between us | klaroline (book 1)

Chapter 4: First Date

I woke up in a chipper mood, realizing that today I was going to be going on my first official date with Prince Charlie, the man I met first yesterday at the royal gala ball.

Today we are going horseback riding at my extra houses' stables for our first date. The stables contain three horses that belong to me and two other horses belonging to my parents. I absolutely love riding horses. When I was a child, I remember mother making me go to horseback riding lessons. I absolutely adored it my first time as a child and ever since, i've been riding a lot. I felt like I should share that with Prince Charlie.

Talking of the dashing prince, he seemed like a really nice person. My thought when we were talking to one another yesterday, I was beyond drawn to his special personality and body language. He is rather chivalrous as well, making me feel very respected as a princess and woman. I feel like us two could get along quite well.

"Yes just a natural looking makeup look today please." I mentioned to my makeup designer, the blonde girl nodded toward me as I sat in a chair in front of her. "Are you to wear your tiara today princess?" My maid for the day asked me. I shook my head, knowing that it would be difficult to keep it on from horse riding.

I kept thinking of what Charlie's reaction would be when he saw me today, it made me think hard because I didn't know him very well. The makeup designer finished my makeup and my maid helped me choose the jewelry to go with my outfit. "Yes that one is splendid." I pointed at the necklace to her right that sat on my jewelry stand.

She placed on my necklace and earrings before I began to get dressed into my clothes with the help of my maid. "All settled." She informed me. I looked into my large body-size mirror and took a glance at my outfit. I nodded and opened my door to leave the room and stand at the grand entrance door with Charlie downstairs. I walked with straight posture down the stairs a few flights, then caught a glimpse of Prince Charlie in a smart-looking outfit. He wore a black coat over his sweater vest and formal black pants.

As I reached the last staircase, I saw Charlie stare at me with a little grin on his face. He walked forward and reached his arm for me to link. I linked arms with the prince and we walked together outside to stand my the entrance. As we stood in silence, waiting for the carriage, Charlie began to speak.

"Very nice to see you again, Princess. You look marvelous today." He unlinked our arms and turned to face me instead.

"Aw thank you Charlie. Lovely to see you again as well. You look rather dashing yourself." I blushed softly.

He smiled down at his feet, probably because he was a tad bit nervous. As was I although. "So what do you think we're doing today, on our very first date?" I questioned him to hear his opinion.

He looked up at me once again with his beautiful blue eyes and a smile pressed on his lips after hearing me speak. "Well, I honestly do not know. If I were to guess, since we're taking a carriage, it is probably a bit far away out into the country." He shrugged. I nodded, giggling faintly. He is quite funny.

After a few more minutes of waiting, the royal carriage finally showed up. The man who rode it, jumped down and opened the door for us. "Ladies first." He pressed his hand on the small of my back before we scooted on in, sitting together.

"Thank you." I said to him inside the carriage as he helped me buckle my seatbelt. He nodded with a slight smile once again.

The carriage ride over was us just speaking about our families and how we were as children, growing up royal. "Yes, I do miss my family but being here and meeting you was well worth it." He spoke aloud genuinely, making me smile at him, locking our eyes together.

The carriage stopped and the carriage boy came to open Charlie's door. He got out and extended a hand for me to take in order for me to get out.

"Merci." I looked at him. We held our fingers intertwined with smiles tugged at our lips. We turned and looked at the beautiful extra house we had. Today was a great sunny day outside, perfect for riding,

"This house is so exquisite, I adore it." Charlie said with awe in his voice. I nodded, pointing to the backyard. "Over there." I ordered with a smile. He looked really elated today, I like that look on him. He lead me towards the backyard of my extra home and we walked around the corner, I heard Charlie chuckle when he saw the horses prancing around the stables.

"Horse-riding i'm most sure?" He asked me with a funny tone in his voice. I looked at him. "Yes indeed, do you like horse-riding?" I laughed. "Oh yes, I haven't rode in quite a while but I do really enjoy it."

"Good."

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I trotted along the grass with my white horse; Maisee while Charlie rode my other horse Fall. He looked so good in his uniform and helmet while we rode together, looking at the beautiful grounds. "The view here is amazing, it's so beautiful." Prince Charlie said to me softly. I smiled at him, he looked so happy riding and being out in the sun.

"Yes, the Isle of Man has such beautiful landscape. It also, however, has really good horse riders." I said confidently, making my eyebrows go up and down again. "Oh really?" He asked me flirtatiously.

"Yup, keep up if you can!" I said loudly, making my horse start running around the ginormous fields. I looked back at Charlie who looked shocked as I continued riding.

"Hey come back!" I heard him scream back with a giant smile plastered upon his face.

I finally stopped my horse under a tree, waiting for the prince to come meet up with me. He galloped until he reached me, then he stopped and got off of his horse, tying it to the tree. He tied mine to the tree as well and extended a hand for me to grab after he took off his helmet.

I placed my hand in his and giggled loudly when I came to the floor, removing my helmet. "I told you we're excellent horse riders."

"You were right." He stared at me, coming a bit closer and placing his hand on the small of my back.

I blushed at how close he was now. "You're beautiful Amanda." He ran his hand down my arm. I smiled gently and placed my lips on his, kissing. Our lips synced, exchanging kisses and we parted after a bit.

Smiling happily at each other.