Big purple doors were opened by the maid, and I entered the banguet hall with her walking ahead to guide me to my seat.
The room had 4 vertially placed long tables, 1 shorter than the others.
3 for the students and 1 for the teachers, all of which had beautiful table cloths and well cleaned sets of cutlery placed in front of each chair.
At the very front of the room, there was a horizontally placed table, where the royal family were sat, the table cloth on that table had a royal crown similar to the queens at the center on its drape.
The king and Queen were seated at the 2 biggest chairs at the center of the table, albeit the queen’s chair was smaller than the Kings, a metaphor for their natural height.
To the further right of the queen sat 3 girls and 3 boys our age, including Mike, Emily,Leon, and Jason.
The king sat left to the king, and next to him to the left were 2 boys and 3 girls, all of who were younger in comparison.
I recognized all of them to be the same 5 younger ones on the king and queens windo portrait, same with the elder boys and girls.
However, 1 boy was missing from the picture, and their names are a little of a blur, though, because i had read and scanned the portrait for only little time.
“Here you are,dear,” beckoned the maid, whom I’d been following mindlessly while looking at the royal family.
She had pulled out the chair for me with a polite smile on her face, “Thank you.” i smiled and sat in the chair.
She left right after.
No one was next to me on either side at that moment, so i just looked up at the royal family, observing them while other students around me conversed amongst themselves after being seated next to fellow classmates and friends.
At the front i saw Jason, smiling as if trying to hold up and pose for a perfect family picture and staring at the vertial tables blankly as if deep in thought, to his left sat a girl who’s face seemed to make smiling feel like a foreign thing to do.
Next to her was Leon, who looked a little bored next was Emily who was talking to the girl sitting next to her, she was smiling gently while talking the girl and the girl seemed to be doing most of the talking as she smiled widely.
Between the girl and the queen sat Mike, who was angrily scraping a fork he held round and round on the place in front of him, a grim look on his face.
Both he,Jason, Leon, and the rest of the boys were dressed in suits, and the girls had beautiful frilly dresses on, all with different colors, but looking the same.
To the king’s left sat a girl with a big smile on her face who was talking to the boy next to her whom seemed uninterested in what she was saying and looked sleepy, next to him was a girl with a book in her hands who was reading intently,next to her was a plus size boy who was eating a chocolate bar and next to him was a girl who seemed to be annoyed and complaining to him while looking at him with a look of distaste and belittlement. Get faster updates on novelping(.)com.
All of them looked like nobles you’d read about in a fairy tale, some had an arrogant,others introverted, others a perfect representation of a royal, while the rest seemed light-hearted and kind.
They all looked exactly like they did in the portrait.
However, the previous king and the missing younger third boy were the only ones who weren’t present.
The whole window seemed recent as it captured what all of them look like right now, but the current king is still a mystery on why he was not added to the said window.
‘Was the previous king’s death recent?
If Mike really left long ago, how did the capture a perfect picture of what he looks like right now?”
Many things did not make sense to me, nor did they add up.
Millions of thoughts, theories, and questions raced through my head while i stared at the royal family, hoping that looking at them would give me answers.
Suddenly, the murmurs of my fellow seniors sounded muffled and afar, deep in thought my eyes suddenly locked with those of the king.
He was staring at me intently, slightly being a mild glare, a smile on his face, but his eyes lacking the cheerful glow to go with it.
His black eyes stared at me with an odd animalistic rage under them, while my same coloured darker eyes stared back uncomfortably but questionably.
Every second, this man’s picture-perfect smile faded little by little, and i somehow felt that he knew me.
The more he looked at me, the more signs of recognition his face showed.
His smile suddenly did fade, and his eyes turned a darker shade of black.
My head began to spin a little as if i was being invaded, the idle chatter of the others around me went quiet and i could only hear the sound of my breathing as it began to accelerate in a panic.
It was as if only he and i were in the room, his presence itself alarming my senses, the urge to run grew bigger and bigger, i swallowed hard, a bad feeling dropping in the pit of my stomach like a boulder in water.
My hair jerked and swayed to accommodate the unexpected gust of wind, my eyes wide with fear. i looked at the person, my breath fast as though i had ran a marathon.
The chatter of the people around us could be heard once more.”Girl, you good? why do you look as terrified?” asked a worried Valery who had a hand gently rubbing my back, i smiled, trying to mask my panic, “hahaha it’s nothing at all Valery, i was just deep in thought about the amount of work we’d have if we dont get home soon, y’know?”.
She pouted in disappointment, ” we’re in a fricking castle and your busy thinking about…ARG schoooool~? chill miss bookworm, you were even for real sweating.
Who gets that worried for school?!” she rolled her eyes and looked away in angry disapproval, i laughed, then spared a quick glance at the king.
Who was happily speaking with the queen as if what happened just now was a dream, or more so a nightmare for me.
I looked back at Valery who was looking around and staring at the maids in the room who were just about finished seating everyone.
“Jeez, when are they gonna bring out the food already, im staaaaarving!!!!” She groaned, “so glutton Valery wants to strike again?” I teased and she playfully hit my shoulder, “ouch, what was that for” i laughed, ” Girl, you seen me? you dont get a body this thick,hot and sexy,luscious and choco-licken-licious from no-where!!!
I need to feed my temple, GOD’S TEMPLE MUST BE TREATED WELL!!!!!
” she boasted, using her hands and body to emphasize her words.
I laughed whole-heartedly, the startling events that just happened seeming to rush to the back of my mind.
To be continued….