"Oh that girl," muttered aunt Isobel as she ran across another piece of mistletoe hanging around. The last time it was too embarrassing when Brandon had to kiss her in front of everybody. Isobel just kept rushing to the next guest room. The king and queen's room was lavishly made up and now it was onto the princesses room. Brandon and Fergus didn't mind this idea but both Elinor and Isobel were scandalized. The princess's room was right next to Ian's room. The boys were also in that hallway along with the other children but it was highly inappropriate. Boys and girls shouldn't have rooms next to each other.
Finally Isobel found herself outside of Merida's room and opened the door. The nursemaid, Bonnie, was in the middle of making the bed.
"Bonnie," she hissed. "Finish up in here, we need dinner ready in another hour or so." Bonnie looked up her blond hair brushed away from her face. She nodded quickly and started to finish freshening up the room. As soon as they walked out they passed by a red faced Merida.
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Merida had turned a tomato red color, actually very close to her hair color. Ian had the desire to kiss her? That was unexpected, plus the fact that he had a crush on her for so long. She had clue and rather oblivious about many things. Hopefully he didn't go any further then that.
"Do you want to kiss him too?" asked Bram looking up at Merida.
"You know Lainie is going to try to have you two kiss," said Evander. He knew his sister and her plans, Lainie was the one that ruined there aunt Loren's wedding. A bunch of dogs and food in the same room is never a good idea. Then the year after she had accidently took her father's bow and shot at one of the pigs. They had pork for the next couple of nights.
Both of them stopped talking to hear what was being said next.
"Lainie don't worry, dad wouldn't force any of us to marry. He made a promise to mum before she died that they we wouldn't be in an arrange marriage," said Ian reassuring his sister of her worries.
"Because we all knew that you actually wanted to go and compete for Merida's hand. Because you actually liked her," said Lainie making a kissy face at him. Ian blushed and then looked helpless at themselves in the mirror. He really didn't want to fight his sister on his matter. She was afterall correct about this statement.
Merida's jaw dropped at this, he actually wanted to marry her? And it took Merida a couple of months and a week to pick him, when he already knew he wanted to marry her? Of course they knew each other for so long, they were 7 when they had meet.
Finally they had heard the dinner bell beginning to ring. It was a loud bell that aunt Isobel usually rang, but now it was the main cook.
"So did you hear about Torrance Macintosh's engagement? I heard it was arranged," started Ian changing the subject quickly. Lainie rolled her eyes at this but nodded in agreement. She heard about it but there was something about it that was off. The boys and Merida raced off before Lainie and Ian could catching them listening to her.