(Guys this will be my last chapter for about a week or so, if not more, so enjoy!)

Short temper

Alanna walked to the library. She had a terrible sleep last night and wanted to be by herself for a bit. She knew Thom wouldn't be there due to some reason to do with Sir Myles. She still hadn't apologised to him yet about her behaviour last night, but it was his fault as well. She didn't want to talk about it so he didn't have to press that matter any further.

Opening the door she came face to face with the Prince. His eyes opened up wide and his jaw dropped slightly as he gasped. Alanna on the other hand, took a step back and slammed the door in his face.

He was everywhere!

Storming off Alanna decided she would go to the gardens and sit down for a bit. Her high-healed shoe tapped softy along the corridors. But along with her footsteps, she could her others. Heavier footsteps. She stopped abruptly, and so did the footsteps.

As she started to walk again, the other footsteps did too.

She was being followed.

She turned and looked behind her. A big burly fellow was behind her. Ralon of Malven. Alanna walked faster. Thom had told her about him, and he didn't sound to nice.

Looking back again, Alanna saw him walking up faster behind her. She wanted to run, but she wasn't going to give him that dignity. She was near the knights living quarters now anyway.

"What do you want Malven?" She asked boldly as he came up beside her.

"Nothing m'lady, what ever made you think that?" He asked and with that pushed her against the wall.

Alanna gasped. She hadn't expected that. He pushed himself against her.

"Get off me!" Alanna growled. "Now!"

"Ha!" He mumbled. "Don't say that to me. I know what you want." And licked her along her cheek.

Alanna's face boiled with anger. How dare he?! Furiously, she brought her knee up hard, making a sickening crack.

Ralon doubled over and Alanna punched hard in the face. He fell to the ground.

She kicked him in the stomach and shouted, "You sleazy filthy pig! You're not better than a thief!" And kicked him again.

Two strong arms wrapped around hers and held her back. As a reflex, Alanna twisted out of the grip and gave the person that was holding her a full on slap.

The man cursed and the fellow he was with bust out laughing.

"That's what you get for interfering in a fight Gary," the other man laughed.

"Shut up Raoul!" The tall man with brown hair – Gary – muttered while rubbing his check.

"Are... are you alright miss?" Raoul asked, trying to choke back his laughter.

Alanna slapped him as well.

"Wha… what?" Raoul said blinking and Gary started to laugh.

"It was you fault as well," Alanna told him stubbornly.

"What was my fault?" Raoul asked.

"You didn't try to stop him (Alanna pointed to Gary) from stopping me!"

"We were only trying to hel…" Gary started to pipe in, then stopped and muttered, "Trebond."

"And what do you have against that?!" Alanna wanted to know, even more furious than she was before if possible.

"She 's Trebond's sister Raoul, don't even try to get any scene out of her," he muttered.

Alanna kicked him in the shins, which made him yelp.

"Your all the same!" She shouted at them. "You are all filthy pig kissing goats!"

"Excus…!"

"Shut up!" Alanna told him. "I'm talking! Can you not see that I'm talking?!"

"It's pretty hard not to," Ralon moaned which earned him another kick from Alanna.

"I'm going to leave now," she told the through clenched teeth. "But if you ever… ever insult me or my family again, I swear on my mothers grave that you will pay."

And with a swish of her dress she left and walked away to her room, forgetting all about going to the gardens.

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Okay did you like that? Thanks to Kalika for suggesting it, I was going to do it anyway, but thankyou for suggesting it all the same.

As you saw up at the start of the story, I'm not going to be able to post another chapter up for a month, maybe longer, due to I'm going away for a few days and I have to get some homework done… fun eh?

Well I hope you enjoyed that chapter, it wasn't as good as what it could have been, but at least I put it down there. I wanted to get Alanna to make friends with Gary and Raoul, but Alanna didn't want that to happen, so she didn't do it.

Oh and if you're wondering about Jon, no, he didn't have his fingers or anything else being squashed by the door. Which you shouldn't do by the way, because you can seriously hurt someone by slamming the door in their face. Alanna was naughty.

THANKS FOR READING MY STORY

(All characters except for Lucinda and the fat man in the Market chapter belong to Tamora Pierce)