Hey! :D Hope you guys like the chapter, most of it wasn't planned but I do have a plan for this story and I'll hopefully be sticking to it.

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lacostena2: Casper is kind and loving but your opinion of him might change a little in this chapter. ;)

Sora Kalopsia: I'm glad you liked their date.

Star Guardian Jinx: I have something planned for Taylor and the girls later on in the story, probably with the Elite. I'm glad you like the moment with Eida. :)

I had overslept. I wasn't surprised though and I was pretty sure that Miles had too. The meeting had lasted longer than expected and when I had finally gotten to sleep it was around half four.

Said meeting was filled with boring conversations talking about recent rebel activities around the south. People were also complaining that they felt unsafe in their homes because of the threats sent to the palace. Ever since the Selection started they had been sending twice as much and mother was growing nervous.

After some deciding we had agreed to do the Report. We were supposed to do one anyway for the Selection and more people would be focused on that than the recent attack.

Since I had got back late, when I had woken I had spent most of my time lounging around my room that day and not paying attention to any responsibilities I had. It was getting close to dinner and even though a maid had brought some food to me my mother had said they were going to sit with the Selected since there was only twenty girls left.

I sighed and got up. How would they react? I mean this could be pretty nerve wracking to them.

Wait, wait, wait. I have a date for dinner. Rescheduling would just make me seem like a jerk.

I groaned and walked out of my room avoiding a maid coming in my direction. She was probably going to ask me something about the Selection. Whilst I was getting away though I bumped into Kate and Lady Ina.

"Sorry Kate" I uttered and then turned to Lady Ina and voiced a short apology.

"It's no, uh, problem, Your H-highness, could you, err, call me Ina instead of Lady Ina?" Ina said, fiddling with her hands.

"Sure, could you do me a favour Ina?" I asked and when receiving a nod in reply in continued "would you tell the other Ladies to call me Casper, it would get kind of repetitive to tell everyone"

"Yeah, s-sure" She said.

"Have you two seen Lady Aubree?" I asked them both

Kate nodded her curly, auburn locks bouncing up and down. "Aubree is in Briar's room"

"Thanks, I'll see the two of you Ladies later"

After bidding them a quick goodbye, I made my way to Briar's room and knocked.

The muffled giggling I could hear on my way subsided a little and Briar opened the door. Her hair was in a loose messy bun and a few strands of her red hair were framing her freckles face. She wasn't in her usual jewel toned dresses but was wearing a jumper and some sweats.

Aubree, who was sitting on Briar's bed, had her hair in a long French braid and it looked like they were looking at pictures that Briar had most likely took.

"You two Ladies seem to be having fun" I noted. "Are you two Ladies enjoying yourself here?"

"Of course we are" Briar spoke "I mean there's coffee, books, and snow falling outside- could anything be more beautiful?"

I smiled at her, I mean it wasn't even snowing, but she was cute so I went along with it.

"Anyway, is there a reason you graced us with your company?" She asked.

I nodded "I have a date with Aubree for dinner, but since my family is going to be joining the Selected for dinner and I need to be there so I decided to have the date now"

She nodded and turned around to call Aubree who was shifting her position on Briar's bed and looked through the different pictures.

"Bree? You have a date with Casper" Aubree looked up and made her way over to us.

"Bree?" I asked. They had been giving each other nicknames?

"It's a nickname my friends call me and me and Briar have been friends since the beginning of the Selection"

"Oh" I replied pretty pathetically

"Don't worry" she laughed "you can call me Bree too."

I smiled and we bid a quick goodbye to Briar before leaving.

"Instead of going to dinner I decided that we should just" Wait, I never thought it out so far, what should we do? In the midst of my thinking Bree stopped to look at me expectedly probably wondering what we were going to do.

"Go on a walk, I mean you wanted to know more about me, right?" Way to go, Romeo. She probably thinks your some kind of 14 year old boy.

She nodded and I offered her my arm as we made our way to the gardens.

Aubree Olivia Isla POV

I took his offered arm and we made our way to the gardens. He was quiet for most of the time me asking him questions about what he was like. He answered them though and had only become quiet when I asked him about what he felt about The Selection.

Casper's POV

We were on the date and everything was going well. Well it was until she asked me what I felt about The Selection. If she asked me two days ago I would have answer d it and gone back to my normal self but Jewel and Annemarie's words kept coming back to haunt me.

You need a Queen not a companion

Her voice kept ringing in my head, it was like it was constantly on repeat. What if that was all I was going to get. Just because I'm the prince doesn't mean I'm promised eternal happiness. I mean, The Selection was normally used to hide chaos building up behind the closed palace walls. What that what had happened now? The threats from the southern rebels had been flowing in lately and the northern rebels had sent one before the Selection.

This cruel game was nothing but cheep entertainment for the country and my heart was at stake.

I quickly muttered an "exuse me" to Bree, who I kind of felt bad for since I left in the middle of a date, and made my way to my room.

Of course nothing goes to my plan so on my way I bumped into Madyson.

"Sorry" she mumbled and I looked the right, there was Mia, the Report host, standing with a camera. Great, they wanted entertainment, they were going to get it.

"Madyson, you enjoyed our date, last week, right? Madyson looked confused and she had a reason to, we hadn't been on any dates.

I leant down and whispered "go along with it, please"

She gave a tiny nod and I leaned down and kissed her.

This was wrong. This was wrong.

The sentence kept repeating itself in my head but I shoved it away. How could something so wrong feel so right?

Madyson seemed to melt into the kiss to putting her hands into my hair (my crown wasn't on) as I put mine on her back.

As I broke apart from the kiss I whispered in her ear and quick goodbye and made my way out of the room. Madyson was sure to get a questioning from Mia and I didn't want to be there.

Standing at the door of the room was my dad though, he didn't look very happy and he probably knew that I hadn't actually been on a date with Madyson.

He gave me a little glare as we walked out of sight from the cameras.

"Casper, what do you think you're doing? You can't go around lying and messing with these girls hearts" His voice got quieter and quieter as he went on and he was probably trying not the be mad. It's not as if he cared though, he didn't even inform me of The Selection in the first place.

"What? That's what the country wants: Entertainment. Besides what's the whole point of a Selection. Couldn't Gregory Illea's son find a decent wife?"

Dad looked mad and he had a right to be but I didn't care I just stormed out of the rooms and made my way to my room, ignoring the stares I got from my mother, Taylor and Miles who were probably on their way to dinner. They were probably expecting me to join them but I wasn't going to go. Not until I had calmed down a little.

What do you think? Review and let me know :D And happy holidays!

EDIT: Would you guys like a Christmas chapter? I'll tell you know though it won't be the best chapter since I'll be pretty clueless on what to write.