A Princess For Christmas (Of The Dreams We Seek)

Sixteen

. "I know what are you trying to do your highness" The Prime Minister said. "And it will end up very badly if the king was here..." The queen holds her hand up.

 "He is not here to see is he, and you may think you know your king but there are parts of him you know nothing about. So, don't tell me anything about my own husband. You don't know him like I do." And then she turned around to leave 

"Those flowers which are in Miss Margret's hand please transfer them to Princess Avni's room as your Prince wanted to, if you please" and the maid took those flowers walking inside after the queen. Margret looked at her father 

"Daddy, I have never felt so much insulted like I do now." He hugged her. "I know my Honeypie, I know. And I promise you will have what you want to. I am your father am I not?" He asked. "Yes, you are Daddy, I know you will get me what I want to." And they both looked towards the castle.

Callahan got his horse; she was surprised to see her rider. It had been long since she had seen him. "Hello Lace, how are you doing today, I am going to get to a special person, are you going to help me?" He asked. The Horse made a happy noise.

 "Good girl, let race Lace" He said patting the horse. He mounted his horse, and slowly got out of the stables and once again he was racing towards the city. "You are beautiful. Lace, I know you missed this and you missed me." He said feeling the wind on his face again. 

And that moment he thought about how Avni would feel doing this same thing. Probably she will be afraid since she hasn't seen any horses up close yet. He located the carriage easily. The citizens were surprised to see the Prince in the town. The carriage stopped in front of the museum. He stopped too and tied his horse to the nearby tree.

 "Wait here Lace, ok?" Callahan said feeding her a sugar cube. "Good girl I will be back soon with the Princess." And he too ran towards the museum. Avni didn't wanted to think about what she saw between the Prince and that girl. She shouldn't care about it at all. What she and the Prince actually are, doesn't allows these kinds of thoughts in her mind. But she was thinking and unfortunately, she was thinking a lot.

 "Avni, I know you are upset about what you saw, but my brother..." She shook her head. "It is alright Serafina, your brother and I, we both are two very different people, and I and he are just friends, he can choose to be with anyone he wishes to, as long as he stays happy. I do not care who he chooses to be with. I do not care at all. I just wanted him to be happy, like you do. Now let's get to museum, shall we?" Avni asked. And Serafina didn't objected further. 

"The museum Your highness as you have requested." Avni looked out to see the museum gates. Philip opened the carriage gates helping her and Serafina get down from the carriage. The museum curator was waiting for them. Philip had arranged for a special tour for them. "Thank you, Philip, for doing this for us." Philip bowed and showed her the way.

 "Welcome Princess" The curator said when suddenly some kids started throwing rocks at him. Avni acted fast and pulled him to safety.

"Are you alright sir?" She asked. "Yes, I am fine thanking you, your highness." The man said. "Those children are a nuisance, they only come here to create havoc. Don't worry the guards will deal with them." The curator told them. 

"Why are they do this?" She asked helping him sit down. "No one knows, they just hate good things, they hate museum, they hate everything that ever been done for them." They kept throwing rocks at them. Avni had enough with those kids. "Hey, what do you think you are doing?" Avni shouted when they hit her. She got hurt. Callahan was quick to respond and held her pulling her away from danger.

 "She is your princess, how dare you hurt her?" Callahan asked angrily. "Your highness I am alright." She said. "Shut up, you are not saying a word more" Callahan then looked at Philip. "You are supposed to protect Princess Avni. And you all should be ashamed of yourself, harming an unarmed girl." The kid who was at the front said "You are not our Prince; she is not our princess. If you were who you said you are you would have known. But you don't" Then he turned around to other kids.