sit up in the nurses bed.
My arm bandage in like a million layers.
The doors open, I look over at clay, he walks over to the bed I'm sitting on and sits down next to me.
"Oh, I thought for a nurses bed it'd be a little more comfortable" he says, I laugh a little and look up at him.
"You pinched him in the face?" He asks, I nod, "why?" He asks,"What'd you expect me to do?" I shrug, "it's jut surprising, I mean, you hit him really hard" he says.
I lift my head and turn it over to see my lightly bruised knuckles.
"Yeah I guess so" I shrug.
I look away from him.
My mother's voice is the only thing I can think about.
The memory's flooding my head.
"I heard her voice" I whisper, his eyes are on me.
"What'd she tell you?" Clay whispers, "she said my name, then she reminded me that's its her" I whisper.
I laugh, "I sound crazy" I say, "no you don't, did she say anything else?" Clay whispers.
I look at him, "she told me she loved me" I whisper and let my head fall on his shoulder.
"When my grandmother died I also heard her, I seen her too" clay whispers.
"What'd she look like?" I ask, "I don't know, not herself, she just looked..well unalive and dead, there was no spirit in her" clay whispers placing an arm around me pulling me closer to him.
"Wanna go back to your room?" He whispers, "yeah" I say.
He stands off the kinda tall bed then helps me off it.
We talk while we walk.
When I reach my room I enter, it's trashed.
I stand in the doorway speechless.
"Yeah the dude kinda went crazy" clay says.
"I can tell" I say, "why don't we tidy it together?" Clay asks.
I turn and look at him smiling.
"Ok" I whisper and we both begin tidy.
Suddenly I bump my arm on a shelf.
I wince and hold it, clay quickly runs and grabs hold of the shelf that was about to completely crush me.
He pulls me away from it just I time before the books we just put away come crashing off the shelf
He pushes the shelf back up standing.
I look at all the books cluttered all over the ground.
Me and clay both burst into laughter, "your such an idiot george" ckay laughs, "shut up" I laugh.
"Let's just ditch cleaning" clay says after we're done laughing.
"Yeah" I laugh, he smiles at me.
I sit down on my bed and grab my phone.
There's a missed call from Wilbur, I ignore it and promise myself to call him back later.
Me and clay continue to talk.
You could say we've been friends for our whole life but yet only been friends for a couple days.
Even though I'm the prince and he's a captain of guards.
I wonder if my dad would care?
~~~
It's been two weeks.
Me and clay are really good friends now.
There's another ball I have to attend to tonight.
Although ts to celebrate that my sad got his girlfriend pregnant.
Clays also dressing up because he was invited as a guest.
We decided to get ready together then go.
My bathroom door opens and clay walks out in a black suit, almost the same as mine.
I look him up and down.
He's only missing the tie.
"Can you tie it?" He hand me the tie.
I laugh, "seriously?" I take it yes, "yes" he laughs and kneels down infront of me.
Placing his hands on my thighs as I sit down on my bed.
I feel my cheeks heat up a little at the feeling of his hands on me.
I begin to tie the tie around his neck, he stares at me.
"We should go together?" He asks, "to the ball?" I ask, "where else?" He laughs, "as what?" I ask, "friends? I don't know" he says.
"Ok" I smile finishing his tie, I tug it into his jacket then look at him.
"So I don't have to walk in with my dad's slutty girlfriend?" I ask, "I mean, I don't know" he says glancing at my lips then standing
We leave for the ball, walking side by side.
We reach where my family enters and stop.
"I see you guys have made excellent friends?" My dad smiles looking more proud at clay then at me.
"Geoge needed friends, hasn't got many" my dads girlfriend says, "I have friends" I roll my eyes.
"Alright you two can walk in together then my dad says.
I look up at clay, he smiles at me, we begin to walk in, me and clay last.
"You should dance with someone tonight" clay whispers, "no, I'm planning to just sneak out the back" I whisper, the crowds attention on he royal family now.
"I'll join you then" clay says, I smile.
The ball begins.
