I Will Believe

By: NarnianAslan

Chapter Two

.: Author's .:. Note :. Okay well I was bored and decided to write this story… it's not a one-shot… but it's only for when I'm bored, so I may not update regularly. Not that I really do any other time. K well… the girl named Pippa is not me. You will see why very clearly later in the story. Okay well to Elizabeth, Allison, and Imogen, here it is…. and as you asked, your names are in it. That's it I think, anything else I'll tell you at the end. This chapter will talk about the kings and queens.

Pip Johansen

When they got there, they saw several boys. They youngest cannot have been more than fifteen, where the oldest was most likely around nineteen. Pippa recognized one as Prince Corin.

The morning was horrible. All the supposed 'lords' of Archenland wanted to talk of was themselves. Pippa saw that Prince Corin sat down at looked around, but she supposed that he didn't take an apparent fancy to anyone. He had a far-out look in his eyes and didn't say much. All of the Archenland lords were vain and ridiculously self-centered. Pippa did not fancy any one of them. She snuck off to the library hoping to find something, anything, entertaining, to get her mind off this horrible morning.

However, she did not know what a horrible morning King Edmund and Queen Lucy had had.

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The day had started like usual. They had met in the conference room to discuss important matters.

"So," Peter started, "We need to discuss a rather important matter at hand."

"What?" Lucy asked.

"Well, er, King Lune brought an important matter to my realization."

"Then what is it?" Edmund asked.

"Mr. Beaver had told me the same thing about a year ago," Peter continued.

"Just tell us what it is, Peter!" Lucy exclaimed. Edmund nodded in agreement.

"Courting," said Peter simply. His siblings stared at him, dumbstruck.

"But, I am courting!" Susan exclaimed.

"Not you, Su, or me."

Edmund looked at him with a blank expression.

"Peter, you can't expect us to..." he trailed off.

"Honestly, Peter! We're so young!" Lucy said to him.

"I know. However, everyone insists. The people will not wait forever. We need to be courting."

"You don't have to!" Edmund argued.

"Not true, Ed. The Terebinthian and Galmian Kings are sending their daughters in a month. I'm to choose one of them."

"Well, how are we supposed to pick someone?" Edmund asked.

"Er, I don't know. I should talk with King Lune."

"You go ahead Peter, I need to talk to Ed and Lu alone," Susan told him.

Peter nodded and left.

"Susan! You cannot let him do this!" Lucy exclaimed.

"Lucy, I don't want him to do this either, but it is time you tried courting. It can be such fun."

Edmund muttered something under his breath about Rabadash.

Susan didn't hear him. Lucy did and gave him a silencing glare.

"Look, why don't you try it, Ed? Peter might allow you to court one of those girls that arrived last night. They did come here to be courted, after all."

"I suppose I've no other choice," Edmund said, defeated.

"I have to as well, don't I, Su?" Lucy asked her older sister.

"Yes, Lucy, you do. Both of you must. It is for the better of Narnia."

"I will then. Ed, don't look so sad. It's not as if it's the world is ending," Lucy said, trying to reassure her brother.

"I know, but I can't help but to feel horrible. I might court someone that squints and has bad freckles. I don't know!"

"You might not, as well. You might court someone who is perfectly gorgeous," Susan told him. "I have to go, Gavin is waiting." With that, she left.

"Ed, we have to go, do you want to talk in the library?" Lucy asked.

"Alright," Edmund said, and then Lucy led the way.

When they reached the library, they found someone in it; One of the girls that had arrived the night before, the one that had stood quietly and in awe of Cair Paravel. She was sitting on one of the many soft, leather chairs, and reading a book.

When she looked up, her eyes grew wide.

"Oh! I didn't see you there. I only came up here because I had a horrible morning. I usually find that reading calms me down. I hope it's alright," the girl said.

"It's perfectly alright," Edmund told her. "We had a beastly morning as well."

"If you don't mind my asking, what went wrong?" Lucy asked.

"The suitors were what went wrong. They were so arrogant and full of themselves. Except for Prince Corin, he just sat on a chair."

"Poor Corin. Lu maybe you should talk to him. He's been awfully upset since she turned him down."

"She turned him down?"

"It was a week ago. Before this entire horrid courting plan was thrust upon us," Lucy said.

"I can go get him, if you want to talk to him," the girl suggested.

"That'd be great, if you could. By the way, what ever is your name?" Lucy asked.

"Pippa Woods," the girl answered and then she closed her book, and went down to the chamber where Prince Corin was.

"Prince Corin," Pippa started once she had reached him.

"Yes?"

"Queen Lucy wants you. She's up in the library."

"Are you lying?" The young Prince asked.

"No," Pippa said to him. "Now follow me."

And unnoticed, the two slipped out of the room and up to the library where Queen Lucy and King Edmund were waiting.

"Corin! You'll never guess what happened! It was horrid!" Lucy exclaimed as soon as she had seen the prince.

"What happened, Lucy?" Corin asked. Lucy motioned for all of them to sit down (including Pippa), and she began her story.

"Peter has been talking to your father, Corin, and he's decided to make us court. Me and Edmund. He's making us. There's no stopping him."

Corin looked at Lucy. "I suppose I can help you, but you'll need to court me."

"I will," Lucy decided.

"But what about King Edmund? Queen Lucy, you said yourself that he's making you and King Edmund court."

"Please call me Edmund," Edmund said to Pippa.

"Okay, well then Edmund, what are you going to do?"

"I've got an idea, but it requires the help of all three of you."

.: Author's .:. Note :. Okay well, in order for me to update, you need to review. Thanks…

Pip