p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The door Jamie was standing in front of was far too fancy for him to even be able to look at. He knew he had applied for this job and he had gotten it, but he still felt like he wasn't supposed to be here. Even in his borrowed tuxedo, he didn't feel special enough to go inside, much less talk to anyone he might meet in there. But, it was getting cold and getting dark, and if he stood out here any longer a guard might come out and tackle him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"No, no. He'd be fine. It would be fine./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"After summoning his courage, he grabbed the door handle and pushed it open, hoping no one would greet him. When the door was fully pushed aside, he looked into the large main hall and another ornate door on the other side of the hall. The floor was marble, the walls looked to be something like velvet, and the ceiling seemed to be gold with intricate details carved into it. He swallowed hard and forced himself to take a step forward./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Jamie's eyes glanced around the walls, the floor, and the ceiling, scanning for everything that was worth more than his house. He was partially glad that no one was there to judge him, but he wished someone would come in there and give him some sort of instructions. If someone came in there to yell at him and tell him that he wasn't supposed to be there and he had to leave at least he wouldn't be so unsure of himself. Then he could leave and never have to face the prince. When living as a commoner, he was slightly scared of him, as everyone was. Sure, it hadn't happened in centuries but he could still legally use the guillotine on anyone he pleased./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Okay, okay fine, he probably wouldn't send him to the guillotine. But the thought was still scary. Everyone he knew was scared of the prince, they were just two drastically different classes./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Now, however, he wasn't just a citizen, and it felt strange. Since he had gotten the job as Kevin's butler and was actually inside the castle, he was a more important person. He was even considered a member of royal staff, which made sense, but he couldn't seem to be happy about it. Sure, he got to stay in a huge castle and all he had to do in return was fold things and pour tea. Not to mention working for royalty got you a huge paycheck./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""H-hello?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"When Jamie got to the door he couldn't do anything but stare at it. He could just leave, he could just run back and never return, continue living as a normal person. He didn't have to do this./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"No, he had to, he couldn't just leave, not when they were expecting another staff person to be able to do work for them. Jamie had a responsibility to work here, he was supposed to be here. The thought of standing next to Prince Kevin almost all the time was a little intimidating, but if he didn't stand next to him the whole damn day, who would? Then again, who needed someone to stand next to them 24/7?/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"After a minute or two Jamie realized saying 'hello' very quietly to a very thick door probably wouldn't get any response. He was going to have to knock, there was no way around it. He reached out for the brass knocker and brought it down upon the door twice. At first, no one answered, so he reached to knock again, but at that moment the door started to open and he pulled his hand back quickly./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Are you my new butler?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Prince Kevin was as fancy as people described him to be. His dark red jacket was covered with gold and yellow embellishments, and the light reflecting off his crown was blinding. He was also rather attractive, his skin perfectly smooth and his hair gracefully hanging off his head. It's not like he didn't know what he looked like, he had seen him on TV before, but he looked even better in real life. His expression seemed flirtatious and curious, and he greeted him with a smirk. Jamie straightened his posture and folded his arms behind his back as a sign of respect./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Yes, uh..my lord."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The words felt odd leaving his mouth, he didn't feel like he was supposed to be talking to him directly. Even worse, he had hesitated, he even said 'uh', the most unprofessional word in the universe. He felt as if he was going to be punched in the face. When Kevin registered his words, his smirk was far more prevalent./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""With speech skills like that, you could be my jester too."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Kevin laughed softly, trying to use a joke to ease his glaringly obvious nerves. Jamie certainly did look awfully scared of him. His goal was to intimidate him slightly as with all of his staff, but if he was even a little meaner it looked like he was going to start crying./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"When Jamie realized he was just joking, he laughed nervously, doing his best to stand up straight instead of cowering. Kevin thought to himself for a second, trying to remember the information he was given about his new butler. He wasn't the one who hired him, so he was struggling to remember his name./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Your name is Jamie, right?" Kevin scanned his face to make sure he was using the correct name for him. "Welcome, I'll have my guard show you to your room." Kevin cleared his throat before calling him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Derrick! Butler!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Jamie jumped slightly as he shouted, for a prince he expected him to be more professional. Jamie breathed evenly, trying to calm himself down. A second later, a guard walked in behind Kevin, and he certainly didn't look too happy to be there. When he glanced at Kevin he scowled, and his expression didn't get any better when he looked at Jamie. He stood still and nudged his head to instruct Jamie to follow him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Stupid fucking entitled idiot-" The guard muttered under his breath./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Shut up, Derrick!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Maybe people were right about Kevin being a ruthless leader, he had just told his guard to shut up. Although in fairness, it seemed the animosity was mutual./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The guard led him into the room behind Kevin, the throne room. Two large empty thrones sat at the end of the room in front of a set of marble stairs and a sort of stage. There were several musicians holding large instruments talking amongst themselves. From there they went through various hallways and then got to a door with a plaque stating that it was the servants quarters. Derrick twisted the doorknob and opened the door, leading to another hallway with many doors on either side. He turned around to face Jamie, and he re-straightened his posture./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Okay, your duties are as follows:" Derrick reached into his pocket and pulled out a folded up piece of paper and read in the most unenthusiastic voice Jamie had ever heard./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""You must serve tea, fold sheets, bring messages and mail to Kevin, always stand to his left, do anything he asks, wake him up, wait in his room until he falls asleep, dress him-"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Wait, what-"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""-and provide emotional support. You start tomorrow morning. One more thing." Jamie stood idly as he thought of his responsibilities./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""What's that?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Good luck."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Derrick shoved the paper into Jamie's chest and walked away as it dwindled to the floor, muttering obscenities about his prince as he stomped out of the hall./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"After watching him leave, Jamie turned back to see that the doors had small nameplates with the names of their residents. He walked over to the one that said 'Jamie', and opened the door./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The room was beautiful, with a canopy bed and a nice stack of silk pajamas, fluffy towels, and a spare tuxedo. Some better butler must have gotten to the room before him because there wasn't a speck of dirt or anything remotely messy in the room. Everything else was empty for him to fill, the tops of his desks and dressers were devoid of the trinkets he had in his room at home./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Jamie had already gotten to the castle after dinner, so there was no reason to leave his room for anything, but he still had questions about the list of responsibilities the guard had given him. A few of the duties seemed excessive, and he was really hoping he didn't have to do such specific things. Particularly having to dress Kevin. He was a grown man, prince or not he could put on his damn clothes. Besides, Jamie didn't think he'd be able to keep a straight face while seeing him without clothes./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Jamie did his best to memorize the path they had taken to his room, and from there he figured he could just find him standing around somewhere. It's not like Derrick cared about his job very much. On his way out of one of the hallways, he bumped into someone, nearly falling onto his ass. He pulled back, scratching his neck and then looking up to check who he had to apologize to./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""I'm sorry I wasn't looking where I was-" at that moment he heard something clang to the floor./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Upon his brain registering the appearance of who he'd hit, he realized he bumped into Kevin,br /and his crown had fallen onto the floor./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Oh my god, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean t-!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Jamie's voice dwindled and he froze, unable to form a coherent sentence. The silence as Kevin stared at him was deafening, and every second that passed felt like an hour. Kevin then bent down and grabbed his crown, dusted it off, and placed it back on his head. Jamie was uncertain of any punishment he'd receive for this, but he could feel that it wasn't/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Jamie wasn't sure what he was expecting when Kevin registered what happened, but it certainly wasn't to have him smirking at him. Jamie decided he'd still apologize, just in case./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""I'm really sorry, please don't kill me."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Kevin stared at him and then smiled again. Commoners were usually nervous around him, but Jamie was incredibly anxious. It was a little cute, but he felt kind of bad making him scared, and he wasn't even trying. It was just better to comfort him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Relax, I won't kill you. Did you have a question or something?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Kevin stood with his arms folded behind his back, which seemed to be a very important kind of posture around here. Reminded of the sign of respect, he put his arms behind his back as well, trying to make up for knocking off his crown./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""It's okay, did you need something?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Jamie did have a question, but he was hoping to confide in the guard because it would be rather embarrassing to explain to Kevin that he couldn't dress him because he was too gay for that./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Um, I was just wondering if you needed anything?" Kevin chuckled softly as Jamie folded his hands and smiled nervously./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""I'm good, I'll see you tomorrow morning and go over the day's schedule with you. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got work to do."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"At the mention of this so-called work, Kevin didn't seem too happy about it but brought his face back to a slight smile. A big part of being royalty was pretending to be in good spirits all the time./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Have a good night." Kevin turned around but keeping his eyes on Jamie, then continued on his way, going through a door to his left./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Jamie gulped and was jumpy as he turned around to head back to his room, nearly tripping and slamming his face on the floor. His hand was shaking as he turned the knob to walk back into his new room, and in trying to close the door he accidentally slammed it. He uneasily sat on the bed, putting a hand to his face to feel the heat radiating off of it. He could have sworn that Kevin just winked at him as he walked away./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"No, no. He'd be fine. It would be fine./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"After summoning his courage, he grabbed the door handle and pushed it open, hoping no one would greet him. When the door was fully pushed aside, he looked into the large main hall and another ornate door on the other side of the hall. The floor was marble, the walls looked to be something like velvet, and the ceiling seemed to be gold with intricate details carved into it. He swallowed hard and forced himself to take a step forward./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Jamie's eyes glanced around the walls, the floor, and the ceiling, scanning for everything that was worth more than his house. He was partially glad that no one was there to judge him, but he wished someone would come in there and give him some sort of instructions. If someone came in there to yell at him and tell him that he wasn't supposed to be there and he had to leave at least he wouldn't be so unsure of himself. Then he could leave and never have to face the prince. When living as a commoner, he was slightly scared of him, as everyone was. Sure, it hadn't happened in centuries but he could still legally use the guillotine on anyone he pleased./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Okay, okay fine, he probably wouldn't send him to the guillotine. But the thought was still scary. Everyone he knew was scared of the prince, they were just two drastically different classes./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Now, however, he wasn't just a citizen, and it felt strange. Since he had gotten the job as Kevin's butler and was actually inside the castle, he was a more important person. He was even considered a member of royal staff, which made sense, but he couldn't seem to be happy about it. Sure, he got to stay in a huge castle and all he had to do in return was fold things and pour tea. Not to mention working for royalty got you a huge paycheck./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""H-hello?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"When Jamie got to the door he couldn't do anything but stare at it. He could just leave, he could just run back and never return, continue living as a normal person. He didn't have to do this./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"No, he had to, he couldn't just leave, not when they were expecting another staff person to be able to do work for them. Jamie had a responsibility to work here, he was supposed to be here. The thought of standing next to Prince Kevin almost all the time was a little intimidating, but if he didn't stand next to him the whole damn day, who would? Then again, who needed someone to stand next to them 24/7?/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"After a minute or two Jamie realized saying 'hello' very quietly to a very thick door probably wouldn't get any response. He was going to have to knock, there was no way around it. He reached out for the brass knocker and brought it down upon the door twice. At first, no one answered, so he reached to knock again, but at that moment the door started to open and he pulled his hand back quickly./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Are you my new butler?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Prince Kevin was as fancy as people described him to be. His dark red jacket was covered with gold and yellow embellishments, and the light reflecting off his crown was blinding. He was also rather attractive, his skin perfectly smooth and his hair gracefully hanging off his head. It's not like he didn't know what he looked like, he had seen him on TV before, but he looked even better in real life. His expression seemed flirtatious and curious, and he greeted him with a smirk. Jamie straightened his posture and folded his arms behind his back as a sign of respect./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Yes, uh..my lord."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The words felt odd leaving his mouth, he didn't feel like he was supposed to be talking to him directly. Even worse, he had hesitated, he even said 'uh', the most unprofessional word in the universe. He felt as if he was going to be punched in the face. When Kevin registered his words, his smirk was far more prevalent./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""With speech skills like that, you could be my jester too."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Kevin laughed softly, trying to use a joke to ease his glaringly obvious nerves. Jamie certainly did look awfully scared of him. His goal was to intimidate him slightly as with all of his staff, but if he was even a little meaner it looked like he was going to start crying./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"When Jamie realized he was just joking, he laughed nervously, doing his best to stand up straight instead of cowering. Kevin thought to himself for a second, trying to remember the information he was given about his new butler. He wasn't the one who hired him, so he was struggling to remember his name./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Your name is Jamie, right?" Kevin scanned his face to make sure he was using the correct name for him. "Welcome, I'll have my guard show you to your room." Kevin cleared his throat before calling him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Derrick! Butler!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Jamie jumped slightly as he shouted, for a prince he expected him to be more professional. Jamie breathed evenly, trying to calm himself down. A second later, a guard walked in behind Kevin, and he certainly didn't look too happy to be there. When he glanced at Kevin he scowled, and his expression didn't get any better when he looked at Jamie. He stood still and nudged his head to instruct Jamie to follow him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Stupid fucking entitled idiot-" The guard muttered under his breath./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Shut up, Derrick!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Maybe people were right about Kevin being a ruthless leader, he had just told his guard to shut up. Although in fairness, it seemed the animosity was mutual./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The guard led him into the room behind Kevin, the throne room. Two large empty thrones sat at the end of the room in front of a set of marble stairs and a sort of stage. There were several musicians holding large instruments talking amongst themselves. From there they went through various hallways and then got to a door with a plaque stating that it was the servants quarters. Derrick twisted the doorknob and opened the door, leading to another hallway with many doors on either side. He turned around to face Jamie, and he re-straightened his posture./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Okay, your duties are as follows:" Derrick reached into his pocket and pulled out a folded up piece of paper and read in the most unenthusiastic voice Jamie had ever heard./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""You must serve tea, fold sheets, bring messages and mail to Kevin, always stand to his left, do anything he asks, wake him up, wait in his room until he falls asleep, dress him-"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Wait, what-"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""-and provide emotional support. You start tomorrow morning. One more thing." Jamie stood idly as he thought of his responsibilities./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""What's that?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Good luck."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Derrick shoved the paper into Jamie's chest and walked away as it dwindled to the floor, muttering obscenities about his prince as he stomped out of the hall./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"After watching him leave, Jamie turned back to see that the doors had small nameplates with the names of their residents. He walked over to the one that said 'Jamie', and opened the door./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The room was beautiful, with a canopy bed and a nice stack of silk pajamas, fluffy towels, and a spare tuxedo. Some better butler must have gotten to the room before him because there wasn't a speck of dirt or anything remotely messy in the room. Everything else was empty for him to fill, the tops of his desks and dressers were devoid of the trinkets he had in his room at home./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Jamie had already gotten to the castle after dinner, so there was no reason to leave his room for anything, but he still had questions about the list of responsibilities the guard had given him. A few of the duties seemed excessive, and he was really hoping he didn't have to do such specific things. Particularly having to dress Kevin. He was a grown man, prince or not he could put on his damn clothes. Besides, Jamie didn't think he'd be able to keep a straight face while seeing him without clothes./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Jamie did his best to memorize the path they had taken to his room, and from there he figured he could just find him standing around somewhere. It's not like Derrick cared about his job very much. On his way out of one of the hallways, he bumped into someone, nearly falling onto his ass. He pulled back, scratching his neck and then looking up to check who he had to apologize to./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""I'm sorry I wasn't looking where I was-" at that moment he heard something clang to the floor./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Upon his brain registering the appearance of who he'd hit, he realized he bumped into Kevin,br /and his crown had fallen onto the floor./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Oh my god, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean t-!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Jamie's voice dwindled and he froze, unable to form a coherent sentence. The silence as Kevin stared at him was deafening, and every second that passed felt like an hour. Kevin then bent down and grabbed his crown, dusted it off, and placed it back on his head. Jamie was uncertain of any punishment he'd receive for this, but he could feel that it wasn't/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Jamie wasn't sure what he was expecting when Kevin registered what happened, but it certainly wasn't to have him smirking at him. Jamie decided he'd still apologize, just in case./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""I'm really sorry, please don't kill me."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Kevin stared at him and then smiled again. Commoners were usually nervous around him, but Jamie was incredibly anxious. It was a little cute, but he felt kind of bad making him scared, and he wasn't even trying. It was just better to comfort him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Relax, I won't kill you. Did you have a question or something?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Kevin stood with his arms folded behind his back, which seemed to be a very important kind of posture around here. Reminded of the sign of respect, he put his arms behind his back as well, trying to make up for knocking off his crown./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""It's okay, did you need something?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Jamie did have a question, but he was hoping to confide in the guard because it would be rather embarrassing to explain to Kevin that he couldn't dress him because he was too gay for that./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Um, I was just wondering if you needed anything?" Kevin chuckled softly as Jamie folded his hands and smiled nervously./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""I'm good, I'll see you tomorrow morning and go over the day's schedule with you. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got work to do."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"At the mention of this so-called work, Kevin didn't seem too happy about it but brought his face back to a slight smile. A big part of being royalty was pretending to be in good spirits all the time./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Have a good night." Kevin turned around but keeping his eyes on Jamie, then continued on his way, going through a door to his left./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Jamie gulped and was jumpy as he turned around to head back to his room, nearly tripping and slamming his face on the floor. His hand was shaking as he turned the knob to walk back into his new room, and in trying to close the door he accidentally slammed it. He uneasily sat on the bed, putting a hand to his face to feel the heat radiating off of it. He could have sworn that Kevin just winked at him as he walked away./p