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Chapter Two: Chocolate Thief

{Letter #06.}

Dear Riley,

You should be glad you don't have a social season there in New York. It's just an excuse for nobles to dress up and be smug about how noble they are. Though it's different this year since Liam's going to be choosing his future wife. The opening ball is actually a masquerade ball, and I don't know which genius decided that the best way to get to know Liam's suitors was to hide their faces completely.

Yeah, Maxwell managed to get somebody to come. Actually, it was sort of Liam's fault that we even met her. We were leaving the hotel and he accidentally bumped into this woman and spilled her cup of coffee all over her. I haven't seen him look that guilty since that time when we were eight and we stole a bunch of chocolate from the kitchens. It was really funny.

Drake

{Letter #07.}

Dear Chocolate Thief,

I thought you guys were leaving the morning after the bachelor party? That was partly why I said no to Maxwell. The "we have to leave right now" aspect was way too shady. And Liam's allowed to choose a suitor? Good for him!

A masquerade ball sounds really fun, though. Around here, the only people who wear masks are street performers and bank robbers. And the robbers just wear ski masks or something. They never wear those cool masks and black-and-white striped shirts you always see in cartoons. Cartoons really raised my expectations for adulthood, but they were all lies. Oh, the tragedy that is my life.

Riley

{Letter #08.}

Dear Riley,

If you want to talk about tragedy, what about our delayed flight? We had to stay there an extra day, which was why we were still at the hotel and why Liam bumped into that woman. After the incident with the coffee cup, Liam offered to buy her a new outfit as an apology, but she just laughed and said that what happened reminded her of what happened on the very first day of her freshman year.

But he still felt guilty, so he asked if he could buy her a drink. So we went to a club, they talked over drinks, and Maxwell and Tariq made fools of themselves on the dance floor. Then, the next day, that idiot Maxwell showed up at her doorstep and asked her if she wanted to be one of Liam's suitors. Unlike you, she said yes. Maybe idiots are just drawn to each other.

Drake

P.S. – The chocolate was delicious. I regret nothing.

{Letter #09.}

Dear Drake,

No offense to your friend, but Maxwell seems a little too interested in Liam's love life. Is he living vicariously through Liam or something? He should just get his own girlfriend instead of lassoing women and trying to convince them to go to foreign countries with him.

A spilled cup of coffee on the first day of her freshman year? Are you talking about Emily Surname? I love her! Or, well, I love her books, anyway. Did you know that her first novel was published at the end of her sophomore year? It was an autobiographical novel about her freshman year, and the coffee cup incident was in the first chapter. She made her encounter with Becca sound like a western-type showdown at high noon! And you got to meet her? I am so jealous. What's she like?

Riley

{Letter #10.}

Dear Riley,

She's published an autobiographical novel? Did anything in the novel indicate that she might be a gold digger or an assassin? I guess investigating her will be a whole lot easier if she's published a book about her life. But what if she's just using this experience as some sort of publicity stunt? I better keep an eye on her...

What's she like? Clueless. I don't know what she wrote about in her book, but when we talking in the airplane, she seemed oblivious about what she was about to walk into. And when she saw Cordonia for the first time, she liked, and I quote, "the sparkling ocean, the swaying trees..." I almost thought she was going to burst into song. I guess her flowery description makes sense now that I know she's a writer, but for a moment there, I was looking for my parachute.

Drake

(End of Chapter Two.) (T-18/07/17.) (F-23/06/18.)

Chapter Two notes: (B01-C02.) And the identity of Liam's new suitor is revealed... Emily Surname, the MC from The Freshman, is the royal suitor for House Beaumont! After all, we need a female protagonist over there in Cordonia, right? But this will DEFINITELY be a Riley/Drake fanfic, guys :) I am NOT pairing Drake with the Freshman MC! That would just be weird XD

About my main Pixelberry fanfic: Hello! :) If you like Pixelberry's Hollywood U or Pixelberry's Red Carpet Diaries, then I encourage you to read my MC/Hunt fanfic "NYTMC 1: Not Your Typical Meet-Cute." It currently has 219,000 words (64 chapters), and it is written from Thomas Hunt's perspective :D

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