Love her?!

'What... did I just say?' Skye almost froze but his body and mind kept consuming him with ridiculous thoughts that left him wanting to pull his hair out and scream that it was not true, however he felt no strength to do so and was forced to watch his body speak for him.

"What?!" Merlia asked sounding alarmed by his comment, forgetting to keep her composure especially around the prince given the circumstances.

"Love her?!" Morgana screeched in anger "now I know you're just a liar! How dare you say this when you treat her badly? Do you even know what love is?" Morgana challenged now wanting to slap him more than ever. Just who does he think he was?

'The nerve of this guy!' Morgana gritted her teeth while keeping her mouth closed in order to stop herself from lashing out even more.

"I love being around her" Prince Skye admitted before he sighed with a content smile while looking at the floor near his boots in a semi bashful manner, this took the group by surprise.

'I love making her life miserable, no I don't-wait yes I do! I do love making her miserable- wait a minute what's going on?! Why can't I think straight?!' Skye wanted to scream loudly from feeling frustrated about the whole situation.

Instead his smile began to grow more wider to his horror, despite trying to resist saying these things his body acted like it had a mind of it's own.

"She's funny and I love teasing her" he paused for a few seconds as he tried to think of negative things to say but other words kept leaking out of his lips before he could stop them.

"She's really very pretty. However! I don't like other guys bothering her, it's annoying" he added stiffly with a deep frown now etched on his face, meanwhile just witnessing this stunned the girls who were hearing the confession. Perceval and Helga who were listening gawked in disbelief not knowing what to say or believe. Was this a joke?

'Is he serious?!' Helga gave Perceval who was even more speechless than he usually would be gave her a startled look.

"You're joking?" Morgana said with a distasteful look "You have to be joking, you hate her and we all know it"

"No I don't" Prince Skye said bluntly as he stared at them with the same smile which appeared quickly to their confusion, it was almost as if he had a split personality given how he was acting.

"But you've humiliated and treated her so rudely, especially with other people watching" Merlia cried loudly showing she was confused by his words, adding to her shock she watched Skye look away shyly which was out of character for him. Morgana tilted her head not knowing what to make of him. He did seem... genuine dare she admit it aloud.

"Yeah... but I do love her, I just want her to notice me that's all" Skye commented with a meek but joyful smile which got the girls twitching in anger.

"That's stupid! Do you even know her name-?" Morgana paused when she saw a concerned look on Merlia's face.

"Please leave her alone, you've caused enough pain" Merlia said tersely as she took her now startled friend with her to the dorm, ignoring his smiley look as they closed the door behind them. Skye however now seeing that they wouldn't help resumed his search for Anberine.

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"What is wrong with you?" Morgana asked sharply as she closed the door. "He can't just hurt her and expect us to take it"

"That's the thing" Merlia said softly as she saw Helga and Perceval's worried looks "I think the spell has worked" Morgana blinked in surprise not truly understanding how this was possible.

"Wait what?!" Morgana cried out in disbelief "the Love Spell actually worked?! But-!" she immediately went still as she now realised why Prince Sky was behaving in such a manner, if anything he was acting more obnoxious than ever compared to how he usually was before the spell and it was all directed towards a certain individual. "Oh come on... are you serious?!" she whined weakly as she eyed them not believing what she was hearing, meanwhile Perceval sighed heavily shortly after silence filled the room.

"She did warn us" Perceval said gravely as Morgana continued to whine loudly.

Now opening the door to see if Prince Skye was still in the hallway, only now seeing that he wasn't, Morgana bit her lip weakly from knowing Anberine was now going to be in a whole heap of trouble thanks to the fact they had made her create the potion knowing that she was against it to begin with. Facing the direction of where Anberine's dorm room was located she ran towards it, only stopping at certain spots in order to avoid the prince just in case he was close. The last thing she wanted was for the prince to follow and find Anberine, creating a series of more issues before Morgana could even warn her friend in advance so she could be prepared for what was to come.

Wasn't there an antidote? If so why hadn't they thought of making it to help Anberine? Shaking her head Morgana continued to walk briskly through the hallways and staircases until she had finally spotted the closed door leading to Anberine's room, she knocked frantically but not loud enough to alert people just in case Prince Skye also caught the sound.

After the fourth knock she waited to see Anberine open the door, Morgana continued to resist the urge to hop from one foot to the other due to the anxious feeling that continued to enter her gut. A look of bewilderment filled Anberine's face as she stared at the frazzled Morgana and began questioning what had happened.

"Um Morgana?" Anberine spoke in a cautious tone as she saw her friend looking around, almost as if she was trying to escape something or someone which was odd unless she had done something she shouldn't have again. "Are you okay?" she almost yelped as Morgana suddenly pushed her inside.

"Go go go go, inside now" Morgana hissed as she now closed the door behind her and locked it with her magic surprising Anberine who didn't know what to make of this as she stood wearing a baggy grey jumper and greyish black lower knee high trousers.