The Royal Threat

Chapter 6

"Are you ready?"

"Just please give me a couple of minutes." Natalia says and grabs her bag.

She doesn't leave without bringing a bag with her. There are a lot of things that are essential inside her bag, one of it is water. She couldn't stand an hour without drinking water.

Natalia rushes downstairs and inserts herself inside the car. "You haven't changed a lot; you won't leave the house without your bag." Andrea says as she starts the engine. "Where are we going?" Natalia asks while looking at the street.

"It won't be fun if I will tell you. It will be a surprise, hope that you will like another surprise from me." Natalia feels a bit excited wondering where they will be going. She notices that they are being surrounded with malls. Her excitement suddenly vanished. "You won't let me in a shopping mall, right? You know that it is not fun for me going to the shopping mall and buy stuffs." Andrea looks at her for a brief time.

"Ahahaha, of course not! I will take you to a better place. We're almost there." She says and looks at the road once more. They arrive in front of a cruise ship. It's a different cruise ship, not the Russian cruise ship that they used a couple of days ago.

"Come on, there are a lot of things to see inside!" Andrea says and beckons Natalia.

She doesn't know if Andrea is just tricking her that it will be fun but she got nowhere else to go. Natalia takes a step inside the cruise ship and sees patterns that are repeated but are very attractive, such designs are very common to Russian and Asian cultures. She looks up and sees a chandelier, well that's typical! There is a bonfire blazing at the middle of the room with sofas in front of it. Natalia looks at Andrea in a suspicious manner.

"What is a bonfire doing at the middle of the room?" Natalia always sees a music lounge in the living room but never a bonfire at the middle of the living room. She sees no music lounge and instead sees two stool seats next to each other with a mic in front of it.

"This is different." Natalia adds, "what do you say about the designs?" Andrea asks. "Interesting, the designs look like a mixture of Europe and Asian designs." Natalia retorts. "This is the new collection, it's the Eurasian cruise ship." Natalia looks at Andrea giving her the cue that she doesn't know what she's talking about.

Andrea raises her eye brows, Natalia's mouth suddenly drops "do you mean that this is the new cruise ship of my father?" She stammers.

"You seem surprised, hasn't Kristof said anything about creating a new cruise ship?" Natalia moves her head in dismay.

"How could he possibly inform me about such thing when I barely see him?" Natalia says.

"You know, Kristof is very competitive. He wants to have at least two cruise ships per continent." Andrea adds.

"He needs to rest. He is not getting any younger. Kristof also needs to catch up with the moments that he has lost when you were younger. You are already turning seventeen soon, he has only a year left to spend some time with you before you'll go to college."

Other students who have the same age like her have already made a list of which universities they would want to go once they have graduated high school. Natalia on the other still hasn't made up her mind what course she wants to take after graduation and that is why she can't pick a university that is suitable for her. It's her first time to make a big decision in her life for Kristof always makes the decisions for her.

"What are your top degree courses Natalia?"

Natalia takes a seat and thinks of what she wants to do after graduating high school. Well, she loves cooking. She also loves reading books. Of course go around the world too!