Eves Of Flora

Chapter Four

Dedicated to my best friend jay ceen.

It has been fifteen years in Estaldun and Queen Eileen had still not given birth.  King Andrew still refuses to take a new wife despite Eileen and Oona's pleas.

"Andrew you need to get a new wife who will give you a son even Eileen has agreed to it" Oona said to Andrew who kept ignoring her.

"You know she is right, I don't have a problem with it and you know it" Eileen added overhearing their conversation from the room close by.

"Enough, I have told you a million times that I will never take a new wife. Can't you at least respect my decision and Eileen I thought you would at least support me in this. " Andrew shouted angrily.

"Where is Flora? " he added

"At her usual spot I guess,  maybe with her new friend she told me about" Oona said.

Andrew took flight to find his daughter.

"Hi darling, what are you doing and who's this?" Andrew asked his daughter as he landed.

"Hey dad, you frightened me" Flora said as she fell out of the mushroom chair she was sitting on.

"So sorry, dear"

"Dad meet my friend, Amelia.  Amelia meet my dad,  King Andrew" Flora introduced her friend.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, your Majesty, I've heard a lot about you from your daughter. "Amelia said in a kind gesture.

"Wow, Flora your friend looks more like your mom's age. I thought you would hang out with Tara or some one more of your age group." King Andrew said.

Flora frowned. "Dad are you trying to say you don't like my friend besides I am no longer friends with Tara and my new friend is nice and tells me lots of stories about creatures called humans" Flora said excitedly.

"No, no nice to see you Amelia" Andrew said as he dragged his daughter to a corner.

"Flora I don't want to see you around her again and you are coming home with me now.  Why do you even love this place? It's so deserted."

"Dad I  love this place because here there's no one to disturb me when I am listening to the stories of humans from my friend and I can't stop seeing her" Flora yelled even to the hearing of Amelia who just kept staring.

"Enough I don't want to hear anything related to humans or their name ever again from you and we are leaving now.  You are not expected to leave the premises till I say so. Do you understand? " Andrew yelled at Flora who just rolled her eyes and took flight.

Back at the castle, Flora ran into her bedroom and shut the door not wanting to speak to any one.

"What is wrong with her?" Eileen asked Andrew as she saw him walking towards her room and extends the cup of herbal tea she had prepared for Amelia to him.

"I stopped her from seeing her new friend, she was teaching her about humans and did you know her friend looked more like an adult fairy than a teenage one." Andrew asked as he took the cup of herbal tea from Eileen's hands.

"I think you should go talk to her, she seems really upset"

"I know I'll do that later but let her be for now I need some rest" Andrew responded as he walked towards his chambers.

Few moments later,  Andrew decided to go see his daughter.

"Flora open the door or I'll break it down you don't want to sleep tonight without a door." Andrew pleaded with Flora to open the door.

"Dad,  I want to be alone" Flora grumbled.

"I'll break it on three counts, one, two and....."

Flora opened the door right before the third count.  "I only opened it so I won't sleep with my door open" Flora said as she made way for her butterfly shaped bed.

Her room was decorated with beautiful pictures of fairies,  flowers, her parents, grand and great grand parents. The whole theme of the room was set to be in the forest.  Unlike other fairies, flora tends to be more attached to the forest and even prefers to be there than be with her friends.

"I am sorry for how I acted" Andrew apologised as he sat beside her on her bed.

"Dad, why do you hate humans so much" Flora asked as she sat closer to her dad.

"Okay, let me tell you a story.  A long time ago when the door between the two worlds (humans and fairies) and we were free to visit their world in authorised permit.  I as a little boy was always fund of their world. I will always sneak past the guards and go there everyday, the joy of seeing cheerful people go on with their every day lives and how they worked so hard was wonderful. I will always wonder around in the forests to avoid been seen or fly above them. This continued for years until one day, I met a certain human girl and some thing happened, that's what humans call 'love at first sight'. Her name was Faustina, she was very beautiful and I used to call her my angel. I too.... "

"Wait dad,  so mom wasn't your first love" Flora asked.

"No she wasn't and will you let me finish.  I told her about fairies and even took her to our world disobeying the number one rule to never bring humans here. I was severely punished by my parents for that.  But she betrayed me, she connived with greedy business men to capture me and put me as a new specie in their museum after studying me in their lab. I also told her our greatest weakness,  Iron. They almost succeeded if not for you mom who saw me when I snuck through the door and called my parents to save me. Faustina and her crew were taken to a land of no escape.  That's were we keep really bad fairies and they are imprisoned in the darkness till their vim fades away. From that day the door was closed never to be open again for eternity."

"Dad, what's a museum? " Flora asked

"It's a place humans keep old things so they can remember them or for tourist views." Andrew answered.

"Whoa dad,  Amelia didn't say they were this bad she told me that some of them are really very nice. I would love to go there one day and see what they really are. " Flora said as she walked over to the couch so she can face her dad.

"I told you that the door will never be open and.... "

Andrew was cut short by a knock on the door.

"Andrew there's someone looking for Flora" Eileen said as she entered.

"Who could that be? I am not expecting any one. " Flora asked confused.

"Come see for your self." Eileen replied.

Flora walked down the stairs accompanied by her parents. On reaching the main hall she said" Amelia"

"What, Amelia is here" Andrew said as he increased his pace through the flight of stairs.

I am so, so sorry for the late update. I've have been very busy because of the assignments and everything. I sincerely apologise. I stayed up till 2AM in the morning to get this written.

What has Amelia come to do in the palace ? Pls drop your comments on what you think and on the story's progress. Also, please don't forget to vote. 😊. Pls stay safe. Love you all😘.