Princesses Don't Perspire - Ch. 3, Common Sense

RandomAngel123: I'll see about doing the other princes views, I was kinda going for just showing you why Nathaniel's such a jerk. I edited the WHOLE story. Thanks for reading again, means a lot to me :) Lots of love back to you.

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Rosalynn POV:
When we begin to walk onto the bridge Prince Gregory and Prince Andrew both tried to offer me help. I want to scoff at the ridiculousness, who needs help stepping onto a bridge. Instead I avoid their eyes and hands and pretend to glance around and capture the scenery. As we are walking down the bridge we are suddenly stopped by a loud yell and an immense olive blockade appearing.

The huge green, smelly, ugly thing growls at us loudly. "You can't cross my bridge." I stare at it with a frown and realize it is a troll. I sigh, this probably isn't going to end well but ever the optimist I smile and hope that I'll convince the troll to let us pass.

"Hello. Nice to meet you." I curtsy at the troll as it just stares at me dumbly and I continue. "I'm Rosalynn and these are my frie-" The troll cuts me off with a roar.

"You can't cross!" I furrow my brow at the troll's rudeness. Interrupting is unkind in itself but screaming over someone is even worse.

"Why not?" I inquire, a little annoyed but keeping calm. All three Princes and the troll stare at me dumbstruck. I want to roll my eyes at them but I remember what my mother would say when I used to roll my eyes when I was younger.

"Princesses do not roll their eyes Rosalynn. Someday your eyes will get stuck like that."

I wait patiently for the troll to respond to me and provide me with an acceptable reason for why we aren't allowed to cross the bridge. Of course the reason he gives is neither acceptable or even close to good.

"Because I said so." The troll snaps thunderously. I force my eyes not to look toward the sky but it was becoming much more difficult.
"That really isn't a good enough reason. If 'because I said so' was a perfectly acceptable explanation I could tell that you had to let me cross just because I said so." I tell him not impressed by his response but rather satisfied with mine. The Princes continue to gawk at me as though my head is on fire. Prince Nathaniel is the only one that looked slightly impressed by my logic. However he didn't stay impressed for long as his face wipes blank the moment he notices my eyes peering over at him.

"Well...uh." The troll begins stupidly, scratching his head in thought. "This be my bridge and- and you can't cross it." He hollars again, this time spitting all over me and breathing into my face. I wrinkle my nose and wipe the spit from my face with my sleeve.

"Who say's it's your bridge?" I don't speak rudely, just questioningly. "I don't see your name on it." I glance around pretending to look for a name carved somewhere into the bridge.

"I builded this bridge." He roars again. He obviously needs grammar classes and anger management classes, all he does is scream at us. But being the polite person I am, I leave this comment in my head and continue to ask another question. I happen to be a very curious person.

"Why would you build a bridge and then not allow anyone to cross it? It seems rather contradictory to me." The princes and troll gape at me. Doesn't anyone use common sense anymore, I sigh. I can tell it is going to be a long day.

"I builded it for a girl." The troll responds wistfully. I nod at him and encourage him to continue his story. "She promise me to come back one day, so I help her and builded bridge but she no back." He responds sadly and his pout resembles one of a child that received no gifts on their birthday. He stomps his foot in his distress as well much as a toddler might.

"And you've just been waiting here this whole time?" I query astonished. "Why haven't you gone to find her? Nothing is forcing you to remain here and waste yours and other people's time." I feel angry; here he was with the chance to go on an adventure and experience the world with nothing but himself preventing him from leaving.

"I never think that. You be smart. Thank you." The troll scratches his head in thought and then beams at me yelling his thanks. He pulls me in for a reeking hug. Prince Andrew steps forward in anger and spits out something along the lines of,

"Don't touch her, you beast." but at the same time Prince Nathaniel speaks over him, which I'm quite grateful for.

"You are quite welcome." Nathaniel practically yells it over Prince Andrew. It is as if he knows Prince Andrew will say something stupid that can cause problems. The troll unleashes me from the uncomfortable hug and begins to dig inside of his pockets. I mouth a 'thank you' over to Nathaniel.

"Here, you take." The troll stuffs a small brown bag in my hand. "It be gift. Goodbye nice lady." The troll skips off the bridge and runs off into the forest yelling loudly, "Monica!"

Prince Gregory and Prince Andrew watch me shocked and unmoving, Nathaniel finally breaks the awkwardness by coughing and speaking.

"What's in the bag?" I shrug and begin to undo the string that are holding the parcel closed. I open it and peak inside, my eyes widen and I let out a small gasp.

I can't believe my eyes. Inside of the bag is...

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Sorry this is a bit of a shorter chapter, a little under 1,000 words. Also sorry it's a cliff hanger...

So I might be a little slow on the updating and I apologize. But school is giving me lots of home work and my friend is moving a couple towns over and transferring schools so I will want to be spending as much time with her as I can.

Thank you all for reading.

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Jenn