2 Lizard

In came a boy, his body was dripping in sweat, evident that he just came back from his sword practice. He looked identical to Beatrice with his black hair and purple eyes.

"Beatrice!" The boy looked around to see his baby sister sitting on the couch like a fairy in her stained white dress. His brows furrowed as he saw a boy next to his sister.

"Who-" before Damien could ask Beatrice tackled him to the floor.

"Brother! Ew you are sweaty!" Beatrice pinched her nose.

"Damien, where are your manners? I told you to stop slamming the doors like that. Now come and greet your Auntie Blair" he heard his mother said. Damien stood up and greeted his auntie and pointed at Leon, "so who is this?"

"This is Leon, my son and your sister's fiancé" his Auntie introduced with a smile.

Damien stopped in his tracks, trying to process the information. A fiancé? His sister is only five years old, how could they set her up already? His Auntie Blair is known to be Duchess Hanson of the Len Kingdom. Married to the Duke, their family is only second to the royal family. Damien Broan is the first born of the Broan family, his father being the famous General who fought and won in a major war back ten years ago. Their two families have been close, but he didn't expect for his parents to set up an engagement between their daughter and their friend's son.

"Mother, isn't Beatrice too young? I am ten years old I thought you would set me up instead" said Damien.

The two ladies looked at each other and his mother said, "well we have good relations with each other so I don't see there's any problem. Your Auntie and I had promised to set our children up for an engagements. I had you first but then your Auntie got a boy a few years later, which is Leon."

Auntie Blair laughed, "yes we couldn't set up the engagement with you and Leon. Fortunately, your mother gave birth to Beatrice only a couple years later. So we decided to get them engaged."

"Brother, what is engage?" Beatrice asked tilting her head cutely.

"It's when two people get married" answered a low voice.

Beatrice looked at Leon, "what is marry?"

"When two people like each other and live together forever" he answered again.

Processing what Leon just said, she then say with a giggle "I like Leon! I will marry you!"

Damien stood on the side line dumbfounded, his sister doesn't even know what marry means but she said she will marry that boy. "Mother! I think this is too sudden!" He tried coaxing his mother. Damien wouldn't let that boy take away his sister at such a young age. The bastard is only three years younger than him and dares to look at his precious sister? Not on his watch!

"Damien, you are being dramatic. See even your sister agrees with me" his mother pointed out as he heard his Auntie laughed. "This sister and brother duo is too cute!"

While Damien kept arguing and trying to convince his stubborn mother, Leon and Beatrice continue to snack on the sliced apples without a care in the world.

"Are you really going to marry me?" Leon asked.

Beatrice still didn't understand what marry means, but she liked Leon. He saved her from the fall and helped her with her bleeding palm. He wasn't scary, if anything she like how beautiful his blue eyes looked with his fluttering black eyelashes. He looked like a prince from her picture books that her father read to her to sleep.

"Leon is kind and I like you so I will marry you" Beatrice smiled revealing her cute dimples on her chubby cheeks.

He looked at her hand wrapped in bandages and felt his heart growing sad. "Does it hurt?" He asked reaching out his hand to grab hers.

"No, this happens a lot because I climb trees a lot" she answered casually.

"What are you a monkey? Why go you keep climbing trees for?" Leon asked with a laugh.

"Bea is not a monkey! That's not nice to say to me!" She pouted retracting her injured hand from his grasp.

"Stop climbing trees then I will stop calling you monkey, monkey."

"I gave you apples! How could you call me a monkey! Y-you lizard!"

...

Silence filled the room then soon came loud laughter.

"She said lizard! HAHAHAHA! A lizard! No one ever insulted Leon before HAHAHA!" Auntie Blair laughed as tears rolled down her face.

Yes, the future Duke was called a lizard. Not a Lion, a lizard.

"How dare you call my sister a monkey! You look like a lizard yourself!" Damien joined in the laughter.

The maids' faces all turned red from trying to keep their laughter inside as they stand on the side line.

Leon's face turned red from embarrassment. Everyone he meet had always complimented him, showing their smiles that hidden their facade. He hated those fake people and wouldn't want to talk to them as they continuously feed him sweets. At a young age he understood and felt others' intentions, so he always walk away from them. However, his face got blasted by a five year old girl today.