Not Your Typical Princess:Selection Fanfiction (COMPLETE)

Chapter 39:

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Chase POV:
"Chase, Charlie," I hear someone say.
"Wake up, girls." I hear someone else says.
"Go away," Charlie and I say at the same time.
"It's your birthday," they both say.
I open my eyes to see my dad's face, "good morning."
"Morning," I say.
My mom and sister have the same conversation. "Well girls, you have a big day ahead of you."
"Too early, need sleep, bed good." I say rolling over so my face is in the pillow.
"Good morning," a voice says.
"Xander!" Charlie says. "Come over here, I don't really feel like getting up."
I roll over to see him giving her a quick kiss on the lips and a hug. "Xander I'm pretty sure she wants more than a peck on the lips."
"Chase?" Charlie says.
"Yes, dear sister of mine?" I smirk.
"Shut up." I giggle, I look to my dad... if looks could kill.
"Well we will let you girls get ready for the day,"
"Can't we just lay in bed until the party?" I ask pulling the covers over my head.
"No, come on now. Get up," mom says.
"Fine, I'll go back to my room and take a really, really long bath." I say standing up.
"Chase," my dad says.
"Love you!" I exclaim walking out of the bedroom. I don't see where I am going and I run into someone and fall to the ground.
"Oh, I'm so sorry miss!" a guard exclaims.
"Don't worry about it," I say, I reach my hand up and he takes it, helping me to my feet.
"I'm very sorry," he says dropping my hand.
"No broken bones, no bruises. I'm good, don't worry." I laugh. I see his jacket is crooked. I reach up to fix it.
"Thank you miss," he says.
"You're very welcome," I say.
I walk into my room to see Sophie cleaning my desk, oh no! That is where I keep all of my pictures of Alec and me, "stop!" I exclaim.
Sophie jumps and backs away, "I-I'm sorry, I didn't know you don't want me to clean it..."
"Oh, Sophie," I say walking over to her and bending down to her height, "don't worry, it's just that..."
"You didn't want me to see the pictures of you and that boy..." she whispers.
I swallow a lump in my throat, "yes."
"Who is he?"
I sit on my bed, "will you run a bath for me? I'll explain it then."
"Sure," she heads to the bathroom then turns to face me, "do you want bubbles?"
"What kind of question is that? Of course I want bubbles."
Sophie giggles, "Okay, I'll tell you when it's ready."
"Thank you Sophie," I say.
"Miss? It's ready," she says.
"Thanks," I start to undress, Sophie turns around, I told her that she can turn around if it makes her feel uncomfortable. She is only 10 almost 11 years old. "You can turn around," I tell her.
She sits on the edge of the tub folding towels, "where did you get that necklace, if you don't mind me asking."
"Let me start from the beginning," I say. I tell her about how we met, and then we started dating and then fell in love. I told her how much I love him and how much he loves me. I explain to her about the baseball field and Erin and Jack.
"Wow," she whispers when I'm done.
"Yea," I say.
"But Miss, what are you going to do about the selection?"
"I don't know... we'll figure it out." I tell her.
"So are you excited for your party?"
"Yea, I guess." I say. "But enough about me, how is your family doing?"
Sophie POV:
I can't tell her about my mom walking about on us and my sister getting sick, "we are doing just fine, thank you miss." I smile.
"You sure you don't need any help with anything?" she asks setting her hand on my mine.
"Yes, we're fine." I assure her, I hate lying to her but the other maids bully me because of my age and some of them think that I am just sucking up to Chase and her family.
She smiles at me, "good. If you need anything, please come to me." She says. "Sophie will you come to me if something happens and you need help?"
"Yes ma'am," I say.
"'Ma'am?' I'm not that old!" she laughs.
There is a knock at the door, "can I get it miss?"
"Yes go ahead Soph," she says.
I open the door to see Queen America standing with Prince Cory in her arms, I curtsy, "ma'am, how can I help you?"
"Is Chase in the bath, still?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Shoot," she says.
"Is everything all right ma'am?"
"I just need her to watch him."
I smile at the little baby in her arms, "I can take care of him miss."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I have younger siblings and took care of them as babies."
"Thank you so much," she says she bends down and I take him into my arms. "If you need any thing just come to my office."
"Yes ma'am, but I think I'll be alright."
"Thank you sweetie." She walks off.
"What did my mom want?" Chase asks.
"She wanted to see if you could watch the baby but I told her that I could while you are in the bath."
"Oh, that's sweet of you Sophie." Chase says.
"Yea," I see the basket filled with soft fluffy towels. I take out some of them and lay him in the basket. He opens his eyes and stares at me in wonder, "Hi Cory." I say giving him my finger to hold onto.
"He is so calm around you," Chase says.
"Yea, I could always calm my brother and sisters." I tell her. I put my hand in the water, it's not very warm anymore. "Do you want to get out?"
"Sure thanks," she says. I pick up the basket with baby Cory in it and set him off to the side. I take her hand and help her out, I hand her the towel. "Thank you Sophie."
"I'll go get your dress you are going to wear until you have to get ready for the party. Can you watch him?"
"Of course," she smiles.
I go into her closet and grab her light blue dress she is wearing. When I walk back in she is sitting next to her brother on the ground. "Miss?" I say handing her the dress.
"Thank you," she stands up and goes behind the curtain, "Soph?"
"Yes?"
"Can you zip me up?"
"Sure," I walk over to her and zip up the dress.
"Thank you."
I dry her hair and she does her makeup, I'm still not very good at that part, but she is teaching me. I hear crying from the basket, "Cory." I say walking over and sitting next to him. "What's wrong baby?" I give him my finger to suck on and he stops crying. "See, you're okay sweetie."
"It's amazing how good you are with him Sophie," Chase says. "Care to walk with me to breakfast?"
"Of course," I say standing up and taking Cory with me. He starts to fuss but I put my finger back in his mouth and he calms down.
Chase POV:
As we walk down to breakfast a guard says, "there's my favorite little maid!" he must not have seen me because he stops dead in his tracks.
"Hi Luke," Sophie says. "Princess Chase, this is Luke, Luke this is Princess Chase."
"I'm sorry we haven't met before," the guard, Luke, says.
"I am as well, you are close with Sophie?"
"Yes I am." He smiles. "I helped her when some of the guards were picking on her."
"Luke, hush!" Sophie says.
"They were picking on you?" I ask.
"It's fine, I'm young and a perfect target. Don't worry about me miss." She tries to convince me.
"Luke," I say.
He stops walking and faces me, "yes miss?"
"Watch over her when I can't and protect her when I can't," I order.
"Yes miss," he says.
"Great," Sophie laughs.
"Well I have to go. I will see you ladies tonight." Luke says.
"You will?" I ask.
"We are both working your party tonight," Sophie says shifting Cory in her arms.
"Oh well, Luke promise me a dance?"
"Of course miss," Luke says then walks off.
Cory starts to cry, Sophie puts him on her shoulder and whispers, "shhh... it's okay Cory. Shhh..." he continues to cry, "I think he needs to be changed, I will see you later miss."
*Time laps*
As Charlie and I get ready together, we are wearing the same dress but, of course, her's is pink and mine is purple. (pictured above)
"Oh, I forgot." I go over to my desk and get out the present Alec gave her. "Here."
"What's this?"
"A gift from Alec," I say handing her the present.
She opens it and it's a simple silver bracelet with a 'C' charm. "It's really pretty."
"Yea, he got me this." I show her my gold necklace.
"It's beautiful!" she exclaims.
"His father gave it to his mother when they were our age," I say. "His dad left it to him in his will."
"Oh my god, Chase." She says, her eyes wide. "It must mean a lot to him."
"It does," I say. "He said that's the reason he gave it to me, because I mean so much to him. I'm never going to take it off."
My mom comes into the room, "Girls! You look so beautiful!"
Dad comes in also, "you look just like your mother, beautiful doesn't even start to explain how you stunning you look."
"Thank you," we say at the same time.
*Time laps*
We walk into the room where our party is being held too see all of our friends and family. Charlie and I link arms and walk down the stairs. We are hugged and greeted by so many people I lost count. Some of the girls are from my father's Selection, "you look beautiful Charlie," Elise says hugging me.
"I'm Chase," I say.
"Oh! I'm sorry! I can't believe I did that." She exclaims.
"Don't worry about it, my mom still mixes us up." I laugh.
"You look so much like your mother did when she was around your age," Kriss says hugging me also.
"So, are you excited for your Selection?"
I choke on my drink, "I-I g-g-guess," I stutter.
"Don't worry about it sweetie, it'll be great fun." Elise says.
"Kriss! Elise!" My mom shouts coming over to us, with Cory in her arms. "I missed both of you so much!" she says hugging them.
"Is this Prince Cory?" Kirss asks.
"Yes it is, do you want to hold him?"
"Oh, yes." She says taking him in her arms, "he is so tiny."
"That's what happens when your baby is born 2 months early," mom says. "But he is healthy now."
Cory coo's up at Kriss, "oh! He is too cute America!"
"I think so too," she says.
My dad comes over, "Maxon!" Kriss and Elise says hugging him.
"It's good to see you girls too," he laughs. He takes Cory from Kriss, "there's my boy."
"Can I ask you to dance?" I turn to see Xander bowing.
"Why of course." I curtsy.
"When you are done, come back here! We need to talk to you young man!" Kriss says giggling, Elise and mom join in.
He takes me out on the dance floor, "so are you enjoying the party?" I ask.
"Yes, it's good to meet the rest of your family and friends." He says. "Can I ask you something?"
"Sure," I say he spins me away then back.
"I was thinking of proposing to Charlie on her birthday next year," he says.
I trip and almost fall to the ground but he catches me. "Really?" I ask.
"Yea, I have to marry someone about a year or so after my 18th birthday and I'm so deeply in love with your sister and I want to marry her."
"Wow," is all I can say. "But wait what did you want to ask me?"
"I wanted to ask your permission to marry Charlie," he smiles, I can see why my sister loves him. He is sweet and polite and he is really handsome, dirty blonde hair and green eyes, would make any girl's heart melt.
"Yes, you can marry Charlie," I say smiling.
"Mind if I cut in?" I turn to see Charlie.
"Actually, your mother's friends wanted to talk to me. But after I promise you a dance, my dear." He kisses her on the cheek and walks over to them.
"Well," I say, "my I have this dance?"
"You may," Charlie giggles curtsying.
We begin to slow dance, giggling and joking around as we do. "So I saw you and Xander talking, what were you talking about?"
"You," is all I say.
"What? Why?" she asks.
Xander walks back over, "now may I have this dance?"
I step aside and hand Charlie over to him, "keep your hands from going south mister," I shale my finger at him, as if I were scolding a small child.
"Chase!" Charlie exclaims blushing.
I laugh and walk away. Only to run into Luke, "ahh... Princess Chase, still hoping for that dance?"
"Are you asking me or telling me?"
"Asking of course," he laughs.
"Then sure, why not?" I smile and take his hand and we go out to the dance floor.
America POV:
As I talk with my friends from my Selection, Cory starts to get fussy, pretty soon he is wailing. I hear a small voice say, "ma'am, I can take him back to his room if you would like me to."
I turn to see the small maid with glasses, "your name is Sophie right?"
"Yes, ma'am." She smiles. "I can take him if you want."
I glance to my friends, who are smiling at the little girl, "sure." I hand him to her, "thank you very much, Sophie."
"No need to thank me ma'am," she says, I can tell she is waiting to be dismissed.
"You can go, thank you." I say.
She does a small curtsy and leaves, my baby in her arms.
"She is really cute America." Kriss says.
"Yea she is." I say.
"How old is she?"
"I think Chase told me that she is 10 or 11, she is working for her family. They need the money. I think Chase is sending them more then what she actually is paid." I tell them.
"You have good daughters on your hands," Elise says.
I look out to the dance floor and see Charlie dancing with Xander and Chase dancing with a guard, they are laughing hysterically, I think Chase is stepping on his feet, "yea, yea I do."
Sophie POV:
As I walk to Cory's room, I hear someone following me. I turn to see two guards, "can I help you gentlemen?"
"Such big words for such a little girl," he says, they both move to block my way to Cory's room.
I stand up a little straighter, "excuse me, I need to put Prince Cory to bed and you are blocking my way."
"Well then deal with it. Maybe you'll get caught and get more money for your sad excuse of a family." The other says.
"Don't say anything about my family," I growl holing Cory to my chest even tighter. "Please, just get out of my way."
"Nope." The first one says, "I think we should let you get caught not doing what you are supposed to be doing, might lose your job."
I stagger back a few steps, as if they had punched me. "Just leave me alone."
"Now why would we do that? This is great fun, don't you think Mitch?" the second says to the first, Mitch.
"I agree Aidan."
"Please, just let me put him to bed." I know he probably needs to be changed and fed before I put him to bed.
May POV:
"Please, just let me put him to bed." I hear a small voice say.
Then I hear two men laughing, "naw... I think we are just going to stay here a while."
"Just get out of my way idiots for we'll all lose out jobs!" the girl exclaims.
I hear a sound, skin hitting skin, they slapped her, I also hear her shrink in surprise. "Don't speak to us like that, you stupid girl!" Cory's wails fill the hallway.
I run down the hall trying to find them, "Just leave me alone!" I finally see them The men look about 22 or 24 and the girl only looks about 11 years old. They have her cornered.
I walk towards them, silently so they can't hear me. "No, we are having way too much fun. Where is your bodyguard Luke? He is usually always there to help you," one sneers.
The girl doesn't say anything, next thing I know, slap! She is hit across the face again, "answer him, he asked you something."
I can't take this anymore, "I think she told you gentlemen to leave."
They turn around, fear written on their faces. The little girl looks relived, "Miss May, can I help you with anything?"
"No, just go put Cory to bed."
"Yes miss," she says and walks away.
I point the bench, "sit!" they walk over and sit on the bench. "What gives you the right to slap her! She can't be older the 11 or 12! You are grown men for god sakes! You're guards! Your job is to protect the people living in this castle, not hit 11 year old girls!" I exclaim. "Who is your general?"
"General Hunter ma'am," they both say.
"I will see to it that my sister's husband will have a conversation about you two!"
"Yes ma'am." They say.
"Dismissed," I say pointing away from Cory's room.
They bow slightly and quickly leave.
Sophie POV: (while that is all happening)
I lay him down on the changing table, "Hi Cory," I say forcing the tears back. "How are you this evening?" I take off his little baby pants, I can smell his diaper. "Pretty ripe, you are!" he just stares at me, eyes full of wonder.
"Let's give you a bath huh?" I ask picking him up and brining him into the bathroom, I find the baby tub and fill it with warm water. I place the small child in the water, he starts to cry. "Shhh... it's okay. Look!" I point to the mirror so he will see his reflection, "who's that? Is that you?" he stares at the baby in the mirror while I bathe him.
Once I am done I take him out of the tub, his cries fill the room again, he must be cold. I grab a towel and wrap him up in it. "There you are, nice and warm and dry." I coo at him.
I bring him back to the changing table and start to put him in his pajama's, "Are you hungry? Do you need a bottle before you go to sleep?" I go out into the hall way and find the nearest maid, Susan, who luckily is one of my friends. "Can you get me a bottle to feed to Cory?"
"Sure thing Soph, be right back." She smiles and rushes to the kitchen. I go back into the room and wait for her to come back.
When she does Cory is crying for the bottle, "thank you so much Suzy. I owe you one."
"No problem." I turn my head and place the bottle in his mouth, Suzy gasps, "what happened?" she touches my slap mark.
"Just some guards..." I say. "But May stopped anything else from happening."
"Soph, you've gotta tell someone about them," she says.
"I can take it."
"I never said you couldn't." she looks at the clock on the wall, "I have to go, they are probably starting to open presents. And then I have to clean, goodnight."
"Night," I say.
Charlie POV:
Everyone, except our close friends and family, have left. "Alright, it's time for Chase and Charlie to open presents," mom says.
Chase and I sit on the ground, there aren't too many presents, we told people to only get us one or two. We already have so much, we don't need more.
Chase and I exchange the gifts we got each other, I open mine to see a beautiful gold necklace with a piano charm on it, she also got me sheet music. "I love it! Thank you!"
She opens her's and starts to laugh, it's a gold necklace with a paint brush charm and I also got her canvass for her to draw on, "great minds think alike."
Xander hands both of us our presents, he got me a simple pink tiara. He leans down and whispers in my ear, "I noticed that you didn't have a simple one like this."
"Thank you I love it." I its simple, made of wire and on the wire are pink flowers. I kiss him on the cheek.
"Sweet!" Chase exclaims, looking at the new art supplies. She hugs him, "thank you so much!"
"You're welcome," he smiles at both of us.
We open more presents, until only our mom and dad are left. "Okay, it's small..." mom says.
"I'm sure its wonderful," I smile.
Chase and I open the box, it's a gold butterfly. One wing is purple and the other is pink. "I love it!" Chase and I say hugging them both.
"I'm glad you like it," mom says. "It was so hard to decide what to get you girls."
Once everyone leaves and we say goodnight to them, Chase and I head up to bed.
America POV:
"I'm going to check on Cory," I tell Maxon.
"No, let him sleep. He'll be up soon." He says.
"Please?"
"No, we will open the door that connects our rooms so we can hear him crying. But we both need sleep." He says.
About 2 hours later, Cory is crying. I get up and walk over to the door to see Sophie taking him out of the crib, "shhh... your mommy and daddy had a late night. Shhh..." she sets him down on the table and starts to change him.
"Thank you," I say.
Sophie jumps like she touched a live wire, "Queen America, I thought that you and Ma-King Maxon would want to sleep. I'm sorry, you didn't ask me to stay here over night."
"It's alright, thank you for doing this Sophie. I smile at her.
Cory is still crying, "shhh... Cory it's okay." She says placing her hand on the top of his head, he stops crying and stares at her, wide eyed.
"How did you do that?" It came out harsher then I meant it too.
Sophie pulls her hand away, "I'm sorry, I was just trying to calm him down." she swallows a lump in her throat.
"It's alright," I say gently. "Would you mind staying her for the rest of the night?"
"Not at all ma'am," she smiles. "Now go back bed." She says, her voice sounds a little scolding, but her face has a silly grin on it.
"Thank you very much Sophie," I say. I head back into my room, closing the door behind me.

Guys!! When Chase gets married to _(name)_ would she change her last name to his or would he change his last name to hers!?!