Chapter 7:
The Letters
(1 month after the events in the last chapter.)
"Your Highness!" Octavian cried.
"What?" Louis asked.
"We would like you to meet, Calista, your new bride." Octavian said. A pretty girl with reddish blonde hair and very black emotionless eyes came in. Louis looked at Octavian, angrily. He wasn't ready yet.
"Octavian, I told you, no." Louis said.
"Your highness, you need a queen, and since you refuse to pick one, we pick for you." Octavian said, "Either way, you're stuck with Calista, she seems to be completely in love with you." Louis looked at the girl, and sighed, this was going to be a long day.
Calista and Louis were to spend the whole day together. And while the royal court thought it was a way for him to get over Corinne, it wasn't doing its job. Quite the opposite, each moment he spent with Calista, his frozen heart ached even more for Corinne. Calista's black emotionless eyes made him miss Corinne's energetic blue ones. Calista, however, didn't notice the king's unwillingness to be with her. She didn't seem to pay attention to anything really except for the kingdom, and how wealthy it was, but Octavian told Louis he was just imagining her eagerness to learn how rich the kingdom was.
"Louis!" Calista said, "I can simply not go outside. The weather is to hot and humid it will mess up my hair." Louis rolled his eyes, it's already terrible.
"Then you can just stay here." Louis said, struggling to keep his voice down. He walked down to the gardens leaving Calista by herself.
Louis sighed, "She complains so much."
"Tell me about it." Renée said, "This morning she complained that the room was too small. Have you seen her room, it's huge." Aramina looked at Louis, sympathetically.
"And you have to marry her." Aramina said. Louis sighed.
"Don't remind me." He said. A cold wind blew over the garden, and the sky became overcast.
"I'm going to go inside, and just in case Calista's there, cover for me will you?" Louis asked the musketeer girls and Cedric.
"Sure, kid." Cedric said.
"I'm not a kid. I'm a month older than you." Louis said. Cedric rolled his eyes, and they all went back into the castle.
Sure enough, Calista was there. Aramina, Renée, Viveca, and Cedric sprang into action to create a diversion while Louis got in.
"Princess Calista." Aramina said, "We have found you a new room."
"Good, I'm glad I don't have to sleep in that closet anymore." Calista said. The girls and Cedric fake-smiled at Calista, and then glared at Louis with the 'you owe me' look in their eyes. Louis smiled, and ran up to his room as fast as he could. He bolted the door shut, and slid down it.
"Thank you Octavian for choosing a completely self-centered girl to be my bride." Louis said with sarcasm. He walked over to his desk, and noticed a small piece of paper on one of his science books. It was written in neat hand-writing, but it didn't say who it was from. All it said was for him to go to the forest at eleven o'clock at night. Louis didn't know who it was from, but the hand-writing sort of looked like Aramina's, so he decided he would go just to see what they wanted.
...
The four girls ran out of the palace away from a very angry Princess Calista. She had found out there was no room for her, and therefore started chasing Cedric and the girls. Cedric had gotten to his room and bolted the door shut while the girls ran to their little apartment. Calista didn't dare follow them into the rain.
"Oh, that was close." Viveca said.
"That was terrifying." Renée said. Aramina nodded, and got up, she was the first to notice the little paper on their door. She pulled it out, and read.
"Um... girls, I think you should see this." Aramina said.
"What is it Aramina?" Viveca asked. Aramina gave her the peice of paper.
"Renée?" Viveca asked. Renée took the piece of paper.
"Eleven O'clock?" Renée asked, "There is only one person who would've done this."
"Cedric." The girls said in unison.
"What does he want now, twenty-five dollars?" Viveca asked.
"I'm sure he has a good reason." Aramina said.
"We'll see." Renée confirmed. That's right they were going to go to the forest at eleven o'clock just to see what Cedric wants.
...
It was seven minutes to eleven. The kingdom was asleep, except for four people, Louis, Viveca, Renée, and Aramina, who were wide awake, and ready to leave.
"Let's go." Renée said. And so the girls left. Unaware of the king going in the same direction.
In the forest...
The leaves of the trees and bushes shook, and four people appeared.
"Louis!" The girls said shocked.
"Aramina, Renée, Viveca, did you want something?" Louis asked. The girls asked.
"Then why'd you leave me a note?" He asked.
"We didn't." Renée said, "Did Cedric give you a not too?"
"Cedric, if he had come here or even into my room I would know, and he could never get into your apartment unless it was unlocked." Louis said.
"How?" Viveca asked.
"Security system." He answered.
"Well if Cedric didn't give it to us." Viveca said.
"And you didn't give it to me." Louis said.
"Then who did?" Renée and Aramina finished. Louis, Renée, Viveca, and Aramina looked nervously at each other until a voice answered them.
"I did."
And that's the end of this chapter. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, because it was fun to write. Feel free to tell me what you think. Until next time. Review!