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's place looks a little bit more polished than it did when we came here.

I press the security code he sent me and scan my hand over the biometric screen before the door pulls open to let me in.

I decided not to tell him that I was able to catch an early flight so that I could surprise him.

I take notice of how the place looks a little lived in beside the fact that it lacks any sort of vibrant color and seems painfully clean, nothing seeming out of place.

The curtains are drawn and every gadget in the room is off except for the aircon and ceiling lights that went on the moment I stepped in.

Lagging my small travel bag to the room that River showed me the first time I visited, I fall on to the cosy bed and tuck myself in.

It takes me no time to fall asleep on top of the covers with my feet tucked close to my tummy and body curved inward.

chapter twenty nine