Under Twinkling Stars
Cast:
Cure Princess, Shirayuki Hime - age 16
Namakeldar, Namase Kenta - age 22
August, 2015
It is a warm summer evening. The sun has gone down. The stars twinkle in the sky. Shirayuki Hime, her makeup disordered and wearing a fancy blue dress trimmed with lapis lazuli, sweeps across the grass like a thunderstorm before flopping down on a park bench.
"Oh, I've had it with love! Boys are just the worst!"
"Why don't you give up then, Cure Princess?"
Not having expected a response, Hime nearly jumps out of her skin. Immediately behind the bench she is on, Namakeldar is laying down on another bench with his hat pulled over his eyes.
"Nama- ...se?" Hime forces herself to calm down and call him by his real name. "What are you doing here?"
"Need I be a vagrant to enjoy a nap in the park?"
"You were sleeping? Sorry about waking you up."
"At times sleeping, at times thinking, at times uncertain. I thought that the night air might help me to clear my head, and here we are."
"Here we are..." Hime echoes. "Maybe I should give up... I could set a complete ban on falling in love."
"Spoken like a true absolute monarch. I'd say that person would be proud, but we both know how that turned out."
"Ugh. Did you have to bring her up?"
"I was thinking of the gentleman, but I take your point. For all that I regret my lost love, I regret getting involved with that lot even more."
"You should," Hime huffs. "You guys were total jerks."
"I suppose we were. If I can get over that, then maybe it would not be so unreasonable to give love another chance."
"I suppose I won't give up, then. I don't want to feel like I'm losing to you." Hime pauses. "You're not trying to hit on me, are you?"
"A twelve year old like you? Perish the thought."
"Twelve!" Hime jumps to her feet, then snatches his hat from over his face. "I'm sixteen, you moldy grasshopper!"