To Love The Lawyer {Be My Princess Fanfiction}

Chapter 13

Several hours later, Halle found herself in the limousine with Prince Joshua, finally leaving Dres Van after two very eventful, crazy weeks. It felt like she was there forever, and yet at the same time, no time at all. Halle looked out the window at Dres Van Manor growing smaller and smaller behind them in the distance, and as she was thinking back on everything that happened, she did feel a little sad.

"What's the matter?"

Halle spun around at being addressed so suddenly, and she was faced directly with Prince Joshua, who was once again dressed in his country's formal white and gold attire.

She was met with his kind stare, and Prince Joshua laughed a little with a genuine smile. "Are you just happy to finally be going home?"

Halle batted her hand as a flustered expression came up on her face. "That's not it at all!" She sighed deeply, frustrated a little as she decided to enjoy teasing him for what would probably be the last time. "It must be Your Highness that is happy I'm going." She smiled bitterly, feeling a little dejected.

"Me? But I..." Prince Joshua's look of amusement was completely slapped off his face as her comment took him by surprise. He turned to look out the window with a saddened look on his face. "What I want doesn't matter."

Halle internally kicked herself for making her last moments with Prince Joshua end on such an awkward moment, and she looked down at what she was wearing. She was dressed in her same dress from the night before, and they were on their way to the party at Nobel Michel Castle.

"Um...thank you so much for this dress." Halle grabbed at the fabric with her fingers, rubbing her fingertips over its soft texture. "Are you sure it is all right for me to keep it?"

It looked really expensive, and Halle was a little worried about keeping such a beautiful dress.

"It's fine." Prince Joshua returned to his typical expressionless self as he dismissed her concern casually. "I ordered it for you. If you say you don't want it, then I would only end up throwing it away."

"What!?" Halle's eyebrows disappeared into her hairline as her jaw practically snapped off. "You'd throw something like this away!?" She reacted automatically, and Prince Joshua looked surprised by her outburst.

"W-what!?" He stared at her with the widest eyes he could fathom, completely caught off guard by that.

"S-sorry..." Halle awkwardly apologized, covering her mouth with her gloved hand. "It would just be such a waste to throw away something so expensive..."

Prince Joshua spoke quietly with a depressed frown on his face. "That is why I asked you to take it..."

...oh, right.

Halle wanted to slap herself for being such an awkward idiot, but instead, she forced a smile and nodded her head. "Then I thank you and receive it gladly."

She was perfectly assertive and confident when she was in court defending a client, but when she was just having normal conversations with people, Halle was just...well, somewhat awkward. Especially around Prince Joshua, for reasons she didn't quite understand herself.

Prince Joshua took one glance at the look on Halle's face and just laughed in amusement. "I had already told you that."

Halle cast her eyes down, and she remembered something as she did so: she still hadn't thanked him for carrying her to her room last night.

"Thank you for everything you did last night." Halle smiled to him awkwardly, and Prince Joshua was frozen in place by the impossibly cute look on her face.