OKay, here is chapter 9 of my story.
I also, while I right each chapter of this story now, will start to tell everyone who reads my story to review a good story that I read.

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ONTO THE STORY!


Two Thieves, Two Kings, One Love

Chapter 9

I was walking through the halls of Cair Paravel, with Deliah as we made our way to the library for our princess training.

Deliah was a nervous wreak, fiddling with her dress in one hallway, or fixing her hair in another.

"Quit it!" I said as we stopped outside the library doors. I looked at the door handle and secretly wished that there would be delay so we wouldn't have to train. The door opened quickly and Lucy poked her head out of the door and ushered us inside.

Susan was inside waiting for us. When she saw Deliah and I, Susan put down the thick book she was reading and gave us one of those queenly smiles.

"Now to begin," Susan intructed as she grabbed my arms and made me hold them out and the she came behind and straightened up my posture. She did the same to Deliah. "posture is perfection. You don't want to be caught slouching."

I nodded and while she wasn't looking, I slouched quickly so I could bend my back and get the cramp out of it and quickly stood again when she turned back to me.

"Onto table manners." Susan said as Lucy led us to a table decked out in fancy china plates and cups. "Never talk with your mouth full, always wait your turn to speak, and NEVER slurp your food or drink!" Susan said with a glare in her eye as she said the last line. "Now time for walking!" Susan said clapping her hands together and pulled us over to a gaint changing screens and Lucy pulled out two birdcage dresses with heels.

"What are these, bear traps?" Delaih asked as she examined the bottom of the dresses.

Lucy rolled her eyes and crossed her aarms in the process. "Just put them on."

Man, for a twelve year old, she is bossy.

"And don't forget the shoes." Lucy said in a sing-songy voice, handing us high heels that look three inches.

I took them and gave them a look, smiling sweelty at Susan. "And what are these?" I asked holding them out. "Shoes or weapons?"

Susan glared at me, then pushed me behind a changing screen.

I came out a moment later, hesitently putting my foot on the ground before doing the same with the other one. Susan came forward with four books in her arms and placed one on my head. She then swept her arm out to the window, and I guess she wanted me to balance the book to the window.

The book was tilting off my head when I was halfway to the window. The door to the library opened and out of the cornor of my eye I saw Peter and Edmund walk.

"What are you doing?" A voice close to my ear said, making me quickly turn around, tripping over a lounge chair in the process and falling to the floor, but not before grabbing the velvet curtain of the window and yanking it off the wall.

In the end, I was on the with one shoe on, one shoe off with a thick curtain wrapped around me.

Footsteps echoed on the marble floor and I felt the curtain being pulled away. I looked up to see Peter, Edmund, Susan, Lucy, and Deliah looking down at me with concerned but bemused faces. Peter helped me to my feet, but held me close as I staggered a bit getting up.

I winced at the pain to my ankle.

"I think I twisted my ankle." I said as Edmund picked up the fallen chair and let me sit down on it. Susan examined my foot and nodded her head. She turned to Lucy who unlatched what looked like a small perfume bottle filled with clear liquid.

"This will help." Lucy said walking over to me and holding the bottle up to my mouth. I tilted my head back and let her drop the liquid in my mouth.

It tasted amazing while my pain was subsiding. I looked down at my ankle, but it still looked swollen. I looked back at Lucy with a questioning look.

"In non serious cases it only makes the pain subside, but it doesn't heal completly." Lucy explained as she reattached her cordial. "We need to get you to the infirmery so the healer can bandage it."

Peter sighed and put an arm around my neck while hooking the other under my knees. He then lifted me up off the couch so quickly, I had to hold on to his neck to get from rocking off.

It looked a tad weird with me wearing a gaint dress and him carrying me. Not to mention he's a king and I'm a chambermaid.

"Peter." Susan called to Peter who was halfway to the door. "At least let her change." Peter nodded and gently put me on the floor so Delaih, Susan and Lucy could help me change.

Once I was changed, Peter lifted me up again and carried me to the infirmory.


"So when will your ankle heal, Alex?" Edmund asked, using the nickname he made-up.

I looked up from the half filled bowl of soup to answer Edmund's question, "The centaur nurse said in a couple of weeks it should be healed." Everyone nodded and continued eating.

After supper, I was walking, or should I say limping, back to my room when a noise beside me made me stop. I turned to the source of the noise and found myself face to face with the library doors.

Hesitently, I raised my hand to the door handle and turned the knob and opened the door. I walked in as quietly as I could and I looked around to see what made the noise.

A good size large book was lieing there on the floor. I looked around the room to see if there was anyone in the room that would have pulled out the book, but there was no one.

Walking over to the book, I bent down and examined the cover. It looked tattered, like it been through plenty of wars. It was a dirt brown with parts of the cover peeling off. Two jewels were placed on either side of the book. One was ruby and the other looked like a diamond.

I realized that the ruby jem was my birthstone and the other one represented Deliah's birthstone; a diamond.

July and September.

Carefully, not to damage anything on the cover, I picked up the book and held it in my arms. I tired to open it, but it was somehow locked by an invisible lock.

Footsteps went past the library and I quickly turned to see Peter opening the doors. I shoved the thick book behind my back and put on a smile.

"What are you doing here?" Peter questioned as he lay eyes on me. "Everyone should be in bed."

"I-I-," I stuttered out. "I heard a noise in hear and I came to investigate, but the window was just open." Peter nodded and walked past me to shut the window that I had just noticed was open and turned back to me, but I was already gone.


OKay, that is the ending to Chapter 9. There will be more involving the book and there will be more characters added.

And also, the window thing. It wasn't just open for an excuse...

Think on that.