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Wisegirlrocks- Almost! But not quite.

Chapter 25

James starts stirring and I shift over in my seat, anxious to see if he was ok.

"Cassie?" He asks.

"I'm right here." I say taking his hand with my good arm.

"Are you feeling better?" I ask.

"I am now that you're here." He says.

I smile at how corny that sounded.

"Well, I'm glad you're ok." I say pressing a kiss to his cheek, "You really scared me there." I say a little teary eyed.

James shifts into a sitting position and opens his eyes.

"Hey babe." He says looking down at me.

"Hey yourself, I just called your mother, she's on her way down here with your dad and siblings." I say watching his reaction.

James's mouth falls open. "They're coming here!" He says excitedly.

I nod, smiling at the joy I was causing.

"Oh wow, this is great, i'll get to see my parents, and Bella and Lucas!" James says excitedly. Bella was 13, while Lucas was 8.

"Yeah, I know how much you miss your family, and mine will be coming too." I say.

James looks at me funnily.

"What?" I ask self consciously.

"You're really amazing you know." James says in awe.

I blush, "Not really." I say.

James gives me a crooked smile, "I think you are." He says leaning in for a small kiss.

The doctor walks in just then to check on James's wounds.

I excuse myself, with promises to check up on him later. I return to my room, and soon to be old room, and am greeted by my maids, plus Charlie.

"You're ok!" Kat yells.

"Yeah." I say.

Kat and Josie rush up to me and we all embrace.

Vicky holds back though.

"What's wrong?" I ask her.

"Miss, you're the princess now, before, it may have been alright to be a little friendly with us, but now you're royalty, a one, and we're sixes, you could probably even get new maids now." Vicky says sadly.

I march right up to her.

"Victoria Johnson, stop that nonsense right now! I am no different than I was this morning. You three are my maids, and I love you all, so stop being so ridiculous!" I say.

Charlie bursts in laughter. "Vicky, you know she's right." He says seriously when he's done laughing.

"Hi Charlie." I say raising my eyebrows.

"Hi Cassie, I tried checking up on you at the hospital, but you weren't there, so I proceeded to wait for you with my wife and Kat and Josie." He says importantly.

"Oh, well, hi." I say.

Charlie rolls his eyes at me.

"Come here!" He says.

He and Vicky give me a hug, and Vicky even smiles sheepishly at me.

"Ok Cassie, I'm prepared to be your friend again." She says.

"Yay!" I say dancing around a little.

We all chuckle a little, and then Vicky has to be sensible and say that I have to get dressed. She kicks Charlie out and my maids proceed to change me out of my hospital clothes.

They dress me into a light pale pink with sparkles on it and a silky feel to it.

When that is done, Kat applies a light coat of make up to my face and I'm fitted into matching shoes. My shoes had a low heel, because I was still injured, with new ones as well.

Now I had another worry, do I tell Jacob about the three rebels in the selection? Or do I keep it to myself. I feel like I owed Cory for saving James, and so I decided to keep it to myself, for now.

I thanked my maids for helping me and went to visit my friends.

First I went to Ariel's room.

She pulls me in.

"Oh my gosh, Cassie, Princess Cassie, you're ok, I was so worried!" She exclaims.

I realize then that the whole gang was in her room.

Jessie, Bree, Tori, Marlene and Ashley were all sitting on the floor playing a game of cards.

When I'm pulled in by Ariel they all jump up to curtsey to me and chime in at how glad they were to see me.

Ashley gives me a wary glance, and I shake my head at her.

She still looks wary so I mouth, 'I didn't tell' at her.

She looks relieved.

"What do we call you now?" Bree asks.

"Well, I think that I want to be called Princess Cassandra, Emily sounds too weird, it's just not my name. But you all can call me Cassie." I say.

"That sounds fine!" Bree says, and the girls all nod.

"I never thought that I'd be friends with a princess!" Ariel remarks.

"Well, one of you might be queen!" I say, my eyes gleaming, "And I'm totally pulling for all of you, and I will totally put in a good word with Prince Jacob, ahem, my brother, oh it sounds so weird saying that!" I exclaim.

"You're the best!" Jessie says.

Just then, there was a knock at the door.

One of Ariel's maids gets it and Jacob walks in.

"Oh." He says once he sees the crowd in Ariel's room.

I giggle at his expression.

"I was told that Tori was in here. Are you ready for our date?" He asks Tori.

Tori gulps, "Oh, so sorry that I forgot!" She exclaims.

She quickly follows Jacob out and they leave for their date.

"Oh, and your parents will be here tomorrow." Jacob calls.

My face lights up. "Really! Yay!" I say.

Jessie looks at me questioningly. "My adoptive family is coming, I have to explain this whole mess to them." I say.

"Yeah, maybe you should explain to us first." Bree says.

"Oops, sorry, ok, I guess I should start from the beginning." I say.

I tell them about Andrew switching me and Emily at birth, but I don't mention Cory, right now, it would be wise to leave Cory out of this, it's bad enough that Jacob already knows about him, and the other royals, I mean my family.

When I finish, the girls are staring at me open mouthed, well, Ashley is pretending to.

"Wow." Says Jessie at last.

"Yeah." Marlene agrees.

"And that's not all, Devon, the rebel that you saw in the dining room, he took my friend/boyfriend from Kent and almost killed him, and now, well, me and James, the boy, are sort of in a relationship." I say.

"Awww!" Bree squeals.

"That's so sweet!" Ariel says dreamily.

I smile. "I love you guys!" I say and we have a group hug, careful of my arm.

"Yikes, does your arm hurt?" Asks Jessie.

"A little, I'm on medication, so that numbs it I guess." I say shrugging as best as I could with one arm.

"Sorry." Ashley says, attempting to be apart of our girl conversation.

I look at her coolly, not that at ease with the knowledge that she's a rebel.

"Well, I have to go, I'm meeting up with Jacky and Maureen." Ashley says getting to her feet.

"Oh, ok, see you later!" We all chorus.

Ashley forces a smile and leaves.

"Oh yeah, sorry, but we have to go, Vivian wants us to all meet in the Women's Room." Bree says remembering, "You can come too I think, Queen Reyna, your mom, will be there. They're giving us our next challenge." Bree adds.

"Yeah, with eliminations afterwards!" Jessie says worriedly.

Sighing we all get to our feet and walk to the Women's Room.

Queen Reyna, mom, seems a little surprised to see me, but she doesn't say anything.

"Ok girls!" Vivian says clapping her hands.

"I know the rebel attack this morning scared you all, but we have a selection to get though!" She says.

"The next challenge for you all is going to be a little different than the last one." She says pursing her lips.

"Myself and Queen Reyna will be supervising it. So, you girls, minus Cassie." She says winking at me.

"You girls will be all writing letters to Prince Jacob, anonymously." She says letting that sink in.

"One every day, for one week, you will all get a number, and that is what you will write, like from number, and then you fill in your number. I suggest to be yourselves in this challenge." Vivian says looking at everyone.

"Three girls will win, and there will be at least three eliminations, probably more. After the last day of the letters, Prince Jacob will announce which three numbers won, and those three will each get a date with the prince.

There will be 7 losers of the challenge, and out of those seven, the prince will send home three. Only the winners are safe in this challenge, and anyone besides them can be eliminated, even if you're not a loser." Vivian says, "Any questions?" She asks.

Bree raises her hand. "So there will be three winners who will be safe. There will be 7 losers, three of which are getting eliminated. And then anyone else can be eliminated if the prince chooses?" She asks.

"Yes," Vivian answers. "But the prince can select more than three out of the losers, he just needs to send home at least three."

Queen Reyna cuts in, "You will meet in the Women's Room after lunch to write your letters, you will have as much time as you want. Then Prince Jacob will read them all and send you replies after breakfast the next morning." She says.

Besides me, Jessie shifts uncomfortably. I give her hand a comforting squeeze.

I look around to see other girls reactions. Lana looks confident, while Ruby looks a little worried. Allison is really beaming, she is kind of shy, so when her thoughts were on paper, I guess she wasn't. Gina looked nonchalant, while Jenna was sitting on the edge of her seat, ready to take on the challenge.

Out of my friends, Jessie looked a little upset, while Ariel was smiling a little. Bree was excited, while Tori and Marlene were a little worried. The three rebel girls eyes were wide open, like, 'what's going on, I didn't sign up for this.'

Cynthia, sitting with Lana, but no Courtney curiously, raises her hand. "When does this start?" She asks snottily.

"Now." Replies Vivian.

As all of the girls gasp in surprise, Queen Reyna motions for me to help her.

She gets out some paper and pens and we and Vivian pass them out to everyone, along with a clipboard.

Vivian goes around to tell everyone their numbers after we're done.

All I hear is the scratching of pen on paper and Vivian whispers that I could leave if I wanted to.

I go to my room to smoothen my make- up out before I went to visit James.

My maids were missing, probably working on renovations for my new room, and I didn't feel like bothering them.

I read a book for a few minutes, and when half an hour passes, I get ready to go.

As I'm about to open the door, there's a knock on it.

I open the door and to my surprise Courtney is standing at the door.

Oooh, why is Courtney there!? Hint, Cassie did something during the rebel action scene with Devon and Cory, maybe that's why Courtney's there.

Also, do you like this pen pal challenge? I will list the numbers of each girl in the next chapter, because you will see Jacob's POV when he reads some of them and replies, unless you don't want numbers and want to guess, review to tell me if you want to know the numbers or not.

Also, the rebels aren't done yet. There is more of Devon to come, and a betrayal from inside the palace! And in the next chapter, she'll explain to her adoptive parents this whole mess!

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