A/N: Lol…I forgot Feilan's name after this long while…. But anyways, forgive me for my silence over the many months, I believe it was, because I haven't been updating. I had actually planned to update earlier last month, but my grandfather unexpectedly passed away so I've been distracted physically and emotionally. Physically because I have a lot of guest to attend to, I have a house to keep up, and sometimes when I breathe, I can feel my heart start to squeeze in pain (I'm not sure if that's normal or not), and emotionally and mentally because I really did care very deeply for my grandfather. While feeling like shit for the past three weeks, I am only glad and happy that his suffering has finally ended. He suffered two strokes and was practically completely paralyzed. Though he left me behind to reminisce sadly, I am happy for him.

Most of this chapter, or actually just the beginning of it, was actually started months ago, but I came back to finish it.

Thank you, to the user who messaged me, without you, I probably wouldn't have pulled up an update as quickly as I did. Thank you very much. :)

Songbirds

Chapter 03

The Girl with the Flowering Smile
The Storyteller

Excited feet pitter pattered against the wooden boards as a young girl made her way through the palace she lived in, carrying candied dates with her, one for her and one for her beloved father. Her eyes were shaped large and vibrant and her pink lips shimmered when she met the sunlight through the windows, evenly spaced out. She slowed to a stop in front of large doors. "Baba, Xiao Lan is here!" Just as she reached to push the doors open…CRASH AND BANG!

She stood there startled with her breath caught in her throat. "Shao-er de diē!" The young girl shook as the sound of a vase shattered against a wall. Her eyes began to well up with tears, afraid of what was going on in her parents' room. "Please, calm down! Please! Shao-er de die!"

(Shao-er de die - Shao-er's Father. It just seemed weird to me to put "Shao's Father" or Sun Ce's name because I imagine, through the Dynasty Warriors series that their family would be a very close and informal one only until Sun Ce's death affects the older Qiao.)

Breathing small, little, big breaths, Xiao Lan stood at the door to her father's chambers, staring in fright as more things shattered inside, crashed inside, and made other loud noises, shaking her with every sound. The only other noises that could be heard were the sounds of her father grunting and crying out in rage, her mother pleading him to stop, and the wailing of her little brother.

Shaking her head, trying to build up her bravery, she shut her eyes tightly. "Xiao Lan is brave! Xiao Lan is brave!" With determination in her eyes, she took a deep breath before pushing the doors open, running in towards her father. "Baba! Baba!" she called. "Baba! Please stop!" She ran towards him, wrapping her arms around his waist, clinging onto him. "Baba! Stop it, please," she cried, losing all confidence she had in herself as tears began to stream down her cheeks. "Baba…" she whimpered, holding onto him, "Please stop it…"

The conqueror only stood there, heaving large breaths in and out of his lungs before roughly pushing off his daughter and raising his hand above his head. Xiao Lan only stared up at him with large, frightened eyes, her breath caught in her throat. Time froze, or moved slowly, so slowly she thought she'd die of lack of air before she blinked and he was gone.

Her father was gone. Everything was gone. The mess, the cries, the screams, the shouting. Everything disappeared as the light of dawn began to cast over the walls that faced the east. The young woman only blinked her eyes, narrowed in sorrow and hurt before she sat up in her bed and prepared for her day.

"Good morning, Chan!" A cheerful voice rang throughout the palace cheerfully. "Mei, you look pretty today, could it be…you're in love?!" I looked down the hallway, seeing the young princess striding towards me happily, greeting the servants who only hesitantly smiled and greeted her back. "Waah! Ling'er, you shouldn't be carrying such heavy things, you're baby could be coming any moment now!" I watched as Young Miss Sun Feilan pulled the heavy tray of food away from the servant girl and handed it to a soldier who just happened to be passing by. "This Handsome Lad shall deliver this tray of food. Do you have any objections?"

"Oh! N-no, Milady!" Startled by the sudden directions, the young soldier almost dropped the tray before balancing it within his hands. He smiled kindly to Feilan before bowing.

"That's the attitude I like! Thank you!" Her eyes twinkled like the stars at night and her bright smile was like the luminous moon that leviatated beside them in the sky.

"No problem, Lady Sun." The soldier bowed again, this time playfully, before taking off with the servant girl behind him.

Sun Feilan began to hum a tune as she continued down the hall with her eyes closed, grinning from ear to ear. I watched as she extended her arms to her sides and twirled around, not as gracefully as I was expecting though, seeing as she stumbled and opened her eyes. She balanced herself and stared down at the ground with wide eyes before standing up straight again and humming gently before something outside the window caught her eye. "Uwaah!" She rushed to the window and giggled before holding out her hand and whistled playfully. I couldn't see her hand, but she seemed to have stared down at it, smiling before whistling again. I could hear another whistle along with hers as she pulled her hand closer to herself. There was a nightingale perched on her forefinger. "Xiao Lan, good morning." I watched as the nightingale whistled to her in response. "Would you sing with me this morning?" Another whistle answered the Young Miss's question before Lady Sun Feilan smiled happily as she took a deep breath.

I watched with interest before hearing her whistle, surprised. She whistled a verse and then the nightingale whistled another verse. They took turns whistling verses and suddenly, I began realizing this tune…

"…Neng bu neng zai kao jin yi dian dian…"

This girl…

When they finished, she giggled and the nightingale flitted in delight. "Xiao Lan, that was perfect! You're such a wonderful singer, why, I am most jealous of you." The nightingale playfully flew around the girl, making her twirl once more. Her robes gently fluttering with her movements and her hair gently swaying in the breeze until she notices me and smiles naughtily. "Xiao Lan," I heard her playfully whisper loudly, perhaps purposely so that I could hear. "You see that man over there, look at his sour face, just like a sour orange, right?!" She laughed aloud as the little bird flew about excitedly, making me scrunch up my face at her and fumed. Why, this child…

"Good morning to you too, Young Miss." I sighed and turned away, making my way down the hall, headed for the destination that I've forgotten of. As of right now, I still can't recall where it is I was supposed to go, but moving elsewhere is better than standing in the presence of the young princess and listening to her childish banter.

As I strode away on my legs, which were much longer than hers, I could hear her small feet tapping over to me, catching up with me. "Wait, Lord Lu Xun!" I continued walking, only making my strides longer and faster. "I was only kidding with Xiao Lan!" My strides continued to pace further away from her until I hear her small pitter patter stop as she huffed in annoyance, "Why, you are such a child, my Lord! I was only playing!" How her words contradicted herself so. "I cannot catch up with you unless you wish for me to starve myself!" I stopped in my tracks and turned to look over at her, watching her rub her eye with her fingers as a loud growl sounded the hall. "My metabolism funs fast and I haven't eaten yet at all this morning…!" She made such a pitiful and childish face that I had to close my eyes and turn away. "Now I fear that if I were to move, I'd collapse in hunger…" I opened my eyes to her whining and looked over at her again, watching her hold her abdominal before leaning over with a whimper. "It's all your fault, Lord Lu Xun, for making me chase after you."

So now she's blaming me for the choices she made. I sighed as I made my way over to her and bowed before standing up straight again. "Well, you see, Young Miss, for what reason would you ever want to chase me for?"

"Hmm…" She thought about it as linked her arms with mine and began walking forward. What happened to collapsing in hunger? "Well, you see, Lord Lu Xun, to tell you, 'Good morning!', right? Come get a morning snack with me. Come on!" Excitedly, the young princess pulled me through the long halls over to the cook's kitchen to see what morning snacks he's already had made before setting breakfast. "Good morning!" she called out in a sing-song way. "Waah! The sweet aroma of fresh steamed buns!"

"The Young Miss has a knack for sniffing out food, doesn't she?" the cook playfully asked as he chuckled, neatly preparing dishes to be served in the dining hall.

"Yeah…" I only watched by the door as the Young Miss searched around the kitchen and followed after the cook. "…she does."

"Mister Cook," she addressed him, "for what do we have for breakfast this morning?"

"For what? Hmm…" The cook furrowed his brows as his eyes looked upwards. "I think we are having…dim sum this morning!"

"Uwaah!" Feilan beamed at the cook, completely happily surprised. "Did you make ham sui gok? Those are my absolute favorite! I can eat thousands of them! Oh! I can't wait! I can't wait! Can I have one now? Just one? Please? Please? Just one!?" The young girl hopped around the cook anxiously like a little puppy before he gave up. "Only one! Only one!" she cheered.

"Alright! Alright!" He held up one finger though and stared her down seriously, "I will only give you five, because I already know 'only one' isn't going to be enough, but you must calm down, Young Miss, because someday when you're old like me, you're going to need all that energy."

"Okay, okay…" Feilan stepped back and clumsily folded her hands behind her, crossing her fingers a little. I saw that… "I promise…but!" She got excited again, "Mister Cook, isn't growing old all about not having enough energy anymore anyways?" The cook sighed exasperatingly, stopping in his actions. "Okay, okay…I'll calm down for now…"

Like a little puppy, she quietly stood there and watched all of the cook's movements, eying him as he walked this way and that. When he picked up a plate, he cautiously looked up and noticed how her eyes widened as she waited for him anxiously. Frowning a little, he reached into a covered bowl and pulled out one, two, three, four, five bite sized pork turnovers and Feilan shrieked in excitement before settling down due to a stare from the cook. She had her hands rested on the table, keeping an eye on the plate of ham sui gok, following it wherever it went.

Slowly…very slowly, the cook lightly pushed the plate over to her, in which she excitedly grabbed and pulled away, giving out a waah of happiness. "Waah! I'm so happy!" She picked one up and inspected it before pulling on my hand and placing it there. "Here, one for you, Lord Lu Xun, and the rest are all for me? Okay?" She grinned at me with that innocent face of hers before picking up another one and biting into it. "Uwaah!" She began to speak even though she still had it in her mouth, closing her eyes to concentrate on the taste. "It's so sweet and savory, my mouth is salivating…!" She began to chew before stuffing the rest of that one piece into her mouth, breathing out the steam in shear ecstasy. "Is this what heaven feels like…?" she questioned before suddenly devouring the rest of them. All this moment, I only stood there, watching her with a nonchalant face. I watched as she looked at the plate sadly with her big round eyes, glossing over with tears before she looked at me… She blinked twice at me before looking down to the one I held between my two fingers. Slowly, she looked back up at me before leaning over and taking a bite out of it…keeping eye contact with me… I can feel the crispness of the rice shell crunch over from her teeth. My eyes slightly narrowed down at her as she slowly backed away, staring at me innocently with her brown eyes as she chewed and swallowed. As we both stood there, I only sighed before shoving the rest of the pork turnover into her mouth and left the kitchen.

"NEXT!" I called out to the soldiers as each row, two at a time, rotated to the front. The first row got down on their knees while the second continued standing. "BOWS UP! AIM! FIRE!" I watched as they pulled up their bows, pulled on the quiver and released their imaginary flamed arrow. "NEXT!" I called.

"Waah, how handsome you all are!" a voice playfully called out, distracting all of the soldiers, making them smile idiotically. In such a short time, they all began to take off their armors and tunics in order to show off their bodies, hollering in order to get the girls attention."Such strong arms, pulling on those bows! How dare you, we have young girls strolling with us." I frowned and looked over to the voice, seeing a young woman in elegant red robes, messily tied together, taking a stroll with her sisters and cousins.

"Feilan! You're distracting them!" scolded her older sister.

Feilan frowned and laughed, "But they like it. Handsome soldiers! So strong and mighty!" I frowned at the Young Miss, thinking about how innocent those words may sound to her, but to these men, they could be taken as a naughty invitation. "Waah! Even your back has muscles!"

"SOLDIERS!" I called out, demanding their attention. "How dare you all, these are your princesses. You have the nerve to show how vulgar and undisciplined you are?" Immediately, they all sheepishly pulled their tunics back on and began tying on their armor. "They are above you, know your place. If this was a real war, what would the enemies say if you all were so easily distracted by young pretty women?"

"But…!" I shot a glare to the voice. "…this isn't a real war…?"

My eyes narrowed even more at him, "Excuse me?"

"So you admit that they're pretty then?" My eyes shot over to another voice.

"What?"

He dared to answer me… "So you admit…that they're pretty then…?"

"Well…!?" I stared at him at a loss for words as to why they would keep talking when I've just scolded them. "Yes!"

"Even Princess Feilan?"

I looked over to another soldier, bewildered by their courage to speak up to me. "No!"

"But you just said yes, that they're all pretty."

"Yes, she's pretty," I answered.

"But you just said 'no'." I glared in disbelief as the rest of the soldiers began to stand around and chat about the pretty girls.

"I think Princess Feilan is pretty." "Actually, I think Princess Anyi is prettier than Princess Feilan." "I think the daughters of the Qiao sisters are very pretty compared to Sun Quan's daughters." "They sure do take after their father." "It's a shame they don't take after their mothers, especially Lady Bu and her large assets!" "Hey, that's not fair to say, you don't know what they'll look like when they grow up. Give them a few more years." "At least the daughters of the Qiao's sisters take after their mothers, it's a shame though, they all have small bosoms." "Sun Anwei's pretty cute, but will she grow up to be a woman, I wonder." "Princess Anwei and Lady Zhou Naixin are very adorable, but they're also very quiet though." "Perhaps that means that they're loud in bed!"

I groaned in annoyance at the men who were completely distracted in their own gossip over women. Frowning in irritation, I turned my head over to the group of strolling girls, seeing Feilan eye me with an innocent smile. I bared my teeth at her without thinking so, but I was angry…and irritated! She disrupted my training for the day and now all of the soldiers are talking about women! Feilan only grinned at me before puckering up her lips and sending me a kiss. I stood there, feeling confused and conflicted as she smiled at me and turned her face away in order to excitedly chat with her sisters.

That child blew a kiss at me…

"Tonight, I must retell you about the store of!" That night, at the dinner table, Sun Feilan stared at her little brother and little sisters, staring down at them with her eyes in suspense… "The legendary SUN WUKONG!"

"Oh!" The young ones only stared at Feilan with awe and anticipation.

"It all began with turmoil between the heavens and the demons from the underworld…!"

As I silently ate my food and listened to her story with one ear, I couldn't help but notice the rest of the men at the table played a message game. One by one, they turned to the person on their right and whispered something into their ear. I tried to listen and focus in on the person passing the message at their given time but I couldn't hear them. I had to wait until the loop came over to me, and when it did, I jumped out of my chair.

"WHAT!?"

All at once, all of them men began to laugh while all of them women and children stared, completely left out of the loop.

"If it is the truth, my friend, then I shall give her to you for free! No dowry, no nothing needed!"

"I do not fancy that child. I don't fancy her at all!" In a fit of rage, I accidentally gestured over to the daughter of the late Sun Ce, making everyone turned their eyes towards her.

Feilan only looked around confused before staring at me with her big sad eyes, beginning to water, "Y-you don't fancy me…?" Her bottom lip began to stick out as her face scrunched up. Within the silence in the room that I have now created, everyone can hear her softly begin to whimper.

"N-no! That's not what I mean! Heaven's sake!" I sat back down irritated as the young girl cried in her seat.

"Lord Lu Xun, you're so horrible! You should at least take responsibility for what you did to me. I've been shamed…" she whimpered, causing an uproar amongst the diners at this dinner table.

"OH! You took advantage of a poor defenseless girl!" "You're a horrible man, Lord Lu Xun!" "What are you going to do now in order to save her face!"

Anyi only stared in shock at everyone before looking to her younger sister. "Feilan!" She immediately lifted up the bangs that Feilan used to hide her face. "Are you alright?!"

It was silent until her lips broke out into a smirk. "SNRK! HAHAHA! YOU ALL FELL FOR IT! YOU ALL SHOULD HAVE SEEN YOUR FACES! ESPECIALLY THE BEWILDERMENT ON LORD LU XUN'S!" Everyone stared silently at the giggling and laughing Sun Feilan, completely taken before all began to laugh aloud with her. All laughed with her except for the rest of the women and me…

I only stood there, staring her down as she continued to have a giggle fit, no matter how adorable it was, I was still angered by her playful accusation…

"Until now, I've forgotten you were the daughter of Lord Sun Ce!" "I've always remembered my brother as a jokester, I see it continues to run through his blood." "For a moment there, I really thought she was serious, haha!"

"Are you going to take responsibility then…?" I asked under my breath, staring at her intently.

Everyone stopped laughing and talking, trying to hear what I had to say. "What?" she asked, staring at me confused.

"Just the other day you tickled me with your fingers, attempting to arouse me." Others gasped in surprise, looking between the two of us. "And just earlier today, you blew me a kiss while my men and I were in the middle of a training session. Not to mention…" I stared at her long and hard. "Ten years ago, you asked me if you could kiss me."

The Young Miss gasped in shocked, appalled by my words. "I. Did. Not…! No way!" She crossed her arms and turned the other cheek, not caring to look at me anymore.

"You said, 'my Prince, you are as sweet as an orange,' to me," I argued.

"Nu-uh!" She shouted back. "I said that to my prince, I'll have to arrested for impersonation!"

"Who's impersonating who?" I asked quickly. "I came here ten years ago when my father had official business with yours."

"Dog poop! You're delusional! My Prince would never be as sour as you!"

"Well, if you think I'm so sour, won't you come over here and I'll show you HOW SWEET I CAN BE!" I huffed and puffed, making Feilan stare at me with wide eyes. Everyone else only watched, completely frozen in their seats. I took a deep breath, realizing I was back to standing up before taking a seat, trying to recover from my outburst. "I'm sorry for yelling in front of you all."

Feilan blinked at me before a mischievous smile broke out on her face. "My Lord, was that an invitation…?" she asked sweetly. My eyes narrowed at her, filled with suspicion. "Lord Lu Xun fancies me!" she announced and everyone laughed and cheered once more while the rest of the ladies continued eating with good manners.

I only sighed and sat there, feeling as if I had been at a disadvantage all along and lost a battle.

Feeling like nothing else mattered right now, I held a cup of wine to my lips and downed it all, but I noticed one thing from the corner of my eye and that was the way the Young Miss looked at me. She stared at me with sad eyes, rather hurt before she looked down at her food and began to quietly eat. I saw that her fingers trembled and her shoulders slumped. Throughout the whole night as I continued to drink with a cup of tea in between to stay sober, her shoulders were slump and her head was low until it was time for her and her sisters to go to sleep as instructed by their mother.

Did my prideful self crush this child's dreams of her so called 'Prince from a far away land'?

"Ahh…" I groaned with annoyance as I slowly shuffled around the open air palace, feeling the strong buzz in my head. My heart felt like it was set on fire because after the women left, the men all decided to play a drinking game and as a strategist, I shamefully lost every challenge I got. It seemed to have gotten worse the more I lost. "Whazzis?" I stared at a wall with some sort of light emitting from it. It wasn't a lantern or something. "Window…?" I touched the paper window only to accidently fall forward and punch a hole in it.

"Iyaah!"

"Huh?" There was a voice inside the window. "Who's here? …or who's there…? Where? Here…there…what…?" I don't know why I did but I began to feel the concrete wall. I even laid against it. I was trying to find a door inside. All of a sudden, the light went out. "Wha? Where's the light go?" I asked, not sure if I was making any sense… "Oh…a door…" Without thinking, I opened up the window and crawled inside it before falling onto the floor and laying there, sprawled out. My head began to spin as I stared up at the ceiling, feeling dizzy.

"Oh, he's blocking the doorway…" a voice quietly whispered and whined…

The sound of soft footsteps began tapping closer and closer to me, making my head hurt more and more until I saw a dark shadow looming over me, attempting to walk over me.

Alarmed, I quickly grabbed whatever it was and it felt to the ground with a girlish yelp. Quickly, I got on top of the person and pinned them down beneath me. She turned her head to look up at me and it was then I realized what sort of position I forced upon her. She tried to turn her whole body, but ended up laying on the ground, looking as vulnerable as possible to me. I glared at her. It must be the alcohol.

"G-get off of me!" She harshly whispered, trying to push me off with her hands.

"Who goes there?" A light flickered by and whooshed about as a guard came around. At that moment, instead of getting off her, I quickly straddled her and laid as low as possible. "Tch. Someone punched a hole in the window again…" We watched as the flame was becoming farther and farther away from us before I got up and pulled her up, completely back to my senses now.

"What are you doing here?" I whispered at her harshly. "You should be asleep."

She frowned at me. "What are you, my mother?" she asked before I quickly covered her mouth and shh'ed her as she continued to muffle into my hand before licking it.

I stared at her in disgust but it strangely aroused me. "What were you doing in here?" I asked once more as I dusted myself off.

Young Miss Sun Feilan only stared at me before walking past me behind shelves and began rolling up a scroll on the table. "I was writing a story for the children…" I followed her and leaned against the shelf, watching her as she stared down at the scroll that she was rolling up. Watching her though…it seems she must have turned into such a feminine beauty for the moment; the way her neck arched when she looked down, the way her fingers softly brush against the paper, the way her hair sat over her shoulder. Once finished, she neatly placed it away with a bunch of other scrolls…

"You were writing a story for the children?" I stared at her in disbelief. I thought she didn't like reading or writing or even studying.

She only stared at me, not so surprised and gave a simple, "Yeah, why?"

I frowned at her, crossing my arms and looking at her pile of scrolls on the shelf. "I would have never imagined you to be the writing type, may I look?"

She stared at me for a moment before looking away. "No," she softly replied.

"Why? You didn't write anything embarrassing, did you?" I walked over to her and reached past her towards her scrolls. "Let me see."

She pushed against me with her arms, "No, you can't!"

"Just let me see one, won't you?" I frowned and pushed her against the shelf, feeling it rock a bit behind her before shielding her head with my arm. A few books and scroll fell on me before dropping to the ground.

I only stared down at her as she slowly looked up at me. "Are you alright?" she asked.

I stared at her and softly sighed. "I'm alright." But, you see, I also took this chance to pull out one of the scrolls and opened it up. There was just enough moonlight to see what was written on it. "'The Two Butterfly Lovers'." I stared at it and looked at her, "You wrote this?"

"Don't laugh!" She criticized me before taking the scroll back. "I cried while writing this…"

"You cried…? And I didn't laugh." I pulled the scroll back, staring down at the characters written on the paper.

"Don't look!" She pulled it back.

"I'm not going to laugh!"

"Why can't you respect my privacy!"

"Shh!" I quickly grabbed her face and squeezed it as a guard walked by, saying he swore he heard voices. As soon as he went away, I sighed again in relief and stared down at her as she continued to stare up at me. I was squeezing her cheeks together, making her lips squashed in some odd way. "Ugh…you look hideous when I do that…"

"Well I can't help it…you did that to me…" she whined as she rubbed her cheeks before rolling up the scroll. "I don't want to be here with you anymore. I'm tired."

"Why? Because I'm no longer the prince you were expecting me to be?" I stared at her curiously.

She turned to look back at me before shrugging. "I don't know. I don't think I really care anymore anyways. Besides, I was only a child then."

I quirked a brow at her. "But you're still a child."

She frowned at me and glared, "Am not!"

"Shh!"

"Why are we talking about this?"

"Because I care!"

She stared at me and hushed up before sighing quietly. "Good night."

As she turned away, I grabbed her arm and pulled her over to me. "You know, I feel hurt when you brush me off like that."

"Huh? Why?" She stared up at me with those innocent eyes of her. It made me so mad for some reason who ditzy she was. Why is she so stupid sometimes, staring up at me in my embrace. "Are you going to let me go now?" Seriously, this child.

"No, I told her, just stay still and be quiet." Slowly, just slowly, I leaned into her, making her eyes widen before placing my lips against hers, devouring them softly as I closed my eyes to the electric sensation that ran up and down my spine and across my lips. In a matter of moments, I felt her knees go weak and her body suddenly grow distant so I pulled her and held her closer as I sat her on the table, feeling my hands through her soft hair. I can feel her body against mine, I can smell her, and I can hear her. I need to stop! Immediately, I held her face again with my hand, squeezing her cheeks together as I pushed her away. Just the sight of her already flustered, the sight of her neck showing, it wasn't helping me at all. My heart was beating loudly against my chest and it hurts because I want more than I can have. "You need to leave… I'm sorry." I stared at the young girl who only stared me with such a desirous gaze; I began to feel more enraged. "Goodnight," I bid her as I looked for the way out of this library. There was a door right next to the window all along.

Sighing and fuming at myself, I walked away from the door I just came through and headed for the stone stair case just ahead, walking down the steps, feeling mad and flustered. Quick and quiet steps ran over and a voice called to me. "Lord Lu Xun," she whispered. I looked up and saw the Feilan with the moon behind her. "Come back here for a moment."

I frowned at her and walked up a few steps before standing on the edge where the she leaned against the railing. "What is it?" If there was one wrong move, I'd fall off the edge without any steps to support me.

"Can you do that thing again?" She asked shyly, but seriously.

I rolled my eyes at her, "What thing?"

She frowned a little, "You know…the thing…that thing you did…" Her head dropped as if she didn't have the courage to tell me what she wanted, but I knew exactly what she wanted, and I wanted it too. "The thing…please?" Her adorableness knew no bounds…

"Am I still your prince?" Yes, now I've become childish too.

She stared up at me as I loomed over her. "Were you really my Prince all along?" I stared at her before nodding. She only stared at me before looking back down. "I don't know…if you want to…"

"Well then…" It was kind of awkward…because it just happened…but…I can't deny that I want it… Just one last time. One last time. Once I began to lean towards, I grimaced when she leaned back with a shy smile. I sighed and leaned closer only to have her press her lips against mine, causing me to fall off the ledge. "FUCK!" I tumbled down the stone steps as small feet quickly pitter pattered away from me with excited giggling. That child!