𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐃 | ❝Hope is good, Hope will never disgrace, but make no mistake, Hope will hit you in the face!❞
In which the Just King becomes betrothed to a princess from a neighboring kingdom, only to fall in love with the prin...
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TIME IS A STRANGE thing, something that Hope sometimes didn't understand. How it moved and shifted and how every little thing seems to depend on time fascinated her. Anything and everything and oftentimes nothing can happen in a matter of time, whether it's seconds or years, and depending on what that thing is, it'll either feel like it lasted for an eternity or the blink of an eye. For something that seemed so simple, it was undeniably complex. Hope was slowly learning that everything in life was like that. Nothing is ever what meets the eye.
Three weeks had already passed since the Wysterians' arrival in Narnia, and it didn't go peacefully nor quietly. The days, drowned out with endless things to do, were speeding by. Although Hope was used to always having a demanding schedule by now, she couldn't believe how quickly the clock was ticking, especially when she woke up this morning and realized that tomorrow was the 25th of May—Odette's 18th birthday.
And, if you've been paying attention, then you'll recall that in just one week, on the first of June, was the big day. It was the wedding between Edmund and Odette, the wedding that would make Odette a Queen of Narnia, the wedding that Hope was dreading.
Hope wished she could say she only ever thought about the princess's birthday and wedding, but that simply wasn't the truth. All she thought about, it seemed, was Edmund, and it wasn't a new occurrence either.
For the last two months, and maybe even a little bit before they formally met, Edmund took permanent residence in her mind, distracting her thoughts at every hour of every day. More specifically, all she could think about nowadays was how she developed an unfortunate crush on him.
How could she not? She'd spent the last two months with him! Did you see how he dropped everything just to apologize for hurting her feelings last week? In what reality could Hope not fall for him?
It felt like a twisted joke. Of all the people in the world, all the people she'd spoken to and seen, she just had to fall for the bloody King of Narnia. She couldn't even fall for the one that was single. She had to fall for the one who was engaged, the one who was humiliatingly out of her league.
The worst part was that Hope wasn't doing a thing about it. She still spent copious amounts of time with him, pretending her feelings weren't there. She was hoping that perhaps this silly crush would pass by the time the wedding came, but even she wasn't sure of how plausible that wish was. Hope didn't know what to do other than ignore her feelings and pretend like everything was okay. Maybe she could neglect her feelings until they inevitably vanished. That didn't sound too unbearable. There was no way she could like someone, someone who didn't even like her like that, for that long, right? Surely, she would move on eventually, right?
