Lost In Time - A tale of the unknown [WILL BE CONTINUED LATER ON]

Chapter 8. Kingdom's Crown

[20/08/2012, 9:27PM]

Euphoria turned to Karsyn, holding his hand and said, "Don't speak about any of the royal families here. Here, you'll be screwed if you speak about any other royal ancestry."
"Okay."
"Well, where's Romero?"
"I don't know, he's probably inside."
"Ah."
Adora came stomping through the crowd, with her face filled with complete rage. She took a deep breath and kindly spoke to Karsyn, "Karsyn, have you seen Kahlo anywhere?"
"Yeah...she's doing something-"
"Something like what...?"
"She's going back home."
"What?"
"Oh no, not forever...she just said she wanted to see if our mother wrote back."
"Oh, thank you!"
"No problem."
Romero came out of the palace, in the same old cloak that he wore on the first day of the ball. He wasn't wearing his crown though, which was odd. But everyone just ignored it and carried on with what they were doing.
Karsyn snarled at him quietly, "Jeez, sucks for you we didn't finish the game!"
"Quiet." Euphoria chuckled.
"Greetings everybody, this is the final night of the ball. It has been four years since my coronation...and I am really grateful that you have came to celebrate it with me. The ball will be concluded shortly, due to some things happening, but not to worry...we will see each other again soon."
"He's scary..."
"Shhh...!!!"
There was a huge silence. No talking, no muttering, but from afar church bells rang and people began to sing to some tune. It was sang in Latin; Euphoria didn't understand Latin, he was the kind of guy to study Greek in school.
The song's lyrics were between the lines of "Clementine" and the people sang:
"Rex Romero, solus Romero
Tu patriam liberam regere vultis?
Tu ex his qui nos regent
Sed non tu pecus.
Mox vesper decidit;
Nulla in nobis spes.
Est regnum in omnibus nigris.
Rex Romero, Tantum Romero
An in remissa veritas erit?"

"Do you know what they're saying..?"
"No. And I don't really car-"
"Try looking in the book!"
"No."
"Why?"
"Because I said no."
People began to leave, Karsyn wanted to go to the rest but he couldn't. Romero near them, pacing back and forth, waiting for everyone to leave. Euphoria started to leave and he began to follow.
Karsyn froze. He was in shock, he saw Kahlo in tears. She was on the grass, crying. He ran towards her and hugged her.
"What's wrong...?"
"M-mom...dad...they're gone."
"Did they write back before they left?"
"No..."
Karsyn's eyes started to water and he began to cry, alongside Kahlo. He tried to put his arm over her shoulder, but she pulled away, in a furious rage, she yelled, "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! MAYBE IF WE DIDN'T DO THIS STUPID MISSION, WE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN STRANDED AWAY FROM OUR PARENTS! I HATE YOU!"
She gasped, she blinked twice and Karsyn was daydreaming but he was aware of what she had said.
He got up and left, racing to Euphoria, leaving her by herself.
"Where are you-" she stuttered, her hand tugging onto his shirt.
"None of your business."
"KARSYN!"
He ran to Euphoria, who was with Idyllic and Clairé, they were laughing and Euphoria just stared at him.
"Why are you so quiet all of a sudden?"
"No reason."
"Suit yourself, I guess...anyways, Idyllic and Clairé and I were laughing at how we were dancing the other night and you were being such a-"
"Oh."
"You okay? You're normally not this down, y'know..."
"I'm fine."
"You sureee...???"
"No." he mumbled.
"What was that?"
"I meant yes...yeah I'm fine!"
"Well you don't seem like it."
"Fine...I might be a bit down and sad and...gloomy but that doesn't answer why you wanted to dance with me the other night!"
"I wanted to dance with you...because we're friends? Can friends not dance?"
"Uh-"
"HE'S IN LOVE WI-"
"SHUT UP IDYLLIC GODDAMN IT!"
"You have a crush on someone?"
"Not you too, don't listen to Idyllic."
"Oh-"
"Well, now that we're out of that hell, where are the rest, and where is Kahlo?"
Before Karsyn could explain, the rest came crashing, angry and annoyed at Karsyn.
"WHY WOULD YOU MAKE YOUR SISTER CRY?"
"What do you mean?"
"KAHLO! SHE'S BEEN ALL ALONE, AND WHEN WE ASKED HER WHY SHE WAS CRYING SHE SAID-"
"It's Karsyn....I-" Adora fake cried, mocking Kahlo.
"What?"
Euphoria took a deep breath and turned to them, "Listen. I saw everything that happened. I was just with Idyllic and Clairé, minding my own business and when I turned back, I saw Kahlo shouting at Karsyn. He came to us and pretended to be fine, he said he was...and I knew he was lying."
"It's not his fault!" someone said.
"Well...I guess if you saw everything that happened then it must be true."
"Y-You didn't let me finish..." Kahlo whined.
Kahlo explained, "Our mother didn't write back...and I shouted at Karsyn."
"Well, how about you make up like good siblings huh...?" Adora sarcastically spoke.
"Fine." Karsyn said.
"I'm sorry Karsyn..."
"It's fine."
They both hugged and Idyllic saw Euphoria smiling. Idyllic smiled and rested her head on Euphoria's shoulder, "You're wishing that was you, huh?"
"Mayb...I mean no!"
"You sureee????"
"Yep. I can ask Karsyn for a hug at any time-"
"Oh really now?"
As soon as Kahlo and Karsyn stopped hugging, Idyllic went up to Karsyn and whispered something in his ear that would shock him. He turned bright red and he scratched his head.
Euphoria saw Idyllic coming towards him and so he tugged onto her dress and yelled, "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU SAY TO HIM?"
"...Oh nothing...heh!"
Euphoria began to punch the air but stopped once he heard Karsyn announce:
"Guys, we have to get back. Tomorrow is a very important day."
"What is tomorrow?"
"Wanderer will tell you."
They were all surprised and puzzled at Karsyn's response. Although they didn't know what he meant, they just went with what he said. The group all headed back to Lorenzo's place, only to see him slightly drunk, holding a glass of wine in his hand. Jolene was sober, she laughed at him and admired his eyes for a couple of minutes.
"Hey dears!" Jolene chuckled.
"Jolene, what's up with Lorenzo...???" Euphoria questioned.
"He just got a bit drunk. His friend came by and handed him some wine, but I think he got drunk off of it."
"Ah."
Lorenzo hiccuped, "It was...red wine...and white wine, and PURPLE WINE!" he made an explosion noise.
They all began to laugh, Jolene patted his head, "Purple wine? There's no such thing."
"But to me...it exists...there was also yellow wine!"
"Oh my god...I think you need to head to bed, you. Get some rest."
"Okay...goodnight Joles, love ya!" Lorenzo said staring into Jolene's eyes smiling.
"Love you too..." she whispered.
"Well! Now that he's gone, you guys should go to sleep."
"Okay."
Euphoria put his arm around Karsyn's shoulder, "We're gonna stay up with Lorenzo, until he's sober. Because who knows...being drunk may lead to some other stuff."
"Where is he?"
"In his room."
"Bring the book as well. We can read to pass the time."
The rest went to the guest room to sleep, meanwhile...Jolene was cooking breakfast early? They headed to Lorenzo's room and once Euphoria opened the door, he began to laugh.
"Oh my god...haha! Look at this idiot!"
Karsyn saw Lorenzo laying face down on the bed, with his arms and legs spread out as if he was hugging the bed.
"My god...how are we going to stay with him like this?" he said laughing.
"I don't know...let's just test it out, y'know."
Karsyn took the book out, and they sat on the bedside, carefully trying not to wake Lorenzo up.
"So...do you want to know more about my mother?"
"Yeah. Her story sounds very interesting."
"As you may know her name is Séraphine...she has blonde hair, she looks very young...whatever-"
"Maybe we should tell scary stories about how we're going to find the Princess."
"Ooh! Okay...I'm going first though." Euphoria suggested.
"Okay so...we are going to go through a really scary fores-"
"And let's actually make it realistic." Karsyn said, flicking to the page where the map was.
"Okay...so-"
"And one last thing, be crea-"
"Stop interrupting me! I know how to tell stories properly-"
"I didn't say you don't know ho-"
"Just shut up. Shh."
There was a small silence, until Euphoria carried on, "Okay...well...we are going to go through a scary forest. It has lots of flowers as you can see, and then. BOOM! A flower explodes, and a whole gang of wolves appear and start attacking us-"
"You are really bad at telling stories, d'you know that?"
"Fine...I guess I am"
Euphoria put his head on Karsyn's shoulder and muttered, "Hey Karsyn...what did Idyllic tell you?"
"I can't share that..."
"What do you mean you can't share that?"
"Only I can know...that's what she told me..."
"Just tell me."
"I wish I could, Euphy..."
"Euphy? That's new."
"What...?"
Euphoria felt a hand on his chest, Karsyn was beginning to fall asleep on his chest, but he slowly moved away.
"I thought you were going to stay up with me."
"Just go to sleep...we have somewhere to go tomorrow."
"Okay. Goodnight Karsyn."
"Night."
Karsyn fell asleep, Euphoria closed his eyes, pretending to fall asleep, until Jolene bursted through the door and once she saw Karsyn asleep on his chest, she whispered.

...
"Awh, he's a keeper ain't he?"

"What do you mean by that...?" Euphoria asked, slightly feeling concerned and scared.
"Nevermind. Well, I've told the others this and I just wanted to tell you this also. I'm not going to be home tomorrow, because I have to go somewhere. I made pancakes for tomorrow so you can warm them up and have them."
"Thanks, Jol."
"It's no biggie, well, you better fall asleep with ya' boyfriend!"
"I hate you sometimes..."
"I love you too Euphoria!"
"Okay, goodnight."
"Night."

[End of Chapter 8]