After helping with dinner in the kitchen , I join my family to have dinner this time. To my relief Hendrix doesn't join us for dinner after he came back with Scott. Mother tells me news came in that Aria would be here at the end of the week, and I just can't wait to see her.
After dinner I say good night to my family and head to my room to change before going to Brianca's room to read her a bedtime story as I promise, and even though I'm exhausted….. I have to do this for my sister.
On my way back to my room with Billvard and Milford, I get stopped by Scott. Even though I'm three years older than him, he is taller than me, and are those muscles I'm seeing under his tunic…?
"Look who's all grown up, having all these muscles as if being tall is just not enough to woo the ladies", I say with a smile.
"I try my best" he says looking all smug.
"I'm sure you do brother"
"Can I talk with you for a moment"
"Sure let's go to my room then we can talk"
"Lead the way sister" he says with a smile.
We remain silent until we got to my room. He looks around before he says.
"It been a while since I came in here, did you get a bigger bed?"
" well, as you can see I'm not a child anymore so I definitely got a bigger bed dummy"
"Haha, we all know you're the smart one and I'm the good-looking one sister"
"Oh so I'm not good-looking huh"
"You are, but I'm more good-looking" he says with a wink.
"You're insufferable, and now with all those muscles, Priya save us".
"Remember when I use to sneak in here when I had a bad dream when we were little"
"And then we would stay up the whole night playing games till we fall asleep anywhere but in the bed"
"Then the next morning we wouldn't want to wake up no matter how hard mother tries to wake us, because master Fredrick was here for our lessons"
"Mother eventually gives up on waking us up and allows us to sleep, then we wake up at noon and get a great deal of scolding from mother and father"
"Where we promise not to sneak into each other's room but do anyway"
"We were inseparable then, what happened to us" I say and lay on the bed, and Scott follows suite".
"Hmmm, I guess we grew up and had more responsibilities"
"I guess so, but we should still talk often, especially as I would be leaving for boarding school soon".
"I agree"
"You said you wanted to talk, is something bothering you"
"Can't I just want to talk with my sister?"
"I give him the look that mother gives when she wants us to talk, I mean I try to give him the look…?
"If it's mother's look you're trying to give me, you're not doing a good job. You look like have an insect in your eye" he says and laughs.
I hit him playfully before saying, " seriously what's the matter" and I get up. He stays laying down and says….
"Father told me about the decision he and mother made…"
"Yes… about that, I hope you're not offended or angry about their decision"
" No….of course not" he says and raises.
"You are sure..?"
" I am sure, there's no better person to take over father's position than you. Like I said you're the smart one and…"
" you're the good-looking one, I've heard that a million times"
"Haha very funny"
" You promise you're okay with this"
"I swear on goddess Priya"
I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding, I put of talking to Scott about our parent's decision because I was worried he'll be angry about it, but I guess I should have known better.
"I'm so glad you're not mad at me and our parent's for this decision, I was so worried"
"There's nothing to worry about dear sister, I know you'd be great at it and in the horseback riding race next weekend"
" I hope so, but I'll still need you"
" I'm always happy to help dear sister"
" what happened to you, you sound so responsible right now, are you sure you're my brother" I say and laugh.
"Ha ha didn't know you've got jokes sister, being responsible is the last thing I want to do.."
"Why am I not surprised"
"I'm going to miss you when you go off to boarding school" he says sadly.
"I'll miss you too brother" I say and give him a hug.
Oh no I have to go, Brianca is waiting for me to read her a bedtime story, i says and rush out of my room not being able to change my clothes after all.
"Talk to you later" Scott calls.
"Why don't you go with me"
"Maybe next time, I have to talk with father"
"Okay love you"
"Hate you"
I refused to reply but smile as I make way to Brianca's room with my two guards.
I found Brianca sitting on her bed expectantly waiting for me to read her one of her story books.
Her room is painted purple and wine unlike most female children, who loved to paint their room pink or red. Guess she takes after me because I didn't and still don't like the colors pink and red . The things in her room are similar to mine, little difference.
"Sorry I'm late Brianca", I say and kiss her on both cheeks.
"It's okay sister "
"Alright, so what story do you want me to read you"
She picks up a book she had already placed on her bed and hands it over. The title of the book reads, THE LOST PRINCESS.
After tucking Brianca in bed, I open the book and begin to read. The story is about a princess named Ariana, who had very impressive magical powers even as a child. Princess Ariana loved her kingdom and her people loved her too, she swore to use her magical powers to protect the people of her kingdom. Eventually war broken out and her parents had to hide her from their enemies, but the enemies still managed to take Ariana after killing her parents. Her captor put a spell on Aria to prevent her from using her powers and turned her into a maid in their palace. One day Ariana manages to escape from her captor and embarks on a journey to the east to the most powerful healers to lift the curse, she makes friends and alliances, and meets her powerful mate along the line , they became very helpful in her quest to get her kingdom back and went with her to help take her kingdom back from the new evil king, there are many obstacles but she manages to get back her kingdom from the new evil king torturing her people with the help of her friends and mate. And she was crown queen and the people of her kingdom rejoice, the end.
Interesting….I was so into the story I didn't realize Brianca fell asleep. I kiss her good night and head back to my room closing the door gently in other not wake her up.
I enter to find kyrah waiting and ask her to help me out of my clothes and head straight to the bathing chamber and straight into bed after, and the nightmares came in full force.
I wake up with a splitting headache the next morning, after taking my bath and dressing up in my clothes fit for training, i have a quick breakfast and kyrah gets me a tonic for my headache. I try not to think about the nightmare and head to the stables to see brandy, this was the last check up before the race.
The week goes by very fast and my life becomes a routine...wake up with a headache from a nightmare, bath, dress, eat a quick breakfast, head to the stables for brandy and begin to train till I have to head to the kitchen to help with dinner, and skip lunch entirely which has mother and even father complaining, but I've also been able to master the most difficult obstacle in the race so it's worth it and it helps me not to think about my nightmares too much.
After today's routine, I head straight to bed anticipating the arrival of Aria. She's the only one I can talk to about these nightmares, i don't want my mother and father to worry. I can't wait to see her tomorrow, nightmares or not ….tomorrow is going to be great.