June 10th
As she already knew, Daniel pointed out that her depiction of the size was not entirely helpful. Unfortunately for him, Delilah didn’t have time to get out the tape measure and give completely accurate results. While he was telling her what to do, Delilah looked up at what he was about to knock onto the floor and she immediately filled with sceptical thoughts. “Are you kidding me, Daniel? That is going to land straight on me,” She declared, convinced he hadn’t thought this through, but he ignored and told her to close her eyes - probably so she didn’t have to watch it kill her. Though she did it anyway.
The beam fell at a dangerous force, landing with a crash that made Delilah jump and she was so convinced it would she could almost feel it hitting her and knocking her to the ground. However when she slowly opened her eyes, it hadn’t. It had been seriously close to doing so, yes, but it hadn’t and she was still stood, very much alive. And now she could see Daniel a lot clearer than before.
After needing a moment for her being alive still to actually sink in, Delilah took Daniel’s hands and was pulled out of the hole - suddenly being a lot closer to Daniel than when separated by flames. That being addressed by him, she gave an eyeroll that hid a small smile. Delilah eyerolling to a playful Daniel comment. It had been a while. Coughing as she stood up, Delilah followed him as the walls around her began to cave in and disintegrate to ashes. The main indication they had reached outside was the fresh air that her lungs were yearning for.
As soon as they were completely out of the castle, they were surrounded by firefighters, all faces of which becoming a blur through her eyes until she was in the back of an ambulance, once again, slightly too close to Daniel. And they actually talked, through the oxygen masks they had been given. A conversation that didn’t end with either of them leaving, and not just because they had no choice. One that ended with Delilah almost instinctively hugging him - which was almost more of a lean from the amount of energy drained in the past events. She did so because, despite everything, she loved him.
June 25th
The day that Delilah had depended on for most of her life finally came. Graduation. More significantly, the day Blue Royalty 2020 was announced - supposedly with her being front and centre of that list. This was supposed to be the most important day of her life. It would be the day her life began, and Delilah would finally be completely happy, because when she became Blue Royalty, it didn’t matter that her father was a convicted felon and her mother didn’t want her.
But when she arrived at Rockefeller Residence, the same place it had all started, it almost solidified how much that had changed. Maybe it had been the fact that she was wrong about her father, or the fact that people she tormented for years somehow forgave her, or the fact that she must care enough about certain people to feel completely betrayed by them. Somewhere down the line, Blue Royalty’s importance had slowly declined.
Weaving through the no-longer-seniors, all here for the later announcement of the final winners, Delilah stopped at someone who was stood by themselves. Someone who, at the last party in the same place, she wouldn’t be seen dead willingly talking to. “So… what do you say about this?” Was her opening line as she stood beside Dorian DeLoughrey, though facing the crowd of people rather than him. “You stay here, enjoy the party, and I’ll… go look around?” She asked, before finally switching her glance to him.
@astxrism — Dorian DeLoughrey
@benitz786 — Daniel Parker & Candice Clarke (vaguely mentioned)