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 stare at my laptop with blurry eyes as the mess I just made mocks me from the screen.

I have been working on a design for the past twenty hours for an Italian art museum but I accidentally hit delete instead of save and now I feel like crying, screaming and then tossing the laptop out;— but I know I need to calm down and somehow try to retrieve my auto saves and maybe continue from there.

With a small woosh of air, I puff my cheeks out and scrunch my nose in a bid to stop the tears that threaten to flow any moment now.

I've always been a sort of a cry baby, if things don't go well for me the first thing that happens is being teary eyed, when upset I feel like crying, sad or happy, I tend to cry but anger and panic are the emotions that almost always send my tear ducts into a frenzy.

My phone rings before I lean over to start typing up the name of the document I just deleted and I welcome the unbidden and temporary reprieve.

Chapter sixty nine