Glimpses

A Lily?

OK, so I went straight to the bathroom, and Chase, Sammi, and Taylor were right behind me.

I felt so sick, "What's the matter?" asked Taylor and Chase. Sammi was still surprised at what happened, because the longest time she has liked him. So, I'm pretty sure she'll be mad or happy tomorrow (who knows). 

I said, "I don't know. We were close friends when we were little. We could have passed for brother and sister when we were little. But we lost contact and never spoke again. I am confused."

"It's ok, You're a blonde!" Chase said, we all laughed.

"Hey,what is going on in here?" Hailey said coming into the bathroom, "People are starting to worry about you Rikki."

By this time I am pacing back and forth in the bathroom, "Ok, I'll out in a minute. Ya'll leave and go have fun." They all gave me a weird look then left.

A few minutes later, I'm out of the bathroom. I walk up to my friends and the prince, "Hi Prince Jarrod, we haven't talked in forever."

"Well you know since we both became royals, well since I have you have always been one, I've been busy," he said pulling out a lily.

All you heard was gasps in the room and even Hailey gasps (I think it's starting to be a new thing for her). "Why are you giving me this," I said again stuttering. Why all of sudden he makes me feel scared and nervous?

"In Zanna, giving a lily to someone means they would like to see you."

By this time when Dustin saw the lily he was walking over to see who it was. "Hello Prince Jarrod, can I talk to you in privacy, please," my brother said. All the people were in shock, because my brother has never asked to talk to someone in privacy before.

"Of course, Prince Dustin," Prince Jarrod said with a smile like they were going have a friendly talk.

But I well knew they weren't.

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It has been 10 minutes already, and they haven't came back yet. By this time I'm pacing back and forth while my friends are trying to calm me down.

Hailey's boyfriend, Chandler, has now arrived to the party and even though we just met he is trying to help, "Princess, it's gonna be ok, just sit down and have a drink."

"Chandler, you don't have to call me Princess, just RIkki is fine, when you're around us," I said.

"Ok," he answered.

"Should I go see what's taking so long?"

This time Chase’s “lover”, Vincent, answered, “No, just let them handle it for two reasons: One- you don’t know where they are and Two- What would you do?”

I said, “Uhh… yes I do know where they are wanna see? And I don’t know what I will do.” 

Dominique said, “Whoever wants to go, go, me and Brandon will stay here and go mingle with people and whoever wants to stay is welcomed.”

From that all the girls went with me, and the boys stayed at the party to “mingle”. Sammi asked, “So, Where are they?”

“They are in the garden, our secret garden girls.”

They all gasped accept Hailey (of course, maybe it’s not a new thing, the night might have been just full of surprises!). “HOW DOES HE KNOW ABOUT OOOUURR SECRET GARDEN?!?!” they all asked.

“Ya’ll seriously, my brother knows this castle and kingdom from inside to out, better than anybody else.”

“OOOKKKK good,” Chase said. We all know the ways to the garden. There are different entrances, so we split up and went through our own ways.

As I said they were in the garden, they were. If you never seen the garden before, it’s beautiful. It’s full of roses, lilies, sunflowers, etc. It takes your breathe away every time you go in. We all met up in the hallway, and they followed me. We stopped once we heard voices, “What makes you think you can just come in to one of the balls and ask my sister to date you, all of a sudden?!?!” I heard my brother shout.

“I have liked and maybe even loved your sister my whole entire life!!” Jarrod answered/shouted back. I felt myself blush so badly. It started to feel hot in the hallway.

“You abandoned her, me, my family!”

“I had no choice, I was 10 years old, Dustin!”

“Well, you could’ve come back. My sister liked you, loved you, whatever,” he said. I tell my brother everything and that was probably a mistake.

It was dead silence; all you could hear was my hard breathing. “She did, Dustin?” he said in a whispered voice.

“Yes, she did. She used to talk about you all the time when we were little. I couldn’t get her to shut up,” he chuckled at the memory, “Every day since you left us alone, she would forget a little piece of you, memories we had and the life,” he said quietly. You could barely hear him now.

Wow, that did it. I began to cry. I had held back the memories from my childhood, because Dustin told me that being happy like that was dangerous and being a soft person would not get me far in life. Of course he told me this, when our aunt and uncle became queen and king of Zuzanna.

At that moment all of those memories came flooding back to me. I was crying loud. I knew that for two reasons: One- The girls were telling me to be quiet, but I couldn’t help it and Second- both the boys pulled their swords out and walked towards us saying, “Who’s there? Come out, right now.”