Wilfred Part 4
When I entered my room the next day, it was filled with expensive ball gowns.
Oh my...
"Which dress would you like try on first?" one of the maids asked, bowing their heads. I slowly walked around the dress in a daze as I walked around. One dress in the far back caught my eye. I gently took the skirt and lifted it up to inspect more. The dress was a light yellow with flower petals engraved into the fabric. There were small fabric made light yellow flowers on The left side and little ones all around the waist line. The sleeves were at least three fingers wide, a bit puffy, and see through.
"Do you like that one?" the Prince asked behind me. I didn't say anything to him and looked at the price tag that was still on the dress.
"Holy Cr-" I covered my mouth instantly, stopping myself from saying something indecent.
"Is there a problem?" the Prince tilted his head questionably.
"Yeah, there is! Who would in their minds would buy a dress this expensive!? This dress costs about two years worth of rent at my apartment!" I said staring blankly at the price tag. I looked at the prince. When I looked over, he seemed a to be hurt and was very quiet. 'That's a little insensitive of me. He did get me these dresses to chose from for the party.' I felt guilty for yelling at him.
"...this dress is fine." I said to cheer him up. "I would like to try it on." I asked one of the maids. She bowed, asked the Prince to leave politely and helped me into the dress.
I was finished dressing up. I stepped out of the room so the Prince will see.
"Your Highness?" I called out.
"Wilfred is fine you kn-" he stops talking as he saw me in the dress.
"Is calling you just Wilfred okay?" I asked amazed that he wants me to call him by his name only.
"Yeah..." he nods blankly as he continues look at me.
"Okay Wilfred..." I blushed as I spoke his name. "Do I look okay?" I asked with my heart beating out of my chest.
"Beautiful..." he answered like he was in a trance. I was surprised by his answer and became both beat red. He notices what he said and covers his mouth, blushing hard. We both stood there looking at each others' blushing face.
"Gross, what is this atmosphere?" a snarky remark got us to look over to the end of the hallway. Naruki, Haruka, and Kai were standing there watching us. Naru seemed to have a twisted like he eat something sour as Kai hid behind him and Haru had sparkles in her eyes.
"Wow Aunt Marika, you look like a princess!" Haru exclaimed and runs up to me and touches the dress.
"Princess? Haru, don't get caught up with that crap. She's just going through a midlife crisis." Naru shorts. I hit him over the head with my hand after that remark.
"I'm not that old you brat!" I snarled at him.
"You seem that old to me." Naru crosses his arms smirking. Then I wrapped my arm around him, pulling him close and then gave him a noogie.
"Hey, that hurts!" he shouts.
"Rude! How dare you even think I'm that old yet!" steam came out of my ears. Then suddenly I stopped when someone I never imagine to laugh was laughing.
"Wilfred?" I said, dropping Naru.
"I'm sorry but I have never seen something like that before." Wilfred stops laughing and becomes embarrassed. Then I laughed at him. ''He's so different! I have never met such a weird guy.' I thought.
"Well sorry but this happens all the time! You will be seeing it a lot more often." I giggled. Wilfred doesn't say anything and only watches me as I couldn't contain my laughter.
"So why are you in a dress Aunt Marika?" Haruka asked me.
"Well I'm going to a party!" I said smiling. Kai runs towards me and clings onto the skirt with pleading eyes. "Don't worry Kai, I'm coming back. Then after that we can play!" I ruffled his hair. He smiles and snuggles my skirt and then runs back behind Naru.
"Well we are going to go play outside now." Haru smiled grabbing Naru's hand.
"Did you guys finished your homework?" I asked them crossing my arms. Their smiling faces became expressions of fear as the heard my question. "You didn't huh." I said grinning evilly. The twins looked at each other for a moment and then nodded their heads. Naru gripped Kai's hand tightly as the twins held each other's tightly as well.
"RUN!" they shouted in sync before running like the speed of light.
"Hey come back here!" I shouted trying to go after them but there was so much of the skirting was hard to run. I released an exasperated a sigh as I thought of a punishment for them later.
"You really love those kids huh." Wilfred said with a smiling face. "You are pretty good guardian." Those words made my heart stop.
"Am I really though?" I said looking down as I remembered the months without my brother. All those of memories of us taking care of the kids but when he died, everyone looked at me differently. People thought I was indecent and too childish to even take care of three kids. I showed them wrong but the night of the fire questioned myself.
Am I really a good guardian? I left them alone for hours! The apartment caught on fire while they were alone!
Noticing my uneasiness, Wilfred walks over and gently takes my hand into his large ones and started to rub them gently.
"We are all not perfect. There's no such thing. There are only good or bad and I find you extremely good." he smiled and kissed the back of my hand. Tears rolled down my cheeks. That's all I really wanted for a while. Someone to tell me that I was doing the best I could. That I was doing a good job of raising these kids. His words made my heart tighter with warmth and that's when I realized that I...
I am in love with the Royal Prince Wilfred.
...
It was the night of the party and the Prince and I were dressed up wondering around the ballroom. Unfortunately, this party looked almost the exact same as the last one just with new decorations really but overall there wasn't a reason for this party at all. Just another waste of time.
"Amazed that it's not amazing anymore?" Wilfred whispered into my ear.
"Yeah, I thought I would have like a purpose or something but it just looks the one from last time." I sighed. Wilfred chuckled a bit at my words. I blushed when I heard his low chuckle.
"Oh hey it's Wilfred!" a familiar voice shouted. Prince Roberto was rushing up to us with a charming smile on his face. When he noticed me, his face instantly became shocked and quickly went composed. "I didn't think I. Would ever get to see you again." he said cheerly.
"You brought a commoner to a party? Edward rubbed off on you huh?" Prince Joshua appeared behind him with Prince Keith.
"That isn't very nice to say to a beautiful rose Joshua." Prince came afterward with Prince Glenn.
"Why did you bring "that" here?" Prince Keith pointed at me.
"I simply didn't have anyone to go with so I asked her." Wilfred answered bluntly, keeping such a composed face. He seemed to look a bit irritated but I couldn't really tell.
"Well for being a commoner, she doesn't look too bad." Prince Glenn speaks up.
"...thanks." I said trying to keep my anger from spilling over. We all talked with each other with the rest of the time at the party. We drank, talked about the most trivial things, and made fun of each other. I didn't feel like an outsider as much as I used too. I felt happy, finally having conversations that aren't judgmental.
I feel welcomed and accepted that I haven't felt in such a long time.
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