past towards, and eventually into, the closet.
@Kbail — Brandon Marshall
@benitz786 — Daniel Parker