Her Royal Highness

18

"You heard me right, Irish. I'm going to be coronated in three months."

        I heard Irish sigh. She knows that the only thing that I don't want is to be crowned earlier than expected. My grandmother announced that when we were eating breakfast earlier. I was just stunned and speechless. I didn't know what to do. She said that the parliament wanted me to ascend, a young queen that they would have.

        Now, the preparations were started and the media were scrambling to their feet just to get an inside scoop from the palace about the upcoming coronation. I would be proclaimed just in the ceremony but before then, I'm not going to work as Queen.

        I have so many things in my mind but my mind still wanders to James. I've been thinking about him often lately. He was not with me whenever I go out of the palace. He stays in here and enjoys the company of Cindy. That is the thing that I always mind. He was getting too close to Cindy that he might want to date her outside the palace. I just don't want media to meddle there. I don't want a scandal before my coronation.

        But it wasn't the scandal that I'm worried about, it is my heart that might break apart. I realized that I'm liking James more. It might not be good for me. I was getting jealous whenever I leave the palace alone, James waves me off with Cindy glued to her.

        I shut my eyes hard and tried to push away James topics in my head. Right now, he was wth Cindy in the garden eating ice cream.

        "I can see that you're troubled. But why is it that I feel that you are troubled with not the coronation?" She said.

        I shrugged. "You're just dreaming, Irish. I'm just stressed with the coronation, that's all."

        "Oh, really?"

        I sighed. "I lost the bet, Irish."

        She gasped then she held my hand. "You've fallen?"

        "Is it not obvious that I'm admitting this to you, Irish?"

        "It is! Oh my gosh, Your Highness. I'm so happy!"

        "Would you be happy if you heard that I'm already hurt even before I tell him that I'm falling for him?"

          I saw her sag. Her face-splitting smile disappeared from her face. "Why?"

         "He is already in love with Cindy, not me."

         She puffed out some air. "Seriously? Well, that is a bummer."

        So now you do understand. Now, I will just try to forget him and it will be easy as one, two, three."

        She raised and eyebrow at me. "Princess, a bet again?"

        "Yes. And this time, if I lose, I will be the one to tell him that I love him."

I will be damned. I will seriously forget my husband and how to love him. This is not right. I need a straight mind since I will be crowned as Queen in three months.

        Today, I'm going to an inauguration of the memorial of my Daddy and Mommy. It was planned by grandmother and she made me go for there instead for her. She told me that I was the daughter and I am rightful to open the memorial for them.

        When I arrived, I was talking to the sons and daughters of the former parliament. When my grandmum's parents won the parliament's decision on making the United Kingdom an absolute monarchy, all was well. Well, in my heart right now, I think all won't be well.