Your Highness

☽ ☽ Chapter One ☽☽

   Uncomfortable, the warm sensation breezed across my back as I attempted to focus on the lesson. It's warm, so uncomfortably warm. My jacket discarded on the chair, my shoes semi-off. I just want to cool off, but it seems impossible. I huffed in agitation, my gaze scanning the entire classroom. Everyone seems to be doing fine, but here I am, ready to pass the hell out from overheating.

   "Everything alright?" My gaze fell down to the person crouched beside me. Her beautiful sage eyes tried their best to mask her worry as she gave me a questioning look. "Im fine, my marking was just going haywire, my apologies," Her attention shifted towards my back and after deliberating with herself she nodded and returned to her previous spot, behind me scanning the class for any potential threats or abnormalities.

     Ernesti has been with me since fifth grade. Everywhere I go, everyone I'm acquainted with, and where I stay, Ernesti is there— she watching and keeping me safe. So altogether doing her job, the job my mate has paid her to do since I was ten. My mate, the other half of me, the one person who'll complete me. I've never met them, but I assume that they are someone of higher power. Its common for Nobles or Prophets to employ bodyguards in order to protect their significant others, and they have the money to pay a mage or some psychic to find their mate so early on in life.

     The thought of having my mate already waiting for me is comforting, but almost difficult. I couldn't experience the normal teenage thrill of discovering and experimenting with people. I haven't been on dates, but I have kissed someone before. It was a sleepover and a good friend of mine decided to teach me once I expressed my nervousness of kissing my mate. In the end, I was never allowed alone with anyone, but when I do meet my mate, I'll know how to kiss them. After that incident however, the rules that had been previously lingering over my head had come to light:

I am not to go anywhere with out Ernesti
I am only allowed to visit the pack in which my family resides— if and only if both Alpha & Luna are in attendance and if it's a special occasion.
I am allowed to have family and/or friends over if/ and only if Ernesti is in occupancy.
I am not to bow to anyone of higher power.

The rules hadn't bothered me though, they just keep me more grounded. Almost like a baseline for what all I can do. I like that sense of security, knowing that those rules came straight from my mate. Its as if it's their silent way of saying I care, so here's somethings I want you to follow so you can be safe. And I do follow them, to the best of my ability.

I blinked a couple of times, taking in the sudden movements of everyone around me. Dang, did class end already? I really zoned out throughout this entire period, I can't even bothered to be surprised with myself. " Hey, did class end early or something?" Ernie stood beside me, her gaze full of amazement. 

     "You...you are something else. You begged me all week to attend today's Moon Harvest Celebration, and then forget what day it is. What exactly goes on in that head of your's?" Her amusement and teasing nature made me roll my eyes in playful annoyance.

      " I didn't forget you bum, I just have a lot to think about. Besides, I get to see my family today! I haven't seen them in like two weeks or longer... Yeah it's actually been longer than that," I mumbled thinking back to when I last seen them, they had came over for a family dinner. It didn't last long though, there's been tension since I moved out in fifth grade. It was a rough time for my parents, my mom had accidentally left a towel to close to the gas top. After some time it caught on fire and engulfed a large portion of the house. No one was hurt, but the following day Ernesti appeared with my toys and books packed and ready to go. Then proceeded to sweep me off my feet, within a week's time I was away from my family, at a new school, in a new house, and forty minutes away from my Pack. My parents blame one another for my sudden up and moving, but I don't think anyone is to blame. It was something bound to happen, only a matter of when.