Be My Princess (Fanfiction): A Rose to Remember

Chapter 11

The following morning, I was woken up by Zain drawing back the curtains.

He started my day with a hot cup of tea.

"I brewed some rose tea today," He explained as he put a set of fresh clothes in my armoire. They were ball gown dresses. "It'll help you feel calm," He added once he was done."

As I had a cup of tea, Zain took the liberty to sit down in the other chair across from me at the round table.

"In a few days, we'll be having a funeral for your grandmother," Zain began. "Now, if you don't feel comfortable to attend, you're more than welcome to stay here."

"No, I want to go," I said as I drank the rose tea. "I want to be there when she's buried."

Zain nodded.

"After your morning tea, you should get ready for the day," Zain stood up from his seat at the round table. "I put a few new dresses in your armoire. If you do not feel like wearing those kind of dresses. You can wear the sun dresses instead for right now."

"Will I have to wear ball gowns everyday?" I asked as I finished my cup of tea.

Zain nodded, "But not right away though. Just take this one step at a time, okay, Adeline?"

I nodded.

"I'll come back to bring you to the dining room for breakfast."

After that, he left me to get ready for the day.

I picked another sun dress to wear instead of a ball gown.

Did my sister have to wear a ball gown every single day? I thought as I curled my blonde hair when I found a hair curler in a cupboard underneath the bathroom sink.

There was no doubt about that. Since Zain had said that those ball gowns would soon be My everyday attire.

As I was the heir to the throne of all Six Kingdoms.

Zain came back to escort me to the dining room for breakfast.

My grandfather was already there, but he was not alone.

Prince Edward was there, who sat on my grandfather's right side.

"Good morning," I said before I sat on my grandfather's left side.

"Good morning, Adeline," My grandfather and Prince Edward had managed to say in unison.

"Did you sleep well?" My grandfather asked as we waited for our breakfast.

"As well as I could, yes," I said as my eyes flickered to Prince Edward.

"Prince Edward wanted to pay you a visit," My grandfather said once I had grown quiet. "He want to see if you were doing well."

I rubbed the area of my stitches. Last night, I took off the bandage as it was irritating my skin.

The pain was still there.

"I'm fine," Was all I could say as three maids came in with our breakfast.

After we had eaten breakfast, Zain suddenly appeared next to me with two pills on a little silver tray with a glass of water.

"I noticed that you were rubbing your wound again," He explained in a whisper as my grandfather and Prince Edward conversed amongst themselves. "If the pain is getting to be unbearable, you should take to prescribed pain killers— just until the pain goes away."

Silently, I nodded and took the pain killers. Never did I like medicine in any form, but obligingly took them for Zain's sake— and my grandfather's sake.

Almost immediately, the pain had subsided.

My grandfather had left Prince Edward and I in the dining room.

Zain had left along with my grandfather.

"How are you really, Adeline?" Prince Edward sat next to me then.

"I'm fine," I said, "As fine as I could be right now."

He nodded.

"Let's go for a walk," He said, suddenly getting up from his chair at the dining table.

I followed him out the dining room. He walked around the Palace until we reached a Courtyard.

"Can we sit here for a bit?" I said as I rubbed the area of my stitches again. The pain was back.

"Yes, of course," He said when he had noticed me wincing.

"Have you still been in pain from where you had hit your head when you had fainted?" Prince Edward asked as we sat down on a stone bench.

"Every now and then," I admitted.

"Why didn't you tell me that I was this Alexsandrina's identical twin sister?" I asked when we had fallen silent.

"I wasn't sure how to tell you," He said. "Especially since you've never known about her."

"That sounds fair," I murmured.

"Have you met her? Alexsandrina?"

I shook my head. "Not yet, no, but I'm not sure if I want to as of right now. Same goes for my mother, but I'm sure I'll see them both at the funeral."

"Will you be attending the funeral?" I looked into his lavender eyes.

He nodded, "All of the other Crown Princes will be there as well, I believe."

All I could do was just nod.

We sat there for a while.

Prince Edward's POV:

As we sat in the courtyard in silence, you could see Adeline's eyes begin to water, but she didn't dare cry.

She was trying to act strong as she mourned for her grandmother.

"Do you know what will happen to your grandmother's boutique?" I asked.

"We're going to sell it," She said with a shaky breath. "Zain had told me that my grandfather had wanted someone else to manage it, but I didn't feel comfortable with that. So I told him to just sell the boutique."

"That must have been a tough decision for you."

"It was," She said as a tear rolled down her cheek, "but the thought of someone else managing the boutique— other than myself— I'm just not comfortable with that, since that boutique had been my grandmother's life."

"When I was at the boutique, I noticed there were a lot of handmade items, did your grandmother make the items that were being sold at the boutique?"

She nodded, "She did, yes, but when her Alzheimer's had begun to worsen, I took over and made most of the items that were being sold."

"They were beautiful," I marveled.

I took out the one handkerchief that I had purchased a couple days ago.

"Did you embroider this by hand?" I asked as I showed her the rose embroidery on the handkerchief.

She took the handkerchief and examined it.

Her cheeks flushed pink.

"I did, yes."

"You did an amazing job," I commented as she gave me the handkerchief back. I put back in my pocket.

"Thank you," She murmured quietly as she tucked a loose strand of her behind her ear.

In this setting, you could see she fit in perfectly.