Eline_huntsmith

River and Lily have been, or rather had been, friends for almost all their lives until a one nightstand ruined any semblance of a friendship between them.

Lily would strongly like to blame the fact that she was foolish on that night and River, well, he doesn't look like he has a lot to say or think about the night in question.

Now, four years down the line, after one isolating the other and another still being bitter hurt over the events that succeeded that particular night, Lily is called in for a royal favor.

With River's coronation as king drawing near, she has to keep his rather, messy, to be lightly put, record on a clean squeaky plate. How to do that you ask? Well, obviously by avoiding him and being professional to a fault.

But the ignorant blind fool doesn't get the memo. In fact, to her, it looks like River is doing anything other than being professional and distant.

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"I was going to ruin you!" he shouts in exasperation and I eye him for a moment, watching his chest rise and fall rapidly until he calms down.

"I was already ruined. I fail to see any sort of damage that could have outdone what I've gone through." I shrug and pick up my folder from the bed.

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Lily has no much to think about during the summer but if there's something she's certain of, it's that she is not ready to be the reason River's crown topples off his head no matter how much he wants to be the problem in her course.

Another Royal Frog

I have tried and failed so many times to see everything in  just plain white and black.


My overthinking problem is what I'm trying to fight as I watch River and Melanie Reynolds talk over a few drinks before the event starts.


I'm also a little spiteful and mad because he didn't acknowledge my presence since I got here thirty minutes ago.


River might seem friendly and nice when the two of us are together but I've never understood his need to always isolate me in public or when his friends are around.


Even when we were younger, he either made plans with his friends and ditched me or honored his plans with me and ditched his friends. We never ever mixed.


I had managed to convince myself that he was trying to protect me. Afterall, I had ran into his friends a couple of times and I didn't like them as much, but now, watching how he desperately tries to distance me from him, I feel like I should get the message. 


chapter twenty