I'm casually being lazy tonight. It just means I will just lounge around all night and just be nothing more than a log. I need the weekends to relax, besides, it is just killing me. Having to go to school.

Dad told me to study or something, not to procrastinate and be lazy as hell, but sometimes i don't care what he says most of the time. I want some time to myself to think, I mean it. I just want to have a time where I can just clear my head and just relax and have some though about what I want to do and stuff. I know that I have the gift of intellect and junk, but I just want think.

My dearest girl, Lydea, is acting strange and she explained what winter means to her. She was nervous about telling me about all of it and I encouraged her to just to get it off her mind. I rewarded her by making her laugh, since she had put a lot of tension on the moment. I understand fully, besides I have to n two different ways. One of them is that I have something that means something to me that I can't figure out also. That something being the throne. I just don't know what to do when the time comes. I love being free and stuff, but I don't know what I will do in less than a year's time, since I will graduate the GTA and I will have to do something.

I have been told to remain in Ga'Hoole, with Lydea, and it is only because of… I don't know really. I stay in Ga'Hoole, because of something or something.

I have come to crossroads and I don't know what to focus on. It is either the throne or being free from responsibility and to be with Lydea. Besides, Dad and Must never know of this. While I ponder, thinking about what I want to do, I hear mum cursing in Naya'va (the ancient language of the North). Then I see what she is doing, marking work. She is getting stressed from all the work she has to mark. She has to mark a whole lot of essays and junk.

Mum is overwhelmed with work and i help her mark it when i can. Sometimes i find it where i can trust my mother better than my father. She does a lot for me and we get along (and she doesn't mock me about my mark on my eye that looks like a scar situated diagonally across my eye). Dad expects me to rule soon, when the time comes. I don't know how to or when i will have to, but not when i just turn 18 years old. That is one of my problems in the decision. Why is my life like this at the moment. There is only one term left after this and I am 18 the day after Lydea. It is July and I am almost 18 along with Lydea.

Later, after sitting still, doing absolutely nothing for three hours, a new record in my books, I notice a note has been left outside on the branch. Now, who would ever leave me a note. I get them at least several times a week, seeing as I have fangirls and they know I am dating, but they still send notes. I go over and pick up the torn notebook segment to notice what it says... Wait a second... A note comes mysteriously to my hollow? What does this damn thing that would be "so important" to be left here? Another fangirl? I read it and just drop it as it falls from my grip. I cannot believe the shit this person had just made up. It says that Parz is hitting it on with my girl, Lydea. That is a load of bull!

Why would an honest and caring girl, who would never break my heart, like I would never hers, even go with that...? Poser! (Not to offend him or anything). I pick up the piece of paper, and I just don't hesitate to just put it with the rest that end up getting through, and go to bed early, thinking about what it said. Would she do such a thing? Could she betray me? Is she just playing with my heart like it is some sort of instrument? No! This is stupid... I would never doubt her! She would never play the temptress. I have to see this clear.

The next night, the start of the new week, at school, I would think that everyone would be waiting for me and that they would be happily talking and chatting, but I can't believe my eyes when I see my friends yelling at each other. This is unlike them. This has never happened before and it started now? I try to attract their attention and they just ignore me (Like my dad did when I couldn't stop pestering him, when I was a fledgling. The only way he could make me go away is by taking me on flying lesions when I was big enough). I yell loudly and they still are at each other's throats. I mean, seriously. They would take my mother's dagger and would be holding it at their throats. I take this to the next level and throw my notebooks at them, pegging them across the room as hard as I can, finally gaining the attention of the four raging storms formerly known as owls.

"Just the person I wanted to hit." Lydea declares in anger

"What is going on here?" I yell in question, seeing as they are all freaking mad

"Why don't you go with Bryony! Since you are using me as a mock girlfriend!" Lydea yells (What is she on about?)

"What? Since when have I...? Never mind. What is going on here?" I ask

"We all got notes, traitor! Who could you be a Pure One? I thought they had stopped long ago when they got what they wanted...? Or do they want more?" Bryony replies

Shard, her boyfriend and my bestie says to her "Speak for yourself, coward!"

Then she replies "She must be more alluring if you want her, Shard. What am I? Am I too abnormal to be your girlfriend?"

"At least I'm not a two-timing hoe, like Lydea." Parzival adds as he clearly has to get in on the action

Lydea then replies "Watch it poser boy…! Or should i say, "Mummy's boy"!"

I get really fed up and yell "Stop it! Look we are being messed with. I don't think that any of that is true..."

Bryony just yells "How are we supposed to believe a traitor like you?".

My girl, Lydea, then says "Shut up, Bryony the shape-shifting robber!" defending my honour.

I am just getting pissed off and then I just yell "Stop it now! I don't want to hear another fucking word from you idiots! Listen or I'll deal with this the hard way!"

I end up hearing one voice behind me say "Josh!" loudly and in an unimpressed tone.

I turn around to see my mother behind me. Oh crap… She is about to go absolutely she-owl destructor on our asses. My mum, no one understands how deadly she really is. She defines the meaning of "cute, but deadly". Mum looks like a sketchy and menacing figure that should plague the shadows of the world, or to be a Pure One (If she were a Tyto Owl of some sort) rather than be my mother and the sweet natured Queen of Ga'Hoole. However polite and sensible she is, she can kick ass! I know she is going to give me detention, i just know it. Then dad would give me a lecture that would mean that I am grounded. Prepare the "reasoning face", Josh. She wipes any emotion away and replaces it with fear after two seconds of a statement.

"What is the meaning of this yelling? Do you realise i could hear your from all the way on the other side of Ga'Hoole? Now you little nut-heads are going to write me a 1000 word essay on why you should behave in a manner that doesn't mean yelling so everyone can hear you! You will have it in tomorrow night, at exactly 10pm. Do i make myself clear?" She orders as she glares with her golden eyes fixated on piercing into our souls as every word rolls off her tongue as she commands all who is in her sights.

"Yes, Queen Barran." We all reply in fear (Parz looks like he is going to faint and mum has that effect on people)

She immediately calms down and continues with the class. Her way is that she gets mad and then she calms down. When I was an owlet, she would be mad at my dad and she almost tried to kill him once. I don't know what that is about actually.

Me and my friends are completely cold shoulder to each other. We don't even talk or anything during the day. During History, I wrote them notes to come to my place after school so we can figure this out and there was no reply. Not Even from Lydea, my girlfriend of six months now. What did i do to receive cold shoulder? If they don't show, I'll investigate this myself. I mean, what did I do besides chick my books at them and cause my mum to blow up into an owl shaped volcano?

At the end of school, i just sit in my hollow, looking at the bark roof above my head. I just don't bother to do my homework and mum knows I am sad. She then just talks it out and she tells me that all friendships are like this. Then she goes to do some stuff.

I feel so lonely for once, this has never happened as i have friends and family in this tree. They are always around and they support me and stuff. I think losing Lydea would cause my heart to die and I hate to sound like a sappy Romeo, but she is everything somehow and without her, I feel lost and stuff, seeing as Lydea tells me what classes I have next and what classes we have together (which is practically all of them). I have to really accept this fate now if this ever happens. I'll just be in some arranged marriage anyway, like Lady Autumn was. I mean, if my father is anything like Autumn's older brother, he will marry me off to a princess or an aristocrat or something like that.

To my surprise Lydea shows up. She is standing at my hollow window and she has her beautiful dark blue eyes twinkling in the candlelight. I end up opening the window and she comes in. We are alone Sounds like some sappy love story junk right here.

Then Parzival, Bryony and Shard turn up. They accepted? After the rumours that they thought was true? I guess Ezylryb was right when i overheard his conversation to my mother about not taking rumours to seriously (Yeah. In Ga'Hoole, rumours come about all the time. Some against the Royal Family are pretty harsh and when mum gets mad, people should hide away and make sure they don't come out until she calms down).

"Hey sport. Look, I'm awfully sorry that i called ya a "Backstabber" and junk as such. I guess the printed lies got to my head as such. I can't really, ya know, know what or who to trust anymore" Bryony reconciles

"We're sorry too. I didn't know whether to trust what it said and we took it seriously. I usually wouldn't listen to the bullshit people say, especially about my family, but I must have listen to this. Parz doesn't have the capacity to know what the truth is anyway." Shard announces on the behalf of him and Parz

"Lydea, are you going to say something?" I ask the confused girl staring at me blankly. She just turns her head away and I try and get her attention.

"Josh... I didn't... I thought that it was..." She nervously starts. I can sense the fear she has, seeing as I am the son of the most powerful people here and I know a lot of people. She was wrong in her judgement and i can see that.

I know what she wants to do is apologise, but she is afraid of my answer. She would think that I would never forgive her because she yelled at me and I got us all essays on behaviour (which mum does when she is pissed off). Her eyes tell a story. The innocence and beauty that those dark blue eyes, as they are a colour i had never seen before on a snowy. She must be of some rarity, seeing as Snowy's usually have gold or amber eyes. I just hug her and i can feel a tear drop down onto me as she is deeply sorry. My poor girl, I made her cry because of all this. Whoever sent those notes, I swear that I will kick their ass.

"I'm sorry..." She sadly and softly whispers as I kiss her head. She kisses my cheek and I reply "I know you are. You never would be disrespectful or be fed lies. You are pure, Lyd, Pure like snow."

Behind me Parzival pulls a "barf" face, which I can obviously . Obviously he can't stand mushy junk like this, no wonder he just has no emotion besides one or two, love-struck and happiness. I can tell this street talking smart one has never fallen in love, but he stares at girls in the lower class (who have no class whatsoever). Trust me, i can sort of tell when he stares at Kat'lyn, Janette, Suzie and several others in the lower class. Bryony is getting bored as she rolls her hazel brown eyes at me and looks like she will fall asleep. Shard thinks it is cute that I have a girlfriend, since he is with Bryony and he said for final year I would need to get my head out of the books and to find a girl. Besides, he is like my brother and I know he is right.

"Come on, Romeo and Juliet. Can we get this over with before i get bored?" Bryony asks, as I have pushed her to the brink of her boredom.

"Alright then, ruin the moment we have here then, Bry." I reply, sparing her the boredom

We form a circle and start talking. After a bunch of apologies and talks of how that is all false, i start telling them my idea. I seriously want them to acre with what I have to say as I pitch to them this "Look. I invited you here to finish this horrible lie circle and to apologise. Now i am forming our group officially as the "Moon Group". How are going to get to the bottom of this. Even if we have to risk our lives for answers."

"You are obviously our leader. I'd never want to lead anything since my... incident." Bryony announces before turning her head and Shard holds her under his wing and she starts to cry. I wonder what happened in this "incident", but I wouldn't ask her, since I don't want to bring up scars of the past.

"We have to find who is trying to get to us, man. That person is crazy stupid to be trying to separate us up and like, make it the centre of their wicked plan." Parzival says (we could understand it, but none of it is grammatically correct).

"Can we meet tomorrow? I have to start our essay. I am really freaking scared of your mum, sport. She has a freaking way with words." Bryony asks

"Yeah, mum is like that. Might as well. It is due tomorrow. See you later." I say as they leave.

I am alone with Lydea. I feel like we have been distant for many years (even though it was only 8 hours since this fighting started and now, stopped) and we haven't talked in ages. I know how sorry she is and she just can't find words to say. She then opens her notebook and takes a small note out and writes something down. She then hands it over and winks. I think she found what she was going to say, but couldn't say it (only as my dad has entered the Palace and if he found out… oh boy…).

"I'll see you, later. Remember my eyes that will grace your presence while we are together. Never keep secrets from me, please. I mean it." She says then kisses my cheek and lovingly whispers "Love you, my prince."

"I love you, snowflake." I reply (seeing as it is my nickname for her as she calls me her prince)

She flies away and i read her note. It says:

"I know you never would do something like that . I would never, ever, lie or cheat on you. I'd never sing of love, if it doesn't exist. However, you are what i will cherish forever. With a shining smile to light up my eyes.

-Lydea."

I know what she means by this and i just put it in a box. So mum and dad won't rummage through my things. Lydea is as smart as I and I understand what she means by things like that. Lydea is a secret from my dad, just like her inner feelings about things.

I wonder who would do a thing like spread rumours like this.

When i look out my window, i see a figure in the branches above me and it watches and flies off. Who was that? Was it spying on me the whole time? Please don't tell my father anything that you saw. I beg in my mind to you... Who was that anyway?