"I've found you a suitor" The Queen answered.
"What!?" Pearl was astounded.
"What do you mean by you've found me a suitor mother. Were you really serious about me getting married?"
"You can meet him anytime you're ready, he's a guest here in the palace." The queen replied.
"Like hell I'm gonna get married." Pearl said.
"Watch your words Princess Venshati pearl." The queen reprimanded.
Pearl just folded her arms and looked away.
"We are done with tea. You can both take your leave." The queen said.
Rayah got up and walked over to pearl.
"Pearl?"
Pearl didn't make any move to stand up so they could get going.
"Mother says tea is over. We can go now." Rayah talked pearl into standing up.
Pearl stood up angrily and walked ahead of Rayah.
"Does mother think I'll marry just anyone she brought to me?" Pearl said driven mad by what queen Lisa said, she was walking really fast, Rayah almost ran to be able to catch up to her.
"I don't think she's going to force you to really get married to that person if you don't like him." Rayah said but she couldn't help but be curious on who the suitor was.
Rayah had been following pearl trying to calm her down when she realized that they were heading towards the stables.
"Pearl where are you going?" Rayah asked.
"Let's get out of here."replied pearl
"To where?" Rayah asked again.
Pearl stopped and thought about it. She seemed to have calmed down a little bit.
"I don't know maybe anywhere. Let's just go out of the castle." Pearl answered
"Pearl you are not in your right mind, you're mad right now. Your decisions are probably being moved by your anger so let's go back, maybe some other time." Rayah said.
Pearl suddenly smiled at Rayah
"Rah I'm no longer angry, see? I just want to go out."
Rayah stared at her sister to check if she was truly not angry anymore. Rayah sighed
"Fine" she said as in defeat
"Yay" Pearl was happy to hear that Rayah agreed to go out with her.
"Don't you have any place in mind?, how can we just go out like that."
Rayah reasoned out.
"Hmmm." Pearl held her chin while looking at Rayah as if contemplating something.
"I'll show you somewhere. Common let's go." Pearl said.
" But wait, I'm putting on a dress." Pearl looked down at her elegant black dress with white bow and black satin raffle.
"What about it." Rayah wondered
"I need to get changed into something more lighter." Pearl turned around to head towards her chamber.
"You coming?" Pearl asked when she saw Rayah wasn't following her.
"I'll wait outside." Rayah replied
"Okay" pearl continued where she was going.
Rayah was waiting on the terrace, she remembered pearl said she was going to show her her a place so she wondered randomly on what the place might be.
"Your highness" Rayah heard someone call from behind her.
She turned to see and saw that it was Prince Siko.
"Prince Siko it's you." Rayah said with a warm smile.
"I could sight you from over there so I thought I should come say goodbye as I'm about to leave the castle." Prince Siko said.
"Oh." Rayah hoped she was not blushing right now. "That's nice of you prince Siko."
It was quiet between them for a while, they were wondering who will speak first.
"I should get going. It was nice to meet you again." The Prince said.
"Have you been at the library?" Rayah asked.
" Yes that is where I am coming from." Prince Siko replied
"Then that means you must love reading to have stayed at the library since the last time we were there."Rayah said
"I guess you're right, you know the Royal library is really the biggest library I've seen." Prince Siko responded
"Oh" Rayah however thought their library wasn't really the biggest library within the kingdoms. There was a small kingdom that had up to 10 huge libraries. That is in fact how the kingdom gets their source of revenue. The rich and wealthy all go there to study so Montis royal library was big enough but was not supposed to be called the biggest as how the prince was putting it currently.
"I don't think the royal library is really as big as how you describe it prince Siko." Rayah said.
"How do you mean Princess Rayah. The Royal library is really the biggest library I've seen since I've lived, with a lot of books. That was why I was so engrossed in reading for hours, I saw a lot of interesting books, I wished to read all of them but I couldn't because of time."
Now Rayah looked at the Prince weirdly.
Prince Siko realized that he seemed to have appeared too excited, it was like he had not seen a library before in the whole of his life. He coughed.
"I'm sorry, it's just that the royal library in my....." Prince Siko stopped what he was about to say, he didn't want the princess to know that he was from a small kingdom surrounded by water and that his kingdom's royal library had only 500 books and that was what caused him to appear excited.
"Nevermind" Prince Siko said and bowed slightly while Rayah just forced a polite smile in order not to continue staring at him in a weird manner.
"Have you had lunch?" Rayah asked the prince
"That is why I am about to go home." Prince Siko replied.
"Why don't you stay for lunch." Rayah offered.
"Oh please don't bother yourself Princess, I really need to go home immediately, I have something I should do after lunch." Prince Siko politely declined Rayah's offer.
Rayah fixed her gaze on his smile. She thought of it to be very charming.
"Your highness?" Prince Siko saw that Rayah looked a bit lost.
"Oh okay. It's fine, there's always next time." Rayah said.
"Thanks for the offer and for your time." Prince Siko replied.
"Thank you for coming to say goodbye." Rayah smiled and curtsied while Prince Siko thought the princess looked beautiful with her silver hair flowing with the wind.
The prince bowed also before leaving.
Rayah waited for Pearl a little bit more before pearl arrived.
"Why did you choose to wait out here. It's some distance away from where I left you to go change." Pearl spoke out.
"Oh Pearl, you went away so you could wear pants." Rayah said when she saw what pearl changed into.
"I told you, I'm taking you to my favourite place I needed not to put on a dress." Pearl said.
"If you say so, that's okay." Rayah shrugged.
"Wait, why are you heading over to the stables. Let's take a carriage." Rayah said
"I didn't change to end up taking a carriage Rah." Pearl said as a matter of fact, she suddenly remembered something.
"Are you still scared of horses?" Pearl had a smirk on her face.
"Uh no, why would I be scared of horses." Rayah tried to appear nonchalant but her nervousness was telling her off.
"Hmm okay let's go then, we could have taken the carriage if it turned out you were still scared of horses but thank goodness you're no longer scared of them. Pearl replied
Rayah suddenly halted her steps
"Okay I'm scared." Rayah confessed.
Pearl stopped walking when she heard her sister.
"Why?" Pearl asked Rayah with a confused look.
"I don't know, I just get a heart attack when I'm on top a horse and they begin to move fast." Answered Rayah
"Well i know that's not literally, is it?" Pearl folded her arms, she couldn't believe Rayah right now.
"Okay if it's about riding fast, then I'm gonna ride like a worm. You won't feel scared I promise." Rayah tried to persuade Rayah.
"You know what, you can go without me I suddenly have an headache." Rayah masaged her temples pretending to be feeling her head ache.
"Rah don't be like this, you already agreed to go out with me, you are not about to go back on your words now." Pearl then dragged Rayah towards the stables.
"Who is a good girl, you are." Pearl was sweet talking her horse, getting her prepared to leave. Her horse grunted in response.
"Rah come say hello to Nala." Pearl called out to Rayah who was standing a little bit far away from the stables.
"You could have just told a servant to bring her for you, we didn't have to come here." Rayah was very scared of the horses in the stable. She looked left to right as if they would attack her any minute.
Pearl rolled her eyes.
"I love to feed Nala and see that she's in good shape before riding her. Now you should come pat her on the head as a way of getting acquainted or she could ride very fast and throw you down." Pearl teased Rayah while she was feeding her horse some shrubs.
"Oh my god." Rayah shrieked as pearl helped her mount the horse.
"Oh why you being such a baby." Pearl rolled her eyes.
"Ahhhh" Rayah screamed when Strong stared moving. Pearl could not believe it, Rayah's fear of horses were something else.