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

The air in my hospital room is stale with tension. I remain silent as the man before me looks unsure of himself.

My father and I really never had anything to talk about even when I was young. I doubted I existed to him even then.

He might look put together with a snazzy blueberry colored suit but we both know the ugly truth of what he really is.

I still struggle to see how I once thought he was only doing his best to make us happy when he was actually just being dismissive all along. He didn't care whether we fed, had a roof over our head or even kept the little respect we had running down from my mom's side of the family, he tore everything down with his numerous affairs.

I wasn't even sure if Max was the only one when he was still with my mom.

Anything that happened after he left was really none of my business and any other business he may have had in that time span was also not my problem.

chapter forty