A Princess For Christmas (Of The Dreams We Seek)

Ten

And then on her bedside she found the letter and carefully opened the seal. She took out the paper inside. And touched the lilies on the corner of the paper. 

And there even a faint smell of the lilies on them. She finally looked at the beautiful handwriting on it.

Dear Avni,

If you are reading this then you have either two possibility. Either you know about your illness. Or you still are very much unaware of it. I don't know what it is, but let me tell you this, I never wished to be bearer of the bad news to you. 

That is why I hid it, Praying it to be just an anomaly in the fine careers of the doctors of the WinterDell, who never in their life made a mistake. But I was hoping that they did and I get something to boast about when I returned back to my home.

But no such luck on my side though. I wished it was a little different and I could be writing you about the adventures and misadventures of us in the Kingdom. But when you live with an ill sister yourself, there are certain things you know, and certain things you need to accept that will forever be a part of your awareness. 

I wish it was a little different kind of awareness and I could have remembered you as the beautiful girl I saw that night of the fundraiser in a quiet sassy attitude. I wishes I could have remembered you like that rather than seeing you hooked away on to machines, looking pale as death.

I was afraid that my last memory of you would forever be like that. I was hoping to say goodbye to you before I have to leave but sadly being a prince comes with many obligations including not able to say goodbye to your newest acquired sassy girls. 

I hope someday I can meet you again. If for one last time, before you say goodbye for good. I cannot let that happen. I want to say goodbye to you on my own teams.

And even when I sit here and write this to you, I wish that I could have stayed by your side, I could have held your hand through it. Maybe you would have hit me for telling you this myself. Maybe you wouldn't have believed me. 

 Maybe I could have given you hope maybe you could have given some to me. Hope that I will someday see you again. But I still got twenty-four months to say goodbye to you on my own terms. Just don't give up on me. I know you will not.

Yours always

Callahan

P.S. did you know that Lilies are our national flower, I hope you like them

She put the letter back down putting it back inside the envelop once again. "What's that?" She looked at her mother who was looking at the envelop. "A letter from a very unusual friend?" She was unsure herself to why Prince would ever care about a commoner such as herself. "May I know who he is?" She looked at her mother.

 "How do you know it is a he?" She just smiled in the response. "Do you like something special for dinner?" Geeta asked. "No mom, I would like to come to the institution tomorrow, if it all right with you, and work with you. Maybe tell my professors to give me some work to be done from home, so that I can stay here more with you?" Geeta sat down beside her.

 "But you do love college Avni, aren't you going to get bored sitting here? Beside you should enjoy your life a little more. There is so much left for you to do, so much to see in..." "In such a short time of twenty- four months? "Avni completed Geeta's sentence. 

"No, that was not what I was trying to say. You have so much to see in your life, and giving hope is not one of the things you need to do. We are not you should not" Geeta stroked her hairs fighting herself hard not to cry in front of Avni.