Chapter 38: Realizations

Chapter 38: Realizations

He seemed confused then after a little while, he somehow gets it. “Young Lady, do you think…General Randall has feelings for the Flag Officer? Does it bother you since you are engaged to each other?”

“By arrangement, Deputy,” I corrected. “By my father the President. It’s not because he wanted to. I felt so guilty now that he’s been kept away for being with someone he actually wants to be with. And now I have hurt the woman he actually cared for. Do you even know that he took forty crunches from her before back at Pinfel?”

I don’t know if the Deputy has been told about it because he seemed confused.

“We don’t actually know how he really thinks of the whole arrangement, Young Lady. He seems to have grown fonder with you since that night when he saved you from slipping at the mall,” Deputy reasoned.

I thought about what I wished back at the Dal-uy Festival because it echoed right now: I wish everybody would marry the one they love.