CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
"Hey, Mile." Jackson let himself into my room as I searching for all the members of Parliment and writing them down.
"Hi." I looked up and he sat on my bed. "You come to tell me I shouldn't love Shane too?" I asked lowly, avoiding his eyes.
"Why?" Jackson shrugged in reply. "You're right, Dad always told us that when we loved someone, that's all that matters, if you love this Shane kid then... I'm not happy about him bein' in my baby sisters bed, but if you love 'im I won't say you shouldn't." I smiled and moved closer to Jackson.
"You're a good brother." I told him and he smiled.
"So if you have to get married anyway, why not to this guy you love so much?" He asked and I sighed.
"The constitution says I have to marry someone with 'status'." I rolled my eyes with airquotes.
"So that's who the other dude the King was talking about was? Some dude with status?" I nodded and Jackson frowned.
"Marcus was actually really nice, he was sweet and kind, and he was happy if I just gave him a chance to love him." Now I was sad, Marcus really was a great guy. "And he's amazing and I really liked him."
"Then why cheat?" Jackson asked and I sighed, looking down.
"I like Marcus, and if things had been different I probably would have loved him, but... I love Shane, I can't stop, it hurts to be without him. I never wanted to hurt Marcus, or cheat on him, but I finally got Shane back in my life, even if it was going to be just a couple of weeks, and I couldn't stop myself."
"So this Shane kid, he came back with me and Dad?" Jackson guessed and I nodded.
"Shane Gray, the... The really cute one with the adorable hazel eyes." I sighed happily and Jackson just looked at me. "The one that went after me during breakfast the other day." I explained, rolling my eyes and this time Jackson nodded. "He's sweet and kind and protective and smart and he only wants me to be happy, even if it hurts him in the proccess. He's amazing, Jackson, he really is."
"Hey, don't convince me, it's Dad who thinks he's using you." Jackson held his hands up in defence and I frowned.
"He's not, Jackson, I swear, and I'm gonna find a way for us to be together even if the King won't do anything to help me." I insisted, I couldn't lose Shane again, I'd already lost him so many times, it'd kill me if I lost him again.
"So what's the plan?" He asked and I sighed, showing him my list.
"Any member of the Royal family within ten places of the Throne can petition to have the constitution changed through a fifty-one percent vote in Parliment." I told him, I had about fifty names so far. "I need a hundred and eighteen strangers to agree that I have a right to marry for love instead of breeding."
"Might be just me, Sis, but I don't think you have enough names here." Jackson joked and I gave him a half smile.
"I know of another, but I don't think I should ask them... And I'm still working on getting the names of everyone else." I sighed and Jacksson furrowed his brow in confussion. "Marcus and his brother Kale, I don't think they'd be too welcoming to me right now." I explained. "Then I just have to convince everyone."
"Bet you miss Malibu, huh?" Jackson smirked.
"And Crowley." Jackson threw his arm around my shoulders and we just sat there for a minute. "Why did life have to get so complicated?"
"You mean as opposed to the double life as an international rockstar?"
"At least I didn't have to run a country or marry someone I didn't love." I pointed out dully. "What's going on with Hannah anyway?" I was currious, I hadn't seen anything online about it or anything.
"Dad's sayin' your sick, and highly contagious." Jackson said and I snorted, shaking my head. "Even told the kids at school that so I have to bring home all your work and Dad does it so no-one suspects... By the way, your GPA went down." I pouted, if it weren't for Biology I'd have a perfect 4.0 GPA.
"We're gonna have to tell the world eventually, right? I mean maybe they haven't seen the news lately, but I don't think a fifteen-year-old being Crowned is gonna stay on the DL for long and then my picture'll be everywhere." I'm surprised the whole birthday assasination wasn't bigger news, but I guess they must have done something to keep it off the front page. Jackson shrugged and looked down at the list
"Why not start with this guy: Aaron Ecklestien?" He suggested and I cringed at the named, it was first on the list thanks to the double A in Aaron.
"I don't think he's too warm to me right now." I muttered and Jackson rose his eyebrows at me. "His son tried to kill me at my birthday party and I heard he couldn't be put on trial because he could go to the trial..." That was all Shane had told me when I'd asked, then he changed the subject. I was yet to find out what actually happened at my birthday other than what I'd figured out.
"Someone tried to kill you?" Jackson demanded and I looked up at him in surprise, I'd never seen him look so angry before. "Who was it?"
"I don't know, Ecklestien and a bunch of other people, but they're gone, the sentancing hearing is just after New Year." Apparently I hadn't been needed for the trials and I didn't even found out they happened until after they were over. Jackson frown and glared, but didn't say anything.
"Actually, it's just the other people." I looked up at the sound of Shane's voice and unconsciously smiled at him. "Nothing short of death would have stopped the King and the Courts from trying someone who attacked the Throne." He explained and I frowned for a second.
"But, you said he didn't-... Oh." I realised, Shane was the one that said Ecklestien didn't make it to trial, and now he was the one saying only death would stop him from being tried.
"He was trying to hurt you, I did what I had to." Shane shrugged casually and my eyes widened. It was him? Shane killed someone?
"Y-you killed someone?" I didn't know what to feel about that, I knew I should feel something, but I didn't know what. Should I have liked the thrill of knowing the man I was in love with would kill to protect me without second thought or regret?
"No-one tries to hurt you." Shane said as if that explained any and all reasoning, which to him, it might I realised. "Hello, Jackson." Shane nodded as he sat on my other side, keeping a close eye on me.
"So you're the dude that's perving on my sister?" Jackson asked and I turned my wide eyes on him, getting ready to scold him. "Well, at least I know she's safe with you." He said and I smiled, he may be weird, but that was Jackson aproving of the man I love. I crawled over to Shane on my bed and he immediately put his arm around me, letting me cuddle into his side and inhale his masculine scent. "Miles?" Jackson started after giving me and Shane our moment for him to kiss the top of my head and whisper that he loves me.
"Hmm?" I responded contentedly, bringing Shane's free hand over and entengling our fingers.
"If you can get the constitution changed so you don't have to marry someone with status, then why not just get it changed so that you don't have to get married at all?" He asked curriously and I felt Shane's shock. "I mean, you're only fifteen, you shouuldn't be getting married regardless of who it's to." I sighed and so did Shane, and he started playing with the ends of my hair.
"A Princess must be married before she can be Crowned and must produce an heir within one year to ensure the Royal family carries on. A Prince must produce an heir, but he doesn't have to be married." Shane answered and I looked up at him. "It only comes into effect if the intended is the last of the line, it was made to protect a Princess' virtue and not make her bear a child out of wedlock."
"And Miley's the last of the line?" Jackson raised his eyebrows and both Shane and I nodded.
"And if I don't take the Crown then Cyrus will cease to be a country." I added before cuddling into Shane a little more and trying to block out the thoughts.
"So you have to either get married and have a baby or have a baby out of wedlock?" Jackson clarified and I felt Shane nod. "Does Dad know about this?"
"Well, he seemed distinctly unsurprised when I brought up marriage at breakfast." I pointed out, bringing Shane's hand up and kissed each of his fingers, blushing when I remembered what they'd done to me only last night, right here in this bed. In response Shane brought my hand up and carefully kissed each of my fingertips, then my knuckles, then he brought both our hands and rest them on his chest, right over his heart so I could feel it beating steadilly under by fingers.
"Want me to distract Dad so he doesn't fliip out again?" Jackson offered after a couple of minutes of silence and I looked up at him.
"I knnow I never said it before, but you're a really great brother, Jackson." I smiled and Jackson just shrugged.
"Hey, I may have wanted a dog, but you weren't always the worst sister." Jackson brushed it off before he got off my bed and started to leave.
"Thank-you." Shane spoke up and without even looking at him I could hear the purity in his voice, the sencerity in his eyes.
"Hurt her and I hurt you." Jackson said in response before he left and Shane tightened his arm around me.
"Are you serious about changing the constitution?" Shane asked after a while and I nodded against him.
"I love you, Shane, and I only need to get a hundred and eighteen votes for it to pass, and then any Prince's or Princess' in the future won't have to marry someone they don't love." In the future any Prince's or Princess' would be my children, my grandchildren, great-grandchildren... They'd be my descendants, and I only wanted them to be with Shane as well.
"It can take years for a constitution change to pass, you don't have years before you need to be married." Shane pointed out and I frowned, pulling away and sitting up to look at him.
"I'm not giving up on us, Shane, never." I kissed him and he held me to him for a moment to kiss me again.
"No matter what happens, I'm always yours, Baby." He said and I smiled, moving over and straddling him and cuddling against him, enjoying the feel of his body pressed against mine, the heat, the muscles, the pure love radiating from him. It was intoxicating.
"And I'm always yours." I murmured, Shane held me to him tightly, just cuddling me and I could feel him whispering unheard words of love against my neck as we cuddled. We stayed like for a while, but after a short time Shane's thoughts must have started to wonder because I felt something start to rise underneath me and and he froze.
"God, Princess, I am so sorry." He started to appologise and I pulled back to look at him, he was bright red and looked absolutely mortified. I kissed him wordlessly and shifted around a little, feeling him get harder against my movement. Shane moved his hands down and gripped my hips tightly, stopping me from moving. I kissed away from his lips and up to his ear, cuddling against him and slipping my arms through his jacket to hold him closer.
"I like it." I giggled and I felt Shane's skin get hotter. "'Cause that's what I feel too." I told him, knowing I was blushing as well and Shane gently pushed me back to look at me with wide eyes. I bit my lip nervously and worried it between my teeth, hoping I didn't say something wrong. Right when I was about to open my mouth and make an even bigger idiot out of myself by trying to appologise and anything else that would spew out of my mouth Shane grabbed me and brought me forward, attaching his lips to mine hungrilly and urgently. Shane's fingers tightened on my hips and brought me closer, his tongue parted my lips and I moaned when his tongue touched to mine. Shane was dominating in the kiss, in every kiss, and his more experienced lips manipulated me in a way that left me weak and wanting.
"We gotta stop." Shane groaned, pulling his lips from mine and pressing our foreheads together. I opened my eyes and Shane's dark hazels were already looking at me, even darker than usual, making the gold and green flecks in them stand out even more.
"I don't want to." I replied and he gulped, his fingers tightening and his stare intensifying.
"Trust me, you'll regret it if we don't." Shane said, his voice husky and rough.
"The only thing I regret is when I'm not with you." Shane sighed and held me closer so I could feel his boy parts hard against my girl parts.
"Just, trust me, Babe." He said and I nodded mutely. "I won't be able to stop and you're only just fifteen, you'll regret it." I frowned, what did my age have to do with it? When you love someone you know. And when you know you love someone you show them. Shane sighed and kissed me again and I felt like he was cradling me against him when he held me. "One day, my Princess." He murmured in my ear and I smiled against his neck. "I love you."
"I love you, Shaney."
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