New to the Outside World

"We will take our leave, Your Highnesses." The carriage carries their baggage and Princess Railey is already inside. She did not even bother to look at the King and Queen, the Prince is inside their Manor since she already bid her farewell to him earlier. "Keep an eye on the Princess, Jera. Immediately report any problem and we will take her back." The King looks unwell but he is still keeping that commanding and fearful output. "Yes, Your Highness." Sis Jera bows and went inside the carriage. She is sitting in front of the Princess who has puffy eyes due to crying last night. "Are you alright, Princess?" Sis Jera asks while fixing the Princess' blue gown to avoid getting it wrinkled. "Yes." With the short answer, she takes out her small sketchbook and began scribbling her pencil then the carriage began to move. Sis Jera loves Princess Railey because she sees her as her little sister, but her vengeance is much stronger than their bond. If they are only born to the same normal family, she would love to have Railey as her sister. After some time, both of the young ladies slept during the rest of the travel. The Chauffeur wakes them up when they have arrived, Sis Jera went down first then checked if the other royalties have arrived and yes, their empty carriages are already preparing to leave. "Princess, let's go." Sis Jera took some of the baggage while the guards carried the other; Princess Railey looks around with amazement. Due to her heavy eyes earlier, the Princess slept right after the carriage left and was not able to have a look at the outside part of their Kingdom. This is the first time she lay her eyes on outside of her cage. Bewildered and amazed, Princess Railey follows Sis Jera with the guard who shows them the way to the ground. "Your Highness will stay at the Keep, while her maid will stay with the other right hand of the royalties with the Meisters. This is to create a good social bond with different Kingdoms. I hope you understand, Princess." The guard looks at Princess Railey who is obviously not listening because her eyes got fixed with the lake beside the Keep. Sis Jera gave the response and nods, "Princess, I will stay with the Meisters, while you will stay at the Keep. Do you understand?" Princess Railey unconsciously nods, her feet lead her to the lake, "Princess, I will take your baggage to your room." Again, she just nods. She went on to the lake, there is a mangrove tree surrounding the lake which makes it look more like it went out of her old fantasy drawing books. The blue sky reflects in the water, "If only there is something that looks like this in the Manor, I would have enjoyed staying there." There is only a large boring garden around and a simple fountain in the manor. She sits on a large rock beside the lake but her eyes got caught by someone. He is sitting on the other side of the lake on a piece of large wood. He is holding a paper which looks like a letter then he crumpled it and threw it on the lake. After cupping his face, he looks at her side and saw her. He had a blonde medium length hair that is tied in a ribbon. It was too far for Princess Railey to see whether he is looking at her directly or at the veranda of the Keep that is behind her. He stands up and walks, he is heading to her side. She watches him gracefully make his way to her, and as he moves closer, she can see his eyes of blue which is also fixed on her eyes. It's as if the world stops around her and all she can see is him, then suddenly he smiled and she was about to say a word to him when he waved his hands to someone behind her. A guy was standing at the veranda, a short brown haired guy is smiling to him. "I thought he was looking at me." She whispers, but the man hears this and smiled. Yes, he was looking at her but he won't let it go that fast, it would be embarrassing to make a move. "Asheton, where have you been?" The man at the veranda shouts, "I was just looking around. This place is quite nice, don't you think?" Asheton, the man that caught her attention is named Asheton. She smiles after finding this out and continued on looking at the lake which she noticed have some kind of fish. She stands up to look closer but she hears that the guys are talking about her, "Hey, who's that lady? Do you think she's royalty? But I've never seen a girl with blue hair before during the gatherings." The man on the veranda said, "Maybe, I don't know. I never went to any gathering before." Asheton says Princess Railey looks at the veranda where they are located. They are both looking at her, she feels ashamed then looks away because it is also the first time that she encountered young men other than the people in the Manor. "Well, she's a beauty. Gotta talk to her." Then she heard someone jump, it may be the man in the veranda which made his way to stand beside her. "Hey, who are you?" He brown haired guy asks Princess Railey can feel her embarrassment swallowing her up. Her face turned red and she got tongue-tied, with her funny look the brown haired guy smiled, "I'm Shaune, the Prince of Vuxforri Kingdom. I'm sorry for my impoliteness." He bows, showing an apology. Princess Railey wondered a few things while this is happening: Does she have social anxiety? Where is the Voxforri Kingdom? Are they not the only Kingdom around? How should she reply to this? What kind of fish is in the pond? "We're very sorry, young lady. We mean no harm." Asheton says, bowing as well in front of her. His blonde hair flows so beautifully that Princess Railey was not able to resist to touch it, shocking the Princes. It is a taboo to touch someone your opposite sex in their world but the Princess does not know it. We can say that the King did not prepare her for the outside world. She knows etiquettes that needs to be done inside the Manor but outside etiquettes were not discussed to her. Feeling that it was improper, she withdraws her hand and hides it behind her. "Sorry," was all she can say before leaving, "Now, you've been touched! You need to marry that girl." Shaune watches Princess Railey went inside the Keep, if they touch or get touched by their opposite sex, they should get married. It's like physical contact is taking one's purity and they should be responsible for it. "I think she's that Princess." Asheton is still shocked while touching the part of his face that Princess Railey brushed while touching his hair. His heart beat faster and his smile is hard to restrain but he hides it behind his hand. "Well, you need to report that to your butler. I should go, my maid's waiting for me." Shaune leaves Asheton who is thinking about 'that Princess', the one that was kept inside their Manor for god knows how long until she will show signs of her ability. He suddenly felt sympathy for her. He is not yet sure whether the lady earlier was that Princess because she did not introduce herself but her blue and violet eyes got him to smile once again before entering the Keep.