Because of how fast I ran to hide, Dan didn't even notice where I went. But, as he looked around, he saw some of my dress sticking out from underneath the table. Dan kneeled down and lifted up the tablecloth to see me sitting on the other side, doing my best not to be noticed, so he asked, "Sash, what are you doing?" "Nothing...I just needed to sit down for a minute..." "Are you hiding from having to talk in front of people?" "No, I'm just not in the mood..." "It's fine to have stage fright." "It's not stage fright. I just don't want to give a speech; I just wanted to come here, try and have a little fun and then leave the moment it was over." "How can you enjoy yourself if you're stuck under the table?" "I don't know...you can bring me cake, that's fun..." "They don't have cake at this event, though." "It's worse than I thought..." Dan reached out his hand to me, "Come on, let's just walk around, I can try and hide you, or we can just leave." I grabbed his hand, "Thanks, a
The next day I spent the afternoon with Walter in the living room, enjoying tea with him. Walter asked me how my graduation went the day before, "I noticed you came home earlier than expected yesterday. Did something happen at the ball?" "Not really. Dan and I just had enough of the ball after a while, neither of us enjoy dancing, and I never socialised much with the other students in my class other than Tasha while she was still there, so there wasn't anything for us to do." "Well, now you have your coming-of-age ceremony in 3 years. I look forward to seeing you officially become an adult, but I will miss you being small enough to fit in my arms." "You still say that every year...I haven't fit in your arms since I was 7." While Walter and I were talking, a maid came into the room, "Miss, there's a guest here for you." I couldn't help but sigh, "Tasha should know by now that she can just come in. I don't understand why she sometimes feels the need to knock first." "It's not miss
After Angela left the estate, I rushed to my room and wrote a letter to Tasha telling her I had to talk to her urgently and to come to visit the estate by 8 am tomorrow. When I finished the letter, I handed it to a maid, who sent it to her for me. The next day, Tasha arrived just before 8 and found her way to me. I was waiting for her in my garden, and when I saw her, I stood up out of my seat and excitedly gestured with my hand for her to sit down, "Sit down, now! I got something amazing to tell you!" Tasha looked intrigued at what I had to tell her since she never saw me look so excited to share gossip. Tasha rushed over, excitedly sat down, and asked, "What is it that's got you so excited you had to tell me to get here so early?" I sat back in my chair, calmed myself down, and told her, "You know how Dan has never had a girlfriend or even dated anyone, for that matter?" Tashas's eyes lit up, and she asked, "Are you telling me he's finally found someone!" "Almost! I actually set
The entire time we were doing this, Dan was watching us without our realising it. Finally, after Dan watched us sit down in plain sight for him to see, he felt annoyed and embarrassed, 'I can't believe those two followed me here. And they're not even trying not to be noticed being this obvious!' Angela noticed Dan's vexed expression and asked, "Is everything ok?" Dan tried to ignore us and focus on Angela, "Sorry, everything's fine. I just noticed they removed my favourite dish is all." "Oh, ok. Speaking of, should we order now?" "Of course." Dan flagged down one of the waiters, and they ordered their food. After the waiter left, they sat in awkward silence, not knowing what to talk about. Dan tried his best to think of something to say but failed terribly when he said, "I like your frizzy hair." When Angela heard him say that, she started to look self-conscious about her hair, trying to brush it down with her hands. Seeing her reaction, Dan could tell he had said something wrong
After that day, Dan started to spend all his free time with Angela. Anytime I saw them spending time together, I could tell they were starting to get closer to one another. Dan finally asked her to start dating him after they had already spent months getting to know each other. After that, it took Dan a whole year and a half before he finally decided to propose to her. Because Angela hadn't had her coming-of-age ceremony yet, they couldn't get married, so they made plans to marry two months after her coming-of-age ceremony. After the first year of them getting too over the top with their display of affection for one another, I started trying to avoid them as much as humanly possible because I couldn't stand seeing how cringy they were. I ended up getting so caught up in Dan's life that I didn't notice the time passing me by, and before I knew it, my coming-of-age ceremony was only a day away. The day before my coming-of-age ceremony, I was woken up by someone. When I looked around
Thanks to Clair's exceptional skills in tailoring and magic, after I took off the dress, she started working on all the adjustments and had it ready by the time we had finished picking out a few more dresses to buy. After we finished in the boutique, Crimson handed off the new dresses we got to a maid so she could put them in the carriage and then took us around the market. As we walked around, we stopped in front of a bakery called Sweet Noble. He hadn't had lunch yet, so Crimson asked us, "Do you two feel like going inside here and having something sweet before we continue?" I smiled at Crimson, "You know I won't turn down cake!" Tasha agreed, "Same! I want chocolate!" Crimson giggled at us, "Let's go in then!" Tasha and I sat at a table while Crimson went over and spoke to one of the dragons working there before coming over and joining us at the table. I asked Crimson, "Who did you just talk to?" "Oh, it was a girl who works here. I asked her to bring us a bit of everything s
As I was reeling from the surprise of how my eyes looked, the pain suddenly spiked, and I was thrown off balance. The pain quickly became too much for me to handle, and I fell to the floor and passed out the moment I hit the ground. When I came to, I was in what looked like one of the castle's guest rooms, and to my surprise, my head stopped hurting, 'I'm so glad my head has stopped hurting. I can't believe it got so bad I fainted. I feel embarrassed!' As I woke up more, I remembered what the king told me, 'Wait, didn't the king show me eyes were changing just before I fainted?' I looked around and saw a dressing mirror. I got off the bed and rushed over to it. When I looked in the mirror, my eyes were a solid pink colour, 'I can't believe it, my eyes really did change!' While I was in disbelief looking in the mirror, Dan came into the room to check on me, "Sasha, are you awake?" I couldn't bring myself to look away from the mirror while I answered, "Yeah, I'm over here..." "Mom
As we looked around for the prince, I tried to dig deeper into who this guy was, but he was too tight-lipped about everything to do with himself apart from his name. I slowly got frustrated and ended up outright asking him, "Can't I know anything more about you past your name?" He thought about it for a minute before smiling and saying, "But wouldn't that ruin the mystery?" His answer only frustrated me further, "Uh, you're just frustrating. Not everyone likes the mysterious type, you know..." "Then why can't you stop paying attention to me and asking me questions?" For some reason, I couldn't stop myself from blushing at his comment, "Don't get so full of yourself! I'm only curious! You're the only person here who somehow knows what the 3rd prince looks like, so it's only natural I want to know how." "But you didn't ask how I knew him. You only asked questions about me." I felt embarrassed being caught out like that. Then, just as I was about to yell at him for being arrogant,