Nadine

34. Grand Finale

Me and Omar ride all over on the horses. I talk about nothing and everything. I don't tell him that I heard them through the wall though. I want to find out if Tre will lie to me or if he'll actually be honest now. I'll ask them both, him and Dipak.

We go back to the castle after a couple hours. We get outside Dipak's door and I decide to be funny.

"Guard summon Advisor Dipak to the hallway outside of his door." I can barely hold it together. I'm trying so hard to be quiet.

He comes out a second later laughing. "Really?"

I bust out laughing.

Omar rolls his eyes and pats me on the back. "There really is a child still in there somewhere." He looks at Dipak. "She found it hilarious. Could barely stand up."

Dad walks by. "What's so funny my princess?"

I point at Dipak and nearly fall over laughing I again.

"She summoned me to the hallway outside my door sir." He's laughing too but I think it's more at me.

"Always with the summoning... I don't even care. Summon him to all the weird places you want. He's the commander now. You can do that." Daddy just keeps walking down the hallway.

I bust out laughing. Then I start jumping up and down. "I'm gonna pee if I don't stop laughing. Help me."

Mary comes out of my door a few doors down. "Why are you always threatening to pee everywhere? She starts fanning me off. Remember when the baby horse got sick and you had to sleep with him all night in the barn to keep him warm?"

I nod at her. "Yes he was so little and sick."

She looks at the boys. "There you go. Sometimes you just have restart her." She goes to walk away and they both bust out laughing.

"I am not cleaning up pee from either of you." She walks back in my place and shuts the door.

It takes them a second but they settle back down.

Dipak looks at me. "What did you need?"

"Oh where is his place? I don't know where you put it."

He shakes his head and blinks. "I put it right down here." He walks us down a couple doors in the other direction from my place and he opens the door for us. The 3 of us walk in.

"Will this work Omar?"

"This is quite lovely Nadine. Thank you for this."

I sit down on the couch. "Dipak did it."

"Still learning to be royal I see. Well thank you Dipak."

He nods.

"Do you want to go to our meetings? They are in the morning and afternoon and all day really. I'm not sure how anyone goes anywhere else. We just stare at each other over a desk and listen to Dracul ramble on about anything boring he can find. Mary gives people evil looks while throwing my sword on occasion. Frode writes everything down. I try to find things to do to keep myself entertained. I don't know what the rest of them do. I'm just trying to survive in there."

"Well you are quite young to take the throne. A certain level of maturity is required for doing that. It seems you're doing your best though. Just keep going with that for now and yes I would like to attend a couple of these meetings. Just so I can get a better idea of what you're handling. Assuming it's ok?" He looks at Dipak.

"Yea it's fine."

"Ok guys I'm going to bed. Good night."

"Good night princess."