Hani waved her hand trying to see if xander was lost looking at her but she was wrong.
He made a blink and she realised he was serious. Madly serious!.
" Your highness?" She blinked. " Are you not going to try the meal?" She asked innocently.
Xander raised his fist and pounced it on the table and the spoon resting on the tray fell.
Hani looked over at the direction of the noise and turned to look at him.
" Are sure you're okay, Your highness?" She asked.
" Scold yourself" He said, glaring at her.
" Scold myself?. How?." She asked and he got mute for another few seconds.
" You seem quiet. Are you thirsty?. Will water do?" She asked and without hearing his next response, she ran to pick his cup of water from the table.
She walked back clumsily and gave it to him.
Xander was still glaring at her and hani pulled the cup lid towards to his lip teasingly.
" Drink it up, Your highness." She smiled, teasing him playfully.
In the next minute, Xander picked the cup from her and threw it to the corner of the room, making it smash there.
Hani gasped in shock. The Prince stood up and she realised she was the height of an ant compared to him.
" Did they not to tell you who I am before you jumped in here to serve me??!!!" He thundered.
" But you've already introduced yourself to me" She said, her lips trembling with fear.
" Look here. Do you want to die?" He asked, pointing his finger at her.
" I'm as dead as you already" She chuckled and Xander paused, his veins popping at the corner of his head.
He suddenly picked her neck from behind and dipped her face into the hot porridge meal she had brought for him.
Hani struggled effortlessly for few seconds until he finally released her, her face burning and itching.
" Your highness" She sobbed, her face burning redly.
" Take this trash!!" He spat, pushing the tray away and the plate crashed. The food scattered all over.
" My face, Oh my God." She sobbed hardly unable to feel it with her fingers.
" Pack the plates and call the maids to come clean this place up in the next 0.1 seconds. Pack of Bull shit!" He spat and walked out of the room irritatingly.
Hani blindly squatted and searched for the broken pieces with her fingertips.
She took up the tray and started to leave. Her toes incidentally stepped on one of the broken pieces and it bled quickly.
" Ahh. Oh No!. My leg!!" She winced.
She started to hop on her other foot until she was finally out of the room.
Salome, A fellow teenage maid was walking by and she saw hani in her horrible state.
" Hani!!" She ran up to her. They were both the youngest maid in the palace so they'd become friends quickly.
" Salome?. Is that you?" Hani asked blindly.
" Yes, Yes!. What happened to your face? And your feet is bleeding!" Salome gasped.
" The Prince" Hani wept, forming a cute pout.
" Oh no..." Salome sighed in realisation. " Did you upset him?"
" I don't just know. I thought he was hungry. I didn't know he was mad at me. He was so mean to me" She sobbed.
Salome took the tray from her.
" Come, it's okay. let's visit the fountain. I'll wash your face and your bleeding foot there" Salome said and led her away carefully.
Vivian walked out of the palace kitchen and met traces of blood everywhere.
She traced it and realised it began from the crowned Prince bed room.
" Hani??." She gasped. " Hani!!!!" She screamed and started to search around for her.
***
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The Royal Knights were all gathered in four lines as they listened to the king official as he spoke in loud volume.
He was walking in slow steps and finally walked up to Ian and stopped, glaring at him.
" You were always sneaking out to meet the crowned princess, isn't it?. Tell me, how many times have you taken her to bed?" He scoffed.
Ian gulped in and looked down.
" Yes, I did sneak out to meet her, but I'm pure. I didn't touch her" He said.
" How can you even spit out a lie?" He asked and Ian raised his head to look at her
" I am saying the truth. I've never touched her or any girl. I swear" He said with furrowed brows.
The official sighed and walked behind him.
" You've been going against my orders for too long now. The Knight are not meant to have any external relationships"
" I know that" He said.
" So why did you go against me and leave your court towards her room?" The officials asked.
" Excuse me!!" The princess shouted from the gate and everyone turned their direction towards her.
The guard opened the gate immediately and she held up her dress, walking in gently.
She stopped in front of the officials and raised her hand, giving him a hot slap.
Gasp
Bloody NO!!
Did she just f*cking raise her hand at the officials ?
There was murmuring. Ian eyes thinned immediately she did it.
" Don't you ever talk that way to Ian!. Did you suddenly loose your guts?" She yelled.
" I'm sorry my princess. But the king ordered that the Knight are not meant to go into any dating for now"
" Keep your rules to yourself!" The princess spat.
" I am not violating the rules" Ian said they both looked at him. " I am not dating the princess, neither am I befriending her as well." He said.
" But Ian?" Her voice went soft as she walked close to him.
" Don't cause confusion here, princess Aurora. I don't have any relationship with you aside you being the crowned princess" He said.
Aurora looked at him and hate grew in her eyes.
" You just disgraced me infront of everyone. How awful of you!. I just hate you so much now!!" She spat and turned around, walking out of there quickly.
The gate was closed and the officials turned to Ian.
" You'll still be punished for leaving the gate at those night and disobeying my orders" He said and continued to walk around.
" Today boys, you'll be fighting against three most powerful guards. And I am picking Ian as a representative. Ian, Come out" He said and Ian stepped out carefully.
" I don't care how you'll do it but you must fight three guards at once, if your sword fall, I'll disqualify you from being here" He said and the crowd gasped.
Ian swallowed in hardly but he didn't look scared by his word.
He picked up his sword and The three other guards did the same, rushing to attack him instantly.
He quickly used his sword skillfully and the official was surprised by his delinquent moves.
He threw their swords away in one snap and he was finally done.
" Impressive" The official smirked with envy. " How about this?. Fight with your eyes closed this time" He said wickedly.
" With my eyes closed?. But I.."
" Hush. Don't say a word. if you can't do it, you can drop your sword and leave permanently" He said.
" Fine. I'll.. I'll try" He said and took in a whiff of breath courageously.
His eyes were firmly tied and he had to face one of his fellow opponent in fighting.
Before they could even began, His opponent struck his arm and he began to bleed there profusely.
Ian held his bleeding arm but still continued to fight aimlessly. He held firmly to his sword to avoid it falling.
He fought recklessly and then finally, his opponent sword fell.
Ian took off his eye gloves and threw the sword into the sand like a spade.
" I'm moving to the nurse, you'll pay for my treatment" He spat and walked out, holding his bleeding arm.
***
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Salome stopped in her track and felt something move in her stomach.
She held her tummy and noticed it.
" Oh no, it's happening again" She panicked and ran to a nearby wall, throwing up there hugely.
She cleaned her mouth and looked around and found Queen Lisa approaching her. She had seen the scene so she kept to herself.
" Your highness" She bowed fearfully and Queen Lisa thinned her eyes.
" Have you seen your period this month?" Queen Lisa asked.
" Not yet ma"
" And last month?"
" I haven't. Not...Yet" She bowed.
" How old are you?" She furthered and salome swallowed.
" I'm seventeen" She mumbled.
Queen Lisa checked her temperature and stepped back, glaring at her.
" Who have you met?" She asked and salome began to tremble in fear. Her heart thumping hard.
" Prince Xander did it. He was drunk at that night and I was on duty, your majesty" She bowed again.
Queen Lisa sighed and shaked her heads in disappointment.
" Terminate it as fast as possible. Do you hear me?"
" Yes, ma. I'll do that" She nodded and Queen Lisa walked away, hissing loudly.
Salome looked up and saw Xander walking down the corridor and she turned to her back quickly.
When he left, she smiled and looked at her tummy.
" Mn. Why would I think of terminating the crown Prince baby. This is an opportunity for me to step out of the maids arena and become the future queen" She scoffed.
She saw Xander returning back and she took to her heels quickly.
***
>>NURSERY<<
Ian looked up and instead of seeing the nurse, he was seeing the adorable girl from earlier.
Hani was holding the big medical box, smiling widely at him as she approached him.
" Hani?" He blinked.
" Oh, Ian!!." She waved with a cheeky smile.
" Are you the new nurse?" He asked.
" Oh no, no. The nurse is out and Vivian told me to treat you instead" She smiled and her gaze dropped at his bleeding arm.
" Oh no!, You're the victim" She gasped, seeing his arm soak terribly.
Ian palmed the horrible view and looked at her.
" I..I..don't think you can take care of this. The view is not quite something you should handle" He said
" I..I..can try. I promise" She said and dropped her medical box on the chair next to him.
He sighed and rolled up his robe sleeves, showing off his perfect triceps and hani hadn't seen something like that before.
It was her first time seeing a guy's arm uncovered and it looked priceless in her round eyes.
Instead of his wound, she was staring at his arm.
" Just be careful, Okay?" He asked and she looked at him, nodding quickly.
She picked a tissue and started to dot on the spot softly and Ian had to look at her.
" You can add a little energy on it" He said.
" Okay" She smiled.
Vivian wanted to walk in but she stopped in her track the moment when she saw them together.
Seeing them together made her head flash into something different entirely.
She smiled and stood aside, watching them closely.
" Does it hurt?" Hani looked at him.
" A little bit" He said and let out a deep groan, causing her to look at him.
That sound felt so handsome!
She covered up his wound quickly with a bandage and Ian suddenly looked at her as she busied herself.
He didn't know why but she seemed interesting.
" How did you come into the palace?. What made you come here?" He asked and she stopped to look at him.
" I stole" She pouted.
" Oh." He grinned his lower teeth and looked at his arm. " Anyways, Thanks for helping me treat my wound. i really appreciate"
" It's fine. If you need my help, I'm always here" She said, forming her hands into a love shape.
Ian smiled and hugged her around warmly, making sure she felt that warmness of hugging a guy.
Hani hadn't felt something like this. It was her first hugging him and her heart was misbehaving.
Ian looked up and saw Vivian coming and he quickly left hold of her, standing up like he was personally electrocuted.
" Um..." He cleared his throat. " I..I..have to go practice now, hani. Bye" He said and started to leave.
" But you can't go with an injured arm?" Hani said, standing up.
" You heard her right. She still wants you around so you can heal up" Vivian smirked teasingly.
" F*ck!" Ian gritted, stitching his eyes close.