Hey guys! This chapter is shorter than I wanted it to be but I believe the next one will be longer! Love, Kate! (:

Chapter 11

Finally, the day had come. Susan couldn't be happier in her entire life. However, she was still having doubts whether she would make a good Queen of Narnia or not. She was a child after all. Lucy on the contrary was more certain about it than ever.

Lucy woke up earlier that morning and ran up and down the corridor waking everyone of them up.
The first one was Susan, since she was a light sleeper and woke up easily.
"Lu, calm down! Some of us want to sleep some more!" she said annoyed with her eyes half-closed.
"Oh,Su, I'm so,so,so,so,so sorry but I just can't contain my happiness! What day is today?" she gave an enormous smile at her sister.
"Coronation day.. Lu, it stops being funny at the hundredth time!"
"To me it's always funny!"she squealed and ran across the corridor shouting.
Susan was actually enjoying watching her sister so happy. 'But what I'll enjoy more is watching the boys waking up' she thought and smiled wickedly to herself. And she was right.

The second to wake up was Edmund when Lucy saw a small spider near the door of his bedroom and screamed half-frightened and half-amused with herself.
Edmund woke up startled.
"What the hell is going on out there! I'm trying to sleep in here!"he shouted annoyed.
Lucy opened his door and climbed on his bed. She then started jumping up and down, making him even more angry. He buried his head in his pillows and tried to calm himself.
"Come on Ed! Uppie, uppie, up! It is a wonderful day out and you're missing it!"
"Has the thought that I want to sleep some more ever crossed your mind?"
"Well, yes but I didn't give it too much attention!"
"Lu, get off the bed! Leave poor Ed sleep some more! Why don't you go and enjoy the sunrise?"Susan stood at the door frame and was secretly laughing at her brother.
"Oh, I know how much you're enjoying this sister!"Edmund glared at her and this time she laughed out loud.
"You really have no idea!"she said among her giggles.
"Anyway,Su, the sun will rise in about…one hour, so I still have some free time to-"Edmund cut his little sister off.
"To annoy my siblings!"he mimicked her voice and the girls laughed louder.
"And hold on… You woke me up an hour before the sunrise?"she stared at her in disbelief.
"Uh…yes!"
"You are sooo gonna die!"he threatened her and started chasing her up and down the corridor.

Susan laughed so hard that her cheeks and stomach were hurting but she didn't really care.
"Your siblings really are something."an accented voice was heard from behind her and she saw Caspian standing at the door frame of his bedroom.
"Well, you're right. They always make me smile." she managed to say as she tried to calm down and find her breath.
"I can see why. You know when you're happy, sometimes, you look like…I can't exactly put it. It may sound stupid but you look like you're…shining.."
He looked in her eyes and he was once again lost in their beauty. Susan blushed and looked away. She was silent for a moment. She didn't know what to say to this so she decided to change the subject.
"Oh,Caspian I'm sorry if Lucy woke you up. She's all excited about the coronation." she apologized but the prince didn't seem to mind.
"No, that's fine really. I don't mind-"

"But I do! Times like this make me regret not taking earplugs with me!"Peter's annoyed voice cut him off.
Peter was a heavy sleeper, just like his brother and did not enjoy being awaken too early.
"What's an earplug?"Caspian asked confused. Susan opened her mouth to explain to him but a breathless Lucy and a sweaty Edmund cut her off.
"Ed.. Stop ..Let me ..catch ..my breath…"she said breathing heavily.
"Edmund what did you do to her?" Peter eyed his brother who had a wicked smile on his face.
"I punished her for waking me up so early!"
"He tickled me to death and then he kept on chasing me up and down the stairs!" Lucy complained.
"Hey, why are you all staring at me? She cut me in the middle of a wonderful dream so she must pay!"Edmund explained to the three teenagers who looked at him accusingly.
"Anyway, why don't we all go have some breakfast and then prepare ourselves for the celebration?"Susan suggested and they all agreed.

Susan remembered that morning with a smile on her face. She then remembered when they returned from breakfast for their preparations.

Susan decided to choose personally her brothers' and Caspian's clothes. "Boys do not really care about their appearance so someone else must care for them." was what she always said. Her sister had already picked what she would wear. A light blue dress with white, long sleeves and a red cape. She also curled her light brown hear and put on some color on her lips.
Susan chose to wear a blue-gray dress, long-sleeved too, with a dark blue cape. She pinned her hair in a pony-tail and left some curls fall on her face. She too put on a little makeup.
Both girls looked stunning.

"Girls, you look amazing! There are no words to describe it!" Edmund praised them and the two sisters hugged him lovingly.
"Hey, watch it! You're going to mess with his hair. How would he be able to flirt with the girls in the ball with tangled hair?" Peter's voice teased him.
"Dear brother, you should be the one worrying about your hair. If they get just a bit tangled the crown won't fit at all at your potato-head!" Peter just ignored him.
"Lu, you're so beautiful! Be careful with the boys at the ball alright?"he warned her but Lucy just laughed at his comment.
"God, Suzy you're absolutely stunning!" he said and hugged his sister as well.
"How did you call me?" she asked perplexed.
"Suzy.. You don't like it?"
"No, it's not that. I just remember.. Someone calling me that. Someone I can't seem to remember…"she said and she was actually talking more to herself than to her brother.
"Who? That woman again?"
"No it's actually-."

"Are you ready for the big day?"the prince smiled at them.
"Su, don't turn around too quickly or our dear friend will get a heart attack!" Edmund joked causing Lucy and Peter to laugh, Susan to glare at him and Caspian to look at him confused.
"I beg your pardon?"
"Don't listen to what Edmund says."Susan said and turned to face him. But as Edmund said he was star struck.
"Oh, Susan.. you look… um… wow…"the prince tried to find the words to describe her beauty but failed.
"Told ya!" Edmund said and this time Susan smacked him on the shoulder.
"Ouch! That hurt! You should never hurt a King of Narnia!"
"Almost a King!" she reminded him.
"Yeah.. Yeah.. Whatever.."

She remembered that moment quite vividly and was still annoyed and perplexed about Edmund's comment and Caspian's reaction. She decided not to give it too much thought. She gazed at the sunset and was mesmerized by its beauty. Everything in Narnia seemed more beautiful than in her world. She looked at the sun's reflection on the water. It reminded her of the golden aisle she walked beside Aslan and her siblings, among the crowd.

Aslan waited them at the huge entrance of the room of the four thrones. Caspian wished them luck and left them alone.
"It is time my children. How do you feel?"He asked them kindly.
"Well, Aslan, none of us believes we're ready for something like that."Peter spoke on behalf of his siblings.
"It is for that very reason I know you are." the Great Lion assured them and the children smiled at him.
"Now shall we? There is a whole country in there waiting for you!"
The siblings simply nodded and took their places beside Aslan: the girls to the right and the boys to the left.

As they entered the room, the centaurs blew on their huge horns and everyone in the room cheered. As they walked towards the thrones everyone in the room went silent. Susan spotted familiar faces in the crowd and smiled kindly at them.
They finally reached the thrones and each one of them headed towards theirs.
They hadn't noticed that Mr. Tumnus and the beavers were behind them carrying on two silken pillows their crowns.

"To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant."The Lion spoke and the faun took in his hands her silver crown and placed it gently on her head. The two friends smiled to each other before Mr. Tumnus headed back to the beavers.

"To the great western wood, King Edmund the Just." Mr. Tumnus placed his also silver crown on his head and the boy mouthed him 'thanks'.

"To the radiant southern sun, Queen Susan the Gentle."Susan spotted Caspian at the front sits, smiling encouragingly at her.
Her crown was golden. She noticed that hers and Lucy's crowns were made by golden and silver leafs. Then she looked at Peter who anxiously awaited to be announced the High King.

"And to the clear northern sky, I give you King Peter the Magnificent."Aslan said majestically and everyone in the room bowed.
The siblings looked at each other and smiled, proud and happiness for one another mirroring in their gazes.

"Long live King Peter! Long live Queen Susan! Long live King Edmund! Long live Queen Lucy!"the crowd shouted and the four of them stood up and bowed before their people.


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