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

My mind is so occupied with getting ready for the project that I lose track of everything including my phone which gives me quite a scare when it starts ringing from beside me on the kitchen counter where I'm hunched over my laptop typing furiously.


When I read the caller ID I feel even more flastered. The fact that I forgot about River calling me after the ceremony should also be evidence enough that I was too invested on my work.


"Hello?" I call out quietly, not too sure about how I feel with everything that happened before and during the night.


"You're still awake?" I can hear the frown from his tone and I pull my phone away from my ear to check the time.


"Same as usual. You left before we could talk."


"Something came up," I tell him vaguely, not too sure how to explain everything yet, "Aren't you supposed to be going to sleep?"


chapter twenty one