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Chapter 25: Connors pov

I still wanted to at least go on a date with the last two on my special 11 list. Well special 10 in fact I may as well call them the elite now. The last two were Diamond and Haven.

I had been putting off Havens date because of what I did in front of her the first day, as in tripping and knocking over a plant while spying, and I really didn't want to face her just to embarrass myself more but she did seem genuinely nice and good hearted so maybe she wouldn't hold that against me. Maybe.

I decided she would be last and I would see if Diamond would like to do something, maybe catch a movie or eat dinner together. I had already done these things I needed some new stuff to make it exciting I had no idea whatsoever what to do though. Maybe we could try swimming? That would be new and fun to try. At least I hope so.

I walked down to Diamonds room and knocked on her door. She answered the door looking a little tired and disheveled but it was cute. It was still a hour until breakfast so I guess I should of waited.

In fact I have no idea why I was here this early. "Hello lady Diamond. Would you like to join me for swimming at 11:00 o'clock?" She smiled and said "of course your majesty." Then I nodded and said "I will leave you now to get ready, I will see you at breakfast." She smiled brighter then said "see you then." I walked off and she closed her door.

I rushed back to my room not wanting to run into anyone this early in the morning. Much to my dismay I literally ran into someone. I almost ran them over, well her over because it appeared to be a selected. It was lady Kayleigh. She was wearing a beautiful floral dress with lots of pretty flowers all over it.

It seemed she was wandering around the palace. " Good morning lady Kayleigh." I said while I was helping her steady herself. "I'm so sorry I was droning off into space." She said and I just shook my head "nah it was all my fault, I don't know if you know this but I'm the clumsiest person ever." I said and she laughed. "Wanna bet!" She said laughing "try walking around with sticks holding up your shoes and then tell me you're the clumsiest person ever, for now I hold that title your highness." Now we were both cracking up this was too funny.

Soon I bid her goodbye and started walking away. I couldn't help but looking back though and watch her walk away. While I was doing that however I ran into a little side table with a vase on it. The vase started to wobble around and Kayleigh turned around and looked at me.

Luckily I caught the vase however when I turned around to walk away I bumped right into a maid walking by carrying laundry. The laundry basket flew across the room and landed dramatically upside down. "Oops I'm so sorry miss." I said as I bent down trying to pick up all the clothes. "It is ok your majesty I will handle it." She told me but I just kept picking up clothes off the floor.

Kayleigh came over and helped us and soon it was all cleaned up. "Again, I'm so sorry." I told the maid but she just smiled kindly and hurried off to wherever she was going. I then helped Kayleigh off the floor and she said "maybe you do get the clumsy title." And we were laughing again because it was so true.

After we were all laughed out I said goodbye for real this time and walked back to my room. There was a maid there waiting to help me get ready even though I had gotten ready myself already. I only had about 30 minutes until breakfast so I decided to visit mom to see if she had any ideas about how the interviews would go.

I was actually quite nervous about them. I decided that based on how the interviews went I would do an elimination afterwards with anywhere from 5-15 girls going home. They weren't the elite though. After I walked down to the queens office that was right next to dads office, I knocked but no one answered. I decided to walk in and see if she was there.

When I walked in she wasn't there so I walked next door and asked dad if he knew where mom was. He said he had no idea so I figured she was still getting ready or something. I went back to my room and waited for 9:00 (that's when breakfast is) so I would just wait. I wandered back to my room but my feet carried me to the gardens to look at all the flowers. I walked around for a little bit and I looked at all the bright colors.

I found myself subconsciously walking towards the forest to where the pond was. I still had time so why not see if I can't find the pond again? I kept walking and just when I thought I made a wrong turn somewhere the ground turned to mush again. Ah that's a good sign. I kept walking and I started humming to myself. Soon I came upon the beautiful pond again with all its majestic little quirks. It was so beautiful.

"Fancy seeing you here again." A voice said behind me and I spin around to see Emmalee looking at me. She seemed to be everywhere these days. "I find it relaxing here." I told her and she smiled a genuine smile and said "me too." It was nice and quiet for about 10 minutes while we both just took in all the wonderful things surrounding us.

"You know we should probably go to breakfast now." I told her figuring we had about 10 minutes to get to the dining hall. She nodded wary to leave. I held out my arm and she actually took it! Is it pathetic that I'm excited about that? Probably but I don't care because I'm winning her over!

We walked back out of the forest but it wouldn't be me walking if I hadn't tripped on a tree branch… Yep I did that and I sent poor Emmalee crashing down with me into the dirt. God now we were both a mess. I bet now she was wishing she hadn't took my arm. To my surprise though I helped her up and I thought she was crying, as it turns out she was laughing really hard.

Thanks the lord she wasn't hurt. She didn't seem to care that her dress was ruined or that she was plastered with mud, in fact she found it enjoyable.

Only Emmalee would do something like that but it saved me in the instance. Once we were back in the palace I walked her to her room to get changed then alerted a passing maid that me and Emmalee would be late for breakfast.

Then I hobbled down to my room and got changed into some fresh clothes. By the time I was ready again I was already half an hour late. But I wouldn't trade that experience for anything it was much to fun.

Once I finally made it down to the dining hall I opened the doors to find everyone bursting out laughing and then I saw Emmalee telling the story about me pulling her into mud. When everyone noticed me mother said "speaking of the devil." And they were all laughing again. I couldn't help it I started laughing as well.

It was pretty funny after all. After we were finally laughed out and we had finished eating I hurried back to my room and got a shower to rinse off all the dirt and then got prepared for my date with Diamond. I threw on some swim trunks and grabbed a towel then walked down to Diamonds room. It felt very weird to be walking down the halls of the palace without a shirt.

When I finally made it to Diamonds room after a few quick detours to avoid people I was about 5 minutes late. Great. What a gentleman Connor! Once I knocked Diamond came out in a bikini and we walked out to the pool.

The last time I was here I passed out. Let's pray to the lord I don't do that again. The water was kinda cold but I jumped right in. I did a huge cannonball and Diamond laughed as she got drips of water on her. The she walked in from the stairs and she mostly stayed where she could stand.

I was swimming around in the deep end. My mom used to say that I must have been part fish because I loved swimming so much. It was funny how much I would be in the pool from ages 8-14 then after that I had more lessons and I had to train to be the next king.

We did a little paddling and wadding but I started to notice Diamond shivering. She must have been getting cold. I then suggested that we get out and warm up. She nodded and we grabbed our towels and laid down on the lounge chairs. I decided that this would be the perfect time to try and get to know her. She asked a lot of questions about my life and how it felt to be prince. It was odd but refreshing. Then she told me about her family who had died right before the selection. That was so sad I wouldn't get to meet her family ever but she described them so sweet.

After our date I walked with her to her room and then I headed back to my room. My feet carried me to moms office though because I remembered I needed to talk to her about the questions asked and such. It was weird because I already knew stuff about most the girls.

After I made it to moms office she was there looking over some papers, she didn't even look up when she said "hi Connor what do you need?" How did she know it was me? Oh well "hi mom I was wondering if I could sorta help with the planning of the interviews and the ball?" I said. I wanted to help her and be involved since it was for my selection. She nodded and said "who should we invite out of the royals? How about Nicoletta and her family?"

I nodded Nicoletta was my godmother so it would be nice if she came, plus they could really spice up the party, those Italians really know how to have fun. "Ok so what about the king and queen of Notenson (Norway now)?" I nodded again my best friend was the prince of Notenson. "Ok now how about one more family of royals? What about the French royals? They have a daughter your age?"

I thought for a moment dad never really like the queen Daphne but I never knew why. Better to avoid conflict. "No dad doesn't really like the queen plus I wouldn't want Camille, Daphne's daughter to take any of the spotlight off of the selected." Mom nodded so I said "how about the royal family of the German federation? They have a son my age a daughter Aubrey's age and they have a little boy Noah and Kamri's age?"

Mom nodded then said "perfect" and I smiled this wasn't so hard. "Of course the elite girls families would come and then who else?" I asked mom. She thought then said "what if we invited the mayors of the elite girls provinces?" I nodded that would make for a good party. Then of course my aunts and uncles would be coming and all the extended family.

"Now regarding the interviews what kinda questions would you like? Or do you want it just to be kinda open where you ask the questions when they come to you?" Mom asked me. I hadn't thought of me winging it.

That sounded good. "I will try doing the questions on the spot so I can tailor them for the girl. Then it will be more comfortable." I said and mom nodded and jotted something down. Just as I got up to leave mom said "Connor, I'm so proud of you. You will make an excellent King."

I walked over to mom and gave her hug then thanked her. It really helped me feel better about becoming king one day. My biggest fear is that I would screw up and ruin this country my mom and dad worked so hard for.

Once I left I finally made it back to my room and started dreaming up costume ideas for the ball. Maybe I could be a vampire, or Robin Hood? I don't know. But I still have about 3 weeks to figure it out so that's good. I should probably tell the girls soon maybe tomorrow after the elimination. Oh wow I never thought of the elimination I wonder how the girls would react to it? I hope they are ok I really hated dealing with sad people especially when I didn't know them. But I didn't want to keep any girls here that had no chance, I didn't want to string them along like that.

Why was this so confusing? How did dad do this? I tried imagining dad trying to speed date 35 girls like I was. It was weird ever trying to picture him with anyone other than mom. I decided to watch the old tapes of mom and dads selection. We had them kept in the theater but I never watched them before. I had about 2 hours before I had to even think about getting ready for dinner. That was plenty of time to figure out what kinda stuff mom and dad were up to back in the day.

When I walked down to the theater I sat down and swiped through all the movies we had on. I finally found it, it was labeled "the selection: Maxon and America" I clicked on it and it started out with some girls walking down a red carpet to a plane. After about 20 or so girls I spotted mom. She was a favorite from the beginning it looked like. She looked so young and carefree there. Then after all the girls were in the planes it skipped to a picture of each girl when they arrived versus after the makeover.

Again it took a while before I saw mom but once I did I noticed that she hardly changed during her makeover. Some of the girls changed drastically between the pictures. After it had all those out of the way it skipped ahead to a short little interview between dad and a few girls on the report. Garvil was talking with them. Mom and dad were the last interview and mom admitted to yelling at dad during there first meeting. That's hilarious!

Then there was a bunch of other stuff and I skipped ahead of that all then I stopped when I saw Nicoletta and mom talking at a garden party. Nicoletta looked so young then, she must have been a princess then where as now she was married and had 4 kids. Not to mention she's queen. I skipped ahead all the other girls because I really only cared about seeing mom and dad.

Next there was another report this time it was philanthropy projects. I skipped past the other girls and found mothers last. She looked about ready to pop. Then she did something so unimaginable it was crazy. She said that they should just dump the caste system! There was a whole lot of yelling and then my grandpa yelled at someone to turn off the camera and that clip stopped. Wow I had no idea mom did something that crazy? I mean I wanted the castes gone to but it's a long process it's 20 years in the making and we only had two castes successfully gone! Did she really think they could just die off. Man mom really used to be a crazy lady huh.

The next clip was off some more interviews with Garvil. They were boring so I skipped them and went straight to the proposal. It seemed that dad was favoring the other girl there now instead of mom? Odd because he married mom. After he turned to the other girl with the ring all heck broke loose. It was a rebel attack. The camera fell on the ground and the clip ended.

It picked back up at mom and dads wedding. Wait what happened in between the proposal and the wedding? I stopped the movie determined to figure it out by piecing together things mom and dad told me. I knew they were married of course but it looked as though dad was about to propose to that other girl? Maybe mom screwed up like she did with the caste thing? Dad didn't really seem to care nowadays he always accepted mom with all the little things she did. Weird. Something must of happened like maybe mom explained to him or something, I don't know. I turned off the movie and went back to my room to get ready for dinner.

So pretty long chapter huh? What did you guys think? It was really weird writing about Maxon's selection from Connors point of view but I actually had a lot of fun doing it! I also really hope I got things in the right order because it's been so long since I've read the selection! Ok now for the questions!

1.) Did you all enjoy this chapter?

2.) Was it weird to read about Maxon's and Americas selection from Connors point of view? Did you like it?

3.) Are you excited about the Halloween ball? I'm dying to write about it lol

Thanks so much for reading! Please follow/favorite so you can be alerted when I update! Also please review and tell me what you think! I would really love to hear from you all! Thanks so much for all the support and love you guys are literally the sweetest people ever! Now to reply to the reviews!

Missmya16- I really hope the Halloween ball will meet all your expectations! I think it will be super fun though! Thanks for reviewing!

Ruby Casablanca- I'm glad you like all the girls so far! I agree they are all so unique and fun and I could see each of them as an amazing queen… Well except Cerise because of the whole assassin thing but yeah… I don't even knew who will win yet heck I haven't even planned next chapter lol. I just start writing and see where it takes me lol that's why my story seems so unplanned because it is!

Suzannaheath- I'm glad you like all the girls as well! I really can't decide on a favorite either lol they are just so amazing and fun! I really want you guys to decided what he should be! But actually a pilot sounds really cool! Also a lot of people have requested vampire weird? Oh well that will be cool to so that's all good! Think I will add a conversation between the girls about there feelings on Connor that would be so juicy! Maybe Connor could even eavesdrop? Muhahahaha! That's an evil laugh if you couldn't tell lol. Thanks so much for your kind words you are literally the nicest person alive like you deserve a medal! Thank so so so much and I hope I don't disappoint you ;)

Daniagogo- I'm glad you like Autumn! And I find it hilarious how Emmalee is warming up to Connor it's so funny to write! Lol. I don't think I will burn down the palace… Maybe. But I definitely want to incorporate the fact that not all girls are damsels in distress that's a really good message and so true (just ask Aubrey ) Lol thanks so much for the support and just being my friend even though I know I'm like really weird! Lol also don't worry Connor will do his usual slip up somewhere in the ball I'm sure of it ;)

MABubbles- your welcome :) you deserve a whole chapter of shout outs for how nice and supportive you are! I hope you didn't die lol because your too nice for that! No I need you alive! The date was pretty cute and I hope you like this chapter! Lol loved that part about your favorite girl nice save ;) I'm glad your excited for the Halloween ball I am to! Halloween is also my favorite holiday as well because what other day can you dress up and people will give you free candy? Like for real. Thanks so much for your support and I'm so unbelievably happy you like my story thanks!

Wow ok I think that was my most reviewed chapter yet! Thanks to everyone for reading and I'll see you all next time for some more awkward Connor lol! Bye! :)