Royal Pain//Max Mills

Chapter IX

We met back up with the girls pretty much straight after. Anya had bought Riley a personalised silver mirror with the money I had given her and Chanelle had bought Dylan a good chained necklace with a diamond pendant for Harvey's girl. He had obviously had to get her something nicer and more expensive than mine.

Rana hadn't bought anything and stood shyly at the back. To my surprise Harvey made his way over to her and I couldn't help but listen into their conversation.

"Hey." He said.

She smiled and nodded. "Hi."

Harvey scratched the back of his head and I'll bet he was flushing. "Ummm, I wondered if you would consider giving me your number?" He asked in a small voice .

So that was why he felt sick. Why he didn't like the fact that Rana was a maid. Harvey was in love and it wasn't fixed. His heart has been snatched by this girl. Again, I couldn't help but be slightly jealous...

She blushed and looked down at the floor. "I don't have a phone. I can't afford one." She admitted.

Harvey ducked his head and pulled his phone out of the back pocket of his jeans. He tapped the password in, opened up his settings and hovered over something for a good few seconds before firmly pressing it. Then he looked back up at her.

Then he did something I never expected him to. He held it out to her. She looked at him in confusion.

"I just reset it. You can have it." He said.

She had her mouth open in shock. "I can't do that. It's yours, no."

He took her hand and made her grasp his old phone. "I can get another one. I want to speak to you again." He said in a plea.

" Harvey, I don't know what to say. "She said in utter shock and awe.

He smiled a toothy smile. "You don't have to." Then he leant forward, tilted his head and planted a small kiss on her cheek.

She blushed furiously and giggled. Harvey grinned and turned around. He caught my eye where I was smiling and sniggering. He came over to me and nudged my shoulder.

"Way to go man. Smooth." I confirmed for my twin.

He blushed and shrugged his shoulders. "I just want to do what I want for once." He said.

I looked down at my feet. "How did you know you liked her?" I asked.

He looked back at her and grinned. "Because I looked at her once and since then she never left my mind. I saw her everywhere, I thought about her and realised that all I wanted was to be with her." I

He must have caught a whiff of me being jealous or something cos then he nudged me and smiled. "Don't worry, you'll find a girl like her one day."

I nodded knowing it was stupid even hoping I would. Harvey was better looking than me. He had everything I have times ten.

. . .

We got back to the palace after thanking and saying goodbye to Payton and Rana Moormeier. As we got through the door, a squire told us to gather in the great hall to present the Princesses with our gifts for them.

We all dusted off and tried to look as though we hadn't been rowdy, mischievous boys. Caden took the lead and lead the way inside the hall as the rest of us followed behind timidly.

Mum was there as was Riley and her father and Dylan with her father and obviously various maids and servants and squires. Mum smiled as we came in.

"Welcome home boys. I take it you had a productive day?" She asked. Typical.

Caden spoke for us. "Yes thank you. It was of course not as formal as we would have liked but with the conditions it was good and acceptable." This kid was good with lying.

The grown up smiled weirdly. Mum Shit me a look and stated down at the bag with the gifts in and motioned to the girls. I pinched Harvey and whispered door him to give his gift first. He nodded and took the bag off me.

He walked over with a long stride to Dylan and dug in the bag. He retrieved the black velvet box from the wrapped bag and offered it to Dylan. She gasped and put a hand on her heart with a gay smile.

"Oh, Harvey. You shouldn't have." She gushed pulling the beautiful necklace from its casing and holding it up.

Harvey took it like a gentleman and made his way around her to do the clasp. You would never believe that this was the same kid who less than half an hour ago gave his phone to a girl and claimed to have fallen for her.

I walked over with the present in my hand and offered it over to Riley. She took it and pretended to be over the moon. She gushed and traced her engraved name with a nicely painted fingernail. I smiled a fake smile when a scream erupted in my ear.

"MAX!"

Before I could turn around, someone slammed into me and threw me down to the floor. They had their arms wrapped around me. I lifted my head and as I did an ear splitting smash of a whole load of glass smashed on the floor where I had been standing. I ducked my head to refrain from getting glass shards embedded into my skin.

A glassy breeze brushed through us and more screams and yells were heard.

Then everything went quiet.

I slowly lifted my head. One of the glass chandeliers had fallen, luckily it was a relatively smallish one but it still did a hell if damage. The floor was cracked and everyone was on the floor, small glass shards littered and decorated the floor. The air was glittery with glass.

I blinked roughly and coughed feeling tiny glass dust in my throat. The person who had saved me was coughing madly.

I whacked them on the back and held their shoulders. "Thank you. Thank you so much. I owe you my life." I said and pulled them into a crushing hug.

I pulled and looked them in the eye. To my surprise, it was Chanelle.

She hadn't been anywhere near me when the chandelier has fallen. Had she ran that far? Just to save me?

My thoughts were interrupted by a blood boiling scream. I looked madly over to the right were Riley was screaming.

She was screaming with a big glass shard buried deep into her leg, her skin ruptured around it. Her face littered with tiny bloody cuts, dropping blood in long lines, running down her face.

She was crying blood.

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