Happy Valentine's Day! This is a story consisting of song-shots for the princes, with the exception of Max, because I don't know what happens in his route, so why bother with a prince I don't know about? The other seven, I know more about, and we're going in order of their releases, okay? These are essentially love songs about their particular situation with the MC (Me), and the songs reflect how they feel about it.
First off, Hayden A. Spencer with "Accidentally In Love" by Counting Crows!
In Phillip Kingdom, there was a beautiful gala event in remembrance of the late King Wilfred, the former King of Phillip, and the grandfather of the current crown prince. The gala was in a ballroom where every guest was of higher nobility or relatives of the royal family. The purpose of the event was a private memorial service for King Wilfred's passing.
Prince Hayden A. Spencer, the crown prince of the royal family, thus heir to the throne, was standing in the ballroom with a glass of champagne, mingling with the other nobles and guests.
Hayden was almost the spitting image of his grandfather in his youth; blond hair, blue eyes, and pale skin, albeit his hair was shorter and his bangs were slicked to the left as opposed to the right. He kept a cool, calm, and collected expression on his face, but inside, he was feeling anxious and kept sneaking glances at a particular table.
The dessert table was packed; so many people were around the table to try and get a slice of the cake that no one could see what was there. However, it was not the cake that he was looking at. Hayden was secretly staring at the Nobel Michel pastry chef he hired for the job, Carly.
"Highness? Your Highness?" Someone asked, and then Hayden snapped out of his daze and turned back to the noble he was speaking to.
"As I was saying… My daughter would be a perfect candidate for your bride…" The nobleman began, but Hayden once again tuned out. He was not interested in getting married.
At least, not yet. Carly had caught his eye with her personality; sure, she was chosen as a candidate bride at random, but after meeting her, there was some connection that he could not explain.
Yet, Loyd, his butler, would often tease him about things regarding Carly, but Hayden would never take the bait no matter what. While Hayden was trained to be able to have a good poker face, only a few people were able to see through the facade, and Loyd was one of them. The others were his childhood friends, Princes Kuon J. Cashiraghi of Oriens, Sieg Lieben of Dresvan, and Oliver Button of Altaria.
After a while, Hayden knew that she had the talent he needed for the Nobel Expo team, and decided that he wanted her to participate. However, he knew that asking her would be the easy part, because she would jump at the opportunity. The hard part, on the other hand, was getting in contact with her without causing a commotion that would put the both of them in a tough spot.
He was not sure how, but he knew that he would find a way to ask her to join the team, but Hayden was about to be in for something more after it happened.
Some time after Carly joined the Phillip pastry chef team for the Nobel Expo, she caught a cold and then she wound up sleeping in the same room - and bed - as Hayden himself. Hayden had overheard that there was a scandal involving his supposed older half-brother, Lord Adam Parker, and she was going to resign from the team as a result.
Hayden had no intention of letting her quit, and soon found himself falling in love with her when he realized how brave she was. He decided to have Loyd look into the scandal as well as keeping an eye on Carly's movements by keeping her at the castle because her apartment would likely be swarmed by paparazzi. He knew that Carly needed protection, and he felt compelled to do the job.
Some time later, there was to be a boat special where there was going to be a commercial promoting the Expo being filmed, and Hayden was going to join in at Oliver's request. To keep the drama down, it was decided Carly would be brought along as a "maid", much to her and Hayden's consternation.
A few days before they were due to leave, Hayden went to the stables to go ride a horse to clear his mind.
"Come on…" Hayden began, as he started to ride the horse.
He went to a lake nearby Phillip Castle and he felt really annoyed about everything. He had realized that he had fallen for Carly, but felt like it was an impossible romance.
"I don't get why this is so hard for me…" Hayden muttered as he sat down while the horse drank some water.
Music started to play, and then Carly approached from behind a tree with a bunch of basil in her hand. She came over to him, sat down, and then she asked him, "What's bothering you?"
Hayden, seeing his crush, blushed, and then he denied anything was wrong and then he got up and left, while feeling a little flustered at the sight of the one he loved being so close to him.
He stopped some ways away from Carly, and secretly glanced back before starting to sing, "So she said 'what's the problem, baby?' What's the problem, I don't know, well maybe I'm in love (love)."
Hayden was soon on one of the balconies at Chateau Phillip and was trying to have some privacy; he hated the fact that all eyes were on him no matter what he tried, so the room he was in was the only one where he could just lock the door and let it go.
Think about it every time I think about it, can't stop thinking 'bout it," Hayden sang, as he looked out to the scene and he felt his face get a little warmer. "How much longer will it take to cure this?"
He turned around and leaned on the railing while ruffling his hair in annoyance and frustration, "Just to cure it 'cause I can't ignore it if its love (love)."
Hayden looked into the mirror in his room and saw his reflection, but it was warped into someone who had gotten on a sugar high and just crashed, as well as hearts fluttering around his brain.
"Makes me wanna turn around and face me but I don't know nothing 'bout love! Awww!" Hayden sang, as he saw what had he had become.
"Come on, come on, turn a little faster! Come one, come on! The world will follow after! Come on, come on, cause everybody's after love!" Hayden sang, as he remembered the first dance he and Carly shared together, causing him to blush, and how all eyes were on him and Carly that night.
"So I said I'm a snowball running." Hayden sang, as he imagined himself log rolling while on top of a large snowball and then he ran into a tree that was in the springtime weather.
"Running down into the spring that's coming all this love!" Hayden sang, while looking around and seeing that love was in the air during springtime, and he was blushing as he thought of a nice day with him as a normal man with Carly, his crush, sitting next to time.
"Melting under blue skies, belting out sunlight, shimmering love." The sky was a nice, robin egg blue and the sun was shinning intensely. Hayden blushed as he felt his heart beating rapidly.
The scene changed to Hayden and Carly sticking to each other's sides at night; they were each eating a strawberry ice cream cone, and they were enjoying each other's company. They made extra sure that no one would recognize Hayden out in public the way they were, especially without Loyd or a bodyguard there.
"Well baby I surrender to the strawberry ice cream. Never ever end of all this love," Hayden sang, as he pulled Carly by shoulder to bring her closer. "Well I didn't mean to do it, but there's no escaping your love. Awww!"
He kissed Carly on the cheek, causing her to blush, and smile peacefully.
However, rain started to come down, and then Hayden saw a flash of lightning in the distance. Knowing that they had to get out of there, he and Carly dumped their ice cream in the trash bin and started to make a run for it.
"These lines of lightning mean we're never alone, never alone, no, no!" Hayden sang, as he led Carly to the car where Loyd was waiting. The car sped off to bring them back to the Chateau safely.
"Come on, come on, move a little closer," Hayden sang, as he pulled Carly closer to him by the shoulder. "Come on, come on, I wanna hear you whisper. Come on, come on, settle down inside my love."
A few days later, the sun was once again shinning, so Hayden took Carly out of the castle and brought her riding. They were once again out in the fields, trying to have a riding lesson. Unfortunately for Carly, she struggled with the riding. She could not mount the horse, so Hayden had to walk her through it.
"Come on come on, jump a little higher," Hayden sang, trying to encourage Carly to mount the horse. "Come on, come on, if you feel a little lighter."
Carly ended up slipping and falling off the horse; Hayden caught her, while singing, "Come on, come on, we were once upon a time in love."
They landed on the ground with Carly lying on top of Hayden. As she got up, they locked eyes, and they were caught in each other's gaze. They were blushing as they felt their hearts beating.
"We're accidentally in love. Accidentally in love. Accidentally in love. Accidentally in love. Accidentally in love. Accidentally in love. Accidentally in love. Accidentally in love," Hayden sang, as he helped Carly get up and he finally realized that he had fallen in love. "Accidentally."
He flashed back to all of the memories that he and Carly had together, from the faux marriage interview, to sharing a sandwich together, from the scandal with Adam, from the first time they rode horses together, to their visit to Yosef in the hospital, and everything from the good, bad, and indifferent from their first meeting, all while his mind was singing, "I'm in love (I'm in love) I'm in love (I'm in love) I'm in love (I'm in love). Accidentally."
Hayden pulled Carly closer to him as they stood up, as he felt his heart throb once again.
"I'm in love (I'm in love), I'm in love (I'm in love), I'm in love (I'm in love). Accidentally." Hayden sang, as he felt his heart sing at the sight of his crush.
"Come on come on, spin a little tighter." Hayden sang, as he and Carly were dancing with each other at a masquerade ball at Nobel Michel that came up later. They then went out to the balcony.
"Come on come on, and the world's a little brighter." Hayden sang, as the fireworks started.
"Come on, come on, just get yourself inside her love…" Hayden sang, as he pulled Carly close to him, and then he kissed her on the lips as the fireworks continued. "I'm in love."
After they kissed, Hayden hugged Carly close to him; she hugged back, before they began talking and discussing their plans to go to Phillip Kingdom so she can meet his folks.
There we go! That's a wrap for this chapter! Next on the list, we'll have that gloomy, brooding, Oriensian Prince that won't budge on his unwillingness to become King, Kuon! As for the song, that's my little secret. 0_^