Best friends

Later that very day, lillia sat on her room, sitting close to the window, watching the birds fly pass her, few came to perch at her window sill then they flew away when they caught sight of her.

Lillia sighed, she had been in this chair for more than an hour, the castle were so quiet and boring,no maids would talk to her well, no one wanted to associate with her.

  She missed her best friend Julius, the only person that could lift up her mood. She remembered how he would sneak out of his step mother house to come play with her but now he couldn't come see her again because of the royal life she was in. If anyone saw her with any opposite gender alone, it would be a disaster.

   She stood up from the chair and was about to walk out of the room when someone knocked on her door softly.

Lillia was quite surprised, usually the maids didn't just come at her, she knew the specific time they came for her but it wasn't yet time. She opened the door slowly, then peeked out.

   Her eyes locked into some pairs of green familiar eyes, Aiden. She was shocked, he never comes to find her and she thought he would still be with his lover.

"Milord",she bowed, coming out of her room.

Aiden stared at her as she respectfully lowed her head, he didn't like it.

  "I thought maybe you would need company",his voice was unusually soft unlike before. Lillia was so shocked by his tone that she lifted up her head and stared at him, her mouth opened a little.

"I...I...am..",she was out of words and could only stutter.

"You are what?",aiden tone changed again, this time he seemed impatient.

Lillia wasn't surprise anymore, she should have knowned this man already.

"Am not lonely",she lied, he should go to another person to behave with not her.

"Okay, but am lonely",

This king was a crook.

"Your right hand man would entertain you ", she won't let him have his way, never.

"His no fun",

"Neither am I",she pressed on.

Aiden stared at her blue eyes that looked at him, challenging him. He took a step forward, coming closer to her. Lillia was shocked by the sudden closeness and wanted to take a step back but her back was against the door of her room, she had locked the door when she came out.

"Mi...lord....what are you doing?",she asked, looking around to see if there was anyone around.

"Nothing",he replied, unbothered about anyone seeing them. He took another step forward, this time their faces where so close that they where both Sharing the same air.

He could smell her usual scent, her scent that was intoxicating and he craved for more of it.

"Mi... lord, I would suggest you....take",she was about to step to the side when Aiden trapped her with his hands, placed at her sides. Her cheeks turned pink.

"Suggest what?, Who would care about seeing me and you together?",.

       Rose, she wanted to say but she kept quiet.

"Not here, someone might see",she looked around.

"Okay then, let go to my room",he blurted.

Lillia gasped as she really felt her throat tighten.

His room?

"Let ...stay in mine",she quickly suggested.

Aiden smiled, check mate.

       He took a step back to give her space to open the door. She opened it and they both stepped in.

Aiden walked into the room calmly as if it was his, he didn't wait for lillia to offer any chair to him, he silently just sat at the bed.

   Lillia scoffed on seeing this, bothered a lot that he was in her room.

"What do you want?",she asked. Wanting to get this done with.

"I wanted to ask you...how did you came to find out about me and rose?",he asked. He was still confused on how she knew.

Lillia looked at his forest eyes that where trailed at her unblinkingly.

"I ...saw you guys... together",she confessed. There was an awkward silence among them and lillia bit down on her lips, what if he was going to get annoyed by her nosiness.

"Am not going to tell anyone what I saw and you guys can be together, I don't care",she quickly said. Aiden stared hard at her.

"Come sit here",he patted at his side.

Lillia felt her heart leave her chest, what was he planning to do? She wasn't that brave to sit close to him. But this was the king, she couldn't disobey him.

She walked slowly towards him taking slow steps her eyes looking at the white tiles.

She sat close to him and he looked down at her, taking in her scent.

"Really? You won't get mad?",he asked, his one brow uplifted.

"No, you guys love each other,and I can't just come into you both way,one thing I hate is being the villain of a love life",she said, looking at her palm.

"Even if you are my wife and..."

"I can not be your wife when you love another",she blurted out.

Aiden was quite taken aback by her statement.

"But I can be your friend",she suddenly added, breaking his thoughts. She looked up at him, meeting with his gaze.

"I can be your friend",she repeated.

"And why?",he asked curious.

"I can see you have no friend, you look...lonely, so what you need is a friend not a wife",.

Lillia recalled what happened at the ball earlier,she had seen him being avoided back there and when those two men stood together facing him alone, even though she didn't know what happened, she felt moved seeing him stand alone.

"What makes you think that?",he chuckled a little.

"I just want to be a Friend besides..I don't have any friend here",she added.

           Few minutes passed by and both the two couple kept quiet,both had different thoughts in their minds.

"Okay then",Aiden said, "Be my friend and take me as your best friend from now on",.

Lillia chuckled.

"Okay then",.

"Now as a friend I would need you do what best friend does",he Said.

Lillia was confused by this, one of her brow lifted .

"As a friend, tell me a joke that would lift my mood",he requested, looking at her small cherry like face, her hair was lush and full, looking smooth and beautiful.

  Lillia sigh, she didn't know when she slapped her forehead.

"Okay then",she looked at the ceiling in deep thoughts "what did the bird tell his ....",.she had barely finished her statement when Aiden frowned.

"Those joke are dead",he said to her amusement.

Lillia looked at him, was he expecting her to be a jokester.

"Milord am not a jokester",she reminded him.

"But you are a friend to me and friends don't make their Friend to remain unhappy do they",.

   Lillia gritted her teeth, this king didn't deserve her generosity, he always find a way to trouble her kind act.

"I have the feeling that I just made a bad decision",she muttered.