A Princess For Christmas (Of The Dreams We Seek)

Thirty- Eight

As she got discharged from the hospital the royal carriage had arrived to take her home. And there all of them including the Queen and Serafina was waiting for her. "Sifi, I can see you have gotten my message." Serafina nodded and said 

"we match, you and I are now both have our own transportation mode." That made Avni smile "We can race sometime to see who is the good operator?" Serafina chuckle "I have lots of practice you would be surprised. But since you decided to come back, he wanted to give me this to you." She handed him something. 

The pendent with his crest on it. "I possibly cannot..." "Not to me tell that to your boyfriend and do not make me the mediator between you two" Serafina said "He is not my boyfriend" Serafina huffed "Why you both deny the obvious? I am eleven you know; I am smart for my age and in two days I am turning twelve." Serafina said rolling her chair away. 

Avi came in after Serafina had gone. "So, you decided to go and claim your throne your highness?" Avi asked. "No, you and I both know, I am not fit for royal life, they are too much uptight for my liking" Avi laughed at that "And yet the Queen says that you could have been the best ruler WinterDell had seen in ages. She likes you; you know that?" 

Avni knew otherwise why she would come to invite her for the Christmas? Not even that, why she would invite her family? Maybe it was out of politeness. Avni doesn't know what she is hiding. But for now, she decided to play along.

 "And thanks to you, we all are going too. I cannot believe you made that request to her. And I cannot believe she accepted and gave us all a royal invitation, not to just the Christmas ball, but to the royal wedding as well." The Royal wedding, how can she forget about it? It will happen on twenty sixth, on the next day of the Christmas.

 And her smile faltered a little. "Look Avni, you do not have to stay for the wedding. We can come back after the ball in the morning on twenty- sixth if it is that much hard for you to watch" She shook her head. "He needs me to be there for him. And I am not going to let him down. I cannot let him down." She told him. 

"Alright, as you wish your highness, whatever you desire we will do as your loyal subjects. If that is what your heart desires most." And they hugged. "Avi you are the best, best friend a girl can ever have" She said. "Now that is a violation of that word, but I accept that as a compliment" Avi replied and both of them laughed.

In the royal palace of WinterDell preparations were going on for Serafina's birthday ball. Callahan himself was looking at the arrangement along with Robert and Philip. Robert had been bonded with Callahan so much in these past few days they had known each other. And then his phone rang which he had kept with Robert for safety purposes. 

He didn't wish to repeat the incident he had few days ago when he very cleverly found out that Miss Margret Atwood is snooping around through his things, and his very personal files, which had pictures of Avni and him. Luckily, he had confiscated that before she can do any harm to those. It was too precious for him to be destroyed that way. 

He cannot let anyone do that, destroy the only memory he had hold dear to him to be destroyed. "Your Highness, Princess Sera had been calling you for sometime sir, seems like they had reached their destination." Callahan took the phone from his hand and picked up the video call. "Hey Sifi, did you do what I ask you to?' Serafina made a scowling face. 

"What no hello to your little sister who is off delivering your love notes to your unsuspecting girlfriends across the world?" Callahan chuckled dryly. "That wasn't a love not Sifi and you are not roaming around the world for nothing, so tell me what did she said?" He asked eagerly waiting for an answer. "She is coming home with us, but we might have some extra people on jet, her friends are coming too." Serafina said in a sad voice.