"Philip!" Dad shouted. "no, Dad. I will never do that" I stood on my opinion. He wants me to marry the daughter of King of another country."Let him be, Henry" Mom stood in the middle of me and Dad as he is about to punch me again.I already received multiple punches today, yey?"phil" my little sister approached me, she's crying. I hugged her and tapped her on the back. She doesn't deserve to witness all of thi. She doesn't deserve to witness how Dad beat me up.This might trigger her, this might be a trauma for her. She's too young."Mom, go get Sophie. Just leave us alone" I said and passed Sophie to her. "Phil" she called, not wanting to leave. "Mom, Sophie is here. Don't let her have a trauma" I said and gently pushed her.I saw Sophie cry and it breaks my heart too. She's stretching her small hands to me, wanting to touch me. But I just smiled at her. °•"does it hurt so bad?" Mom asked as she treat my wounds."just follow your Dad's order" Miss Sarah suggested. They're both
AMELIA'S POV"You're not fine" I said, Philip keeps on saying that he's fine but I am sure that he is not. How an he say he's fine while he has those wounds and bruises all over her face, plus his stomach hurts.He just gave me a weak smile "I'm fine, Amelia. Don't worry""how can I not? you look so tired and weak and you're hurt. Tell me what happened?" I asked as I sit next to him, he just don't want to tell me and acts so strong.He looked at me and gave me a small smile, "promise me you won't tell anyone?""I promise" answered again. I sat comfortably and listened to him. I heared him chuckle so I creased my forehead ,"you're already hurt and yet you still have the energy to laugh? wow""of course. Just because I'm hurt doesn't mean I'll dwell on it right? I should still be positive even if everything keeps on crashing down at once" he looked at me with his eyebrows up as if asking me if he's right or not ,"hmm?""yeah, right" I answered, giving up. "So, what's wrong? what happene
PHILIP'S POVDay's have passed so fast that we didn't noticed it that tomorrow would be Amelia's birthday.I've also been counting the days that I first met her and it has already been 11 months, close to one year. Nothing changed actually. We're still friends and she still didn't know about my feelings.Mom then already got used to me going outside the castle and going home late. Dad is still like that, he still beats me up. Amelia on the other hand already have a lot of clients lately. Her art business is going fine and going much better than before. She can pay her own rent now without me buying her arts and I am so proud of her.She's saying that she won't prepare anything for her birthday since she will be saving it for the opening of her coffee shop.I've been pushing her to go pursue her newly found talent that she can actually turn into a business. She can make very delicious coffees and now, we're at that point in where we're making the menu. "Mom what can I give Amelia?"
AMELIA'S POVPhil is acting so weird. He said that he missed me. He's being childish again and it's not something new to me already. He acts childish from time to time and who am I not to play along. I hugged him back and I felt that he buried his face on my shoulders. He loves to do that, whenever he hugs me, he always do that. "did something happen, Expensive Philip?" I asked. He just shook his head and he parted from the hug. "I just missed the best artist Lia" he answered snd hugged me again with his face buried on my shoulders. He's acting like a baby again so I just got along with it. "it's already 9pm, Phil. I'm tired, I wanna rest" I answered. I had to finish a big painting for tonight and I made it for about 8 hours which is pretty tiring. "can I stay here? even just for a while and I'll go home" he insisted. I parted from the hug and pushed his shoulders so that he'll look at me. "it's late. We're both tired, just go home and take a rest as well, okay Phil?" I asked
PHILIP'S POVI didn't knew that Amelia was mad by me calling her stubborn. She must be very tired since she got mad at me. Now that I've known her for almost a year now, I know that she don't get mad easily. She only gets mad easily when she's super tired."can I give you a hug?" I asked. Hugging is like a very normal thing between us, no malice at all and I love it that hugging doesn't makes her uncomfortable."are you that tired?" she asked.I nodded. "you must be tired since you're asking for a hug" she replied and she's the one who hugged me first. She buried her head on my chest and I saw that she closed her eyes."you must be tired since you're being mad at me" I replied as well.I hugged her back.And here she is again where I feel the most safe— her on my arms.We stayed like that for a couple of minutes and I saw that she's already asleep. I can feel that she doze off as when I talked to her, she didn't responded.I can't sleep here, she will get mad at me. I stayed with
AMELIA'S POV"yes it's straight, just stick it where you're placing it right now" I instructed Philip. We're decorating, yey! I actually never imagined that Philip would visit me today, he's such a busy person. But then now that he's here, I am very thankful. Good thing I won't be sleeping the whole day in my birthday. He got down from the sofa and stood next to me.He then flicked me in my forehead ,"you said it's straight" And then I realized, it's not straight. I just laughed and he stood in my sofa again to fix the banner."should I blow the balloons now?" I asked Philip.He turned around and shook his head."you can't, the birthday girl shouldn't be working" he answered. I just laughed, what am I supposed to do then?Even though he told me not to work, I still opened the bag full of balloons and started blowing them.Philip tried to take it away with me, well he did took it from me but I decided to watch him first.We both are sat down on my carpet and he's trying so hard to b
PHILIP'S POVMy plans didn't go well. They didn't go the way I planned them to be. My plan for today is to celebrate her birthday at her house with decorations and then she'll blow the candle and I'll give her the bouquet and give then we'll eat and we'll go the the park which I reserved ahead of time.But I'm happy for her since she's genuinely happy today. Her Father whom left her years ago showed up on her birthday. And I can see that she's so happy. I couldn't give the flowers since her Father already gave her one and I'm shy to give it to her now."Phil, come let's eat" Lia called me. We're done singing her a Happy Birthday."handsome man, let's eat" her Father called me as well. "No thanks, Sir, Lia. I need to leave now, I still have something to do" I smiled at them. I saw how Lia lose her smile but I just scrunched my nose."Sir, I'll go now. I just helped her to decorate her house for her birthday. I'm sorry again" I said. They let me go nicely and I literally left with
Philip's Pov"are you sure you're fine?" Mom asked. We're now on her favorite place of the palace— the garden.Sophie on the other hand is playing on her playground just right infront of Mom's little tea table."of course, she's happy then I'm happy" I answered. We just had breakfast but we're having tea again, Mom just never get fat. Wherein Amelia always go on a diet since she says that she easily get fat but I don't even notice it, she's always beautiful no matter her size. Gosh, I remembered Amelia again. I remember her in many random things, random thoughts."how about I pay her a visit as well?" Mom asked which made me spit my tea. Mom panicked and gave me a handkerchief ,"careful, is it that surprising?"I just nodded. It is indeed surprising. Mom doesn't like to leave the palace, she just leaves if it's really that important."but you don't like leaving the castle" I mouthed and wiped my lips with the handkerchief that she gave, good thing I didn't spilled the tea to my clo
AMELIA'S POV"so, who is she?" I asked and smiled at Philip, "it seems like, she has a grudge against me" I tried to laugh, but Philip didn't. "She's-she's Princess Dahlia" he answered and stopped eating the strawberries. I nodded. She's pretty. "she's your fiancee. She must be angry that I am here" I answered. "both my parents like you more, plus, I can't stand her attitude" she answered. "why? both of you are in the same level. You look good together too" I answered. "Amelia" he called and held my hand. "Philip" I called as well. "If it is not you, it's not anyone right. You're the only one I like and if there's someone I want to get married with, it's obviously you" he answered."but, how about her?" I asked. "don't mind her. She won't bother us anymore" he answered. I just nodded. I don't want to keep thinking about it, but I just can't. I wanna know more about her."is there anything you're curious about?" he asked.Did he read my mind?"a lot actually" I answered. T
AMELIA'S POV Today is my third day here in the castle. Almost feel like forever indeed. I decided to stay here and not leave as I don't want to leave Philip. I don't want to hurt Philip, but it is already me who is hurting. I don't think so if this is still healthy, but otherwise, as long as he is happy, I am happy. I sat on top of my bed and from here I looked around.Today, the Queen asked me to have tea with her, but I said I couldn't. I said that I am not feeling well which is absolutely a lie since I am feeling very well today, in fact I have a lot of energies. It's just that, as much as I can, I don't want to be in the same place as her. When she's around, it feels suffocating. Before, I look up at her so much that I even admire the entire her, her personality, her looks, how she moves. But, now that I already know how she thinks, she's kinda selfish indeed. Another day, anothrer day of missing home. Philip said that he'll do anything so that I can feel the same comf
AMELIA'S POVI stayed with Princess Sophie since she was crying over and over again. Now, she took me somewhere outside the Palace. Now, I just realized that the palace indeed is so wide, both from the inside and outside."Now, what should we do?" I asked since she brought me to an empty field. "We are going to my tree house" she smiled.Tree House.I suddenly remembered Gone. Is she eating well? does she still remember me? does she even miss me? does she still go to my shop? how's Charles?As I was about to tear up again, I contained my tears and smiled at Sophie."Are we there yet?" I asked."a bit more, Princess Amelia" she politely answered. "Okay, Princess Amelia will be patient" I answered and smiled at her.I looked around and it somewhat feels less suffocating here. I feel like I am more comfortable here.As we continue to walk, we reached a big tree house. Wow, it is huger than I thought it would be."This is yours?" I asked."yes, my brother built it for me" she answered w
AMELIA'S POV"why did you do that?" I asked Philip as we walk inside the Castle.We just had breakfast and Philip said he'll tour me around.Well, he might as well do so since I'm planning on leaving tonight. I just wanna leave today, this is not comfortable.Well, the pros is that I can experience being a Princess and have proper conversations with the royals. But then, my conscience just can't.I don't like lying. "love?" Philip suddenly called so I got back from my consciousness."yes, love?" I asked and smiled."you were dozing off. Is something wrong?" he asked. He seems pretty worried. "did I just did that?" I asked."yeah. Is something wrong, love? what's our problem?" he asked. That made me smile. He always is the one who have concern on me."no, there's nothing wrong. So, what did you just said again?" I asked, of course I should divert the topic. "I said that I love you" he whispered to me.I hit him."Philip, stop" I said with my authoritative voice."okay, my Prince
AMELIA'S POV"that's your reaction? really? I'm quite disappointed" I answered truthfully. I mean, there's no point in lying though. I'll say my thoughts anyways. It's only the two of us, I know he doesn't mind me being honest with him. He giggled. "come here" he said, but ended up being the one who actually came to me and gave me a hug.I sniffed and smelled his scent. "you smells nice" I said and let go of him. "glad you liked it" he responded. "I didn't said that I liked it" I answered. "but you just said that I smells nice, that means you like it" he insisted.I grinned."not because you smells nice, doesn't me I like it" I answered again.What's with this fuss by the way?"then, don't you like me smelling nice?" he asked."of course I do" I answered."that's my girl" he hugged me again.We're just talking nonsense when we heard a knock coming from the door."Princess Amelia? the breakfast is ready. Please proceed to the garden" a sweet voice said. I looked at Philip."sho
AMELIA'S POVAfter having a little chitchat with Sophie, I put her to sleep since it's midnight and she needs to sleep more. In my shock, Philip entered the room right after Sophie slept. "what are you doing here?" I asked in a whisper, scared that I might woke Sophie up. "here to visit you, I waited for you outside but you're not coming back" he whispered as well. I pulled him out of the room so that we won't wake Sophie up. Yeah, I remembered her name."you have been waiting?" I asked. He scratched the back of his head."yeah" he smiled."for how long?" I asked. "how long have you been inside? that's how long I has been waiting. I saw you left your room and saw how scared you were when you heard Sophie's cry" he laughed. I immediately hit him."then you know that I was lost. Why didn't you approached me?" I asked with a big question mark on my face.He gave me a genuine smile. The smile he always give me everytime he stares at me."I just wanna watch my Princess" he smiled ,"y
[THIS IS A FLASHBACK FROM WHEN AMELIA WAS STILL IN THE PALACE]AMELIA'S POV"what?" I asked the Queen ,"you lied to the King? what if he'll find out?" "he'll never find out so please enjoy your stay here, okay? Princess Dahlia is not coming if you're here. Knowing Philip, I know that he's just being patient with her" she answered.She tapped my shoulders and gave me a loving smile. After that, she left the room, leaving me on the terrace.I'm a Princess? I clearly am not.I entered the room and looked around it.How can I lie to the King? I don't wanna lie. I feel bad.I looked around the room once again and reality hits me."I don't deserve this, I'm a no Princess. How can I even enjoy these stuffs when all of it is just a lie?" I asked myself.Here I am again, talking to myself.I go outside the room again to watch the city. From here, I can see my shop. But, I can't seen it well as it's quite too far. I sighed. I need to get out of this. I don't want to suffer the consequences o
AMELIA'S POVI looked at Charles and Lorna who are washing the dishes right now. They're having so much fun and I can't help but to smile.I wish them genuine happiness.I wish for their relationship to work out and not hurt each other. While sitting here and watching a movie, I saw a familiar guy outside. My body is still sore, it aches so much, but good thing, it wasn't like before. Before, it hurts so much to the point that I can't even walk properly. The familiar guy is Phil.I know him so well to the point that I know even his shadow.I stood up slowly. I didn't made any noise so that they wouldn't notice that I left. I opened the door and Phil immediately turn around and looked at me. His eyes are so teary and right at the moment that he saw me, he gave me a one big hug.He literally squeezed me which made me groan in pain.My scars are not yet fully healed and they still hurts from time to time especially when they're being touched.When I groaned, he was so shock to the
LORNA'S POVCharles went off to go get a glass of water. I looked at Amelia and her face looks tired. She looks tired. She was so excited to go to the palace but ended up looking like this.What exactly happened? I'm going to beat that Prince when I saw him, I really will. I held her hand and was shocked to see a scar. It's not a big scar but it's still a scar. I accidentally held it which made Amelia groan. Does it hurt? I gently placed her hand to my hand and caressed it again. But in my shock, she slowly opened her eyes.Oh no, did I woke her up?Does the scar that painful for her to wake up just because I accidentally held it?I just remained silent and watched her. Her eyes roamed around the room and smiled afterwards.What is she thinking?Her eyes turned to mine and smiled wider."Lorna" she mouthed. Her voice is weak, I almost cannot hear it. "Amelia" I answered and hugged her. She groaned when I did that that's why I immediately clasp out from the hug and looked at h