A/n I've been forgetting to put this in.
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN ANYTHING IT ALL BELONGS TO TAMORA PIERCE THE PLOT AND ANY CHARACTERS YOU DON'T RECOGNISE BELONG TO ME!
Anyways thanks to all my wonderful reviwers: Dom's Angel, Lady Knight, Jules, Lanni, Confused Knight, Saphron, epobbp, elfsquire90, anonymous girl, Queen Alanna and Kaisuke. Now on with the story!
Chapter 9: Plans
After the announcement, Cythera, Gary, Raoul, Sir Matthew and Lady Julia rushed over to congratulate the happy couple. The men all slapped Jon on the back and pulled him away to talk. Lady Julia and Cythera each hugged Alanna, bouncing up and down in excitement.
"Wow! Congratulations Alanna! You're going to become a Princess!" Julia squealed. Alanna grinned at her friends.
"When and how did he propose?" Cythera asked. Alanna told them the story, when she had finished Julia was looking all dreamy, while Cythera looked a bit upset.
"If he proposed to you the night Roger was killed then that was a week ago. How come you didn't tell me strait away?" Cythera asked, sounding a little hurt.
"I promised that I wouldn't tell anyone. Not even Gary or Raoul knew. But I have something important to ask you both," Alanna said. "Would you Julia be one of my brides maids and Cythera would you be my maid of honour?" they two girls looked at Alanna as if they didn't really believe what Alanna had just said, and slowly their faces split into two huge grins.
"YES!" they shouted. Alanna smiled; somehow, she had known that they would not be too angry for not telling them sooner.
"Well I must really get going, Jon and I have a meeting with the wedding planer tomorrow, before lunch and after I have to talk to a seamstress about the dresses I want. I'll see you tomorrow for breakfast." Alanna said, with that, she turned, and her heal and left waving to them. As soon as she was gone, Cythera collapsed into one of the chairs.
"Oh my goddess I can't believe this is happening to fast!" Cythera muttered. Julia laughed.
"Time doesn't matter when you're in love." She told her.
The next morning Alanna headed down to breakfast in a cheery mood. When she entered the hall, she quickly spotted Jon and walked over, giving him a quick kiss in the cheek before sitting down and helping herself to some food.
"We have a meeting with the planer in about half an hour." Jon reminded Alanna; she nodded in reply and continued to eat. Once she was done, Jon led her to one of the small chamber rooms that wasn't used often. When they arrived, Jon knocked on the door before entering. Both the King and Queen where seated in the room along with another woman Alanna had never seen before. She had brown hair that was tied up in a bun at the back of her head; she had grey eyes and was wearing a simple cotton dress that most commoners wore. She had a no nonsense look about her. Alanna took her seat next to Jon and the Queen, she smiled at them both and they both smiled back.
"Right let's get down to business." The woman said. "My name is Lucinda and I will be planning your wedding so what type of wedding do you want? Big and all out or small and simple?" she asked rather quickly. Alanna and Jon looked at each other, they wanted a small simple wedding, but with Jon as the crown Prince, they knew that wasn't possible.
"Um…all out please." Jon told her. Lucinda nodded and wrote on a piece of paper.
"Now where are you planning to have the ceremony?" she asked.
"The big chapel." Alanna told her, referring to the giant chapel that was used for most special occasions. Again, Lucinda nodded and wrote on her paper.
"Now how many guests?" she asked.
Some few hours later and a million questions later Alanna and Jon were free of the wedding planner. Together they hurried off to lunch. At lunch, Alanna asked Julia and Cythera to come with her to meet the seamstress saying if it was anything like the planner she would need all the help she could get. The two girls laughed and agreed to go with Alanna. they entered Alanna's rooms to find the seamstress already there, with some papers in her hands. She smiled at them when they came in.
"So which one of you is the lucky lady Alanna?" she asked, still smiling. Alanna immediately liked her, more than the other woman, Lucinda. Alanna steeped forward.
"That would be me." she told her.
"Great. My name is Clare, and let's start by looking at what types of dresses you want."
Alanna quickly introduced Julia and Cythera. Clare pulled out many sketches of dresses and showed them to the three girls. Alanna soon found her favourite dress that she wanted, to her it was perfect and nothing came close. Clare nodded at the choice and wrote it down on a different piece of paper. They then looked at the dresses that the bride's maids and maid of honour would wear. Once they were decided, they picked out the flower girls dress. Alanna had asked Julia's daughter Jessiker to be her flower girl. They little girl had said yes straight away. Once all that was done Clare told them to come back tomorrow and she would start taking measurements.
At dinner, Alanna flopped down into her chair, in a very un lady like behaviour, and began digging into her food.
"Have fun?" Jon asked sitting down next to her. Alanna nodded, and quickly swallowed what she was eating.
"Did you have fun?" she asked. Jon shock his head and made a face.
"It was rather boring. I can't wait for all this to be over." He told her. Alanna nodded, knowing what he ment.
"Jon I have a small problem, I need two bride's maids and I only have one I need another. Who should I choose?" she asked quietly so she wouldn't be hear by other people. Jon sat in thought for a moment.
"What about your childhood friend, the one you are always writing to. You said she was coming to the palace some time this week." He said. Alanna smacked her head how could she have been so stupid.
"Of course! How could I forget about Louisa? And she is coming later tonight I think. I have been so busy that I complete forgot, some friend I am," Alanna said. "Thanks Jon."
"No problem." He replied.
The next morning Alanna went down to the hall too see if Louisa had arrived yet. Sure enough, she was sitting at the table with Cythera. Alanna walked over smiling.
"Louisa long time no see." Alanna said. Louisa looked up and saw Alanna standing there, a smile crossed her face.
"Alanna! It has been too long." She cried out, standing up she gave Alanna a hug. Alanna studied her. She hadn't changed much, her dark blonde hair was still long and wavy and her green eyes still had that sparkle in them.
"Louisa, you remember how in my last letter I told you I was getting married? Well would you be one of my bride's maids?" Alanna asked.
"Like I could say no!" Louisa said. Alanna laughed and sat down to have her breakfast.
After Alanna led Louisa to her rooms where Clare was waiting to measure them. It didn't take too long and soon Alanna was free to do as she pleased. Alanna showed Louisa around the palace and it was out in the stables when she ran into Jon.
"oh Alanna I have been looking for you every where! Mother wants to have lunch with the two of us, and I couldn't say no," he looked over and noticed Louisa standing behind Alanna. "who's this?"
"Jon this is Louisa, Louisa this is Jon, my fiancé." Alanna said. Louisa bowed.
"I'll leave you two. I'm off to find Cythera." She said, before heading back up to the palace. Alanna walked over to Jon and gave him a kiss.
"So when is this lunch?" she asked.
"In about five minute." He replied.
"Well we had better get going shouldn't we?" she said.
a/n next we have the lunch plus a little surprise!