To Love The Lawyer {Be My Princess Fanfiction}

Chapter 9

"Good morning, Miss Halle."

The young woman groaned slightly as she awoke from her deep sleep, and her eyes fluttered open to see who had spoken her name. A maid had woken her up bright and early this morning, and she crossed the room to open the curtains to allow a beam of bright sunlight to pour in. Halle squinted her brown eyes as they attempted to adjust to the sudden change in brightness, and she sat up slowly.

Halle elicited one big yawn as she stretched her arms upwards. "Good morning..."

"Please excuse my intrusion." The maid quickly bowed to Halle apologetically, then stood back up straight as she looked her directly in the eyes. "I am to assist you in getting ready for today's party."

"Oh...that's right. There's a party today," Halle thought to herself as she attempted to rub the sleep from her eyes.

Halle had been rather looking forward to this party tonight, after all. It was probably the only party she had ever truly looked forward to in her entire life, given her obvious distaste for them. Being stuck here in Dres Van disrupted Halle's daily routine, and it was starting to get to her a little, as much as she did enjoy getting to know Jan and Prince Joshua.

Halle would go to work almost every day of the week, and she would also have lunch with Prince Roberto whenever he had a spare moment, where they then would often go do something together afterwards and chat for a while to catch up.

However, now that she had been in Dres Van for nearly two weeks now, she had barely been able to see that idiot at all! She was excited that he came to see her yesterday, so she was looking forward to spending some more time with him tonight at the party. Despite him being a rather obnoxious and annoying person, Halle just couldn't help but let that idiot get under her skin, and she found herself missing the chatty man-child's presence after being away for so long. She missed Altaria, and she missed getting to see her best friend...

Halle shot up quickly and clambered out of bed as the maid spoke to her once more. "Would you care to shower first?"

"Oh, yes." Halle spoke thoughtlessly as she ran her fingers through her greasy hair. Gross... She definitely needed to take a shower this morning.

As Halle climbed into the shower and turned on the water, she began playing the events from the night before in her head, trying to make sense of what happened.

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Last night...

"What's wrong?" Prince Joshua's eyebrows knitted together as he stared at Halle curiously, and he bent down to pick up the papers she had dropped.

"Oh, nothing... Thank you." Halle shook her head to snap out of it as she accepted the stack of papers Prince Joshua held out to her.

Prince Joshua pointed to the papers she was holding: her permit to leave the kingdom. "This way you won't need to have any reservations about leaving here."

Reservations...?

Halle's eyes flickered to the floor as she tried to hide her disappointment. "Okay..."

Prince Joshua looked slightly annoyed that she responded so hesitantly. "What is it?" His mouth fell open a little in shock as he snapped his eyes wide open. "Are you displeased with how long it took? Because this was as fast as---"

"Oh, no! That's not it at all!" Halle frantically waved her hands in front of her face in defense, cutting Prince Joshua off mid-sentence. "I was just thinking how you must have pulled a lot of strings for me..." She stared down at her feet in embarrassment, rubbing her arm comfortingly as she forced herself to look back up at him. "Was this the reason you didn't come straight out to the courtyard with us?"