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" Hotaru! Get up! Prince Heero has come to take you riding!" Ella said shaking Hotaru from her deep slumber.
" What…. It's only six o'clock. Tell him to go away and come back later." Came a sleepy reply from Hotaru.
" Hotaru Tomoe, this is not your brother you are talking about. This is Heero Yuy prince of Jupiter and it's moons. You had better get dressed." Ella replied
Many minutes later
" Good morning, Hotaru." Heero greeted
" It is not a good morning. In fact it is the exact opposite, it is a bad morning. Why the hell did you come so early? God even Ella wasn't up." Hotaru replied angrily.
" Well, I didn't know that you were so sensitive in the morning." Heero said, surprised of her choice of words.
" Let me get a cup of coffee and I'll perk right up." Hotaru said a bit softer.
" Coffee? Don't you drink tea like your mother said that you should?"
" No. My mother would have me sitting inside sewing right this minute and every minute of my life, if I listened to her, so I don't."
" Well would you like to go riding after you get your coffee?"
" It's not like I have a choice." Hotaru said sullenly.
After Coffee
" Well, I'm sorry I came so early for you. I forgot the time difference on Saturn and I haven't set my watch yet. See in Jupiter when it's six o'clock here it's around eleven o'clock there." Heero apologized
" It's fine, I'm sure it was an honest mistake. So do you agree with this whole arranged marriage thing?" Hotaru asked.
" Actually I do, I believe that a parent has a right to control who his/her daughter will marry, especially in royal marriages. Don't you agree?" Heero questioned.
" No, I don't a person, boy or girl should have the right to marry who they love, NOT someone who they most likely do not know. I believe a parent has a right to agree with a marriage and give there blessings or not but they shouldn't control there children. Especially in royal marriages because unhappy people make unhappy rulers which makes unhappy citizens." Hotaru said, trying not to sound angry but eventually raising her voice.
" Well, you make a good point. Is everyone on your planet so blunt in their speech?" Heero asked surprised at the answer she gave.
" Yes, we believe in telling the truth before sparing someone's feelings. It's been that way for centuries and I hope it will always be that way." Hotaru replied blatantly. " Did you bring a horse with you or do you need to pick one from our stables." She asked.
" Actually I did bring a horse, having heard that Saturn has the best riding fields in the galaxy. His name is Io, that is one of Jupiter's moons." Heero replied.
" Well that's interesting, will you wait while I get my horse?"
" Don't you have servants to bring the horse to you?" Heero asked confusedly.
" Yes, but I prefer to saddle my own horse, instead of being treated like the princess I am." Hotaru replied briskly.
While riding
" What's your horses name?" Heero asked.
" Her name is Firefly, she's like me an orphan and my name means firefly sprouting from the earth so I just took the firefly part and named her that." Hotaru replied. " You didn't know I was adopted did you?" Hotaru questioned at the puzzled look on Heero's face.
" No I didn't, I mean you seem so close to your brother, and you really look like your mother I never even imagined that you were adopted. Well this explains a lot." He replied knowingly.
" What do you mean? " this explains a lot"." She asked
" Well it explains why you don't act like a… a… Princess"
" You mean just because I'm adopted I don't act like I should. You've insulted my family, sir and me. Good-day!" and with that she turned Firefly around and galloped back to the castle, leaving Heero to find his own way back.
TBC
Well maybe they won't be the happy couple that Ami thought they would be. Oh well. REVIEW