Prince's POV
"My prince, the Queen seeks your presence" one of the maids said to me while batting her eyelashes. I rolled my eyes at her attempt to seduce me. These wannabes never tire at trying their luck with someone in a higher rank.
I nodded and dismissed her from my room. I am Prince Kenneth Paige Junior or the soon to be King Kenneth Paige the twelfth in a few years to come, son of the current King of the Western Kingdom. I am about going back to college. I attend a science and technology university in the South of our beautiful country situated in Africa.
The South is more like the metropolitan area. It is a place where all kinds of people are found. All kinds of races mix up and everybody minds their business. However, this place is not so convenient for my kind.
We sort of feel restricted from living the life we ought to live. I've been living in the South for a year now but I still don't get used to it. Me and my childhood friends Tom and Mal have been going to the same University. I very much miss my home. The West of the country.
I miss the excellent atmosphere that our small savanna area gives us. I miss the jagged cliffs of the hills in the horizon, especially when the sun is about setting where there is an array of colors ranging from crimson, gold, bluish purple and greenish hue, emanating from the grasslands especially when we have the wet monsoons.
I strode out of my suite towards her chambers. As I am now nineteen and doing my second year my mother, the Queen troubles me a lot with talks of "the right one". I know that being summoned to her chambers at this moment in the evening means lecture time.
I bowed to her slightly and she hugged me. She isn't much after the strict formalities when it comes to her family. "Nkem, how are you my son?" she asks. "I'm doing good mom. How are you doing this beautiful evening?" I ask back.
"Sad son! You will be leaving for another year. It's boring when you not around. (Sigh!) I wish I had a daughter!" mom said. "Mom! Aren't you happy that you have two very handsome boys?" I said pouting and making a sad face.
"Oh come on Ken, you know very well that you and Dev are my joy and pride. That doesn't mean I still don't wish I had had a third one, a girl!" mom said.
I could tell that behind all the elegance and glitz and glamor in the castle and all the expensive and comfortable stuff she had, her longing was deep. I couldn't imagine being the only boy amongst women.
I could now understand why mother is always bringing up the issue of my mate, my woman. I felt irritable every time she brings it up because, it's very uncomfortable for me to have to talk about girls and my sexual interests with mother, oh gosh!
I strolled out of the castle to take a walk after her short lecture. The castle dates back to the medieval period as it has centuries in existence. It is so refreshing to look at it from the hill tops. Curved with quarry stones and roofed with oven baked clay tiles, you would expect to see the same classic look on the inside but the inside screams modern Era. Every king has had an opportunity to change the interior to their liking.
I guess I'm gonna have to do the same. With the help of my queen of course. This is the subject which I haven't allowed myself to think about and muse over.. I have never been in love, even the simple teenage infatuation. I concentrated on developing my physique, training well to prove myself worthy to become the next King.
I spent a year in the South already but I haven't even come across anyone that interesting enough to steal my heart. My mother brings up arrangements of meeting princesses from other kingdoms but I'm not into that. I really would prefer finding love by myself.
In the south, I live like a commoner, I do not want to cause unnecessary attention to myself, which could mean the ladies would flock around me and I just might make the wrong choice. However, I surely look forward to falling in love on my own, not some arrangement.
A week later, I was in my dormitory at the University with Mal and Tom. A sudden urge that was driving me nuts sent me to the student mall. My head snapped to the left and there she was. The most gorgeous girl I've ever seen. Light skin tone. 'A perfect match for my dark tone.' I thought to myself as I found it difficult to peel my eyes off of hers. I was seriously and unashamedly drooling over this damsel's dreamy brown eyes, curly neck length black hair, curvaceous body with perked breasts. Her lips were screaming for me to kiss them.
Tom nudged me. "Man, stop ogling, you are making her shy." I heard him but I really didn't care. My feet confidently carried me to where she was with all the "Prince" in me attitude. I was going in for a kill. This is the first girl who has ever fancied my interest. "HI!" I said to her.