The next morning I was allowed out at about nine, just in time for breakfast! I walked slowly down the stairs towards the dining room, I was still in my blue nightgown and robe and my hair was a mess, but I was too excited to care.

I knocked loudly on the heavy doors and waited a moment before a loud voice granted me access. I pushed the door open and curtsied as I stepped inside. Maxon stopped eating upon spotting me, he stood and walked towards me. He tried to walk at first but ended up running the last few yards and picked me up by the waist and bringing me close into him. He kissed me hard on the lips, I'm not sure he would have ever pulled away, but all of a sudden he remembered that my family was sitting about ten yards. We turned to look as my family stared at us, I blushed slightly as Maxon grabbed my hand and led me towards the table.

Almost as soon as I sat down, a butler came with a plate of breakfast for me. Two pancakes, two sausages and a scrambled egg. Delicious. I ate most of the food on my plate whilst my ex-five family quickly polished every bit of food on their plates. It was strange having my family in the palace, I had been without them for so long! Soon they would be moving to the house at the other side of the palace estate, they would be able to come and see us fairly often and us them.

As soon as breakfast was finished, I realised that I needed a real dress to wear, I couldn't go around all day in a nightgown! I went back up to my old room to search through the wreckage. It was mostly tidied now and most of the clothes had been removed from the wardrobe. I searched through and managed to find the jeans that Maxon gave me on my first week, I also managed to scrape together a shirt that I had brought from home. I decided that would do for the day, I was sure that my maids would have a dress made for me for tomorrow.

I sat back on my bed after getting dressed, so much had changed since I had come here, I came in love with Aspen and now I am in love with the one man I never wanted to love. I honestly thought that I would be sent home almost as soon as I walked through the doors, I was lucky that I had been forgiven for me yelling at Maxon…several times. I heard a knock on the door and Maxon entered before I could even tell him to come in.

"This brings back old memories" Maxon said as he sat beside me on the bed. I looked up at his smiling face and smiled back. "What's wrong" he asked, putting his arm around my shoulders.

"Nothing's ever going to go back to normal, is it?"

"We'll make a new normal, just for us." Maxon pulled me in and kissed me. "Come on, I need to show you something." He pulled my hand softly from the room and towards the Princess suite.

When we arrived, the room was amazing. It was perfect. Mary and Lucy were already there, quickly standing from their card game as we entered, and there was an open wardrobe with two dresses already inside. The wall was light blue, my favourite colour, and the carpet was a plush white.

"OK so in between king duties, checking on me in the hospital, putting the palace back to pretty much its former glory, you've found time to do up the Princess suite?" Maxon nodded at me, a huge grin showing on his face. I shook my head and flung my arms around his neck. "I love it." I whispered into his ear and kissed him hard on the lips, and we held each other in an embrace for a long time.

At some point my maids must have dismissed themselves because, as we finally let go, there was only May stood in the doorway, a cheeky grin on her face.

"So, is this my room?" She asked. I laughed at that as she smiled even more.

"No, you guys are going to live at the big townhouse that you came past on your way in." I told her.

"Seriously? My sister is going to be the Queen and I don't even get to live in the palace, I'm practically a princess!" She complained. I wasn't sure at this point if she was being serious or not.

"You can come to visit all the time but you will find I boring because I won't have time to play with you and your lovely new house has an art studio so you can still make your art!" I smiled and gave her a little push. She marched off in a half-fake tantrum and we followed her back downstairs.

"So we'll hear from you tomorrow?" My mother asked with a look of worry in her eye. Honestly you'd think I hadn't spent the past few months living away from her!

"Yes, and if you need us for any reason call this number to put you through to the palace." I said placing a piece of paper into her hand. I hugged her and whispered into her ear "If anything happens, go downstairs to the basement and go behind the painting. It's a safe room, there's a phone in there that you can use to call us on."

I waved goodbye to my family as they left to start their new lives as ones. I was so happy for them. It wasn't until Maxon wrapped his arm around my waist and led me back inside that I realised my life had changed a lot too and, starting tomorrow I was going to see just how much had changed!