Royalty with fangs

Chapter two

It's been two days since the talk with my mum. I am sitting in my room ignoring everything. My coronation is in a week. Dimitri is sitting near me reading about the palaces history. He looks up suddenly. He stares at me, then looks back down. I ask him what's wrong. He just says "To be queen, you must be married". I can't believe I hadn't thought about that yet.

I storm down the stairs into my mothers office. "I can't be queen if there is no king!" I shout. My mother looks at me calmly. "That has been arranged" she says. "Who do you want me to marry? I am not in love, I cannot be married to someone I don't love!". "You have one week after your coronation to find a man, if you cannot, I will choose one." She gives me a dismissive nod. I walk out of the room. I must find a man to marry. I am only 15. This is so unreasonable.

In a week and two days I must have a wedding plan. I've never had a serious boyfriend, I always took advantage of being royalty and hooked up with people as I pleased. I can barely even breathe. I make my way into my room. I order Dimitri out. I turn to look at him, and in the moment I do the only thing I can think to do. I kiss him. Instead of pulling away like I thought he would, he kisses back first carefully, then stronger, he tangles his hands in my hair. I tilt my head slightly, he pulls away slightly. He looks at me. "You are so beautiful, Snow," He says, then he pulls himself away from me. "but we cannot go down this path, you must find a king, but not in a slave like me..." he looks down and begins to say something. I cut him off "I don't even care right now" He wraps his arms around me and pulls my head on to his chest. Maybe I can get more time before I marry, maybe I can order the rules be changed, but for now I'm gonna take comfort in my slave. My thoughts are interrupted by sleep invading my mind.

Next day

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"Snow! What are you doing?! What is that SLAVE doing in your bed?" My mother shouts. I shoot up and untangle myself from Dimitri's arms. "We just fell asleep like that, nothing happened I swear." I say, still half asleep. "You never had a problem with me taking lovers before anyway". She sighs and leaves the room.

I look at the clock, shit, its late
"How about we go to a party?" I say. "Considering we did sleep until 4 in the afternoon, we should have just enough time to get coffee then go to my friend Calamity's party." He nods then looks back to his book.

I walk into my bathroom and turn on the shower. I pull a black towel out of a cabinet and put it on the counter. I hop in and quickly wash myself, then I wrap a towel around myself and blow dry my hair, I go to my walk in closet and grab a pair of light wash jeans and a tank top. I walk out to see Dimitri dressed in all black and grey, which us customary for slaves. I grab my bag and we head downstairs. I wave goodbye to my mother and get into my black convertible car. We drive down to the local Starbucks. I park the car and we walk in. Dimitri orders a caramel mocha and I order a cup of blood with vanilla syrup. We sit and talk aimlessly for a while before we realize four hours have passed. Its 9:00. The party started an hour ago. We rush to the car and pull up at Calamity's house.

The party is in full swing. We walk through the door and are greeted by techno playing at top volume and teenage bodies dancing everywhere. I lead Dimitri through the crowd and into the relatively empty kitchen. I grab a bright blue cocktail off of a counter and pass it to Dimitri. I grab something that looks like soda and alchohol of some sort and head back out to where everybody is dancing. Calamity rushes over to me in s blur of bright pink hair and captures me in a hug. "Snow! You made it, and you brought like Sir Mr. Future Human King!" She slurs happily. I hug her back "His name is Dimitri." I say. Dimitri chuckles "Is she drunk?" he whispers in my ear. "Probably, but she is always this hyperactive."

I'm normally not friends with people like Calamity, she's a bit too hyper and honestly kind of scene. I've known her since we were children though.

Calamity grabs both of our hands and pulls us upstairs, shouting something about truth or dare in the attic. I decide even though this isn't my regular scene, I'll try to have some fun.

We follow her up to a trapdoor and crawl into a room that has 5 people in it. She introduces us to them, but i forget their names almost instantly. I recognize one boy, named Wren, only because he's alwayd fawning over me.

Calamity ushers us all into a circle, screams "Truth or dare time!" The game is somewhat amusing for a while. Then Calamity chooses me, I pick truth. Calamity stares at mw mischievously then says. "Will you still do drugs with us when you're Queen?" she starts cracking up. "What kind of drugs?" I deadpan. By this point everyone is laughing. "Only fancy rich people drugs, like cocaine." She manages to say through her laughter. Once the laughter dies down we decide to head back downstairs.

The party has gotten even crazier by this point. Fast mindless music is playing. Me and Dimitri sneak out through the back door. We find a trampoline and start jumping around like crazy people. After a while we just kind if collapse and lay there staring up at the stars pointing out planets and things. I don't know how long we layed there, talking about nothing and everything, but next thing I knew the sun was about to come up. The party was still going.

We meandered our way back to the car and drove home. Nobody had awoken at home and we were able to sneak back onto my room and get a few more hours of sleep before my alarm clock went off.

Almost a week passes in an uneventful haze, time goes by and i try to ignore to looming deadline, I'll think of something. My mother is able to put off coronation for a few more days, the people are just happy she's no longer going to rule.

-Two days until coronation-

Technically I was supposed to choose a "king" by tomorrow, but everyone assumed I would marry who my mother wanted, but continue to sleep with whoever I wanted, thats what most young rulers have done.

I looked over at Dimitri and a bold plan hatched in my mind. I knew exactly what to do to shake up the whole kingdom.