A Royal Love: William

Chapter eight

"What were you thinking!?" Father yelled to me. Luna was right, he came back in the morning. We were eating and he came in the dinner room and started yelling. "Father, we-" I started but he interrupted me. "We have not even introduced her to the citizens of the kingdom!" "Father-" "Even Matthew wouldn't do such a thing!" "Hey!" I hear Matt say. "But father-" "What if she would be pregnant? What would we say to the press?"Mother interrupted me. "Yes, it would be a disgrace for the family." Father says to mother. "Can you please listen to me!?" I yell to them. They both look at me. "Luna and I did not do anything wrong. We were just kissing, nothing more." "But you were going to do something more." "No mother, we were not. We were just kissing." "Okay, if you say so." Father says finally calming down. "Why do you believe Will immediately, but when you think that I did something wrong you only believe video tapes?" Matt asks father. Father looks irritated at him. "Because William never does anything wrong, while you do it practically every day." He then looks back at me and Luna. "Get dressed, we are going to introduce Luna to the citizens today." Then he looked back at Matt. "You will come with us."

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"Where are we going?" Luna asks father. We were all ready for getting in our cars. "The opening of a new orphanage." Father said and walked away to his car. Luna looks excited to me. "An orphanage! I love kids! Do you think there'll be kids?" I smile at her. "Maybe." "It is good that you love children. The citizens will love that. And it is good for when you two will get children." Mother said smiling to Luna and walked to her car which she shared with father. I look astonished at mother. We're not even that long together and she's already talking about children?

Matt laughs and we both look at him. "You should have seen your faces! Hilarious!" I punch him playfully. "Wait until you find a woman, then I'll be the one laughing!" He suddenly stops laughing and looks very serious to me. "A woman?" "Yes or are you planning on being single for your whole life?" "Of course not! I just never thought about it." I look at him suspiciously. "So all the time you were out of the castle to go to a bar and I don't know what else, you never saw a woman?" "Of course I saw a woman! I just never thought about finding a wife." He suddenly smiles again. "Well, we better get going. We don't want to be late, do we?" He says and walks away to his car. I look confused at Luna and she looks confused back. "That was weird." She says. "Yeah, it really was."

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Once we were at the orphanage, the driver told us that we must wait until father, mother and Matt were out of their cars. We could hear a journalist talking to the camera with him. "And there are our king and queen! They would normally not come, because they were out of the country. But we heard that they cancelled their trip because of prince William. Yes, you heard it right, prince William, not prince Matthew." "So, they really don't know about me?" Luna asks me. "No, they don't. This will be the first time everyone sees you." "And there is prince Matthew! Weird, normally prince William comes right after the king and queen." I look at Luna. "You're ready?" "As ready I'll ever be." "Let's go." I say to her and get out of the car. "Here is prince William!" I hear the journalist say. I walk to the other side of the car and open the door. "What is he doing? Is there someone with him?" The journalist says confused. Luna gets out of the car and looks around. "What a crowd." She whispers to me. "You'll get used to it" I whisper back. "It is a woman! Prince William is with a woman! Who is she and how does she know him?" We hear the journalist say. I offer Luna my arm and she put her hand around it. We start to walk to the orphanage and are followed by millions of questions of the journalists.

Once we are at the entrance of the orphanage, we stop walking. We listen along with my parents and Matt to a middle-aged woman who is giving us some information on the orphanage. But she like all the others can't keep her eyes off me and Luna. We entered the orphanage and looked around while the woman kept giving us some information. Suddenly we heard a little child cry and we all looked.

Luna walked to the little boy and I followed close behind her. She knelt down and looked at the boy. "What happened?" The boy stopped crying and looked at her. "I miss my mother." "What happened to her?" "She is heaven." "I am sure she loved you with all her heart." "How do you know that?" "Because you love her and if you love her, then she would have been a good mother. And a good mother loves her child with all her heart." The little boy smiled to her. "You think so?" She smiles back at him. "I know so." She said to him and wipes his tears away. "Besides, you are really handsome." The little boy laughs. I put my hand on Luna's shoulder. "We need to go." She looks at me. "Okay, let me say goodbye." Then she looks back at the little boy. "Goodbye sweetie." He smiles at her. "Bye."

We continued the tour in the orphanage and listened to everything the woman said. Once outside, father took a microphone from one off his bodyguards and looked at the woman. "I want to thank the orphanage to give me and my family a tour." She smiles at him. Then father looks at the press. "I know that you all have the same question to ask." He looks at Luna and then back at the press. "Who is she? Well, I will let her say it to you." "What?" I say to father. "This is her first time in front of a crowd this big and you let her talk to them?" "Yes." He says and hands Luna the microphone. "Father, you have to be fair." Matt says to him. "Do not interrupt, Matthew." He then looks back at Luna. "Go ahead."

Luna looks at the press and speaks into the microphone. "Hello. My name is Luna. I... uh..." "Miss?" A journalist asks. She looks at him. "Yes?" "Why are you here with the royal family?" She looks at me and I smile at her to encourage her. She looks back at the press, takes a deep breath and starts talking. "I am prince William's fiancée." Right after she says that the crowds starts asking a lot of questions at the same time, taking a lot of pictures and cheer. Father takes the microphone back from Luna. "From now on, Prince William will attend every royal visits with his fiancée."