A Royal Wedding

The Garden of Dreams

Drake opens the door to the classroom and lets in all the children for the day. In the classroom he put the chairs in a semi- circle with him sitting in the opening so that all could look at him. He sat there. a man with white hair and a short white beard. This together with his wrinkels made him look he was in the 80's. But on his ID it said he had just turned 60 years old last week. Some of the children where convinced that he was Santa Claus despite him mising the jolly belly this was due to his white beard and behaviour. "Today children I will tell you the tale of a prince and a princess who were as regal and beautifull as the morning sky. I will tell you of their love that they declared under the sight of the moon goddess herself on the beach. Of their wedding under the sun's watchfull eye.  Our tale starts during the warm summer months."

"the gardens are always so beautifull this time of year don't you think...me. I really should stop talking to myself." Prince Halberon sighs as he contemplates the day. He has always walked this path alone, always alone in his thoughts. Sometimes even talking to himself. So why, why does his heart yearn for more. He is so used to the sound of silence and the sound of his own voice when he talks to himself. He had walked along the same path through the garden for years to clear his head and calm down from all that goes on in the palace and just to be alone with his thoughts.

But not that fatefull day, that day the prince decided to take another route through the great gardens. Still not sure why he did so, was it to see new path or just because that day had been especially hard for him. No matter what the reason was, he walked this new route. At that very same moment on this new route the prince encountered a princess, she was as beautifull as the blossoms of the garden and she was just was walking there. During this very first encounter the prince just stood there stunned. He thought the princess was beautiful and that she looked like a kind person. Someone he could get along with but he was too afraid to say anything. So he eventually moved on without saying a word. he did Not want to bother this wonderous princess. But from then on everyday he would find himself taking this new route just in the hopes to see this princess again. And he did, he saw this princess everyday along this very same route.

This went on till one day he noticed that the princess was staring at the ground, she seemd to be looking for something. The Prince saw a comb laying a little down the path, maybe this was what she was looking for. So he decided to pick the comb up and went up to the princess

 "excuse me princess, but I found this comb back there, is it yours?" The prince said with great fear building in his mind.

The princess  nodded quickly and shyly, she thanked the prince for finding her comb.

 "I was so afraid I lost this thing. I woke up too late and had to comb my hair while I was hurrying along. Before I knew it I had lost the comb somewhere and I had no idea where it had fallen down. Again thank you for finding my comb. My name is Arianna, third daughter of King Hallard of the southern forests and you are?"

"My name is Halberon, I am the second son of queen Aresonde of the Northern Forests. Pleased to meet you."

The prince felt tension building in his stoumach as he talked to Arianna but mostly just chalked it up to being shy. When he extended his hand he had to do his best to keep his hand still so that she wouldn't notice how nervous he was. Luckily she quickly accepted the hand and shaked it.

They both thought that it would be the first and last time they would see and talk to each other.  How wrong they both were. They would meet at that exact same spot the next day and the day after that until an entire year had passed.  

During that year they talked while walking through the garden, getting to know the other more by each day, slowly building confidence and familiarity.