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 and I are yet to talk about the kiss that happened

After a long awkward moment after I got into the tub, he stood there for a moment, eyes trying to focus on anything ahead of him before he let out a small sigh and asked me not to get out of the tub till he was back.

The time he spend away from the bathroom I now came to realize was the time he used to strip my bed bare and replace the sheets with new ones. He also changed my black comforter with a plush grey one from the closet.

He helped towel dry my hair and pick out a comfortable outfit for me as well.

I am now sitting on bed trying to chain my wild thoughts. I don't know how to feel realizing how easy River takes everything that pertains taking care of me.

chapter forty five