Arranged Love

Chapter 7: Dinner & Decisions

*Lanie's POV*

I'm so nervous. I still have no idea what this dinner is about. I'm just going to try and follow Jase's lead like he said I should. This should be interesting. I stood behind the large double doors and tapped twice. The doors opened and I looked up. There was a large mahogany rectangular dining table, right in the center of the room. 12 place settings. There was a man at one end of the table, you could tell he was very good looking in his youth, and he still was now. At the other end resided a beautiful blonde woman. She was wearing a burgundy dress, and she smiled brightly at me. Hmm.. I think I"ll like her.

I checked all the seats and there was only one empty one. It was to the right of that man who I assumed was the King and on his left, right across from me was a man that completely broke the hot scale, I mean this was like the best looking guy I've ever seen. I refused to look straight into his eyes, he just made me... antsy. As I looked around a little more, I could feel his eyes boring into me. I slowly walked to the empty seat and waited.

"You may be seated," came from the king's lips. Everyone immediately sat down including myself. 4 women, which I assumed were maids came out of a swinging door, which contained a kitchen from the little I saw of it. They place steaming bowls of food in front of all of us, and when all had been served, the king uncovered his plate, when he grabbed his fork, the rest unveiled their meals and started eating. I opened it, and it was cheese ravioli, I almost melted on the spot. It was my favorite food in like, the entire world. I saw Jason smirking at me, he was across the table from me and two spaces down to the right. He must have told them that this was my favorite thing. I pushed my fork into some and daintily put it in my mouth, as if I wasn't starving already.

"Fuck, this shit is good," I blurted out, and silence reigned for a few uncomfortable moments, until everyone started laughing really hard. The woman I think is the queen said, "Good, I'm glad you like it. Everyone let us introduce ourselves. George will you start?"

The silver haired man spoke,"Of course," he turned to me,"I am King George of Cognac, just call me George or Papa, I believe you are Melania?" 

"Yes sir," He really was quite intimidating

"Its George or Papa, you are not one of my constituents, neither am I old enough to be known as 'sir'," 

"Alright George it is then,"

"You introduce yourself now," I thought they already knew who I was, but tradition I guess,"I'm Melania Richardson, um and I like cheese ravioli?," I said with a shrug, the queen giggled,"Please call me Lanie though," The black guy next to me, who I remember as one of my kidnappers, started,"I'm Marcus Maraschina, call me Mark, I'm Prince of Maraschina, but not going to the throne anytime soon, so I'm here living it large," I snorted, damn that was unladylike, next was another beautiful woman, she seemed younger than me by a few years.

"I'm Princess Jenny, I'm eighteen, and I really don't like you," she said with a bright smile which I'm pretty sure was fake. The girl next to Jenny looked just like her, maybe they're twins, rolled her eyes, "I'm Elizabeth or Lizzy for short, how old are you?"

"I'm eighteen,"

"Interesting." She didn't seem like one who talked a lot to me.

Next to her was another beautiful blonde, she was more my body type, with more than a little on top if you know what I mean, "I'm Evie or Eveline, I'm 21 and I'm really excited to meet you,"

"As am I," The woman I assumed was queen spoke up next,"I am the Queen, my name is Emily," her voice was quite soothing, and I enjoyed it. Next was the black girl, she really was stunning. "Hi I'm Teresha Dax, I'm the royal secretary/publicist/Jenny's girlfriend. I can't wait to work with you, and Jenny's really not as bad as she seems" Poor girl, I sensed that she was used to apologizing for Jenny, must be hard making up for her bitchy attitude.