Celena hasn't slept all night long thinking about her evil plan. So in the morning she didn't wake up for breakfast.
And that left van and hitomi alone on the dining table:
_"aunt Melly, were is everybody why am I and hitomi the only persons assisting breakfast"
_"well your parents and hitomi's have gone for a tour in the city, as for princess Celena she hasn't left her room yet. She is asleep; I believe she is sad because of the party disaster"
_"great! That gives me a break for the day"
_"well you seem happy my child"
_"well I am; she is a pain in the back, a royal pain in the back"
_"oh looks like today you are in a good mood since you have such a fine sense of humor"
Van really was in a good mood.
And that is because he had a good night.
It was an unforgettable, amazing, memorable, awesome night.
And he felt like the day was just getting better.
Once they finished breakfast, van and hitomi went out to the gardens…
_"those flowers are amazing, since I was a child I came here to play in this garden with those flowers" said hitomi as she approached and touched delicately the flowers.
_"so this was way you never played with me" replied van humored.
_"well who would want to play with someone who tortured them, beat them and scare them constantly" replied hitomi raising an eyebrow on him.
_"so you didn't forget"
_"how could I since your fearful ghost has haunted me all life long"
_"very well then watch out because here comes the ghost again"
_"oh no someone save me" said hitomi comically.
Both started running between the flowers laughing under the morning looking at each other happily with their laughs filling all of fanelia.
Melly, yukari, Gades and many other guards and maids were watching them from far away happy for their future king, seeing him so happy and peaceful for the first time.
But they saw something else in him that made them even happier for him.
Van and hitomi stopped their long run under a tree to relax and take a break. When they got their breath back, van took his serious face and approached hitomi who was still laughing.
_"hitomi, I hope that your old view of me has changed"
Hitomi stopped laughing and froze. She was shocked that van is asking her such a question. He truly changed and became a good gentle man.
_"van you changed so my view of you changed as well"
Van smiled a bit and then he got even closer to hitomi and said:
_"I don't want my violence and my mean attitude to haunt you I…"
He got even closer till their faces almost touched, hitomi felt her heart stop and her breath accelerate. Then van said in his lowest voice:
_"I want my love to haunt you just like your haunts me"
Hitomi couldn't believe what she heard, she felt happiness fill her. She loved him and he… loved her back.
She felt like she could fly just right then. But she got back to firm ground once she felt his gentle warm lips on hers.
Her face got bright red, like his and she felt like her heart was going to explode.
Van held hitomi's face between his two hands to get it closer as he went on kissing her. Then he slid his tongue between her lips into the inside of her mouth to deepen the kiss.
Hitomi immediately responded to his kiss with all the tenderness in her as her tongue touched his.
All the people that were looking at them from far were extremely joyful, for that their king finally found true love, and found a girl that truly loves him back.
The kiss lasted for a long while before van and hitomi broke apart breathless.
_"I love you hitomi for ever"
_"oh van I love too, so much"
Then hitomi remembered that her loved one was going to get married to someone else and very soon.
At that moment hitomi let go of van's hand and got far from him, but van held back her hand firmly and turned her face back to his.
Meanwhile Celena woke up went down to the dining room and saw no one. So she went out side.
And this was when she saw van holding hitomi's hand and turning her face back to look at him and heard him say:
_"hitomi my love, I know what you fear but I promise you I am ready to drop everything for those loving green eyes you have, I love you and only you, I am going to drop the shame wedding for you, so don't worry my love (kissed her on her forehead) you are my only one"
Celena got crazy when she heard what van was willing to do.
He was going to lead her plans to failure.
She couldn't let that happen now that the time is so short before the wedding and that she almost got what she wanted.
She had to act fast and she was going to act that night.
At night, Celena put her plan to execution since her "loyal servant/lover" was going to help her she had to finish fast, so she hand kerchief full of whine.
Hitomi went up to her rooms to get some sleep, once she opened the door she felt a hand kerchief with a killing smell on her mouth.
Suddenly
She fell to the ground unconscious…,
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Celena is planning something very wicked, van and hitomi's life both will be in danger. Will our favorite couple find their happily ever after?