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An Innocent Walk?

A month later

Tori looked at the castle as they came closer. She was dreading this moment but at the same time looking forward to it. She still thought about the dance thing; she tried to not to let it bother her, but it was hard. She had thought that she started to like him, but why should she if he was only going to be thinking about someone else? It didn't make sense. After she got back she had emerged herself into sparring and riding anything but what had to do with this, and then when her Father told her she would be leaving soon to go and spend time with Blake, all her thoughts instantly turned to that dance. Although she wasn't sad, instead she decided to just not care anymore. It's not like she was all that concerned about those kinds of things anyway. She was being forced into the marriage anyways, so why did she have to make it any easier on him?

"What are thinking about?"

Tori turned towards Kelly, "Nothing."

"Alright."

Kelly turned back to face the front. Tori looked at her, "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Look I know that you're thinking and you're having a hard time trying to decide how to feel."

Tori looked back out the window, "No."

"It's about Blake isn't it?" Tori didn't say anything. "Look I bet he didn't even mean to dance with another girl during that song."

The blonde turned to her friend, "How do you do that?"

"We've been friends for a long time and I've been with you since you were little, it happens."

"I wish I could do that with you. I mean I still don't know where you disappeared to during the ball."

Kelly shrugged, "I didn't know you needed me, so I decided to go for a walk."

Rolling her eyes Tori looked back to the castle; that had been the same response that she had given the day after the ball.

Finally they arrived at the castle. Tori and Kelly made their way down the halls filled with tapestries of battle scenes until they got to the throne room. Battle scenes; if that's what they liked than Tori was going to be more than willing to give Blake a battle. They entered and slowly walked up to the thrones which sat the King and Queen and then Hunter and Blake on either side. Tori locked eyes with Blake for a moment before curtseying. Then Kelly spoke up after she finished her curtsey.

"Your majesties, I was sent by King Kanoi to accompany the Princess here. This is Princess Tori." She gestured to Tori who smiled at the King and Queen who sat before her. This was the first time that Tori had ever seen them. The King had brown hair with matching eyes while the Queen had blondish brown curly hair with blue eyes. They smiled at her and then spoke.

The King bowed his head slightly, "I am King Edward Bradley and this is my wife Queen Sarah Bradley." Tori nodded and smiled to the Queen. "And you know my sons Prince Hunter and Blake." Tori looked to Hunter but found that out of the four up there his eyes were elsewhere and not on her. But before Tori could look in the direction of where his eyes were the King spoke again, "We are happy to have you here. Please allow Blake to accompany you on a walk."

Blake got off his throne and walked over to Tori and extended his arm which she took and followed him outside. He hadn't said a word as they were going out there.

"Glad you were able to come." He finally spoke pulling Tori away from paying attention to the trees.

"Well I do try to do things that should be done."

Blake gave her a look and then looked straight ahead, "That's good. I suppose that some people find certain things higher on their priority list than others."

"Sure, although some people's priorities aren't necessarily right."

"So you think you should be one to say what their priorities should be."

"Not everyone, just some people in particular."

"Well, I suppose that makes sense coming from someone like you."

"How do you mean?" Tori and Blake were no longer in civil tones, they had become harsh.

"Princesses all tend to judge the same way. It's a fact."

"Well Princes from certain countries are a bit to stuck on themselves, that's a fact."

"Really?"

"Yes really."

"Well, like I said I'm glad you came."

"Of course, I wasn't going to miss it."

"Well, that's awfully kind of you."

Tori rolled her eyes; she knew that was referring to their first meeting. Well she didn't care what he said, it didn't bother her. They remained in silence for a while longer until they stopped by a small waterfall. Tori smiled at how beautiful the place was. She let go of his arm and went over to it. This waterfall wasn't huge, it was on a smaller scale but the water was crystal clear allowing the sun to get to the rocks on the bottom causing them to sparkle. She couldn't believe how pretty it was. Then she remembered who she was with; Blake. She turned around but he wasn't there.

She started turning around looking for any evidence of his whereabouts. Tori did that for few more times until she stopped realizing that Blake was probably doing that just to get back at her, well she wasn't going to call his name and show him that she needed him. She was going to go back to the castle by herself and good riddance to him if he didn't make it.

Determined she began to look around to the area that they had come from, but she had moved a bit when she had been looking for Blake which meant that she was no where near where she should have been. Biting her lip she chose a way and started heading through the woods.

Tori had been walking for what must have been an hour; it hadn't taken them an hour to get to that stupid waterfall so why was it taking this long to get out. She winced as another branch tore at her dress drawing blood in the process. She was going to kill him, how could he do this? She had never done anything like this to him. She shook her head so she could focus on getting out of the woods. It was then that she heard a wolf howling; she took a deep breath and continued away from it. It was far away so she should be fine as long as—another rip—she didn't leave to much blood behind. As she moved her hair out of her face she tripped over a hidden root and fell to the ground. She shook her head and continued onwards.

Finally she made it out and from the looks of it she was now on the other side of the castle; no wonder it had taken so long. Breathing heavily she made her way into one of the servants' doors. Luckily no one was there otherwise they would have stopped her for sure. Now where was her room? Right she didn't know. She'd ask a servant.

"Excuse me, but where's my room at?"

The maid looked at her closely for a minute before recognizing her, "Princess," She curtseyed. "I'll take you there myself."

"It's okay, just point me in the right direction."

"It would be an honor."

"Really, I'd much rather you just say it."

"Alright your highness. It's up that corridor and than two sets of stairs, go right to the end and then the door will be on your left—second one." She curtseyed again and hurried away.

Tori started following the girls' directions until she realized how hungry she was. Surely she'd be able to sneak something out of the kitchen. She headed towards a hallway and found a room that had a tapestry by it that was not of a battle scene. Surely this had to be it just as she was about to open the door she heard someone call out to her. She turned and saw Blake running down the hallway to her. "You can't go in there."

"Really? And where have you been?"

He looked just fine and Tori, she was a mess. "You just disappeared."

"You found your way back, what's the big deal? Oh, wait you got dirty. I'm sorry."

Like that was believable. "Whatever, I'm hungry."

She turned and put her hand on the door handle. "I wouldn't if I were you."

"Well thankfully, you're not me."

Before Blake could say another word Tori opened the door and stepped in to find a huge table filled with men, one being King Edward and a few others that she recognized from other kingdoms.

The men started to turn towards the door where Tori was at but she remained frozen on the spot; she knew that this was not good.