Seasons in the Sun by Westlife

"Close the door," Réal whispered as we entered my cramped and dim bedroom.

"You know, you're not supposed to be here," I warned him. I pushed him back to my bed, but he sprang up and closed the door behind us.

"Nobody should know I was here," he said as he locked the door.

It is socially unacceptable that a boy 13 years of age is in his maid's daughter's bedroom. Let alone to be in the maid's quarters. But he wasn't just a boy.

"What are you going to do, Prince?" I stammered as I backed myself up and fell to my bed.

"I am going to scream if you're not going to tell me!" I said that loud enough that he jumped right at me and covered my mouth with his leather-gloved hand. He's now on top of me. I struggled, but it's futile since he's twice larger than I am.

"I'm not going to do anything with you, I just want you to calm down. You hear me? Calm down!"

I didn't struggle that much, knowing Réal is a good boy who wouldn't hurt an innocent fly. I froze and he got off of me. He ran to my window and peeked out of the curtain.

"Father has gone crazy. Right now, he's breaking, slamming everything in his sight. Heneral Aga just died on the battlefield. He lost his greatest commander."

I got off the bed and stood behind him. "It still doesn't make sense why you're here, Rey. You should even be there looking after the King."

He closed the window, turned to me, and I'd never seen him as anxious as before. But his eyes tell more. It's fear. As the only and closest friend he had, I was requested by my mother to comfort him at times he needed one. He laid down on my small and soft bed that collapsed under his weight. He turned his back on me and I knew that moment he couldn't hold it in. He was silently sobbing. We were just kids. It's okay to cry and to feel scared.

I sat behind him and sighed. "Any moment now, they're going to find you. And they would be pretty disappointed seeing you in this --- situation."

"I don't f*cking care. Nothing works out here any more anyway."

I was not surprised. He said that after the Queen left the Kingdom Uno to join the battle against the Exiles and never came back. Since then, the King has been busy searching for his wife and forgot they still had a son to look after. I was about to hug him when his right wrist beeped continuously. He got up quickly and horror struck his face. They found him.

"Shit. They can't find out I was here Brie. Father is going to send me to Paradiso. You have to help me get away."

He ran to the window, snatched off his body tracker on his wrist, then opened up a new digital interface with it that popped up in front of him. It glowed bright yellow and lit up the whole room. He was pacing to and fro my room.

"I don't understand Rey. Why would they send you to Paradiso? You've got nothing to do there! And...why are you panicking? They're just going to send you back to the Palace!"

He turned to me, his face against me. He was furious. "You surely don't understand me, Brie. You would never. Why don't you do me a favor? Help me get out of here!"

"I can't. They would kill me and my family." His interface showed that the guards are a floor down from us.

"Right. You were never my friend anyway. All of you! You just cared because I was the prince, but not as a brother whom I thought a part of your family!"

"That's not true Rey! Rey you should think through all of this! You just can't disappear and run away from your problems!"

He opened a portal. A special power royalties possess. It was the brightest yellow and the air from the other side was trying to suck everything into my room. It was as large as Rey that only he could fit in. No one knew where this other part goes through, it looked like a deep black pit. I hope it just goes back to the palace. I looked at his interface and it says….Dalum. No, not Dalum!

"Rèal! You're NOT going there!"

"I have no choice. You wouldn't help me. I have nowhere to go. One last favor, Brie, if you're still my friend and family, don't tell them where I will be." Then, in a blink, he went in and he and the portal disappeared. At the same moment, my door blasted right at me, which sent me flying to the side of the room unconscious.