The Kings Promise

chapter 2 - The King's Promise

Chapter 2

“Goodnight Caspian,” I called after him as he walked away from me, It felt so good to say it again; I truly did miss him and his ever present smile. Watching him walk away reminds me of when his nannies used to have to carry him away while he shouted for me to save him. We were so carefree then but now I had to make sure he never found out who I truly was. I couldn’t let him know.

As I shut the door I thought about all the times we shared together when we were younger. The one that stands out the most is when he asked me to marry him.

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(Flash back)

“Isadora I love you, you’re my best friend and to be honest my hero, and someday I promise I will marry you and then I can take care of you. You have always been my princess and one day you will be my Queen. Is, you have to promise that when we our old like our parents you will marry me so I don’t have to marry a stupid, stuck up, snotty princess.” That is how my Caspar proposed.

“What if I don’t want to marry you Caspar? I don’t want to be a princess I want to be a knight so that I can protect you, I’m going to have to take care of you when were older and it would be wrong for a princess like you to marry me.” I grinned at his stunned expression waiting for what I said to click in his head. Then I started running but he got me and started to tickle me.

“Take that back I am not a princess; I’m big, strong and a prince not a stupid princess, now I’ll stop whenever you promise to marry me and I’ll stay here all night if I have to.” He warned and I knew he was serious. Why did I have to be so ticklish?

I lasted ten minutes before I caved in. “I promise okay; I promise to marry you when I’m older.” When he let me up I ran shouting, “you’re still a girl though, so I’m going to have to be the man waiting at the end of the Isle.”

(End of flash back)

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Thinking back made me notice how much my Caspar had changed. He was truly now Prince Caspian; he was no longer the scrawny little boy that I once knew. He didn’t look like he needed me to protect him anymore, which made my heart break a little. I always thought I would need to protect him, but I never imagined he would grow up to be so muscular though I was happy that he did keep some of his boyish charms like his toothy smile which only emphasises his dimples that would make any girl fall.  My best friend had grown up and I was beginning to realise how much I had missed him.

I had missed so many things in his life and I felt a pang of guilt at all the promises I had broken and the promises I had to keep broken. If he ever found out who I really was, I don’t know how he would react. Although I knew he was the same boy who promised to always take care of me, I didn’t know how much more than his appearance that changed and it scared me. 

I don’t like being scared, so I spent a lot of my night out protecting the people of my kingdom. When I finally arrived back home it was early morning, but I still went to sleep though because I didn’t want to have to think about my life before. I had changed and I wasn’t returning back to my old ways, no way was I going to be fragile again and I wasn’t going to let anyone risk their lives for me.

I couldn’t forget about him even in my sleep. In my dreams I saw the pictures I had seen when I was younger, the ones of Caspian were he looked so heartbroken, so fragile. It hurt because I had been the cause of that pain, he had been told I was dead or worse I was in the other kingdom.

Sure I had kept an eye on Caspian for a while after I went into hiding, but I eventually stopped because it hurt too much when I seen him moving on with his life. I just keep thinking after the sword is done I won’t see him again and I can finally move on knowing he is fine. That everything is fine.