Chapter 12: Now I take charge!!!
Next morning.
Anastasia woke up from her long night sleep the next day, with a feeling of relaxation washing all over her body. She looked up the ceiling and slowly, she sat up rubbing her eyes. She stretched out and let out a sigh.
Almost instantly her door creaked open and a young male servant stepped in.
"Good....M.O.R.N.I.N.G. P.R.I.N.C.E.S.S." He greeted blushing all over with his intense gaze on Anastasia.
"Good morning!" Anastasia greeted back with confusion as to why he was blushing all over. Nevertheless,she greeted back with the same vibrant smile she always used.
"I came to set breakfast up on your balcony, your highness!" He said with his gaze darting between her and the floor.
"On the balcony?" Anastasia asked with a disbelief filled tone.
"Yes, your highness! The king ordered so!"
'Lysander ordered for me to have breakfast on the balcony? But he never allowed me to eat even on a dinning table. Always in this room! And today he wants me to have breakfast on the balcony?'
"Why?" She asked the man who quickly removed his gaze from Anastasia and focused them on the floor. But this time it didn't go unnoticed by Anastasia and she was getting irritated.
"I don't know your highness but he came into our quarters and demanded that breakfast be served on your balcony today, your highness!"
"You may go ahead, please!" She permitted him and stood up from her bed, stretching out. She stood up and headed to the bathroom but something stopped her.
She caught the sight of someone in the mirror.
She slowly went back to get a better view and what she saw forced a gasp out of her mouth, subconsciously.
In the mirror, was the reflection of a girl with nothing but a small towel wrapped around her body.
"Aarhhhh!!!" She screamed in utter embarrassment and ran as fast as her feet could take her into the bathroom banging the door behind her startling the servant!
She took heaps of deep breaths in and out to calm her raging heart down.
"Calm down, Anastasia" She said rubbing her palms together.
"First of all, I remember being in the bathroom, taking a bath, then....then....how the heck did I need up here, on the bed, wrapped in a towel??? I remember locking the door before I went to the bathroom so how did it happen?!! Or did I sleepwalk back to bed?? But I don't do that!!" She asked herself in a complete state of confusion.
"Oh my God!" she said realization dawning in on her! "Was that why the servant was acting all weird today?!! No! no! no! no! He was not supposed to see a princess that way!!!" She said rubbing her hands all over her damp hair.
Somehow, she reluctantly took a bath, got dressed up and went to have dinner at her new location. She filled her stomach up with the absolutely delicious display of dishes on the table. She looked over the balcony and in the huge garden where a waterfall was situated, she saw Lysander sitting on a lovely bench while a lady talked to him.
But Lysander looked uninterested. He acted as if the lady was bothering him. Anastasia tried to eavesdrop on them but the sound of the great waterfall distracted the sound from reaching her ears.
Anastasia kept shifting her chair closer to the edge of the balcony to hear better pretending to keep her gaze on the food on the table. But after several failed attempts, she got up to leave. She didn't even take another step forward when she noticed her feet got stuck in the baluster spacing on the balcony.
When she tried to get her feet out, she accidentally flipped over the baluster!!!! Lysander's gaze flew to the screaming girl holding onto the baluster for dear life.
"Help me, somebody!" Anastasia called out adorably wriggling her pretty legs pretending not to have seen Lysander on the ground.
Lysander rose to his feet and jumped up high with a very strong gust of wind all around him. He wrapped his hands around her waist, and pulled her off the baluster. A warm mixture of relief and shock rushed over her as she wrapped her slender hands around his neck in fear of falling to the ground.
Once he landed to the ground, he pulled her off harshly to the direction of her quarters. Anastasia gasped in pain on how hard his grip was on her hands. Nevertheless, this was her first time outside what she called her 'dungeon'. She never saw how huge and grand the palace actually looked like from the outside and she was even taken aback in the beautiful view of the extension of the beautiful garden further away. She never imagined the palace in which she was kept was this magnificent. It was simply beyond her imagination. She just had to admit it was even larger than the palace back home.
She was dragged into the palace where she saw various sections of the palace. Servants were scurrying off busily carrying out their tasks. But before she could continue her journey of discovery, she was pushed into her room.
"Ouch!" she yelped as she bounced on her huge bed with her hair dancing in her face.She sat up and watched as Lysander closed her door and walked tall towards her.
"What were you thinking?" He asked with unbearable anger plastered over his face.
"I...I...sli...."
"You wanted to commit suicide?" he asked the shocked princess.
"Of course n...!"
"Really? Of course? Becareful choices you make princess, it might make things worser than they already are!" Lysander said to her and turned to leave. But upon reaching the door handle, Anastasia called back to him.
"Hey listen! Do you think I would want to kill my beautiful self just because of your petty plans? Absolutely not!!! Your plans to kill me will not even be possible. Because I would have been rescued by then!" She said with full confidence and bravery.
Lysander just smirked at her and moved closer to the bed, he came closer to her and whispered in her ears,
"You really are something else!"
'Something else? That means he's captured several princesses before me?' Anastasia said in her thoughts and glared into his eyes.
"You captured several princesses before me?" She asked and gasped. She didn't mean to say that out loud.
Lysander moved to the door and said,
"That is not for you to know!" With that being said, he locked the door behind him.
**
Meanwhile, Xenia was nearing Windstorm now after three consecutive days of traveling. The neighbouring land her father had commanded her to seek refuge with her mother and brother at.
"I hope Anastasia is alright!" Xenia said with a sad tone.
"That is if she's still alive!" Casimir said and looked out the window of the luxurious Carrosse that drove them through.
"Ouch!" He yelled out with his hands on his head. His sister had thrown a large heavy book at him.
"Why do you always talk negatively? I wish you were still not released by your kidnapper!!" She said in sheer frustration.
"I already told you crazy people.....!" He couldn't complete his sentence because, their Carrosse made a stop in the middle of the thick tropical forest.
"Why did he stop?" Casimir asked.
"I do not know! Hey move on!!!" She yelled out but got no response.
"I am going to knock sense into this man's medulla oblongata!" She said and got out of the Carrosse furiously!!!!
"Xenia! Becareful!" Their silent mother called out in fear of loosing her second and only daughter again! She was already mourning Anastasia.
After about what seemed like ten good minutes, Xenia still hadn't made her way into the Carrosse yet!
"Now what?" Casimir asked rolling his eyes.
"Now, I take charge!".
"Huh?"
They turned their heads and then they saw him smirking at them, victoriously!!!
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