Chapter 10 Advice
Ezra was pacing below Sabine's balcony, while Kanan was playing Hera in some sort of strategy board game. "What am I going to do?" Ezra said frustrated. "Sabine won't even let me talk to her. I should have known I couldn't pull off this prince wish."
Hera had just pulled the winning move.
"Ha!" Hera said.
"I just lost to a mortal." Kanan said putting his head in his hands.
"Kanan I need help!" Ezra said. He had no idea how to deal with girls, maybe the genie could be of some help. Even though another girl sat literally three feet from Kanan.
"Well, Ez, I am going to tell you a little secret. Girls like it when you tell them the TRUTH!" Kanan said.
"I can't do that!" Ezra said. "If I tell Sabine I'm just some, some street rat, she'll laugh at me."
"Girls like a man who can make them laugh." Kanan said.
"Ezra, take it from me, a girl, she will be a lot happier to know the truth. If she only knew the lengths you went for her. She'll think it's sweet." Hera said. "Just be yourself."
"That's the last thing I want to be. Besides the princess can only marry royalty." Ezra said. "Even if I did tell her and she did except me," he sighed. "I'm going to talk to her." He adjusted his hat, "How do I look?"
Kanan sighed, "Like a prince."
Ezra smiled and got onto the speeder bike, making sure it was okay with Hera first, and flew up to the balcony. "Princess Sabine?" He climbed onto the balcony, leaving the speeder to hover in place just below eyesight.
"Who's there?" Sabine asked, approaching the balcony.
"It's me, Prince Ezi." Ezra said.
"I do not want to see you." Sabine said, turning back around.
"No, wait, please just give me a chance." Ezra said, he tried to approach her but was pushed back by Chopper, who was beeping like he was threatening him.
"Down, droid." Ezra said backing up.
"How do you think it's going?" Kanan asked.
"It doesn't sound too good." Hera said hearing Ezra trying to shoo away a droid.
"Oh boy," Kanan said before changing his shape, he was magic after all, into a small bug so he could go up and maybe help Ezra.
Sabine looked back out on to the balcony and saw that Prince Ezy was using his hat to try to push Chopper away, and he looked vaguely familiar. He looked sort of like the boy from the market.
"Wait, do I know you?" Sabine asked.
"Uh, no. How could you?" Ezra asked trying to play it off.
"You remind of someone I met at the market." Sabine said.
'Crap, can't let her know!' Ezra thought. "The market? Oh I have servants who go to the market for me."
"No I guess not." Sabine said, a little unhappy, she had really hoped it was the same boy.
"Enough about you, how about you talk about her." Kanan whispered in Ezra's ear. "She's smart, fun, hair, eyes, anything pick a feature."
"Princess Sabine you are very…"Ezra started, but then he couldn't find the right word.
"Wonderful, magnificent," Kanan started suggesting. "Punctual."
"Punctual." Ezra said, not really sure of its meaning.
"Punctual?" Sabine asked.
Ezra panicked, obviously not that good of a thing, "Beautiful, I meant to say pretty, then I decided to say beautiful and they sort of melded into well punctual."
"Nice save." Kanan muttered.
Sabine smirked, "I'm rich too you know?"
"Yeah," Ezra said, just loving the sound of her voice.
"The daughter of a sultan," Sabine said approaching Ezra.
"I know." Ezra said.
"A fine prize for any prince to marry." Sabine said.
"Uh," Ezra said, unsure how to respond, Sabine was right in front of him now. "Right, a prince like me."
"Uh oh. Trouble." Kanan tried to warn."
"Yes, a prince like you, and every other stuck up, snot-nosed scruff, nerf-herder, I have ever meet." Sabine said, flipping Ezra's cape around and turned around to her room.
"Wait." Ezra tried to stop her.
"Oh, just go jump off a balcony." Sabine said.
"Wha?" Ezra asked.
"You better stop her." Kanan said.
"Buzz off." Ezra said.
"Fine, just remember to be yourself." Kanan said before disappearing into the holocron in Ezra's hat.
"Yeah right." Ezra said.
"What?" Sabine asked.
"I said you were right." Ezra said. "You aren't just some prize to be won. You should be free to make your own choices. I will just go now." Stepping off the balcony onto the speeder.
"Wait!" Sabine said, she hadn't really meant for him to jump off.
"What?" Ezra asked rising up on the speeder.
"That is a wicked cool speeder." Sabine said, her true self coming out.
"Would you like a ride, it can get us out to the palace." Ezra said.
"Is it safe?" Sabine asked, not caring much if it was or wasn't.
"Sure, do you trust me?" Ezra asked.
"What?" Sabine asked. It couldn't be.
"Do you trust me?" Ezra asked. Posing the exact same way he did before, but this time with a shining smile.
"Yes." Sabine said with a small smirk, it was the boy from the market, she just had to figure out how she would get him to admit it.
Ezra pulled Sabine up and placed her behind him. "Hang on."
After they got out of the palace Ezra started to sing. "I can show you the world, shining, shimmering, splendid. Tell me, princess, now when did you last let your heart decide? I can open your eyes. Take you wonder by wonder, over, sideways and under on a magic carpet ride. A whole new world! A new fantastic point of view, no one to tell us no or where to go, or say we're only dreaming."
Sabine joined the song, "A whole new world! A dazzling place I never knew. But when I'm way up here, it's crystal clear, that now I'm in a whole new world with you."
Ezra sang in harmony with her, "Now I'm in a whole new world with you."
Sabine continued her portion of the song, "Unbelievable sights, indescribable feelings, soaring, tumbling, freewheeling, through an endless diamond sky. A whole new world!"
As Sabine closed her eyes out of a little fear because of a dive Ezra reassured singing, "Don't you dare close your eyes."
Sabine continued, "A hundred thousand things to see."
To which Ezra responded, "Hold your breath, it gets better."
Sabine happily sang, "I'm like a shooting star! I've come so far! I can't go back to where I used to be."
Ezra started the last verse of the song singing, "A whole new world!"
Sabine responed, "Every turn a surprise."
"With new horizons to pursue." Ezra sang
Sabine was so happy, "Every moment gets better."
Together the two of them sang, "I'll chase them anywhere, there's time to spare! Let me share this whole new world with you."
"A whole new world." Ezra sang.
" A whole new world." Sabine repeated.
" That's where we'll be." Ezra sang.
"That's where we'll be." Sabine repeated.
"A thrilling place." Ezra sang.
" A wondrous place." Sabine said.
" For you and me." They sang together as the song closed.
The two of them stopped and watched the Northern Lights near where the Te mple of Wonders was. Sabine had just had the time of her life, enjoying every moment of the speeder ride 'Prince Ezy' took her on.
"That was amazing and this view is amazing too." Sabine said.
"Yeah." Ezra said.
"It's a shame that apple vendor couldn't join us." Sabine said.
"Well, yeah, he does need to lighten up." Ezra said before realizing his mistake.
"I knew it! You are the boy from the market." Sabine said. "Tell me the truth!"
"The truth?" Ezra panicked, 'She just can't know I'm just a dirty street rat.' "The truth? The truth is that sometimes, I dress as a commoner and go into the market place. You know to escape the pressers of palace life. I also sometimes stay in that tower if I want to do it for a long period of time."
"Why didn't you just say so?" Sabine said, that was precisely what she had done when she had met him.
"Well, royalty sneaking out of the palace and dressing up like a commoner is a bit strange isn't?" Ezra asked.
"Not that strange." Sabine said. She leaned up against Ezra. After a while they flew back to the palace.
Ezra dropped Sabine off at the balcony.
"Thank you, my handsome prince. Good night." Sabine said.
"Sleep well Princess." Ezra said. And the two came together for a kiss. After they parted and Sabine went into her room Ezra cried out in victory, doing a loop-de-loop on the speeder before landing.
"For the first time in my life. Things are starting to go right." Ezra said.
But of course, the universe just had to prove him wrong.
And for the first time in this story….NO Sneak Peek. I want the suspense to hang, and besides unless I have tons of homework the next chapter will probably be up within twelve hours.