𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑

𝐶𝐻𝐴𝑃𝑇𝐸𝑅 𝐸𝐿𝐸𝑉𝐸𝑁

Raeliana

          After the meeting with the prince, I walked back to where Alana and Cordelia were and worked. We're still preparing the welcome ceremony for the older Blackwood prince and I heard that he is already here from the other servants.
          I heard familiar voices in the corridor as I was on my way to the servant kitchen. It was a few meters away but the voices sounded like Alana and Darren.
Oddly weird. I stand back behind the wall and hear them closely. 

           'I am no gentleman, Alana.' he says, it sounds like they are closer than friends and acquaintances. It clicked in my head, they are an item.
A couple or he could be courting her. 

           'I know you are no gentleman, Darren.' A pause of a moment but she continues to speak. 'My heart isn't something to be played with.'

           'I am not playing with your heart, woman–', he was cut off by her and she interrupted him. 

           'No games anymore, i am done waiting for you, last night we were talking about this too and it led to nowhere but kissing, so please, are your feelings true? Are we even an item?'
I shouldn't be here, this is personal. 

           'Woman, I am in love with you! My heart is yours and always will be.' he confessed. Darren really just confessed and I thought he was the chillest guy. I thought wrong. 

            'Do you mean it?' she asks him, desperate for answers. 

            'Yes, I mean it, my angel.' 

            'I am in love with you too.'

There is a brief silence and I can't help but smile, they are cute. 

            'We are a couple, I am yours,' Darren says and continues. 'And you are mine.' 

After that, Darren had left the corridor and walked to the welcome party room and
I can still hear Alana being there, so I decided to step up to her and when she saw my face, she jumped and got scared of me. That's a sight that I will never get tired
of seeing. Then her facial expression changed into calm and soft, not scared anymore. 

            'You are already back?' She asks with a smile on her face now. 

            'Yes, the prince let me go earlier.' 

            'What did he say?' Should I tell her? I mean, it wouldn't hurt to be honest. 

            'Prince Lorenzo said that the king doesn't want me to work as a servant anymore.'

            'What? The king? That is oddly weird and you just started working...' 

She goes quiet for a few seconds and she is in her thoughts from what i can infront me. Thinking.  

             'That's what I said too, and I asked the prince if I could work a little longer, which he accepted.'

             'Why do you want to work even when the king has said that you shouldn't be working?' A pause of a moment but she continues again shortly after with another question. 'And did he say anything else?' 

             'I guess, I want to work with you and the others. I like it and you guys are so lovely to work with. And to your other question, there will be a ball at the royal palace and we are invited.' I say. 

             'A BALL AT THE ROYAL PALACE?' Alana screams and I immediately put my hand on her mouth and she muffles a sound out. She stops screaming and my hand falls down from her mouth. She pouts in an adorable way.