CHAPTER THREE

"WHY DIDN'T YOU LISTEN TO JANE?" Jester cries out, after I finish explaining.

"I don't know. I guess I just, wanted to be right."

"Well, look where that got us! Jane is over there, at death's door, and you're saying you WANTED TO BE RIGHT?"

At that moment Pepper comes over and says, "The wound is deeper than I thought. It's going to be hard to heal, but I can do it." When she says that I breathe a sigh of relief. At least Jane will live. "Although," Pepper continues "it will be a few months before she is well enough to return to her duties as a squire."

Then, Jane's mother comes in. It occurs to me, no one told her about Jane.

(A/N there will be a lot of yelling coming up, mostly from Jane's mom.)

"WHAT HAPPENED?" yells the lady in waiting. When I try to explain what happened, she gets angrier. "MY DAUGHTER IS LYING THERE, ALMOST DEAD AND YOU TRY TO CALM ME DOWN? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? Oh, Jane." Then tears roll down her face.

Luckily for me, Pepper is able to calm her down.

"So, she'll be fine then?" asks Lady Turnkey.

"Yes my lady" I tell her.

"Well, then, I must go speak to Sir Theodore."

As she turns to leave, I realize that he will most likely tell her about what I said to Jane. The only part I left out of telling them all was the part where I poured out my emotions. I just hope the princess isn't around if Sir Ivon or Sir Theodore tells her. That would go disastrously. I decide to walk outside for some fresh air.

As I walk outside I start to cry. "If only I had listened. If only." Then the princess runs up to me.

"Gunther," she asks, "are you crying about Jane?"

"No, it's just the wind, it's making my eyes water." I couldn't let her know that I was. It was just two years before when the rumor spread about Jane and I. I didn't want everyone to know that I really DO like her. If the princess found out, everyone would.

"There isn't any wind, Squire Gunther." the ten year old princess remarks. She continues by saying "I know you like her, but I won't tell. I promise."

"Thank you your little majesty."

Then she left me alone to my thoughts. Or, at least I thought I was alone.