The air continued to be tense as we hoped for someone who can make a difference to speak up on our behalf and just as wished…
“If you dare do that mother i will run all over again and this time,I’ll make sure none of you will ever find me!” Yelled an angry Mike, everyone looked at him as he looked angrily as the queen who looked back at him with annoyance and irritation.
“What are you on about you useless rogue?” questioned the queen, which came out also as a threat and challenge of authority.
Mike was not overturned and stared right back at her with a look of hatred, “your aware what i mean, I’m sure you’re aware by now that im not like any of your other coward sub-servant children, i won’t buckle when you say bow. If you do that to them, you know very well i will break them out, if i can’t ill ruin your happy life and if i can’t ill do worse…very…very worse. Don’t test me” he sneered.
The queen seemed to get angrier and held onto her armrests tightly,looking at Mike with fury and what seemed to be an urge to punish him in the most gruesome of ways.
Just as she was about to stand up the king,for the first time since we entered the room, spoke up, “my queen..” he placed a hand on the queen’s tense one and she looked at him the murder in her eyes seeming to die down.
“Calm down” his voice was calm, warm and comforting but firm, he sounded genuine and kind but not someone to be messed with either.
The queen sat back down with an angry huff and the king looked at us all, “i think we can all agree that all these are innocent children whose parents are probably worried deathly, my queen, you know how it feels to lose children and right now i think is the time to make amends with your sons and build a relationship with them. Also i feel that you yourself knowing how it feels to lose children and be apart from your own, you know those parents probably dont deserve the stress and heartbreak as well as how our children felt when they lost their siblings, out there younger and older siblings are missing these people. So please, let’s let them stay as guests of this palace until we can return them home and while that happens you can work on your relationship with Jason and Mike” he suggested, listening to his voice was like listening to a peaceful melody, one that beckons you to dance without even trying.
“Mike and Jason, we will accept your friends as guests and work to return them home but please in exchange, give your mother a change to build the bridge that was once full of thorns and burnt tires” the king requested, “the bridge wasn’t full of any thorns or burnt tires, just simply destroyed and turned to rubble” Mike responded, “then please let her rebuild that bridge, she is trying to change i promise, she just felt uneasy at this sudden appearance and didn’t know how to react, i apologize on my queen’s behalf” he said, seeming to be genuine in every word that left his mouth.
The queen sighed and pouted as if she were a kid who had her candy taken away from her, she then looked at Mike and Jason, “Mike, Jason, im really sorry for how things were in the past and i promise im trying to make a change and be a better person…a better mother to all of my beloved children. Im sorry for the past and i know i can’t change anything that happened there but i hope that together we can build way for the future and finally be a happy family” she said in remorse.
Mike rolled his eyes and indifferently said, “hard to believe that’ll happen, but whatever, if you have changed ill think about not leaving and if i do leave just because i feel like it ill keep contact, that’s the best i can offer”
The queen nodded in acceptance and the king looked from the queen to Mike, “very well, and its a pleasure to finally meet you and Jason, any words from you Jason?” , Jason shook his head and remained emotionlessly silent, as if he suddenly went mute when he entered the palace.
An exagerrated mini coughing fit was heard from Mr Hing, calling onto the king and queen’s attention, “yes?” the queen asked, “oh uhm…our students are in their final year of school and we don’t know the time difference from here with our world so is it possible to have 5 rooms or areas we can teach them in.”, The king and queen looked at each other then back at our teacher. Enjoying the story? Read on at novelping dot com.
“We’ll see what we can do, give us 2 days, the servants must first get used to the sudden change in routine with the extra amount of people living here” the queen responded, Mr Hing nodded happily while several students groaned in aggravation.
While they knew they needed these lessons it does not mean they liked sitting in a room all day either.
With that, the aid was ordered to prepare individual rooms for us while Jason and Mike were told to go stay in their old rooms.
We were all given time to unpack and later to attend dinner with the queen and her family, to meet all of Mike’s siblings and such.
We were all escorted to our designated rooms and as the queen said they were unprepared, we were given rooms different rooms, the first few who picked which room had to share, that was of course with the same gender and only 2 or 3 students per room, the average was 2 but some requested to join their friends and room as 3, the teachers got their own rooms,Mandy and Mikayla wanted to share and as everyone was given a room the last few had the pleasure of getting their own rooms, including me,Brody and Valery.
Valery was happy hearing this and soon after we were shown a beautiful room which she called dibs on and of course no one was gonna challenge her on that, it had a beautiful view of the garden, a balcony and a beautiful canopy bed.
“Bye Ave, try and get a good room girl, see you later!!” she said then closed the door loudly and squeeled inside the room in joy.
Rooms were soon taken and i was given the last room which was in a long tower, as we walked up the spiralling stairs, walking past some windows i noticed how high we were going and the ground kept getting further and further as we walked up, i felt anxious at some height and the sad reality that I’ll have to walk down all these stairs to go anywhere.
Me and the queen’s aid reached the door of the room at last and she stopped,unlocked the door and gave me the key, which i took and clutched in my hand “My name is Alice, and yours?” she said softly, more softly then how she spoke more robotically when she was introducing the king and queen,”I’m Avery, Avery Oxbow” i responded with a polite smile, “you have beautiful eyes Miss Avery, very interesting and beautiful eyes, she laid her hand on the door handle and slightly opened the door, “this will be your room, you have the option of rooming with others down below if the travel becomes too unpleasant to your legs if they agree of course but we will also try to find a vacant room for you” she said, “how many bed rooms are there in this place?”, “over 1000, unfortunately we can’t split all of you up too much as it is a short notice thing and would confuse the staff, plus we feel you’ll all get lost if we split you away from each other that far, try to understand” she said and i nodded,”alright no problem, thank you for the help, Mrs Alice” I said.
“Miss Alice actually, men are dreadful and unfaithful creatures i don’t see the need to chain myself to one whose eyes will wonder to every woman who passes by like a dog to a bone. Just call me Alice dear, your luggage will be sent to your rooms soon” she said then walked past me and down the stairs.
I sighed and entered the room, it was beautiful and old fashioned compared to other rooms down stairs, it looked more dignified, with a canopy bed, a reading nook with a beautiful view to die for, a walk in wardrobe,a sitting area with 2 couches with a glass table, big just of juice and one of water on top with 4 drinking glasses set and a big windows behind them that doubled as doors to the balcony outside, a mirror, a beautiful bathroom with both a shower and bathtub and a rope extending to the roof of the room at the door, i did not know that that was for though.
The wairdrobe was full of ball gowns that seemed to be old and unused, although the room was clean as well as the dresses, the lack of perfume and smell of soap showed that they were washed doubtful to be recent though as the smelled musty and of wool, the room had a body mirror and chair to sit on as well as a lot of shoes.
They were beautiful and quite enchanting, i felt like i was given the room of a princess, i walked out to the balcony and looked down below to the people who looked like ants and the beautiful greenery, the sun was shining brightly and warmly down at me and being this close to it enhanced that.
I looked straight ahead and just next door i saw another tower, it was facing the same direction as mine was so i could only see what i assumed was the back of the room and big clear window with blue curtains obscuring my view of the inside.
But from the embroidery and the light blue shade, i assumed the room belonged to one of Mike and Jason’s siblings or someone of similar caliber owned it, if not perhaps it was used by a royal in the past just as mine was.
“Hy” i heard a voice say across the gap between my tower and the opposite one, “Hello?” I responded, but i was only met with silence back.
“Hello? Is anyone there?” I spoke a little louder this time but still the same response, i sighed and went back into the bedroom, closed the windows,locked them, went to the bathroom and locked the door before endulging myself in a nice hot shower.
To be continued…