Winter's Cold (KingdomCraft Story: Book 2)

Chapter Ten- Scott's Birthday

----------- Mesa Kingdom ~ Firestone Castle ~ 7:30am -------------

Scott sits in his bed with his tray of food since he's not allowed downstairs just yet. They're just setting up the last couple things. Scott smiles and shrugs, he always did like breakfast in bed. He was excited for today. He had invited everybody he could. He didn't invite all the royals though, since he's still on edge about a few of them. He invited Shelby, Callum and Cady since they are the one's he's completely fine with.

He takes a sip of his fresh apple juice with a smile. Molly was sitting at the end of his bed, begging for a piece of the ham sandwich. Scott chuckle and picks up his sandwich before taking a piece of ham from it and handing it to the fluffy white dog. Molly gobbles it up and then eyes the sandwich again. Scott laughs and shakes his head, "No more" he says. Molly listens and jumps off of the bed, going over to her own food bowl. Scott smiles and gets back to eating. His picks up his French toast and begins eating it.

Meanwhile, downstairs, Gemini and Harlow continue hanging up fairy lights to light up the throne room. Of course, there is only one throne in here for Scott. There used to be 3 when his parents were alive, but then... obviously they were put away when his parents passed away.

"Careful Harlow!" Gemini calls over to the 7-year-old as she climbs on Scott's throne, putting fairy lights over the top of it. Gemini walks over and helps her. "You can't be climbing on Scott's throne, Harlow" she chuckles, "I know you just want to make it pretty, but I don't want you to fall, okay?" she says, picking up the 7-year-old and then putting her down on her feet on the floor.

"Okay" Harlow says, going over to the lights box and pulling out some white ones. Gemini takes a cloth from her pocket and begins cleaning Scott's throne to make it nice and shiny.

(Time skip- 30 minutes later)

Scott takes this time to get ready for the day. He opens his closet and looks for the outfit that his parents got for him that he could wear for his 18th birthday. He paused. He was always told that his 18th birthday was going to be the best day of his life, and that his parents would give him the biggest gift ever, but they're gone.

Scott wraps his arms around himself, "You have to stay strong... it's been 2 years Scott..." he tells himself, pulling out a white box that held the outfit. He opens it up and pulls out the white and light teal jacket type thing and smiles as he looks at it, putting it onto his bed before putting the box next to it.

About 3 minutes later, he was dressed, and he looked at himself in the mirror. His hair was still a mess, but he would deal with that in a minute. The outfit consisted of his white and teal jacket, a white t-shirt with dark denim blue trousers and stylish white and teal trainers. He also had white gloves on that had a teal rim to them.

Somehow, this reminded him of his mother's favourite outfit, but with teal instead of light purple. He grabbed his hairbrush and began brushing out all of the tugs and knots. Inside the box was also a more detailed version of his actual crown.

After he brushed his hair, he took the crown from the box and examined it. It had the same light golden colour and teal coloured crystals, but it also had pearls embedded into it too. He places it nicely on his head and smiles softly, looking at himself in the mirror again. He hadn't noticed before, but he looked so much like his dad in so many ways, but also his mother. He takes a deep breath.

He hears a knock at his door and then sees Gemini walk in. "Hi!" she chirps, "Everything is ready downstairs!" she says, grabbing his hand and dragging him out.

"You're excited" Scott chuckles.

"Of course, I am! It's a big day!" she says, leading him down the many stairs, all the way to the bottom floor. As soon as they reach it, Scott gasps when he sees the decorations along the walls. "You worked your butt off" he laughs.