A Royal Love Story

Chapter 4 - Making Plans

When the kiss ended, I pulled away and just looked at him. I thought that I would never meet the man of my dreams, but, I have. The kiss was the start of everything for me. I now know where I want to go with Harry, and nothing was going to stop me from going there.  I gazed into his absorbing sapphire blue eyes for an extra moment. For about 30 seconds we were just sitting in silence, staring into each other’s eyes.

“What?” Harry came out with.

“What what?”

“Why are you staring at me like that?”

“I could say the same about you. Why are YOU staring at me like that then?”

“Because you have the most beautiful blue eyes I have ever seen.”

“Well, thank you. I was going to say the same thing about your eyes, actually.”

Before anything else could happen, the doorbell rang. I went to answer it, and Harry turned the T.V on. At the door was my sister, to my absolute surprise. I told Harry I would only be a minute and then shut the door behind me.

“Um, Charlie, you have to go.” I felt really bad to say that to my little sister, but I had to.

“Why? Who did you just speak to in there? Is there someone round?” I do love my sister, but she asked too many questions.

“Yeh, there is someone here, someone special. So, you have to leave.”

“Ok, I won’t ask any more questions. I’ll text you in the morning. Night.”

“Thank you. Love you!” Good, she was gone. Now I could get back to what I was doing, ‘entertaining’ Harry.

“Soph, who was at the door?” Harry asked just as I got back into the room.

“No-one. Just my little sister.”

“You should have introduced us!”

“Honestly, Harry, if I did that the paps would know tomorrow that we were going out, and that wouldn’t really be a good idea.”

“Why would the paps knowing make any difference?”

“Because, if they knew, then we wouldn’t be left alone, and I just want you all to myself, besides, we have only known each other for 2 days. I want us to get to know each other before we go and tell anyone.”

“Ok. You’re right. I have the best idea.”

“What?”

He ran his fingers through my hair, his touch was so soft and gentle. “I’m going to take you to Highgrove this weekend, so we can ‘get to know each other’ better.”

Ok Soph, think about what you say before you say it. “Are you parents going to be there?” Well done Soph…. You may have made yourself look like a bit of a twat…

“No, they are going to be in Scotland for the weekend. Are you ok with the idea then??”

“Yeh, babe, I love the idea. Thank you.”

“What for?”

“Thank you for being you.” I gave him a small peck on the lips. “Now, you have to go.”

“Why? I haven’t been here long, besides, I have something bad to tell you.”

“Because, although I might want your company, I have only been in my new job for two days, and I want to make a good impression by not being late tomorrow. Now, before you go, you will tell me what the bad thing is…”

“Right, ok, basically, I have to go back to work tomorrow, and I’ll be there for the rest of the week.”

“It’s only three days. I think I can live without you for three days. Where is ‘work’?”

“I’ll be at the Army training camp in Suffolk. You may be able to last three days but I fear I might have Sophia withdrawal symptoms when I come back.”

“Well, you’ll have to wait until you pick me up on Friday night to see me then. Its 10o’clock, now you have to go!”

“Alright then.” He pulled me in tight and quickly kissed me before I kicked him out of the door. “I’ll pick you up at 7:30 on Friday night, ok?”

“Ok, I’ll miss you. Bye!”

I shut the door. I couldn’t help but think to myself that I wasn’t just falling for Harry, but actually starting to fall in love with him. I also couldn’t help but thinking that he was either falling for me or falling in love with me, but I didn’t know which one was better right at this moment. When I had unstuck myself from the back of the door, I sat down on the sofa. I had a text, from Harry. He must have sent it while I was away with the fairies just moments before.

The text simply read. “Can’t wait for Friday! I’ll be waiting! Love H xxx”