"How did you meet my mother?" He stopped eating immediately and started feeling awkward. His hands are gripped onto his cloth.
"I cannot tell you that Madam Anemone" He spoke straightly looking into my eyes and his eyes definitely tell me that he is not going to tell me now.
Is that how it is?
Did he get caught while stealing? If this is how he wants to play, then I don't have a choice myself.
"I want to be your friend" I spoke, and he got this surprised look on his face.
"Madam Anemone? With a commoner like me?"
"Why are you emphasizing the word commoner? Before coming to my mother, I am a commoner too, so I would like to have another commoner friend who can understand my feelings. And can treat me like an equal to them, so I want to ask this as a request" I looked down at the ground projecting a sad face and I can see from the corner of my eye that he was struggling to put the right words at this moment.
Yes, I want to be your friend would be the right answer.
"But what if Lady Cicelia finds out about this?"
Yes! He came to me.
"I will keep this a secret from Mother and you can keep one or two secrets too, right?" I asked as I kept my index finger on my mouth with a small smirk, and he nodded his head in a daze.
"Let's meet here at the same time every day and play together, okay?" I asked and he nodded, keeping his head.
I quickly ran back to the house and slowly went to bed without making a single noise that can wake the guards up.
I really want to scream now!!
Not only did I find him, but I made him my secret friend. Now, he, who is a very lonely soul, just wants someone to recognize him and be with him and me, and being that person will pull him completely toward me.
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Without a lot of thoughts swirling in my mind, I don't know when I fell asleep.
"Good morning Ms. Anemone" Ruby greeted bowing her head and opening the curtains covering the window and the sunlight fell inside the room.
She placed the slippers right down near my feet and I got down.
"What are my plans for today?" I asked her and she went silent.
"What?"
"Madam Cicelia made sure her schedule is completely free so that she could take you out on a picnic by herself"
Picnic with mother? Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Why is Ruby hesitating a bit about telling this? Is something going to happen? And does she know it? Should I not let us leave the house? But if I did that, I can't find anything about anyone and I have to give an explanation to my mother.
But is it really something dangerous outside for us and that's why she is like this?
"Is the bath ready?"
"Ah, yes Madam, it is ready" She walked me to the washroom.
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Whatever, Mother is the second strongest in the kingdom right now, I am sure she can kill whoever attacks her even in her sleep. So, yes, I am going out with her.
"Ruby, pick a cloth that is not much heavier to carry"
"yes, madam"
After wearing the dress Ruby picked so carefully I sat there waiting for Ruby picking the lightest jewelry matching the outfit. If someone really does start attacking us there... I can't wear a heavy dress and heavy jewelry to run and hide...it will hold me back.
"Lady Cicelia is here" I heard my guards announcing her arrival
I stood up as Mother walked inside...
"Anemone...you look so beautiful today." She said, coming towards me.
"Thank you, Mother" I replied humbly.
"On the occasion of you looking so beautiful. Shall we go out and enjoy our day together? A mother-daughter day"
"Wow, Mother. I am really so excited and happy. Ruby packs all the things necessary. Mother and I are going out. We are going out. Mother I am really happy" I laughed so brightly that Mother made a face as she melted there by my words itself.
"Let's go out once every week from now on. I will make sure to empty my schedule one day of every week just for you my daughter" She promised something so heavy for her schedule. My mother is a very busy person. With the king being a useless person which I cannot speak out loud, my mother is the second family to take care of the people's needs in the society. The first is the Duke family, she is the second-busiest person. I know and I understand it completely.
She honestly doesn't need to try this much to please me. I already like her very much.
"Let's go now," She said, holding my hand and making me walk with her but at a slow pace, so I can walk gracefully and peacefully. She is so understanding and the best mother a person can ever ask for.
As we reached the door the guards walked alongside us, but she stopped and turned back to them.
"I want to enjoy my day alone with my daughter, so I don't need any security today"
"That is impossible lady Cicelia" The head of the knights came forward walking from the corridor.
"Protecting you was our duty and I humbly reject your idea of taking out Lady Anemone by yourself to this dangerous place where you have many enemies. At least think of Lady Anemone who might be put in danger by your rash decisions"
Wow, he is polite and rude at the same time.
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