Chapter Fifty Seven: A Beauty Queen

Hayley's POV: I was having a rough morning, after leaving Nik's house this morning, I had to prepare for the Miss Saint Falls pageant at the Lockwood's mansion. One of the Founding Families, and the biggest land owner in town, nobody has been there for years until one of the heirs of the family decided to show up in town, his name is Ian I think. But I signed up for it with Caroline at the beginning of the year before my parents died in that stupid fire, and I was doing it for my mom, but she's dead now so I haven't really been feeling the whole "pageant thing" lately, but Caroline said it's to late to back out now, and since I'm a Founding Family she says I have to do it with her. The problem is that I don't have a dress, so I'm about to do the one thing I hate most, going to Nik and Elijah's house to ask them if their sisters had any pretty dresses.

Klaus's POV: I heard Hayley outside and when she knocked on the door she looked sad, like the sad when she needed something. I knew she hated asked me for anything but I like that she knows she can anyway. I asked her to come in and tell me what's wrong. She said that she had a pageant at the Lockwood's mansion later on today, Ian's house, and she said she didn't have a dress. So I took her to Katerina's old wardrobe, it has yet to be boxed up since Elijah nor myself could bare to do it ourselves. So I let her look through her closet and she found one of her dresses from her last day here. It was beautiful and Hayley pulled it off a million percent better than Katerina ever would of...

Hayley's POV: I found the most beautiful, elegant dress in their sisters closet. It was a party gown according to Nik, he said that his sister Katherine wore it right before she died, which kind of creeped me out, but it was beautiful so I didn't care. Anyway, it was blue with a little slit down the side of it with sparkles around the waist and a silk fabric barely touching the floor, but just enough so I wouldn't trip. I loved it, and I think Nik liked it on me to because he didn't say a word. I decided now would be the perfect time to ask Nik if he would be my date, and no surprise that he said yes. I told him when to be there. I asked if he knew the traditional dance we did and he said that he's done it before so I wasn't worried about him not being able to do it. After a few minutes Elijah walked in and he was pretty speechless for a little at the dress too! But I only had eyes for my Nik. He said he heard me and wanted to see what we were up to. I told him about the pageant at the Lockwood's mansion later today, he said he would gladly be there, even though no one invited him. But I was still glad he would be there, I know that Nik and Elijah are brothers, so to keep each other out of trouble it would be good if they were both there. And on the plus side, maybe Elijah would find a nice pageant girl besides Caroline to keep him busy instead of flirting with me to make Nik mad, and messing with Caroline's head at the same time! So this is great...

Elijah's POV: After I had walking in, seeing Hayley looking more beautiful than ever in that dress, Hayley had mentioned the pageant being held at Ian's house later, I told her I'd be there, mainly because I know that Niklaus had drank a blood bag after Hayley left this morning. So just Incase anything goes wrong, I'll be there to help him out, or if best case, help Hayley out...

N: It was a few hours later, and time for the pageant, everyone was there and lined up at the stairs awaiting there dates...

Hayley's POV: I was the last person to go, and everyone's dates were here, and it was Caroline's turn, I was after her, but Nik wasn't there, so when they called by name I figured I'd have to go alone or stay behind, then Elijah came to the middle of the stairs awaiting me, I'm going to be honest, I was glad he was here. He saved me from complete humiliation! Elijah led me down the stairs, he knew what he was doing, and when we arrived at the dance floor along with everyone else we started to dance...

Elijah's POV: Hayley and I started dancing and she had the biggest smile on her face, I know she signed up for this before her parents died and she was doing this for her mom, but this was the first time ever since she knew about vampires that she seemed happy. The smile on her face made me smile, and then I saw Niklaus standing in the crowd watching us dance. When I turned around he saw Hayley smiling so brightly dancing with me, but I didn't care if he was hurt or jealous because he didn't show up to dance with her, I simply just filled in for him...

Hayley's POV: I could see Nik in the crowd of people, but I didn't care because he didn't bother to show up, Elijah did, and besides...I was having an amazing time just letting loose and dancing for what seemed like forever with Elijah, it's like for a little moment of the time we were dancing I forgot about vampires and everything bad in my life, and Elijah wasn't a murderous, psychotic serial killer, he was just a normal guy who cared enough about the pageant to show up, unlike Nik. But I still loved him as much as I always have, I was just a little upset he hadn't shown up in time, but Elijah did and he swept me off my feet in a heartbeat, and when the dance was over the announcers were naming the winners. Miss Saint Falls was...ME! They announced that Hayley Fell and Elijah Pierre were the winners of the Miss Saint Falls pageant! I was so happy, and even thought it wasn't Nik up there with me like it should've been, I was happy Elijah gave me the opportunity to do it! But how would Nik feel about all this?