Princesses Don't Perspire - Ch. 12, Trouble
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Rosalyn POV:
After Nathaniel and I convince Prince Andrew to walk behind us, the journey becomes much easier to handle and surprisingly more fun. Prince Andrew is past stepping on my nerves and is more jumping up and down repeatedly all over them, so a break from his incessant bragging is welcome. Nathaniel and I chat lightly as I lead the way, glancing at the necklace for assistance. Every once and awhile I have to change direction slightly because the arrow will spin suddenly.
I had always wanted an adventure and excitement my whole life, but now that I have both, I suppose I miss home. Parts of the journey are fun or interesting but all I can think about is how worried my father and how angry the Queen must be. A part of me adores the thrilling freshness of this trip and the other piece longs to return to my warm bed and perfected meals.
I ignore my longing for peace and listen intently to Nathaniel's stories. Then Prince Andrew decides to interrupt one of Nathaniel's stories that I'm laughing at, with an announcement.
"Nothing threatening to your life has appeared yet, Princess." I turn to face him. I attempt to hide my annoyance with a smile and a,
"That's good." Honestly, it is quite unnecessary for Prince Andrew to inform me of such a thing, I would have noticed if I had been under attack. Nathaniel laughs at me and whispers in my ear.
"No, really? I thought that we'd been attacked a million times just neither of us had realized." I giggle at his sarcasm but shake my head too. As funny and true as his statement rings, I do need to rein in the rudeness from becoming too much.
"He's just trying to be helpful." I defend Prince Andrew because even though he is a large annoyance, I still believe that no one should be made fun of if they can't help being who they are. Although I feel as if Prince Andrew should be able to help who he is a little, he's just so pompous and rude. Of course, people can't help the way they are raised to be and my guess is Prince Andrew was raised to be self-involved and selfish, he probably was a spoiled child who got whatever he wanted. Nathaniel rolls his eyes at me causing me to frown. Our earlier niceties seem to slip away with that one expression.
"You don't have to protect everyone." He informs me bluntly.
"Pardon?" I ask incredulously.
"You're so nice to everyone and if anyone says something mean you immediately defend them, even when they don't deserve it." Prince Nathaniel explains. I know he's correct which is what causes me to become so angry, he states it all like it's a bad thing. Being polite is never a bad thing and that is exactly how I have been raised to be.
"I don't see a problem in being nice to people." I supply in my own defense.
"I wasn't saying that." Prince Nathaniel says harshly. I scowl at him and begin to walk faster, not wanting to hear anything more he has to say. If all he has to say is rude then I won't be subjected to listening to it. He speeds up to continue strolling beside me. "I just meant, don't you ever get tired of it all, being nice to everyone all the time?" I slow my pace down again. Maybe he hadn't been trying to be entirely mean.
I want to tell him that yes I do get exhausted of being pleasant towards everyone, but I still do it because it's the right thing to do. And yeah, I want to yell and be rude sometimes, but just because you want to do something doesn't mean you should. Everyone deserves kindness even if they haven't earned it because kindness given is kindness returned. I open my mouth to tell him something along those lines but I'm interrupted by a loud, echoing, creepy voice.
"Well, what do we have here?" My eyes widen, I recognize that voice. That voice is trouble.
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