The sun had fully risen and it shone over the nice greenery of the fields and the trees of the shuddering woods. Lisa was still sitting on top of the walking white horse while Edmund was walking silently beside it. Lisa had noticed and tried to break the awkward silence between them.

"I can't believe it" she suddenly said that took Edmund's attention.

"What?" he asked.

"That I have friends who are known as kings and queens"

"That's only here"

"But still, you're royalty. When I was still in the boarding school, your sister Lucy always looked up to me and I really don't know why. She had always told me that I was a modern princess. But here you are, true kings and queens"

"You don't have to be a real royalty to be one, you know. Maybe she sees you as a princess because of who you really are as a person. Maybe for her you're as beautiful and kind as a princess"

Edmund looked at her and realized she was staring at him with a smile. He suddenly felt conscious and annoyed that he began to blush.

"W-what?" he asked in annoyance.

"I misjudged you a lot, Edmund" she confessed.

"Huh?"

"My first impression was you were a jerk. Well, you still are, at times. But as I talk to you more often, I realize that you're not"

"That's because you didn't think of getting to know me first"

"I'm really sorry. I also thought I'd be closer to your brother, Peter. He is nice and we both like archaeology but, I don't like the way he bosses others around—especially the way he talked to Caspian"

"Hmm, do you fancy that Caspian?"

Lisa almost got out of balance when Edmund said that.

She giggled and her cheeks flushed, "I-it's not like that. I mean, he is very good looking and sweet but, he's just my friend. I like him for looking after me when I arrived here. He was patient with me and he never got mad at me when I bit him"

"You bit him?"

"Well, it's a long story"

"Well, I have plenty of time to listen to it"

When they both arrived back in Aslan's how, Lisa was acting as if nothing happened. Well, nothing really did happen but, it changed how Edmund saw Lisa now after learning about her father and her real personality. He actually felt guilty for all his teasing and being so obnoxious. Lisa looked around and saw Caspian eating breakfast with Dr. Cornelius.

"Good morning, Caspian!" Lisa said cheerfully as she took a sit beside him.

Caspian was ready to greet her too but when he looked at her, he was dazzled with the way she looked in her dress.

"Y-you look beautiful" Caspian stuttered and cannot take his eyes off of her.

Lisa blushed with his compliment and took a grape from his banana leaf, "Thank you, my prince"

My prince, Caspian thought and smiled with his heart pounding and Dr. Cornelius smirking.

While they were in one corner, Edmund joined his siblings on the other side and trufflehunter served him his banana leaf meal. He said thank you and began to eat. But Lucy, the most observant of all his siblings, noticed that he was quite weird today. He was more quiet than the usual.

"Where have you been?" she asked as she pulled off the meat from her chicken drumstick. "And why are you wet?"

Edmund slowly munched his food when he answered, "At Cair Paravel. If you don't mind Susan, I lent Lisa one of your dresses"

"It's all right" Susan answered, looking at Caspian across.

"Hmm, so you took Lisa out with you for a swim? You sly dog" peter teased, starting to lighten up after what had happened.

"I just took her because she needed dry clothes" Edmund defended.

But peter just grinned, "Why do you even care if she gets cold? I mean, you think she's weird right?"

"I'm just being nice, what's wrong with that?"

"Oh no, nothing's wrong with it. It's just weird that you actually think of her as a weird girl but you help her out. That's weird"

"Stop saying the word weird, it's annoying. And just mind your own business" Edmund said and faced his younger sibling, "Lucy, have you heard the story about her father?"

"What story?" she asked. "She tells a lot of stories of her father's adventures"

So Lisa hasn't mentioned the death of her father to anyone before except for Edmund. Maybe she didn't want anyone else to know about it and wanted it to remain that way.

"Nothing" Edmund said and continued eating.

Lisa just finished eating and when she got up to put her banana leaf away, a huge Minotaur bumped her. She lost balance and nearly slipped down on the ground. Luckily, someone caught her. She looked up and saw Edmund looking back at him with a mesmerizing smile.

"You could've hurt yourself there" Edmund said, smiling.

Lisa got up and felt kind of strange that Edmund actually smiled at her, "Uh yeah, thanks for helping me"

"It was nothing, really"

"Well, I was just going to put this banana leaf away"

"M-me too, I'll come with you"

"Uh, sure"

The two of them went out and threw their banana leaves away along with the other used ones.

Lisa looked back at Edmund and tucked her hair behind her ear, "I really enjoyed our trip to the ruins awhile ago. I hope we could go there again"

"Sure, just tell me when you want to go visit"

"All right. Well, I'll just go talk to Caspian now"

"Uh sure" Edmund said and watched her leave.

During the whole morning, Lisa felt weird around Edmund. He kept on smiling at her, saying hi, or practically being nice to her when they see each other that it freaked her out. It was not like him to be that nice, well, at least with how Lisa knew him. Not that it was a bad thing but, it was just something unusual. Getting annoyed already, Lisa finally decided to confront him. She found him in one of the tunnels, with a few other Narnians, polishing his sword once more. She walked straight towards him.

"Why are you suddenly being nice to me?" she asked curiously.

Edmund was startled when she suddenly spoke and nearly dropped his shiny sword. When he found out that it was only Lisa, he felt relieved and went back to cleaning his weapon.

"What, I can't be nice now?" he asked sarcastically.

Lisa knelt in front of him with pouted lips, "No, it's just awkward. You're suddenly being nice to me and you're not normally like that. Is it because of what I told you about my father?"

"I just thought that… I wasn't really treating you well"

"You were treating me just fine, Edmund" Lisa confessed.

Edmund looked confused, "Really? Do you mind changing lives with me, because I really hate Peter for him teasing or acting like a jerk towards me"

Lisa covered her mouth as she giggled, "I really don't like being annoyed but, you made me feel like a normal girl. You treated me naturally"

"You call that normal?" Edmund scoffed.

"Of course it is. You just said it yourself that peter teases or annoys you a lot. Isn't it normal for people to be like that?"

"Well…not really"

Lisa smiled and held Edmund's hand tight which startled him, "Just treat me like the way you did before. You don't have to be sorry about me. I've accepted the truth already"

"Does that mean we should always not get along?"

"I never said that. Just act real when we're together, okay?"

"We're friends then?"

Lisa smiled, "I've always treated you as a friend the first time I met you"