Royal slave: chapter 19
James' POV
The door slammed closed harshly, making a vase with flowers fall to the floor. Jasmine went to her knees next to me and wiped the small line of blood that had come from my busted lip away. "are you okay?" She asked. "of course i am. it was just a punch." I said chuckling and got back up. "honey, i think we should leave these two alone." The queen said and walked out with her husband, the king. The duke's small visite had made their appetite go away, so they didn't really mind leaving us alone.
"thank you." Jasmine said. "for what?" I asked and winced as Jasmine tended to my busted lip and jaw, which i thought was pretty bruised. "for defending me and standing up for me, of course." She explained and half-dragged me out of the dinner hall. I followed her quietly. I didn't know where she was dragging me, but i didn't complain.
She lead me to a very familiar room. It was her bedroom. She made me sit down on it and walked into her bathroom. She came back with a bowl of cool water and a cloth. She took the cloth from the bowl and held it against the black bruise on my jaw. It hurt a little when she put a little pressure on it, but i didn't really care. All i cared about was the fact that our lovely princess Jasmine was tending to my wounds.
After a while Jasmine dropped the cloth in the bowl and got up from the bed we both had been sitting on to empty the bowl in the bathroom and left it there with the cloth in the once water filled bowl. The princess walked back into the bedroom, but she didn't return to me. Instead she walked over to her balcony. I got up from the bed aswell and made my way over to her.
It was night again and we were, once again, looking up to night sky. "did you mean it?" Jasmine asked out of nowhere. "mean what?" I asked and looked at her. "what you yelled at the duke." She asked. "of course i did. you're the most beautifull and smartest person i've ever known." I said and fully turned towards her and she turned towards me with tears in her eyes. "they were just words, you know." I said and rubbed her arm. "yes, they were just words. but they were the most sweetest words i had ever heard." She said smilling sweetly at me and laid her head against my chest. I wrapped my arms around her fragile form to comfort her.
We stayed like this for a while. Neither of us saying something. Her tears had stopped, but she still made no move to pull away from our embrace. She must really like it. Not that i was complaining, in fact, i had dreamt of the day that i would hold her, but i never knew that it would come true. I had always thought that some other guy from the high class would be able to hold her like this. "james, do you uhm..." She started, but she didn't want to finish her sentence for some reason. "do i?" I asked. "do you...love...me?" She asked pulling away from the embrace a little and looking up to me. "well, i uhm... i kinda do." I said looking away and putting a hand at the back of my head to grip a hand full of quills.
I was half expecting Jasmine to leave, but she stayed. I turned back to her. I was surprised to see a red blush on her cheeks and she was smilling. "you aren't mad?" I asked. "of course not! why would i?" She asked. "because, even though we're friends, i'm a slave and you're a princess. a slave and a royal can't be together." I said and leant onto the railing of the balcony. "so what? we can still be together! we can get through this together." She said and took my hands. "i don't want to get through with this. this'll have bad consequences for both of us." I said. "we'll face them together." Jasmine said and leant upward to me. Before i knew it her lips were on mine. I didn't know what else to do then to return it while wrapping my arms around her. From now on, i wouldn't care what hard times would lie before us on our path together. Aslong as we had eachother, i was ready to face them head on.