Royalty

VI

A/N: Sorry I took so long to post this, I was really busy all week. But it's finally done! I hope you all like it! And please vote and comment if you're reading :)

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The sun had barely started to set when I snuck out of the castle. I went through the kitchen and grabbed some food for later before leaving out the side door. I walked through the gate and down the hill to the stables. No one would be out here at this time of night, but I was still paranoid so I stood by the side of the building.

I started to get nervous as I stood there. What was going to happen when he got here? What was he going to say? I still couldn't believe that he was really my soulmate, I mean before last night I always assumed that I was just going to marry a girl. I never dreamed that I would even meet my soulmate, or that my soulmate would be a he. Before long, I saw him walking up the road that led to town. He was here. The closer he got the more panicked I became. What was I going to say when he got up to me? What was I going to do? Was I just supposed to kiss him? I mean I was going to kiss him soon hopefully because I didn't practice for nothing. He smiled at me as he stopped in front of me. He opened his mouth to say something and-

I kissed him.

"He- Oh" he grabbed me and kissed me. "So we're doing this now, okay" he laughed. I broke the kiss.

"Shit. Did you not want to kiss me? Oh my god, this was a mistake I'm sorry" I covered my face in embarrassment. I cannot believe I just did that. "Goddammit"

"No, no, no" he touched my arm. "It was great. You're great. It just caught me off guard. I wasn't expecting it so soon. I thought it would happen later, like after we talked..." I mentally face-palmed. Right. We should definitely talk first.

"Uh, yeah" he smiled and goddammit. I think my heart stopped beating. "I, um, brought some food" I said, awkwardly holding up the basket in my hand. "I thought- I dunno" my face was burning. I was so bad at this.

"A picnic?" he asked. "At night" I groaned.

"You're right it's stupid" I glanced back at the castle. "Maybe I should just go-" Phil grabbed my hand.

"No!" he pulled me towards him. "Please stay. I was going to say that sounds amazing. I've never had a moonlit picnic before" I tightened my grip on the basket and looked around for a  clearing to spread the blanket out on. Phil helped me smooth the blanket down and pull the food out. We sat close to each other and started eating while we watched the sun sink below the horizon. I was nervous, and I could tell Phil was too. Neither of us were sure what to say. We didn't know what we were doing. This was new to both of us.

"It's so beautiful out" Phil said.

"Yeah" I kept glancing back at the castle to make sure no one was looking for me. Jack promised to tell people I went to bed early because of a headache, so no one should be looking for me, but still...

"What are you thinking?" Phil asked. I blinked and turned back around and saw that he was staring at me.

"I'm sorry, I'm just afraid that they're going to realize that I'm gone" I said. "And I-" I struggled to find the right words.

"You what?"

"What do we do now?" I asked. We were here. We found each other and we were here. What happens next? "You're my soulmate. But, what does that mean exactly?"

"I'm... not really sure" he said honestly. "Obviously I've never done this before" I let out a laugh. "I don't know," he shrugged. I wasn't the only one that was trying to find the right words. "I don't know! Where do we go from here?"

"I don't know either" he sighed and turned back to look at me.

"Maybe we don't know now, or for a while. And that's okay, right? We can figure this out as we go along" I nodded. "I don't know what we do next, but I know that I want to do it with you. Whatever happens, happens. As long as you're there it'll be okay, I think. And I don't know if this is what it feels like to have found your soulmate, but you're different. I've never felt anything like this before and that scares me. When I left the party last night I was different. I felt... incomplete. It was like when I left you, I left a piece of myself. You make me feel whole" I admired his face as he talked. His pink lips, and the way he chewed on them when he wasn't sure what to say. And the way he fluttered his eyelashes. He was beautiful. "And that scares me so much"

"It scares me too" I admitted. I scooted closer to him to get warm, or at least that's what I told myself. I breathed in deeply. Phil smelled like freshly baked bread. "I couldn't stop thinking about you last night, and I almost convinced myself that you weren't real. That you were too good to be true. And the fact that you, my soulmate, are a boy freaked me the fuck out. I don't know if I would've come here if it weren't for Jack. He sort of calmed me down and talked to me about it" Phil looked down at me and smiled.

"Who's Jack?" he asked. The images of earlier today flashed through my mind. I cleared my throat.

"My best friend" I didn't want to think about Jack right now. I needed to focus on the fact that Phil's face was really close to mine.

"Hmm" Phil hummed. My eyes flitted down to his lips. "Daniel?" my mouth dipped closer to his.

"Call me Dan" I whispered. We were both whispering, though no one was around to hear us.

"Dan," I pulled my gaze away from his lips and forced them up to his eyes. They kind of sparkled in this light. "I know we're not going to figure this out right now... But can I kiss you?"

"Jesus Christ, I thought you'd never ask" with another word he closed the gap and kissed me. I grabbed the front of his shirt and pulled him against me. Our lips moved together sloppily. This kiss was needy. We needed this. I felt like I had touched a live wire, he felt electric. It was like he was completing the circuit. He completed me. He made me feel whole. In this moment, Phil was the only thing that mattered.