I hate A/N's at the beginning of stories, but you need to know this one. In this chapter, there will be kings and queens from other countries. Here is the list:

Trenova- Queen Marcy and Crown Prince Remert; Eloria- King Peter and Queen Kaenus; Geriu- King Joseph and Crown Princess Glasia; Poiu- King Roess and Queen Noele; Isoptha- King Dalthus and Queen Shiena; Almeria- Queen Emeralde

Just keep on breaking the rules

Come on, get ready to rule

-Breaking The Rules, AC/DC

Remert held Teal's hand while the kings and queens of every country quieted down. Four times a year, once every season, the royal families from each kingdom came together to make sure everything wasn't going awry in other places. No too-high taxes, no wars, the basics. Only direct royalty was invited; taking Devon even would be dancing on the edge. Bringing Teal was like waltzing fifty kilometers over the line. Hopefully no problems would arise.

"Is everyone here?" Marcy asked.

"King Peter and Queen Kaenus are on their honeymoon," Emeralde stated. "Queen Holly is recovering from the birth of her newest son Arthur, so Glasia will represent Geriu with her father. The same for Calebenthian and Remert I'm guessing?"

Marcy nodded. "As always."

"Always?" Teal whispered.

"I've represented Trenova since I was twelve," he whispered back. "Sometimes when the king or queen is young at their coronation someone else will represent them. King Dalthus and his wife for instance. They're only fifteen. They insisted to stand for Isoptha though."

Teal gazed over at the young couple. The woman's belly was swollen. Dalthus put his hand on her stomach proudly. Would that be Teal in a few years? She loved Remert, but did she love him that much? According to her mother, wasn't she supposed to wait until she was all grown-up and married to have children? She was going to wait until marriage, but how far off was that?

"Poiu is doing well," King Roess said. "Prices are reasonable and the drought we had is over. Farmers have returned to work and our harvest will not suffer." Different things were said about the kingdoms, most of them good, and then it came to Trenova.

"Maerciette, I wish to ask you about Trenova," King Joseph, her brother, began, "but first I have a question for Remert. Who is this girl you've brought? It's been bothering me like the dickens. You know only royalty is invited, correct?"

"I know very well the seasonal meeting rules. This girl is Teal Mynery, a potential queen of Trenova." Everyone gasped or stared. Every pair of eyes went directly to her. It took most of her conscious to prevent from blushing or looking scared. The other part of her conscious was saying, Come on! He just introduced you as a potential queen! Prove to them you're strong and show how proud you are to be in love with Remert!

"Queen? Is there an engagement in place, or are you already married?" Glasia called.

"We are not yet married, only in love. I'm not even sure that we will be married, but some force tells me that she's the one for me."

"Does she know this?"

Remert paused and smiled a bit. "She does now."

There was a very awkward silence. No one knew what to say. Love with a commoner wasn't an unnatural sight, nor at a young age. But after the early-love situation that happened with Caleb and Marcy, who was to say the same situation wouldn't happen to the offspring of those who began the scare? Would he follow Marcy's lead, or turn to Caleb's?

"I must admit, I am as frightened as you are," Marcy said softly. "I know only too well what it is like to think you are in love, only to find it a lie later, especially at an impressionable age. Joseph, you remember how our parents were. Sensible and cared about us, but they just wanted us to grow up as soon as possible and marry. I didn't raise Remert like that, I taught him to love long before marriage. As much as I disapprove of young love now, I know this isn't like mine."

Joseph looked at her unbelievingly and chucked a bit. "You're contradicting yourself Marcy!"

"At the seasonal meeting we must call the kings and queens by their full first name-" Glasia chimed in.

"-And I honestly don't care. My nephew is simply too young for this to happen. If my sister had stayed in Geriu like it was intended, this wouldn't be taking place!

"And had she stayed in Geriu, where would Trenova be?" Remert angrily stood up. "Anarchy, battles left and right, that's where! I wouldn't exist, Devon wouldn't exist! You wouldn't be king and your wife wouldn't be queen!"

"Anyway, who said young love was bad?" Noele asked.

"Any logical person, that's who!" Roess loudly answered.

Dalthus' wife, Shiena, stumbled to stand up but then proclaimed, "I stand fully for Remert!"

"Since when were we choosing sides?"

Everyone began talking louder and louder, trying to drown out the next person with their ideas until a single shout silenced everyone.

"STOP!" Teal yelled. They all halted and turned towards her.

"This is about you anyway. Why don't you explain your doing Briar Rose?" Remert flinched at the name he called her. It was a derogatory term used for girls who married princes just because they were princes, modeled after the Italian fairytale.

Teal inhaled deeply. "I'm quite truthfully sick and tired of hearing this. Obviously I know my doing and he knows his. Age doesn't matter when it comes to love. My mother rebels against this like you." Was she supposed to say why she rebelled though? Remert didn't know, no one knew besides her mother, sisters, and father. Would it be a good secret to spread throughout all of the royalty? Perhaps. It would explain everything.

"So, why does she?"

Yes. No. Yes. No.

Just say it.

"My mother was pregnant with me at sixteen and had me at seventeen. She knows also what the feeling of too early love is. If she would have stopped being so promiscuous in her teens, she probably wouldn't have had four kids one after another."

"Sixteen? That's it?" Dalthus quizzed.

"Old to you, painfully young for Northern Whaye people. If you even get married before you turn twenty four it's illegal. Laws change a lot over time gaps."

Silence again. "And you turned out fine?" Remert almost whispered.

"Indeed. But my father loved my mother. They didn't care about what others told them. They got married at about twenty six, when my father was on leave from the military. He's been gone twelve years of my life, only coming home for about two or three days a year. Yet he still vowed to love my mother. Even though they were young, they were in love. I don't believe I'll be pregnant or married at sixteen, but I do think I'll be very much in love by then. Is it wrong to dip your toes in the water before submerging yourself? I'm not irresponsible."

"Not irresponsible, eh Winey?"

"Glasia, she doesn't whine. It was just a joke," Remert covered up quickly. Thank the stars for homophones. Glasia caught on quickly.

"I know, but she's a good actress when it comes to whining. She really had me thinking that she hated you hugging her!"

"Um...I think this is the end of this meeting," Emeralde said. "We'll meet back again in mid October. I wish you all safe travels and I hope you have a wonderful summer."

Teal grabbed Remert's hand again and they walked out with Marcy. What was the major question about getting married? Couldn't she just wait, or would she be pressured into this? Surely Remert wouldn't pressure her, but everyone else would. Was it right?

Yes? No?

I goooot over my writer's block! Turaluuuuraloooo! I even know what I'm writing for my next chapter, thanks to my uber awesome (and goofy) friend Kayla. Hint: it involves shapeshifting. I apologize for the religious thing, I made sure not to peg the chapter to one religion. I know what I worship, and you know what you do. Life's supposed to be a variety, is it not? Aaaanyway, read and review!

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