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Enyo's POV

"I love you, Grant," I tell my boyfriend as we walk through the garden, hand in hand. Grant smiles at me, and I blush. I haven't seen him in forever, and it feels good to be with him.

"I love you too, Enyo," Grant tells me. My heart swells, like it always does whenever he says it. And he says it a lot. "But..."

My stomach drops. "But what? What's wrong, Grant?" I ask him, starting to panic. I stop walking, and Grant turns to face me. He cups my cheek in his hand.

"Enyo..." He starts again. I shake my head, and smile, an idea starting to form. I can't believe I panicked! There's a simple solution.

"Oh my goodness Grant, I'm really sorry for overreacting. I thought you were going to break up with me or something, which is crazy, because you love me, right? But then I realized, that you're probably just going on tour again, right? Which, I mean, is bad, but not as bad as you breaking up with me! Right?" I study Grant's face, worried.

Oh no.

He has his 'you're not going to like this' face on.

Grant clears his throat.

"Um, no, En, I'm not going to go on tour. And... The whole 'breaking up with you' assumption isn't all wrong..." Grant tells me. He pulls me into a hug, but I push him away.

"You're kidding, right?" I ask him, hysterical. He has to be kidding.

"No," Grant says, trying to pull me into a hug again. I shove him back again.

"Don't hug me!" I snap at him. Okay. I'm not taking this well. Calm down, Enyo. "Don't touch me," I say, lowly. "If you're breaking up with me, I want nothing to do with you. Goodbye, Grant." I turn and walk toward the palace.

I stalk into my room, slamming my door behind me. I just stand here. Dejected. I don't know what to do. Sure, I've gone threw breakups before, but usually they were small, brief relationships and usually I was doing the breaking up.

I hear a soft knock on my door. I straighten my shirt, and check my hair before opening the door.

Rule number one of being a princess: you must always look calm and in control. No matter what.

"Yes?" I ask, opening the door. I slam almost slam it shut again when I see who it is: Grant. "Excuse me, Mr. Grant, but this is a private floor. No one but the royal family, the royal family's guests, and staff are allowed up here. I'm going to have to ask you to leave." I say. My voice sounds off.

"Look, En, you didn't give me a reason on why I broke up with you!" Grant says. I try to shut the door, but he catches it and pushes it open, taking a step toward me. I take a step back. "Look, it's just- I've found someone else. That's all. It's not you, it's me. We can still be friends, right?"

"Of course we can!" I say. "But before you go, I have to tell you something; thanks for giving me the chance to find someone better than you! Someone who doesn't go looking for girls while we're dating! And, thank you for making me feel like a worthless piece of crap! Have a nice day! Goodbye!" I shout, and shove him out of my room, locking the door as I slam it right in his face.

"En!" Grant shouts. I hear Dax's door open, then slam shut.

"If you two can't figure out whatever the heck it is you two are fighting about, I'm going to kick you off palace grounds. I have studying to do, and you're being so loud I'm sure the whole country can hear you!" Dax shouts. "Now, what's going on?!" He demands.

"Nothing, nothing," Grant tries assuring Dax. I swing my door wide open.

"It is not nothing," I hiss. "Grant broke up with me! Which, is fine, he has every right to do that. It will take me time to get over him, but I shouldn't have to force him to date me. If he doesn't want to date, cool. But, after he breaks up with me, he continues to follow me around after I told him to leave me alone!"

Grant scoffs. "Oh please, you would have been perfectly fine if I hadn't told you I cheated on you."

My heart stops for a minute, and my stomach plummets. "What?" I whisper. Him breaking up, fine. But he cheated on me?

Dax turns to Grant, looking furious. "Based off of that reaction, she didn't know you were cheating on her. You were cheating on her? Oh, you son of a-" Dax starts.

"Stop yelling!" Ares shouts, poking his head out of his bedroom. Dax turns to Ares.

"Grant cheated on Enyo!" Dax shouts at him. I just stand, silently watching what's going on. Ares turns, looks at me, then starts to glare at Grant.

Dax and Ares yell at Grant, while Grant rotates between yelling at me and Dax and Ares.

"This is all your fault!" Grant screams at me.

"All my fault?" I demand Grant, suddenly finding my voice again. I cross my arms, and the guys all fall silent. "All my fault?" I repeat. "Oh, so it's my fault you cheated on me. It's my fault you're breaking up with me. It's my fault that after I said no, you continued to persist. None of that is my fault. But this will be. Guards?" I call, raising my voice. Five guards, previously stationed at the end of the hall looking uncomfortable, come toward me at a run. "Escort Grant off the premise, and don't let him up here again," I say coldly, turning around and walking slowly back to my room. I ignore Grant's shouts, his pleas, and shut my bedroom door.

"I'm surprised you didn't punch him in the face," Ares remarks, walking into my bedroom, Dax trailing behind.

"If Mom found out, I would be in soooo much trouble," I explain. "I can hear her now. 'Enyo, royals don't punch people in the face even though they cheated on you and are horrible people,'" I say in her chiding voice. I've gotten really good at imitating her.

"How are you handling it?" Ares asks me. I shrug.

"I'll be fine. Right now, I'm just mostly pissed off that he freaking cheated on me. I'm sure it will hit me in a few days. I just need something to distract me when it does hit." Suddenly, a brilliant idea occurs to me. And by brilliant, I mean brilliant.

"Uh-oh," Dax says, smirking. "That's the 'I just had an evil idea' face."

All the sudden my door flies open again. I'm on my feet in an instant, fists up. If Grant comes again...

But, it's just Mom.

And she looks pissed.

For a second, I wonder if it was something I did. But then she crosses the room and embraces me.

"I can't believe he did that!" She shouts. I just laugh sadly. I don't want to cry, so I laugh. That's what I always do.

Mom drags Dax and Ares into a hug as well.

"Thank you for protecting your little sister," she tells them. I can feel them shrug.

Mom releases us, and smiles down at us. Even Dax isn't as tall as her, and he's six feet tall! Mom's six feet three inches, the tallest person in the family. And she has heels on right now.

"Well, I have to get back to work. I'll see you all at dinner, I love you," Mom says, exiting the room.

I walk barefoot to Mom's office, where she spends most of her nights. That will be me one day.

Not that I'll be any good at it.

I have chocolate ice cream in one hand, my phone, in it's gray, white, and black case in my other hand.

"Dang it," I mutter as I get to Mom's office door. How am I going to open it?

"Do you need me to open it for you?" The soldier stationed at Mom's office door ask. I smile at him.

"Yes please," I say. He smiles back at me and opens the door. I nod at him in thanks, and walk in, taking a seat across from Mom. I set my phone down on her desk, and sit criss cross apple sauce. The only reason I am able to do that is because I have my pj's on, gray shorts with a white shirt that says 'Do Not Disturb. Just Don't'.

"Hello, Darling," Mom says, looking up from some papers. She smiles at me. "How may I help you?"

"Well, Mom, you know how you're always talking about how it's our duty to preform tradition?" I ask her. I'm really nervous, but I won't show it. Mom just nods, looking interested. "Well, one of our traditions, is, after all, the Selection. And I was wondering that now that I'm single I could have one-?" I ask. Mom thinks for a second, and I take a bite of my ice cream.

"So soon after you broke up with Grant?" Mom asks. I nod.

"I need something to do. I don't want to wallow in sadness," I explain. Both her and I hate being sad, let alone having nothing to do but be sad. I mean, I help Mom run the country, but that's not enough.

"Of course, Darling! I'm so glad you decided to do this," Mom says, smiling warmly at me. I smile back, and take another bite of my ice cream, triumphant.

I sit on my bed, and grab my TV remote, turning my TV on. My meeting with Mom went so well, that makes me really really happy.

But me being happy won't last long, now that I'm alone and have nothing to think about other than Grant.

I bite my tongue and focus on TV. I have the Report on, which is just showing reruns of previous news reports, so I switch to another channel.

I gasp as I see Grant on the TV.

"-Princess Enyo just broke up with me! She said she met someone else, and even was cheating on me," he was saying. I gasp again. He's lying! And now my reputation will suffer for it.

I flip through a few channels, and they're all covering this story.

I call Dax.

"Have you seen-" I start.

"Yes," he cuts me off. "It's everywhere. I got to go, I'm going to see if I can fix this," he says, and then hangs up on me.

I swear, silently cursing Grant's name to the wind.

A/N

Hello!

Okay, so I screwed up.

Really sorry for any of the confusion I might have caused! It is a Male SYOC, but I used my old form, which was a female SYOC. I tried going threw it to change it, but I must've accidentally missed some. I'm going to try and fix it later. Thank you MoonChild913 for telling me!

So, the technology is how it is now.

Please, please, please review and submit a guy! If you have any questions regarding worldbuilding or otherwise, please contact me and I will try to explain. Constructive criticism is appreciated! But please, don't be too rude, because I honestly get discouraged really easily.

Thanks for reading!

-Elle