Royal Hearts

The start of a long summer

CHAPTER ONE
The start of a long summer.

Vesperia pov:
As I had learnt painfully last night, Malloynne and her family were going to be spending the summer with us!! Although it's not that bad, Mallorynnes brother, Marcus, has just got some charm to him, which will make seeing her a lot more bearable.

Waking up seemed like more of a chore than usual since my alarm felt like it went off way earlier than normal. As I turn to hit the snooze button, I hear a deep, masculine voice.
"Hey Vesperia, we're almost there if your sister hasn't taken all the food yet.'' It took me only half a second to realise it was Marcus... Fortunately, it wasn't a video chat. However, he was on speaker and heard me scream in realisation.
"Uhhh, you okay Ves?" He chuckled softly. That made me get butterflies in my stomach and blush, making my face and somehow arms, redder than a tomato. I finally came to my senses and replied.
"Yes, I'm fine!!" I say in the most unconvincing way and chuckling nervously.
"If you say so." He says before hanging up.

I fall back onto my bed with a smile on my face, kicking my legs in the air and getting even MORE flustered. Then it hits me. They're almost here. He can not see me like this! I quickly spring out of bed and run towards my wardrobe with force, tripping over a photo of me, Marcus, and Mallorynne as kids. Mallorynne, or as she likes to be known as Maliki, her face is crossed out, and a heart is drawn around Marcus and I, which I did when I was tweleve. Falling over hurt, but I got up and sprung open my wardrobe door and took out a green dress.

It was a bit short now, but Marcus kept staring at me the last time I wore it. I had never felt so flustered in my life. My heart was pounding so bad that day that I want to go calm down in the bathroom, Marcus was going to follow me, however, Maliki pulled him back down mouthing the words 'don't even think about it'. This was actually the only time I respected Maliki, as I had left to get AWAY from Marcus, and she stopped him from following me. Although I never thanked her.

Snapping out of my memory, hearing a knock on my door, It was Hayley, my little demon, better known as a little sister. 2nd in line to the throne, 2nd in line to being Queen, so that means, yep, you guessed it, I'm first in line, I will be the next Queen of the United Kingdom.
"VESPERIA!" She yells through the door.
"What?" I say back with an annoyed tone.
"Mum and Dad said you're in massive trouble if you're not ready by one!" She screams. I really missed going to the lake, we did it all the time when I was little but because we're royal we don't go anymore for safety reasons.
"Ill be 20 minutes!" I yell back
As I was about to slam the door, she noticed the picture I talked about earlier in my hands
"You loooove him, haha!" She runs down the corridor before I can say anything or slam the door in her face. I wanted to chase and tackle her, but fortunately for her, I got a call from my best friend, Ophelia.

We met at a royal event after I got her out of a conversation on forced marriage to the prince of the Netherlands and have been inseparable ever since. I throw on my dress and answer.
"Hey Ves, have you been able to get a hold of Valentina? I've not heard from her all day."
"You do realise it's eleven, in the morning, that girl sleeps till noon." Valentina was the girlfriend of the prince, Ophelia would have had to marry, when Valentina found out Ophelia didn't want to, and I helped her, we instantly became best friends.
"But simply, no, I've not tried calling her, but you are still spending the summer here, right?"
" Even though the Whitlock are gonna be there, I can't wait to see you." We've not seen each other since she went to a fancy private school.
"Speaking of that family, ready to see him." Even though Hayley suspects my feelings towards Marcus, Ophelia and Valentina are the only ones I really told.
"What do you think we pulled out this baby for?" I say, indicating towards the dress.
"Girl.."
" I know, right?"
"Get ready for the best and worst summer of your life? We're leaving in about five so I have to go but talk to you later."
"Talk to you later, Lia." With that, the phone hangs up, and I hear the door open, and my dad says,
"(Malikis dad name) It's so good to see you again!" That's when I knew it. They were here, the Whitlocks had arrived..

Author 1- shifter_fics
Author 2- riverxsqq

Authors note -
Chapter 1 is over! We will try and make the chapters the same length, but we hope you liked this chapter, and we'll be writing more soon.