Her Royal Highness, Leonor: The Years Later

Truth, Resurfaced

A few distance away from Buen El Retiro Park, Madrid
Phillipa







 I can't believe my own eyes, as I marvel through the features I so long know and recognize right up in those afternoons at the theater stage, and the coffee shop where I first met those gentle brown eyes.

And it's as if life has turned me upside down—I look back at those familiar brown eyes.

Cecil's mouth opens in surprise, gasping, her face wet and etched with guilt.

"Phillipa, dejame que te explique—"

"Expliqueme que, Cecil?" I replied in a sharp tone, trying to absorb such absurd truth. "Expliqueme porque estas ahi, y me enganaste?" (TL: Explain what, Cecil? Explain to me why you're here and why did you tricked me?)

"No, Phillipa, por favor—"

"Y que eres va hacer con los fotos has tomado?" I cast a disappointed glance at the camera she was holding, trying to hold my temper in. "Are you really planning to send it some newspaper and have the Princess exposed like this when—

"No, Phillipa, listen to me—"

"W—when you promised her, us—that you won't tell anyone about our relationship?"

"No, Phillipa, I'm not—"

I breathe a sigh of distress, my head starts aching. I felt like the nerves in my head are going to explode anytime.

"Porque me estas haciendo?" (TL: Why are you doing this to me?) I said in a firm tone.

Cecil hesitates to answer right away, and I can't hold back the anger bursting out from me.

"Porque me estas haciendo, Cecil?!"

"Leonor no te mereces—te mereces alguien mejor, alguien quien, que te puede amar con libertad, sin distancia, sin alto riesgo." She yelled back.

(TL: Leonor doesn't deserve you—you deserve someone better, someone who you can love with freedom, without distance, without a high risk."

"Y quien que eres para decirme que esta mejor para mi?" I replied. 

(TL: And who are you to tell me what is best for me?) 

"I thought we were already okay, Cecil—I thought acknowledging my presence the day I visited you was already a good sign that we've agreed on our friendship." I struggle to get the next words out. "Why are you doing this to me? Why are you doing this?"

"Porque te quiero, Phillipa, yo lo se esta relacion, tu relacion con la Princesa no seras fin buena al fin o de cualquiera manera." She said. 

("Because I love you, Phillipa, and I know that this relationship, your relationship with the Princess will not end up good one way or another.)

"Te vas a siempre esconder, y ella siempre va a esconderte, por dios, la esa manera que quieres de vivir tu vida?" Cecil added, her brown eyes rigidly sparkling along with the intensity of her words.

(TL: You're always going to hide, she's always going to hide you, my God, is that the way you want to live your life?") "Ser un secreto de alguien por siempre?" (To be someone's secret for always?)

"Esa es no tuyo problema—" (TL: That's not your problem)

"Es lo que si, Phillipa, porque te quiero, y yo estoy tratando abrir sus ojos en la realidad de este relacion con la Princesa." (TL: It is, Phillipa, because I care for you, and I'm trying to open your eyes in the reality of this relationship with the Princess.)