Part 3 is up! Part 4 to come soon, either late tonight or tomorrow. I can do a lot of writing this weekend 'cause I'm off for 3 days!! Woohoo! I love the weekends. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this part and I would like to thank everyone who has been reviewing. Your helping me get these parts out faster and keeping it going! Thanks! I really appreciate all the nice things people have been saying about it:) Enjoy!

Disclaimer: None of the characters belong to me, except the ones that I made up. You can't sue me anyway, I have no money. Really, I don't, even though I have a job...okay, so I do have some, but you can't take it from me it's for college *sticks tongue out at people* You wouldn't take that away...would you? :) (Yes, it's true even I can be immature at times, hell all the time)!

Lysse looked green in the face. Kel had just told her who and what Joren was.

"Really? He's that bad?" Lysse put the tea she was drinking down. Kel nodded her head.

"Yep, and worse. Though recently he's been acting a little weird so I've been trying to stay away from him." Lysse gave a quiet 'oh'. Kel felt very sorry that she had to be the one to tell Lysse who the man she had to marry was. Just looking at the expression on Lysses's face could have broken anyone's heart. Kel just stood there next to Lysse; everyone in the room waiting for Lysse to say more.

"Well," Lysse said perking slightly, "He can't be that bad if my parents made the arrangement for me." Lysse gave a tiny smile of hope towards Kel, which wasn't answered. Kel sighed and studied Lysse, how could this girl be so ignorant to what she was getting into? Maybe she wasn't ignorant, maybe she was just looking at the bright side of things. Of all the things Lysse could be, she wasn't stupid. Kel could tell that just by looking her. Her eyes held an intelligence that Kel had never seen before in a court lady. This led Kel to wonder about Lysse's upbringing, what kind had she had? Lysse broke into her thoughts.

"Well, I'd better be going now, come along Anji and Sera. Kel could you come with us? I'm afraid I'll get lost on the way to my room."

"Yeah, come on." With that they left Kel's room and followed her through the halls. While, on their way to the noble's wing Kel showed them around a little reintroducing them to the castle they hadn't seen for years.

"And this is the training room," Kel opened the door a little for the girls to see inside and just incase anyone was in the middle of practice. What Kel and the girls saw was Joren, alone, practicing his sword techniques. Kel quickly shut the door before he noticed the group watching him.

"Well, Lysse, you said you wanted to meet Joren, well that was him." Lysse looked at Kel and then at the door, blushing slightly.

"He's pretty." Kel gave an aggravated, unintelligible sound and continued with the tour. Joren had that effect on women, but once Lysse got to know him, Kel thought, she wouldn't think so anymore.

While passing the outer door to the courtyard, Kel and the girls heard a ruckus and went outside to see what it was.

"Mother," Lysse shrieked close to Kel's ear causing her to wince. Lysse ran up to the tall woman who was just getting off her horse. In the process, Anji had run up to the second woman, hugging her. These must be their mothers, Kel thought. After a happy and loud reunion Lysse and Anji came over to where Kel was standing holding the hands of their mothers.

"Kel, I would like you to meet my mother, Sandra of Oakswood. Mother this is Kel, the girl page. You know, the one I wrote you about!" Sandra of Oakswood looked at Kel with a genuine smile on her face. Now Kel knew where Lysse got her intelligence from and now that Kel thought about it, that's probably why the ladies of the court didn't like Lysse's mother. Sandra stood tall and proud as she looked over Kel. It was like she didn't have a care in the world.

"It's nice to meet you Kel, I've heard so much about you." Kel gave a bow.

"It's nice to meet you too, my lady."

"Oh no, call me Sandra, I don't care for all that protocol crap." Kel's eyebrows went up at the word 'crap'. Another reason the court ladies probably did not like this woman, her language. This woman had no tact. Kel turned her attention to the other older woman who stood before her, who was also looking back at Kel.

"Kel, this is my mother and Lysse's aunt, Linda of Lyonin." Anji gestured to her mother.

"Nice to meet you, Kel. You may also call me Linda. I love to be on a first name basis with people."

"I'm glad to meet you...Linda." It felt awkward to Kel calling elders by their first names, but if that's what they wanted...

"Lysse, Anji, we'll meet you in your rooms soon. We have to go see Thayet about a few things." Sandra, then turned and walked into the castle followed by Linda and Anji, who had wanted to go with her mother.

"I'll have to talk to her about the marriage union later I guess." Lysse said. "Well, while I'm waiting, Kel, do you want to go back to the training room and talk to my future husband? Let's go I remember the way." Lysse grabbed Kel's hand and began dragging her back the way they came.

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"What?! What do you mean she's marrying Joren?"

"Now, Roald calm down, I got this letter yesterday from Lysse's mother, telling me that she had arranged a marriage with Joren's parents. I think that it may be a good idea, the family is rich and ever since Sandra's husband died, the money in the Oakswood family has been going down. Besides I don't understand why your getting so worked up over this, it's not like your in love with her."

Roald blushed slightly. Had his mother guessed? If only he could call out loud and tell his mother just how much he did love Lysse. Roald was clueless as to where or when this love had blossomed, but it was there and he was now feeling it more than ever mixed with extreme jealousy and anger towards this whole marriage to Joren. Roald just stood up, bowed to his mother and walked out, leaving her speechless. He had to come up with a plan and fast.

I know, it's not as long as the other parts, but don't worry there is much more to come with so many more ideas. More romance, Kel/Neal, Cleon/(can't tell u, but you can probably guess), with some other would be couple's along the way. I hope it's not confusing yet! Did you enjoy this part? I love leaving people with cliff hangers:) Soon, I think after the next part, there will be a ball scene, things will begin to move along there and afterwards. More characters, like Lord Wyldon's wife:) Then I'm going to have to stop adding characters, it's getting confusing even for me. Anyways, hoped you enjoyed it and please review. I really want to know what you think so far!