Hello! So I hope you all are enjoying the story so far. Yeah it is really getting to be a teen story so don't expect there to be K stuff in here. Anyway well I want to say thank you so much for reading this story! I have had a lot of favorites/alerts/reviews and it is so amazing especially since this is my first story! You all are amazing So some of the ideas in here were created by my best friend I-am-too-outrageous-4u like the first part of this chapter! There should be another chapter up tonight I have been writing a lot this weekend and for sure next chapter will be long. Thanks everyone! I don't own Percy, Annabeth does
At breakfast that morning it was the best breakfast ever. Our palace was attacked by a dragon I know this sounds bad but then the best part happened. We sacrificed Alexander and Penelope and they were eaten. The dragon left after that and we continued eating. (A/N this was my friend's idea) No that sadly was just my dream. What actually happened at breakfast was that we ate and it was just like the night before, awkward and Armand being the only one talking to my friends. It was nice to see him trying to befriend my friends instead of being snotty royals like my mother, Alexander, Penelope, and Lord and Lady of Yorkshire.
"Oh Alexander I had a dream about you last night." I said. My friends were all like seriously why dream about him.
"Awww Carter that is so sweet." He said. I think he was serious.
"Oh you died." I said (A/N this is from teenagerposts on tumblr)
"Well that ruined the moment." Alexander said.
"That was the point." I said.
"On another point, Demitra you have a dress fitting today with Natasha." My mother said.
"Great. Hey can my friends come? Well you know only the girls." I asked.
"That sounds lovely why don't you go to town and help them pick out dresses for the ball after your fitting." Armand said.
"Thanks! Your letting me go into town with just my friends?" I asked.
"Why not you're almost seventeen. Plus if you have a fiancée why not be able to go into town alone?" He said. He mentioned that fiancée thing just to piss my mother off. This is why I love him. I felt bad that his arranged marriage was to my mother.
"Armand! That is a terrible idea! The paparazzi and all those criminals!" my mother shouted.
"Carter is responsible enough Callista." He said.
"Your highness we promise we will be extremely careful." Annabeth said.
"I don't think it is a good idea." My mother said.
"Well my friends need stuff to wear to the ball and we can bring the guys to protect us. I mean they are strong football players." I needed my mom to let us leave this prison.
"Fine you all can go only if you bring Alexander with you." My mother said.
"Mom then for sure someone will come up and kill us. Nobody likes Alexander." I said.
"Demitra!"
"It's true. And I also have Clarisse she can beat up anyone. Please mom trust me for once." I said.
"Carter you can go. Natasha is waiting for you upstairs. You and your friends that aren't guys can go to the fitting." Armand said.
"Thanks Armand!" I said then walked over and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Thalia, Clarisse, Kat, Sadria, and Annabeth followed me to my fitting room, yes we have a room dedicated to outfit fittings.
"Hello Carter!" Well who are these beautiful ladies?" Natasha asked.
"These are my friends Annabeth, Thalia, Kat, Sadria, and well she isn't really my closest friend but Clarisse." I said.
"Lovely! Well I have made a stunning red dress for you!" Natasha said.
"I can't wait to see it!" I said. Natasha came in with a huge red ball gown that was strapless and stunning. Red is my favorite color and if it's my party it needs to be a big dress according to my mother.
"Now I put a corset in it just because well your mother told me to." Natasha said.
"I hate corsets but this dress is stunning! What do you girls think?" I asked.
"Well can you walk in a dress that big?" Thalia asked.
"Yes I can. I am used to walking in big dresses. Don't worry you all can wear whatever dresses you want as long as they are floor length and not red." I said.
"Why not red?" Annabeth asked.
"It is considered rude to show up in the same color dress as the princess. Well at least to my mother it is rude." I said.
"Oh, well I love the dress!" Annabeth said.
"It's stunning!" Sadria said.
"It's red!" Kat said then she laughed I don't understand this girl.
"It's girly." Clarisse said.
"You know you all have to wear dresses right?" I asked.
"Well yes as long as they aren't too girly." Thalia said.
"I am wearing a black one." Clarisse said.
"Great! Let me change and then we can all go dress shopping!" I said.
"Oh Carter how many guy friends do you have because I have a lot of tuxedos for them and ties." Natasha asked.
"Well six. They all have different tastes." I said.
"That's fine. Send them up and I can work my magic. I mean don't you girls want to surprise them with your dresses?" Natasha asked.
"I would like to surprise Percy." Annabeth said.
"Ok lets go on a girl shopping trip only!" I said.
"How are we going to buy nice clothing? We don't have a lot of money as teenage girls." Thalia said.
"Oh I'll pay for whatever you wear to the ball from the dress all the way to the accessories." I said.
"Thanks Carter." Annabeth said.
"Sure thing." I said.
We all walked downstairs and told the guys to go up to see Natasha for their outfits then we all got in my limo to go downtown. There was this really nice dress store that we all went into. I was determined to find a dress each of my friends liked.
"So what color of dress do each of you want?" I asked.
"Blue. It's my favorite color." Annabeth said.
"Whatever looks best. Electric blue or black." Thalia said.
"Black." Clarisse said.
"PINK!" Kat shouted.
"Blue. It's also my favorite color." Sadria said.
"Ok let's start shopping!" I said. All of them grabbed three dresses each in their desired color and went into a changing room. Annabeth was the first one to come out. She wore an ice blue dress that had rhinestones all over it.
"It looks beautiful!" I said.
"Thanks I like this one the best!" Annabeth said. Thalia came out next.
"I actually love this dress." Thalia said. She wore an electric blue dress that had a rhinestone strap that came off of one shoulder.
"Thalia it really brings out your eyes! Get it!" I said.
"Ok I will!" Thalia said. Sadria came out in a blue strapless dress. It was really pretty on her.
"I adore this dress. I am taking it with me!" She said.
"I love it!" I said.
"I hate dresses but I can actually tolerate this." Clarisse said. She had a simple black floor length dress that had a one shoulder strap.
"It looks good on you!" I said.
"Thanks?" she said.
"Sure well I am dating your brother so I think you and I need to get along." I said.
"Yeah dating him for now." She said.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Well with this Alexander guy I think he feels kinda well weird about it. Whatever." Clarisse said.
"Well I love Max not Alexander." I said.
"I look so pretty! I am a princess!" Kat said. She wore a puffy strapless pink ball gown that came a little above the floor in the front.
"Kat I love it!" I said.
"I know it's so me!" She said.
We all got in the limo and went back to the palace after we did more shopping. We ate dinner and then we all went to bed. I kissed Max good night. Then I heard a knock on my door. No surprise it was Alexander.
"Carter can we talk outside in the courtyard?' he asked me.
"Why?" I asked then he pulled me by the hand and we went down the steps and before I knew it we were in the courtyard.
"So do you really have feelings for that idiot Max?" Alexander asked.
"First of all he isn't an idiot. He is the sweetest guy I have ever met and I love him." I said.
"You do realize you can never be with him right? For one thing he isn't royal and he is poor." He said.
"You know what I don't care if he is rich or poor or if he is royal or not. I love him because he is amazing and he loves me for me not because of my looks or my money." I said.
"How do you know he doesn't love you for money? I mean since his family is poor, dating you could benefit his family because he gets your money." Alexander said.
"Look Max isn't one to care about my money. He loved me before he found out I was a princess. I don't need you to make me doubt him. I don't believe anything you say." I said.
"Really if I remember right you thought you and I would be together forever."
"That was before I realized you were a cheating bastard."
"Whoa watch the name calling. Look Carter I love you and you have to marry me for the sake of your country."
"No I don't. Why would marrying you benefit my country?"
"Well let's see I am a wealthy duke that could bring prosperity to your country. That's how."
"My country is fine. This conversation is pointless. I am going back to bed. I don't even need to stay engaged to you. Actually I want you out of my palace by tomorrow afternoon before the ball. It is my birthday tomorrow and I don't need it to be spoiled by you. I am announcing tomorrow that our engagement is off."
"You wouldn't do that. Not if you know what is good for you. Do you want me to tell Max about our night where you and I slept together because you were so wasted you thought you loved me. Or the fact that you and I kissed last night and now" he leaned in a gave me a kiss.
"You are such a bastard. You know what fine I won't break the engagement off tomorrow but I will someday because I don't need you. I want Max so just leave me alone!"
"Admit it Carter you still have feelings for me. You think they are feelings of hatred but you didn't pull away when I kissed you a minute ago."
"I don't love you! Those feelings are gone now."
"So you admit you loved me. You are convincing yourself right now that you hate me I can tell you still have feelings for me."
"Alexander leave me alone I don't love you. I don't need to be screwed over again and again. I am moving on because I know you will never change! I am a not the same girl you knew six months ago!" At this point I was crying and I ran upstairs and cried my eyes out. Something inside of me was telling me not to be with him but another feeling was how I felt six months ago, the feelings I had for Alexander. I kept telling myself I loved Max but the truth was I wasn't 100% over Alexander and Alexander knew that and used that weakness against me.
Well this was the longest chapter I have ever written but it also had a lot of stuff with it! So relationships will be tested! Thanks you guys