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 can't tell from what exactly but she is and she can not meet my gaze since the moment we walked out of my parents' place.

"Did my mom say something?" She jumps slightly from my voice and I narrow my eyes at the flinch.

"Uh," she stops fidgeting on her seat and turns to me, eyeing the privacy screen between us and the driver and my personal guard. "Do you have to go to the office today?" She asks in a very shy low voice and I furrow my eyebrows in confusion.

"I have a few bills to go through and a spee-"

"Are they urgent?" She cuts me off, voice still shy but with a little bit more spark to it.

"Not really." I decide, if she is on to something I want to be a part of it.

She gives me a small dazzling smile before reaching forward to take my hand in hers.

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