Growth of feelings

During the entire journey, silence reigned inside the carriage and soon Diana began to feel uncomfortable. , even more so because he was between two brothers who were looking at each other intensely and Chad was still holding his hand.

She looked at Plonome, who already seemed to have understood first, what she was thinking, and he dragged himself to the corner of the seat.

The brothers looked at what was happening and soon Eric stopped Diana from getting up from her seat and, instead of her, he sat next to Plonome.

"I wasn't thinking straight." Eric said as he leaned back with his eyes closed and arms crossed. "I'm ashamed to be royalty after what I did!"

"I'm glad you understand Eric" Plonome said and looked at Chad who was confused "Your brother doesn't seem to know what personal space is."

"Can we stop?" Diana asked as she took Chad's hand from hers. "You guys just met me. Are you okay in the head?"

"Don't you know what love at first sight is?" Chad asked, annoyed by what she said "You should be happy, if it weren't for that..."

"We're here!" Plonome declared as the carriage stopped. "Give her your cloak, Eric."

"Why his?" Chad was amazed, fixed on Plonome "What does he have that I don't have."

"First of all, stop acting like a little child and second... who is being chased by the guardian?Na It's definitely not me, nor Eric."

Chad put the hood on his head and got out of the carriage, before offering Diana a hand out, which she accepted, seeing that he was calmer about the situation that he was in.

"Come after me." Eric said, after carefully placing the cloak on top of her shoulders. "Chad and Diana, act as if you were a team. Diana... just follow whatever he is doing, after all you aren't from here."

"You are talking too much." Plonome said as he got beside Diana "Let's go team."

"Yes sir." Chad responded immediately and Diana copied him.

Eric looked ahead and soon the air around him changed completely, which made Diana uncomfortable, but she maintained her straight posture, like the others.

"His majesty knows he cannot bring..."

"The three of them are my personal guards, one of them you already know, if I'm not wrong."

"Are you correct, your majesty? I'm just following the guardian's orders."

"His Majesty, the king!" someone announced inside the palace, then the doors opened and a old man appeared with a tired look.

"You have arrived." he said smiling, then he looked to the guarda, that was back to his place "It's the last warning. You follow another person's rules and you are dismissed."

"Ye...Yes! Your majesty."

"You sure are a beauty." the man said, grabbing Diana arms and pull her inside "But not as much as the Queen."

"Father!? Behave yourself." Eric said, embarrassed.

Diana looked back smiling and then asked the king to let go, with a touch of her hand. When she did, she ran up to the two brothers and grabbed both of their arms, however Eric refused and He took his arm out of hers, walking towards his father.

Diana remembered where she was and adjusted her cloak before going to remove her arm from the other boy, however he refused.

"Let me go?" she murmured, as they walked behind the king "We should behave."

"Eric should behave. We are only his bodyguards, and..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Diana slapped him in the face and as he recovered, she removed her arm from his and acted as a guard.

"I chose well!" Chad said with his hand on his face "She's strong"

"Are you for real?" Plonome asked, surprised. "Behave yourself."

Chad adjusted his clothes and continued walking, without taking his eyes off Diana and he soon noticed something wrong and he wasn't the only one.

"It can't be. How did we forget that?"

"What's going on, Chad?" his friend asked but as he looked at Diana he understood "The shoes! We have to do something."

Without thinking, Chad grabbed Diana's arm and pulled her to a random room, that seemed to be the dining room.

"What are you doing? Did you have to pull me that hard?".

"Your shoes." he said as he took the hood down and touched hir hair, making a kind of semi-transparent fabric appear in his hands and his hair turns brown with a touch of blond. "They are modern."

"You have brown hair?" she asked but he didn't answer, putting the fabric on her shoes. "Why were you disguising your hair?"

"I am sorry. I cannot answer that, Diana." he said with a serious voice as he got up "Let's go back to the others."

"Wait!" Diana said at the same time as she placed the hood on his head.

After finishing adjusting his clothes, her hands stopped on his chest and her eyes on his. And he grabbed her waist and they were going to kiss when someone hit him with the door in the back and made him fall on top of her, once again, they were frozen in staring at each other when they heard someone coughing.

"Hello there. I am sure that this is no place for that." a female voice said and both of the teens got red while they got up and fixed their clothes. "Oh, my! You found someone, son?"

"Mom!?" he asked running towards her "You are up?"

"I am a strong woman! Don't you trust your dear mother?"

He hugged her tighter and the queen reciprocated the hug. Then she looked over her son's shoulder and saw Diana uncomfortable looking at them, still with a little pink on her cheeks.

"Are you her girlfriend?" the Queen asked, pushing him away and going in the girls directions "My name is Mariahn, but you can call me mother."

"That's enough, mother." Eric said, entering the room "Why did you both stop following us? Was it mother who stopped you?"

"My shoes." Diana said and Eric looked over to Chad, that confirmed it.

"You should have seen their faces when I made them fall over."

"Yeah and then they stayed on top of each other for..."

"Mom, stop!" Chad begged, with his cheeks lightly red "It was an accident."

"An accident you say?" Diana asked, a little annoyed and sad "If you say so."

"Don't be like that, dear." Mariahn said giving a strong tap on Chad's neck" If I didn't meddle..."

"There are things way more important than that, mother." Eric said, with a strong voice, clearly jealous. "We should make our way to the library."

"I refuse to let her go." mother said and everyone got quiet, her mood changed.

"I know very well who she is." Mariahn said while pointing his finger at Diana "She is the exact copy of Edwin when he was younger."

"Don't talk about him." the king ordered as he got inside "I don't know how to feel..."

"Relax Jace! I have no more feelings for him, not after what he did."

"Your majesty?!" Diana called, scared. "If I am not welcome here I will go back home. I would go alone but it is my first time in this world."

"First time?" Jace asked, confused "Maybe, That's why the guardian is so anxious about this matter."

"Did I interrupt something?" a voice asked behind them. Everyone froze "Why are you all so stiff? Weren't expecting me I see." I see you weren't expecting me."