Royal Runaway | by: Bootay0Call

1. [a good friend]

"Princess Isla, do you take him as your husband?" The pastor asks again. My chest felt heavy, my breaths just got shorter buy the minute, i try opening my mouth to speak but nothing came out. My mind was racing with all these thoughts, is it to late to run away? Can I object?

Why does it have to be an arranged marriage?

Finally I open my mouth, a small cough came from the group of people seated near us. I look around for where the sound came from, and made eye contact with loads of people. "No.." I say, barely above a whisper. This made the whole room erupt into whispers.

My step mum approaches me, what a bitch. "What?" She practically yells, some people stopped whispering and just watched us. I don't know where I grew this confidence but I repeat my words. "No." I say louder. "I said no" this time everyone goes quite.

The groom, Daniel, looks at me, he didn't want to marry me either. We were friends, just friends. He furrows his eyebrows in confusion, we planned on agreeing to the marriage. I face my step mother. Then he just simply nods, then looks away.

Call me Cinderella, because we both got that evil step mum, "I'm not marrying my best friend" he says, his voice loud and clear. Completely opposite to my trembling and quite voice. She doesn't say another word, she raises her hand then lands a hard slap across my face.

A couple of gasps fill the room, my probably red cheek begins to sting like shit. This bitch, I rarely swear but this deserved a good swear. I glared my deadliest glare at her, she just stared back, clearly unharmed. Daniels hand reaches for mine, I take my eyes off the evils step witch to look at Daniel. He gives me a reassuring nod, and then tightens the grip.

Before I know it we were out those doors and half way down the castle hallways, I realised that these 69 inch heels were slowing us both down. So I stop us, "one sec" I say as he gives me a confused look. I kick off the unbearable heels, then give him a nod, he gives me a low chuckle as we continue to run.

We get lost in the castle, that sounds stupid considering we both grew up in these walls. Finally we find my bedroom, we're both out of air and take a minute to catch our breaths.

"What do we do?" I say barely a whisper. His eyes meet mine, "we run.." he says, still trying to catch his breath. I try hiding the small smile that appeared. About time. He pulls off the tie he had around his neck, then pulled off the white dress shirt.

I slip out my gown not caring he was watching, he has seen me naked. Plus I didn't love him like that. He tosses me a pare of leggings and a sweater, these are the most comfortable duo. Change my mind. He slips into joggers and a plain shirt. "Ready?" He asks. I nod, "yeah lemme just" I kneel down, reaching under my bed. I pull out a gun and a pocket knife.

His eyes practically flew out of his eye sockets. "What for?" He questions me, as I hand him the gun. "Safety? Duh, come on Daniel don't go slow on me" I sigh. He looks around, "I don't even know how to use it" I groan, then hand him the knife. "Just keep it on you" I say.

After packing some bags we rushed out the castle before any guards and a step witch reach us. We ran for a good hour, not stopping to catch our breaths.

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"Can we stop now?" I ask, I was basically a noodle. He turns around, then pulls out his phone. "Isla, we have 5 minutes to reach the city" he states. "Just a few seconds, I can't breathe" I moan dramatically. He sighs in his thoughts for a minute then walks over to me. "What're you doing?" I ask. He puts one arm under my legs and the other supporting my back.

"Now shut up and stop whining" he says, I felt safe in his arms. I leans my head on his chest and drift off to sleep, like a baby.

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