Disclaimer: You like clocks? Well then sue cause that's what your gonna get, but be warned one plays Christmas music every hour on the hour all year long….still wanna sue? Yeah I didn't think so. 

Morning surprise

Beep…beep…beep!

Rini was about to hit the snooze button again for the third time that morning when she opened her eyes just enough to see the glowing numbers on the clock.

"Crap! Moms gonna kill me!" She shouted as she jumped up from her futon looking franticly for her clothes and everything she needed to get ready for the day.

"What?" Asked a groggy voice from the other side of the futon.

"Holy crap! What the hell are you still doing here!?"

"Attempting at sleeping, so you mind keeping it down." He said, still half asleep, while switching sides to get more comfortable.

"Oh, no! Alan!" Rini hissed while shaking him. "Get up, come on, get up already!" Alan turned and opened his eyes only to be brought face to face with Rini.

"I take it this time I'm not dreaming." Alan mumbled mournfully as he sat up.

"What? Oh never mind, you have to go NOW! If anyone sees you I'm gonna be grounded for life." But it was a little too late for that as her 'backup alarm clock' came banging on her door.

"Rini are you up yet." Rini looked around desperately for a place, any place to hide Alan.

"The bed! Get under the bed!" She whispered while shoving him down. Just in time, because no sooner did he get under the bed queen Serenity came walking into the room, with her hand placed firmly on her hips ready to start a lecture.

"Oh good, your up, well it's about time. You need to get dressed, we are expecting the king, queen, and their son within the next two hours, so hurry up."

"Yes mom." With that Serena kissed her daughter on her forehead and left the room, Alan, hearing the door close started to get out from under the bed. That was until he saw the door handle turning, he darted back under the bed earning him self a mild case of rug burn on his left arm and all the color from Rini faced drained at the thought of her mom finding out that a guy had slept in Rini's room, even though nothing happened there would still be hell to pay. Serena opened the door a bit and poked her head back into the room with a weary smile. 

"Oh and Rini, please try not upset this one…are you alright, you look a little pale."

"Yeah I'm fine and I will try." Rini said trying to get her mom to leave as soon as possible.

"Ok, dear," She said smiling. "I will be down stairs preparing for our guests arrival if you need me." With that the queen shut the door and left as she said.

"Well that was close." Alan said standing up from under the bed and sitting back down on it.

"Too close." Rini responded as she sat beside him on her bed. "But, well you can't stay here so, out." She extended a finger towards door as she spoke.

"Aw why not?" He said with a pout.

"You heard her, I need to get dressed."

"So?" He said a grin.

"OUT!" Rini said with a laugh as she pushed him hard off the bed.

"Alright, alright, no need to get hostile. I'm going to go see what the other girls are up to. See ya later." Alan walked out of the room and head of in the direction of the other girls rooms, though he knew they had been up for a while so wasn't sure where they would be by now. As he was thinking he ran right into Palla's mom, Ami. He quickly apologized to her then asked if she happened to know where the girls were, she told him that they had gone downstairs to watch a movie. He thanked her and went to go find them. When he got there he plopped down on a couch between Vesta and Palla who were each curled up against the plush arms of the couch. Ceres was leaning up against the couch by Vesta and Juno was lying on her stomach in front of the TV.

"Hi Alan, when did you get here? I don't recall seeing or hearing you come in." Palla questioned, glancing out the open door to the entrance to the palace.

"Oh, I umm got here a while ago." He responded hopping it would end the questioning.

"What were you doing?"

"Oh, just hanging out with Rini. So what are you all watching?"

"But I thought Rini was sleeping?"

"Yeah so was I." He mumbled.

"What was that?" Ceres, who wasn't sure if she heard right, had asked.

"Oh, I just said that she's awake."

"Really? That's not what it sounded like to me." Vesta replied, with a grin.

"Well then miss know it all, what did it sound like to you?"

"It sounded like you said that you had been sleeping too."

"Ok."

"Explain!" The girls shouted simultaneously.

"There's not much to explain, we just kinda fell asleep watching TV last night."

"What were doing here last night?"

"Well waiting for you guys to get back and watching TV."

"So what's Rini doing now?"

"Getting ready for the prince to show up." Alan responded with venom practically dripping from his voice, which didn't go unnoticed.

"Great so now she's going to be grumpy for next couple of days."

"Wait, maybe not. I got an Idea." Ceres said to her, with an almost evil gleam in her eye. "Excuse us for a minute." She said looking at Alan and signaling for the others to follow her.

"What's up?" Juno asked as soon as they were out of the room.

"Well I was thinking, since Serena doesn't want the princes here maybe we should help her out a bit." Ceres said with a grin that matched the evil gleam.

"How so?"

Ceres went on explaining the details to her plan in a low whisper just to make sure there was no possibility of anybody else overhearing their conversation.

"Are you sure he will help?"

"Defiantly, There's something up with those two that we don't know about yet" With that the girls went back into the other room, Alan was still sitting on the couch watching the movie. They explained to him their plan to him and what he was to do in very explicit detail to make sure that nothing was to go wrong.

When the Royal family finally arrived Rini, her quart and her parents all welcomed them into their home and introduced themselves. Rini and the other girls were left alone to talk with the prince. They had walked back into the living room area to watch some television and to talk. They all found places to sit. Rini, Juno, and prince James Kimigayo sat on the couch while the others sat on the floor. They had been talking mainly about their homelands for a while, well except for Vesta and Rini, who were having their own separate conversation, and Rini was trying her best to ignore the prince. That task was made harder when she felt his arm snake around her waist so that he was now holding her. She was about to move to the floor when the door opened to the room and Alan walked in. Rini was so eager to get away from the prince she literally jumped up and gave him a hug. He returned the hug and gave her a kiss on the cheek she was ready to question him on what that was all about when the prince interrupted their little moment. The prince stood up from his place on the couch and cleared his throat before introducing himself.

"I am price James Kimigayo, and you are…?" His voice tainted with disgust.

"Oh sorry, I'm Alan Kojiki, Rini's boyfriend." He couldn't help but laugh at both the prince's expression and his princess's, who was trying to hide her shock and she wasn't exactly succeeding.

Authors notes: Ok some it didn't get as far as I would have like but I suppose that's what the next chapter is for, oh I should be getting the rest of the chapters up faster then I have been, mainly because I found out that someone is actually reading and likes the story!