A loud ringing of the bell waked up. I look around to find where the sound is coming from. I frown when I notice that my surrounding is very unfamiliar with . This is not my room.
Am I still in the writer's house? I got up from the bed and looked outside the window. All I see is a big field with many people walking or playing a ga. Big field? But this is not the field in front of the writer's ho. So, where am I? I look around the room, trying to find sothing, when I ca across a door. The room I woke up in is actually big. It's like a typical condo type in the real world. It has a big bed, a study table, a big dresser. It also has two doors. I open the door that is closer to . It's the door of the bathroom. I co inside and look around. I am about to leave when I saw the reflection in the mirror.
I am taken aback when I saw the reflection in the mirror. No way! I try to touch my own face to see if it's real. It's real! I pinch my cheeks really hard until my cheeks reddened. I look like I put blush on now. But I didn't stop there. I also wash my face with the cold water from the faucet. And I could also feel the coldness of the water.
It's true! I skip ti? I got out of the bathroom and rummage through the stuff I could see. I could see notebooks and books on the study table. I flip the pages, trying to find so clue or sothing. When I saw a paper inside a book, I took it and read the contents.
"Csille Lauretré. Third year high school student of Vrawyth High School of the Nobles."
I sit on the chair, overwheld with what is happening. The last thing I could rember is I got unconscious when I saw blinding lights in the writer's house. And when I woke up, I am already a high school student. But what happened after I got unconscious? What happened to the Crown Prince? To Father and Mother? To Brother Pascal and Rufus? To the Vrawyth Kingdom? I touched my head when I feel unbearable pain. I am busy trying to make the pain stop when I heard soone knocks on the door. And just like that, the pain magically gone away.
I look at the door and walk towards it. Who could it be? I opened it and imdiately closed it again when I saw the person standing outside.
Prince Fraser! Prince Fraser in a school uniform and is older. Dayum! He looks so fine. I got shocked to see him early this morning that why I closed the door at him. I heard a loud knock outside and a shout. "CSILLE! OPEN THE DOOR!"
I take a deep breath before opening the door. I smiled awkwardly at the Crown Prince. Trying to look sowhere else. My eyes are still not used to seeing the fourteen years old Prince Fraser.
"Why did you close the door at ?" He snapped.
I laugh awkwardly at him. "I'm sorry. My mind is still in a daze. I didn't know what I am doing." Still avoiding his gaze. "What are you doing here, your majesty?"
Prince Fraser caught my chin and forced to look at him. "Why aren't you looking at ? Did you do sothing again?" He frowned.
I imdiately shake my head. "Hey! I didn't do anything." I tried to look at him, but I really couldn't take looking at him. My heart is already beating so fast, and looking at him makes it more frantic.
"Also, what do you an by asking what am I doing here? Are you expecting soone?" He raised his eyebrows at . Oh, dear! Stop staring at like that. My weak heart cannot take it.
I struggled from his grip and walked inside the room. "No! No! I am just shocked when I saw you here. Do you need anything, your majesty?" I ask, facing my back at him. I sit on my bed and look back at him. "What are you doing there? Why don't you co in first? Let's talk here."
Prince Fraser looks at like I just said sothing unbelievable. I stopped for a mont to think back on what I just said. I didn't say sothing wrong or an, right? But why is he looking at like that?
"Are you sure you want to co inside?" He asked. He looks around my room but won't even take a step inside.
I frown at him. I don't understand what is happening. Why is he making it a big deal? We will just talk inside and nothing else. I look at him. I noticed that his face is really red right now. Even his ears are colored red already.
I walk towards him and place my hand on his forehead. His temperature seems normal. "Are you okay? Your face looks so red right now. Even you're ears. Are you sick, your majesty?"
Prince Fraser covers his cheeks and steps backward. "Never mind. I will just see you in the library at nine. Rember to et there, okay?" After he said his words, he imdiately runs towards the hallway. I look at him confusedly. Weird.
I walk inside my room and look for a clock. It's already eight in the morning. The Prince said that I need to see him in the library at nine. And because I still have a lot of ti. I took a bath first and pretty myself. I am now wearing a school uniform. It looks like a dieval school uniform. White longs sleeves. A ribbon in the middle. A high neckline with ruffles. A vest that is connected with the skirt. It looks like those typical ani cosplayer wears. Satisfied with how I look, I smiled at my reflection in the mirror.
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I walk inside the library. I was in awe when I look around it. It is really an extensive library. Everywhere I look, all I see are books and massively tall bookshelves. I wonder how do they get the books at the top.
"Good morning Miss Lauretré." A girl probably two years younger than greets . I just nod and smiles at her.
Many people greet when they saw walking in front of them. So, Csille Lauretré is a respected person here, eh? I didn't know that. I thought people hated her.
I walk around trying to figure out where could the Crown Prince be. He just said to et here, but where is he? I look at the big clock in the library. It's already nine fifteen am. I am already walking for fifteen minutes in the library, but I haven't even seen his silhouette. Where could he be?
I am about to turn back to where I ca from when a hand suddenly covers both my eyes. I was about to shout when the culprit whispers in my ear. "Don't shout. It's ." He takes his hand that covers my eyes. I look back and see Prince Fraser grinning at . I glared at him.
Prince Fraser smiles at . He pulled into the philosophy area. He took a ladder and pulled sothing in the gap space in between two bookshelves. The bookshelf in the right split into two, and a room could be seen. There's a hidden room behind this bookshelves? Aweso!
Prince Fraser led inside. I tried to stop him. What if it's soone's place? Then we are both trespassings. However, Prince Fraser ignored and twisted a vase on the table at the entrance. The bookshelf that split into two close, and now Prince Fraser and I are standing in the middle of the room.
"Hey! Wouldn't we get into trouble?" I tug his arms and try to pull him back. However, I don't know how to open it.
Prince Fraser looks at confusingly. Like what I just said doesn't make sense. He grasped my hand and pulled to sit on the chair. The room had a small table and two chairs. It looks like a tea room. There is also a small bookshelf at the side.
"Why would I get in trouble? If I own this place? Did you forget?"
I look at him and around the place. Everything I am seeing looks expensive. Yeah, who could have a room like this other than the Crown Prince?
I smiled awkwardly. I couldn't tell him that I skipped ti. That yesterday I was still the nine years old Csille Lauretré, and when I woke up today, I beco the fourteen years old Csille. "I am still in dazed right now. I probably need more ti to refresh my mory. I am sorry."
Prince Fraser just waves his hand at . "Anyways, do you have a decision now?"
I look at Prince Fraser and frown. Decision about what? What does Prince Fraser and Csille talking about? I smiled awkwardly at him. "I'm sorry, I still haven't made up my mind."
He just nods at . "That's okay. However, you should give an answer tomorrow, okay?" Prince Fraser offered a cup of tea. I take it and nods at him.
What am I supposed to do now? I don't know what I should decide on. I need to do sothing about it.
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My philosophy class just finished, and I am currently walking in the hallway. I actually haven't learned anything about it. The whole ti my mind is wandering about what Prince Fraser is talking about. Because I literally have no idea what it is.
I tried very hard to recall anything but nothing. I really can't rember anything. Wait! I've skipped five years. It's also the ti gap in my novel. Is it the reason why I ti skipped? But I don't understand why did I need to stay for a couple of months as nine years old if I could skip ti instantly. And why did I skip ti? What happened to the past?
I was so busy thinking about things that I didn't see a person running towards my direction. It was already too late when both of us noticed that we would collide with each other. The last ti I rembered, I fell down the floor and hit my head on sothing.
I feel numbness overall in my body. I could hear voices, and blurred mories flashed through my mind. Until everything becos dark and my consciousness fades away.
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I have a very long dream. It's about the mont after I collapsed in the house of the writer. Brother Pascal and Rufus imdiately bring ho. They said their apologies first before living.
My mother got worried when she knew that I collapsed. I was unconscious for two days. After that, I woke up like nothing happened.
After that, it fast forward to the ti when mother, Brother Pascal, and I are sitting in the courtroom. It's the day of trial for the culprit behind my mother's accident. And it's none other than the Marquis of the Vrawyth Kingdom. The jury convicted him as guilty, and his title was stripped off from him. His family becos a commoner, and no one from his generation could ever hold a position in monarch. Brother Pascal and I are both happy with the result, but mother was different. She was hurt that the Marquis could backstab our family as if like we never had a close relationship with them.
After that scene, it fast forward again on the scene where the Aeslaerean Kingdom made an announcent that the Royal Competition for the Arts is postponed because of a contagious illness in their Kingdom. Later that month, that illness spread throughout the Kingdom of Vrawyth. Many people of Vrawyth died because of the illness. For this reason, the training of Prince Fraser in the western region was extended. The King sent a letter to the Prince and the Count to stay there until the illness is controlled. The illness lasts for almost a year, and the Kingdom suffered a lot because of it. Poverty becos an issue.
After the illness was controlled, the Crown Prince cos back ho safe and sound. He was sad when he knows how the illness impacted the whole Vrawyth Kingdom. A week after, Count Waltier also went ho. Saying that he was completely healed from the fake illness, he said before.
Both the Crown Prince and the Count had no idea what happened in their absence. The Crown Prince volunteered to do charity works since many people are still suffering from the result of the contagious illness. The Count, my father, was enraged when he knows what happened in the Lauretré family. He was also grateful to Brother Pascal for staying with us and taking the head position of the Lauretré family temporarily. Afterward, Brother Pascal asks to go back to the hospital to be a doctor. Father wants to make Brother Pascal stay with us, but Brother refused it. He just visits frequently.
The scene flashed to my mind fast. It's about Rufus. After the illness got controlled, the Duke ordered him to co back to his dormitory to continue his studies. I have also seen Princess Paislee in my mories. The exchange of letters between Csille and her continues. It only stops this year.
And Prince Fraser. After he went back to the Kingdom. He visited to talk about our last conversation. We both agreed to shrug it off. We beco closer after that. We often do group study. We also enrolled in the sa high school. And now both of us are currently in our third year here.
The mories stop there. And darkness engulfs the whole place.
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