CHAPTER 2: THE NEWS
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*Alison's pnt of view*
Next morning I woke up, and have breakfast. I was tired but I managed to do some princess stuff.
Next, I went to the garden where I met Lili, we talked for a while and we returned to the palace, because my father required my presence.
*Kidnapper's pnt of view*
There she was. She is my goal, the princess of Rode. All I have to do is kidnap her and bring her to The Boss.
She seems so harmless: why so much stir? Why have they sent the best warrior they have just for her? She doesn’t seem like a great threat, just another spoiled girl who takes for granted that she will have everything she wants forever.
Well, I suppose I don’t have to underestimate her.
I'm watching her from a safe point, where she can't see me. She, Alison I think is her name, is not bad at all, she has long black hair, she is medium height and pretty.
But, I have to focus and do my job, that until new order is to not lose sight of her.
*Alison pnt of view*
Lili and I get to the palace and I go to my parents bedroom to talk to my father, he is the one who leads the palace affairs, when I get there I knock at the door, and my father says: "Come in". I obey and get in the bedroom.
- Sit down - says my father in a low voice
- Ok - I say and sit in the bed
- I have to tell you something, and I need you to not interrupt me
- What is it? - I ask frightened, my father had never told me that phrase, and I know it has to be something very important for him to be like that
- You' re 18 years now, that's means that you can get access to the crown, but only if you have a husband.
I don't know where this is going to get, but I don't like how it goes.
- Your mother and I have been with the high advisers - my father continues- and we have concluded that you need to ascend to the throne soon, before you have more rivals and risk losing it in favor of another family. This means that you are going to need a husband to support you. A royal man.
I'm in shock, I don't know what to say, I don't believe this. This can't be true.
- With that in mind we have decided that the best candidate to be with you on the throne is the prince of Nauru. You are engaged with him.
And then something moves inside me and a yell comes out of me saying:
- WHAAAAT?!
- Yes, Alison, he's the best man to be by your side.
- But dad, he's like thirty years! He is too old for me, and I don't even know him. I'm not in love with him!
- That doesn't matter, girl. You will know him soon.
- I don't want to know him! I don't even want to reign! I'm too young, I'm only eighteen, I can't be queen! - I say yelling and crying. I can't believe that, they want me to marry a man that I don't even know and be the queen of Rode with eighteen years.
- It doesn't matter what you want, it's what you have to do, it's your obligation as a princess
I don't need to listen more, I only need to go away, so I get out of the room, go downstairs and I collide with Lili and fall down. She sees me crying and asks me:
- Why are you crying?
- My father wants to marry me with the prince of Nauru, so I can get to the throne - I answer already crying.
- WHAAAAAT?!
- I can't do that Lili, I don't even know him. I need to go away and scape for now.
- No Alison, you can't go away like that.
- Lili, I'm going to return soon, I only need to think and make up my mind, I will be back tomorrow morning. But, don't tell anyone that I'm gone please
- Ok, I don't tell anyone. - she gives me a kiss in the cheek
- Thank you - and after say that I run away.
I get through the palace door, and into the garden and I run until I get to a bar in the village.
I get in and I sit down and ask the waiter for a vodka.
When I was on my third drink, a boy sits next to me. I look at him, he's dark and handsome. He takes off his leather jacket and I see tattoos that peek under the tank top. He has a tattoo on each arm that reaches from the wrist to the elbow, and because of the lighting of the premises I cannot see what they are. I look at his shoulder, where peeks another tattoo, this is an eagle.
He catches me looking at him, and he looks at me, he looks me up and down and finally in the eyes. At the end he says:
- Hello
- Hello - I answer back
- Bad day? - he asks me looking at the three glasses of vodka that I've already drunk.
- You can say that, yes
- If that's so, I invite to the next round
- Okay - I said only because I'm drunk
He asks the waiter for two vodkas. And he gives me one.
- Sooo, why are you that upset?
- I had an argument with my father
- Aham, and why?
- It's a long story
- Ok, I understand, you don't want to tell me, you just meet me, and you don't even know my name
- Noo, it's not that, it's just that it's complicated. And my name is Alison, by the way. - I don't know why I tell him that. Yes, I don't even know him, but my mouth can't be close.
- It's a beautiful name
- Thank you
We stay in silence while we drink.
Suddenly, I start to feel dizzy. The boy looks at me and asks: "Are you ok?" Then I only see black. And I feel how he takes my in his arms and he starts to walk. Then, I faint.
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