"We are now going to look at the evidence that has been prepared by the prosecution-" Chief Justice advised as he nodded over to Gareth and I watched as he stood up. My eyes then fell onto two two large packs of paper on the coffee table in front of the pair of us; I pulled one brow up at this and then it hit me - it was the evidence that Ben and the leading detective had collected together.

"Is that the evidence you found?" I questioned as I nodded down to the paperwork in front of us.

"Yes" Ben nodded. "In case we wanted to look at it" he explained.

"I see" I noted as I reached over and picked up both packs; I placed one on my lap and I handed one over to Ben - who took it from me and placed it next to him on the other side of the couch.

"To start to understand the accused we must begin from the very beginning-" I heard Gareth say which made both me and Ben look back over to the TV. "It is no secret that Mrs Adams had a very brief encounter with Bobby Bailey" he added. "In fact-" he continued before pausing for obvious dramatic effect. "She has had a brief encounter with other members as well, which I am going to outline the timeline of events for you all now" he explained and I watched as he pressed a button and a power point presentation came on on the side wall.

"As we all know his Majesty and Mrs Adams met when Mrs Adams arrived with her family in Auradon in September of 2015-" Gareth began. "However-" he added. "The pair parted ways peacefully six months later after Mrs Adams ended their relationship" he continued which made me take a deep breath to steady myself. I hated the fact that mine and Ben's relationship was being discussed so openly this way; but as Ben explained to me that the jury was going to need context so they could understand the situation. So only for Ben would I sit through what Gareth was about to say. "Around approximately nine months later Mrs Mal Adams attempted to move on from their relationship-'' Gareth continued as he pressed the clicker in her hand I watched as the screen changed to show this. "But we need to go back to the early days, just after the royal couple's break up" he stated.

"First of all we start with Mr Stephen Sadler, who is actually the first member of the accused party to play a part in this story-" he started and I watched as confused faces started to show around the room. "There was a time-" he said as he clicked the clicker again and a photo of Stephen appeared. "In the brief days following her separation from his Majesty in 2016 Stephen did attempt to push advances onto Mrs Adams, which she rejects due to the fact that she has just come out of a long term relationship with his Majesty" he advised.

"We now move onto Mr Samuel Smith-" he continued as Sam's photo came onto the screen on top of Stephen's. "Where the pair had shared two weekends together" he continued. "However it ended when Mr Smith stated that he wished to make their relationship more permanent, something Mrs Adams didn't want at the time" I heard Gareth say as I started to remember the time that I had spent with Sam. He seemed like such a sweet guy; admittedly when he asked me out for a drink (when we met in the Art Gallery that I had been working in at the time) I was nervous. Actually nervous was probably a little bit of an understatement! Samuel was the first person who I accepted to go on a date with; right now I didn't know why. But at the time he seemed so charismatic and charming and I was eager to see how and where things were going to go.

"Since breaking up with his Majesty-" I heard Gareth start to explain, which broke me out of my train of thought, and when I looked down at the TV screen I watched as Chad's photo appeared on the screen on the courtrooms wall. "Prince Chad Charming had tried to push his advances onto Mrs Adams a number of times, which each ended in the same way - with Mrs Mal Adams rejecting him and his advances" he described and I couldn't help but note that Chad's head dropped down in shame as Prince Charming and Queen Cinderella both shook their heads at this.

"Moving on-" Gareth stated as Bobby's photo appeared on the TV screen in the courtroom. "Mr Bobby Bailey and Mrs Mal Adams met on 08/04/2017" he advised. "They met on a night out and consequently spent a weekend together," he added. "However, it didn't go farther than that as a week to two weeks later Mrs Mal Adams was assaulted by a Miss Chloe Charlton. Who coincidentally was Mr Bobby Bailey's girlfriend's at the time; and had been for just over two years" he said. "Mrs Mal Adams then ended their pair bond after finding this out" he quickly stated.

"It was on this very night when his Majesty and his wife found each other once more and they re began their relationship-" Gareth said happily, and everyone noted as Bobby rolled his eyes at this before grimacing. "As the jury has just seen-" Gareth advised. "It would appear that Mr Bailey wasn't very happy about that" he noted and I watched as Bobby's grimace changed to a dark glare at Gareth.

"That will work against him" I heard Ben say as I reached over and placed the pack of papers back down on the coffee table in front of us.

"I hope so" I answered as I reached over and picked up my glass of water and I took a sip.

"I know so" he replied hopefully as I set my glass back down and me and Ben smiled at each other.

"We will come back to Mr Bailey in a moment-" Gareth told the courtroom that caught mine and Ben's attention once more. "We are now going to look at Mr Paul Peterson's involvement" he told the room. "There was a moment in the start of their new relationship where his Majesty ended the relationship-" he began to explain. "For a matter of hours, in fact," he continued. "But in this short space of time Mr Paul Peterson pushed his advances onto Mrs Mal Adams, who at the time dismissed his advances. His Majesty quickly appeared and the pair sorted out their disagreement and things began to flourish between the pair" Gareth explained for the court.

"We now move forward-" Gareth stated as he pressed the clicker again and we all watched as the screen changed and the date changed to this year. "We are now at this year, a couple of months before His Majesty proposed to his wife in fact" he went on to say. "And then this is when an instance happens with the last member of the accused party, Mr Kendal Kingston!" he called and I watched as Kendal froze as his photo appeared on the screen with the numbers '2019'. "We will look further into this later on in the trial-" Gareth said as he looked over to the jury. "But to summarise what had happened was that Mr Kingston seemed very obsessed with Mrs Mal Adams" I heard Gareth say which made me shudder. "To the point in which his actions were inappropriate and his employment was terminated" he finished and I watched as Kendal nervously adjusted himself in his seat at this.

"Now going back to Mr Bobby Bailey-" Gareth said which made Bobby quickly look back at Gareth. "On the date of 01/07/2019 Mr Bobby Bailey tried to contact Mrs Mal Adams-" he started once more. "I will not embarrass either party by relieving the photo that Mr Bobby Bailey sent to Mrs Mal Adams; but I think the members of the jury will be able to take an educated guess what this photo is" he added and I watched as they nodded at this.

"A month goes by and we now come to the date of 18/08/2019 where this band of merry men crept onto the grounds of Auradon Castle-" Gareth explained solemnly. "Attacked members of his Majesty's staff and family" he added sadly. "Bound them; and kidnapped his Majesty" he continued. "To start to fulfil their treacherous plot" he finished and the room fell into an eerie silence as Gareth started to look at the large pile of papers that was on his desk. I took a couple of deep breaths to steady myself; as the evidence was now underway I knew that it wouldn't be long before the video from the hotel room was going to be played for the court. I started to feel nervous; nervous about how my family, friends and the court was going to react to it; but most of all I was nervous about how Ben was going to react - given his reaction last time.