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Befriending a prince

Prince Kimigayo was more than upset at this statement. A princess dating someone other than a prince, it was absurd. Especially for this princess, the princess of not only the earth but also the moon, having the most powerful kingdom in the entire universe, needless to say, any and every prince wanted to claim this kingdom for his own. His anger getting the best of him, he stormed out of the room, leaving the others to themselves.

Rini looked down at the others, the look on the prince's face as he stormed out of the room was priceless. The way his face scrunched up resembled a slightly rotten tomato, with eyes. It had sent Alan and the girls on the floor, in a fit of laughter. Though, as pleased as Rini was to see the prince leave, she was still perplexed by Alan's last statement. As soon as Rini was done laughing and could manage to speak again and as Alan started to calm down a bit Rini began her own questioning for what had just happened.

"What was that all about?" Rini sat up so she could attempt to glare at her friends, but the smile that was lingering didn't help matters much.

"Why, whatever do you mean?" They all question while putting on innocent and confused faces hopping she would buy into their false sincerity…a lost cause.

"You know exactly what I mean."

"We just thought you would want a break for prince charming." The last part of this sentence was said, with very much sarcasm.

"Well then…Honey, I owe you one." This sent them back to laughing, well at least for a few minutes.

"So what now?" Juno asked, growing bored with the conversation, she wanted to be having fun not lying around the palace floors, again.

"Arcade?" They all jumped at the idea, especially Rini, who knew this would keep her away from her mother, for at least a little while longer. The queen would be most certainly be pissed when she found out that Rini had managed to make yet another prince angry and this within the first 10 minutes upon his arrival. 

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Prince Kimigayo walked down the crowed streets of Tokyo, not knowing exactly where he was going. He had decided to go after the princess and her friends to apologize for his actions earlier, but first he had to find them. He had been walking for about fifteen minutes when he glanced into a small building, a pair of pink acorns catching his eye. He walked in and over to where the princess was, she was currently facing off against Alan in an arcade game, judging from the looks of things Rini was winning, she was smiling and Alan was shouting at her every so often. James decided to wait for her to finish, her game before apologizing. He went over to the booth that Palla and Vesta were sitting at and sat down next to Vesta. The three of them had started a conversation on their future dreams when Alan and Rini finally finished and came to sit down at the booth with their friends.

"Oh, hi James. Ummm…what are you doing here?" Rini asked as she and Alan slid into the booth next to Palla.

"Well actually I came to apologize to you guys for leaving so suddenly this morning."

"Oh don't worry about it, so what were you guys talking about?"

"We were just talking about what we wanted to do once we've finished school."

"What about you Rini, what do you want to do or are you just gonna be the queen?"

"Well actually I've been considering becoming a teacher in my spare time." This brought on a little bit of shock to everyone, Rini had yet to mentioned that before to any of them. They continued with their conversation all telling what they want to do and where they planed on doing this until they realized that it was starting to get late. They all got up to leave, saying goodbye to Alan, then headed off for the palace once again engaging in conversation. This surprised even Rini, she normally would never voluntarily talk to a prince. As they entered the place they all went in separate directions, except for James and Rini.

"May I walk you to your room?" James asked, offering his arm to her. "Or would Alan not approve?" Rini laughed at the realization the prince was still thought that her and Alan were a couple. She thought for a moment if she should continue to allow the prince to believe that or if she should be honest with him. Her friends and her had been talking with him for the last couple of hours and had started to accept him as a friend. That thought finalized it, she hated lying to her friends so would just have to tell him the truth. Rini smiled back at the prince slipping her arm through his telling him that she accepted his offer.

"James, Alan and I are just friends. We're not going out, they just thought by telling you that you would leave and it seemed to work for a while." Rini told him as they walked up the stairs towards Rini's room. James looked up at her, wondering why they would be trying to get rid of him so soon.

"Every prince I have met so far has been a conceited jerk, the last one I dumped hot soup on the guy."

"Well then, it sounds like I made out all right then" He chuckled as he stopped at Rini's door. "Well goodnight milady." He bowed slightly then headed off to his own room.

Rini sighed as she sat down at her desk in front of her computer. This prince was defiantly different then the rest, she had even considered him to be a friend. Rini turned on her computer; forgetting her all of previous thoughts and deciding on talking to some of her other friends from school, since it was spring break she hadn't had the chance to see them in almost a week.

Author's notes: Another chapter completed! I will try to get one more chapter up before Thursday after that I am being dragged out of town again so it will take about a week before six will be up. In chapter five the plotting begins, so keep reading!