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 silently turn away from him, trying my level best to rein in my wild thoughts.

I can't indulge thoughts like this. I can't just think to let go and give in to his push about us dating.

He might have mentioned a marriage in the future if things went well between us but I don't want to live in hope of someday.

The chances of things not going right between us are higher than us having a happy ever after.

And it's not even for the lack of the both of us trying everything in our might to make it better.

When I was younger, maybe in high school, being asked countless times by River to be his girlfriend would have been a dream come true.

But even then, I knew we couldn't be serious like him and the numerous heiresses he hang out with.

I had let myself indulge that idea because we were both young, had a whole lot of time before us and we were too juvenile to have anything serious bind us from fulfilling our future when the time came.

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