CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
Friday, January 27th
"Carry the one." Shane murmured just barely audibly during Math class. I looked up, but he was looking around the class at everyone else doing their own Math problems.
"Huh?" I looked from Shane to my sheet and realised that I hadn't carried the one on my last problem. I blushed and quickly redid the math before I looked everything else over and handed in my sheet. "Thanks." I whispered as I slunk back into my chair.
"Perfect score." Shane grinned back, glancing at the teacher for a second before his eyes flickered back to me.
"So... Do I have my own walking, talking cheatsheet now?" I teased as we walked to my Geography and he laughed.
"It's not happening again, you had the rest, you just forgot the one." Shane warned and I rolled my eyes dramatically. "Now, Geography, you know where all your countries are, right?" He handed me my Geography book and I stuck my tongue out at him.
"Don't patronize me, Gray." I growled playfully and he growled back lightly. "We got ten minutes before class." I leant back against the wall of the hallway and tugged on his tie. "This school has almost as many broom closets as the Palace."
"Wonder if they can get as hot." Shane smirked, towering over me and his hazel eyes boring into my blue ones.
"Got ten minutes if you wanna find out." I lured, reaching next to me for the closet door I'd stopped next to. Someone cleared their throat and Shane looked up before he groaned and stepped away from me. Not only were the other two people of my guard staring, but everyone in the hall as well. I groaned as well and felt like stomping my foot. "Fine, class, let's go." I grumbled, stepping off the wall and Shane took my Geography book back and held it with all my others. A good thing about a guard was that I didn't have to carry my own books. "Never let a girl get a make-out session." I kept grumbling and Shane chuckled and put his hand on my lower back, guiding me to my next classroom.
"We can make-out all you want after homework." Shane murmured lowly in my ear and I pouted.
"Before homework?" I suggested as I sat at my desk and Shane slid my book to me.
"I'm tempted, but if we start we won't stop and then your homework won't get done." His voice was low and rough and made me whimper.
"Instead of homework then?" I tried again and he laughed and kissed the side of my head.
"You're doing your homework, Baby." He muttered against my hair and I frowned.
"You my lover or my father?" I glared lightly and he gagged.
"Gross. Please don't compare, Babe, I just know you don't like leaving your homework and having to do it on the weekend." He pointed and I sighed.
"Sorry." I rested my head on his shoulder. "And I know, I'll do it... But, we do get to make-out right?"
"Everything you get right you get an hour." Shane teased and I grinned.
"Maybe I should ask for extra." Before Shane could say anything the ding dong sounded for class to begin and I lifted my head. After class true to my word I laid on my bed and Shane sat next to me, playing with my hair and he helped me with all my weekend homework. Shane laid down next me when I yawned and he pressed his lips to my forehead. I whined and slinked my hands into his jacket, stopping him from leaving. Stupid homework making me tired. "Hey." I pouted, forcing myself to keep my eyes open. "You owe me a hundred and twenty-seven hours of making out." I said and he chuckled and I felt him shake his head in amusement.
"You've got me for life, Princess." He kissed the side of my head this time and I yawned again, suddenly feeling a lot more tired than before. "I know you haven't been sleeping, I promise I'll be here when you wake up."
Princess Miley
Saturday, January 28th
True to his word Shane was right next to me when I woke up. Except I went to sleep in my dorm room at Prince Arthurs, and I woke up in my bedroom at Northumberland Palace.
"Good morning, Princess." Shane cooed, stroking my hair gently.
"Do you ever sleep?" I whined and he chuckled.
"Better when I know you're safe." He said casually and I yawned.
"Will you come to Parliment with me tomorrow?" Iasked, rubbing my eyes to get rid of the sleep.
"I go everywhere with you. You know that."
"I mean, will you help me convince them, we only need fifty-six more votes, I know if they know you, if you talk to them then they'll agree more." I turned my pleading blue eyes on him and he seemed to lose some of his confidence.
"I-I don't know, Princess." He looked away ashamed and I frowned.
"Why not?" I whispered and he shrugged.
"I'm just not good in front of crowds." He muttered, avoiding looking at me. "Give me a gun and I know what to do, stick me in front of people without orders and I'm just not good." I sat up and straddled Shane.
"Then, I order you to completely seduce Parliment into voting for us tomorrow." I tried and he sighed. "You're really great, Shane." I said seriously, stroking his cheek and playing with the short hairs at the nape of his neck. "You talked your way into that group at school, you were totally confident when you talked to me, you stood in front of half of the CRS and the King and just about anounced you were in love with me. You're amazing, Shane."
"Talking to you was something I couldn't stop even if I tried, and I would've done anything to stop them from hurting you, it hardly counts, that wasn't three hundred people." Shane said softly and I sigghed this time. "And I would've done anything for you not to hate me."
"Okay, Shaney." I kissed his lips and rested my forehead against his.
"You're doing amazing, Princess, you're going to win." Shane said and I smiled softly, his thumbs stroking softly against the exposed skin of my waist. "And then I'm going to get to put a ring on your finger and the whole world will know that I'll love you for ever and ever."
"I never asked you." I realised, pulling back a little and Shane looked confused. "I never asked if you wanted to get married; I have to, but you don't, you get to make your own decisions." I looked down. "You can decide you don't want to be with me anymore." I whispered and Shane hooked his finger under my chin and made me look up.
"Princess, I will never decide that I don't want to be with you, I'm completely in love with you and that's never going to change." He brought me to him and kissed my lips softly. "I do want to marry you; maybe not when you're only fifteen and you could change your mind about me." He admitted and I opened my mouth to contradict him, but he put a finger over my lips. "But, I want to spend the rest of my life with you, weather it's at your side, or watching from afar, I'm like a wolf, Princess, I'm in it for life."
"Huh?" I furrowed my brow and Shane laughed.
"Male wolves mate for life, no matter what when they find the one, it's the one." I smiled and kissed him.
"That's kinda sweet." We stayed like that for a few more minutes; me straddling Shane and playing with his hair, him holding me close and kissing me occassionally.
"You wanna hang out with his Majesty today?" Shane asked and I sighed a little.
"Yeah." I whispered, feeling the sadness start to creep up again. "I should get up, huh?"
"You're a beautiful person, Princess." I slowly got out of bed and stretched.
Princess Miley
Sunday, January 29th
"What's your tactic for today?" Grandfather asked, I was sitting with him until it was time to go to the Parliment session.
"Begging seemed to work the last few weeks." I shrugged and he sighed.
"Begging does not become the Crown, Miley, you should be convincing them, appealing to them, not begging." Grandfather admonished.
"It all feels the same when it's my future on the line." I shrugged again. "You're not so pale today." I noted and he smiled.
"I am feeling better today." He noted and that made me happy.
"Well, keep feeling better." I told him and I kissed his forehead when there was a knock on the door that meant I had to go now.
"I'll do it." Parliment was about to start in a few minutes when Shane whispered in my ear and I looked back at him. "I'll do anything to make you happy, and if I get to tell the world that I love you in the proccess... I'll do it, Princess." I couldn't help myself as I kissed him quickly right before my watch beeped signalling 9:00 AM.
"Hello, Ladies and Gentlemen, thank-you for being here today, we're going to start todays session with Prince Arthurs Prepatory dinner menu for the last two terms." I started when Shane stepped back. An hour later and the bill was clear and it was down to speach and voting time. "Okay, you've heard from me about the Constitution change, and you've heard from Lord Hawthorne who I cheated on to be with Shane... Now-" I glanced back at Shane to make sure he wanted to do this and he nodded, he looked nervous, but he also looked sure. "-now the man who I'm in love with, Cyrus Royal Security Agent Shane Gray wants-wants to say something." There were murmurs as Shane steppd forward.
"Hi!" I could hear how nervous Shane was and I wanted to hold his hand, cuddle him, kiss him, anything to make him not nervous. "I'm-I'm-I'm Shane Gray." He scratched the back of his head nervously. "I don't know what to say... You guys probably remember me as the kid who was on trial last year for terrorism against the Crown." He sighed and I frowned, he didn't still think about that did he? "I'm- I've regretted that every day; no-one could ever tell you the look in the Princess' eyes when I did that to her." He looked down and I sat foward, not sure weather to stop him or not. "The look of hurt, betrayal... I'll remember it for as long as I live. The first time I saw Princess it was because of orders, I was ordered to befriend her and protect her as a friend. Then, my orders changed and I was told to avoid her, to even alienate her, anything to get on the good side of the people who wanted to kill her." He sighed and looked over to me, I smiled a little he he smiled back. "I even tried to kiss other girls everytime I wanted to kiss the Princess." I flushed, that must have been when he kissed all those other girls and I called him repulsive. It feels like so long ago now. "I couldn't stop think about her, I knew she was going to have to marry someone else, but I couldn't stay away from her, I couldn't stop myself from falling in love with her, no matter how much we both tried. I fell in love with Princess Miley, and by some miracle of the Universe she seems to love me as well." Shane licked his lips and looked out at Parliment, they were all paying rapt attention to him. "All I ever wanted was for my Princess to be happy, to be loved, to love who she married. I love her, and for some insane reason she loves me too... Please?" Shane bit his lip. "Please, I'm begging, please help me make her happy? Please vote to make Princess Miley happy? Because I don't want to see that sad look of hurt and defeat in her eyes because she's too perfect to for it to be okay in the Universe for her to be sad." I couldn't stop myself as I jumped out of my seat and ran over to hug Shane, he sighed and hugged me back, burrying his face in my hair and holding me close.
"Love you, Shane." I mumbled into his chest.
"I love you, Princess." Shane breathed against my hair and I heard a slight disturbance, but I didn't look away from my Shane. "Don't look now, but theres a line to vote for us."
"You're amazing; if I wasn't already in love with you that would've made me." Shane ran his hand up and down my spine. "And to think; you said you weren't good with speaches."
"I think most of them are just signing so I'd stop talking." She said and I laughed.
"You have an amazing voice, I'd never want you to stop; especially singing, I play your CD when I can't sleep or I feel lonely." The one he made me for Christmas, he truly did have the most knee-weakening voice; it makes my tummy do flip-flops and my heart skip a beat just to hear him sing.
Princess Miley
"'Cause I'm just. In love. With you." Shane sang softly. nuzzling against me. "No oth-er words. To use." I giggled and he kept singing. This was a new one, not on the CD he gave me. "When I tell you 'I would never leave you'. Do you hear what I say? We talk love and they say that we're crazy. Love's even more wild with you, Baby." I stopped him from seducing me anymore with my lips on his.
"You know, you could sell out the MSG with screaming girls, you're so talented and sexy." I mused, cradling his head against me and he chuckled.
"MSG got nothin' on you, Babe." Shane shook his head. "'Sides, I have this little thing called stage fright."
"You were pretty good today in front of three hundred people." I teased and he rolled his eyes.
"That was for us, Princess, I tried the whole music thing, when I was fourteen, I got up there and completely froze." Shane shrugged, kissing my neck lightly and I giggled at the feel. "Not all of us have the confidence of an international popstar and a Crown Princess thrown together into one hot little package."
"You know, the whole popstar thing was supposed to be a secret, exactly how many people know?" I raised an eyebrow at him.
"It was a need-to-know thing, only about a dozen of us were told and it was to stay top secret at all times." He replied and I pouted slightly, another dozen people who knew my so-called secret. Tell anyone else and I might as well follow through with telling the world.
"Your Highness!" Someone burst into my room and Shane jumped off of me, leaving me feeling a little cold without him.
"What?" I snapped, I always hated when people interrupted us. Our time was so sparse these days.
"His Majesty, the King, Your Highness-" The Agent started to say before I jumped up. As I ran past the guard, I was swamped by a group of ten and that scared me, as I kept running everyone else was running, my guard, Shane - he'd turned off his cell phone and took out his earpiece as soon as he got off duty at midday - maids, anouncer-people, people who I had no idea who they were or what they did.
"What happened?" I demanded and severall people started stuttering and talking all at once, none of them seeming to say anything usefull or informative. "You." I stopped and pointed at one guard who looked uneasy. "What happened? What's wrong? What happened to my Grandfather?"
"Your Highness..." He gulped and I glared at him. "His Majesty-"
"Don't." Shane cut in feircly and I looked at him, confused, demanding, scared. "She doesn't need to hear it from a complete stranger." Shane grabbed my hand and led me down the hall to Grandfathers room. The guards usually moved when they saw me coming, but not this time. "Princess." Shane was struggling, trying to find the words and that only made the dread and fear worse. I noticed he had earpiece back in and there were tiny voices coming from it, shouting, but I couldn't hear what. "Your Grandfather he-..." He gulped and looked down, pulling me close to him and hugging me. "I'm so sorry." That's when it clicked and I collapsed against Shane.
Yeah... When I was writing this I didn't mean for it to end like this.
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