03.

Nathaniel's POV

I stormed into the shower and looked into the large clear mirror, examining my face. Luckily, the slap was not that hard so it didn't leave any bruise or mark for that matter, just a slight tint of red. I have to calm down, I can't let him be happy at my annoyance. I initially closed my eye, thinking about my mother and how she would have kissed my forehead, and that alone made me calmer but also down.

God, I miss her so much!

By now you must know that my father and I don't have a good relationship at all. And you probably heard about Nathalie, my older sister which is now 26 years old who never comes around so I visit her in Tokyo. I invited her to the ball tonight which I have to get ready for so I took a shower and dried myself off with a white towel. I put on my underwear and went to my room where the maids were getting ready to put on my royal uniform.

After they fully dressed me, one of them which I don't know informed me that the Princes were waiting for me in the throne room, so I walked to the throne room where my four friends were.

"Nathaniel," they greeted one by one.

"Hey, guys. What are you all doing here?" I asked them taking a seat at the foot of the throne and they joined me sitting down too.

"I came here to find out what happened with you and the princess last night," Leonidas was the first to speak. He was my best friend, he was the Prince of Greece and he had orange hair with hazel eyes.

"Me too," said Carter, who was now the King of Toronto. 

"I just came to find out how to get this Princess of Ireland," Allen of Jamaica said. "And to find out what happened between you and Maria," he added.

"I came to find out pretty much about nothing at all. I just don't want to travel when it's time for zhe ball," Francisco of, well, France said with his slight accent.

"So," Carter said scratching his brown hair. "What happened with you and Princess Maria last night?"

"Yeah guys," I started slowly. "I don't remember a thing," I informed them truthfully.

"Bomber huh," Francisco laughed pinching Leonidas' hair.

"Ah man, I came here for nothing?" he cursed snapping his fingers.

"So did I," Carter said rolling his eyes and I did the same to him rolling my green grey ones.

"Well I didn't," Francisco laughed. Carter and Leonidas gave him an eye and he stopped and straightened up clearing his throat. I chuckled knowing that they would probably beat his arse.

"So guys. Let's get ready for today's events. We have a lot of greeting, smiling, and charming to do," I clapped hands together once and they nodded.

Kitanya's POV.

"109 papers done," I sang placing down the last paper.

I had to sign that amount of papers today for a fundraiser thing that I sponsored. God, my hand hurts from so much writing. I need a break from being a princess. Period!

My phone rang and I looked at the I.D. caller. Kensington?

"What does he want?" I said answering the phone and putting it on speaker. "What?" I said angrily letting him know that I was not excited about his call.

"I called to let you know it took hours to fix my nose and your paying," he informed me miserably.

Paying for my foot! 

"Well good, it could have taken months. Or years. I hope the next girl you ask to lose weight from their backside does far worse than I did. I really thought that you were just very confident about yourself but you're just a self-centered conceited monster!" I yelled on the phone and hang up hastily recalling why I had punched him a few days ago.

The man had the nerve to look at me and tell me directly that my thighs were too big and if I'm not tall and skinny enough, it would ruin his public image. Well excuse me for not being the Bambi Baekhyun sings about.

I miserably sighed before I got up from the throne just as my mother entered the room smiling in her red floral dress.

"Are you finished with these, Dear?" she asked taking up the papers neatly. I replied with a lazy nod and she smiled hugging them close to her chest. "Good," she said.

"Christine," she called out. Soon Christine hurried into the room. "Send these to their respective posts will you?" she said handing her the papers. Christine bowed and left the throne room in a hurry. 

"Honey we are going dress fitting," mom clapped full of excitement.

"Ughhhhhhh," I growled as she pulled me out of the room all the way to the royal limousine.

"Get in, get in, Darling," she literally pushed me in after Frederick opened the door and got in herself.

*****

At the mall, mom made me try on millions of dresses before letting me choose a purple pumpkin dress with silver around the edges and all over it while she chooses a bright yellow floor-length dress.

I initially wanted to go with something black and not elegant because as I said, I don't want to stand out or get noticed at all.

"Darling we leave in an hour," mother sang coming into my room.

"I know mom," I replied nonchalantly while Christine braids my golden hair.

"No time to waste sweety now see you in an hour," she said walking away.

"Why is she so happy about going to the Royal Castle of England?" I asked Christine as she finished my hair.

"I don't know. I would be happy if I were going to the Royal Castle of England," she said putting away the brush.

"Let's just hope it changes my life in a good way," I said after a long sigh.