Prince and Princesses of My Nation

Butterflies

Knock, knock.

"Feesy, are you in there?"

I didn't respond and continued what I am doing.

"Feesy, it's time to eat breakfast"

"Yeah. I'll be there, Aes. I'll just finish this. You go ahead" I said without removing my eyes from the painting and kept brushing. I heard him sigh.

"Okay then"

I heard him walk away but hmm, it seems like this side is lacking something...

Ah-hah. A paint of color is it.

"Last stroke..." I said and brushed another. "It's done!" I said as I stood immediately and looked at the painting I made. I smiled happily.

"Good work, Feesy" I said to myself and arranged my paint brushes and buckets of paint, removed my apron and hung it. I walked to the door and looked at the painting for the last time.

"Really beautiful..." I said and closed the door. I first went to the wash room to wash my hands and face as well because I get really dirty whenever I paint.

Today is a wonderful day and I'm happily walking down the hallway to our dining room to eat breakfast. While walking, I would smile and say hi to strangers passing by and also greeting them good morning but most of the time, they would stop and bow right in front of me. I actually hate those kind of reply because I want them to be my friends but as a Nature Prince, you have a limit and I don't know why.

But nevertheless, this morning is wonderful because I'm going to have breakfast with my precious brothers with our new princess, Yani. She's very beautiful and nice and it's actually good for me that she's the chosen princess of our nation.

When I arrived, I was the third to the last to come because Jethro and Yani are not yet around. I sat on my chair and at the same time, Jethro came in and he was wearing the same poker face that he always show in the morning.

"Good morning Jethro!" I greeted him happily.

I always expect that he wouldn't reply and just sit on his chair but he smiled and "Good morning" he greeted back.

I was really surprised by his reaction. JETHRO JUST SMILED AND GREETED BACK, DID YOU SEE THAT?! OH GOD! This calls for a CELEBRATION! I can't believe our precious brother really changed!

Not long enough when Yani came so we all stood up and greeted her in unison.

"Good morning, Princess Yani!"

She stopped by the door and was surprised. "Uhm is that necessary?" she asked.

"Don't worry, it's just for today" my brother Eaux replied.

"Ah okay" she casually answered and continued to walk to her seat and when she sat, all of us sat too.

While eating, we told fun stories to each other. Hahaha. Actually, it was a formal conversation since Yani is training to become a princess. We told her what would be her schedule and the assigned prince on a specific day to train her. Good thing I was not one of them.

When all of us are done, one by one we left the room and went to our own business. I went back to my special room and when I arrived, I looked at the painting on the wall again.

It was always the usual, a sunset happening between two hills, a river at the lower part and of course trees and animals.

I sighed while looking at it, got the bucket of white paint and started to 'erase' the painting. Yup, that's how I erase it. My theme is always nature and sometimes I get fed up and erase it. But if I make a painting and it's a memorable one, it would take me many weeks or even months to paint it.