The Diary of Princess Alice

Troubled Alice

Some things come so suddenly.

In the morning, Alice sits on the bed drowsily and is in a daze...

"It seems... as if... my chest is starting to develop? Recently, my chest has been a bit protruding??" Alice slowly reaches her hand towards her chest.

"Um~! Ow~!" A suppressed moan came from between Alice's teeth.

"It's a bit painful... a bit... This... feeling is terrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The first sentence is whispered, and then Alice suddenly shouts loudly.

"Miss, here are today's clothes." Bella suddenly pushes the door open and enters.

"Bella, it seems you forgot to knock." Alice glares at Bella sideways angrily.

Hearing this, Bella exits the room expressionlessly, then closes the door. After that, there is a knock on the door.

Alice covers her face.

"Oh~! Damn it. What have I done? I actually lost my temper with Bella?"

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In the dining room...

"Dear Alice, it seems you have hidden something from me." Duke Eberon says casually while eating breakfast.

"Dear Dad, are you talking about that pastry house?" Alice says weakly while tilting her head, as if she didn't want to mention this matter.

"Of course~"

"Father, can I tell you my thoughts later?" Alice puts down the knife and fork in her hand.

"That won't do. You know, you are only twelve years old. Half a month ago, you borrowed money from your uncle without telling me to open a pastry shop. Let's not talk about whether you can run this pastry shop well. Do you have so much energy to manage the pastry shop? You should now..."

"I should now learn many things and spend a lot of time every day reviewing and completing the tasks assigned by the teachers, right?" Alice interrupted her father's words impatiently.

"Uh..." Eberon looks at his daughter in surprise and then at Donna, who is also surprised.

You know, in Eberon's impression, his daughter is very obedient and sensitive. Especially during heart-to-heart talks between parents like now, Alice never interrupts the other person. But now...

"Alice, oh, dear, did you encounter something that makes you unhappy?" Donna looked at her daughter worriedly.

"No... In the pastry shop, my uncle helped me hire a very excellent pastry chef. And I also invited Doris's mother to help..." Alice slowly tells the story.

"Well, although I am sincerely happy and relieved by your kind act of helping friends like this, you haven't done well enough." Eberon pats Alice's head and then continues, "Have you ever thought about what would happen if Doris's family didn't run that pastry shop well or even suffered losses?"

"It doesn't matter. Even if I lose money, the money I borrowed from my uncle won't make you pay it back. I will earn money and pay it back myself!"

Eberon shook his head, looking at his seemingly sulky daughter.

"Indeed, you may think it doesn't matter. But what will Doris think?" When Eberon says this, Alice's heart skips a beat.

"The pastry shop is managed by you and handed over to them. If they don't run the pastry shop well, you may not blame them or ask them to repay the lost money. But have you thought about it from their perspective? As your friend, if Doris runs the pastry shop into bankruptcy, how will she face you? She had failed the trust of her friends. She is likely to live in self-blame in the future and even have no face to associate with you in the future." Eberon says earnestly.

Alice is silent for a moment and sighs softly.

"Dear Mom and Dad, I have finished eating. I am going to my morning class."

Eberon and Donna watch the dejected Alice leave the dining room.

"Dear, did you say a bit too much just now?" Donna says a bit reproachfully to her husband.

Eberon looked at the place where Alice was sitting just now.

"Although Alice is very intelligent, she is still too young after all. A clever mind cannot make up for the lack of experience... Maybe I shouldn't have said that. I should let her learn a lesson..."

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"Oh~ My goodness! Miss Diana! Look at what you have done!" Doris says helplessly.

At this time, our Miss Alice's head, face, and body are all covered with flour. If Duke Eberon and his wife saw their daughter like this now, they would definitely be very happy. Because since Alice could move freely, she seems to have never made a fool of herself in front of her parents.

"I... I just wanted to help... that's all..." Alice says in a low voice while wiping her face with the back of her hand, not knowing that her own hand was also full of flour. Of course, the little cat had turned into a big cat.

Doris didn't know whether to cry or laugh, looking at Alice covered in flour.

"Let me take you to wash up."

Doris's feelings for Alice are very strange. It is an emotion that she herself can't explain clearly. The first time they met was two years ago when Doris fell into the Emerald River and was awakened by Alice's rescue. When she opened her eyes and saw a girl as beautiful as an angel, although it was their first meeting, Doris felt as if they had known each other for a long time. Alice gave her a very familiar and warm feeling.

Doris is more than a year older than Alice. In normal times, Doris always takes care of and indulges Alice like an older sister. And Alice also enjoys this feeling. Sometimes Alice does many childish things that often make Doris laugh and cry. But when it comes to big things, Alice is and becomes like an older sister to enlighten Doris. Isn't this very contradictory?

Doris thinks Alice is very mysterious. She seems to know many things, such as magic, that Doris has never seen before. You know how surprised Doris was when she saw Alice take out a rabbit from an empty hat for the first time. But sometimes Alice is very childish. Well, very, very childish. She will compete with the children of Doris's neighbor for candy. She also often takes a group of children to steal fruit from Mr. McGee's orchard outside Noah City. It's really strange... It seems that Doris's feelings for Alice are a combination of protection and dependence.

"Honorable Miss Diana, please just sit here. By the way, for everyone's sake, please don't go anywhere." Doris pulls Alice out of the kitchen and makes her sit on the outdoor stall outside the pastry shop in an imperative way.

"Dear, you can't do this. I just want to help..." Alice shakes Doris's hand.

"Let me think. The help you mentioned is... causing more trouble?" Doris pinches Alice's face and says.

"Uh..."

"Okay, Diana. You have already helped me the most by finding such an easy and pleasant job for me and my mother. The affairs of the pastry shop can be handled by me, my mother, and Uncle James, the pastry chef."

"Oh... It seems I am not suitable for making pastries." Alice thinks about her appearance covered in flour just now and smiles helplessly.

"Diana, don't be discouraged. People always have things they are not good at. I don't let you help, not because I blame you for causing more trouble, but because I am protecting you. Dear, you know, your appearance just now was really... very messy. What if you are still in a hurry and get burned by the oven when baking bread?"

"What if you get burned?" Alice looked at Doris worriedly.

"I am not a pampered young lady like you."

"I am not!"

"Okay, okay. I am going to be busy. You sit here obediently. I don't have time to play with you today." Doris waves her hand and turns around and enters the pastry shop.

Yes, the pastry shop has only been open for a week. It is indeed very busy...

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Alice props her face with her hand and looks at the people coming and going on the street.

She is very confused. Although she has told herself again and again that she is now a girl, and she can't go back to her previous life and become a man again. But every time the female characteristics on her body become more and more obvious, she will feel more and more fearful. Yes, fearful, fearful of the unknown.

When Alice learned that her body was starting to develop, she felt panicked and even a bit neurotic. For example, losing her temper with Bella in the morning and arguing with her father during breakfast.

Fortunately, as long as Alice is with Doris, she will temporarily forget those things that bother her. But now she can't help Doris and is "kicked out". When she is free, Alice starts to think wildly again...

The development of her body, her s****l orientation, whether the pastry shop can make a profit...

"Mom, can I have one more apple pie?" A little girl sitting at the next table to Alice begs her mother.

"Dear, although I also want you to have one more, an apple pie costs three copper coins. Oh, ~ Mom only brought five copper coins when she went out today. After buying an apple pie, there are only two copper coins left now. Two copper coins can't buy an apple pie." The loving mother wipes the girl's mouth while touching the girl's head and says.

"Oh~ What a pity..." The girl pouts.

Alice is interrupted from her wild thoughts by the conversation between the mother and daughter.

"Five copper coins... Three copper coins for an apple pie... Two apple pies cost six copper coins... If... If two apple pies are sold together for only five copper coins... It seems that you can also make money." Alice frowns and thinks.

"Bundled promotion?!" A business method that has never appeared in this world but has been overused in Alice's previous life emerges.

"Doris~ Doris~ Hurry up and give me the pastry price list~"

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"Bella, are you saying..." Eberon touches his nose embarrassedly and stands up. Then he winks at his wife and leaves.

Seeing that her husband has left, Donna looks at Bella.

Although she and Eberon have just listened to Bella recount Alice's situation these days, she still asks Bella again, "Bella, are you saying that Alice has started to develop?"

"Yes, madam." Bella says affirmatively, because she is three years older than Alice and has experienced these things before. Coupled with the fact that although she always has a cold face, she is very concerned about her young mistress. So these days, when helping Alice change clothes, she, notices some abnormalities.

"Well... It seems that the little one's abnormality this morning is because of this." Donna smiles softly and then looks at Bella standing beside her. She reaches out and gently takes her hand.

"Bella, although you are Alice's maid, in my opinion, you are more like her older sister. An older sister who is not good at words but cares about her very much. Can you forgive Alice's rudeness to you this morning?"

"Madam, I am not unhappy because Miss lost her temper with me. Please rest assured. I have always liked Miss very much." Bella looks at Donna seriously and says.

Donna looks at Bella, who is serious and smiles happily.

"By the way... Bella, please go to Mr. David, the butler. Ask him to invite the designer who once made clothes for Alice to the castle."