Truth Of The Past

Daisies

" My lord we are stopping for some time, we need to feed the horses, if you want-

Blake steps out and sees the feilds of little heathers blooming..

" Nothing has changed here"

"It has" a voice interrupted..

" It has changed, everything has changed here, heathers, fields, people and their hearts, all different"

" Brandon, i-its good to see you"

Blake moves forward to hug Brandon but Brandon moves away.

" I am here to escort you to the palace only at the orders of the queen"

Blake chuckles...

He had a straight face but deep inside he was eager, his heart was desperate to see her, how would she look? Will she still be wearing her little floral dresses? Will she have a golden crown which she wanted? Has she really changed as the people say?
all the desires to see her was making him confused.

He sits in the carriage and watches the sun slowly going down painting the sky with hues of orange..

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" Your majesty,"

" hmm"

" they are here"

She closes her eyes and gets ready for what all was coming next..

As the Ernaisians enter the palace all they get is silence, no one there to welcome them. They are soon escorted to their chambers.

" Is this the way? to welcome us? "

Jade, Blake's cousin brother argued.

" You must be tired Jade, go and rest"

" But--"

" I said go"

Jade had to follow Blake's orders...

Blake was dissappointed, he never expected such a welcome..He was here for the marriage, the alliance the queen, she didn't even come to see him he was humiliated..he was determined to meet her by himself..and ask her the reason.

The palace, it all seemed unchanged to him, the same corridors he used to run through, the pillars he used to lean on but not a single person present, Why? Because no one in the kingdom wanted too see him, for what he did Blake was hated strongly by the people but little did they know....

He was now standing infront of her old chambers with a slight hope of finding her inside..with all his toughness he knocked

" Come in"

He went through..

Marrisa was sitting and reading the accords of golloirs when she heard a knock, it must be Brandon she thought and asked him to come in..

" How was it? Are they all here? Were the welcomed well? "

" I would rather call it a disappointment "

It was not Brandon, not his voice but she knew who it was, she got up but the inkpot fell over her, creating a mess.. Blake moved forward to help her but something made his steps halt , Marissa looked up to find him staring at her..

there was no difference; everything was the same, just like they saw each other way back.

The same hazel eyes he once got lost in, the wavy black hair he caressed with love, the pink tint of her cheeks, the plump lips, the little dimples at the end of the lips the same pretty face he adored.

And for him,

The same blue eyes Marrisa adored, the muscular body he had, his rough handsome face, the small cut near his brow, the same mulberry lips, the shiny nose bridge and that same emotions in his eyes

It drived them crazy how nothing but also everything for them had changed.

They were both mesmerised to see each other after such a long time but won't realize..It was complete silence when Blake spoke

" I am dissapointed, by the warm welcome we had M-Marissa" he taunted..

A decade after he spoke her name,

" Learn to accept dissappointments, Thanes is not what it was " said Marrisa with no emotion.

" You could have come" demanded Blake

"  I am queen if I remind you and Brandon was there" answered Marrisa

" and it didn't make any difference, I am not here to face humiliations, I have people with me, I am here for-"

" for what? what are you here for" asked Marrisa

" you know it, I am here for the
alliance "said Blake

" the alliance" she chucked, deep down it was not what Marrisa desired to hear.

" My apologies, if you didn't get the behaviour you expected from us, but it is what it is"

Blake sighed " mother asked me to bring  you daisies"
he kept the bouquet on the table..

It was not this mother but only him, he knew she loved them.

" I hate Daisies" said Marrisa..

Blake was stunned, she used to love them.

" Don't be so shocked a lot has changed since then "

she said coming closer, Blake's heart felt something as she got close...but then she grabbed the bouquet , touched the flowers, chuckled and threw it out of her window.

" Don't make efforts, we all know its just an alliance"

Blake didn't speak a word and maintained his expressionless face seeing her throw the flowers away. He wanted to say so many things ask her what was wrong, tell her about him, ask her how she was, and desperately tell her the truth but he did not say a word, for Marissa's actions troubled him to the core. All he could say was-

" I think  my people would not have to face any humiliation or disappointment anymore, right?"

She nodded. He turned around and was about to exit,

" Blake?" she called him out..

He stopped, his heart fluttered for a moment after hearing her call him after all these years

" A king shouldn't roam around, don't do it  or you might get lost in the darkness of my palace"

Blake chuckled and answered,

" I hope you change your habits queen you would soon be in my kingdom"

He went away, but on his way everything repeated in his mind.

" I hate them"

" A king shouldn't roam around, don't do it you might get lost in the darkness of my palace"

" Don't make efforts, we all know its just an alliance"

He knew that She had changed, she was not the princess, not the Marissa Blake had known his entire life. She was same on the outside, but het heart had flipped. .

While Marrisa was busy with her thoughts that how he was still the same prince she knew.

She looked down her window and saw the destroyed bouquet on the floor.

While both were busy in their own thoughts, something unfortunate was on their way.

Everything happened just in a day, it was so quick for Marrisa to digest.. 10 years and one day suddenly he shows up for the alliance, 45 years and her father was on a deathbed...and just in 4 days she ll be married and in a week she'll leave her kingdom.

Time was playing hard against her..