Knight

Father and Uncle

Cecile's Pov

Sage leads me back towards the ballroom holding my hand.  The hallways are dimly lit since no one is here right now, plus it's dark out.  We walk in silence until we reach the doors.  I let go of Sage and he tells me to go in first.

"Cecile, you go in first.  We shouldn't go in together lest we want to draw attention to ourselves." I nod my head and open the doors.  I walk into the noisy room where everyone is talking to each other, no one notices me luckily.  I search around and spot Linda and Mira over by the corner.  

"Hey Linda, Mira," I call out to them.  Prince Jason is near them and Princess Irina is close by too.

"Ah, Cecile!  How is everything?"  Linda asks turning towards me smiling.

"You don't have to worry, the target isn't you.  Though he got away, he won't be after you, it's someone else so don't worry." I tell her smiling while not bothering to mention it's me they are after.

"Really?  Then is whoever they are after going to be ok?"  She asks concerned.

"It's ok, I know that person and that person knows how to wield a sword." After saying a few more thing to reassure her that everything is fine, she finally relaxes.  The doors open and Sage walks in.  Unlike me who no one notices, everyones gazes are drawn to him.  My sister too, she immediately squeals and jumps at him.  Sage dodges and she lands on her feet, spins around and tries to catch him again.  He continues to dodge her and heads over towards the king.

"Ah, Derek, you finally returned to the party," the kings says talking with his son.  The group of older men that was talking with the king says a quick goodbye before dismissing themselves and going off somewhere else in the ballroom.

"Yeah, father, sorry I was gone for so long.  There was something I had to take care of,"  Derek apologizes and the king smiles.  

"It's fine, you always put others before yourself so it's ok to be selfish every once in a while," the king says and the two continue on talking.

"Mother, I want to talk with my prince now!"  Irina whines.

"Irina, you have to wait.  Act like a princess," her mother says patiently.

"But!"

"Irina."

"Fine."  Irina sighs and sits down glaring at everyone.

"Geez, talk about bratty," Mira says under her breath to us.

"Yeah, that's true." I nod my head.

"Linda, can we dance now?"  Prince Jason asks.  I pity him because he looks really depressed.  Linda, sensing this, finally gives in.

"Alright, but only one dance," Prince Jason's eyes brightens as he holds out a hand to her.  Linda places her own in his and he leads her to the dance floor as a new song starts.

Feeling thirsty, I tell Mira that I'm going to get a drink.

"Mira, I'm going to get something to drink," she nods her head and tells me that she is going to talk with some acquaintances of her fathers and I walk over to the tables.  I get a drink from a servant and grab a slice of cake.

Just as I'm about to eat my cake, a servant announce that the south kingdoms king has arrived!

Sigh, why can't I get a break today.  I look at my cake, then at the entrance, one bite wont hurt.  I tell myself but just as I'm about to, the doors opens and a man with blonde hair and blue eyes walks in.   Following him is a man with blonde hair with slight pink in it and golden eyes.  It's to late for me to eat the cake now.  I cry at the loss of not being able to eat my precious cake as I set it down along with my drink.  I walk up with Linda and Mira since I am together with them here at the ball so I have to greet my father with them.

We all say our greets after the king and princes.  However when my father sees me he freezes.

"Celeste?"  He questions.

"My name is Cecile, your highness," I say correcting him like I did the queen.  I look at the man beside him though.  His looks is almost similar to my own and from what I was told, my mothers too.  I heard from that my mother has a younger twin brother, so maybe this is my uncle.  Our eyes connects and we both instantly knew the other knew of each others identity.  I make a motion to not say anything and that we can talk later and he nods.

"What are you doing here King Gaven?"  My king asks my father.  He snaps out of his daze and acts properly now as a king should.

"I'm sorry for the trouble on my wife and daughter without an invitation," he apologizes.  "I'm here to bring them back with me."

Ling: Ok this is as much as I can update right now.  I'm being yelled at by my mom to go to bed and I am finished with writing today.  Also sorry that I still haven't typed up what I said I was going to yet but I will tomorrow before I leave if I have time since I'm going up to my grandparents.