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《Bella Thompson》
It was already late in evening when I headed to palace all alone. I couldn't believe that Louis was actually the guy from that bookstore. He gave me too much of money and I felt so bad about it, so I tried to stop him earlier from leaving, but unfortunately, he was too fast for me to catch up.
His handsome face kept flashing inside of my mind, especially his crystal blue eyes...I never seen such beautiful eyes like that in my whole life. I wondered who he really was, since he seemed so much of mysterious since at the airport last night. Even the way he spoke to me, sounded like she was somebody.
Hopefully, I have a chance to meet him again in future, so I could give back the extra money he gave it to me.
"Where have you been, Bella?" Mrs Jacobs asked me worriedly as soon as I entered into her house. "I thought you were lost or something..." she quickly pulled me into a hug. "Have you eaten yet?" she then released the hug.
"I'm sorry, Mrs Jacobs," I quickly apologized. "I went to Mr Smith's shop and something happened to him so I helped him to take care of his cafe,"
"Oh, I heard it, my husband told me about it," she replied. "That was so nice of you to help him. Your mother must be so proud of you."
I smiled, "Thank you, Mrs Jacobs."
"Alright then," she patted my shoulder. "Go clean up yourself first and we'll have dinner together. Stefan will be home shortly."
"Really?" I asked excitedly. "I really can't wait to see him," then swiftly returned to my room to clean up myself as fast as I could.
"Bella!!!" A low voice approached me at the stairs as I just got down there. "It's me Stefan," the tall man with bronze hair introduced himself with a bright smile curved on his lips.
"Oh my God," I went to hug him. "I miss you so much, Stef!" I almost cried in his hug as I finally got a chance to meet him again.
"I miss you too, Bella," he released the hug, holding my shoulders with his hands.
"You're so tall..." I poked gently on his left chest.
"And you look so beautiful, Bella..." he said with a smile, making my cheeks warmed in instant; maybe turned red as tomato, I guess.
"N-nah, I'm not..."I tried to cover my face by turning to the other side.
"Since everyone is here now, let's have dinner together," Mrs Jacobs suggested. "Come Bella, Stef..."
"Sure Mrs Jacobs," I replied her with a smile.
Stefan and I went outside of the house after the dinner, walking around the royal garden while taking the fresh air. I wondered if the prince will be mad at us if we wandering around like this, but Stefan denied it. He said the prince would not mind at all. According to him, the prince lived alone in the palace and his uncle will come visit him two times per month. He said that the prince loved to be alone and some people said that he was anti-social too since he spent most of the time inside of the huge palace.
'Seems like Stefan knows so well with his prince.'
"Anyway, congrats for getting the scholarship," Stefan said along with a warm smile. "I'm so proud of you…" he nudged gently his shoulder against my shoulder. "Now we can be schoolmate, huh,"
I giggled a bit, " I think so…thank you, Stef,"
"No problem," he replied. "Just let me know if you need anything, okay? I'll try my best to help you."
I nodded, "Sure, thanks again, Stef. It means a lot to me."
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Three days left before I have to register myself for the new intake of Royal Academy. I kind of nervous a bit whether I will be acceptable or not at the…well obviously the school is surrounded with the royal and I am just a commoner, so it worried me so much.
By the way, I offered my help to clean the palace as Mrs Jacobs shorted one of the maids for today. She supposed to take care of the sport room where the prince will use it for a few hours as in his schedule.
I rushed towards the room on the east side of the palace and saw two figures in the sport room, practicing the fencing sport with each other with completed fencing sport gears which have different type of colors; black and white.
They were so good with the sport, especially the black gear one as he kept defeating the one who was wearing the white gear.
“Oh finally, you’re here,” the black gear one stopped and seemed glad as he saw me entered the room. “Wait…I haven’t seen you before, are you the new maid here?” he asked, unaware that the white gear one was trying to attack him with the fence.
“Oh come on!” the black gear one complained as the sword of his opponent touched his chest. “You cheated!”
“I win, no I’m not…I caught you off guard, Sam,” the white gear replied, taking a break from the game, but stopped immediately as soon as he turned to face me.
I didn’t see his face as he wore the mask, so I guess he might be the prince. I bowed to him politely and handed him over a mineral bottle for him.
“Where’s my drink…I need one too,” the black gear said to me.
“Oh…I’m so sorry,” quickly took another cold mineral water from the cooler box.
The black gear took off his mask, revealing his handsome face from stay hidden with it. He has a pair of grey eyes with brown hair color which kind of looking a bit wet. “Thanks…” he took the drink from me while curving a smile. “Hey Louis…” he suddenly spoke out the name of the guy I met yesterday, then took a sip from the mineral bottle.
‘Louis?’
“I didn’t know….” The guy with the black gear continued.
But his friend cut him in, “Prince Samuel…” the guy with the white mask suddenly bowed to him. “I’m sorry, sire. I guess she replaced the old maid for today, as a part timer, right Ms Bella?”
‘Wait, how did he know my name?’
‘Don’t tell me he is that Louis…’
‘And yes, he is…’
Louis, the handsome guy who helped me yesterday was the guy behind of the white mask. I really thought he was a prince but I was mistaken.
“W-what are you t-…” I wandered why Prince Samuel, the guy with black mask looked so confused. “Okay…let’s stop here then. I’m starving…assistant Louis, help me take off this gear, please,”
“O-oh…alright then, your Highness,” Louis quickly replied but he sounded a bit hesitate at first. He then walked closer to the prince and helped him took off the gear as requested.
I couldn’t believe that I met him again and the most surprising thing is, he works here too.
Prince Samuel left both of us to the dining hall alone as Louis asked him permission to speak to me for awhile. The two of us then went to the royal garden where the scenery is so breath-taking.
‘It’s so beautiful…and they have so many type of flowers plus the golden-white fountain too, which situated in the middle of the garden, looks so gorgeous.’
I didn’t notice there was a fountain last night as Stefan and I didn’t walk over here instead just walking at the part of the big garden near to his house.
“I didn’t know you work here too, Louis,” I said in disbelief.
“Y-yeah…I work here,” he sounded a bit stuttered. “As umm…part timer. I kind of on leave from school right now,”
“Oh…what school do you go to?” I asked him, hoping that his answer is the same school, which I will be attending in a few days.
“I u-uhh…Royal Academy…” he answered.
“Are you the scholarship student too?” I asked him excitedly.
“U-umm kind of, why? Do you attend the same school too?” His beautiful crystal blue eyes made my heart skipped its beat as he stared at me.
“Yes, I’ll be register in three days for the new intake,” I answered him along with a smile.
“Hey Bells….” Stefan suddenly approached us at the garden. “O-oh…P-pr…” but he couldn’t finished his words as Louis suddenly got up and put his hand around Stefan’s shoulder.
“Hey, Stef…” Louis acted so weirdly I mean….from earlier when both of us with the prince, as if like he was hiding something from me. “Stef…*laughs*…I’m glad that I’m seeing you here.”
“O-oh…hey L-Louis…what’s up,” and Stefan too, responded him weirdly.
“So you knew, Bella too, huh?” he asked.
Stefan nodded, “Y-yes…we were friends since we were kids,”
“O-oh…good for you then,” Louis replied. “Come, the prince needs us…” he suddenly dragged Stefan away along with him. “See you later, Bella. Need to continue with works…bye….” Both of them continue to walk away from me, with Stefan was dragging by Louis, leaving me without I couldn’t even reply him at all.
‘Why is Louis acting so weird all of sudden?’
'He's so mysterious...what is he hiding, anyway?’
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