Time, it flies on by,

You know it baby

Time, it flies on by

You're on my mind, you're in my heart

You're on my mind, on my mind

-Time Flies, Theory Groove

This next part of Courtly Love is set in the future. No, it is not set in Northern Whaye, but five years after the last part in this story. As most time in this period was uneventful, I feel I did not need to drone on about nothing. Some semi-important things have happened and others just need updates, so here they are.

Teal and Remert are nineteen now. Remert has kept his promise to marry her, at the time she sees is right. Teresa is still a tad bitter about the ordeal, but accepts it a tiny bit more each day. Marcy is ecstatic and can barely wait to have, "that darling Teal as a daughter-in-law." Teal's sisters, all but Elissa, just wish to move back to the modern ages. They do still wish to see the wedding though.

Remert has unofficially let Teal move in with him. She spends hours with him every day and only sleeps at Teresa's home. She still has her friends, and two new friends also. The first is a girl her age named Daisy. She has medium length copper hair and amber eyes. Daisy is a bit jittery and nervous, but is very spontaneous and is a loyal friend. Teal and Remert's other friend is Frank, Daisy's husband. He has dark hair and blue eyes. His personality is similar to Daisy's, but he isn't nervous or jittery in the least.

Of their friends, we all know and love Melissa and Sebastian. But something horrible has happened. Sebastian decided to leave behind his blemished past to become a priest. Something that would be kind and wonderful, only to create better bonds between their relationship, correct? Wrong, cruelly, horribly, sickeningly wrong.

The priests of medieval times were very fickle. They would say priests can marry for a while and then change their minds like the weather. Sebastian quickly realized this when he spent time with Melissa and was looked down upon. With tears in his eyes and his heart broken, he told Melissa that they couldn't be together anymore. She deserved a man that would be able to marry her and give her children he had said. They were both only fifteen.

Some time after, about a year, another man began admiring her from afar. His name was Blakemore Crosswell, the blacksmith apprentice. He tried nearly every way to talk to her, but his nerves got the best of him. Why would it matter anyway? Melissa would have turned him down with a smile on her face. He knew that. She wasn't one of those who rebounded right back after a nasty break-up. She would have smacked that stupid smirk off of his mouth.

Next in this update is Devon, Marcy, Thalleus and Caleb. Devon is still living in the castle, worried that if she left Caleb would finish off Marcy. Thalleus awaits his moment to find Remert alone and end his life so he can become crown prince. Caleb wishes to finally begin the battle he has so-long prepared for. The sooner an emperor, the better.

Teal's sisters have been coping. With difficulty, but coping. Medieval times didn't seem to suit them, all for Elissa. She had began going to the market late Sunday afternoon after meeting a pirate named Norman. Alicia wishes to be a doctor and just sees herbs as, "a way of dancing around real medicine." Isulette wishes to be back in the futuristic times that she barely remembers and Rayna wants to get a job in the government. "You know, I am a prince, I could probably get you a good job in government," Remert had said to her one day. But you could not be a lawyer there, or a doctor, or in futuristic times, so they were in misery.

Teresa is beginning to tell her daughters more and more about what a witch is, what they can do, questions they never got answered at a younger age. She worries about her husband, Byron, but knows that he will be coming home soon. Things are finally looking up for everyone.

But above all, Teal and Remert are still madly in love. They still adore every part of each other and their relationship has only strengthened and reinforced in five years. Trials have come, small squabbles every now and again, but it is still love. More importantly, a love nearly no one knows about.

So prepare yourself, reader, as we embark on the second installment of Courtly Love. Be vigilant as you read this story. Not all things are pleasant with romance and love at every moment. Let me give you fair warning, this story will have truth, lies, love, heartbreak, hope and peril.

But then again, that is what makes a book a book, right?

Ya'll ready for this? Part II of Courtly Love! I coined a new word, Centelogue. The next chapter will have an appearance from an often mentioned character who we've never seen yet ;). My throat and stomach feel all flipsy lately. I hate winter! I always get sick :( Tune in soon for the next chapter!

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