The Crown Prince Ren Visits the University

A few days later, Both Lily and Amelia was in the art studio struggling to finish their art project before the semester ends. "Lily, I've never seen Ren pick you up when you're done with your class… and why is that?" asked Amelia while sketching up some drawings on a piece of paper.

"He's busy… sometimes he has to go for an outstation and would be back till late night… sometimes, we never meet each other for a whole day and we both would meet during breakfast. Just like today~" answered Lily as she paint on the canvas.

"Then…. What about his cousin?" asked Amelia "does he ever visited the palace?" asked Amelia curiously. Then, Lily stopped painting and turned to look at Amelia as she raised her eyebrows playfully. "I've noticed that someone is quite curious with our Prince Lucas~" teased Lily. "Oh come on, I was just… asking~" said Amelia and Lily let out a chuckle.

"Well, he visited the palace sometimes… to meet the King and the Queen and also, if Ren ever invited him to discuss about work…" answered Lily. "Don't worry, I'll send your regards if he ever visit the palace again, alright?" said Lily. "Lily! That was not what I meant!" blushed Amelia making Lily laughed at her best friend.

While both of them were making jokes between them, Lily's phone beeped and she saw it was a text from Ren. *is he free today?* thought Lily because Ren rarely texted her during the day and plus, its weekdays. He will be very busy.

"Where are you? Are you busy?" texted Ren

"I'm in the Art Studio, doing some painting for my final year project… what's wrong?" replied Lily.

While she was texting him, she heard a squealed from Amelia. "Oh my god, Lily!" called Amelia who was standing nearby the window. "Come here!" said Amelia. "What's wrong?" asked Lily as she walked nearby the window. What surprised her the most is that Ren was standing leaning against his black sports car. "Ren?" muttered Lily alone as she smiled looking at him through the window.

"The crown prince is here to see you!" said Amelia happily. "Amelia, I should go downstairs and meet him~" said Lily as she took of her apron, minding her face that has been smeared with blue and green paint on her cheeks. Then, Lily began to run down the stairs and heard a few girls were squealing seeing Ren at the lobby of the faculty.

As soon as Lily reached the lobby, she called out for Ren. Who cares if she's a princess to be or not. All she cares about at that time, Ren was there standing in his casual clothes, waiting for her. "Ren!" called Lily. Ren who was about to call Lily, heard a familiar voice calling his name. Once he looked up, he saw Lily was running towards him.

Without any hesitation, he opened his arms with a smile and without Lily realized, she ran straight towards him and being in his embrace. "Hello there," greeted Ren. "You didn't tell me you're coming~" said Lily as she broke the hug. "Well, if I told you it wouldn't be a surprised~" said Ren as he smiled.

Then, Ren noticed that Lily was looking for something. "What's wrong?" asked Ren. "Augustin isn't here? Plus… I've never seen this sports car before…." Said Lily. "Augustin isn't here…. He has things that needs to be taken care of and I owned this car…" answered Ren. "You sure have a lot of surprises…" said Lily loud enough for Ren to hear. "Now come on, I've given you a palace tour before…. So, " paused Ren as he bent down to her heights. "Would you give me a tour around your university?" asked Ren.

Lily's cheeks turned bright pink as Ren was so near towards her face and of someone pushes them, they could kiss. Plus, most of the students are there watching both of them and that made Lily feeling so shy. "Lily?" called Ren. "Would you?" asked Ren. "Y-yes, I shall take you for a tour then~" smiled Lily.

"Wait." Said Lily suddenly. "Is there any matter?" asked Ren. "There's a lot of people watching over us… so im not comfortable with them following us around…" whispered Lily. "Oh, then…" said Ren as he turned to looked at the students that has been gathered in the lobby. "I'm sorry to say this, but would you all give me and my fiancée some space? We would like to have our own private moment please." Said Ren as he gave them his charming smiles making all the girls melted by it.

"Sure Your Highness!" chirped the students but before they leave, they took a picture of both Lily and Ren standing together. Once all of them leave, Lily started giving Ren a Faculty Tour. "So… shall we?" asked Lily and Ren nodded. With that, Lily led the way. As they walked together passing by the hallway, some of the students and lecturers was surprised to see Ren.

All of them bowed and greeted him politely.

"Hello Professor Martin!" greeted Lily as she noticed that he just came out from his room.

"Hello Lily," greeted Professor Martin. "Your Highness," greeted Professor Martin politely as he bowed. "Professor Martin is my final project supervisor…" said Lily introducing him to Ren. "I believe that Lily is such an amazing painter." Said Ren. "Oh yes she is Your Highness. In fact, she is my favourite student~" answered Professor Martin. "By the way, pardon me Your Highness, I have to go to my weekly meeting with the Dean and other lecturers…" said Professor Martin. "Alright, you may... I just came here to visit my fiancée~" said Ren as he brought Lily near him making her blushed. "Alright then, thank you very much Your Highness…" said Professor Martin as he bowed politely and left the hallway.

"Alright, shall we continue?" asked Ren and Lily nodded.

"This is our lecture hall… so you know, if we have a lecture, I'll be here…" said Lily and Ren nodded. "Can I see your Art Studio?" asked Ren suddenly. "Sure, I was about to bring you there~" smiled Lily.

"Oh but one thing," said Lily. "We were kinda in the middle of doing my final project, so im really sorry if the room is quite messy… because you know, I shared the studio with other students… so… yeah." Added Lily and Ren nodded. "That's okay, I won't tell mother about how messy you were when you painting." Said Ren as he smiled playfully while caressing her cheeks that has been smeared by green and blue.

"Come on," said Ren with a chuckle. Lily who noticed that Ren was chuckling, went to take her phone and look on the camera. She finally noticed that how messy she looked right now. *damn. Professor Martin saw me looking like this?! And Ren didn't even bother to tell me?!* thought Lily.

"RENNN" called Lily as she ran to catch up with Ren. Then, she noticed that Ren was secretly laughing at her. "Stop it. I just embarrassed myself in front of my lecturer and the other students…" pouted Lily and looked to the ground

"Come on… you look cute~" said Ren. "Look here," added Ren. As soon as Lily looked up, she saw Ren was holding a phone capturing a photo of her.

"Ren! Delete that!" said Lily trying to take the phone from him but too bad, she was too short. "I promise, I won't show this to anyone. Just me, alright?" said Ren. "Come on now… let's go wash your face~" said Ren as he took her hands and walked away with Lily showing him the way to Art studio.

Once they've reached the Art studio, Lily had called for Amelia but she was nowhere to be found. Then, she noticed a sticky notes on her table and it was from her.

"I know you're gonna be here so I'll let you two have your own space while I go get my lunch!"

"Amelia isn't here so you can take a sit on her chair while I go wash my face…" said Lily and Ren nodded. While Lily was washing her face, Ren was taking a look around the Art studio. Indeed, it was messy. Lots of paints, papers, sketches from the students and many more. But one thing that caught his eyes were the drawing on a canvas that was not even done yet. It was a man in a royal suits, and a girl standing next to him. Ren was caressing the canvas with his finger and looked at it in admire.

"Okay done." Said Lily after she's done washing her face.

"Is this yours?" asked Ren pointing towards the drawing.

"Oh that's-" said Lily as she covered the drawing using a white cloth. "Yes it's mine and it's not done yet. It's my final project." Said Lily and Ren noticed that she's trying to hide something. "I'll show it to you on the exhibition once everything's done, alright?" said Lily and Ren nodded. "I'll wait for it then." Said Ren.

"By the way, I'm hungry… should we go get some lunch?" asked Ren.

"Sure. But where do you wanna have your lunch?" asked Lily.

"Faculty of meds." Answered Ren.

"w-what? It's kinda far from here…." Said Lily trying to make an excuses as she do not want to bump into Oliver anymore.

"That's okay… I can drive there… come on now~" said Ren as he took her hands and brought him to his car. One thing that Lily knows, Ren is not hungry. All he wants is to meet with that Oliver guy.

*I'm doomed* thought Lily.