The next morning Anna's parents hassled her to tell her what was going on, but Anna didn't want to worry them so she told, " Oh mother and father it is just a misunderstanding between me and Sly I am sure we can work it out." She went to her room, then someone knocked on the door, she opened it and it was her mother. Lady Mary asked, " Anna can I come in?" Anna replied, " Of course mother sure." Lady Mary entered, " What is wrong Anna I have never seen you like this?" Anna replied, " Maybe you and father were right about Sly and me , we never seem to get rid of these barriers that come between us. Now Sly is Jealous because I danced with Lord William. I am sure you and father never had problems like this."
Lady Mary laughed, " Oh Anna your dad and I always have problems but we always knew how to handle them. But that was not always true at the beginning." Anna came closer to her mother and asked, " What does that mean mother?"
" As I told from before, we met at a party ,but that is not the whole story. After that party we began to court each other or as you say nowadays go dating. It seems that James also liked to go and have fun and not think of his royal obligation, he also told me, " Mary let us live a bit and worry about our duties." Mary was furious with him and said, " I don't mean to ruin your fun James but we have to plan for our future ,you are next in line to be king and all you think about is going to parties. Maybe you are not the man I thought you were." She left angrily.
James did love Mary a lot and plans to marry her, but she doesn't not have to be serious all the time. He lived a spoiled life where everything was handed to him in a silver platter ,but now that he was about to be married he is finding it difficult to follow his obligations. He went to Mary and apologize, " I am sorry honey ,you are right we have to think about our future I promise to become better." Mary hugged him and took his word for it. One day his friends made for him a party ,they called a bachelor party .It was going to be the last party he would go to before he would marry and become king. He didn't tell Marry because he know she would be mad, so he let his friend make him a party.
That night at the party they drank and danced and James was enjoying himself and then a cute girl came to him and gave him a drink , " Care for more?" She asked. He replied, " I am the man of the hour so yes I would." He drank so much he was wasted. The cute girl came up again and gave him a note that said, " Hi I am Laura, meet me upstairs and we can have a good time." upstairs and we can have a good time." At the moment James was so drunk he wasn't even thinking straight. One night with this girl will not hurt anyone would it? He dragged himself upstairs and Laura pushed him on the bed, she thought to herself "He was wasted ,I can take advantage of that." She took out her phone and started taking pictures of them together, she laughed, " This is as easy as taking candy from a kid." She undressed him and moaned," Mary is it you?" Laura laughed, " Ya I can be your Mary or whomever you want me to because I know you filthy rich." They slept together that night and James had thought it was Mary the whole time, " Oh Mary you are so fine and beautiful."
The next day James woke up with a hang over and a major headache and he looked around shocked ,he was not in the castle he was in a bar his shirt was messy and he had no memory of what occurred last night , he closed his eyes and remembered a women kissing and hugging him. Could it be possible that he and Mary made love last night, quickly he dressed himself properly and went to the castle before anyone would realize he wasn't there. When he finally made it to the castle ,he noticed it was so early in the morning and everybody was still asleep. "The coast is clear ,thank god." He whispered, so as not to wake anybody up he went to his room and took a shower, he definitely was drinking last night and the smell of Booz was all over his body. He reached the bathroom and had a shower to wash off the smell of the drinking from last night.
There was a knock of the door, his mother said, " James , Mary is here to see you." Oh great James thought he had to present himself properly so she would not suspect anything . " Coming mother I am just getting ready." He put a fancy clothes and went down stairs to meet Mary, she was beautiful and her hair was long and reached her shoulders and she gave a beautiful smile and held his hand, " Oh James I missed you dearly." She said." I hope you didn't get bothered by the discussion we were having last night about being more responsible." At that moment James wished he listen to her ,then he would have done what he did last night , he cleared his throat and said, " Mary everything you told me is true we should be responsible if we want to get married and have a beautiful future together." Mary smiled and replied, " I am glad you agree."
The next day James woke up with a hang over and a major headache and he looked around shocked ,he was not in the castle he was in a bar his shirt was messy and he had no memory of what occurred last night , he closed his eyes and remembered a women kissing and hugging him. Could it be possible that he and Mary made love last night, quickly he dressed himself properly and went to the castle before anyone would realize he wasn't there. When he finally made it to the castle ,he noticed it was so early in the morning and everybody was still asleep. "The coast is clear ,thank god." He whispered, so as not to wake anybody up he went to his room and took a shower, he definitely was drinking last night and the smell of booz was all over his body. He reached the bathroom and had a shower to wash off the smell of the drinking from last night.
There was a knock of the door, his mother said, " James , Mary is here to see you." Oh great James thought he had to present himself properly so she would not suspect anything . " Coming mother I am just getting ready." He put a fancy clothes and went down stairs to meet Mary, she was beautiful and her hair was long and reached her shoulders and she gave a beautiful smile and held his hand, " Oh James I missed you dearly." She said." I hope you didn't get bothered by the discussion we were having last night about being more responsible." At that moment James wished he listen to her ,then he would have done what he did last night , he cleared his throat and said, " Mary everything you told me is true we should be responsible if we want to get married and have a beautiful future together." Mary smiled and replied, " I am glad you agree."
The days passed and Mary and James were busy planning for their wedding ,but at night James couldn't sleep. The memory of what happened the other night haunted him for many days. Until one day his father called him, he headed to meet him in the courtyard, and to his surprise he saw Laura and beside her were a man and a woman which he presumed to be her parents. The father pointed at him, " This man slept with my daughter!" James's father looked at him in disbelief, " Father I could explain I was in a party and I was drunk." His father said, " That is no excuse and James you know that a prince doesn't act like that! I am very disappointed in you , you are supposed to marry Lady Mary ,don't you love her?" James cried, " Of course I do , she is going to be my wife. What happened with Laura was a mistake ." His father blowed, " Well you have to pay the price for this mistake of your, you have to marry her."
James was crying, " No father I can't I don't love her."
His father began pacing back and forth to find a perfect solution to this. The next day James went down to breakfast to see what punishment he was going to receive for his actions. His father was waiting for him in the study room, He said, " James, my boy come over here." He obeyed his father and listen to what he had to say," I hope you learnt your lesson from this situation." James nodded," Yes father I should be more responsible." His father explained," I paid the girl's family a large sum of money so that they don't tell anyone ,that way there will not be a scandal." James gave a large sigh of relief."Thank you father and I promise I will not disappoint you again." James was about to leave until his father said, " James you need to confront Mary before she hears it from someone else."
James was afraid of that but he knew his father was right, he had to confront Mary before she found out from another source. That afternoon he went to May's house to confront her, they met in the garden of her house. " Oh James I am glad you came, I missed you." She kissed his check," Did you come to start planning for our wedding?" James felt so lost how he was going to tell Mary the truth , but he had to before she found out from someone else, " Mary honey before we make plans I need to tell you something important." Mary looked concerned, " What is it James?' James began to tell her the story of what occurred the other night in the party . Mary was appalled and began to cry, " Oh James how could you I thought you loved me."Mary was very upset so she ran away.
Days had passed and James didn't hear from her and thought to himself, " I had to take action ,I could not leave things this way."
He planned a private dinner just for them and he bought the most expensive flowers and told Mary's mother to bring her to him so as to surprise her. He wore his most finest suit and held the bouquet when Mary entered the room she was amazed at the lengths James did as to make her forgive him. He handed her the bouquet and bend on his knees and said , " Mary I am very sorry the pain I caused you. Please forgive me." Mary held him up and hugged him tightly and said, " I forgive you fool."