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

After breaking things off with River I was riding on a roller coaster of emotions.

There were days full of anger and uncalled for outbursts that tended to relieve some of the feelings I had left pent up within me.

Anger, I soon realized, was a guise to avoid acknowledging that what I actually felt was pain at the memory of losing him.

Things were going so well,– almost too well.

Eva has been desperately trying to make me feel better as much as she can. And even though she knows that it's not her job to do so, she insists on it.

I have showed my gratitude for her efforts every chance and second I can.

Without her I feel like I'd be drowning in grief that I wouldn't know how to handle otherwise.

I have avoided any scenario that would put River and I in the same location.

When we were invited to meet his family for a family gathering last weekend, Eva said she was sick so I immediately volunteered to take care of her.

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