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Chapter 2 Is That You?
Daria wasn't ecstatic about the ball, but she figured at least this time she'd have someone she half way knew to talk to.
"Daria, we're leaving now," her mother said waking her from her thoughts.
"Yes, mother."
"Now Daria, I want you to be a good girl at this ball, no... no doing anything that isn't acceptable. Ok dear?"
"Yes, mother."
"Good now get in the carriage."
"Yes, mother."
"Daria is there something wrong?"
"No, mother."
"Ok, dear."
They sat in silence the rest of the way. Daria's father never interfered with her mother's small, short lectures had been sitting in silence and continued to.
After about a half hour Sir Galahad (Daria's father) announced they had arrived.
When she got out she made sure she was standing up strait other ways her mother would make her.
She made her way into the entrance hall hoping that Fred would even recognize her. When she got in there she walked over to where the Royal family was standing and curtsied her best (which was barely tripping, but not enough to fall, just stumble.)
The queen smiled at her warmly and the king's eyes lit up with a smile from their usual boredom of the party. Next was a boy about her age, the Prince. She curtsied again, but this time she tripped and the boy helped her up.
He looked familiar. "Fred?" she asked with a wide grin on her face.
He shuffled uncomfortably, "I didn't want to tell you because I thought it would change our friendship."
She laughed, "Why would it? I guess your name isn't Fred, Prince Jerrold." She emphasized the Prince. He flinched which caused her to laugh harder.
"Please no Prince," he begged her.
She pretended to be thinking it over and finally said, "What if I don't?" She grinned a huge grin.
He put on a puppy-dog begging face which caused her to laugh loudly enough to attract the king and queen's attention.
Jerrold turned to her mother and said, "Mother would you excuse me? I would like to show my guest around the place."
With a knowing smile, she replied, "Ok dear, be back in time for dinner." (It was dinner and a ball sorry I forgot to mention that.)
"Yes mother," turning to Daria he said, "Want to go see the gardens?"
"Sure. One second though ok?"
"Ok."
Daria ran over to her mother and said in a very hurried voice, "My friend, Fred, is actually Prince Jerrold. We're going to go play in the gardens. Bye be back in time for dinner."
With that she hurried over to where Jerrold was standing with a humorous expression that clearly read that was fast and that he had heard every word of her extremely rushed "conversation" with her mother.
"Let's go!" she said cheerfully when she got back to where he was standing.
"Um... ok."
The rest of the night was tons of fun. They mainly spent the night avoiding parents who were trying to force them to dance with their children. At the end before Daria had to leave she told Jerrold that she would come around to the palace whenever she didn't have to be at home to play.
When Daria got home she was happy which was extremely different after a ball, but her parents weren't happy for that reason, but for a different one. It was every parents dream that their child would be good friends with a royal and it was no exception with them, although they weren't the type to take advantage of it.
Over the next few days Jerrold was all that Daria talked about. They played every day for hours.
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Thanks to my reviewers!!! I love you guys!!! Please review. I'm not going to look into their childhood that much in not the next chapter, but the one after that they're going to be 18. One of the wonderful reviewers suggested that, so I will!!! I have a plan, so I wasn't planning on dwelling on their childhoods very long.