Dinner with the royal family

"I'm sorry!!" She said moving back with tears strolling down her cheeks! Lysander was a bit surprised. Infact everyone was weirded by the facts that she was acting all awkward today !

She stumbled over a rock while moving forward and fell on her bottom but she didn't feel the pain! She was just so shocked she slapped Lysander!

'What is wrong with me? Ever since I woke up from sleep, I've been acting weirdly! What is wrong with me?' She asked in her thoughts.

Lysander read her thoughts and realized that this might be the side effects of the hue of light that had entered her strikingly earlier!! He realized he had to take it a little easy with her!. He wanted to punish her and her family so bad but he relaxed a little!

He untied Xenia slowly and asked them to follow him to his castle afterwards!

"Follow you?" Xenia asked surprised!

"You might be crazy thinking that any of us will follow you back to the dungeon , I repeat, NONE OF US are coming with you! Not after what all you people did to my sister!!!! Right Anastasia?" she asked while staring daggers at Lysander!

*Silence*

"Anastasia?" Xenia called out!

"Yes?"

"You are coming with us right?"

"..."

"Baby....?" Her mother said tilting her head to the left side!

"I'm sorry mother!" Anastasia said apologizing to her family while standing from the ground to her feet!

"Sorry? Sorry for what....baby?" Her mother asked!

"I....I cannot come with you, mother!" She said more tears strolling down her cheeks.

"Why.....?"

"You cannot or you don't want to?" Xenia asked angrily!

"I....I...I don't know!"

"How would you? Haven't you been longing for a time like this? To escape here? What has come over you!! ANASTASIA!!!!"

*SILENCE*

Xenia turned to Lysander!. "You what did you do to my sister? Huh? ANSWER ME, LYSANDER?!!" She slammed her hands against Lysander's chest repeatedly!

"You're hurting him, Xenia!!!" Anastasia said pulling her sister's hands away from Lysander violently!

"Hurting him? What happened to you? Hurting him? Hurting him??? HE HURT YOU, ANASTASIA!!! HE HURT YOUR MOTHER, YOUR BROTHER YOUR LAND!!! ARE YOU OKAY????"

"Yes, I am! And my decision is to stay here in Edgeville, to be with him! I just don't want to go back home!!! I just don't want to...I just....."

"CUT IT OUT!!!! You want to be with your enemy?" Xenia asked walking to her sister!

"No! You're not okay! Your eyes shows that, Anastasia! Something happened to you!!!"

"My eyes?"

"Let's get going, Anastasia!" Lysander's voice was heard!

Xenia and her family looked at Lysander with hatred! He ignored them and just smirked in his head! There was no way they could go out of Edgeville!! They were just spending their time walking!!!

Anastasia walked up to Lysander and held his hands while looking into his eyes! Lysander was a bit taken aback again! Her family tilted their heads in confusion! What was wrong with their daughter? Anastasia walked away from her family hand in hand with Lysander, looking like newlyweds!

Anastasia and Lysander were in the palace now and it was evening already! Lysander had brought her to her room. He was shocked she was acting this way! Were all this the side effects of what happened earlier too?

After he placed her on her bed, he turned to leave! But Anastasia called out to him again!

"I need to bath!" She announced.

"Call the maids for me please!" she begged!

"I can bath you if you want!"

*Silence*

"You do not know how to bath your self and you want to bath me?" she asked.

"I learnt it today in the morning while you were being bathed today!"

"WHAT???? You....saw....me again???"..

"No! Only your chest came into view. Come upstairs for dinner after the maids give you a bath since you won't allow me to!" he said and left.

"Upstairs?" Anastasia was a bit surprised he wanted her to eat upstairs??

'No I cannot go there? I don't want to see Henrietta!!' she thought. But she couldn't disobey the orders of the king she had slapped, so she prepared to bath.

After she got into the bathroom, the maids took care of her. But once she got into the water! She screamed!! The maids looked at each other alarmed!

! "Why did you make the water extra hot?" she yelled at the maid who was equally shocked like the remaining of her colleagues.

"Madam but it's just the normal temperature!"

Anastasia dipped her hands into it and quickly removed it again! The water was so hot against her skin that the maids were looking confused at her reactions! They had to change the water to a cold one before she could take a bath.

The maids prepared her extra special today! Even though they prepared her nicely everyday, they prepared her like the captive she was. Thus, adding nothing special. This time they curled her hair up and tied it into a bun.

They applied extra make up and her dress was extra special! It was a red dress which brightened her fair skin colour. The red dress high thigh slit straight gown had traces of silver glitters in them!

She wanted to feel like a princess tonight! But ever since she woke up, the was something she realized! That she wasn't able to control her emotions any longer like the slap she gave Lysander! And how she screamed at the maids earlier! Was her beatings to that extent?

With the help of the guards, she went to the dinning room. Another spectacular sight to behold! From grand chandeliers to the windows, From the Floorings to the grand luxuriously styled table itself and the goodies arranged on the the grand table!

Anastasia grew nervous when she was nearing the table! She stood at the entrance and gulped down hard! Lysander noticed her presence and called her out to come over the table! Once she came into view, everyone at the table, had doubled attention! She walked elegantly in her clothes to the table and sat by the space near Lysander as she was scared of the royal family.

But the royal family found it rather disrespectful! How dare she sit by their king while there were plenty of seats in abundance? Henrietta's seat was also empty but she ignored it and sat by Lysander?

Anastasia made her self comfortable on her seat and as a sign of respect, she smiled and nodded at the royal family and they greeted her back. She was so uncomfortable when she felt the piercing gaze of Astrid on her. She couldn't help but shudder a little at the sight!

Halfway through the food, someone spoke up!

"So how old are you?"

Anastasia looked up and saw Astrid waiting for an answer while she gulped down some water.

"I.....I....I am twenty, your highness!"

"Are you the last of your siblings?" The Queen asked.

"Yes, your highness!"

"Why did my brother bring you here to eat with us, Captive Anastasia?" Beatrix, another sister of the royal family asked.

"I...I..."

" Have you compelled my brother to go back on his revenge plan?"

"No....!"

"Do you plan to kill Henrietta?"

Anastasia was rendered speechless by their questions! She couldn't help but feel worse than she did before