The Prince's Fiancé (BoyXBoy)

Chapter XXVI Royal Preliminaries

Chapter 26 Royal Preliminaries

Jason

"This is a little unexpected." Jason's mom commented. "You think this was a little over the top?" Since she was the one driving, she was limited to how much she could look around. Jason could only gaze in wonder, he'd never been out this way. To him, it was like stepping into a living fairytale, and it slightly terrified him. Lights hung from the trees, low, and there were a lot of fancy cars parked just up ahead. The kind he was never familiar with. Would he eventually learn?

She wasn't kidding, Jason figured, for a simple night with the royals. Sure he was dressed up like he was going to a party. So was his mom. Her silver dress glittered as she hunched forward, looking up, as they moved beneath a canopy of lights. Christmas lights from what Jason could tell, were strung, crisscrossed through the branches on the trees just overhead. Jason half expected to see water fountains. Maybe something fancy of men, women, cherub children spewing little tubes of water from various body parts.

Driving down the driveway indeed, was like entering a fairytale. Did he expect to find some creatures playing harps just ahead as well? Real live Cupids maybe?

"Seriously, this was completely unexpected." Jason agreed while gazing around himself in wonder.

"Did he say anything? About this I mean?"

He could feel her questioning gaze but Jason couldn't seem to get himself to answer. There were a lot of fancy cars and people Jason never met before standing at the steps. All of them with their chins up, facing into the night or towards... a house? Mansion? There were too many people milling about, and he found himself growing uncomfortable.

Fancy dressed people wearing sashes—

Jason unknowingly brought his hand over his too tight stomach. "Mom I think I might be sick."

"Don't be ridiculous." She said without glancing his direction. They were now swerving towards the steps. Men dressed in red button up jackets stood with their hands behind their backs without so much as an eyelash out of place. "You're fine. Just nervous."

Mom, he wanted to say, I don't think I'm ready for this. But the words never came. In all the time he'd spent with Caleb, he'd somehow managed to forget. He was freaking engaged to a Prince! A freaking Prince! It was easy to forget. Easy to overlook the charm and the way he sometimes carried himself—like a Prince. Even though he tried hard to hide it, sometimes he slipped up, but mostly, Caleb was simply Caleb.

Caleb listened to Jason's rants. Caleb also had to problem showing Jason affection no matter where they were. Caleb had become more than just a best friend to Jason. He was his fiance now.

The flashing camera lights, the paparazzi, never ending questions being fired his way...

Was he getting this thing he'd only heard of called cold feet now?

Jason's mom still looked uncertain as she pulled up next to the steps. They were much wider than Jason would have expected. He thought about counting the steps leading up to the mansion sized house in order to keep himself in check. A hummer that looked like it been stretched out from the hood to the trunk had just pulled away. Not to mention there was a cameraman already snapping a couple of photos at what appeared to be a young man, he couldn't be much older than Jason. Though Jason couldn't get a proper look at his face. He knew this person had to be of some kind of royalty.

Another member of Caleb's family? Had he ever met this Augustus face to face to before? No he couldn't have. He'd seen Caleb's older brother only once and this guy resembled nothing of Caleb's older brother.