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Sofia
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Being teleported back in her room she huffs, feeling dejected after his obvious wants. Thinking she had finally won to end up being forced back into her own room and he took her wand from her. Then to top it off saying that her lesson with him was cancelled. He was going to get an ear full next time she saw him. Getting up from the floor where she had ended up she walks over to her window seat sitting down and staring up at his tower. Pouting to herself, having mixed feeling inside and experiencing feeling she is not used to.
Being so close to her sorcerer was amazing, remembering how it felt to have his arms wrapped around her. His hand on the back of her head, she closes her eyes and kisses the air still remembering how his lips feel, how warm and soft they were. Her cheeks flush a little as she remembers; she sits in her window watching the tower as the sun starts to rise. The tower starts to glow with the rays of the new day.
There comes a knock on her door breaking her from her thoughts.
"Come in."
Baileywick opens the door and greats her with a smile,
"Good Morning Princess, I have come to tell you that breakfast will be served shortly. Would you like me to summon Violet to come assist with getting ready?"
Shaking her head no, she gets up from her window seat,
"No need, I woke up early and already dressed and ready. I will come to breakfast now and wait, is anyone else awake yet?"
"I am just on my way to make sure your brother is awake, I have already tended to the rest of your family. I will see you down at the dining hall in a few then Princess."
With that he Bows and turns leaving the room, she fallows shortly after walking to the dining hall. Entering the room her Mother and Father were already seated,
"Good morning mother, Good morning father."
She goes and sits in her spot and waits with them. Both her parents greet her, her father continues to talk.
"Sofia, you are 18 now and we need to start talking seriously about your future, we have let you slide for years now. This weekend we are holding a ball and you will choose a suitor then."
"But!"
"No but's about it young lady, we have turned away many of great men. All which surprisingly want your hand. You will give them all a chance and pick the one you want the most. We are not discussing this anymore."
She huffs and looks away, her brother and sister soon join and the meal goes along with her being silent and joining into any of the conversation topics. Once she finishes picking at her food she dismisses herself and storms out of the room.
Running out of the room her feet take her up the flights of stairs to her sorcerer's tower, standing outside his door she is breathing a little heavy from the fast pace she went to get here. Wondering if he would even let her in after what happened earlier. Pushing that fact aside she knocks on her door and waits, hearing nothing she knocks again. Hearing some rustling she hears on the other side of the door a voice, but it wasn't who she expected to hear. Wormwood was the one who was talking.
"Sofia I am assuming, do let yourself in with the spare key. That bubbling idiot left without leaving a window open."
Surprised by this, she retrieves the spare key and lets herself in. Wormwood flies over to the window and claws at it.
"If you could get this for me, I will tell you were Cedric is."
She flushes lightly; thinking is she that easy to read. Going over and opening the window for him.
"Okay now tell me where he went to and when he will return. I wish to talk with him."
He scoffs looking at her,
"After you were trying to have your way with him last night, he got all flustered and stormed out of here like he needed to go somewhere or see someone. I haven't seen him since and have no idea when he will return."
With that he flies out the window leaving her alone in the tower, her face is red, she didn't even consider the fact that wormwood must have been in the room. She turns and hurries out of his tower, locking the door and placing the key back in its place. Going down the stairs two sometimes three at a time, getting to the bottom she rushes around looking for Baileywick, he would know where he went to, he knows everything that happens here in the castle. Turning a corner she finally sees him looking down at his pocket watch.
"Baileywick! I have a question."
Stopping in front of him she is a bit out of breath, he gets a worried expression on his face.
"Princess Sofia, is everything alright?"
Catching her breath she catches her breath,
"Do you know where Cedric is? I just went to his tower to talk to him and he wasn't there, and Wormwood was locked in his tower. I knew something had to be wrong because he always leaves a window opens when he leaves his tower."
"Oh, haven't you heard. He was thrown into the dungeons by the king himself this morning. I am not sure what about."
Her eyes go wide with shock and disbelief, why would he be in there. What had happened was it because of her. She needed answers and she needed them now. Turning and running without another word to Baileywick she went through the halls she went back to straight to her father study. Knocking on his door, he tells her to come in. Walking around the furniture she places her hand on his desk with tears in her eyes which started to form the closer she got to his study. In a shaky voice she starts to talk to him.
"Father, why is Cedric in the dungeons! What could he have done to be placed there and by your hands no less!"
He tries to hold of smirking, pleased that Baileywick was able to lie to Sofia about the reasoning that Cedric was in the dungeons.
"He is in there because he came to me himself and told me he had taken advantage of you, he is a servant you are a princess."
Not able to finish what he was saying Sofia starts to talk over him just about in full blown tears.
"Father, he didn't do no such thing. It was me who was trying to take advantage of him."
Her father raises an eyebrow at her,
"There is no need to lye Sofia; he can't try to take advantage of you ever again."
Her voice gets very shaky and she starts to wipe the tears from her eyes feeling like this is all her fault.
"He didn't though, I love him father. I love Mr. Cedric! This is why I have denied all those suitors this is why I don't want to do the ball this weekend. I don't want any other man but Mr. Cedric."
She falls to the floor covering her face with her hands crying now, feeling like she has just lost everything. Not knowing if she will be able to see her sorcerer again. Rolland gets up from his chair thinking these lies have gone on long enough and he got what he wanted. Walking around, he kneels down next to his daughter placing a hand on her shoulder.
"I am sorry Sofia; I was too harsh in the manner of which I went about this. Cedric is in the dungeons but not as a prisoner, I just wanted to hear from your own mouth that what he told me this morning was the truth."
Her sobs stop but she doesn't remove her face from her hands, Rolland gets up and pulls the rope to summon Baileywick. He gets there soon after,
"Baileywick please take Sofia back to her room; don't let her leave it for the rest of the day."
He bows,
"Yes your majesty."
He helps Sofia up off the floor and she fallows him in silence, unsure of what just happened. Being back in her room she sits there slightly trying to wrap her head around what had happened.
