The Princess Diaries || brooks

The Break Up

“Daniel, can we meet up?” I said into the phone. I was actually talking to his voicemail, since he was either avoiding my calls or he was just very busy. But I needed to see him. I needed him to hold me. “Meet me in the alley behind the Hilton at midnight.”

He had to hear this and he had to come see me. The alley behind the Hilton was now our usual place for the month we had spent here, not that we met up many times. Just a few, about two or three times.

So I waited for him to give signals of life. Hours went by and I stayed in my hotel room, staring at my cellphone screen, checking my messages. It had been too long since Daniel had even tried to communicate with me and it made me feel sad. It felt like he was giving up on us and I didn’t want that to happen. I love him.

But I mean…I wasn’t making an effort to contact him either. Besides today, I hadn’t messaged or called him in a while. I was spending my time at parties with other royals and kissing a different prince every time. He must feel terrible when he sees those photos, but I have to keep him a secret. Grandma will flip out if she found out I was dating a commoner.

There is something that scares me much more than my family finding out about Skip though. I’m afraid that he’ll realize being my secret isn’t worth it and he’ll get tired and leave. He’s a handsome young man, he could easily get any girl he wanted. He’s young, handsome and famous. What girl wouldn’t go for him? Its so unfortunate that he isn’t a royal.

So eleven thirty at night came around quickly and I decided to go find my lover in the shadows of an alley.

Dodging my body guards was so easy, since I had already done it many times over the past year. I was so good at avoiding them that I was even helping Ariadne visit her beloved Janoskian, Beau.

My sister is fearless though. She doesn’t care that he isn’t a Prince. She decided to tell everyone about Beau the day of their final show, but me? I’m just too fucking chicken to tell people I’m dating Daniel. Its not that I’m ashamed, he’s the best boyfriend ever. I’m just afraid that the family won’t accept him.

I waited in the alley. Five minutes after midnight, ten minutes. Soon I had been standing there for a half hour. I was cold and tired. “This fucking sucks. I’m going to party and have a few drinks to forget all this shit.” I said, to no one in particular because there was no one there. Did Skip seriously just stand me up?

As I made my way out of the shadows, I bumped into someone, “I’m very sorry. I didn’t see where I was going.” Was my initial response to the person I crashed into. I then looked up at the person.

“Illitia.” Skip said.

“Daniel.” I replied, there was sort of a disappointed tone in his voice. He seemed like he was upset with me. I got on my tip toes to press my lips against his but he turned away coldly. I frowned at him, “What’s wrong, Daniel?”

He had a paper in his hand, a newspaper to be exact. There was a photo of me kissing Prince Harry of England on the front page. He showed it to me and pointed to the photo, “Why are you doing this to me, Illitia? You know how much I love you. I’m one hundred percent faithful to you and one hundred percent devoted to this relationship, devoted to you. Why are you hurting me like this?” I swear I wanted to start crying because there was just so much sadness in his voice. And also, he wasn’t calling me ‘ameerah’ as he always did. He was calling me by my name. It didn’t feel right. 

“Skip, its so my family wo-“ I began.

He interrupted me, “Don’t give me that shit, Illitia. I understand going to parties with royalty, but kissing every Prince you see? That’s fucking unnecessary!” His words stung, but I knew I deserved them.

I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes as I told him, “Forgive me, Daniel. I’ll change, okay? I just can’t tell anyone about you though…”

“I think its kind of late for that, Illitia. You’ve already lost me. And you know what? I met a girl that I’m really starting to like. I’m sure I’d be able to date her publicly if I wanted to. She won’t be afraid of being seen with me.” He told me with as much venom in his voice as possible. He was trying to hurt me. I felt like he had just stabbed me with a knife through the heart. But I guess it was kind of what he felt when he saw those photos of me with other guys.

He turned and began walking away from me. I saw a tear run down his cheek, that he quickly wiped away. I was now sobbing uncontrollably, “Daniel you can’t do this to me! I love you! You’re my everything.” He just ignored me and kept on walking. He didn’t care anymore, he had given up on us. I sunk down to the ground and just cried until Ariadne texted me and said I should get back to the hotel, so I had to compose myself.

**

I smiled slightly when I saw him walk into the lobby. I told grandma I was going to sleep at Princess Tawny’s mansion, but in reality, I was at the Hilton waiting for Daniel. He wanted me to be here for him after he finished talking to his evil girlfriend. “How’d it go?” I asked him when he was right in front of me.

“I left Illitia. I told her I couldn’t do it anymore.” He said. My jaw dropped when I heard the name of his now ex-girlfriend.

He was dating my conceited older sister Illitia. It had to be her. I mean, Illitia is a unique name. I don’t think a lot of girls have that name. He had never mentioned her name to me because he said he couldn’t talk about it, but now that they weren’t together, he was free to tell me everything.

I couldn’t believe I had contributed to this happening. I was encouraging Skip to leave his evil girlfriend. I know Illitia and I don’t really get along, but I never wanted something like this to happen to her.