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Valen

"What are you looking at Valen!? Move it!!!!"

I couldn't help but look at Aza in despair,

"But I can't leav-" he suddenly kisses me and pushes me off the tower.

Now this might have killed me if it wasn't for my dragon Festus, who scoops me up flawlessly.

"I will send Festus back for you!!!!! So don't even presume that you can die in peace!!!!! We still got 3 babies to make!!!!!" I yell back at him as Festus takes me away to Maurice.

I am so weird. I chuckle as I think about what I just yelled.

"Hurry up Fes... you got a boyfriend to pick up." I pet him on his head as I think about what not happened in the last 6 months.

6 MONTHS AGO

"Don't let him escape! That bloody Rascal!"

With just these words the small crowd chasing me gets even bigger as more people join in the thief hunt.

What is the big deal? I mean I have just taken a small brotch! And I promised I will give the money later.

However there doesn't seem to be a concept of promises in these people's minds. I must tell Mother. People of the country have started to loose their ethics now a days.

I take a sharp turn as I start running towards the woods. I quickly climb a tree, as the crowd passes by me.

I slowly and cautiously get down from the tree,  looking around for any more chasers. Not finding any I direct my feet to the very homey Castel.

I bet if my mum looked inside my brain she would be super disappointed at my inappropriate vocabulary.

I nod at Johnathan, my butler, as he let's me in the castel from the rare door.

"My princess, the Queen has been looking for you." He tells me calmly.

"Shit! You better have not told her the truth about my absence, or your specific collection will cese to exist." I tell him in triumphal as he quickly responds,

"Off course, I did not tell her my lady. I would never dream of betraying you!" He fidgets around nervously.

"Alright then!" I move forward taking off the wig as my silver hair twiddle down my shoulders.

"What about my collection?" John asks running behind me.

"It is safe. So don't worry!"

I enter my quarters and quickly shed off the boyish clothes. Stuffing them in a hidden compartment I enter the bath.

I know why mum is looking for me.

Hufffff.....

Why the hell do I have to go to some prince's coming of age ceremony.

First off I don't even know him.

Second off I am not giving Maurice up by marrying someone somewhere.

And

Third off marriage is supposed to be all about love for lords sake!!!!!

"So this is where you have been."

I jump out of my skin as my mother's shadow appears near the shade.

"Mother!!!!! Don't scare me like that!!!!!"

"Now now Val, beautiful ladies don't whine." She says calmly.

"I am not going to attend the ceremony."

"Why not?"

"Because I wanna take after you!!!!!" I exclaim flustered as I splash around trying to get out of the bath.

"Who says you will have to give up Maurice?" She retorts calmly.

"Just because you had father come along to Maurice, doesn't mean I can also have my husband-to-be to come and live with us. Father had an older brother to take care of Prinston. I won't have Maurice crumple to dust just because it has got no heir to take care of it after me." I reason further while wrapping myself up in a bathrobe.

"Who said that it will crumble to dust dear? You do know that Auclair is our neighbor. So Maurice will just club with them. You will still be able to rule it. Infact you will also have some more territory under you."

"But marriage is supposed to be all about love. And let alone love I don't even know this Prince Aza!"

"Your father and I also did not know each other when our marriage was fixed. But that didn't stop me from marrying him. You will get to know each other slowly, it is not an instantaneous process dear."

"But...but what if he doesn't like me?"

"Who would ever dare to not like my sweetie? The most beautiful and cunning lady. And if, he does refuse then we will just know that he is not the one." She smiles at me knowing she had become successful in convincing me.

"Now get ready. It's almost dinner time."

I just groaned at the thought that she managed to turn me around.

I quickly dress up and descend down the stairs.

"Father dear!!!!!" I exclaim with joy as we bear hug each other.

"I heard that my princess is going to the coming of age ceremony after all." He asks looking at me unconvinced.

"Father you of all people should know that she has her way always." I state with a sigh referring to my mother.

"Did I just hear something offending Valen?" I freeze at my mother joining in the father- daughter conversation.

"No honey she is not offending you, she is just stating the facts." My father says with a chuckle.

"You don't even dare to talk in between, my king. You always spoill her. She should know some manners....."

And my mother dear keeps on and on till the end of the time.

The ceremony is in 2 days. And I already hate it.