A/N: so it took long, but here is the new chapter…
II. Little surprise
The sun shone brightly trough the large windows, falling over the figure laying under the azure colored sheets. Hay Lin sat up yawning in the soft bed, stretching carefully before looking around in her surroundings. She felt at first a bit unsure as to where she was, but then everything come back to her.
"So, it wasn't a dream." she said to no one in practicular before she climbed out of the warm bed and made her way over to her bags to get unpacked. She was halfway through with the work when her stomach signaled that it wanted to be feed. "Well, it is already eight in the morning so I might as well try to find the kitchen." she accounted before quickly heading for the bathroom to shower and change in to fresh clothes.
Finding the kitchen was actually easier said then done regarding the fact that the palest of Meridian was gigantic. Hay Lin felt already glad that she only walked in to four closets on her search and three bathrooms. She also managed to find the music room as she assumed, hopefully would she find it again because she felt tempted to try out that large piano or one of the violins. She wondered if Elyon would like to play with her a little concert. It certainly would be fun, but she was still on a quest to find the kitchen or at least the dining room. Walking through more corridors Hay Lin eventually found herself in front of a pair of familiar doors, the throne room. Now how again did she end up here? She was about to turn around when the doors suddenly opened, but anstead of the young queen stepped an other person out whom didn't even have to be here. Gray-blue eyes stared suddenly in to black ones for a few minutes before both jumped farther away from each other readying themselves for a fight till…
"And this is exactly the ground why you should inform us in time about your spontaneous ideas." said suddenly a familiar male voice at which both looked at the speaker.
"I see what you mean." Elyon commented sighing while she stood beside Cedric who still had his arms crossed in front of his chest.
"What is he/she doing here?" asked suddenly both Hay Lin and Phobos in union while pointing at the other in an accusing manner.
"I will explain everything by breakfast." was the young queen's only reply as she started to drag the other girl with her in to the opposite direction.
And that was one interesting explaining that went on by breakfast. Elyon explained that she offered Hay Lin to move in to the palace at which both men looked with an 'aren't you two acting a bit hastily' look at the two girls after hearing the whole story. After this was it the young Guardian's turn to stared surprised at her friend. It turned out that the young queen decided to give a few people a new chance. So happened that Miranda enjoyed again her full role as a lady in waiting while her brother was now trying to act as both a more better prince and a brother, though he was for a lifetime banned from the kitchen after nearly burning it down while trying to make pancakes, while Cedric was they booth's consulter. An other fact was that both the lord and queen were together much to the dismay of her brother as Hay Lin noticed by the sight of the now sulking prince who glared at the blonde beside him.
After breakfast dismissed Elyon herself to get some royal paperwork done while Cedric had also work to do with the inspection of the soon approaching harvest festival. This left a still grumpy prince and a slightly surprised Air Guardian alone in the large dining room. There fell not even the slightest sound for a long while till the usually pretty talkative girl couldn't take it anymore, but just about what do you talk about with a man who was once your enemy?
"So, you don't seem to happy about Elyon dating Cedric." she started in lack of topic ideas.
"Of course I don't like it!" Phobos broke out and went to the girl's slight amazement in to a full blown rant with combined hand waving to prove his point. "Cedric comes the nearest to a friend I ever had, but I will not tolerate the sight of that snake touching my sister! Elyon is to young to have such of a relationship, when she is older ten fine, Cedric can be her consort, but NOT NOW!" wow, at least he is now acting like a real older brother…
"How much older?" she asked.
"At least over two hundred." he answered confidently…a really protective older brother.
"Uh…nice…" again fell silence over the two of them.
"It seems that while my sister is busy is it my duty play your escort." Phobos said sighing after a while as he stood up from the table.
"You don't need to make it sound as if it would be such a pain for you." Hay Lin said pouting.
"Fine, what would you like to do?" the prince asked at which the young girl suddenly remembered her idea when she was in the Music room.
"Do you play some king of instrument?" she asked the startled prince grinning.
To be continued…
