• Part III
    tab It is the next morning. Priscilla and Tanya run down the stairs into their kitchen. It is a small and common kitchen. A woman stands at the head of the table with stern look on her face.
    tab “Priscilla!” She yelled at her daughter who grimaced at the sound of her name.
    tab “Yes mother?”
    tab “Where were you last night! I know you weren’t sick! You know my rule, don’t get sick the day before or the day of, an arriving guest! Especially one as important as this! So that means that you forced poor Tanya to cover for you!” At this Tanya quickly tried to save her sister from more blame.
    tab “No she didn’t, Priscilla was really sick.”
    tab “Hush! Priscilla just where do you plan on going wearing that cloak!?”
    tab “Tanya and I were planning to go to the market. Isn’t that right Tanya?”
    tab “Yes that is right.” she walks over to Priscilla who is now standing by the door.
    tab “Priscilla you better be home tonight! If you make a good impression all will be forgiven.”
    tab “Yes of course mother, that is why I am wearing the cloak, as to not dirty myself before tonight. Bye!” The two sisters hurry out the door before their mother can say anything else. They walk a little ways down the street when Priscilla suddenly stops. “Tonight? What is tonight?”
    tab “Pris.! Don’t tell me you forgot? The guy is coming tonight.”
    tab “The guy?”
    tab “Yes you know THE guy!”
    tab “No! I completely forgot! What am I going to do?”
    tab “What do you mean ‘what are you going to do?’ You are going on your date with the prince so come on!”
    tab “But how can I?”
    tab “Priscilla this is a once in a lifetime chance.”
    tab “I know but…”
    tab “If you know then good, let’s go. Just remember to be home before dark and everything should be ok.” Tanya starts to run lugging Priscilla along with her.
    Part IV
    tab They reach the castle gates. Tanya stands Priscilla a little way from the gates and starts to fix her hair. Priscilla just stands there still in awe about what is about to happen between her and the prince. Then Tanya takes the cloak off of Priscilla and shoves her up to the gate.
    tab “Please don’t make a fool of yourself!” yells Tanya before she starts to run off.
    tab “Hey! Please don’t make me more nervous than I already am.” she says under her breath for Tanya was already gone. She fixes her dress and steps up to the guards. “I-” she clears her throat as to not sound as uneasy. “I am here to see the prince. I believe he is expecting me?” The guards nod to each other then open the iron gate just enough to let her in.
    tab “Ah! You must be Eliy.”
    tab “Uh, yes I am, who are you?”
    tab “Ah, silly me. I am Nadine, one of the nurses here at the castle. The prince has told me of your arrival for this morning. I am to lead you to the garden to wait for the prince.”
    tab “oh, ok.”
    tab “You seem quite nervous are you ok?”
    tab “Yes I am fine.”
    tab “Dear, you have no reason to be nervous at all. The prince quite likes you, that I am sure.”
    tab “Really?!”
    tab “Why yes! He has never personally invited anybody to the castle before, especially somebody his age, and a beautiful girl at that. Dear me it seems he is not here yet. I do hope you do not mind waiting here for him.”
    tab “No that is no problem at all.”
    tab “Alright then, I must be off to my duties then.” She heads back towards the castle while Priscilla leans down next to the flowers. She starts to hold some of them in her hands and inhale their sweet scents.
    tab “I am afraid no flower in this garden can come close to the aura you give off.” Priscilla gets up and looks to where the prince is standing, she may have been a bit surprised but that was not the reason her breathing slowed and her heart sounded like thunder. “I am sorry I just did not want to ruin such a perfect picture by saying anything sooner.” he takes her hand and kisses it. “Eliy, it has been far too long.” Priscilla can do nothing but blush at this and is then led around the courtyard by the prince. She is lost in his words, she can’t bear to say anything, but instead listens to his gentle voice. “I am sorry, I must be boring you.”
    tab “No of course not!”
    tab “Why don’t you tell me about yourself?”
    tab “I have an annoying roommate is that good enough?”
    tab “Hahaha, I was wondering more about yourself. Perhaps something along the lines as…How is it that you are not spoken for already?”
    tab “I don’t know, no one likes me I guess. May I ask you a question now?”
    tab “Of course, but you know you never really answered-”
    tab “Why did you leave such a wonderful party last night?”
    tab “Excuse me?”
    tab “The party, it was for you was it not?”
    tab “Yes it was.”
    tab “I just don’t understand why would you want to leave a party like that. The music was beautiful, all the people dancing, the wonderful sites.”
    tab “That is because I had found something more beautiful than the music, and someone better to dance with, and my eyes could not lay on a more wonderful site than what they are upon now. And if you really must know, things such as those bore me. I can never wait till they are over.”
    tab “Really? I don’t know how you could feel that way. I love parties like that.” she starts walk ahead of him and starts to spin around in circles. “Everyone dancing and having fun and the orchestra playing soft beautiful-” he comes up to her in mid spin and takes her hands and together they start to dance.
    tab “If that is how you feel then I shall have a ball just for you.”
    tab “Really?”
    tab “Of course. And I will invite the whole town!”
    tab “No!” she breaks away from the dance.
    tab “Is something the matter?”
    tab “No, its just, I would rather just me and you dancing together like this than a big stuffy ball.”
    tab “If that is your wish.” They continue to dance. “Ah!”
    tab “What?” They stop dancing and the prince kneels down and picks up a small flower.
    tab “For you, the one person to whom all flowers can’t compare.” Eliy takes the flower, though instead of her eyes resting on the flower in her hands, they can’t seem to waver from the prince’s.
    tab “Oh no, it is getting dark!”
    tab “Time seemed to have passed us by here in our own Garden of Eden.”
    tab “I really must be going.”
    tab “Why? Why must you always leave me?”
    tab “I am sorry, I must be heading home.” She starts to run off.
    tab “Wait!” He grabs her arm and pulls her back, they are now standing face to face, their lips almost touching. “Please allow me one small kiss, for I don’t know how long I can last not seeing you again.” They kiss, Priscilla does not try to resist but instead is carried away by the passion between them.