A Princess For Christmas (Of The Dreams We Seek)

Fourteen

Serafina pushed Margret out. "What are you..." "Not now, Mister Prime Minister's Daughter. Don't you get in between them, they need to be together now. And here is where I can show you what I am and what Avni will be in few hours. I am exercising my Princess powers. Guards please remove Miss Margret from this wing and make sure she doesn't come here without mine or Princess Avni's permission."

 And the guards done their work. Avni and Callahan was unaware of it whole. "That means you do not know what it is mean to have siblings at all. And Serafina is my family ok, you don't get to interfere in it ever again, neither me, or my mother or my sister's life do you understand, you are not fit to be a Princess, so play the games till you are here but leave all the important work to the professionals" Avni felt enraged. 

And before she can think what she was doing she slapped him. Callahan wasn't expecting that. "Don't you dare comment on my family, don't you dare discuss about the things you don't know. And for me being a proper princess Your highness we will see it later who is better in pretending and who is better in doing." Avni said moving back. 

He held her by her waist pulling her closer. "You slapped me? you slapped a Crown Prince? How dare you?" He was enraged. "And you let her insult a Princess, a crown princess, how can you? Not only that you insulted me, my family..." She put hand over her head as she felt a headache creeping in.

 "Avni" Callahan exclaimed as she almost started to fall down. He picked her up in his arms walking towards the bed. And then started to rub her hands and feet. "Come on Princess," He whispered.

He kept doing it again and again. "Come on Princess wake up. You need to wake up." He said. Avni wasn't responding to his calls. He called the doctors in who were in the way to her room. They responded immediately. Callahan was pacing outside her room when his mother came. 

"What happened?" She asked. "I don't know one minute we were talking and then there is Margret and they quarreled and then I may have said somethings to her, she also got too excited and then she fainted on me" Callahan told his Mother.

 "I was there you know; I saw the whole thing and it was not just a friendly fight, you insulted her in the worse ways you could. Cal, you don't know her story yet, you cannot just say those awful things to her." Callahan turned to face his sister. 

"She doesn't understand me too, do you not care about your own brother now?" Callahan was now getting angrier. "Did you ever give her a chance Son? You keep behaving like you are sitting on a high throne, you judged her potential without letting her show it. She is the new one, you are the one who knows how it works Instead of fighting can't you two be friends and let it all go? The grudge, the fighting, the bitterness?" Callahan didn't say a word.

 "Tomorrow at the ball you will be escorting Princess Avni, and you will not be going to say no or disappear on me. Son, this is the time you learn how your father had ruled isn't the only way of ruling." Callahan turned angrier and said "Do not talk about it like you know him at all. Like you care at all." And he walked out of the vicinity.

Margret saw him leaving in hurry. And then she looked at her father who nodded. They watch him walk away to his lonely path, and if they can help it, this will be only path he will know till he lives. 

Callahan walked to his wing and took the drapes away so that he can see in the darkness of the room. An then he put a canvas on the easel. He didn't want to disappoint anyone, but he keeps doing that. Today it was his fault Avni gotten unconscious this way. He cannot seem to do anything right, no matter how much he tried to do it. He had hurt her.

 He had ignored her; he had done everything that he promised himself that he will do if she ever came and visit. Truth is, now she is here and he had seen the real extent of her illness, he does not want to face her.