The market was busy as always with vendors calling in customers while shoppers bargained for items. The noise and crowd was so lively and energetic. It was a huge place that sold everything from food to accessories. People there consisted of locals and traders or merchants from different places, they often came to our kingdom right before festivals or other big occasions to sell interesting goods from around the world.
I was looking at a stall selling beautiful flower hair barrettes. A pink one caught my eye, as I was about to pick it up Monty took it from my hand and carefully placed it on my hair. Sliding it above my ear to put my long light brown hair aside which was falling onto my face. My hair's length was right above my elbow and it had copper accents to it.
"Your beautiful face keeps getting covered." he smiled as he stared at my face. Instantly my face felt warm.
I remembered the time when he picked up a pink orchid in the garden while we were playing and placed it above my ear, that was the first time he showed his sweet side. Since then he secretly leaves flowers at my door. Now, he leaves it in my room. I have a base full of different pink flowers from him.
"Let's go." he called, grabbing my hand and leading me through the crowd
"This is a new store that had just opened today, I thought you would like something inside." he said, stopping in front of a small but fancy looking shop full of beautiful items displayed on the glass window
"Wait, did we already pay for this?" I asked pointing at the flower barrette on my hair
"No, I forgot to."
"What? We need to get back there and pay the poor vendor." I said dragging his hand back to where we came from but he didn't moved and just held onto my hand
"It's already paid for, silly!" he exclaimed as he was suppressing his laughter
I could only stop and look at him with tearful eyes
"You lied to me." I felt embarrassed
"That's what you get for daydreaming when you're with me." he said tapping the point of my nose then he hugged me tightly "Stop crying, you're like a baby" and kissed the top of my head
"You're so mean." but I was already hugging him back
"What were you even daydreaming about?" he asked as we both let go. He was now holding both my hands and kissing them
"Nothing." I answered cheekily, I still felt embarrassed and wanted to tease him a bit
"I guess it was important, seeing you got very distracted while you're with me." I heard a crack in his voice as he said those words and that made me feel bad. He lowered his eyes and let go of my hand
"I was thin-"
I was explaining when the door to the shop opened and an elegant young woman came out to greet us.
"Welcome! We're open! Come in! Come in!" she cheerfully said and gestured us to go inside
I'll just tell him later, I thought as we both entered the shop. It was filled with different kinds of things, from clothes to bags, make-up and shoes and many more. I was so happy that I wasn't able to contain my joy. I hurriedly went to check on the dresses as Monty quietly followed. He wasn't looking at me and was clearly avoiding eye contact.
Oh well, he wouldn't be able to get mad at me for long. I thought to myself. A few minutes passed and I was holding a handful of dresses to show him but when I turned to him, he was sitting beside the young woman who greeted us earlier and was laughing. Seeing this I wasn't able to hold my anger and exploded. I immediately dropped everything I was holding and stormed off. I left the store without looking back. I don't know if the dresses fell onto the floor or what, I just simply didn't care. I was too angry to care.
I hastily stormed back to the castle while Monty was running behind me, I was too mad to stop and I didn't want to because I might erupt and let it all out on him. It might make things worse, I thought.
I passed my mother without greeting her as she was descending the stairs. I could hear her asking Monty what happened as I entered my room but I wasn't able to hear his answer and just threw my door shut as loud as I could.
I planned a romantic day for the two of us but it ended in utter chaos. I didn't even bother changing and just stayed in bed the moment I laid on it. I pretended to be asleep when they called me out for dinner. My mother came to check on me but I just said that I wasn't feeling well, refusing to open the door until she left. I got over a dozen calls I think from maybe my cousin, mother and Monty but didn't answer even one of them. I just cried in silence the entire night.
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The next day, I didn't leave my room and just stayed in bed. I had called to cancel all my appointments and classes for the next two days. I left a message on my door saying
"DO NOT DISTURB!"
Again, everyone was knocking on my door or calling me but I just told them to leave me alone. I know it wasn't such a big deal but that was the worst fight we ever had and we don't even get to have time alone that often. I guess I was childish but I got hurt and I don't know how to handle it aside from staying in my room.
It was late afternoon,
I had no choice but to leave my bed to go to the bathroom, it was just within my chambers adjacent to my closet. I was rushing over when a piece of paper suddenly slide from under the door
"I'M SORRY" was written on it then another one saying "PLEASE TALK TO ME" and another one "WE'RE ALL WORRIED" lastly, "SPECIALLY ME".