A/N: Just a little note before you start reading this chapter. Eliza, Adriana, and Kendal have the same mother and father so they are full blooded sisters. They are not step-sisters. Sorry to any of you who were confused. Now on to the chapter enjoy!

Kendal, Adriana, and Andy stood at the edge of the forest, stunned that the once empty field was filled with an assortment of so many different people.

"What in the world?" Kendal murmured to no one in particular. She surveyed the people on the field and, for the most part, all she could see was nobility. The ladies were dressed in voluptuous gowns of bright spring colors; green, yellow, cream, and pink were the dominant colors. The men were clothed in their normal formal wear of nice clean darks pants and tunics of their choice. 'Why in the world is nobility in our back yard?' Kendal thought.

"Girls, as much fun as we are having staring and gapping at the nobility, I think some of them are starting to get suspicious," Andy said quietly to Adriana and Kendal. Sure enough some of the fussier and older nobles were starring in disgust at Kendal, Adriana, and Andy because they were in commoner's garb.

"Maybe we should find mother so she can explain this situation," Adriana grumbled not at all happy with this turn of events. Kendal surveyed the odd crowd until she saw, out of the corner of her eye, golden hair being flipped. Kendal quickly turned to see more clearly where she saw that flicker of gold, and saw her sister Eliza. Of course the lovely Eliza was not alone; she was surrounded by a group of men. 'That's typical of Eliza, Kendal thought, and started to make her way to her golden-haired sister to find out what was going on.

"Kendal, darling," a musical voice called out that deterred Kendal in her goal of meeting Eliza. Kendal instantly turned towards the familiar sounding voice. This sudden stop caused Aide to almost crash into Kendal, but luckily she was able to come to an awkward halt just behind Kendal. Andy, on the other hand, who was not as fortunate as Aide, slammed right into her. This sudden jerk caused a domino reaction among Andy, Aide, and Kendal; before Kendal knew it she was laying face first in the dirt with Aide and Andy pilled up on top of her.

"Andy! Aide! If you both would be so kind as to get off of my back that would be much appreciated," Kendal snarled.

"Don't give me attitude sister! I wasn't the one who couldn't stop," Aide squealed.

"How was I supposed to know we were going to stop all of a sudden?" Andy asked Aide.

"It's called paying attention, genius!" Aide replied, irritated with Andy.

"I'm sorry I was distracted by your beauty. You can't expect me to walk and daydream at the same time, now can you? How shall I make it up to you my dearest Aide?"

"Well..."

"I'd hate to break your little lovey dovey moment, but you both are still crushing my back! You know, you both aren't feathers!"

"Oh sorry Kendal," Aide replied in between giggles.

"Aw...Kendal I always imagined myself as light as feather. In fact I believe you were the one that lovingly named Aide and me 'Love Birds.' We were just trying to live up to our title. In fact..."

"MOVE!"

"You three had better get your act together this instant before you cause more damage to your sister's flirtations," called the musical voice that had called Kendal's name before she was pushed into the dirt. "Honestly, I thought I raised you children better than that! What kind of my mother will the nobility think I am now? They'll think I've been raising you in a barn. A barn! Imagine that!"

"Ma we're sorry, but it's not like we planned to trip," Kendal whined while staring up into her mother's deep green eyes. Her mother was a round woman who had short, thick, light brown hair, a cheery round face, and a fair complexion. Although normally Mrs. Ingle usually had the appearance of looking quite cheerful, at the moment she was looking at her two daughters and Andy with uncharacteristic anger.

"Kendal, I'm not in the mood for your silly excuses today. This is a very important event for your sister and now you might have ruined it by making spectacles of yourselves!"

"Mother I think you may be overreacting a little. Kendal and I didn't have the slightest idea that there would be a gathering outside of our house in the middle of the day," Aide practically exclaimed.

"Still you girls and Andy look like you have been raised in the wild." Mrs. Ingle picked a leaf out of Kendal's hair to prove her point.

'She has a point,' Kendal thought as she stared down at the grass stains that had accumulated on her once clean dress. 'Oh well. I wonder why Mother hasn't gotten to the reason as to why our field is filled with nobles. Mother must need a reminder.' "Ma you still haven't explained what the heck is going on in our own back yard!"

"Kendal, I'll tell you what is going on once you look respectable!"

"I take it you want me to go inside and clean up," Kendal said wisely.

"Yes," Mrs. Ingle replied tersely.

"Shall I bring Aide with me?"

"Yes."

"Come on Aide and Andy lets go get clean."

"No, no, no. I did not say Andy could follow you two." Mrs. Ingle turned to look Andy in the face and said to him, "Andy dear you must understand I need a few moments alone with Kendal and Aide."

"Yes Mrs. Ingle," Andy responded like a little boy answering to a schoolteacher.

"Good. Now Andy, go run along to your home. I'm sure you can see Aide tomorrow." Andy obeyed Mrs. Ingle's order at once and soon he was a redheaded blob in the distance. Mrs. Ingle turned her attention back to her two daughters and gave them a stern look. "Girls stop dawdling. The more time you waste the longer you shall wait to hear the delightful news about your dearest sister Eliza. It is so exciting!"

"Mrs. Ingle, come here! You will never believe the scandalous news," a voice called out from a woman in the distance.

"Oh, I'm coming Mary! Now girls go clean up and I'll see you soon." Mrs. Ingle then ran off to hear what scandalous events had taken place now.

"Oh Mrs. Ingle, I have the most scandalous news!" Kendal mimicked the lady.

"Aw...Kenny when will you learn that mimicking other people is not a very nice thing to do? You should be ashamed of yourself," Aide said to Kendal as they were heading into to the house to clean up.

"I told you not to call me Kenny."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, what do you think of this exciting news about Eliza?"

"I don't like it one bit," Kendal replied, a pensive look on her face. Kendal knew news about Eliza was never good news.

"It might be good news," Aide said thoughtfully.

"With this many nobles swooping around our home? I doubt it's good news."

"Such a pessimist."

"I rather like looking at the glass half empty," Kendal responded and entered the house to get cleaned up.

Kendal soon found herself making her way down the staircase after a quick neatening of her appearance. As much as Kendal hated to admit it, she was very curious about this "exciting" news concerning Eliza. Whatever the news was, it had to be big to have this many people come to the Ingle's humble abode.

"Kendal stop thinking. It's not good for you," Aide remarked while sipping her tea.

Kendal entered the chestnut-colored dining room and took a seat across from Adriana. "Must you have an opinion about everything?" Kendal asked while staring blankly at a wall.

"Yes." Kendal sighed. She knew Adriana could be quite annoying when she chose to be. Kendal decided a topic change must happen immediately.

"So has mother come in yet?"

"No." Kendal chose not to respond to Aide's no, and soon Kendal was in her own world filled with daydreams. A slam of a door quickly pulled Kendal back into reality, and the cause of the slammed door was quickly spotted as her mother appeared.

"Adriana and Kendal you both look absolutely stunning. I knew a quick clean up would make you the beauties that I raised you to be!" These remarks from Mrs. Ingle made Kendal wonder if her mother had recently gone insane.

Aide voiced her concern about the odd comment her mother just made by asking, "Mother are you feeling alright? Do you need a cup of tea?"

"Of course I'm feeling alright Adriana. I'm just so proud of all three of my girls!"

"How so?" Kendal asked still perplexed by her mother's happy mood.

"Girls, today is just the beginning of many things; the beginning of wonderful things for our family! Would you like to know why?"

"Yes mother," Aide responded instantly.

"We are waiting with baited breath to hear the wonderful news," Kendal said with some sarcasm.

"Oh excellent! Well you see, today Eliza and I went to the gathering at Lady Marin's house. Adriana you remember that I invited both you and Kendal to come this morning?"

"Yes mother."

"That's right, Adriana. Now back to my wonderful tale! Eliza and I arrived at Lady Marin's House exactly at the time we were expected, and Lady Marin gave her standard greeting to us. Eliza then went to socialize, as usual, with friends and gentlemen. There was one gentleman at the party that just couldn't take his eyes off of our lovely Eliza! This gentleman constantly pursued Eliza throughout the party and Eliza let him. Eliza and the gentleman soon found themselves engaged in an overwhelming number of friendly chats. In one of her numerous chats with this very determined gentleman, Eliza found out the most unbelievable piece of information. This gentleman was in fact Prince Edward! Can you believe that?"

"Inconceivable, mother," Adriana responded to the rhetorical question.

"Now as I was saying Prince Edward took an immediate fancy for your sister- "

"And let me guess: Eliza took quite a fancy for Prince Edward. After all, she would be daft not to love a Prince," Kendal said quite bored with the topic of conversation already.

"Precisely, Kendal. Any woman would be mad to reject a Prince!" Mrs. Ingle exclaimed, clearly pleased that a Prince was taking interest in one of her daughters.

"Lovely story Mother; it does explain why there are so many people at our house," Aide pointed out.

"You are quite right Adriana! Now, once I got wind of Prince Edward's pursuit of our dearest Eliza, there was only one thing a good mother could possibly do."

"And that would be...?" Adriana asked, prodding her mother for an answer.

"Invite him over for tea of course!"

"I'd hate to break it to you mother, but this does not look like a tea gathering. There are far too many people here," Kendal pointed out.

"Oh but it is a tea gathering! A most splendid one indeed! You see, when I invited the Prince over for tea he asked me if he could invite a couple of friends."

"A couple of friends?" Kendal asked echoing her mother's last statement.

"Well, there are few more people than one could expect, but we all have to make sacrifices. I think the Prince and Eliza are hitting it off quite splendidly! Oh how I would love to have a Prince as a son!"

"That's lovely mother," Adriana said quietly.

"What's lovely Adriana?" a voice asked. Adriana, Kendal, and Mrs. Ingle quickly turned around to see that Eliza and two gentlemen were standing right behind them. "Adriana what is lovely?" Eliza inquired again in a captious tone.

"Well...the...a...um..."

"The flowers in the vase a little down the way," Kendal replied giving Adriana an out to her awkward pause. The dark-brown-haired gentleman standing to the left of Eliza looked inquisitively at Kendal as if he could sense that the vase of flowers had not been the topic of their conversation.

"Eliza, what in the world are you doing in the house with these two handsome gentlemen when you can be outside enjoying the nice autumn weather?" Mrs. Ingle asked with a bright, cheery smile.

"Edward was thirsty so I was taking him to get a glass of water," Eliza said while motioning to the blonde man on her right. 'Ah so this is Prince Edward my possible future brother-in-law,' Kendal thought while she examined him. Prince Edward was richly dressed and Kendal could tell that he was a well built man. The Prince had blonde hair quite similar to Eliza's locks and a tan complexion. The Prince's hazel eyes were complimented by his perfectly white smile. Kendal definitely considered Prince Edward a handsome man of twenty, but he seemed too prissy for Kendal's taste. 'He will do perfectly for Eliza,' Kendal thought.

"Eliza, I shall go get the glass of water for the Prince," Aide offered.

"That would be nice Adriana," Eliza said without a glance into Adriana's direction. Adriana quickly left the room after to fetch the glass of water for the Prince. An uncomfortable silence instantly fell over the room and soon, Kendal found herself inspecting the man on Eliza's left. This man had dark brown hair the exact shade of his chocolate eyes, and looked to be about the same age as the Prince. This man had a tan complexion, and was also well built, like the Prince. From what Kendal could tell, the Prince's companion was taller than her. This man was quite handsome in his own right, and he seemed to be Kendal's type of gentleman. Kendal inspected the gentleman from a distance for a bit longer, but soon dark brown eyes met Kendal's forest-green gaze, much to her embarrassment. Kendal could feel a faint blush blooming over her face and she quickly averted her eyes. Soon Adriana noisily entered the room with a glass of water. Adriana walked over to the Prince and with a bow gave the Prince his glass of water.

"Thank you Adriana, now Edward and I will be off," and with that Eliza, Prince Edward, and the dark haired gentleman left to go back to the outdoors. Mrs. Ingle, Adriana, and Kendal watched quietly as the three people vanished.

"Prince Edward is a handsome man, but the dark headed one takes the cake. Don't you agree Kendal?" Adriana said with a wink.

"AIDE!"

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