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 don't know why waking up before Lily makes me somehow glad. Last night went too fast and despite being the best night I've had in a long while, there's no ignoring all the things that could have gone wrong.

I check to see that she is still asleep before slowly getting out of bed and pulling the covers over her exposed form.

The sight of the small hand towel on the floor makes me smile a little. I should have known she wouldn't sleep beside me without cleaning up.

I walk into the bathroom and run a shower before quickly settling on a pair of brown sweats and a black t-shirt. Before walking out I grab a dark green shirt and place it on the side for her to wear when she wakes up.

Just because I'm too stressed to do anything else with myself, I walk into the kitchen and instead of starting on breakfast as I'd planned to, I start pacing anxiously around the kitchen.

chapter thirty one