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

Eva stares at me from the other side, eyes wide as she moves her camera to the side in order to look me straight in the eyes.

"You guys are dating?" She confirms after my spiel.

"Yeah," I nod with a shy smile, I try my level best to fight off the blush creeping up my neck. "Well, privately for now."

"Lemme guess whose idea was that," she hums sarcastically before giving me an exaggerated side glare.

With a dranatic roll of my eyes, I dismiss her with a playful glare of my own.

"It's not that big of a deal." I tell her. "If we are both fine with it, it shouldn't be a problem."

"Oh, honey, that man can only dream of you accepting to go public with this. I guess he's only agreeing to this because pushing you to date him in public would mean he doesn't get to have you anymore." She says, a soft expression on her face.

I don't like that she looks at me like that. Like there's so much I need to know but haven't figured out yet.

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