here is chappie number 4. sorry it took me so long to get chapter 3 up. i finished it ages ago but i forgot to post it! sorry:) ha ha and please R&R


Chapter 4

"But, Mummy, I refuse to marry Prince Jason," cried Bianca, indignant. "I want to be friends, not man and wife!"

She was still trying to convince her parents to let her pick out her own husband but with no avail.

"Bianca, please be reasonable. The marriage is just a title. You don't have to act like man and wife if you don't want too. Although it will look odd but…," her mother said.

Bianca scowled and shrank into the couch cushions.

"It's not fair. Cousin Lucy got to choose who she marries and she's the Crown Princess of France!" Bianca cried, tears filling her eyes.

Queen Sestina sighed.

"Lucy is a very manipulative girl. If she doesn't get what she wants she throws a fit. I assume that my sister let her choose just to get her to shut up," Queen Sestina said, grimacing at the thought of her spoiled niece.

"Well, I'm not spoiled. I'm nice and sweet. So why can't I have the one thing I want!" Bianca exclaimed.

"Bianca, don't use that tone me!" her mother, warned.

Bianca just jumped up and fled the room. She ran out of the castle and ran all the way to the willow tree by the lake. Slumping against its trunk, she slid down to the ground. Tears streamed down her face.

"Why? Why must I be forced to marry someone I don't love?"

"Because our parents want to look good by joining our kingdoms together," Jason said, appearing from behind the tree. "It's really all about them. They really don't give a rip about how we feel."

"I managed to figure that out," Bianca said, scowling. "My mother was all like 'Bianca, please be reasonable. The marriage is just a title. You don't have to act like man and wife if you don't want too. Although it will look odd but'. She's so selfish. She always has been."

"My mother just wants to go to all those balls your family host," Jason said. "Our castle doesn't have a ballroom so we can't have any."

Bianca raised her eyebrows and Jason just shrugged.

"Well, I guess we can't do anything about," Bianca said, with a look of defeat.

Jason smiled.

"I guess not."

Bianca smiled back and took Jason's hand and squeezed.

"Let's just be friends," she said.

"Let's be friends," Jason echoed, softly.

Bianca stood up and smiled. Turning, she began to walk to the castle with Jason looking sadly after her.

"Bianca, I saw you with Jason at the lake! Did he tell you that he's totally head over heels?" Meghan cried, when Bianca came into her room.

Bianca looked shocked.

"Head over heels?"

Meghan looked surprised.

"You haven't noticed yet? He follows you like a love sick puppy. I always knew you were hopeless when it came to guys," she said, shaking her head.

"I'm not hopeless!" Bianca cried.

"Well, then if you're not hopeless go tell Jason you like him. Then he'll tell you he likes you and everything will be okay," Meghan replied.

Bianca just gave her a withering look.

"I don't like like Jason. I may have at first but finding you're being forced to marry him can be quite a turn off."

Meghan giggled and flipped her red hair over her shoulder.

"Poor Jason! He's in love with a stuck up princess! But if you don't want him, I'll be more then happy to take him off your hands."

Bianca slipped out of her tea gown and yanked her lightest summer dress out of her wardrobe.

"Whatever, Meg! I need to get ready to go visit the Duchess and her stuck up daughters," Bianca replied, pulling the dress over her head.

Meghan sobered immediately.

"I hope you come out alive," she teased.

Bianca just laughed.

Several hours later, Bianca came back from the Duchess' home quite weary and ready to go to sleep. As soon as she entered her room, she crashed on her bed and fell asleep. She didn't wake up until it was nearly time for supper. As she was dressing for supper, she heard voices floating up from the garden. Deciding to be nosey, she wandered onto the balcony to hear what they were saying.

"I feel that this marriage cannot continue. Your daughter has been quite rude to my son. In fact he told me that she called him a womanizer," Queen Penelope's shrill voice rang out.

"Are you sure? My Bianca would never do that," Queen Sestina argued.

"Are you calling me a liar? Why would I do that?" Queen Penelope exclaimed.

"No, I'm just puzzled that Bianca would say that. But if she did I guess that we should call off the wedding. We can't have our future rulers calling each other names," Bianca's mother replied.

Bianca decided that she had heard enough. She was glad the wedding was over but not that Jason had lied.

"Jason in love with me? Yeah right!" Bianca cried, fuming.

She decided that she would go give him a piece of her mind. She pulled a comb through her bed head hair and splashed her face with water, and then she made her way to the library. Bursting through the door, she was a picture of complete fury. A surprised Jason quickly stood up.

"How could you?" she cried, bursting into tears of rage. "What did I ever do to you?"

Jason both looked shocked and hurt.

"Bianca, I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Sure you do! Saying I called you a womanizer!" Bianca exclaimed.

Jason raised his eyebrows.

"I never said that and I'm pretty sure that you never called me a womanizer," he said, wiping a tear off of Bianca's cheek.

"You didn't? Than why is your mother down in the garden with my mother calling off the wedding? Not that I care," Bianca said hastily.

"Well, my mother is one to exaggerate. You probably said I was a flirt or something and she thinks you called me a womanizer," Jason said, laughing.

"Well, let's act like I did so we don't have to get married!" Bianca cried, twirling happily.

"Bianca! I don't really want to deceive my mother."

"She started it," Bianca sang out, prancing out of the library and twirling down the hall.

Jason stuck his out the library door and watched her spin down the hall until she ran into a suit of armor and collapse in a fit of giggles. He shook his head and went to go help her up.

"Thanks." She said and pranced down the stairway.

"Well, maybe someday she'll like me but for now I think I'll just let her be." Jason said, smiling.


The End!