"Sarah. Eat it." She shook her head.
"It looks gross!" I rolled my eyes.
"You have to eat the ambrosia if you want to be immortal." Sarah sighed, eating it. "You're worse than the kids." Sarah smiled, rolling her eyes, and I kissed her nose.
"So when do the kids become immortal?" I shrugged.
"Whenever they want. It morphs you into looking around thirty, and then you age about a year for every million you live, so, you don't age up that quickly."
"So, if they ate some today, they'd be five..."
"But look thirty, yes." She looked exasperated. "It's very tricky."
"Wait..." She laughed, looking up at me. "Those people at the ball... Were they the kings and queens?"
"Congratulations Sarah. It took you what, six years? Five years to figure it out?" She shoved my shoulder. "What?"
"Don't make fun of me..." She pouted, and I kissed her quickly on the lips. "Meow." I rolled my eyes.
"Mum!" The girls ran in, still in their school uniforms, and jumped up with us, on the single throne. "Daddy!"
"Hey!" Sarah scooted off of me, and let me hold Madeline. They still looked exactly alike, all except for their eyes. The same blonde hair, in the same haircut. "How was school?"
"It was... It was fun!"
"Yeah! They had.. They had lunch. And it was fish." Madeline laughed. "It was good."
"Well, that's good. Do you have any work?" They thought, and Alice pulled her bag out. "Spelling."
"Well, let's see what type of spelling." Sarah took the paper. "Alpahabet. Well, you two know that by now, right?" Alice shook her head.
"YEAH! A, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, elemenope, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z." Sarah smirked to me.
"I believe that one big letter is l, m, n, o, p. All separated." Alice's brow furrowed, and I snickered.
"I can't sleep." Madeline stuck her head in our door. "Daddy?" Sarah hit my shoulder, and I got up. I picked her up, and carried her into the hall by her room.
"In the town, where I was born, lived a man... Who sailed the sea. And he told us of his life, in the land of submarines. So we sailed up to the sun... 'Till we found the sea of green. And we lived beneath the waves, in our yellow submarine." She was starting to snore softly. "We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine." I smiled as she fell asleep with her head on my shoulder, and I silently walked into her room, and tucked her into bed. I kissed her and Victoria on the head, and slowly walked back to Sarah and my bedroom. "Hey."
"Hey." She smiled blindly, and curled into me after I got in bed. "You know you're a really good dad right? The girls love you." I smiled as Sarah fell asleep too.
"Who's taking care of the castle?" I shrugged, looking through the leaves at Sarah.
"Don't think about that. Think about this world... This beautiful world... All it is is forest. Tree-houses in several trees." Sarah laughed, looking up.
"Oh! There's one!" She scurried up the tree, and I shimmed up after her. We scooted in the tiny door, and surprisingly, the treehouse could fit several people. "I still can't believe we have to go to their school..."
"We're the only royal parents. We're talking about daily struggles."
"Jare... We're in a treehouse, and we don't know who's running the city." I shrugged.
"Not that hard, I guess." We laughed, and I played with her shoulder length brunette hair. At least she had time for it to grow this much when she cut it all off. The girls just loved to grab her hair. We looked out the big window, just watching the wildlife.
"Who rules this place?"
"Mother Earth." She nodded. "This part is just a regular forest, but there's beaches, deserted islands... Everything. Every creature is here, nothing has gone extinct."
"I can see a panda?"
"Yes," I laughed out, "you can see a panda. They're in their own habitat though. Keep them away from predators."
"We should go see... I don't know." She laughed. "I guess it's almost time to go to the school..." She scooted closer to me. "Or we could have a quicky up here." She laughed as I raised my eyebrows.
"Alright..." We looked at the crowd of wide-eyed kindergartners. "Any questions?" Most of the hands shot up, and Sarah looked sick to her stomach. "Anyone except our daughters?" I laughed as Madeline and Alice's hands lowered down. "You, vampire child in the front."
"Are goblins ugly?" I looked at Sarah.
"Yes." I smirked at her directness. "Boy next to Madeline."
"Are... Do you guys have, like, crowns?"
"No, we don't. That would be a nice addition." Sarah smiled at me. I looked around. "Uh... Purple shirt."
"My mummy said the goblin king should be ashamed, bringing a mortal here, and having kids." Sarah's jaw dropped the slightest.
"Lovely. Boy next to her." She snorted.
"I forgot my question... But she's pretty." Sarah laughed.
"Thank you, I think so too." I kissed her quickly, and the heads in the small crowd turned.
"Now, does anyone have any questions as to what the royal family does?" The hands fell down. "Nothing?" The crowd was silent. "Okay. Snack time!" The TA took them out onto the playground, and the teacher gave Sarah and I a few cookies to snack on.
"Thank you." Sarah nibbled on one.
"Now, if you wouldn't mine... I would like to ask a few questions. I'm supposed to write a report for the school board, that's the only way we can get a speaker, and they didn't really ask any good questions." I nodded.
"Sure."
"Okay, first question. Can you run me over a normal day?" I glanced at Sarah.
"Uh... I get up, get the kids to school, wake Jareth up..."
"And then we wait in the throne room until the kids come home. They usually run in, hug us, and run up to their room. We stay in there for a few more hours, until about seven, we eat, get the kids in bed, go back to the throne room, and at about midnight, after the goblins have gone to bed, we go too." The teacher nodded.
"What do you usually do in the throne room?" I shrugged.
"Paper work, most of the time. Sarah usually helps me with that, when the royals are preparing for a meeting." Sarah agreed.
"Yeah. Usually." The teacher smiled, continuing asking questions until the children came back in.