A/N : Okay, before we get to the story, I'd just like to say something to ShoppingLiz who reviewed chapter 12. I would have done this in an email but you do not have an email address in your profile so I am going to do it here. I consider what I write to be fanfiction because I am a fan of the Princess Diaries and I am writing fiction based on the characters and concepts from these books. This is part of a series of stories and the first story, and even the second, were based much more on the main characters. Now I have reached the fourth story it is necessary to have new characters. I have seen many other stories on this site based on the main character's children and relatives as well as the main characters and that is all I am doing in my story. Thankyou for you compliments, I do appreciate them, but I have not seen any description of the term fanfiction that would make my story appear to be non-fanfic. If the people who read the story like it, and the people who run the site have no problem with it being in the fanfic section then I am happy.

Now that's done, I want to thank my regular reviewers for all their comments; Cordelia Osborne, KrystinePotterLover, macdeniken, A Sorta Fairytale, ndblue123, mellodramatic, XxArEULoStxX, Slytherin Chick, Azkaban Canuck - you lot are what keep me writing!

Here's the next chapter, and Jay does the decent thing and tells Phillippe the truth.....

(Disclaimer : see chapter 5)

Chapter 13 - The Triangle

"Phil, I've been looking for you all over the place" Jay said as he approached his cousin in a hallway of the palace.

"Well, you found me" Phillippe smiled, "What's up, Jay?" he asked, noticing a slight nervousness about his cousin.

"Okay, this isn't easy for me to say and it's not going to be easy for you to hear either" Jay began to ramble, never once making eye contact with Phillippe "but despite some of my recent behaviour I do know that honesty and truth are important..."

"Get to the point, Jay" Phillippe wasn't sure what was coming but the longer his cousin rambled the more worried he became.

"Phillippe, last night, well, me and Diana, we kind of kissed" Jay finally admitted.

"You 'kind of' kissed?" Phillippe tried to keep his temper hidden.

"Okay, we did kiss but it's honestly not the way it sounds" the usually more confident guy, quickly explained.

"You better hope for your sake that it's not how it sounds..." Phillippe's anger was rising and was evident in his voice now.

"Phil, this was not just me trying to screw up your engagement or cause trouble" Jay assured him, "I swear to you, it happened because...., because I'm in love with Diana"

"In love with her? You only met her yesterday!" it was obvious Phillippe was finding all this very hard to take in.

"What does that prove? You told me yourself you fell for her the first time you saw her"

"That was different!" Phillippe snapped.

"Why? What makes it different?" Jay didn't understand and many of the emotions he was feeling decided to show themselves, despite his trying to hide them all "Because you're different? Because you're a big shot royal prince and I'm just an ordinary guy? Well, I'll tell you something, Diana is no ordinary girl and I'll be damned if I'll let you treat her with anything less than the respect and love she deserves"

"Stop it! Just stop it, right now!" Diana yelled as she emerged from the door of the room just down the hall.

"Diana, I have to talk to you..." Jay said immediately.

"No, you don't, not yet, I have to talk to Phillippe first" she told him.

"But I..." his words faltered for a second "I love you"

Diana just smiled, as she said "I know, but I have to talk to him first"

Jay didn't want to go but if it was what Diana wanted then that was what he would do. He walked back down the corridor and around the corner but instead of continuing back to his room he stopped and listened to the conversation that ensued.

"I don't understand" Phillippe said, as soon as Jay was gone.

"Neither do I, really" Diana admitted.

"I thought we were in love, I thought you wanted to marry me" tears formed in the young Prince's eyes and it pained Diana to see it but she was just as confused as he was really.

"So did I, I thought I loved you, maybe I do, but Phillippe we're just kids, we're too young to be tied down in marriage..." she tried to explain but he interrupted her.

"You don't love me?"

"I don't know" she said truthfully "There's a lot of things that I don't know right now and a lot of things that aren't what I thought, and I need to work it all out before I say anything" she looked up at him, but he refused to make eye contact with her. It was just too painful for him right now. "One thing I will say though" she told him "I do care about you and I didn't mean to hurt you in any way"

"It's too late for that..." he said abruptly "because you already hurt me" he turned and opened his bedroom door again, "and I don't think you'll ever know how much" he added as he wen inside and slammed the door.

Tears ran down the blonde girls face and she wiped them away with the back of her hand.

"Diana?" Jay reappeared and seeing her sadness he put one arm around her.

"What have we done?" she sobbed.

"Fallen in love?" he tried.

"No, no, Jay, I don't think I have, I don't know if I have" she admitted, pulling away from him, before he got completely the wrong idea.

"But you just told Phillippe..." he didn't understand and she interrupted to explain.

"I told him that I wasn't sure about my feelings for him. That doesn't mean I'm sure about my feelings for you because right now, I'm not. I'm really not sure of anything and I need to work that out before anything else happens"

Jay looked surprised and a little hurt by this revelation

"I'm sorry" was all Diana could say as she walked away from him.

A/N : Please review and I'll post more soon.