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Chapter 13

I look at the sunrise and how it casts beams of light into through the big glass sliding doors of our new house and smile, this is where I'm going to be living for a while and I couldn't ask for more. I have Kile and my brothers here with me and I wish mom and dad could be here too but they can't leave the palace so there's no use in wishing but I have everything I need, a roof over my head most of my family and soon I'll be able to do what I love I'll be able to go to work and draw and make beautiful dresses just like I wanted to do all my life.

The sun bathes the sky in orange, pink, red, and hints of yellow and all those colors come through the window and fall on my face. I pull my robe more tightly around me as I stand watching the sun rise and think about everything that has happened the last few days, really too much had happened for me to put it all straight in my head but something about the sun and air in this place make it easier to think and for that I'm grateful. I think about last night and what all happened and smile, that was a great day even though it started out bad.

After Kile and I had stood out on the balcony for a few minutes Kaden and Osten had come running in and Kaden was complaining that it was unfair that Osten got the room just because he had won the game and I had only laughed and told him he would survive and that pretty much shut him up, well he was grumbling something under his breath for the next 20 minutes but I ignored him.

We had all gone downstairs and we talked with Noah and Rose for a little while before they said that they had to go or they would miss their next train, we had thanked them over and over again and each time the just smiled and say not to worrying about it. I hugged Rose and she said she'd see me soon and I had a feeling that she was right Noah had just smirked at me said goodbye and then they were gone. After they left I had gone upstairs and flopped onto the bed wanting to go to sleep even though it was still early, I had gotten up and found a nightgown in the bags the Noah and Rose had brought. I got dressed, brushed out my hair, brushed my teeth then climbed into bed and soon I was fast asleep and only woke up once when Kile came into the room around 11 or so, he just shook his head and me and grinned then he when into the bathroom and came out about 15 minutes later and climbed into bed next to me.

He had wrapped his arm around me and I had snuggled up against him feeling safer than I ever had in my life and soon he feel asleep and not too long after I did too. When I woke up I came down here to watch the sun rise, I know I could have just watched the sun rise from in the bedroom out of the glass doors but I like this room it just seems full of life and light. I look over at the clock on the wall and see it's a 4:58, so I've been awake for 20 minutes and I'm not even tired because I usually have to wake up around this time to get ready for the day but now I don't have any work to do this early.

Suddenly two strong arms wrap around my waist from behind me and I jump a little before I recognize the chuckle of the person behind me.

"Kile what are you doing you scared me," I say as I lean into him and place my head on his chest and he rests his head on top of mine.

"I woke up and you were gone so I came looking for you," He says and I sigh.

"I'm supposed to get up early at the palace so I guess I'll have to get used to the fact that I don't have to get up at 4:30 anymore," I say and Kile just hugs me closer.

"There's a lot we have to get used too," Kile says softly and I sigh deeply.

"You're telling me"

"Come on it's still early let's go back upstairs," Kile says and I smirk.

"What do you have in mind when we get up there," I say turning around so I can see his face and I suck in a breath.

The sun coming through the window lights up his face making his eyes sparkle and since he took out his contacts they are their normally beautiful ice blue that I love so much and even though his hair is no longer blonde it still looks breathtaking in the light of the rising sun. I melt at how handsome he looks with his hair adorably messy from sleeping with some of it falling on his face and the look in his eyes when he looks at me. How had I ever thought he was annoying or a brat? He's kind, caring, sweet, smart, and handsome and that's why I love him so much because he's everything I ever wanted or needed.

"I have a few idea's," Kile says with his crooked grin and I smirk.

"I'm sure you do," I say and then I start walking toward the stairs and look over my shoulder at him to see him looking at me with such an adorable look that I melt all over again.

"You coming," I ask and my voice comes out surprisingly normal, Kile smirks and I melt even more and he walks with me as I start climbing the stairs.

I'm about to turn left toward our bedroom when I realize that I never when down the hall to the right, I look down there and see four doors to on either side of the hall. I start walking down the hall and I hear Kile walking behind me I stop at the first door and open it slowly to see that it's an office and I smile, along two of the walls there are floor to ceiling bookshelves both of them full of books about architecture and buildings, under a big window is a large desk made of dark wood and a really comfortable desk chair. Next to the desk is a big cabinet full of sketch paper, sketching pencils, and everything he needs to draw buildings and do what he loves.

I walk over to the desk slowly and run my hand over it then I turn back to Kile who's leaning against the door frame with a small grin on his face.

"So you're going to be working here," I ask looking around the room.

"I guess so," Kile says and I smile as I go over to the bookshelves and pick up a red book with gold lettering, I flip through it and see pictures of beautiful buildings with amazing backgrounds.

"You like looking at buildings, don't you," Kile says and I realize that he walk over to me and is now looking over my shoulder at the book.

"Yes I do," I say putting the book back on the shelves and turning around to him.

"I want to show you something," He says with a grin as he takes my hand and starts leading me out the door, we walk to the end of the hallway and to the last door on the right and he smiles as he opens it and I gape at what I see inside.

The room is brightly lit by the many windows in here and by now the sun had risen a bit more so the light floods through the windows making the room seems, even more, beautiful. In the center of the room in a large wood table, along two of the walls, there are large shelves and them sits dozens of sheets of fabric of all colors. Some of them sparkle in the sunlight others look so soft you want to melt into them and all of them are beautiful colors, on about half of a shelve are baskets full of ribbon, beads, jewels, a whole collection of different size scissors, measuring tapes and so much more. Against the other wall are five manikins, and right next to them is a smaller desk and on top of it, there are jars full of different color pencils and drawing papers and a white sewing machine.

"What is all this," I ask softly but I don't turn around to look at him I just look around the room.

"It's for you, you're going to be making clothes and things, actually I don't even know what you're going to be doing," He says and I turn to see him sitting on the big table in the middle.

"Well I don't know what you're going to be doing so I guess we're even," I say with a grin.

"Come on, let's go back to bed maybe we can get some more sleep before we have to go to work," Kile says hopping off the table and walking over to me and I nod then take his hand.

We walk down the hall and across to the other side of the where our bedroom is, I walk inside and over to the bed where I sit down and watch as Kile closes the door and walks over to me with a smirk and mischievous gleam in his eyes. He sits on the bed in front of me, he reaches up with one hand and takes a piece of my hair and starts winding it around his finger and with his other hand he begins stroking me cheek then he leans down and presses his lips to mine gently at first but when I wrap my arms around his neck and pull him closer he kisses me harder.

Kile pushes me onto my back and he stays just above me, hovering about an inch or so above me. I run my hand through his hair, I love the way it feels so soft it almost tickles my hand. Kile puts his hand on my waist and pulls me closer to him as we kiss and I pull him closer but as normal this perfect moment doesn't last long because suddenly there's a knock at the door and I hear the voices of our siblings, Kile pulls back from me and groans as he looks at the door.

"Eadlyn, Kile, come on get up" I hear Kaden say from the other side of the door and I hear him try the door nob but thankfully Kile locked it.

"You know it's still only 5:30 in the morning" Kile yells at the door.

"Come on you two lovebirds, get up" Josie yells back and I giggle when I hear Kaden and Osten making gagging noises.

"Why" I call back.

"Just come on" Osten yells and Kile groans as he flops down next to me on the bed.

"Never a peaceful moment," I say with a giggle to Kile and he looks at me with a smirk.

"Come on, let's get up before they break down the door," I say with a laugh as I get up from the bed and walk into the bathroom.


I walk out of the bathroom all ready for the day, I took a shower then I put on a pair of dark blue jeans and a white flowery blouse with my hair pulled up into a ponytail. I put my contacts in so now my eyes are ice blue like Kile's used to be, and I put on my makeup like Mrs. Ellis showed me so I look a little older than I am. I walk out of the bathroom to see that the bed is made and the curtains are pulled back so light floods through them lighting up the room in the sun's light and the balcony doors are open letting in a warm breeze.

"Kile?" I say looking around but I don't see him.

That's when I hear voices and laughter coming from downstairs so I walk out the door and down the hall to the stairs when I get there that voices are much louder and I can hear Kile's voice mixed in with other voices. I walk down the stairs and through the opening between them then I'm in the living room and I stand there smiling at the sight in front of me. In the kitchen with flour all over them and smiles across their faces stand my brothers, Josie, and Kile, what's really surprising about this is that Josie had flour all over her face and is laughing about it.

I clear my throat and they all look up at what they're doing and they all smile, even Josie.

"Can I ask what your all doing with the flour," I ask walking into the kitchen.

"We're making pancakes," Osten says with enthusiasm and I raise an eyebrow.

"And how do you know how to make pancakes," I ask looking at the mess on the counter that is supposed to be food.

"The book" Kaden says pointing a flour covered finger to a book sitting on the counter and I pick it up and look at the recipe. "And Kile," He says and I look up from the book and smirk at Kile as he runs a hand through his hair that's covered in flour.

"I told you I cook when I was away in Fennley," He says and I just smile and go back to the book.

"Do you even know how to turn on a stove, last I checked you had no idea," I say with a smirk looking up from the book to see Kile looking at me with the same smirk.

"Well I have some butter," He says holding up some butter and I roll my eyes but I can't help the smile that spreads across my face.

"You're never letting that go, are you," I say and Kile just smiles then shakes his head.

"What does butter have to do with anything?" Josie asks and Kile and I just smile at each other.

"Nothing," I say and then I look at the mess their making.

"So where are you in the recipe," I ask, Osten shrugs, Kaden looks at Kile, Josie justs looks at all the flour everywhere, and Kile looks over at the book.

"Umm..." Kile says and I sigh.

"In other words, you have no idea, so what have you guys been doing just throwing flour at one another," I ask looking at the flour that is all over them.

"We weren't throwing it we just got a little... carried away," Josie says and I'm surprised that there isn't a tone of disgust in her voice.

"Ok, I'm not even going to ask how you got 'carried away'. So where can I help" I ask?

"Can you try to turn on the stove," Kile asks pointing to the stove behind him and I laugh.

"I'll try but if I blow up the house it's your fault," I say and Kile just chuckles.

I walk over to the stove and stair at it for a moment before I turn a nob and a clicking noise sounds and I jump then flames lights up and I smile. I turn the nob off again so it's not just on for no reason, then I turn back to the laughter and talking behind me to see flour flying.

"You guys do know that you're going to use up all the flour then we'll have to go get more, right," I say and they just smile.

"Did you get the stove working," Osten asks and I nod.

"Yeah, it's not that hard to figure out," I say then I cough a little on all the flour in the air.

"Ok, we're going to suffocate in here if you keep throwing flour," I say still coughing.

"Oh come on it's not that bad," Kile says but then he coughed a little and I smirk.

"Right, not that bad," I say and then I walk over to the sliding glass doors in the living room and push them open and a gust of warm fresh air pours in and I that a deep breath.

"That's better," I say walking back to the others, I pick up the cookbook look over the recipe one more time before walking over to the pantry and grabbing a few more things that we'll need to make these pancakes.

"Ok, what have you put in the pancakes so far," I ask and they all shrug.

"Flour," Kile says and I just sigh.

"Here Kile you mix the milk into the flour," I say handing him the milk and he smiles then nods.

"Kaden and Osten you two can crack the eggs and measure the other ingredients" I hand them the eggs and measuring tools.

"And Josie," I say turning to her "You and I are going to be operating the stove," I say with a smile and to my surprise she smiles back, maybe I was wrong about her.

"Ok," She says and we start looking around the kitchen for a pan to cook the pancakes in, luckily the book had some pictures and instructions about cooking the pancakes or I'd be lost.


After about 30 minutes we have a stack of pancakes and to my surprise they actually smell pretty go but by the end, I'm covered in flour from Kile and my brothers. They came up behind me and dumped a hand full of flour on top of me I had turned around and grabbed a hand full and thrown it at them then they throw some and Josie joined in, so let's just say we need more flour and the floors need to be cleaned.

"Well, let's see how theses taste," I say grabbing a plate and putting one on. I pour on some maple syrup then cut a piece and eat it, I grin. There not bad actually there pretty good not as good as the ones I had at the palace but for my second time cooking I'm pretty happy.

"Well," Kile asks and it's then that I notice that they are watching me.

"There good," I say and Kile lifts an eyebrow, not really believing me.

"They are. Try one," I say and the others grab a plate and put a pancake on it, drenched it in syrup and take a bit.

"There not bad," Osten says taking another bit and Kaden nods in agreement.

"We're going to have to learn how to cook properly," Josie says and I nod, she right.

"Yeah we don't have people to cook for us here, we'll have to go to the store and pick up some more things," I say and they all nod.

"We're was that envelope" Kile mutters to himself while he puts down his plate and looking around.

"You mean the one with the money in it," I ask and he nods, last night Noah had given him an envelope full of money to buy things with.

"I think it's upstairs, I remember you putting it down on the dresser when you came in last night," I say and right at that point the phone rings.

We all look at one another. Who could be calling us I mean it's not like people know we're here.

"I'll get it," I say getting up and walking over to the phone on the small table in one of the corners of the living room.

I pick it up and hold it up to my ear. "Hello," I say warily and I hear a sigh from the other end.

"Is Grace there," The voice says and it sounds like a woman and very familiar but I can't place it.

"This is Grace, who's this," I ask and the calling chuckles.

"Don't you recognize the voice of your own mother," The voice say and I gasp.

"Mom" I squeal and my brothers come running from the kitchen talking at once.

"Kaden stops your getting more flour on me," I say to my brother as he tries to grab the phone.

"What's going on over there and why is Kaden getting flour on you," Mom asks over the phone and I laugh.

"It's a long story," I say then I think of something. "Mom how are you calling," I ask and I hear a voice in the background that sounds like my dad.

"August gave us the number for the house you're staying in, but we can only call once a week and only for a little while," She says and I nod, makes sense.

"Is dad there too," I ask.

"Yes he is, but he's talking to August right now so he'll talk to you in a minute," Mom says and I hear dad's voice again mixed with what I guess is August's voice.

"How are you" Mom asks and I smile, even though she can't see it.

"We're fine, the house is beautiful and the town is even prettier," I say looking around the house, I look back into the kitchen and see Kile and Josie sitting on the counter eating and watching us.

"I'm so glad your all alright" Mom says and I can hear how relieved she is.

"I wish you were here too," I say and mom sighs.

"I know honey, but right now you and your brothers are safe is the most important thing," She says and I sigh.

"I know," I say and then I feel a tug on my sleeve and I look down at Osten and see the pleading in his eyes, he wants to talk to mom.

"Mom I know we don't have long to talk so I'm going to give the phone over to the boys now," I say.

"Ok love you," Mom says

"Love you too," I say but just as I'm about to give the phone to Osten mom speaks up again.

"Oh and Eady"

"Yeah"

"You and Kile behave yourselves"

"MOM," I say and I can feel the blush taking over my face.

"Ok here's Osten, love you bye," I say quickly and hand the phone to Osten and my brother starts talking to mom. I run a hand through my hair and look over to Kile and see him watching be with curiosity in his eyes.

"Why are you blushing?" He asks and my face lights on fire again.

"No reason, I need some air," I say and I turn and walk out onto the porch and take a deep breath.

Kile comes and stands next to me after a little while and we stand there just looking out over the garden with the sound of the ocean in our ears. I close my eyes and just listen to the sound of the ocean, it sounds so beautiful and peaceful.

"I miss my parents" I say with me eyes still closed.

"I do too"

"It's so beautiful here, almost as beautifull as you " Kile says after a minute and I open my eyes smiling.

"We should probably clean up the kitchen," Kile says and I nod.

"And after that, we all need to get changed. The boys still have school and we have worked," I say and Kile looks over at me.

"What's wrong with what I'm wearing now," He asks looking down at his clothes and I laugh a little.

"Where do I start"

Kile's black shirt looks more like white-grayish then black now and his jeans look like he messes white paint on them, but what's needs to be fixed is his hair. He looks a little funny but also cute with flour in his messy hair, I guess he didn't want to waste time brushing his hair this morning. I wrap arms around him and lean my head on his chest and he wraps his arms around me and he rests his head on my head. I breathe in his familiar scent and smile, I feel so safe with his arms around me like nothing can ever hurt me if I'm in his arms.

"Ahh there at it again," Josie says from inside the house and I laugh pulling back from Kile and looking inside to see all our siblings watching us.

"Want to give them a show," Kile asks with a grin and I laugh.

"Always," I say and Kile leans down and gives me a sweet kiss.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and Kile puts a hand in my hair and pulls me closer to the other while our siblings make gagging noises from inside the house. I pull back and smile at Kile and he smiles at me.

"I love you," I say and his smile widens.

"I love you too" In the background I can hear our siblings protests in the background.

"I'm going to clean the kitchen, at least, I won't have to watch those two anymore," Josie says and my brothers all follow her.

"Sometimes I think our siblings don't like us kissing," Kile says watching them all walk into the kitchen.

I laugh "What was your first clue"

"Come on let's go help them," Kile says wrapping an arm around my waist as we walk.


We clean up the kitchen pretty fast and when we're done I look at the clock and sigh, we have about 45 minutes to get ready.

"Ok Kaden Osten your school clothes are in your closets alone with your backpacks and Josie I think you're staying home today right" I ask and she nods "Alright Kile you'll will probably need another shower to get all that flour off and then your work clothes are in the closet, ok on move we only have 30 minutes before we have to be out of here. Now move" I say and they all jog to the stairs and rush up them at top speed I'm surprised they didn't slip on the marble and break their necks or something.

"You better take a shower too you look like Frosty the snowman," Josie says with a giggle and I roll my eyes but I laugh.

"Yeah I'll do that, ok we'll see you later," I say and then I ran to the stairs taking them two at a time.

I was lucky that there was more than one shower in this place so I grabbed my clothes from the closet, raced to the shower, washed off all the flour, jumped out, got dressed, and did my hair and makeup in record time. I walk out of the bathroom with 15 minutes to spare. I knock on our bedroom door then walk in just as Kile walks out of the closet in his work clothes which are just jeans and a T-shirt with the company name on it.

"You did", I ask looking him over, satisfied that he didn't have any flour left on him and his hair was combed.

"Yup," He says as he reaches me by the door.

"Kaden, Osten are you two done we need to leave" I call down the hall and their bedroom doors open and they walk out in their school clothes with a backpack on their shoulders, full of school supplies.

"Ready, though I still don't see how this is fair sending us to school while you get to have fun," Kaden says and Osten nods in agreement, Kile and I just laugh.

"We'll see how much fun we had tonight, ok come on let's go," I say walking down the hall and to the stairs.

I get to the bottom and look up to see Osten and Kaden on both of the stairs railings, "Go" Kaden yells and they both start sliding down the railing and when they get to the bottom they jump off. Osten got down first and Kaden was right behind him, I just stood there shaking my head at my brothers mom and dad would have freaked if they saw that.

"Come on we're going to be late" I saw grabbing Osten's and Kaden's hand as I walk to the door with Kile right next to Kaden.

"See you later Josie" Kile yells.

"Yup, later" Josie yells back and I open the door and set into the salty air, it's just the beginning of October so it was a little chilly but I didn't mind.

"Ok, so Kile you're going to the bus and I'm going into town, right," I say and he nods.

"The bus is in the opposite direction and Noah told me all about where to go and everything, I'll see you later ok," He says and I nod.

"Ok bye," I say and give him a quite kiss then start walking down the road as Kile goes the others way.


The walk into town was beautiful with all the trees and pretty house alone the way it felt like I was in a fairy tail, some people might say my life back at the palace was a fairy tail but it's different when you live there day in and day out and with all the stress on me for being the next queen it's more like a nightmare than anything.

I walk down the sidewalk toward the shop I'm going to be working after I drop my brothers off at the school, I walk for another minute then I'm standing in front of the cute little store inside I can see a few people moving around and talking. I take a deep breath and walk inside the store, inside is an adorable little shop full of clothes and people. Off to my right is a little desk with an old fashion cash register and cute little lamp on top, to my left is a whole shelf full of beautiful colored fabrics, beads, ribbon, anything that you would need to make clothes and in the center of the shop stands little displays with shoes, dresses, pants, shirt, blouses, and in the corner by the desk is another desk of sorts full of makeup, hair brushes, and really just anything you need.

"Hello, can I help you," The woman behind the counter says cheerfully making me like her already, she has long light brown hair and hazel eyes like mine shes's about the same height as me and is cleaned with a bright face.

"Yes, I.. Um" I studdered trying to find what to say.

"You're new in town aren't you, I've never seen you around before," She says with a bright smile.

"Yes I am, I just moved here with my husband and our family," I say and she nods still smiling.

"I bet you're the new employee Leah was talking about," She says coming around the desk and over to me.

"Yes I'm Grace Adams," I say holding out my hand, she shakes it warmly still smiling.

"Nice to meet you Grace, my name's Hannah Wheaton" I smile, this girl can't be more than 16 but she seems younger she's so friendly that you can't help but like her.

"Come on the others are in the back," Hannah says walking through the store to the back where she opens a door and holds it open for me, I step inside the room which is nearly as large as big as the shop but this room is not as organized as the shop is. There is fabric on every surface and in each corner of the room sits a rectangular table to fit into the corner with a sewing machines on top on these desks. In the center sits a big table with scissors, fabric, ribbon, and rulers on top.

"Hannah who's this?" Asks one of the three girls in the room, she has long blond hair braided down her back and blue eyes that seem to look into you and I can see that she's the oldest in the room.

"This is Grace Adams, she's the new employee you were talking about," Hannah says with a smile and the girl's eyes soften.

"Hello Grace I'm Leah, this is Moriah" She says pointing to a girl similar to Hannah with long brown hair and brown eyes "And this is Laura" She says and the girl next to her smiles, she has brown hair like the others but her eyes are much darker.

"Nice to meet you all," I say with a smile.

"I'm so glad you can help us out, business has picked up lately and we just can't seem to keep up not to mention we're fresh out of ideas for new clothing," Moriah says looking happy and exhausted.

"It's a pleasure though I hope you know I've never made any clothes but I do draw them pretty well," I say and Leah laughs a little.

"Yes we know but right now we can use all the help we can get, besides it'll be fun to have someone new to train," Leah says with a sweet smile.

"Sounds great," I say.

"Let's get started then, Hannah you go back up front and we'll stay back and start training Grace," Leah says a tone of authority in her voice.

"Come over here and I'll show you how to work the sewing machine" Moriah says walking over to what I suspect is her corner, she sits down in the chair and then starts talking about the switches and buttons and how to hold the fabric as I stand behind her nodding my head and asking questions if I don't understand.

By the end of the day I have made a dress, well it's more like Moriah made a dress but I helped with it and now I know how to use the sewing machine and how to cut fabric and measure it. There is a lot that goes into making a dress that I didn't learn when Neena and I made that dress back at the palace, I just helped her with the color fabric and just a few things but she did most of the work while I watched. While I was working with Moriah I learned that they were all sisters and that they are living with their dad because their mom died years ago, I'm surprised that she was so open with me but I was glad that she seemed to trust me so I told about my life, of course, I didn't tell them that I was the princess but I told them that mine and Kile's parents died years ago in a fire so now our siblings live with us and that we moved a lot.

I stand there looking at the dress we just made, it's a light yellow knee length sundress with a white belt around the waist and it's very pretty even though I probably wouldn't wear a dress like this I still think it's pretty. Moriah stands next to me grinning at the dress, Leah is across the room with laura at their sewing machines working to make some new clothes, I look at the clock and see that it's almost time to head home.

Just then the door opens and Hannah steps in with a smile on her face "Grace there's someone here to see you" I squint at her, who would come to see me.

"Ok, let me just grab my stuff," I say picking up my jacket and purse, then I follow Hannah out the door with the others following, I smile as I see Kile and my brothers standing there waiting for me.

"What are you guys doing here," I ask walking up to them.

"We came to pick you up so you wouldn't have to walk home alone," Osten says and I ruffle his hair then I turn to Kile and give him a kiss.

"That's sweet," I say then I look over at the girls to see them all watching us with smiles on their faces.

"Oh sorry where are my manners, this Josh my husband," I say motioning to Kile he smiles at them with a nod of his head. "This is my brother Jonathan," I say motioning to Kaden "And my other brother Lucas," I say and Osten waves.

"Nice to meet you all, I'm Hannah," She says cheerfully. "This is Moriah, and Leah and this little cutie is Luara"

"It's great meeting you," Kile says.

"Well I'm sure you have to get home, we'll see you tomorrow at 6:00 Grace" Leah says with a grin and I smile then say goodbye and we walk out the door, but just before the door closes I hear Hannah say "I like her" And Moriah says "Yeah me too"

And I'm left smiling all the way home and for a long time after that.