IMPORTANT- I uploaded this chapter a few months ago, but I recently found out there were some details I needed to add, so I deleted it and added somed stuff.

Hello everybody! I'm deeply sorry it took me so much time to post this chapter, but finally here it is: Chapter five!

Bee and Fevian get to know each other a little bit :)

This one is around 1, 700 words.

I really hope you like it! And I hope the wait was worthy!

Chapter 5

"The prince of Narnia"

She opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling of her room. That awful brown ceiling she always had wanted to paint blue. But of course her mother wouldn't let her; she always said that shade of brown was a nice colour. Of course it wasn't…

Deep down, Bridget knew her mother didn't want to change much of the house because that was the way it was before her father left… before he died. For some reason her mother wanted to keep the house the same, without any changes or improvements. Changing it felt for Susan as erasing the memory of her husband in that house, her beloved Charles.

Drifting away from her thoughts, Bridget got up from bed and looked at the window. She could still see the moon through it and many stars shinning in the evening darkness.

She looked around to find herself in an empty room. The beds of Caroline and Alice were not there.

That's odd…

Bridget didn't feel sleepy at all even thought it was still late at night, but the fact that her sisters and their beds were not there really made her feel very puzzled. So she walked out of her room to find an awful surprise outside her door.

That was it. Her room was all that was left of her house. There was nothing surrounding her room as it did before: the bathroom, her mother's bedroom, the small living room… her room was all that was left.

Beneath the limited light both the moon and the stars provided, all Bridget could see around her were ashes. Nothing else. Only ashes everywhere she looked.

It seemed as if everything had been destroyed in a war… most likely by a bomb.

Her family was nowhere around and Bridget never felt more lonely in her entire life as she felt in that moment.

She hand the most horrible feeling that in she would never have back everything she loved… or everyone. She was stuck there in the middle of nowhere, with a choking feeling on loneliness she couldn't get rid of.

The sunlight caressed her eyes, but that wasn't what woke her up but the voice of a young man with a certain accent she had never heard before. Well, not before yesterday, anyway.

"Wake up, my lady. The day awaits and we still have about one day's journey to finally arrive to Cair Paravel" Fevian said with an excitement Bridget couldn't feel after just having been woken up. "You should have warned me you were such a sleepyhead" he teased her.

Bridget was still lying on the soft grass in a place Fevian had decided to stop the last night to camp and rest. Apparently Bridget had "over-rested" and the young man wanted to keep on moving.

But why the hurry? She was clueless in that matter.

He helped her up as the perfect gentleman he was and sometimes Bridget didn't know if she found that kind of behaviour to be good or annoying.

"Good morning, my lady" he said and smiled after he helped her to stand up.

Enough!

"Will you stop calling me my lady, please?" she said. "I am no lady and my name is Bridget. Or even you can call me Bee if you want to, but please stop calling me that. My lady is just too irritating"

"Someone didn't wake up in a good mood…" he said, but he wasn't even slightly offended because of the mean tone of her last reply. If anything he had the best mood she had ever beheld. And again, he was teasing her.

She sighed exasperated.

Talkative, annoying and cheeky. She thought without being able to avoid sarcasm. Lovely combination. Just lovely…

Fevian helped Bridget to get on the horse and he mounted it as well with an enviable speed. It was clear he had been trained properly in horsemanship.

She slid her hand into one of the two pockets her pajama had to check the horn was still there, where she had placed it before she went to sleep. She wasn't so sure if she ever was going to see her mother again, but in case she ever did, she was sure Susan would be furious if she lost the horn. So she was keeping safe and next to her all the time.

After a few minutes of riding without speaking, an idea hit Bridget's head. He had mentioned something important her brain hadn't been able to process for she was still a bit sleepy but now she finally grasped it. He had said they were heading to Cair Paravel and as far as she could remember that was the place Narnia's royalty lived in. Or at least that was what her mother used to tell her.

"Fevian?"

"Yes, my la-… Bridget"

"Did you said back there by any chance that we were going to a place named Cair Paravel"

"Yes, I did. Why?"

"Why are going there? I mean, I am not an expert in Narnia or anything… but my mother used to tell me that place is where the royalty lives in"

He couldn't help but laugh. She was so lost and it was so obvious.

"Because I leave from time to time to do what I want but eventually I have to return to my home" he explained "Even tough I would love to have more freedom"

She was digesting the message. He was a…

"My mother goes mad whenever I leave home for more than two days… and now I have. I left about four days ago. She will want to kill me once she sees me" she smiled.

"So you're a prince?"

"That's right"

Bloody hell!

"But don't worry; my parents are always nice to commoners. Especially my father. My mother's liking is the one hard to get"

Yes, he called me a commoner… swallow your pride; swallow your pride, Bee.

Nobody had ever called her a commoner, and even if in Narnia she sure was one, she didn't like at all the way that sounded in the lips of the prince. Her pride, of course was the cause of it. She never liked the idea of thinking she was beneath someone else, to think she was inferior to somebody else.

But if my mother was a Queen, then I am no commoner… No, you know it's only a tale. Oh, Bridget! Forget about it, focus! That's not the point!

That was just crazy for Bridget. She was actually in Narnia, heading to a castle with the prince himself… All that seemed to be a dream, the horrible nightmare she just had that night seemed to her more likely to happen than anything she had been experiencing over the past few days.

"Oh, and by the way, Bridget, we should stop at Tediaren to buy you some new clothes. I don't believe you feel very comfortable to be travelling around wearing that odd pajama of yours" he said.

"Tediaren?"

"Is that small village you can glimpse over there" he said, pointing at the horizon.

And there it was. Ahead of them there was a very tiny village in which the prince intended to buy something more appropriate for the girl, something to fit in with that world. And this time Bridget really was grateful to him. She was tired to be wearing her "white" pajama, which was so dirty now that it seemed to be a shade of light brown instead of its original colour.

Bridget realized that was the second time he saved her. First from the gorge and now he was sparing her from appearing in Cair Paravel wearing her pajama.

Was this man going to save her from everything all the time or what?

She looked at herself in a mirror and was amazed by what she saw. She was no longer wearing the dirty, worn out pajama. Bridget was now wearing an olive green dress which seemed to be sort of medieval to her. She had to fasten some leather strings in the front and was a very simple dress. It had two pockets on the sides and she placed the her mother's horn in one of them.

At first Bridget didn't feel like herself wearing that kind of dress, but she had to admit that she didn't look bad at all in the Narnian fashion. She actually thought she looked beautiful, and that wasn't a word she used very often to describe herself.

Even though the prince insisted she didn't allow Fevian to buy her the best dress he found because Bridget didn't want to take advantage of him and let the prince spend a very big amount of money because of her.

Fevian paid a family to let Bridget change in their home and they amiably agreed. As the two youngsters went out of the hose Bridget noticed the prince looked at her approvingly.

She now looked like a normal young woman from Narnia.

Hurray…

So the two of them continued their journey to Cair Paravel and Bridget began to think that she actually knew nothing about the man she was with. Other than his name, his royalty and his fondness to tease her.

"Your highness, how old are you?" she asked suddenly.

"You don't need call me that way. And I am nineteen years old, my lad- Bridget… But I'll be twenty next month" he said. "It's going to be hard to stop calling you my lady, you know? It is a habit I have since I learned to speak. Every women I meet are my lady"

"Don't worry"

"And may I ask how old are you?"

"I am sixteen yeas old"

"Really?" he said and Bridget just nodded. "Because I thought you were about my age. You seem to be more mature, more grown-up than you should be"

"You're saying I look old? Am I that wrinkled?" she smiled.

"So the lady does have a sense of humour" he said with a charming smile. "I thought you were completely unable to smile or laugh"

"I'll pretend you didn't say that…" Bridget said. "And does his highness have siblings?"

"No" he stated. "I'm sure my father wanted to have another child, either a girl or a boy, it didn't really matter for him, since he already had his heir to the throne. But when I was born my mother had some difficulties and she almost died. I suppose my father didn't want to risk his wife's life again just to have a child when he already had one. And what about you? Any siblings?"

"I have two sisters. Caroline and Alice"

"Does everyone in your family have such strange names?"

"They're not strange! Caroline and Alice are very common names, as well as Bridget. And my father's name, Charles, is also a very regular name from where I come from. Or Susan…"

"Susan is a common name here. Narnia had a queen named Susan once, you know?"

So that was it. What do you think about it? Please leave some reviews! And I promise I'll do my best to keep the next chapters coming faster :)