2. She is beauty, and she is grace (1/2)

now came the tricky part, it was time to go get jewell!

arthur pulled on a coat merlin had lended him and grabbed the phone. he reached into his pocket and grabbed the piece of paper with jewells' address, he then opened the phone slowly - still remembering how - and recali

ated the gps to go to her house. he pondered what she looked like. yes, he had seen the picture of the two but they were looking at each other so it was hard to see much detail. he thought about her personality, maybe she was funny and nice... hopefully. he sat for minute, thinking about how she treated merlin and how merlin treated her. merlin better treat her with respect or arthur would have his head. he shook his head to

ing him out of his thoughts and looked at the clock... it had already been 20 minutes! he ran towards the door and yanked it open, he checked to see if he was missing anything.

nopehe ran outside and to the car before realizing he had not shut and locked the door. he spun around and bolted back to the door, he was in such a hurry that the spare key merlin had accidentally left on the counter, and arthur had sneakily picked up, fumbled out of his hands.

dang nabbit

he reached down to pick up the key but it slipped on the stairs. he came down the second step to grab it and tripped on a small rock that caught his coat by a string. he slowly got up while feeling his face for any

uises, he had fallen strait on his nose. and yep! he

oke it...

oh come on!

when he got up he tilted his head back, still wincing in pain. it didn't hurt that bad, but it stung like crazy. he reached up again and when he pulled his finger down there was a little bit of blood on it.

i dont have time for this.

he reached into the coat pocket and found a tissue...strange, but useful! he ripped off a piece of the tissue, rolled it up, and stuck it in the nostril that bled. he then stuck the rest of the tissue in his pocket and went after the key once more. while still looking up he reached down for the key and instead of feeling the metal, he instead felt something squishy... and then... legs?! he looked down and saw that he had instead grabbed a spider that had crawled out of a crack in the pavement! he flung his hand left and right until the spider had let go. he shivered and then sighed in relief. if there was one thing the king of camelot himself did not like, it was spiders. he finally picked up the key and turned around to lock the door. he stuck the key in and turned it left and right, right and left. why wasn't it locking? he turned it all the way to the left with a little jiggle, and then the opposite. after a minute he finally got it and ran back down the drive way. he ran to the car and stopped...

i don't know how to drive!

what had he been thinking?! merlin wouldn't even let him touch the car without him inside of it. what was he going to do? it had already been a half hour and it would take too long to walk to her place... oh! merlin had hailed a taxi yesterday and arthur watched carefully as he had done it. arthur stuck his hand out and whistled. a taxi came over but passed him to pick up a group of girls, they were getting in when one noticed him staring.

she paused..., "come on pretty boy!" arthur looked around and then pointed to himself.

me?

"yes you! come on!" she waved him over. another one of the girls stuck her head out to see what was going on when arthur ran towards the cab. arthur thanked the girls and got in, he sat in the middle of the car which was the only seat available. two girls sat in what was supposed to be one seat on the left of him and one girl -the one who had called him over- one his right. they all stared at him as he uncomfortably looked out the front of the car. cars alone scared him, but having a bunch of girls stare at him made it even weirder.

pretty boy? what do they mean by pretty boy? he thought to himself... oh no...

he looked up at the top of the cab, "what did you mean by pretty boy?" he knew, he just wanted to confirm.

the girl on his right rested her arm on the neck of the seat and

ushed her hand on his shoulder. arthur gulped and shifted in his seat.

"well, you are pretty", she said simply.

arthur glanced over at her and she winked. he quickly moved his gaze up again and said, "i'm taken", pointing to his ring which she clearly had not seen or so he thought.

"oh, i know", she replied, mischievously.

"im sorry but i must be going, this stop right here is fine, thank you." he said quickly, he thanked the girls and the driver and hopped out as soon as the car stopped. he steadied himself and sighed in relief but then in distress. he had gotten out of the situation, yes. but now he had to walk to jewell's, with no way back.

the girl stuck her head out the window as the taxi drive away, "i'll find you!" with a wide smile.

sheesh

he turned his gaze to the ground and then pulled out the phone. he looked at the gps. wait... wait what? the street jewell lived on was only a couple houses down! holy crap those cars moved fast! a smile spread across his face as he followed the gps down the right path. he took sharp corners and almost ran into a couple people with apologies following. he looked up at the beautiful house, shaped bushes that looked like elegant animals surrounded the entrance to the door. there was a little lake-like spot in the ground that winded back and forth next to precisely placed poinsettias. planters were set on the windowsills, holding daisies and dandelions with pink roses here and there. arthur walked up the stone path, delicately making sure not to step on any flowers that grew next to the stepping stones. he was admiring the beauty when the sprinklers kicked on. he jumped at first, startled by the fizz sound the water made as it shot out of the holes in the ground. he rushed across the lawn to the front door and when he rung the doorbell it was answered by the second most beautiful women he had ever seen, of course guinevere being the first. her thick

own hair swung around as she faced arthur. the sun reflected off of her red highlight and blue eyes. freckles covered her face and little earings with the letters mj hung from her ears. how on earth did merlin get a girl as stunning as her?!

she had a sweet smile that soon faded for a look of concern, "are you okay?" arthur looked down at himself, reminded of his condition. his nose was still bleeding, he had a rip in the bottom of his coat and he was drenched in water.

he chuckled, "i'm fine, thank you. i'm kin- i mean, i'm arthur pendragon, it's nice to finally meet you!"

"oh" she responded, "well it's nice to meet you too! are you a new neighbor or..." she held out her hand to shake his but instead he kissed hers... force of habit. he straitened up and chuckled again quickly clearing his throat after.

"i am merlin's best friend! he has told me many great things about you!" he said.

she blushed, "aww", she whispered.

he smiled, "and i have come to ask if you would like to come to our place and you could have a nice candle-lit dinner with him! of course i wouldn't be there... haha"

she raised her head, "oh, of course! but, why didn't he come as well?"