“Come out”Damien turned away from the tiny, barricaded window at that command. Another Garda police were opening the door. He gestured at Damien to follow him. And Damien followed. He mused at the fact that he was just one step away from doing what could have shocked the Garda before they came for him. He wondered what was the problem this time around when the Garda didn’t just take him outside this time; instead, he directed him to enter a van that was waiting outside already. Another Garda was at the wheel.Damien entered the van and the driver started the ignition.What now? Damien thought. He didn’t have to think much though because they were soon at the palace. The Garda police only escorted him to the entrance and watched him go in before they left.Damien was confounded by what was going on and he wondered why they would just let him go like that. Is the king no longer angry? Did the princess speak on his behalf? Was she still around at all? She had promised to leave after al
Silence ensued moments after the king left. Then Isabella wiped her face once more and looked up at Damien.“You can go now. I…I need to freshen up” she said without looking at Damien.“That is all?” Damien asked in a spurt of anger. “Just “You can go now?” after everything he said. After…all this? I need an explanation, princess,” he said loudly.Her eyes flamed as she looked at him “Now look here. In case you have forgotten your place, I will have you know that you can’t just talk to me like that merely because you want to. I am not going to stand for it”“Oh, you won’t? You…”She sighed suddenly and the momentary spark was gone as she deflated and sat heavily on the couch again. Her voice sounded as weary as she looked when she said “Look, I am just tired, okay? Let’s do this later” Damien didn’t want to do anything later. He wanted everything thrashed out now. Now and not later. He wanted to know what the king meant by making him a prince. Now. he wanted his answers now. But the
“You know what? Screw this. He could decide on this when he gets back. I am not getting late for anything” With that, Isabella gestured to Damien that he should get into her car. Damien gladly entered and he turned to look at her as she entered the car and gunned the engine. “You could have left me,” he said quietly. Isabella only laughed lightly, a sound he had not heard from her in weeks. It was a welcome sight to Damien but at the moment, he didn’t appreciate the fact that it was at his expense. Especially when she said “Oh, I am not doing it for you. I just felt that you might run away on the way to school if left by yourself” “I wasn’t…” “Oh, you mean that look on your face back there was all “Oh, I am enjoying this. Let’s have more of it?” she said with a laughter that grated on Damien’s nerves. He only grunted and turned away from her. “Loosen up, brother,” Isabella said as she stopped laughing. “It is not as bad as you are taking it. I am sure that you will soon get used
Damien was amused by the frustrated glare that Isabella threw in Sky’s direction before she turned to him with a “This is not over gaze”. She waved briefly at Sky as she came down from the car and headed towards the entrance. She turned back to Damien. “Oh, I forgot. Dad made the announcement already. You are going to be a busy boy today” “What announcement?” Damien managed to ask before Sky ran around the car and got to Damien’s side. “Dude!” he shouted. “I can’t believe you have been holding out on me! Since when have you known?” Sky screeched into Damien’s ears as he shook the latter in a bear hug. “Maybe if you stop yelling into my ears. I will know what you are talking about and I will tell you what you want to hear” Damien said with mock annoyance. “A prince?” Sky said with a mock horrified expression as he backed away from Damien. “Am I supposed to bow down in greetings now? Maybe I am now supposed to be this close to royalty? Your Highness, please forgive me!” he said in
A few months later! “Congratulations Laura! I am so proud of you, my darling girl” Laura was jolted out of her reverie as she got enveloped in her great-aunt’s jasmine-doused blossom. “Uhh, Aunt Harry, thank you,” she said when she managed to raise her head while holding on to her graduation gown to prevent it from falling off. She wrinkled her nose up at her aunt, which made the latter laugh the way Laura had expected, and she looked around. “Where is Dad?” she asked. “Oh, he is packing that big monster he called a car. I will never understand why men think that cars have to be big before they could be respectable. I swear I feel as if a giant monster swallows me whenever I enter that car of his. ” Laura laughed. She could imagine the feeling. Her petite aunt does look small in the Skoda Kodiaq that her father was fond of using. Since any car that had more than two seats was termed big in her aunt’s book, Laura’s dad had stopped paying his aunt any heed whenever she protested a
“Okay! That totally just happened,” Sky said with a grin as he threw his arm around Damien in a side hug. “Oh, wow. You are something these days, Prince Damien. You just danced with the hottest chick in the whole of Maryland High in front of her parents. Not only were you not shot, but you also seemed to have been accepted as well. Wow”Damien laughed with a shake of his head “Tone it down,” he said as he looked over and waved at Isabella, Morgan, and some other girls to the side. The king had graced the occasion and left earlier. Isabella waved at Damien exuberantly, then cocked her head in the direction of Laura’s family. Morgan only smiled a bit before she looked away. She had changed a bit since Isabella officially declared her as her tutor and she was currently brushing up on her education so she could go to college as well. Still, Damien could feel that she still had her inhibitions.It must be from the fact that she had been betrayed by people who should have loved her from an
“Woohoo! Buddy! we are on our way to Stanford!” Sky bellowed as Damien drove the Rolls-Royce Boat Tail that King Saldus had customised for him. He looked at his friend and laughed out loud. “I was beginning to think that this was a real bad idea” he said and Sky widened his eyes in mock horror. “What?! You are not going to rain on my parade too, are you? I had enough sensible talk from Michel. I don’t want to do sensible for the next twenty-four hours. In fact for the next twenty days. I mean, come on, have a mercy on a heartbroken guy” he wailed out to the air. “You are not heartbroken” Damien said with laughter. “What? What do you call it when your boyfriend, whom you are in love with, specifically told you that he doesn’t think that you could work long-distance and he went right ahead to suggest you give yourselves some time apart? Uhm, what do you call that?” “Seperation” Damien said with a shrug and he laughed out loud at Sky’s expression. Sky merely turned away from him and
Isabella had decided not to partake in the madness that Sky had proposed. Sure, she liked that dude, but she was not about to give up her comfort for that. Nor did she take up Damien and Morgan’s playful suggestion that she could just teleport herself to the school if she so wanted. Surely her power had grown and she could control it better now, but she had no intention of using it on something so silly. She had this premonition that she would need all the power she had in store very soon. For the moment, she simply took her father’s private, enjoying the luxury of being pampered all the way to California while she laughed at the foolishness of her brother and his silly friend.Brother. Isabella mused at how easily that rolled off her tongue. She couldn’t imagine how easily she had come to accept Damien as family. Maybe it had to do with the fact that they had gone through a lot together in the past months. Morgan and he had become such a constancy in her life that she almost couldn’t