CHAPTER 4: Crown Prince Liam
"Brother Rick, now that I think about it. How old are you?" Keith ask while picking flowers
"me? I'm 19 why are you asking that suddenly?"
"You are still young! I'm older than you" Keith chuckled at her own childishness, laughing because of a simple matter but Frederick being young give her a new idea or let's say it's a scheme.
"Who's older than who? you little brat"
'Soraine is probably 17 right now, they can still fit each other! At my past life this guy doesn't have any fiancé so I'll help him find one so he won't grow up into an old geezer'
"What are you thinking smiling so devilish!" Frederick roar in annoyance feeling as if this little plum in front of him is planning to sell him
"Brother Rick, I can recommend a beautiful and lovely girl to you" Keith is seriously cute looking at his brother Rick, it was because she can imagine herself as cupid from her past life
"I'm an 8 year old cupid and I'll make sure you and Soraine end up together!" Keith stand up and spin then act like there is a bow in her hand and shoot her brother Rick. While Frederick isn't flustered because of Keith shipping him with someone but because of Keith's antic. In his eyes when this little plum spin it looks like a fairy being surrounded with glitters and flowers, followed by her act of shooting him it looks like she is shooting him with cuteness!
'Someone get me my gat! she's too bright' Frederick is panicking if he can still take her cuteness or he'll faint.
(a/n: a gat is a kind of hat that noble man wears at the '19th century?'. It was wore a lot by a noble man in Korean movies/films, also in China or Japanese but I don't know if they call it by the same name)
"Ahem, Now that I think about it prince Liam will have his birthday next month."
"ummm, so?"
'it's over, Liam you can't have your cute sister anymore. She hate you now' Frederick is pitying prince Liam at his lost.
"Don't mind what I just said, let's go train again?" He change the topic and lead the way to the training grounds
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"Your highness, a sudden change of attitude of a person has nothing to do with a person's physical health. If they change suddenly it may be a cause of realization, or being threatened." A professional pharmacist spoke
earlier the crown prince is extremely frustrated by an unknown reason and ask for a pharmacist's help regarding a certain person's sudden change of attitude.
"Then why?! Why do that person's sudden change alarm me a lot?" frustrated to what he's feeling, crown prince Liam throw the bottle of wine he is drinking just a while ago
"If I may speak you highness, if that person suddenly became irritating in your eyes it might be because you miss the old person they used to be the same reason if that person suddenly stop approaching and clinging into you that causes some feelings to his highness." the pharmacist again spoke
the pharmacist isn't blind and know who suddenly change. He was someone who takes care of the princess whenever she's wounded because of the crown prince and the king's action. He used to see the princess in the gazebo crying while holding her hands a lot and he would treat her, sometimes she would even go directly at his office when she was covered of wound because of the abuse she was getting but recently he has not seen her in the gazebo instead he would see her in the garden laughing with the crown prince's friend, Frederick. He sometimes saw her ignoring the fact that the crown prince is just a few meters away.
"Impossible!" the prince roared and slam the table.
'right, I'm probably alarm because I'm happy she would not cling to me anymore' the price convince himself and told the maid to clean the mess right away before going to his room and slamming the door.
"I even think of hosting a banquet just to see her being humiliated by the crowd, how can I miss her old attitude? That pharmacist is lying"
he decided to rest and sleep for an hour. after a few minutes he is still awake, an image of Keith ignoring him keep flashing on his head at the same time it would be mixed with Keith's image being cover with bruise. Of course the bruise are cost by him, this memories make him frown unconsciously and grit he's teeth, but after a minute past his face became calm thinking as if she deserve it.
He continued to stay in daze for half an hour and finally decided to stand up and went to the garden. Near the palace of the princess.
'nope, I did not decide to go to the garden because it's near her palace. I'm here for fresh air and not for her'
He continue strolling a few minutes when he heard laughter, it was none other than the person who has been bothering him mentally for a a lot of weeks.
"Brother Rick, why are you so weak?" a chuckle can be heard when Keith wipes her sweat
'the two became really close, but just why is she calling Frederick brother?...She's so fucking loud it irritate my ears' Liam moved his gaze away while gritting his teeth out of frustration.
"I have strolled enough, I should hurry up and continue my work." murmuring to his self, he took a heavy step and go away with a pained heart
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What greet Keith the first time she woke up is a notice that she should go to the dining room and eat with her whole 'family'. This cause her to lost appetite.
"Helena! I won't be coming at the dining room, I amm ahh it's raining heavily I don't wanna go out?" she spoke immediately thinking of her excuses in her past life.
"Princess, it isn't raining."
"hah? I umm what I mean is I want to sleep for a little quite longer?"
"Princess, you have been asleep for 14 hours."
"ammm morning sleep?"
"..."
hah? my first excuses always work a lot in my past life and I used to sleep almost the whole day in weekends...in my past life?
"I....just say that I don't wanna go and leave there immediately so they won't be able to question you!" She shout embarrassed of her previous excuses.
When the maid left she slumped herself in her pillow, how dare they disturb her sleep when all that two stupid idiot would do was to lecture, humiliate, and ignore her. In the past Keith would rather be humiliate and be lectured than being ignored because at the very least they are paying attention to her now in her third life she want them to ignore her forever~
After thinking a little about the past and present she decided to continue sleeping, but before she can doze of a knock was heard again.
"Your highness the princess, this is Helena"
"come in"
"I was told by the king that the princess must be there"
"I don't wanna"
"it's the king's order, your highness"
"so?"
"and the crown prince's order?"
"who cares?"
Helena sigh and spoke, she apologize to Keith and call the other maid to come in
"Prepare the princess's bath"
"wai- What!! hey stop!!!" Keith stop one maid because that maid was so close to where she hide her things when she plans to run away
"I'll go, I'll go!"
after the maids panic on preparing Keith's appearance, they quickly push her to the little carriage to drive to the main palace.
Keith smirk when she realize she's almost 20 minutes late
'hope they got pissed and ate their own breakfast already.'