Welcome Princess Eleanor

Arianna opened her eyes, the landing rather soft, and saw herself on the prince.

“I’m so fired”

“Arianna, you have to be more careful. What if I wasn’t there, you could have hurt yourself” the prince’s words shocked the maids including Ruby. Arianna looked at his icy blue eyes, she blinked and found herself lost. His eyes were beautiful and capturing. She snapped back into reality and stood up, off of the prince, and apologized. She went to her space quietly and waited for the princess.

Princess Eleanor arrived not long and met the maids in a long line as she expected. Arianna was bored out of her soul, she noticed even the prince was not happy to see her for some reason. The Princess looked at each of the maid’s faces as if trying to compare her beauty to theirs. Her fan danced around her face, a soldier beside her to fulfill the duty of protecting her. To Arianna, Eleanor moved so slowly.

Not long, she started tapping her foot to a catchy song she’d heard on the radio, then started nodding her head. Ruby looked at her and nudged her side, but she didn’t listen. When it came to her turn, Arianna was still dancing on the spot, her eyes closed imaging her own band performing. Eleanor looked at her with a cocked eyebrow, she waited for when Arianna would be done. Eleanor snapped her fan, which snapped her out of the dancing mode. The prince stiffed his laugh, he knew there was going to be a problem between the two girls. Arianna was the whacky type while Eleanor was stricter than hell. Arianna gave the princess her best smile, but Eleanor gave an agitated face and walked past her. Arianna simply blew raspberries behind her back.

………..

The princess and the prince discussed in the garden while Ruby went to give them a drink. Arianna watched them diligently like a three-year-old girl. Her faced smeared on the window, trying to get every detail of their discussion. Her mother told her it was a bad habit and should get rid of it, but she never listened. A young girl of eighteen should never have that behavior, she listened carefully until a hand clamped on her shoulder. She turned and saw Elaine, with her two lost puppies, Ellen and Emma, her worst enemies.

“you know if you like spying on the prince, you should marry him” Elaine joked making her and her guinea pigs laugh.

“ha ha ha, very funny Elaine, I’m sure it took you a month to come up with that one” she shoved the blonde out of her way, which was very surprising to her. It was very unladylike to shove a person.

Arianna walked down the corridor which was beautifully decorated with pictures of the king and queen with their son. She looked at a picture of prince Rob. He was composed on a chair with his parents beside him. The king and queen had currently gone to a conference in another country and would be back in a few days. She studied the photo and saw it was dirty.

She grabbed a feather duster and a stool. She climbed the stool and waved her duster at the photo, cleaning the dust of it. She had to stretch sometimes to get the corners of the photo frame.

The stool shook to her dismay, but she paid no attention to it until it started rocking wildly. She tried getting off it, but it was too late, the stool fell and it was her turn to fall. She had a fall with no hard landing. That’s weird. She looked up at her savior.

It was Rob. Moments of what happened in the morning flashed in her mind. She looked down, timid for once in her life. Rob looked at her with his generous smile,

“could you at least be a little more careful?” his hands wrapped around her back and thighs. He dropped her down and continued “why on earth are you cleaning the photos? That’s Elaine’s job. Where is she by the way? Elaine!!” he called her name and not long she came running,

“yes sir”

“why is Arianna cleaning the photos?”

“I-I-I-” she stammered,

“if this happens again, I’ll have no choice but to kick you out. Got that?” he said sternly,

“yes sir.” her head dropping. Arianna was at a loss for words. Did the prince just fight for her? Major déjà vu.

“Arianna follow me,” Rob commanded and she obliged. He took her to the garden and sat down on one of the chairs. He motioned for her to sit down and she slowly responded to it. He turned to her and smiled,

“I’m sure you’re wondering why I called you here.” she nodded to his question,

He smiled furthermore, “I want you to take care of princess Eleanor while she’s here.” Arianna looked at him confused, not even understanding a word he said.

“you know, teach her how to loosen up. I know there are so many things she can learn from you. You know, how to be cheerful and probably how to sing.” Arianna burst into a fit of giggles, which made Rob’s smile broaden. She nodded in affirmation of Rob’s request.

“ok, my prince, I’ll see what I can do.” she stood up to take her to leave,

“oh and Arianna,” his words stopped her in her tracks, “call me Rob.” he gave her his dashing smile and she returned the smile.