The next day sat Anita down at the breakfast table. For her, last night felt like a dream come true. She couldn't believe it that she finally was going to marry Victor.
"Good morning." sounded and Victor sat down next to her. He gave her a kiss on her cheek.
"Good morning." Anita said with a smile.
"You still can't believe it, can you?" Victor asked and Anita nodded.
"It's…it's so strange. I dreamt for it for a long time and now we're finally going to get married."
Victor smiled. "I know what you mean." he said.
"Good morning." Mary Lynn and Arthur said.
"Good morning." Anita and Victor said with a smile.
"There will be a lot of things needed to be arrange." Arthur said. "I think it's the best that you start immediately with the preparations of the wedding."
"Of course." Anita said and she looked to her parents. "But there is just one thing I want to talk about."
"What is it?" Mary Lynn asked.
"I don't want to become a queen after I got married. I mean, I don't know a thing about Knightendale and I don't want to say goodbye to U.Z.Z."
Arthur smiled. "You don't have to." he said. "Your mother and I talked about it."
"It's written in the law that, when the king or queen dies, the prince and princess need to become king and queen. Because no one may ever rule this kingdom alone." Mary Lynn said. "And we're both healthy, so it'll take years before anything like that will happen. So you two have all the time of the world to learn everything about Knightendale and the duties of the king and queen."
"But you can't wait too long with that. Because you don't know what can happen."
Anita smiled. "Thank you." she said.
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"So, we won't become king and queen after our wedding." Victor said with a smile. A few hours went by and Victor and Anita made a list of the things that needed to be done for the wedding. They already ordered the flowers, the church knew about the wedding and later that afternoon, they would look for a nice wedding-cake. The clothes for the wedding would come tomorrow, just like the catering and Victor would order the bouquet for Anita. He wanted to be a little surprise, but Anita could already guess which colors it would have; white and purple.
Anita smiled. "Aren't you happy? We can still work at U.Z.Z. and we can live in London together." and she sat down at the lunch table. "We need to make a list about who we are going to invite for the wedding."
Victor sat down next to her. "Well, my mother and our friends of U.Z.Z. and your parents are going to invite their loyal friends."
Anita looked to Victor. "We didn't tell your mother that we are going to get married."
"What do you say about calling her now?" and Victor grabbed his communicator and dialed his mother's number.
"Mildred Volt." sounded a little bit later.
"Hey, mum." Victor said with a smile.
"Hey, Victor, how are you?"
"I'm fine. But Anita wants to tell you something." Victor gave Anita a wink and Anita smiled.
"Anita? What's wrong?" Mildred asked, a little bit worried.
"Hey, Mildred. What do you say about becoming the mother-in-law of the princess of Knightendale?"
A little silence fell. "Victor, did you ask Anita to marry you?"
Victor smiled. "More or less." he said.
"So you two know about it."
"Yeah." Anita and Victor said.
Anita looked to Victor. "What do you think of spending this Christmas in Knightendale? I'll send our royal jet to London and you can be here at the end of this afternoon."
"Well, alright." Mildred said. "But when is the marriage?"
"At 24th of December. So you can help us with some things for the wedding." Victor said.
"I'm going to look for a pilot right now and I think he'll be there at two 'o clock." Anita said.
"Okay, I'll see you both later."
Victor and Anita said goodbye and James walked into the room.
"I heard about your plan, Anita. I called the pilot already." James said.
Anita smiled. "Thank you, James." she said. "Does he know he have to be there at two 'o clock?"
James nodded. "He's going to take it easy. It's just an hour and a half to fly to London and it's an hour earlier there. I'll bring you your lunch." and he walked away.
Anita looked to Victor. "We need to think when we're going to learn about Knightendale. We need to have enough time for that."
Victor nodded. "I was thinking about that too, but I wouldn't know when we would going to do that. I mean, I don't want to spoil our honeymoon with learning and for the rest of the time, I wouldn't know when."
James came back into the room. "May I make a suggestion?" he said.
"Sure." Anita said.
"What about during your pregnancy? You have to stop working when you're six or seven months pregnant. So in that period, you could learn everything about Knightendale."
"That's a wonderful idea!" Victor said. "I can take those days off, so we can be together and learn together."
"Okay." Anita said with a smile. "That's settled. Now the rest of the things."
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It was five 'o clock when Anita and Victor walked to the tearoom.
"I thought your mother would be here by now." Anita said.
"James said that there were some troubles at the airport in London. It was too cloudy and there was thick fog. But she'll be here any minute." Victor said when they walked into the tearoom.
"So, how is everything going?" Mary Lynn asked.
"We did the most of the things today, so we don't have to rush the last days." Anita said and she and Victor sat down at the chairs in the room.
"Anita, Victor, there is someone who wants to see you." James said when he walked into the room.
Victor smiled. "Let her in."
James stepped away and Mildred came into the room.
"Mildred?" Arthur and Mary Lynn said and Mildred smiled.
"Your Majesties." she said.
Arthur walked to Mildred. "How nice to see you again." and he gave her a hug. "How are you?"
"Wonderful, since I knew that my son is going to become a king." Mildred laughed and Arthur smiled.
"Hi, Mildred." Mary Lynn said and she gave Mildred a hug too. "It's wonderful to see you again."
"It's nice to see you two again." Mildred said and she looked to Victor and Anita. "Congratulations." and she gave Anita and Victor a hug. "I'm really glad that you two are going to marry each other."
"Thanks, mum." Victor said. "There would be no-one else but Anita I wanted to marry."
Anita smiled. "Thank you." she said to both Victor and Mildred.
"But how did you come here?" Arthur asked.
"The children were so nice to ask me and they sent a private jet to London." Mildred said when she sat down in a chair.
"And you two didn't say a thing." Arthur said and he looked to Victor and Anita.
"We wanted to be a surprise for you two." Anita said.
"Well, it's a wonderful surprise." Mary Lynn said. "You haven't changed a bit."
Mildred smiled. "Besides my new haircut and all those wrinkles."
"You still look wonderful." Arthur said with a smile.
"If I were you, I would be careful of what you said. Those paparazzi will think I'm your mistress." Mildred teased.
"I wouldn't do such a thing." Arthur said with a smile. "Although they thought that you was my girlfriend for some years."
Mildred started to laugh. "We argued about everything and anything." she said. "If we would have a relationship, it would end after a year."
Mary Lynn laughed. "Was it that bad?" she asked and Arthur and Mildred nodded.
"Really?" Anita asked.
"We always argued about how to catch the bad-guy." Mildred said.
"And how we would chase him." Arthur said
"Just like we said, about everything." they both said, causing Victor and Anita to laugh.
"But, if we didn't, we wouldn't find our true love." Arthur said and Mildred nodded.
"And we wouldn't exist." Victor said.
"So we wouldn't get married in a few days." Anita said with a smile.
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That evening was Anita in her bedroom. She was pulling on her favorite purple dress. After dinner, she found a note of Victor. He wanted her to pull on her most beautiful dress and to meet him in the garden, where they both kissed each-other.
"Princess, can I come in?" a young female voice said and a maid came into the room. "What can I do for you?"
"I heard from James that you spent some years at the hairdresser's." Anita said and the young woman nodded. "Can you do my hair?"
"I'd love to." the maid said and Anita sat down in the chair.
"What is your name?" Anita asked, while the maid was doing her hair.
"Vanessa." was the answer.
"Vanessa." Anita repeated. "Didn't you wear my purple dress on the ball?"
Vanessa nodded. "I was very carefully with it, miss."
"I know, I was just wondering." Anita smiled. "It's still in one piece."
Vanessa smiled and a little bit later looked Anita in the mirror.
"It's wonderful, thank you." Anita said and she made her way to the garden.
Victor was waiting at the fountain. He just wanted to do something special. They worked so hard on the preparations today, that he wanted to give Anita a little surprise. He looked up and saw Anita walking to him. She looked beautiful in her purple dress and her hair pinned up together.
"Hey." she whispered. The magic of this evening just made her whispering.
"Hey." Victor whispered back. "You look wonderful."
"Thank you." Anita sat down next to Victor. "Why did you want me to be here?"
"Because I have a little surprise for you." Victor said with a smile.
"Like what?"
Victor bended towards Anita. "I love you." he whispered and he gave her a kiss on her lips.
Anita smiled. "I love you too." she whispered back. It was totally different to say it to the man you love than to say it to someone you don't know who he is.
"Because we shared our first kiss here, I wanted to give you something else that's really special." Victor said. "I didn't really ask you, so…" Victor came off the edge of the fountain, went down on one knee and grabbed gently her hand. "Anita Guinevere Knight, do you want to marry me?" he asked while he grabbed a little box out of his jacket. He opened the box and a ring with a small diamond appeared.
Anita smiled. "I do." she said and Victor placed the ring on her finger. Victor got up and he gave Anita another kiss on her lips.
"Why did you do this?" Anita asked when Victor sat down next to her.
"I always wanted to ask you like this and it's always nice to have an engagement ring, right?"
Anita chuckled. "It's really beautiful." she whispered and she placed her head on Victor's shoulder.
Meanwhile, Mildred looked to the young couple. Somehow she just knew that Victor and Anita were made for each other, since the first time she saw the two of them together, working on the wedgie-attack case. There was something special between them.
"Hey, what's going on?" sounded and Mary Lynn walked into the room.
"Victor asked Anita." Mildred said with a smile. "Again."
"Well, he didn't really ask her yesterday." Mary Lynn said.
"The ball, huh." Mildred said and Mary Lynn nodded. She told Mildred about the ball when she was going to move to Knightendale. The whole reason why she was going to Knightendale, to be with Arthur.
"And now he really asked her." Mary Lynn said. She looked out of the window. Victor and Anita looked so wonderful together.
"I would never think that our children would marry each other." Mildred said with smile.
"Me neither." Mary Lynn laughed. "But I have to admit I thought about it after Anita was born."
"That it would be funny." Mildred said and Mary Lynn nodded.
"And now it's going to be true." she said.
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