Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice

4

Peter safely arrived in Melbourne airport before the sun even rose. Sujira could not stop talking about him until they reached the first class of schedule. Everyone is focused on the monitor and their professor including Carmelita who does nothing else but write down notes.

Aside from feeling lethargic when waking up for this Friday, she can't help but be moved at the realisation of today's date. She can't believe that the day in the calendar passes so quickly that the prince is once again here in their state. Maybe she hasn't been paying attention on the calendar on her bedroom wall that she can only picture the Valentine's Day coming so quickly. Maybe because she had been waiting for the weekends at most.

On-top of all these anxieties that Carmelita feels hearing the news about Peter, also comes from the way Sujira mentions the prince's name more than twice to most of her phrases just in a way of teasing her. Then Sujira starts talking about whether meeting the prince after school is a choice they should take. This doesn't sit right to Carmelita at all. There's this feeling in her stomach that she shouldn't be feeling. Carmelita kept noting to herself about the incident last time. How fate decided to cross their paths but twisted it too, and she never want the same number of high expectations about meeting the same prince. She starts to remind herself about the great rarity of even seeing him for real, and that's what never gets her excited today "Come on now, Carmelita! You've only almost met prince Peter, 'should be a lot different this time, you reckon?" Sujira yell with her bag kept swinging on her back.

"Are you sure about this? We wouldn't stand a chance in the crowd to see his royal highness" Carmelita kept on noting the same thing to Sujira. The two had been enough of the same things they kept reminding towards each other.

"His royal highness then huh? Too much royalty. Let the prince hear it himself" Sujira stop her track, looking at her friend from head to toe, then they continued to run.

"Is that not the proper way to address all the heirs? I'll be glad if he hears it" Carmelita rolled her eyes in frustration as she kept being dragged by Sujira.

"You know, sometimes you just have to make your own way up to someone" Sujira added. Everything that her friend says sounds and feels so optimistic to her. She's not having all these things happening at once when she herself is also tired, confused, and on-top of all that, hungry. It's enough for her to know that Peter and her stands on the same ground.

Carmelita doesn't want to remember this day with just Sujira's tight grip on her wrist while she pulls themselves out of the university. She doesn't have anything so interesting at home other than homework. It is better than ending up in what could possibly be a disastrous crowd of the heir of Oxford. She doesn't want to embarrass herself to anyone at the prince's arrival.

They found two entries of the roads up to the central blocked with barricades, but the other two open where the prince should arrive with his entourage are open with securities. Flashing on their faces are rapid blinding lights on the lenses of the cameras. It is almost like Carmelita is the one being photographed, and she hates the thought of it. This much attention gives her one lot of anxiety. She doesn't understand it how the prince of Oxford can even digest this kind of stuff that surrounds him almost in the daily basis.

The noise amongst the crowd makes her feel more alive. This identical surrounding had been a whole lot of a trauma for Carmelita. She starts to dislike the idea of huge crowds since the incident on the last visit of the same monarch in the country, she has gotten a bit uneasy by it all.

This crowd suffocates her as she stands on the back of most people. She found herself gasping for air, trying to break the heaviness around her neck and chest, and getting used to adapting this situation on the spot is a lot for her to take in.