When Alanna returned to the palace after going to the Black City with Jonathan during the vacation that they got to take together. Alanna was worried that some things might change between her and Jon now that he had found out her one and only secret. Although it didn't seem to happen that way, Jon seemed to just treat her the same as he always had. Gary had always been a nice guy and she had wanted to be his squire, but she really could not say "NO" to Jon and then turn around and say "YES" to Gary it just was not fair to Jon, after all he had already told his uncle that he had wanted Alan to be his squire.
Alanna made it up to her room with out anyone seeing her, which made here very happy she was going to have to pay a visit to Duke Gareth soon and she wished that it would have to be never. But by the time they got back he would probably not find out about what she had done until the morning which means it would be morning before he wanted to see her. She lay in bed thinking about what was going to happen during this. She had to come up with some reason why she went with Jon to the Black City, and the fact that he had woken her up would not be a good one. She did not want to get Jon into trouble so she had to come up with another thing that, the fact that she went with Jon might make it a bit harder for her to come up with an excuse. Yet she would have to. She did wonder what Jon was going to tell him; maybe if she could talk to him before she had to go talk to the Duke it might make her live a tiny bit easier. She wondered if the lights out bell had already rung yet? If it had and she was caught out of her room she would be in even bigger trouble and she really did not want that to happen. When she actually thought about it and realized that she really couldn't be in anymore trouble she got up, and walked to Jon's room which was not all that far away from her room. When she got to his room she could still see the light on in it. She had had way too much on her mind to really listen to hear if she could voices. When she opened the door it was funny because Jon was just about to turn out the lights. He welcomed her into the room where she could sit down and talk to him if anyone actually said anything Jon would just tell him or her that they were talking about something that was important.
When they talked she always left thinking something different than when they started their conversation. She did like that, but sometimes Jon thought too much like being a prince and she could not think like that she could not get away with everything. She wanted to know who knew about his choice to choose her? Who would Gary have to choose? She did worry about him, not that she did not worry about Raoul. She did worry about both of them, but Jon had only talked about Gary when they had talked the night before. She knew that Raoul did care about her but was it that he did not want to start a fight with Jon and Gary to have her as his squire as well. All these questions did flood her mind and the only one that could answer them was Jon. She really did enjoy having him around and now she was going to have him around even more seeing how the mid-winter festival they were going to move into rooms that were connected to each other.
Author's Notes: Hope you like the start… Does she actually get caught when she is sitting there talking to Jon? Does Jon actually try anything when they are alone.