Chapter 8

The next day Renaldo started to march up the stairs, but while he did this he shouted, "Haru!"

The door to the right of the stairway opened to reveal the brunette as she replied back with, "Here I am."

"Oh, alright so are my daughters up yet?" The large white furred half cat asked, as he stopped walking up the stairs.

"Um actually I think they're still sleeping." Haru pointed out, as she slightly leaned up against the doorframe.

Hearing this caused a growl to escape the half cat's throat as he said, "Alright I guess I have to go walk them up." He then quickly looked over at her as he added, "Go get the breakfast trays. Come on move it Chicky!"

The brunette lightly gasped in surprise as she nodded and headed towards the kitchen from that same doorway. Baron on the other hand just put a hand under chin as he let out, "Hmm, I would what could be going on that would make Renaldo act the way that he is."

He then ran through another hole that was in the wall as he made his way to Louise's room at the exact same time that her father did as he said, "Hey Louise wake up."

The female half cat just slowly sat up as she let out a yawn and asked, "What is it, Father?"

She did not receive an answer from her father though as he then left her room and made his way towards her sister's room. And when he opened it he said, "Hiromi." He did not get an answer from her unlike his other daughter as he just let out a light growl while he walked up to her bed and began to shake her as he went on with, "Come on Hiromi, get up already."

"Huh? Why do I have to Father?" The light short haired brunette asked, as she slowly began to sit up in her bed.

"There's no time to explain since he'll be here any minute." Renaldo answerd, as he made his way to her curtains. He then opened them as he added, "Besides the entire Kingdom's talking about it."

"Who's coming and what is the entire Kingdom talking about?" Louise asked, as she let out another yawn.

Hearing this caused the large half cat to quickly turn around as he answered with, "The King's advisor is coming that's who." He then walked towards the front of the room while Louise made her way to Hiromi's bed and sat on it as their Father continued with, "And what the whole Kingdom is talking about is that young woman who had been dancing with Prince Lune last night. They say that he has fallen head over heels in love her."

And just at that moment Haru started to walk into the room as she lightly gasped as she whispered, "Lune..."

She accidently let go of the breakfast tray that she had been holding onto causing the plates and tea cups and kettle to break as her stepfather sharply turned around as he coldly said, "Clean that up right now, Chicky."

The brunette did what she was told to do as she bent down and started to pick up the broken dishes. While she did this though Louise scoffed as she asked her father, "Why should we care?" Both she and Hiromi then fell back onto the bed and covered themselves with the blanket as she continued with, "If Prince Lune is in love with that girl why we should we even bother with it?"

"Now listen here you two!" Their father snapped, as he yanked the blanket off of the bed. He then stood over the two as he added, "There is still a chance that one of you could get to be with the prince."

"One of us? Why Father what do you mean?" Both of his daughters asked at the same time, as they looked at one another and then back at him.

"Don't you get it if the prince is in fact madly in love with this girl then I doubt that he'll even know or care what she looks like now." He explained as he looked over at Hiromi. He then smirked as he ended with, "And besides if this works then you'll end up being his bride."

Both of the girls then shot up out of the bed as they exclaimed, "His bride!" By this time Haru had gotten up as she too said the same thing, but in a hushed state.

They then started to run around the room grabbing different clothes and pilling them onto the brunette's arms. But when Hiromi noticed that her stepsister wasn't listening or moving for that matter she asked, "Hey, what's wrong with her?"

"Snap out of it, stupid!" Louise demanded, as she put her hands on her hips with a displeased look on her face.

The light haired brunette just nodded in slight agreement as she said, "We have to get dressed."

"Oh, yeah you're right I do need to get dressed." Haru replied back, as she handed her two stepsisters their clothes back. She then turned to leave the room as she went on with, "I can't have the king's advisor see me like this."

While the brunette made her way towards the stairs that led to her room all three of her stepfamily members watched her leave from outside of Hiromi's bedroom. But after a few seconds or so Louise harshly asked, "Father, did you see what she just did?"

"Aren't you going to do something about this?" Hiromi also asked, as she to looked up at her father.

The large half cat just put a hand in front of the two as he ordered, "Shut it!" He then noticed that Haru seemed to have an extra skip to her step and while his expression darken greatly he mentally added, "So Chicky was that mystery girl the entire time huh?"

He then slowly started to follow the hazel eyed young woman upstairs as he slowly took a key out form inside his inner suit coat pocket.

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Baron continued to make his way up to Haru's room before Renaldo so that he could warn her of what he was going to do. But when he made it to her room though he saw that she was standing in front of the mirror and was brushing her hair. The Creation then quickly ran towards her as he lightly shouted, "Haru!"

This had caught the young woman's attention as she slightly bent down and asked, "Baron, what's wrong?"

"There's no time to explain, Haru." The orange and cream furred half cat eeplied, as he started to slow his pace. When he was close enough to her though he added, "You must get out of your room before it's too late."

Not quite sure where the figurine was going with this Haru asked again, "Baron what are you-" She stopped herself however, and gasped when she saw her stepfather's reflection in her mirror as he pulled a key out of the inner lock and began to shut the door.

The brunette tried to stop him from shutting it all of the way, but she was too late because when she had reached the door it had already been closed. She then lightly pounded on it as she began to cry while she pleaded, "Please you can't do this to me! Please let me out of here!"

She then couldn't hold the tears in any longer as she then began to breakdown and cry while her stepfather just said nothing and put the key into his right pants pocket and made his way back downstairs. Seeing this though just caused a growl to escape the Cat Creation's throat as he could not believe that Renaldo would something as drastic as this to prevent Haru from happiness. The figurine then decided that he did not care anymore if the white furred half cat found out about him. Because as long as he could get that key out of the half cat's pants pocket then there could still be a chance that Haru could be with the Prince. Even if she never found out the truth as long as she was happy that's all that mattered to him as Baron then ran back inside the inner walls of the estate.