Chapter 4: Wedding Bells

(Stella's POV)

Well Brandon and I ended up on good terms last night at the ball, until just this morning when I caught him flirting again with some other girl, well not exactly flirting but telling her how pretty she looked and all. What was I thinking trusting him like that? I hear a knock on my door, it's him.

"Hey Stella", he says sweetly while smiling, "How did you sleep?"

"I slept just fine, thank you", I respond rather rudely. He looks at me awkwardly.

"Is something wrong princess?" He asks, princess? Did he just call me princess?

"Nothing," I say hesitating, "I saw you flirting with that girl, Tammy, figures", and I say to him and roll my eyes, while walking into my room. He follows me in and closes the door behind him.

"Are you jealous?" he asks, I turn around to see him grinning with his arms crossed against his chest, he looks…handsome…cute. No, that's exactly what he wants. I step back and lean my back against the rail of the balcony.

"What? Don't be ridiculous, it's just that…well we're getting married in a couple of days and it doesn't seem right that you're flirting with other girls…when…when we're about to get married". I just realized that I repeated the word 'married' twice. I feel my face go red as his grin only becomes wider.

"What?" I ask. He walks towards me until he's right in front of me; only a few centimeters away, and he leans his hands on the bar of the balcony behind me. I lean back a little, and he leans closer to me.

"It's nothing, just that…" he hesitates and leans even farther towards me, so our faces are about two centimeters away,

"You look so cute when you blush", he says, and closes the space between us. I feel his lips pressed on mine, and yet…I do nothing but kiss back. He wraps his arms around my waist seeing that I don't make even the smallest effort to push him away. Somehow my arms end up around his neck. In my head I think, he's so sweet', and then 'no fair, I was mad at him just a little while ago, and now I'm not', he's so hard to stay mad at. Suddenly we both break the kiss, red-faced and out of breath. He smiles at me again. I smile quickly being that I just can't stop blushing and my cheeks are now ruby red.

"I'll try not to flirt with girls anymore okay?" he says, about to kiss me again.

"Try?" I repeat. He grins.

"I'll stop flirting with girls, but I still have one I might not be able to stop flirting with", I feel numb, and what did he just say? He sees that I'm about to say something probably scream but he covers my mouth and says quickly,

"That girl is you", and…let the blushing begin. I smile at him for the first time in a while and he kisses my lips again. He leans closer to me a little more, it feels like we're going to break the rail of the balcony and fall through. Then I break the kiss.

"Brandon, I don't want to be rude but maybe you should leave before someone walks in and see's us", I say grinning the same way he did before. Brandon grins at me.

"Okay, princess, I'll go. See you later" he says. He kisses my cheek quickly, turns around, and leaves my room. I sigh.

(Brandon's POV)

I understand that my being a bit of a flirt sometimes bothers Stella a bit. But I can stop; I need her to trust that I can. I know she's a great girl, it's no wonder my father chose her as my wife, and she's becoming sweeter with me already. So we're off to a good start. I see Sky walking down the hall and quickly catch up with him.

"Hey bro", I say to him.

"Hey, where have you been? I was looking for you", he says.

"Oh I was with Stella, why were you looking for me?" I ask.

"So I'm taking it that you and Stella are getting along again?" he asks.

"Yea we totally are", I say.

"I wanted to let you know that the wedding preparations have already started, the wedding is in two days.

"Two days!"

(With Stella)

"Two days!" I almost yell. Two days? Two days! How can I prepare in only two days, this is happening way too fast I mean…two days!

"Yea, the wedding is in two days", Bloom says, she's been chosen to marry prince Sky of eraklyon.

"I was also pretty surprised when they told me", she continues.

"When they told you? Who are they? Who decided this?" I ask her.

"All twelve of our parents, yours, Brandon's, Layla's, Nabu's, Sky's, and mine. But I heard it was mainly your parents and Brandon's parents", she says, I'm sorry, what? This is more information than I can take.

"Well? What are we waiting for? Let's help plan this wedding, I mean, wedding bells are ringing, right?" she says.

(With Brandon)

"Yes, I mean it's not that I mind, Stella's great, but why so soon father?"

"Well that's exactly it Brandon. You just said yourself that princess Stella is a great girl, and I'm sure she thinks the same about you, so…why not make the wedding sooner?" he asks.

"Well I guess you're right, is Stella okay with this?"

"I don't know if her parents have told her about it already son, but if they have, I hope she took the news alright", he says. I sigh, I really hope she's okay, I wouldn't want her to think it was my idea or anything, especially not now that we get along so well. I'm sure she'll be fine.