Undercover Princess

Chapter Sixteen

Twice in one week!

"Have you decided where we are going yet?" I asked Thomas questionably. We had been in a car for over five hours and now we are walking up some really steep hills. And quite frankly my disguise of a brown wig, glasses, a black top, black hoodie and some horribly green trousers was starting to annoy me.
"Yes"
"Are you not going to tell me where?"
"No"
"Look forgive me if I'm snappy but I would like more than one word answers especially as you're the one who woke me up at two thirty this morning!"
"Fine yes I've decided and no I'm not going to tell you where it is" For the rest of the journey he got ignored but then so did I.

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"We're here!" Thomas exclaimed with a huge smile on his face.
"Oh this is um... Smaller than I expected"
"You really think I would have got a massive place just to house us? And we don't want to draw attention to ourselves"
"I understand it's just a surprise that's all" And it was the red brick exterior was identical to the ones next door apart from the fact that this one was crumbling and it worried me that it could fall on us any second. The interior was although modern it was damp and in the living room type thing it was green! There were five rooms in total: a kitchen, a living room/ dining room, a master bedroom just large enough for a bed and wardrobe, a bathroom and a tiny spare room. After a while of silence I asked Thomas "What are we going to do about cooking and cleaning?"
"We're going to do it" he replied as if it was obvious. I knew and so did Thomas that neither of us could cook well enough for us to survive that long.
"Thomas are you sure?"
"As long as take-aways count as cooking then yes" I couldn't help stop myself laughing at his childish thoughts.
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"Thomas we're husband and wife and ever since we got married you've not said that you love me once."
"My dear Charlotte if I didn't love you then would I really decide to marry you out of all of the people I know?"
"Is that supposed to be an insult?"
"Now why would I insult my own wife?" I just sat back on the blueish chair with a blue and green striped cushion on it and laughed. Maybe staying here just with Thomas wouldn't be as bad as I thought it would be. "I've come to the conclusion that we should probably get a job so that we don't die because of lack of money. And we also want to make some friends so that people don't get suspicious.

"That sounds great, just I'm not good at anything so I don't know how I'm going to get a job"

"Charlotte, Charlotte, Charlotte. What am I going to do with you?"

"I don't know Thomas, why don't I make some friends whilst you think about it?" And with that comment I walked out of the house in my disguise obviously.

I knocked on several neighbours doors but nobody answered, it's like they all left their houses empty. Finally I got to the end house and someone answered, an old woman who hadn't looked like she had washed in months but she still answered. "Hello, I live about five houses down the road I wouldn't have come this far but no one else is in"

"That's because you have to be very desperate and mad to live here" and with that she slammed the door on me."

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On the way back a young boy was standing in the road with a knife... Well that's what I thought at the time anyway. I ran out to the road and found that it wasn't a real boy or a real knife either it was a scarecrow. At that moment a black car came rushing down the road heading straight towards me is this what happens to normal people here? I ran out of the way only with it clipping my leg and found that lots of people were staring at me. I looked down and saw my wig had fallen off so anyone who knew the royal family was bound to know that it was me.

"IS THAT PRINCESS CHARLOTTE?" Some random woman shouted out to her friends who were standing right next to her.

"Dammit" I muttered to myself

"YEAH, I THINK IT MIGHT BE"

"YES IT IS" Lots of people noticed it was me but still didn't do anything, well that all stood there taking pictures and videos of me. In my attempt to stand up I saw a blurry Thomas rushing towards me, and the thought of him made me smile.

"Charlotte?" Thomas said in between short breaths "What are you doing?" Before I had time to reply some old man came over to us and offered his help well his limited medical knowledge anyway. I drifted in and out of sleep before I woke up in another hospital.

"Hello I'm Doctor Chloe and I'll be treating you today." I just nodded. "Do you remember anything that happened?" I shut my eyes tightly remembering the incident clearly and nodded harshly. "Do you want to tell me Charlotte?" Instead of just nodding I decided to actually answer for once. I told her everything that happened and she didn't say anything and just looked at the police officer who I didn't even notice was there before.

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"I don't know how they managed to find out where we were going" Thomas kept repeatedly muttering under his breath.
"Who?" He didn't reply he just kept muttering to himself.

After a moment he spoke but only to repeat what the police officer had already told me: "Someone has tried to get you killed here Charlotte I don't think this is the safest place for you."
"It could have been for someone else." I suggested trying to make him feel slightly better about his choice about moving even though I'm pretty confident that he's supposed to be comforting me. "I mean we weren't there long enough for anyone to want to kill me right"
"Unless they already knew you." This sparked my imagination, who knew where we were going? Nobody. Who even knew we were going? Nobody. This is unless Thomas told someone or could someone have followed us all of the way here? Thomas must have seen that something was wrong as he just held my hand that little bit tighter before he brought me into a tight hug and then a deep kiss. It felt different than all of the times before it felt ... Tingly. I knew that this must have meant he didn't tell anyone about our journey and where we were heading, I knew I could trust him.

Do you think Thomas would do that on the first day of their new house? Anyway comments, votes, shares whatever it's all greatly received xx