The Royal Programme

Chapter 16

Hiya lovelies pictured above is the beautiful garden where Nina is going to go for the majority of this chapter.

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"This is rather boring," Liam huffed.

It was 4:00pm and instead of staying inside on this beautifully hot day I arranged a little gathering for teatime. Now, not everyone was here. Only a few of the suitors had been invited, the ones that grabbed my attention. Angel, Natti, Nik, Alex, Ross, Liam, Elijah, Ahmed and Rafael, those were the people that were here. The suitors that had been invited were all potential future husband material, except Rafael. He was only there because I was tired of staying away from him; I was curious as to what him and my aunt were talking about.

"Oh come on we've only started this little garden gathering. The fun is yet to begin!" Alex shot back.

Currently we were all sat on one large round table with mini sandwiches and chips on delicately designed plates. In the middle of the table was an enormous Victoria sponge cake to emphasise the British experience we were supposed to have and to top it all up each person had a mini teacup filled with aromatic chai (tea) brought specially from India.

Natalia rose from her plush chair as she motioned for Angel, who was sitting opposite her and near the cake, to push forward the cake so Natti could cut it.

"One, two, three...GO!" Nik shouted as a chorus of 'Feliz cumpleaños' broke out.

Along with Alex and Nik's help we convinced all the other suitors to sing 'Happy Birthday' the Spanish version for our own amusement since Alex had declared to me yesterday that 'it's getting boring here, there's no fun anymore'.

Natalia stood with a look of disbelief on her face as she took in the scene in front of her.

"What are you people doing? My birthday isn't until a few months." Natalia said, trying to comprehend why we did what we did. "Wait a minute, this was a planned plot." Her once confused face changed to show a small ghost of a smile before she pressed her lips into a thin line.

"We all know you secretly loved it sister," I stated. The look on her face was crystal clear, she obviously was in favour of it because it gave her attention for once.

"Anyways, lets dive straight in," Ahmed announced, referring to the food. At the mention of his comment the whole group wasted no opportunity to grab all the little sandwiches and slices of cake that their stomachs could hold.

Whilst all the sandwiches were clearing away as they were the most popular choice of food, the chips were getting no recognition and were left untouched in the large bowl. Usually, I would be avoiding the chips as I needed to be more healthy but seeing as they looked lonely, I settled on eating chips. After all I did have Ross, who trained me almost every other day, to make sure I was still maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Murmurs of conversations broke out between each other as the sun shone brightly above.

"Let's play something!" Alex exclaimed. All the other suitors nodded in agreement, taking his side as Natti, the 'grown up' told us we were being childish.

"Don't be ridiculous Natti, have some fun and let your carefree side out," I spoke quietly, just for Natalia to hear.

Somehow I had managed to sway Natti onto Alex's side too and now the only thing left was deciding what game to play.

"How about Chinese whispers?" Angel suggested.

"That's perfect since we're sitting in a circle anyways," I said. Sitting next to me on my right was Alex and on my left was Liam, and the game was going clockwise so I would have to whisper into Liam's ear whilst Alex whispered into mines. Ross would be starting the game and Rafael would be the last person, so he would be the one giving out the answer in front of everyone.