Hey sorry I forgot to update this story yesterday. It was on my mind all day and I forgot. Well I remembered once I was comfortable in bed, so I'm hoping everyone understands why I didn't want to get up go downstairs and update you. I will upload another chapter later as an apology.
Chapter 14
'Happy Birthday Charlie.' I turned around and saw the person. Once I did, I screamed. I threw my fist at their head without a thought. And once again, I saw Luke on the floor again.
Ty rushed over hugged me. I just cried into him once again. Dad came over and took me from Ty. I just hugged him. I could hear Cass come over to Luke and just bicker at him, not giving away what had happened. My dad pulled away and I looked at everybody. The Selected looked confused except for Val.
'Come on, let's go.' I was told to go change into pants. I met Ty at the entrance and we went outside. There stood my siblings, cousins plus partners, and friends. The huge group of us walked out to the field on the property of the palace. Astra and Leo were with their partners. Astra held baby Shal. Eli, Bella and Olivia, or Liv, were playing together. Then there was Matt, Val and Cass. We decided as the older 'kids', that we wanted to give our parents a break.
I first walked over to Astra. 'Can I take him?' She smiled. 'Of course, it is your birthday,' She elbowed Ethan in the side and he had to take his eyes off Shal.
'Ow… Happy Birthday your highness.'
'Ethan, we are going to be family. Call me Charlie.' He just nodded. I took Shal from them and walked over to Matt and Val.
I could see Ty's eyes oogle over me holding a baby. I stood right next to him, Val and Matt just looked at us with smiles on their faces. Cass seemed really confused.
'Okay, what is going on?' I looked at Ty and he nodded. I leaned in,
'Ty and I are toge-' I was cut off by her scream. 'Shhhhhhh. We are trying to keep this on the down low.'
'But what about her?' She pointed towards Val. I just laughed.
'We all know that Matt is going to pick her. Plus she was there when we told Matt, Eli and Bella.' Matt and Val blushed.
'Do your parents know?' We both shook our heads. We then separated into teams to play football. Everytime we get together, the kids separate off and play football. I gave the baby to Val because she decided not to play. Matt just watched her with the baby instead of playing. Ty and I teamed up and with Ethan and Astra. We were against Eli, Bella, Leo and Kathryn. Our team ended up winning.
After the game, I took Shal back from Val. I love babies and Shal was just the perfect baby when he was with me. I went to go sit down on one of the chair that we had set out. Shal made a cute little noice. I just smiled at him. Then I felt something explode. I picked him up.
'Ty, want to come with me? I'm going to go change him.' I did have to change Shal, but I also wanted some more alone time with Ty.
'Of course.' I knew that he was picking up the whole alone time with him. He put a hand on my lower back. I could feel the eyes of everybody else on us. We had a little walk from the field to the palace.
'I love you, amore. I love seeing you with a baby.' I handed Shal off to Ty, who took him nervously.
'I haven't held a baby in 9 years. This is weird.' I smiled at the sight of him with a baby. I was just falling over this.
'Well I like seeing you with a baby. So get used to it.' We both stopped and looked at each other. I realized what I had said. 'I … uh …. I um.' He leaned forward and kissed me.
'It's okay. I want a future with you. Amore, I couldn't imagine mine with anyone else.' I smiled and we continued back to a bathroom. I set him on the counter. I undid his diaper and grabbed one from the cabinet. Once I was done, Ty wrapped his arms around us from the back. We both looked down at Shal. I turned my head and kissed Ty on the cheek.
'Want to go up to my room?' He nodded. We made our way up to my room and sat on my bed.
'I'm gonna grab an old book of mine to read to Shal.' I got up and put Shal on the bed. Ty continued to make faces at him and tickle his belly. I grabbed one of my favorite books when I was about 5, Blue hat, green hat, by Sandra Boynton. It was the first book I could read myself. I sat on the bed again and snuggled up to Ty. He held the baby in his arms. I held the book up so Shal could see it. I read the cute kids book to him until he fell asleep.
Shal fell asleep and Ty and I just looked at him. Eventually, we both fell asleep.
I woke up to a small crowd watching me.
'What are you guys doing here?' My parents, Ty's parents and almost my entire family was there. They all just smiled. I woke up Ty, who was still gently clutching onto Shal. Uncle Gerard came over and took his son from Ty.
'Just looking for you guys' My mom finally said. The problem was that she was still smirking.
'Well get out I need to get ready.' None of them moved. 'I am the birthday girl, GET OUT!' I pointed towards the door. They all scurried away. My maids came in to get me ready for my birthday ball.
I was ready almost 2 hours later. I was wearing a strapless lavender dress. The top had white beading and diamonds on it. The bottom was just simply down with no puff to it. It was almost a silk material. My hair was in perfect curls just down. A few pieces were loosely braided back on either side. My makeup was natural with pale pink lips. I was wearing my lavendar tiara and matching jewelry. My heels were nude and strappy.
I sat on my bed slightly, not wanting to wrinkle it, waiting for Ty. He knocked on the door and I jumped up and answered it. He stood right there in a simple gray suit, white shirt and a baby blue tie. He came into my room.
'You look beautiful' I just stood there and blushed as he kissed me. 'I love you.' He held out his arm and I took it. We walked down to the Ballroom. My parents had made it so that if it was one of our birthdays, we were the only one introduced, so I was the only one being introduced.
'Our beautiful, now adult, princess, Princess Charlotte Amberly Schreave!' The applause was amazing. All of my friend and family were there to celebrate my birthday. Ty led me down the stairs. We walked towards the middle of the room to start the first dance. Ty had been my escort since we were little. I never went a ball when he was here without him being my escort.
Ty wrapped his arm around my waist. I leaned in close with me pressed against him. After a minute, Mom and Dad joined, so did Eli and Bella. Matt walked around got Val and joined us. Slowly everybody joined in. I saw my gift table and just groaned.
'What's wrong?'
'I got so many presents again. I don't need anything. If anything I love grandma's gifts because they are so personal.' He looked at me very sad. 'I love yours the best.' He smiled.
I finished my dance and Ty and I went to sit down and eat some food. Grandma Magda came right up to us. She gave me the largest hug in the world.
'Aw honey. Happy Birthday!' I love grandma.
'Thank you Grandma.' She let go and moved to Ty. He leaned down to hug the short woman.
'How are you Tyler?'
'I'm good, it's nice to be able to spend time with Charlie after all this time.' She nodded and said she needed to talk to my mom. Ty and I just ate and danced for the night.
It was time for cake. This has been my favorite part since I was 10 and my parents let me cut my own cake. Every year I chose a simple yellow cake. I walked over and cut me a nice slice of cake and took a bite. The crowd cheered 'Happy Birthday'. Ty grabbed a piece cake and we made our way towards the garden. We sat down on my parents bench.
'I love you, Charlie, il mio amore.' was all he whispered in my ear. I just giggled. We heard a rustling in the bush. I got nervous so I decided to go in. I was almost at the door when I felt Ty pull away. I turned and saw him in the hands of a rebel. I screamed, I knew by that point the guards knew what was going was a gun to Ty's head. I saw him saying stuff but I couldn't hear what he was saying.
A guard came up behind me to pull me inside. I tried to get out of the guard's arms and run for him, but he was too strong. I saw the rebel pinch Ty's elbow and he passed out. A couple more came and dragged him away. I was just screaming all the way to the safe room.
I just sat in the corner. I never said a word.
He was gone.
The love of my life.
Gone.
So stay tuned for another chapter later. BTW peeps, this story is going to end kind of soon. I will finish it but I just can't really write this story much more. I have an idea of where it will end. But after that I don't know what to happen so I think in total it will be about 20 chapters.
~cari