Story in a nutshell: Queen Lucia and Adelina (Esteban's mother) bonding

Adelina Consuela Flores looked around at the castle still impressed that her younger sister managed to snag the prince. This was her second time here since the wedding even though today she was moving in, although not for very long. She wanted to find her sister, Lucia, and parents to tell them the good news.

"Have you seen the queen?" she asked as soon as she saw a maid. Since marrying Raul people have been referring to her sister as the queen. It felt weird to say but her sister took it in stride. The maid nodded before pointing in the direction of the room that she was in. Shrugging a little she walked into that room to find nothing but fabric and sewing materials.

Then she saw her sister standing there in the middle of a fitting. A beautiful light lavender purple gown seemed to show off her curves quite nicely. They looked like they were in the middle of it though. Lucia seemed to be off in her own world humming around. That was one thing she loved about her sister was that giant imagination she seemed to have.

"Addy!" cried out Lucia as she rushed over to find her sister. The seamstress just grinned as the sisters hugged. Oh my gosh it felt so good to see her. "This is going to be my new queen ballgown. I even got my hair styled for the first time since my quinceanera. I'm even getting you a dress made!"

She squealed happy to hear that she was going to get a new royal gown.

"That's so sweet, I'm sure I'll love it but guess what?"

"What?"

"Santiago proposed to me," she said thinking of her now fiancé. Santiago was just so handsome and she loved everything about him. They had met at Raul's eighteenth birthday party and haven't really stopped talking since. They had been courting for two years now as she grew warm at the thought then showed her the ring. Adelina had been hiding her hand behind her back and waited until just the right moment.

For a second her sister was stunned before bouncing around. This was super exciting first Lucia got married and now it was Adelina. It was just a great day for the Flores family. They squeezed each other as they got super excited. It wasn't every day that one of the sisters was getting married.

"Other than that, I just wanted to come and help the others. I can't believe that I'm a duchess now, sister to the queen. And to help mami and papi move our stuff."

It had been a tradition for the parents of the bride or groom to move into the castle. They had their own suite and everything. Today they were moving in and Adelina with them until she was married. Santiago's mother was just so sweet on her that it'll be easy to adjust. Too bad she had a lot of things going between two places now.

"I can't wait for your wedding I can help, right?" asked Lucia as she gestured for a maid to get her measurements.

"Of course, you're going to be my maid of honor." That made Lucia squeal as she got exciting to hear that. She had been Lucia's and now it was her turn. "But let's not talk about that. Tell me what it's like being a queen. Or life now."

"There's a lot going on," said Lucia as she thought about it. "I have to go to some royal lessons since I'll be helping make major decisions. Like what to do in case of an attack. Or how to properly greet the king of Satu, that kind of thing."

That sounded a bit stressful, thought Adelina, before shrugging. "Sounds like fun and you'll be learning something new."

"They can be especially when Raul comes in and helps me study. Sometimes even King…"

That was when outside the door there was a crash. Startled the sisters got up and looked around trying to find the source to see a bunch of books topple over from one of the boxes. Their father, Francisco, looked annoyed at all of the books that had scattered across the floor. He looked up and saw both girls.

"These are your journals," he said stroking his mustache looking around at the books. "Which means I think you two should clean them up."

Francisco gave them a look to help as they got on their knees to stack them up. They giggled as one of the maids stopped to help. A majority of the books were actually Adelina's since she was the writer of the family. There wasn't a day that she didn't write something down in her beautiful handwriting. Francisco gave the box to one of the maids to carry and him another before both girls had to return to the sewing room.

"I'm going to miss you, knowing that you're not going to be here anymore," said Lucia after a minute.

Adelina had thought about it for a moment before realizing that they were going to be a bit distant. That didn't stop her from thinking of visiting a lot. Maybe Santiago could move in here or they could stay and visit a couple of times during the week.

"I think it's going to be like I'm not even gone," she said.

"True, you could stay and our kids could play with each other." Lucia was getting excited as the seamstress went back to finishing the dress. It was just about done and then they could go back to help move. Adelina laughed a little too knowing that they would have their children close together.

The seamstress coughed to let them know that she was done. Lucia went back to throw her floral patterned dress back on. Then the sisters went to go find their parents. Adelina thought back to what Lucia had said about not being here as often. She was sure going to try to be here most of the time if she could.

"Hey Lucia," she said as her sister turned to smile at her. "Count me in on being here."