A King for A Prince

Chapter 3

After introductions, Jay's father leads everyone into the meeting room and sends the "children" to go mingle with each other. They're currently sitting in the common room on the large chairs while young prince Arthur sits on the floor with a piece of paper doodling.

"Jamison, you're a handsome guy, why aren't you already betrothed?" Caspian asked with a raise of an eyebrow, "I'm sure there are women that would line up to get the chance to be your wife."

"Um, I'm not really looking for a wife," Jay answered confused about why his love life was brought up, "I don't turn eighteen for a couple of more months."

Nicolas sits quietly watching as Caspian goes on and on about how no Kings have offered their daughters cause he's "rich and handsome". Nicolas gives Jay a look that Jay return with a slight smile on his face.

Jay and Nicolas continued to hold eye contact for what seemed like forever until Nicolas gave Jay a small smile which caused Jay to look away shyly and focus back on what Caspian was saying.

"... But it's our duty as the Prince to marry a wealthy woman to keep the royal bloodline going and no one wants to marry me." Caspian finishes with a huff.

"Maybe it's cause you talk too much." Young Arthur says not even lifting his head up to even look at him.

Nicolas lets out a loud laugh, it was one of those laughs that you could listen to over and over again and it would still make you smile every time you heard it.
The conversation flowed freely between Nicolas and Caspian while I watched out the window waiting for Father to call us back into the meeting room.

After a bit of staring off into space young Arthur stood up and walked over to Jay holding his paper and pencils in his hands.

"Jamison?" He said as he sat his stuff down on the table next to Jay. "Want to doodle with me?"

"I would love to," Jay responds, accepting the supplies from the young prince, and sits up to reach the table Arthur was standing at.

Nicolas watched as Jay and Arthur talked quietly about whatever they were drawing. He took notes on how the corner of Jay's eyes would squint when he would smile or laugh at what the boy was saying. Nicolas admired the feminine features that Jay had, like his soft jawline and perfect skin. Jay was slim, yet fit, and his medium brown hair had a slight curl to it as it framed his face.

The door to the meeting room suddenly opened causing all of the children to jump and turn to look at it. A furious Felipe stepped out of it and walked straight past the princes.

"Caspian!" The king shouted, stopping and turning to the boys, "We're leaving, come on!"

Caspian quickly shoots up from where he was sitting in the sitting room and quickly follows after his father quietly.

"That scared me," Young Arthur quietly said as he went back to the paper he had been drawing on before.

Father and Mother walked out of the meeting room followed by Xander. As they walked they whispered to one another. Mother look very nervous as if Felipe running out had frightened her. Father on the other hand looked calm, he obviously didn't think the King running out was a problem.

"Alright you three," Father said as he got closer, "Nicolas and Arthur are going to be staying with us for a while as their father deals with a couple of things."
Nicolas looked at his father as if trying to read his mind. "Later" His father mouthed to stop the prince from trying to pry into what he is hiding.

"We only have one guest room that is being worked on at the moment, so the young prince could stay in that room." Father says, then turned to look at me,

"That means Jamison, you will share your room with Nicolas."
Jay gave his father a confused nod. Jay knew that there was more than one guest room in the castle, what was his father talking about?

"Jay?" Jay's mother asked getting attention, he looked at her, "Why don't you show Nicolas to your room?"
Jay muttered a quiet "yes ma'am" and stood looking toward Nicolas. Nicolas stood quietly and followed Jay out of the room.

Once the boys reached Jay's bedroom door he opened it to reveal all of the makeup he owns to be thrown on the floor broken into pieces. Jay quickly runs to see what can be salvaged from the wreckage and Nicolas follows.
All of Jay's powdered makeup was smashed to bits leaving only his eye liner still usable. Jay quietly sat looking at the only thing he was able to express himself with, destroyed.

Nicolas stood watching the prince try not to break down in front of him, but he could tell that this stuff meant a lot to him and it being ruined caused him a great amount of sadness.

Jay covered his face with his hands and started to silently cry, forgetting that he had company. Nicolas, however, noticed how upset the boy was and crouched down beside him gently, setting his hand on his back for support.

Jay looked up at Nicolas with his eyes full of sadness and the older prince opened his arms to the younger. Without questioning it Jay clung on to him and began to cry harder.

Nicolas sat in silence and let the prince cry. He had no clue why he felt the need to comfort Jay but seeing the younger boy so upset made Nicolas want to punch whoever did this.