New Princess in town

Part 24: Fire

The momnet the castle doors opened I called out, " I want to see Sir. Theador, and my family in my office imeditly."

"Y-y-yes your High-highness," I hadn't noticed how much they feared me. Well, it is not them who should be in fear.

"Hey, it is ok, I get it, I am suprised too. I never knew about any of that. It is horible." Cin rubed the back of my hand with her thum trying to console me.

"Your right it is horible. But I am not suprised, I'm pissed." I then started to my office. Walking with power in each step. Fire in my eyes. Thinking I would be some idle ideit that just sat still and looked pretty, was a big mistake.

"Will you slow down," I didn't realize that in my determination I was walking fast, so i slowed, "Thank you, what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to tell Theador that I will not be the face of all of that sorrow." I grabed her hands and looked into her eyes, "You... you don't have to stay... or stay around me... I... I think that I am about to... to make a lot of people mad."

She let go of one of my hands, and pushed some of my hair that had fallen in frount of my face, back behind my ear. She then looked deaply into my eyes and wispered so only I could hear, "I don't want to leave. I trust you. I care about you. And I still stay with what I said, I genuinly want to be by your side through all of this. So, stop giving me outs. I want to be here, next to my princess."

"O...ok... that... that sounds nice." I mumbeled out. I was so worried that she would get hurt because of my acttions. But it does sound nice to be next to her, to have her stand next to me through this.

"Ok let's go," Cin told me before we started back into my office.

"Jen, what happend?" Mom asked.

"What is wrong?" Dad asked.

"Well, we are being lied to and minipulated." I told them as I contued to look at all of the infomaion I could find on my computer about this.

"What do you mean?" Mom asked confused.

"I mean, that they are feading us false information about what happens in the country. And that I am the face of all of those problems." I told them still not looking up from my computer.

"And that isn't where it ends." Cin told then.

"Your Hightness, what is the meaning of this? What was so importaint it couldn't wait till morning?" Theador belted out as he walked into the room.

Cin and my parents moved bhind me. Rob had already left for Edinhboro.

"Well, you see, wile at the theater, I learned so very discuriging information." I started, "See the perfomance was wonderful, but at the end..." I trailed of for a sec, to see if he would squerm, "they talked about problems in the government." Let's see what he says to that.

"Well, your highness, that is hardly anything to fret about. They were simply spouting out noncince." He is sweeting, I got him to squerm.

"Yes, but, i am not really one to let a sleeping dog lie, so I did my own resurch on the way back, and when I got back. Do you want to know what I found?" I asked, knowing that I was forcing him into the mediforical corrner.

"Um... uh... of... of coruce your highness." He started to sway infrount of my desk.

"This," I spun around my computer screen and stud up, " This is the horres that are going on in this country, taht you are minpulating me into condisioning. There are anti-homless spikes, and benches all over the contry. Their are increesed, taxes, for non-profits. There are factory workers that can't pay for helthcare. There are people dieing, becuse the governemt is jacking up meds for the tune of 300times the going rate. Basicly scrue the people. All the momney is in the hands of the govenrment, and the pokets of those rich and powerful enough to have a job in government. And are minipulating the informantion given to the people in such positions. So what do you have to say?" I sat back down crossed my legs, and folded my hands.

He didn't speak, " Well..."

He still just squrmed, not saying a word. Time for the last step... " Anser me," my voice bellowed throw the room, ecoing off every wall.

"The counal made me!" he screamed... before he relised what he had just said.

"Why..." I interigated.

He didn't ansser. "Might I remind you, Theador, you don't get payed by the consle, I sign your pay check."

"F-f-fine... they... they want you to be a sitting duck."And once again, follow the money, everyone breaks when you threaton the money," They want you to know nothing, to sigh every report. It was my job to keep you happy, and distracted. So, you wouldn't care about what was on the papers. Your dyslexic, they fighured that you wouldn't be able to read them well, and would just sigh what ever it was. So, I did what I was told. They told me to get you in a romantic relationship too, so you would be distracted with that. So, I did everything I could. I followed every one of there orders blindly. Please they are terifing. They killed the last Queen, when she wanted to change things. I... I never... ment to couse any harm." He was crying by this point. Wops.

I waited awile to respond, thinking. FInally, "You know it is funny. When we learned that this wasn't a scam, I was so scared. People, power, responiblily, all of it scared out of my wits. See, I went to talk to my best friend, becuase of this. We ended up haveing a lethy pros and cons conversation. Very intresting. See, there was a list that went on forever for cons of being a princess. And their was only two things on my pro list of being a princess. One was, that is a lot of money. But that never matered really. I have been trying to plan how to pay for my parents retirement for ages. But the second one was the one that trully guided me. I wanted to help pople... to make a diffrentce. To make it so my name and my impact on the world out lived me."

I stud up and walked over to Theador. I could see my parents smile, and my girlfriend be even more confused than she was an hour ago. "So, hear is the thing. I am giving you a chose. You can ether, keep working for me, but you do as i say. If you get anymore orders you informae me about them. And we work to controle back from the counsle. Or you can go home and not come back. It is your chose."

"Well, I guess I will see you tomorrow, your highness." He said shakily.

"Good, now a little more busines. I need you to set a meating tomorrow with all the gaurd. And I am sure that the counsle will want to have a meating, sceduall it for tomarrow afternoon. And tomorrow morning I want to have reports of everything I still don't know about on my desk by 5. You are dissmised."

"Your highness," He stared quetly.

"Yes,"

"Why are you leting me keep working for you?" He asked.

"I don't trust you. But you know the castle, the people, the consle, and you know about everything going on. And I am smark enough to know that that is the kind of persion on my team. Don't make me regret this. You are dissmised." I told him again.

"Well... that was... intimdating. I didn't know you could do intimidating. Also, did he just say he set us up?" Cin pointed out.

"I think I was more of a meetcue. And yeah, I guess, I can be intimdating, when nessisary."I said with a light harted lagh. This will be fine.