A Royal Feast

Rose took a deep breath taking it all in, her body soaked in the warm water she tried to relax as she had a lot to process this new place felt all so strange she wished it was all just a nightmare that soon she would be back at her old home where it was only her and grandma where things weren't as complicated as they are now its been a 2 weeks since she has been here, and she's been seeing less and less of her grandma as the time passes.

Sir Peter was constantly watching her like a hawk everyone in the castle made her feel welcomed and were nice to her but she felt like she as if she were an outsider the more she got close she wondered if she was ever rude to them because of how distant she felt especially after that dinner. They were nice and felt like a family lily was nothing but bones and skin she looked pale but she was so beautiful all glammed with make up and the most beautiful dress and her mother Emilia was so kind she felt so motherly

"What happened to your hand?" Lily asked

As she was looking and pointing at the bandages

"Oh that! Dimitri you see he told to raise my hand toward the blood sun thing and it burned my hand..."

"That jerk! I swear his purpose in life is to torment people he probably gets off it too.."

"I don't think. So....I'm sure he didn't mean it, it was an accident....and he assigned sir peter to protect me, he sure is nice..." rose said

with a smile

Dimitri sure is impulsive but he would never harm me she thought The room got quite as she mention sir peter's name it was as if she said a cursed word

"I'm sorry have I said something wrong?"

She was confused it hasn't been even half an hour and she has manage to insult the whole room she became anxious and the walls started to close on her lily looked straight into her eyes and whispered 

"See the thing is sir peter....he's actually an assassin and before that he was a bounty hunter...he got his because he had over a 100...a 100 kill!"

"More like a 1000..."

a familiar voice echoed at the door opened it was Dimitri

"A..aa..1000.......!!"

Rose yelled before covering her mouth

Why would someone kill thousands.....there sure cant be that many bad people in the world

Dimitri sat down across from rose, she gave him a smile But he looked at her with a straight face.

Does he ever smiles maybe he just doesn't like me

"Hey! Could you stop the sadistic crap with innocent poor rose! She's probably traumatized and scared for life after what you did! you monster!"

Lily shouted waving rose's injured hand

"So you crying and mobbing....how annoying..."

He said looking at rose with the same straight face But his words stroke rose's heart

'annoying, he thinks I am annoying...after all that he did helping us pack...escorting us here safely....I didn't mean to blame him....I'm the one who carelessly reached across that sun...it even looked strange...'

Her own thoughts were driving her insane

"Here's a lesson for you miss rose-Angelica don't ever do what a strange man you've known for what 2 days tell you what to do.."

hearing his rude cruel words toward Rose, Lily jumped up from her seat

"Why you!!! You should apologize...."

"Yes! Thank you! You are absolutely right! I do my best to be careful..."

Rose was blushing she was so embarrassed she wanted this dinner to be over so she can just disappear into her room until grandma Mary comes to get her.

"Don't thank him!..."

Hearing Rose's innocent naive voice Lily sat back into her chair this girl is hopeless she thought

The bookshelf behide rose started to shake and opened to reveal secret passage which king victor gracefully walked out off and sat down at the end of the table

"Why cant you just use the main entrance like a normal person,you don't have to sneak around like thief.."

"But I'm not a normal person..." He spoke softly

"You know its hard being a king having to wait for them to announce your arrival every time you walk in a room it takes a toll on you!"

complaining to Dimitri

"Yes! that must very hard on..your majesty" Dimitri said  sacarsticly

"Oh yes, now all I want is to have a quite lovely dinner.... oh! Rose-Angelica is here isn't that lovely"

King Victor looked at rose and gave her a gentle smile She smiled back at him

he's such a gentle person his smile warms my heart no wonder he's a king...everyone praises him, I can't believe I'm related to someone like him, he's so gentle and elegant she thought as she blushed thinking of all the good he must brought to the people

"So sweet rose-Angelica I really hope you would open up your heart to our small kingdom and make it your home"

"Of course! Thank you so much for welcoming me here your majesty...."

"Your Majesty... just call me uncle..."

"Uncle...I'm sorry but I don't think its my place...to call you that"

Rose felt distant even tho this man her father's brother he was still a stranger

King victor sensed that Rose felt uncomfortable

"Alright then if you gonna keep calling me your majesty I'm gonna call you princess...how about that?" He Continued to smile while drinking his wine

"P-Princess!! Ohh...no not me....heheheh"

Rose was sitting at the edge of her seat that made her even more anxious

"Yes! As should everyone in the kingdom! You are my blood after all...my brother's daughter! My niece..."

"Your brother who's in exile?"

Dimitri reminded him with his sarcastic tone as King victor choked on his drink

"Shut up! Don't you have your own exiled brother!" Lily scoffed

"We don't inherit the sins of our parents ..... in fact I cant believe we are even related you're such a gentle pure soul"

king victor sighed looking at rose "in fact I feel sorry for her to be sucked up in this family..." he thought

"You've only known her for half a day...but now that I think about it you both look so much alike she could pass as your daughter"

Dimitri mumbled

"Ah that's right the resemblance is uncanny" Emilia said staring at both King Victor and Rose

"Yea even in the way you speak its so much alike...." Lily began to stare too

They spend a moment staring back and forth at Rose and King Victor when the servants came in and interrupted them by serving dinner with the biggest feast.

it all looked so glamours and smelled heavenly the dinner ware was full of silver and crystals but Rose felt something strange

"Aaa.. where is the blood..." lily asked one of the servants

"We are not to serve any blood or meat when princess rose-Angelica is around as for his majesty's requested my lady...."

"What! Why?"

Lily looked at rose confused she came closer inspecting rose

"Ahh you do get burn like us but why don't you have fangs nor eat meat....you're a strange vampire"

"Lilly....stop it!"

Emilia gave her daughter a look to tell her she's being inappropriate. Rose wondered How could She explain that she couldn't stand the smell of blood because it made her sense all those feelings, It as if she could read bleeding people thoughts and meat rose would faint she would see it as death Before she spoke lily continued to say

"Ah it must be part of a diet no wonder you have an amazing body"

"Diet? No I apologize for the inconvenience, This food is so much! thank you!"

"It taste Amazing! Grandma always said food wasn't meant to taste good but that its a mean of survival but this food taste so delicious"

This gesture almost brought tears to rose's eyes

"Yea thats because you had to endure grandma Mary's awful cursed cooking"

Dimitri said Both him, Emilia and king victor shrugged of remembering the taste of  grandma Mary's cooking

"That woman wasn't meant to step foot in a kitchen"

Emilia Mumbled

"I agree..."

king victor mumbled alongside her

"My ears better be failing me because I didn't hear my beloved children bad mouthing my cooking"

Grandma Mary walked in the same passage door king victor used. She looked at Dimitri

"It sure kept your stomach full through all of your childhood.."

"More like kept sick I missed so many days of the academy and brought me such agony"

"Is that so!!! You were just faking it to get out of the academy!"

"No I was not! And are you using that door, it's made for emergencies! use the main entrance, You were avoiding William haven't you!"

Grandma Mary looked at both lily and Emilia before she spoke Emilia stopped her

"My husband can be bit too much, its good to see you again Lady Mary"

Emilia continued to introduce her lily

"This Liliana Adriana Bennett my daughter"

"Oh its very nice to meet you lady Mary, I must say you don't look at intimidating as the rumors made you sound"

Lily blurted out before her Emilia pinched her, Lily was spoilt little brat she always says what's on her mind without a worry in the world as she knows that her father William.

"Ouch..I mean you look lovely"

"My my Emilia Bennett's daughter! How time flies"

Grandma Mary felt nostalgic thinking about Emilia Was Grandma Mary's niece, the little girl she trained and took her as her apprentice now with a teenager daughter of her own.

" I hope you and Rose would become good friends"

she hugged Lily then She sat next to rose and pulled her cheeks

"As long as my sweet angel is pleased with the food I had no complain food is only a mean of survival you know!"

Rose smiled the presences of her grandmother lighten the mood everyone started to laugh and be more animated grandma acted different around Lily's dad she continued to eat quietly listening to Grandma Mary telling stories of the good old days its started to feel more as if they were back home.

Rose got out of the bath thinking back at that dinner she thought it should a memory that she should be cherishing it's true she wasn't seeing her grandmother as much but she became friends with lily just as she was thinking of lily she heard her voice in the room she looked at the cracked in the door

"Sir peter I know you are a low life assassin and all but at least have the decency to give a girl her privacy to be naked all she wants, I mean you already walked on her naked once! Do you wanna peak some more!"

"Ah I'm sorry my lady I.... she slipped in the bath I was helping her....to.."

"But you looked didn't you?"

"I...shall wait outside..."

"Yes you shall....jeez as if I believe you!"

She locked the door behind him

"Lily...he was telling the truth you know..."

"Yea..yea....hey I brought ton of clothes we can try on!"

"Wow..."

Rose was speechless looking at the piled of clothes on her bed and on the rack

"Yea then we can sneak out! To the city center! Two chicka's like us we'll be turning heads for sure!" She winked at Rose

"Sneak out...how with sir peter.. I mean we could ask him to take us..."

"Yes! Why of course why don't we ask my dad and his majesty to come along and make it a royal outing...."

"That would be nice!"

"Are you crazy I was joking! Come on hasn't been there something you really wanted to do that they didn't let you like they have been keeping you on a really short leash..."

"Oh no they have been really nice sir peter took me all over the kingdom and Dimitri explained every rule and law there is ... even tho I couldn't keep up with all of it he was nice he gave books so I don't forget!"

"You mean he gave you homework!!"

"No and uncle has given me so much I couldn't possibly ask for more....its not how grandma Mary raised me to be..."

"Oh shut up! Stop being a goody too sho what is that you wanna do? We can do anything...."

"Ah... I guess there is one thing I want to see Ashbell again...its been almost a year since I last seen him....he.. he's my best friend...."

"I thought I was your best friend.....ah ok.... he lived beyond the burned ashes and you have to walk its pretty far.....but its what best friends do! I'm always willing to go on an adventure with you Rose and I emphasize on the bff part...."

those words warmed Rose's heart she jumped on lily hugging her "but we're stopping at the center first"

"Whatever you say! Best friend!"

Sir peter stood still behind the door

"I hope they know that I can hear them,....what have happened to my life.....since when did I become a teenage princess bodyguard its pretty pathetic.....but she's awfully sweet"

Sir peter thought back at the first night Rose spent in the castle after that dinner when they were alone Rose was getting ready for bed he sense she was uncomfortable around him but ever since she came back from dinner she seemed terrified by him, she jumped every time he moved she sat on her bed with a sad expression on her face she tried to speak to him but she looked away

"Yes...princess..you wanted to say something its alright speak your heart..."

"No.. its nothing"

She shrugged in fear rushing to lay on the bed hiding under the blanket Sir Peter could hear Rose's heart beating fast when she jumped out of bed

"did you really had a 1000 killed!!"

"Oh was what bothering you...aaa.."

He froze for a moment

"I don't know I guess I lost count after a 1000 it probably more yes.. for sure more! Don't worry princess I am more than capable of protecting you! I am no Lady Mary but I promise you'll never be in harm way as long as I lived"

Rose felt as if her soul escape her body

"Princess!?"

"Why would you....end someone's life! That really horrible Sir Peter" Rose started to tear up

"Sometimes princess the world is filled with viled evil that must come to an end it is the only way it wont suck us more into darkness"

"Really....I dont think anyone deserves to have their life ending isn't like stealing their life..."

"Let's just hope you won't cross road with such evil...."

"Oh so you were just protecting the kingdom you must be a very brave knight sir peter..."

She slept thinking I was a knight she didn't know the 'sir' was given to me because i killed over a 1000 knight what a poor girl.