"Ha! Got your last sausage!" Stephen smirked as he stuffed down the last piece of sausage on my plate.
"You- You!" Furious I started to wrestle with him in the middle of the kitchen
"Theo! Stephen! What's the meaning of this?!" Beatrice lousy spoke upon entering the kitchen.
"He started it!" Stephen huffed as he pointed at me
"What?! You took my last sausage!" I pouted
Beatrice sighed, "This is stupid." She said rubbing her temples in annoyance.
Me and Stephen glared at each other before I started to walk out first, well actually more like stomp out first.
I plopped on my bed face first and started to punch at my pillow in anger until mother came in.
"Hun! Great news!" Mother said as she burst into the room
I turned only my head towards her and father
"What is it dear?" My father calmly questioned now looking up from the newspaper that was in his hand
"I got accepted to be a maid in the Estoucan royal palace!~" she cupped her face with both of her hands
"The Estoucan Kingdom?" Father said shocked closing the newspaper
She was already looking for a job as a servant? That was pretty quick.
"After training for so long I can finally put my skills to use!~" mother danced though the living room
Wait-
My eyes widened as I realized what my mother had just said. I sat up, "Wait! Does that mean you'll make more money?" I said with hope in my eyes
"Of course~ working as a royal maid will surely make us wealthy in no time!" She said with glee
My eyes sparkled as I thought about all the things we could be able to buy with all the wealth.
"They said I can start working tomorrow, so it seems like we'll have to move get moving today." Mother said with her hand in a fist placed on her mouth
"I'll have to talk about the extra nights we payed for to the front desk." She added with a smile
"Alright kids, you heard your mother go pack your things." Father said getting up from the couch
We all started to pack quickly until I realized that Marius still doesn't know that I'm leaving today.
"Theo? Where are you going?" My mother called to me
"I have something I have to do!" I quickly replied as I headed out
Wait. He is probably busying helping Lady Beckett right now.. why did I even run out?
I sighed, maybe I could give him something as an gift plus an apology for not saying goodbye to him face to face. Well it was kinda on short notice..
My face lit up when I had an idea of what I could give him. I hurried back up stairs and searched though my luggage.
Soon enough I found a small wooden polished figure of a cat in a sitting position.
Believe it or not I actually made this myself! My first ever wood carving project~ it might not look the best but this is probably the most valuable thing I own..
I grabbed a piece of paper on a nearby table and picked up my fountain pen from my bag and began to write.
"Marius,
Sorry, I couldn't say goodbye to you personally. I know you are busy so I'll keep this short as possible, I am moving to the Estoucan kingdom due to some family circumstances. I don't have much to offer but take this as a apology gift.
-Theo Evans"
I had rushed to finish the letter so it kinda looked like I scribbled some words, anyways! Back to the point!
After finishing I tied the letter to the cat with a red with gold designs ribbon. I carefully place my fountain pen back into my luggage and headed downstairs where my family was already waiting for me.
Before I headed out asked the lady at the front desk to deliver the letter to the Marius if he came to see me. I hurried out and scurried onto the wagon.
"What took you so long?" Beatrice asked looking at me
"Ah.. I had something's to do." I said nervously
"Were you talkin with that noble or something?" Stephen raised an eyebrow
"No, and his name is Marius don't you remember him?!" I frowned
"Marius?!" My mother said stunned
I nodded my head
"Oh, dear I didn't even say hello to him." Mother said disappointed
I shrugged and that where we left it, until we finally made it to The Estoucan Kingdom. By the time we arrived the sun was already setting and there was supposedly be a festival going on around this time.
I was peacefully admiring the silence before I was snapped out of my daze by loud cheerful music plus the sound of commotions from the citizens, the noise was closing in until the wagon finally stopped.
All of us headed out to see a brightly lit town with many decorations hanging all over the place. I glanced around to see children running back and forth and groups of adults crowding around a specific area.
"Now, how exactly are we going to be able to get through.." I turned my attention to mother who was looking around the area
"I think that area doesn't seem too crowded." Beatrice pointed to her left
"Ah! Come on kids we're heading this way." Mother said while heading left
We all followed behind mother until we stopped at a particular house.
Mother mumbled something while pulling out a slip of paper from her pocket, she glanced at the slip before turning to us
"This will be our house for the time being, I registered for a house after I got the job and this was the only vacant house we could afford right now so~." Mother said rubbing her neck
"Come on let's head inside!" She stuck her hand into the mailbox and pulled out a key.
She quickly opened the door and gestured us to come in quickly as well, so we did.
From the looks of it, it really isn't that bad it looks very comfortable the place gives off a warm feeling like our old house!
"It's very nice~" I hummed
"Indeed." Beatrice nodded
"There's 3 bedrooms on the left when you head upstairs, if you want to choose then you'll have to hurried" mother waved her hand
"I call it first!" Stephen said scurrying upstairs
"I'm sec-!" I quickly was interrupted by Beatrice
"Second." She smirked
"Ughhhhn…" I dragged against the wall in defeat
In the end I ended up with the smallest bedroom damn~, surprisingly Stephen didn't choose the biggest room. Whatever! Another benefit to a small room is at least my room is easy the clean, I shrugged.
"Kids come down!" Mother yelled from downstairs
All of us came downstairs each at a slower pace from the last one, haha of
course I was first~.
"Well as you know there's a festival going on outside." Mother smiled
"You should enjoy the festival while you still can!" Father chimed in while handing us some allowance
As soon as we got our allowances we all bolted outside, except for Beatrice of course, she's probably the most mature one heh..
I headed to one of the street sellers who was cooking up some fried fish! I quickly jumped in line and waited for what felt like eternity!..
After finally getting my delicious fried fish, I just ate and wandered around mindlessly probably only paying attention to my fried fish.
After throwing away my garbage I found myself in the town square which was extremely! Overcrowded. I quickly turned back and accidentally bumped into someone pretty hard-
I stumbled but managed to catch myself before I fell but from the looks of it, the person in fount of me wasn't so lucky..
"Ouch.." he groaned
"Ack! I'm so sorry sir!" I said panicked while carefully helping him up
After got up he rubbed his shoulder a bit before he turned to look at me, well actually more like glare..
I met his eyes and just realized who I accidentally bumped into. Lionel, one of the royal princes in this kingdom! I'm goddamn screwed..
"I-I'm sorry!" I hurriedly bowed to him as chills flowed through my spine
… ?
"No worries." He said his face starting to relaxing
He gestured me to get up
"What's.. your name." He hesitantly asked
"Oh! Uh, Theo. Theo Evans!" I stiffened my postures
"Evans..? Are you perhaps the son of Katherine Evans?" He tilted his head
"Yes!" I replied rather quick
"So your mother is the one who was newly recruited to be a maid in the royal palace?" He asked
"Yes, that correct." I nodded
"Hm, alright." Father that he stared at me for a bit before walking away
"Please enjoy at this festival." He said as he walked away
As soon as I saw him leave, I silently sighed to myself.
I thought my life was gonna end! My legs felt like giving out.
I felt like going back until I saw someone selling some blueberry pie, of course I went over waited another eternity and stuffed the damn pie in my mouth.
After heading home I felt really sick.
I should've not eaten that pie… and let alone choked it down! Ughh why do I always carry horrible habits! I punched my blanket several times which made my nausea even worse.
I quickly washed up and as soon as I finished I jumped straight onto my bed.
Today was pretty exhausting, I wonder if Marius got the letter. I hope he isn't upset at me for..
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"Then he drifted to sleep"