Chapter 6:

"First day in Town"

September 12th, 2014, 9:47am

My eyes stirred open slowly to the sunlight coming from the outside, peeking through the curtains. I stayed in bed for a few more minutes until it was time to get up. After those few minutes, I heard my phone buzzing.

I turned around and picked it up, a text from Vanessa popped up.

"Morning sleepyhead, u up already?"

"Yeah, I just got up now" I replied.

I saw her replying back. Might take a few minutes. I plopped my phone down on the bed. Within a couple minutes, she replied.

"It's already almost 10, did u wanna go have breakfast first then come back up, change then unpack before we head out?"

"Yeah, we can do that."

She texted back. "Sounds good. I already texted the girls about it, they just got up too."

"I'm gonna go wash my face quickly, then come out." I set my phone back down on the nightstand

I quickly stretched, got up and headed for the bathroom.

The bathroom looked really exquisite.

Carrara marble filled the entire room. Completed with a platinum bathtub, Italian styled shower and a white vanity sink.

I went over to the sink and washed my face throughly, after that I quickly brushed my hair, put it in a ponytail fast, so my hair doesn't fall in my face when I eat.

After I was done, I went and grabbed my key card plus my phone, put it in my PJ pocket and headed for the door.

Vanessa and Alice were already outside in the hallway talking with their PJ's on too. They stopped when they noticed me.

"Morning" Alice said to me.

"Morning, how'd you's guys sleep?" I asked.

"I literally passed out when we got back last night, so I slept well." Vanessa said.

"Pretty good actually, I was wiped last night. You?" Alice asked.

"Same, where's Adeline?"

"She still in the room, she should be out soon" Vanessa said.

As on cue, she ran out of the room.

"Sorry, forgot my phone"

I rolled my eyes. "Such a coincidence"

"Alright, were all here so let's head downstairs"

We nodded and headed for the elevator.

~~~
Seconds later…9:49am

We arrived at one of the hotel restaurants, they had a few but we agreed to one on the elevator.

The hostess at the podium looked up and greeted us.

"Bonjour ladies, table pour quatre?"

"Oui" Vanessa said.

"Anywhere you'd like"

We walked over to a empty booth close to the entrance.

The hostess came back over with menus in her arm.

"Here are your menus ladies, someone will be with you shortly."

We all said are 'thank you's' to her, then she walked off.

The place wasn't even that busy to be honest at this time, there were some people around sitting and chatting around us.

We opened up our menus to see what they had.

While we looked at the menu, we chatted amongst our selves and the plans for the day.

After a few minutes, we looked up to see a female waitress coming towards to our table to greet us and take our orders.

"Bonjour mademoiselles, how are you all doing this morning?"

"Good" We all said.

"I can assume you all slept well?" She asked.

We were confused at first but got the joke as she was referring us as we were still in our pyjamas.

"Uh, well, we just got here late last night, we were exhausted and didn't have time to unpack and whatnot."

"Ah, I understand that, travelling is exhausting for a lot of people. Anyway, my name's Anna, I will be looking after you today, can I get you girls started with some drinks?"

"Café pour quatre" Vanessa said.

"Sure, be back in a few minutes" She walked off to go fetch them.

In the mean time, we talked about how the day was going to go planned while we looked through the menu.

Anna came back a few minutes later with a tray of 4 coffee cups, a bowl of milk and cream small cups and a sugar dispenser.

"Here you are ladies, fresh hot coffee just brewed up."

She put them down in front us.

"Do you need a few more minutes or are you all ready to order?"

We all nodded.

She took out her notepad and pen from her apron.

"Alright, let's start over here with you." She said looking at me first.

"Ugh! Why's it always me that they look at first?! Next time I'm sitting in the far corner where they can't see me." I said in my head.

I ordered the eggs Benedict with potato puffs, which came with a butter croissant on the side. Vanessa ordered the same thing as I did. Adeline and Alice both got 2 over-easy eggs with both ham and home fries plus a butter croissant.

"Sounds good ladies" Anna said while we handed her back the menus. After that, she took off towards the kitchen area.

We then started talking about how the next few days were gonna go.
As we were talking, I've noticed the place looks like the hotel inside, elegant and vintage.

20 minutes later…10:11am

Anna came with a tray of our meals.

"Alright ladies, I have here 2 Eggs Benedict with potato puffs…" she said putting them in front of Me and Vanessa.

"...and 2 over easies with ham and home fries" putting them down for Adeline and Alice.

"Anything else else I can get you ladies?"

We shaked our heads.

"Alright then, Bon Appétit!"

"Thank you!" We said separately.

She then walked away towards another table across from us.

"This looks so good!" Adeline said, looking satisfied.

"I know right?! Smells good too!" Alice said.

She wasn't joking, their's actually looked and smelled good too. So did Vanessa and I's plates.

We didn't hesitate as we all dug into our meals, we tried not too eat fast as not to choke and make it go down the wrong way. Well for me at least, I have to slow down considering I suck up my food like a vacuum within seconds.

While we were eating, Anna would come by once in awhile asking if we wanted more coffee, as always, we got another cup. We need that caffeine to give us energy for the day.

15 minutes later…10:26am

"Whew, that was a lot but very good" Adeline said, slightly slouching in her seat, her stomach feeling stuffed up.

"I know, I think we'll be good for awhile till lunch" I said, feeling the same way.

Just then, Anna came back with a coffee pot in her hand.

"Would you girls like more coffee?" She asked.

We all shaked our heads.

"Uh, were good thanks, just the bill please" Vanessa said.

"Alright then, let me clear those for you first" She said, putting the coffee pot down.

We handed her our plates, then she walked off to ring up our bill.

Few minutes later, she came back with a card machine in her hand.

"My apologies, but I forgot to ask if your paying with cash or credit card?"

"Credit" Vanessa said, pulling her credit card out from her pocket.

Anna passed her the machine and went to scan it. Once she was done, she handed it back to Anna. She pressed a couple buttons before ripping out a receipt.

"Would you like the receipt?"

"Uh, sure"

She handed it back to Vanessa.

"D'accord, tes dames ont une bonne journée maintenant"

"Have a good day she's saying" Vanessa said.

We all nodded and said it to her back too. She left after that to carry on with her work duties.

"Well, what do you girls say we go unpack quickly then get ready to go out for the day" Vanessa said.

The rest of us nodded.

"Let's head back up then"

We all got out from our seats and walked towards the restaurant exit towards the elevators to go back up.

6 minutes later...10:32am

We arrived back on the 5th floor and walked back towards our rooms.

"Alright, since we have quite a bit to unpack, I'd say by the time that's done and us getting ready, probably half an hour to an hour we'll meet out here."

"Sounds good" Alice said.

"Good enough for me" I said.

"Lots of time for me to try on that floral print maxi dress I didn't have time for" Adeline said.

With that we all headed back to our rooms.

~~~
One hour later…11:32am

I was just putting away the last of my clothing into the drawers.

"Finally, took me long enough"

Just then I heard my phone buzzing, I went over to my bed to see what it was, my Mom was calling me from What's app. I picked it up.

"Hello?"

"Hey sweetheart, how's it going there so far?"

"Uh, it's actually going pretty good so far. It's really, really nice so far, especially my room here."

"Hmm, let me guess you got your own bathroom?"

"No, I go outside and piss, of course I have my own bathroom!" I said sarcastically.

No seriously, I do have a slight issue with the bathroom, and by that I mean I'll go quite a few times during the night, but I've been somewhat better lately, during the day or at night I'll go at least twice which isn't too bad.

She laughed jokingly.

"Yeah, I gotta admit, Vanessa picked out a awesome place and it's great so far and I've only been here a day and a half. Still my stomach does feel twisted still" I said.

"Ah, you'll be fine! Just make sure when you guys go out, especially to a bar…"

"Drink water, stay together and try to get a ride home, yeah yeah, I get it!"

"Yeah yeah!" She said back. "So what do you girls have planned for the day right now?"

"Were gonna go out in couple minutes and see what's around here and stuff"

"Alright then I won't keep you, have fun, be safe, take some pictures, love you too, princess."

"Love you too"

We both hung up. With that, I went to go get dressed for the day.

~~~
3 minutes later...11:35am

I was the last one to leave the room, the rest of the girls were already outside.

I was wearing a white over the shoulder shirt with a snow leopard printed on with, paired with blue jeans. Vanessa was wearing a black open back shirt with white jeans. Adeline was in all matching, sporting a grey cold shoulder shirt that said 'love' at the front paired up with grey leggings. Lastly, Alice kept it casual with a white long sleeved blouse with a dream catcher printed on it, while pairing it up with blue jeans.

"You girls ready?" Vanessa said

"Yeah!"

"You bet!"

"Let's go!"

"Alright! On wards!" Vanessa said, pointing to the elevator while moving forward.

~~~
Few minutes later…11:39am

We were outside of the hotel deciding where to go first. Vanessa took out the brochure from her purse and opened it up fully, it was pretty big for a little booklet like that, looked more of a booklet to me. I grabbed one end while Vanessa grabbed the other. Adeline and Alice hunched in between to look as well.

"Holy, there's so many places on here, I don't where we should go first"
Alice said.

"I know but we just got here and don't know where these places are, we should save some of these for our last week here" Adeline said.

"True"

"So I think for now, we should stick to like a mall or something for now" Vanessa said

"Good idea" I said

Vanessa thought for a moment. "There's one I went to all the time during my time here…Um, what's it called again…Oh, Passage du Havre, that's it. I don't how far it is, I'll have to look while were walking."

"Well, what are we waiting for then, let's head down and check it out."
Adeline said, slightly excited.

"Let's go girls!" Vanessa slightly shouted.

With that we headed down towards the main road, where the main mall is.

~~~
20 minutes later…11:50am

We arrived at the mall, and noticed that there weren't that many people around. Mostly likely cause it's mid-week and everyone was working plus there's school going on too as well so it's not as busy.

"Wow, not bad, kind of reminds me of the one area back at home, it was downtown somewhere, Queens Park I think." Alice said

"Your right, now that I'm noticing" I said

It does look quite similar, I recognized some stores that are quite the same to ours. One of them which was a shoe store that I never go too really.

"Well, let's not waste anytime, let's head inside!" Vanessa exclaimed.

We all headed inside to see what was in store for us.

The mall was pretty big inside, again not that many people, we walked towards the centre, it had a big opening, it looked like one of those fancier hotels inside those big cruise ships. It was even decorated with plants on the ledges too. Plus, the lights that were hanging down, almost looked like big raindrops.

*whistle* "She wasn't joking" Adeline next to me was in amazement.

"See, what'd I tell you, with a mall this big and this many stores, were gonna be here for a long time" Vanessa said

"Well, let's get started then. Actually I don't even know where to look first" Alice said, looking around.

"Were already on the first floor so why not just start here" I said.

"Good idea" Vanessa said.

~~~
2 hours later…1:57pm

We were in the food court, just finishing up a light lunch, since we were still full from breakfast, we decided to just get a small party tray of sushi and share it.

Adeline laid back in her seat. "Whew, after all that, I still feel stuffed."

"Yeah, we should be good now until dinner" I said.

The girls nodded. "I am feeling tired though a little."

They all nodded, saying meaning the same thing.

"Yeah, I do feel pretty pooped out, maybe we should head out soon" Vanessa said.

We nodded in agreement.

"Uh, well actually, there's this bookstore I saw and wanted to check it out" Alice spoke up.

"Where is it?" I asked.

"It's outside down the strip here, it looked interesting. I mean if it's ok with you guys?"

Vanessa, Adeline and I exchanged looks and nodded.

"Eh, why not? I need something good to read anyways, since I actually forgot to bring my book from home so, yeah" Vanessa said, scratching the back of her head.

"Let's get going then, I need to walk this sushi off" I said, getting up from my seat.

"We all do" Adeline said, getting up too.

Before going, I went to go throw out the sushi tray first, don't want people to think that were messy and just leave it for the staff to pick it up. I caught up with the rest of group, the girls got up from our seats and started to head for the exit.

"Alright Alice, you lead us the way then" Vanessa said.

"Gladly" she said.

~~~
8 minutes later…2:05pm

"Here, this is the place"

We were just approaching the bookstore Alice mentioned to us. We looked up towards the sign.

'Livres n' choses'

Vanessa put a finger to her chin. "Huh, interesting name for a book store, looks promising so far"

"Yeah it does" I said, approaching the front windows, where some stuff where on display.

"Well, let's not waste time then, let's head inside" Adeline said.

We headed inside and looked around.

"Woah" Vanessa said.

"Woah, indeed" I said.

The place was huge inside, it even had 2 floors. Reminded me of Indigo, the one book store back at home. I usually go there to get some good books. There's the library too but all their books are worn out or smell weird.

"Hey, look!" Alice pointed.

We turned around and on the left side of the store looked what appeared to be a little cafe or coffee shop.

"Who here wants an iced coffee?" Vanessa said.

"Me!" Alice said

"I do!" Adeline said

"I need something to wake me up so why not" I said.

We headed for the cafe to get some caffeine in our systems to wake us up.

~~~
4 minutes later…2:09pm

We were sitting in a little lounge corner beside a crystal stone fire place sipping on our iced coffees.

"I gotta say, this place looks awesome so far" Vanessa said

"Yeah, it's kinda like a place where books, music, cards, decorations and toy store all mixed into one" I said

"It's kinda like those places where you can just chill, have a coffee, read your book, something like that. Nice pick Alice" Adeline gave her a thumbs up."

"Thanks!"

"We should go look around for a little bit, let's meet back here, let's say an hour from now?" Vanessa said.

"Sounds good" I said.

Adeline and Alice nodded.

We got up from our seats, started to head back inside the place and with that, we went our separate ways.

~~~
41 minutes later…2:50pm

I was up on the second floor, Adeline wasn't too far from me, about a couple aisles down, scanning around in the 'fiction' aisle. I was in the 'literature' section, I was looking at the books on the shelves, nothing seemed to interesting.

"Maybe there's some better ones in the 'fiction' aisle."

I was about to leave when the corner of my eye, spotted something, I turned my head and noticed this book, which had a very interesting design. I took it out of the shelf and looked at it, it was dark blue with a gold emblem like design at the back. Even the pages outside were gold. But what really caught my attention was the title of the page:

'Jules I'

My eyes widened. "No fucking way"

Something's telling that I shouldn't read it but at the same time I do want to read. I quickly peek around to see if anybody was around. I don't see Adeline here anymore nor the other girls.

I looked at the book again, I mean I know that were going to go tour his former home on Wednesday but…eh, why not? I could spoil myself just a little bit, as long as no one sees me then, I should be good. I went to go sit down on a bench nearby and started to read. But like I always do, I check to see how long the book is first, I opened the book to the table of contents to look at it.

Table of contents:

Early life…I

Childhood….II

A New King…III

Coronation….IV

Life as a leader…V

Jules II….VI

Sonic Maurice the Hedgehog…VII

Final Days…VIII

From the looks of it, it wasn't a long book, which was good since a lot of books I read are like between 50-70 chapters long and most of them weren't even long like between 5-7 pages which wasn't bad but still.

I was about to turn the page when I noticed one of the chapter titles caught my eyes, the second last one.

I'm guessing that's mostly likely his grandson since the one before that his other son, who was also a king as well I'm assuming.

I checked to see what the time was:

2:55pm

Maybe I'll just read one chapter real quick. I turned the page and notice a little written part on it:

'To my grandson who will become a great ruler one day.'

Oh my god, this book was for Sonic. This must've taken a long time to write and give it to him. Sweetest and most touching thing a grandfather can do for his grandson.

Write a book so that he can learn about his grandfather king's past life.

But, how'd it end up in this place?

Just then I heard my phone buzz, I took it from my purse.

A text from Vanessa popped up. "Did u guys want to get going soon?"

It was sent to 3 people, which were Me, Adeline and Alice.

I replied "Yeah. I'll be there in a couple minutes"

I decided to take the book with me. It seems interesting, I'll read it afterwards if I could. I got up and made my way to the spiral staircase.

~~~
2 minutes later…2:58pm.

We all meet at the same spot as before. I noticed that the girls all each had books in their hands.

"Well, looks like we all got something in our hands" Vanessa said.

"I know! I read the description on this one and it already sounds good!" Adeline said.

She had what looked like a mystery/fiction book, with a picture of a magnifying glass with a question mark behind it.

"I knew you were gonna pick something like since your into that so much" I said.

"What, can I say? I'm a girl who loves mystery and drama"

"Speaking of that, where are we gonna go for dinner tonight?" Alice asked.

"Yeah, we haven't decided on that yet." I said, putting a finger to my chin.

"I saw some cute little restaurants down when we were coming down here, let's go take a look and see"

The rest of us all nodded. We went to go check out our books first, but when it was my turn to check out, the lady cashier, looked at the book then me.

"Interesting book" She said, while scanning the book's barcode.

"Uh, thanks. I happened to pass by it on my way out upstairs"

I handed her some cash to pay for it. She then gave me some change back and put it in a plastic bag for me.

"I heard a long time ago that this was a gift for his young grandson as a birthday present to him"

"Do you know who left it here?" I asked while she gave me the small bag

"One of the employees happened to find it years ago in the early 90s in one of the parks here, I'm surprised no one's noticed it, nobody's really interested in these kinds of books"

"Glad that I showed up then, huh?"

"Well, glad you did, I've never read it so hopefully it's good. Have a good day, enjoy!

"I will thank you."

I then left to go catch up with the girls.

~~~
Later that evening…6:18pm

We were all in our rooms getting ready for dinner. We passed by this nice little Italian restaurant on our way back and decided to go there.

I was just laying out my outfit for the evening, a white tube dress with a white cardigan, just in case it get a little breezy out. Along with white flat sandals with diamonds along the shoe line.

On my way to the bathroom to go shower, I saw the book I got earlier, just sitting on my bed. I read the first few chapters earlier before and was actually pretty interesting.

Though I felt bad that it got left behind. Glad that it was found by that employee years ago though while I was reading it. One question was lingering in my mind:

How did it get left behind anyway? If I had to guess, then Sonic must've left it behind and forgotten about it somehow, it was his book after all.

Poor guy. I feel so sorry for him actually even though he might be dead or should I say 'undead' since he is well…

A sudden thought came to me.

"Hedgehog..golden eyes.."

I took a breath.

'Calm yourself Kristina, it was just a dream. Just because you saw him there doesn't mean that he's real…'

Saying that last part somewhat scared.

Then another thought came to me.

'Wait, didn't I just see another pair of golden eyes just like that last night in the alleyway there?'

…I'm just thinking too hard about this right now, I just need to calm down and not worry. They're just rumours after all but then again, they can always turn out to be true.

I'll just try not to think about it for now. I walked towards the bathroom to go shower.

~~~
24 minutes later…6:42pm

I was all dressed ready to go, the only thing left to do was my hair.

Vanessa texted me when I got out of the shower asking if she wanted to do my hair, I said sure, I asked if she can do a quick braid, she sure but said to dry my hair as good as I can since it was hard to do it with wet hair.

She was doing her own hair when she messaged me so I figured since she's curling it, it'll take a while by the time she's done, I'll mostly have some of my hair dry.

I was currently drying my hair, it was a little damp still but dry enough to do it in a braid. I then started brushing it, to get all the knots out.

By the time I was done, I heard a knock on the door. I went to answer it.

"Hey, you good?"

"Yep"

I let Vanessa in, she was wearing the same thing as I was, tube dress with a cardigan except they were all black.

I went to go sit on the bed, my back facing her. I left my brush and hair tie beside there for her to use.

" I know that's it's only been one day but how have you been enjoying your 'birthday present' so far?" She asked.

"It's been, pretty good actually, had a good breakfast, went to the mall, had sushi and got this really interesting book. Thank you again, V"

She smiled. "Glad your enjoying it. What book did you get?"

"Uh, it's on the night dresser there."

Vanessa glanced over. "I see that you're spoiling yourself for Wednesday"

"I didn't read a lot so don't worry"

"Ok, good, there's going to be a lot of info for that so don't read too much"

"I won't"

She stepped back. "Alright, what do you think?" She held up a hand held mirror behind me to see.

She did a french braid then put it in a bun.

I nodded "You never cease to impress me"

"I figured you'd like it since you like it this way but for your birthday party, please, leave it down?"

"I will, don't worry" I said, getting off the bed

She elbowed me. "C'mon, the girls are probably waiting outside"

"Let me put my shoes on first"

"Alright, but hurry, my stomach's been growling for the past 30 minutes"

"Yeah, yeah"

She headed for the door. I grabbed my sandals and put them on. I went to go grab my purse and headed of the door. But, again the book on my dresser stopped me.

*sigh*

"Don't think about it Kristina, do not think about it"

I didn't hesitate and headed for the door.

Adeline and Alice were already outside waiting.

"Hey look at that, twins" Adeline pointed out as she saw Vanessa and I wear the same thing.

Vanessa and I looked at each other.

"Hey, I didn't know she was going to wear that, how was I suppose to know?" I said.

She was wearing an off shoulder black dress while Alice just wore a light blue lace strapless dress.

"We should get going, I'm hungry for some pasta" Vanessa said.

"So am I" I said.

With that we walked towards the elevators.

~~~
19 minutes later: 7:05pm

The restaurant was only 10 minutes away, very decent and fancy, quite busy but not many people, as they were mostly inside, very few were outside. They had a chalkboard sign outside advertising my favourite dish: Penne alla Vodka

I can taste it just thinking about it.

We were sitting outside on the patio, enjoying the nice cool evening, having a nice chat.

A female wolf came then up to us.

"Bonsoir, how are you ladies tonight?"

In unison "Good!"

"What can I start you off with?"

I got my usual, as always, with an iced tea. Vanessa got the same but with Alfredo sauce with an iced tea. While Adeline got linguine with mussels with a mineral and Alice got Rotini with Pesto and an iced tea too.

"Alright ladies, sounds good" She took our menus and headed back inside.

Vanessa then raised her glass.

"Ladies, if you don't mind, I would like to make a quick toast"

The rest of us raised our glasses.

"First off, I would just like to thank God for getting us here safe and sound, to our first night official here and also to celebrate a very special friends birthday"

I smiled almost blushing.

"Cheers ladies!"

"Cheers!"

We clanged our glasses together to officially mark our trip to a great start.

The rest of the evening went great. We chatted for a bit while eating our pasta dishes, which were fantastic plus dessert as well. We were just finishing up and ready to go. Adeline decided to pay this time, which was nice of her, since Vanessa already paid for breakfast and lunch today. They both decided that her, Vanessa and Alice will pay equally, to make it fair.

"Merci mademoiselles, enjoy the rest of your evening!"

"Thank you! You too!"

We then started heading out towards the exit.

Once we got outside again, we stopped and decided on were to go next.

"I can't think of anywhere else to go" Adeline said.

"Me neither, I want to explore a little bit more before we go back" Alice said too

I then noticed a street sign with balloons attached to it along with a sign posted too. I went to go take a quick look.

"Hey guys, come look at this"

The girls came over and read.

A street festival was happening around somewhere here.

"Mhm, why don't we go check it out?" Vanessa said.

We nodded and headed for the direction of the fair.

It was crowded when we got there. But lots of stands with souvenirs were being displayed. Not only that, the festival was being held around the Eiffel Tower.

"Woah, this is so cool" Adeline said

"Yeah, you think we can go in the tower?" Alice said.

"Hopefully, let's take a quick look around first" I said.

"Good idea" Vanessa said.

We've been looking around for about 20 minutes. They had some nice souvenir booths, activities, plus some food stands but we already ate. I saw a booth where they were displaying snow globes, they had some nice ones. But one caught my attention, there was one that had the eiffel tower inside. I tipped it upside down then back up again.

I just love these things, I decided to get it.

"Hey, look what I got" Adeline ran up beside me, taking out something from her little shopping bag. It was a little replica statue of the famous tower.

"That's cool"

"You didn't see the best part" She turned it on a side, revealing a switch.
She flipped it to 'on'. The tower started to light up, revealing multiply colours back and forth.

"Ok, you convinced me. Where'd you get it?"

"Just down a few booths and here" She went into her shopping bag and gave me the exact same one.

"Your welcome"

I smiled.

"Hey guys!" We turned to see Alice running up to us.

"The tower's open and it's free so we can go up and check it out"

"Sweet! Where's Vanessa?" I asked

"She already at the tower waiting, that's why I came running over here to tell you"

"Well better not keep her waiting" Adeline said.

We quickly walked towards the tower to meet up with Vanessa.

About 10 minutes later we approached the tower. I looked up.

"Holy crap, that's huge" I looked up a bit more only to realize that I almost lost my balance.

"Woah, easy there" Vanessa said, helping to stabilize my balance.

"This thing's bigger than I thought" Alice said.

"Yeah, same here, its even lit up" Adeline said.

"I know, its so pretty"

"Well then we better get in line before it gets too crowded" Vanessa said.

The line up wasn't too bad, it was still pretty early probably and won't get busy until the last hour most likely.

It was almost our turn to go up. I was feeling very excited and anxious. Just hopefully it's not too high up cause I'm slightly scared of heights.

The security then opened up the velvet rope to let us through. We then went up the flight of stairs. It seemed a lot but after a few flights, but we finally reached the viewing area.

I sighed with relief. I walked towards the balcony to view the area.

"Wow" I could see a full distance of the city. Such a mesmerizing view.

I walked around for a bit to see what else was around. I came to another viewing area where I could see a breach of water, spraying out upwards, also glistening in the moons light.

But that wasn't the only thing that caught my attention. In the far distance, a blue and white castle was lit up, it looked really interesting. Even with the moon shining above it, yet again it did look a little creepy like that too.

"I wonder who lives there?"

"That's Avalon Castle"

I turned to see Vanessa and the girls coming up beside me.

"So that's where were going, huh?"

"Yep"

I suddenly got this weird feeling in my stomach.

"Hey V, you've gone there, right?" Alice asked

"Yeah, why?"

"Well, since this mysterious prince guy lives there and with theses rumours going on, have you ever seen him before?"

"It was during the day when I went so obviously not, but at night, I have"

We all turned to her

"Wait for real?" Adeline asked.

"I was walking back to my uncles from one of my later classes one night, and this flash of blue came running past in front of me, it went into the ally way. I was curious so I went to go see where it disappeared too. I saw nothing but then I saw a shadow come closer to me, I looked in front of me, a pair of golden eyes were staring at me. Then the weirdest thing happened, I heard a voice in my head. It was creeping me out so I left. I didn't tell anyone cause I didn't want them to worry. I just pretended like it didn't happen that night."

"Woah, that's deep" I said.

"I know"

"Wait, I know that he only comes out at night obviously but didn't you say he comes out looking for something specific?" Adeline asked.

"Uh, yeah"

"What if he's not looking for something but someone to be precise, maybe that's why he came after you almost."

"Maybe, but I don't know exactly what or who he's looking for, it could be like you mentioned."

"I just wonder what this guy's wants?" Alice said, a finger on her chin.

"Well, we shouldn't worry about this right now, we'll find out on Wednesday eventually. C'mon, let's just go enjoy the rest of the festival."

Everyone nodded and started walking back, I started to walk but stopped for minute.

"Wait, Adeline said someone specific right? I just basically went through something similar like that the other night. Ally way, shadow, golden eyes staring at me, voice in my head. That means I've seen him too but that also means…"

I turned back around and looked back at the castle in the far off distance.

"If you are real, what is it that you want from me? What are you trying to tell me?"

I sighed and went to go catch up with the girls.