Dark Knight

Chapter 2

 She escaped the room as fast as she could. Where was Rayne? What the heck was she thinking disappearing like that and leaving her betrothed to her younger sister to attend to?

         Nicole knew just the place to look for her, the Room. Rayne always sought comfort with books. She was the genius. At least she thought she was. Just as Nicole knew, Rayne was in there with a book on her lap staring into space.

         “Rayne?” Nicole called to her sister quietly. Rayne looked startled at Nicole.

         “Oh…” She closed her book and set it aside, “How’s everything going along?”

         “Well, let me see, uh…the Prince is here,” Nicole answered.

         “What!?!” Rayne stood up and dusted herself off, “ He’s here already?”

         “Yup.”

         “Where is he right now?”

         “I took him into the dining hall for dinner.”

         Rayne sighed in relief, and then sat down on the comfy chair. “I don’t think I can do this,” she finally said after a few moment of silence.

         “Sure you can. You’ve been through this for this long already,” Nicole tried to encourage Rayne.

         “I know that you don’t like the idea of me marrying this guy,” Rayne replied.

         “Yeah, but…why are now back downing on, you know? Having doubts?”

         “I don’t know what I want anymore,” Rayne confessed.

         Nicole didn’t know what to say. She barely saw this side of Rayne. Rayne was always head strong and positive about things.

         “Do what you think is right,” Nicole said.

         “I don’t know what is right anymore,” Rayne said frustratingly, “Sometimes doing the right thing isn’t the right thing to do.”

         Like marrying the ‘Wall,’ Nicole thought. She sat on the chair’s arm next to Rayne. Sometimes a person just needs another person’s comforting presence and silence to calm them.

         “I get this really weird feeling from the new guy,” Nicole told Rayne, “I don’t like him. I know I shouldn’t judge a person right away, but this is different.”

         “How?” Rayne asked.

         “I don’t know. It’s like he can see right through me. Like read my mind or something. It freaks me out.”

         “I think you just need to get to know him better,” Rayne said.

         “I don’t think so, sister.”

         Rayne laughed. “You are so like that,” she said.

         “Hurry up,” Nicole stood up and walked to the entrance of the Room, “You have a prince waiting for you in the dining hall.”

         As the sisters neared the dining room, they heard someone shouting. One servant ran out the dining hall in a hurry. Nicole stopped him in the hallway.

         “What’s going on?” she asked.

         “T-The prince is angry about the food, Your Highness,” the servant said nervously.

         “What’s wrong with the food?” Rayne asked in alarm.

         “The prince doesn’t seem to like it. He says, he says that someone tried to-to poison him, my Queen!”