Awakening

11. I'm sure

❤️Amabel's P.O.V.❤️

We all went to the kitchen to eat and I bet they were starving because they went all in it. They talked loudly and the table was messy so I decided to go eat at my favorite spot.

I didn't bother excusing myself from the table since we weren't royalty and they wouldn't even notice that I was gone.

I went up the stairs to the attic and stepped onto the window pane and climbed out, now standing on a bare bar that I could possibly fall from, but I didn't care, I've been through worse. I leaped up and grabbed onto the metal bar that was hung on the top of the window and jumped up to the top. When I brushed off my hands, I looked around me and smiled.

I was on their rooftop where I've always loved to be on since I was friends with Ezekiel. There were no chairs, but plants that I garden at home and ones that I plant for the villagers who don't know how to.

I stand at the very edge, where I can very much fall down splat at the ground, and I stare out at the crescent moon. It's not complete but it's still beautiful to look at.

We'll see the quarter moon on Spark's Day, the day when we celebrate love.

Bleh

I've always hated Spark's Day specifically because it's all love and wherever I walk on that day, there is always couples holding hands. Dude, the other year I saw a baby holding another baby's hand and old elderly's! Like what the hell! My brothers all had someone to hold their hand and so did my parents.

I spent all Spark's Day hanging around in the painting room, library, and shooting targets in the woods and it the most fun I will ever have for the rest of my life for Spark's Day. It's on February 14.

February 17 is Flame Day.

And my birthday.

I didn't like people making such a a deal out birthday's. Especially mine. But it just seems to not work, so I go out to the woods my entire birthday to a place even Ezekiel doesn't know about.

Despise all his begs and pleases, I still haven't told him where I go to spend my day. I still get presents though, but it's put to a minimum.

I can see the villagers making preparations for Spark's Day and that's only six days away. My birthday being nine away.

I heard someone grunting behind me and from the corner of my eye I saw him on his knees panting. He finally got up and headed towards me.

"It's not nice to follow me either," I said.

"I didn't follow you."

"Sure you didn't."

"I didn't!"

"Sure."

"I didn't!'

"My whole life the most closest people to me don't even know that I come up here. Why would you when I barely met you?"

"I observe?"

"No you don't."

"Yeah, I don't."

I shook my head. "Why'd you come up here?" He moved closer to me. "I was just curious to know where the amazing Amabel was heading off to," he said, "Plus, I wanted to talk." I raised an eyebrow. "About what? You hardly know me." He put his arms across his chest. "Exactly."

"That's not an explanation."

"Yes it is."

"No it's not."

"Fine. It was a simpler explanation." I rolled my eyes. "No, that's not," I said sitting down on the rooftop ledge. He started off towards me and stood behind me, raising a finger and opening his mouth to speak.

I put mine up, faced him, and spoke first.

"You dare to argue any longer and I'll hit you where the sun don't shine." That must've worked because he closed his mouth shut and just sat down next to me, not as near as close to the ledge as I was.

"Good job."

"It was on pure luck," I replied. He tilted his head a little in confusion.

"I was kinda hoping that you'd want to protect your 'boys'." He chuckled. "Who wouldn't want to? We want kids sometime and we need our 'boys' in order for that to happen." I laughed. "Stop being weird. It doesn't suit a prince like you. Especially not the Crown Prince."

"Why do people expect me to be like my father?" I hinted something in his voice, I just didn't know what to call it.

"Because you're royalty. Because you are his son whether you like it or not. Because they're stupid and think you'll be snobbish and lazy." I looked at him. "They'll expect you to be someone they've seen before and I think you just need to be that someone unique they haven't seen yet."

"You sure?"

"I'm sure."

I heard it again. The hidden meaning behind his question. He has regrets and is lonely. Something that'll break a prince's heart, piece by piece . . .

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What do you think Archer's regrets are? What do you think of this lonely, yet catchy, prince? What do you think of Amabel's answers? Comment please and help me get better.

Btw, I'm so pumped up for WattCon, even if I may not be able to go. Hope anyone who's going to have fun and I'm so jealous of you'll:)

✔️MelsAlvarez✔️