Hi all! The sequel is here! I am so excited to finally share this story with you! It will be a long one (about 45 chapters). I hope to post at least one chapter a week! Do not worry, it will be completed. Please comment your theories and opinions! I love reading what you all have to say! And without further ado, here is the first chapter of "A New Dawn!"
"Susan. I have loved you ever since I laid my eyes upon you, and although we don't believe in love at first sight, what we have is real and no one can take it away from us. What I feel for you is unmatched and I don't want to feel this way with anyone else. I love you and only you.
"Susan, will you marry me?"
"Susan! Earth to Susan!"
Susan snapped back to reality, quite literally to someone snapping their fingers in front of her face. It was her younger brother Edmund, seated at a table with the rest of her family. Lucy sat in front of her with two parchments in her hand, looking absolutely exhausted. Susan dreaded what would come out of her sister's mouth.
"You have to pick out the flowers!" Lucy said, slamming the hefty parchments down. "I have a lot of other work to do, you know? I don't understand how you obsess with everyone else's wedding and then slack off on your own!"
Susan swatted at the parchments being shoved in her face. Lucy complained once again about the current situation that they were in. Susan was going to get married. She had never really dreamt of herself in that position, and she sometimes wondered if she regretted saying yes.
She shook that thought away. Of course she didn't regret her answer! Why would she? She loved Caspian beyond anything and her family had always been supportive of them courting each other. But marriage? That was a step that she never saw herself taking at such a young age. Of course suitors had asked for her hand in marriage before, but she had always turned them down. This was the first time she had said "yes."
She heard the sound of a cleared throat, and turned to look at her older brother. "I say Lu, you don't see me and Ed helping out, do you?" Peter nudged Lucy with his elbow to get her attention away from the parchments.
Edmund scoffed. "I bet that she doesn't. Lucy is worried about Susan not helping out because she is the bride and Aslan forbid if the bride isn't-" One look from Lucy made him shut up. "What? I'm only saying that I know more details than the bride herself."
Ever since the wedding had been announced and the preparations began, Susan had been laid aback. She was not worried about anything and wasn't as participative as the Pevensies thought that she would be. After all, it was her big day.
Susan didn't care about the wedding details. It would be perfect no matter what. She only cared about her relationship with Caspian, and marrying the man of her dreams.
With the way Lucy had been planning the wedding so far, the idea was to have a fairytale-style wedding in the woods beyond the Dancing Lawn. Glenstorm had come across an area where two trees grew towards each other. When he saw the base of the two trees, he noticed that the two trees had suffered through rough weather but even after that, the two continued to grow and they did so towards the other.
It didn't take Lucy more than that to convince everyone that the wedding ceremony was going to take place at that exact spot. "Because it symbolises who Caspian and Susan are," she had told them.
There was definitely no saying 'no' to Lucy.
Before Peter could press on the issue of Susan being mentally absent, Caspian walked into the room. Or at least, he tried to. "Peter? I need to know your views on the dwarf agreement and-"
"No!" Lucy shouted at him.
Caspian stopped at the doors, his eyes wide open startled by Lucy's shouting. "I'm sorry but-"
"The groom." She started walking towards him to close the doors and push him out. "Cannot see the altar until the day. I've been working on this for too long for either one of you to ruin this for me."
"I thought that I couldn't see the bride?"
"You don't understand! I need this to be perfect! It has to be perfect! If it isn't then I'll-"
"Lucy," Caspian grabbed her by the shoulders, stopping her in her path. "Everything will be fine." He looked into Lucy's eyes and saw an unconvinced look. "It isn't even that big of a deal, it's just a wedding."
Edmund stood up slowly and took a few paces back as quietly as he could. He wanted to voice a warning to Caspian but all he could do was harshly whisper "Wrong words. Wrong words. Wrong words."
Lucy shook her head, staring directly into Caspian's eyes. Much to Capsian's surprise she did not shout at him. She calmly and collectively picked up her books and said, "I am going over to the main hall. Where I can get some proper opinions." Lucy then proceeded to suitively walk away in a proper fashion down the hall, making no effort to look back.
"That wasn't so bad." Caspian announced to the others, smiling at his success.
Peter chuckled as he clamped Caspian's shoulder, smiling with him. "You are so dead my friend. So dead."
Caspian's smile dropped "What?"
"Oh nothing," he gestured to Ed and they started walking out. "I would, however, suggest you sleep with one eye open tonight."
They then proceeded to leave before Caspian could ask any follow up questions.
"Well, that was strange." Caspian turned to see Susan looking ever so beautiful in her royal dress. "Should I be concerned?"
"No," replied Susan as she walked slowly up to Caspian, rubbing his broad shoulders. She reached up to his cheek for a kiss when she instead whispered, "Maybe a little."
Caspian laughed as he picked Susan up and carried her onto the couch, Susan laughing in glee. "Everything will be perfect as long as you are there."
"Everything already is perfect. Lucy is overreacting…What could possibly go wrong?" She smiled as she kissed him.
In the shady side of the bright Narnian forest lay shadows, shadows of people who look just like you and me. Shadows are prone to hearing news and passing it on to those who would pay for spicy gossip that they could use against important people.
The official announcement of the royal wedding that was printed into pamphlets found its way to one of the shadows. They looked over the paper and read it multiple times. It was an opportunity that they certainly wouldn't want to miss…
"Well, this calls for something, doesn't it?"
That is all for now! See you all next chapter!
-23LucyGrace