"Yeah," I said as I remembered that I was knocked out and didn't know what happened to him. I frowned for a quick second before shaking my head. 'I can't think about that. I have to stay strong and hope that Xzan is perfectly fine,' I thought to myself.
My father and mother noticed that I had shook my head. "Sweetie, are you ok?" They both asked me at the same time.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I just hope that Xzan is alright..." I said as I kind of mumbled the last part.
After a while, I had gone to one of my favorite secret spots. I needed to get out of the palace. I can't stand being in a palace for long. I know, weird since I'm a head knight, guard. I just have bad memories of when I used to leave here as I have mentioned before, if I remember correctly since its been a while that I've been able to write in my diary. With that being said, I have found myself talking to myself here and there.
Anyway, my favorite place is a treehouse that my uncle built me when I was younger. I'm honestly shocked that it's still up as the uncle who built it turned against the family for an unknown reason. Though, I'm pretty sure that Sophie comes here, my treehouse, to get away from all of the princess duties and responsibilities. I know I did when I had to go through that. That reminds me, I should come back home with a gift that I had brought back from an adventure that Prince Xzan had gone on and took me. I don't know why I'm writing this or well saying this when I don't even have my diary with me.
I'm just sitting on the balcony or well a branch. I can hear my name being called in the distance in the palace and around the general area of my treehouse. I let out a breath as I just stayed put and as I lay against the tree and look up at the stars. You know, I wish I could just go into the sky and see the stars and feel the clouds. I hope that Xzan gets here soon. I can't be here anymore, but I know if I try to escape, it'll only end up terrible as Hem will try anything to get me back. I don't want to marry Hem.
As soon as I thought of Hem, he appeared. "You thought of me, my princess?" Hem said-asked.
I jumped and almost fall off the branch, but luckily since I'm part cat now, I caught myself and pulled myself up. "Hem!" I yelled, "Were you here the whole time and also in my thoughts?"
Hem let out a chuckle, which gives that he was. "So what if I was?"
I had to think about it as I couldn't think of anything I could do to him without him slashing out and hurting me or my family. "Don't you use your powers to get inside my head ever again. Or I won't marry you."
"You will marry me even if I do it again, if you don't want to get your family hurt or killed, especially your lover Xzan," Hem said in a threatening tone.
I gave him an angry expression and just gave up. I couldn't say or do anything. If I did, Hem could just end up locking me away and keeping me without telling anyone.
Hem found that amusing. "Make that face again and I won't be able to control myself."
I nodded as I didn't want Hem to do anything to me that gave him an actual reason to marrying me.