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"Lady Mariana, are you listening?" I was snapped out of my daze by none other than Elizabeth.

"I apologize mrs. Elizabeth" I say feeling embarrassed putting my head down.

She makes a hmph sound and continues on with her lecture.

"Now as I was saying since tonight is the interview I expect you all to be on your best behavior, you will walk in with your heads held high and your lips zipped. Woman are meant to be seen not heard"

I roll my eyes.

"You only speak if you are spoken to, do I make myself clear?"

"Yes mrs. Elizabeth" we all voiced back.

Sighing I zone her out once again and let my mind drift back to the king, what on earth would he want to meet with me about? There's nothing spectacular about me, I'm just your average plain Jane.

Honestly ever since the king told me he wanted to meet I've been on edge, I even lost my appetite this morning at breakfast! Which is so not me, especially considering how heavenly those waffles were!

And I still have princess Mallory's diary that I have yet to read, I don't even know what compelled me to take it in the first place! Ugh I'm such an idiot why do I constantly have to do things that put me in awful predicaments!

And the thought of The royal family knowing about my life, especially how my father died does not sit well with me. Maybe she was just bluffing? Maybe she doesn't really know anything? Oh who am I kidding I'm totally and majorly screwed.

And I know for a fact that if Mallory knows, then they all know.

Then there's drake, the incredibly good looking douche. What is he hiding? Why was Mallory sticking up for him? And why does he want me to tell everyone we had an amazing date? Which in all honesty makes me want to put him even more.

And then skai, what's going on with her? She was so excited and bubbly when we first met now she's like trapped in her head all the time. I constantly see her and drake together which for some reason bothers me more that what you know, and she literally meets with the king like three times a week!

And then there's the one thing that's been nagging at my mind ever since the attempted suicide. Who the hell is the valley?!

Ugh my mind is constantly plagued by thoughts and I just can't seem to place the pieces tog-

"Am I boring you ari?"

Bo spoke up, I looked around and I was suddenly in my room.

"How did I get here?" I ask confused, Bo gave me a weird look.

"Uhm, you walked?" What?!

"Sorry I've just been in a daze lately"

He nodded "that's alright, so I need to talk to you about your dress for the interview" I sigh sitting down.

"Go ahead" he smiled widely.

"I've been working on this for a while now, so I know how you hate super elegant and fancy dresses so I tried to make it as casual as possible, and I know that you love the color blue. I mean your literally wearing a blue dress now and I don't think you've worn any other color since you've arrived"

I looked down at my baby blue dress.

He's so right!

"Anyways I really wanted this dress to be perfect and lemme tell you sis it wasn't easy"

I groan "just show me the dress already"

He smiled and ran to the wardrobe and pulled out the most gorgeous dress I've ever seen.