CHAPTER FIVE

Prince Jordan was inside the moving vehicle, snow stewed at every corner of the road. He squirmed restlessly on his seat.

"Your highness are you alright?" Flipp asked.

"Yes", was his short reply before gulping down the water he was carrying.

"I guess am driving you to the dirty neighborhood?"

"Yes, but do you think am fixated with that neighborhood?"

"No no your highness, I see it as the soon to be king looking around his kingdom."

         "What of the dresses?"

"At the back of the car and I bought you a casual wear too so you won't ask for mine, your highness."

"Ha ha ha ha brilliant, you know....Flipp when we're alone you should call me Jordan and not your highness."

"I...I.. I don't think I can do that."

           "Huh... Why?"

  "Because you are the crown Prince, a royal blood while I'm just your servant, your personal driver to be precise."

        "You're my friend." 

"Royalties and commoners shouldn't be friends."

"Said by who?, were is it ever written huh?, to me everybody is human and since we are all humans we can and should be friends."

      "But y..."

   "That's an order...I order you to be my friend."

Prince Jordan said with a smile while Flipp only chuckled.

  "Anything the prince wants", said Flipp parking on his normal position.

           Prince Jordan after altering his clothes came down, carried the clothes and left. As he walked people steered at him whispering and giggling.

"What an uncomfortable neighborhood", he exclaimed still walking, he came to the building were he met her the previous day but she wasn't there.

"Ahhh....foolish me, I didn't even get the chance to ask her were she lives yesterday", he exclaimed helplessly using his free hand to ruffle his hair but once he stopped, he saw her putting on an apron and serving food to the road side beggars, he only stood watching as she gave the food beaming.

When Scarlett turned she saw him standing there with a sexy smile on his lip, she rolled her eyes, removed the apron, hung it before walking over to him.

"Why are you ogling at me with those goofy eyes, scammer?" She asked with one eye brow up.

"Don't be flattered you are not my type." He blurted making her to roll her eyes again.

       "You wuss!" She exclaimed.

"And to prove am not a scammer, I brought the 30(thirty) dresses I promised you."

He beamed handing the dresses over to her, she sluggishly collected it, opened the bag and her eyes widen.

"This fabrics are so expensive, were did you get the money to buy them?"

"I work." He lied feeling a little guilty but on seeing her happy face his concerns cleared, she happily looked at him.

"Thank you so much I appreciate a lot", she uttered.

"You're welcome puny person."

"Hay...Why would you call me that?" She asked as her lips set in a pout of annoyance making him to chuckle.

"You're so brief", he said laughing as they both started walking.

  "How dare you?, you can't refer someone as brief!" 

"But I just did", he said in-between laughter.

    "What an idler young man!" An old sticky woman called prince Jordan but he was so enthralled in what Scarlet was saying that he didn't hear the woman. As if the woman knew, she picked her bumbershoot and hit it on his head.

"Awuch...that hurts!" He exclaimed rubbing his head.

"I finally cought your attention young idler man!!!" Spat the old woman.

"Idler man..?, how d...."

"Shut up child, be a good boyfriend, carry that heavy load she's carrying, must I teach you everything?"

The old woman said shaking her head as she walked away. The grumpy Prince collect the bag from the giggling Scarlet.

"I can see hitting bumbershoot on peoples head is the habitually of half the people living in this neighborhood", said the prince making Scarlet to giggle more.

              They both walked into an old building serving as home to nursing mothers, widows and orphans.

"Aunty Scarlet!!!" The infants called running to Scarlet, their were about 50 of them and majority looked unhealthy, Scarlet smiled hugging them.

         "Guess what children?"

"What's it Aunt!!?, tell us!!" They screamed jumping happily.

  "I brought new dresses for our moms!!"

"Yeahhhhh!!!!" They screamed louder than before, prince Jordan dropped the bag on the floor and Scarlet started giving the clothes to the children.

"Give it to your moms and tell them I said I will soon find the medicines they need", she beamed.

     "Okay aunty, thank you."

The excited children exclaimed happily while prince Jordan watched as she gave the clothes away beaming every now and then.

"Hello", two girls called out to prince Jordan, they both looked alike, twins.

"Hi darlings", he beamed at them making one of them to blush while the other was looking way too suspicious at him.

         "How old are you two?"

"We are 13", they said and prince Jordan only nodded his head.

"I'm Faith and she's Hope...what's yours?"

"Am Arthur.....I love your names."

"Thanks.....You know you have such beautiful name and handsome face, aunty is so lucky to have you as her boyfriend", Hope said.

    "Is she really lucky?"

Prince Jordan asked with a smirk.

"Actually you are the one who's fortunate or should I say lucky to have her, well.....because she's the most dazzling, kindhearted person you will ever know",

Faith said with her cute smile making prince Jordan to chuckle, then spoke.

  "Let me let you two in on a secret ."

      "We are listening." 

"We are not dating we just met."

"Wow w...hat!!, you're the first boy she has ever brought to the H.F.T.L.P ( home for the less privilege)", Hope exclaimed before Faith added,

"And that's why I told you you were lucky to have her."

Making prince Jordan to almost burst out laughing.

"Come lend us a hand."

Faith said to him as they both dragged him to one of the rooms, it looked really old with different dirty beds and bed sheets, 100(hundred) beds to be precise and lots of toys.