An Unlikely Pair

Chapter II

Prince Andrew

Man, her smile is so radiant and that hair. The bright sun brings out more of that color. That golden brown hair of hers. I thought, then I saw Princess Margaret walk straight into a tree and fall onto her butt. She rubbed her cheek, then I held out my hand to her. She looked in my direction and blushed a little. I laughed and asked, "Want some help standing up?"

Princess Margaret slapped my hand away and got up by herself, then she said in an annoyed and frustrated tone of voice, "I don't need your help." She stomped away from me.

I hurried to catch up with her and yelled, very annoyed, "What's with that attitude of yours?! I just tried to help you!" She didn't say anything back towards me. "Fine! I'm going back inside! Come see me if you want to become friends with me! Or not! That's fine too!" I yelled, very angry.

"I'll just find my way to the archery range!" She yelled back at me. We both went our separate ways. She followed the path to the archery range and I stomped back to my room. I met with Cole halfway. Cole looked behind me and asked, "Are you done entertaining Princess Margaret? And where is Princess Margaret?"

"I don't know and I really don't care." I said, frustrated and annoyed.

Cole hurried to walk next to me and said, "You don't care that she's walking around the castle grounds alone? You should go back and spend time with her,"

"No! I'm not going to spend my time with that annoying, rude, little princess!" I yelled back at Cole.

"She may be annoying and rude now, but you are going to be husband and wife in a week! You should go back and just try to talk to her!" Cole scolded me. I stopped walking and just looked down at the gravel path. Cole and Gray stopped walking soon after I did. They're standing in front of me now. "Let's go find Princess Margaret and show her around the palace," Cole said.

"Gray? What do you think?" I asked, looking up at them.

"I think you should listen to Colette. She knows a thing or two about girls," Gray said, "Our girl, Clara, has started to act like that,"

Cole slapped Grey's shoulder with the back of her hand, then she said, as if she was annoyed with him, "Greyson, don't talk about Clara. We don't even know if we can keep her. She may have a home and a family to go back to,"

"'Keep her?'" I asked.

"We found her alone on the street. She was very weak," Cole started to say.

"And Colette nursed her back to health. Isn't my future wife so amazing?" Grey said, then he started to make goo-goo eyes at Cole.

"You really shouldn't say 'Colette' around the palace. If I get caught, you won't be able to see me here," Cole said.

"Ahhh!" We heard Princess Margaret scream. We rushed over to where the scream was.

"Princess Margaret!" I yelled when we got there.

"Prince Andrew!" She screamed when she turned and noticed me. She ran toward me and hugged my right arm. She's shaking in fear.

"What's wrong, Princess Margaret?" I asked, very worried. She pointed in front of me and when I looked I saw three butterflies and nothing else. "There's nothing there," I said, confused. I looked back down at her. Her eyes were closed shut.

She slowly opened her eyes and asked, "Are th-they gone?" Then, she saw the three butterflies again. "Ahhh! They're still there!"

"Wait, Princess Margaret. Are you afraid of butterflies?" I asked, chuckling a little to myself.