Well! It's me again! Yes I know still nobody reads this but me, but its nice to get my voice out there. Did Peter Piper have a wife? Yup thought that up in my spare time. So actually I only got one review but I am a kind and merciful writer with a spring break on her hands and I will do what I want!
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This part of the story I will try to do in third person. Good Luck I say!
The Prince woke up in his overly squishy bed. The curtains were closed so none of the bright light of the day could wake him from his slumber but the room could still be dimly being seen. There was a closet with its door open and inside vast amounts of fat shirts because as I have stated before he was fat.
The room itself was beautifully decorated as a princes room should be. There was a huge full length mirror against one wall and a huge bathroom in the adjacent room.
As soon as the Prince realized where he was you could hear his voice for a mile at least. "Tom, Tom you fool where are you and where's my breakfast."
Now we can see there is another door opening in the wall, this spot which at first looked as much a part of the wall as any other part was in fact the sleeping area for Jimmy.
He has been in the service of the Crown Prince for over four years and the time has certainly taken its toll on the young boy we saw before. Now he does not swing his hands in idleness (did he before?) but carries a tray, however that is not what we notice when we first see him. His face is more grownup looking and he has an air of weariness about him we never saw before.
But though the years seem to have sapped much from him he still has a twinkle in his brown eyes that does not fade.
You may well wonder why the Crown Prince called him Tom. It is because the Prince never bothered to know what his real name was and since he already had a name in his head he just said that. If you were Jimmy would you try to contradict the Crown Prince?
I daresay some of you would have and subsequently lost your lives for that and no one would be the wiser and only your family would mourn. If they even heard about it that is.
Fortunately Jimmy wanted to keep his life so he did nothing and as we see, he is still living. The clothes he is wearing are very nice and they are obviously some of the Crown Prince's old ones because they are as baggy as a small loaf of bread in a giant's pocket, as the age old saying goes.
Jimmy is skinny as a bean pole but one that has beans on it, and his growth spurt must have finally hit because when he gets near the Crown Prince we see he is much taller than His Fatness. Not that Jimmy would coin such a term it was the cooks in the kitchen who first said it. They had good reason to do so when for his meal alone one dinner he ordered twelve courses. They regaled to Jimmy later the amount His Fatness had eaten and it would have equaled what a peasant would eat in a month.
But the stalwart Jimmy would not dare call someone who he served a bad name even if it was true and so he just called him Your Highness or Your Majesty.
Of course now that that long explanation is out of the way and you have skipped it we can go on to what is occurring right now.
"Yes Your Majesty, here it is just as you like it.''
"Finally you horrible servant, I don't even know why we have such servants. They do nothing and waste my father's money."
"Yes Your Highness."
At this juncture in the conversation before Jimmy was going to be hit with passing food chunks that the Crown Prince would spit out of his mouth as he spoke and railed about useless servants, the door to the rest of the castle opened.
The page that opened it was pompous looking and announced in a loud tone "Their royal Majesties King Fredrink and Queen Sally-Mae."
Into the room swept the pair of monarchs bedecked in their finest. The Prince looked nothing like the King except for his eyes; they were the grayest Jimmy had ever seen.
The Queen was obviously the one to which the Crown Prince took after; from her soft pudginess to the discontented look she sported everywhere. Their marriage was an arranged one and sadly the couple never really seemed to see eye to eye.
"Son why are you abed at this late time of the day? You should be at your studies or perfecting your swordsmanship." The King was obviously trying to contain his disappointment in his son's behavior.
"Oh no, that's not what your father meant sweetums. He is just worried that you may be sick. Do you have a temperature?" The Queens double chins swung from side to side as she talked, like a large hound dogs' when he walks.
"Well Mother maybe I am a little sick, but I am taking care to use the old proverb; late to bed and late to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise." The Crown Prince still ate as he talked and the food still splatted on Jimmy, well so much for not having that happen to him today.
"Son I need you to come to the commoner's court. Today is your birthday and I really want you to see the people's problems close up. This is for when you become King in my stead."
"Well Father" he drawled "I understand their problems but I will come because you want me too…. and because I am feeling generous with my time today." This last part was said so low only Jimmy heard it.
Jimmy was standing close to the Crown Prince's bed to see to him the moment he got up. He had his head bowed in respect to the King and Queen. But as soon as the Prince said this he made a movement to take away the tray of food the Prince was just finished with so he would not get yelled at again. If he started the Princes day off wrong then everyone suffered but Jimmy did most of all because of what position he held.
Anyway Jimmy quickly and deftly slipped the tray off the Princes lap to a low table close to the side of the bed. Then he began the process of getting the Princes dressing gown, a throw over kind of outfit. The Prince would decide what he was going to wear that day while wearing this gown. Meanwhile the Royalty were still talking and paying no attention to the goings on of Jimmy.
"Dear, I don't know if he is feeling well enough to go to the court with you and he still has plenty of time, I assure you, to learn." The Queen was quick to say.
"Well even if he is not well enough I still want him to come." Stated the King, in near disgust it looked like. "Besides that's where all his presents are, well most of them anyway."
"Your right," the Queen burbled. "Come sweetums be a dear and get up you really must see all your magnificent presents." So the Queen jiggled back out of the room in a state of great excitement and the King was left to give a parting shot before he too swept out.
"Come son you mustn't keep your mother waiting don't forget her nerves." This was said with a roll of his eyes that was so quick even Jimmy had a hard time seeing it, but it was definitely there all the same.
Here I will give another boring and pointless description because I can. The Royal family had four members.
You have met three of them and in due time if I ever do another chapter for this story there might even be the fourth (this may be a hint for those precious commodities REVIEWS) And now back to our regular scheduled performance.
So there were four members of the family. The king with his commanding presence that had the special "smart ruler" air about it, whatever that means; The Queen with her shall we say it? Yes I think we shall, looming appearance that makes the populous know the kingdom is one of the richest in that part of the world.
The Crown Prince, as we have seen a spoiled, fat, grotesque, slobby, tub of lard. Need I say more?
A random younger sibling that I will totally put in at a later date, yes they will play a part in the random scheme of things and they are actually important.
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