Royal Jester

23. Anastasia

A few weeks after Mason and Ana started dating she finally worked up the courage to tell her parents about it. While they had technically given their approval when the possibility of her dating anyone was brought up, she still knew their agreement had been reluctant at best. 

Not surprisingly, they didn't pick up immediately so she opted for calling Lili instead. Mason was with her at this point, laying with his head on her lap and his arms wrapped around her waist. She had told him about having a little sister some time ago, and she wasn't too concerned about him hearing something he wasn't supposed to so she had asked him to at least sit in with her as she called Lili. 

He had agreed more easily than she thought he might, but Ana wasn't going to complain. 

"Hey-o," Lili greeted. 

"Hey," she returned, letting her free hand run through Mason's hair. His grip tightened around her then and she could only assume it was from the sound of her voice or the feeling of her hand on his head. 

She heard Lili sigh and resisted the urge to laugh at the clear impatience from just that brief sound. "You called for a reason I presume?"

"Not really," she decided to mess with her a bit. She could imagine her younger sister's eyeroll as she grumbled incoherently. "Just thought you'd like to know that Mason and I started dating."

Lili abruptly shrieked and Ana cringed as she pulled the phone away from her ear. "Damn," she saw Mason mouth when she glanced at him and she laughed softly. 

"Did you hear that?" She mouthed back before flinching when she heard Lili scream again. 

She brought the phone back to her ear, "Are you with him right now?" She looked back down at Mason, who was staring up at her confusedly.

"Maybe," Ana responded. 

"Give him the phone right now," she practically demanded. 

Ana shook her head immediately, "I'm not doing that." It seemed like an absolutely terrible idea. Mason looked even more confused at those words, eyebrows furrowing adorably as he pouted slightly.

"Are you serious," Lili whined. 

The older princess rolled her eyes, "How about I put it on speaker?" Mason lit up at the prospect, lifting himself from his spot and pulling her tight against his side. 

Lili agreed with no hesitation and Ana reluctantly put the phone call on speaker and set it on her legs, which had fallen asleep from Mason laying on them earlier. "It's on speaker," she told Lili. 

There was the sound of a throat clearing and Mason gave Ana an uncertain glance. "So I heard you're dating my sister," Lili began. Ana snorted when she realized she was trying to be intimidating, before covering her mouth when she remembered she could still hear her. 

"If that's what the kids are calling it these days," Mason winked at Ana. She laughed in return, lightly hitting his shoulder. 

There was silence for a few moments and she was beginning to get worried before Lili's voice interrupted her thoughts. "How old are you exactly?"

"Fifty-four," he stated shockingly calmly. Lili gasped, sounding so horrified that it made Mason's façade break as he laughed. "I'm just fucking with you," Ana shot him a glare, "I'm twenty one. Definitely not a creepy old man; Paris can attest to that."

"You saw a photo of him too, why did you even believe that?" 

Mason's eyes widened at that, turning his head slightly to face Ana and she only realized how close they when their noses brushed. "Is that why you took that terrible ass picture of me in the bathroom?"