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

River: I just figured something out

River: Why did you compliment Mia's earrings?

I knit my brows in shock as I reread the text. How does he even remember that?

River: I have this hypothesis that you only compliment any female that is around me because you are jealous

Me: Wow! Someone's getting a little corky

River:So Melanie's dress was also just a compliment?

Feeling flustered I hide my face with my hair despite the fact that he can't see me since he's miles away.

Me: Aren't you supposed to be in a meeting?

I know my diversion is a complete giveaway but I'd rather have him guessing my innocence than admitting to it directly.

"What's got you all smiley?" Eva's voice startles me half to death.

I turn to find her leaning on the wall by the kitchen door and smiling down at me.

chapter twenty six