The Prince Pretentious Poposal

Nine

Nine

Fallon looked around at the chaos that surrounded her. She hates it when people talk in groups around her, she hates it when people don't make her the center of their attention but this scene she condone. After all it was what she was hoping for. Her mother always says that the world and the people in it are instruments used to make one self great, she had always tried to employ that saying in all aspects of her life. No one matters but her, she deserves the best even if she didn't work for it.

Although she had influenced people at her father's court to do her bidding, this is her greatest work so far. Creating hatred in the hearts of people for a person they haven't been seen yet.

She smiled at her brilliant plan. She will play the elites ladies like a harp when she enters her position of being Queen, she has already started.

What better way to get a rumour spreading than using a female to do it. Now all she has to do is seat back and relaxes as the ladies of the court will take over. Although she doesn't know who ken beloved is but hopefully with the lie that she just told... or rather the truth that she just stretched, she knows that whoever the girl is, she will never be accepted.

Saying that she has loved the prince since she was a child and that the Prince showed interest in her too and had been the first to talk about marriage to her then all of a sudden, the Prince started acting like he cannot stand her and when she came for the engagement, she is surprise to hear the prince say that another owns his heart. The heart he had promised to give her.

She snorted at that thought. That was so far from the truth although they would never guess. All they know is that she has always been a visitor to the palace and she moved with ken, what they don't know is that ken had always tried to get rid of her and all those times they were together was because she forced him to or because he was ordered to and her favorite one, she was pestering him. What can she say, ken was very easy to annoy and she loved annoying him and she did just that by invading his personal space.

Now the ladies will spread the news to the servants who will spread it out to the kingdom and if she is lucky, one or two council members will hear that and plead her case. If there is some thing that vexes the ladies of the court more than their disrupted romantic plays is when a love story is going astray in front of them. They would do everything to fix it.

Fallon chuckles at that thought, oh! The irony. What they don't know is that they will be destroying the real love story.

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If there was one thing that Jared hated it was looking for information especially among tight lipped people ho are hoping that their tight lip will loosen the strings of the coin bags. In this case that Jared is working on, based on the fact that he needed to be discreet and very quick in the finding the information he needed, it seems to be working perfectly fine.

He would have given up if not for the fact that anytime that thought enters his head, his mind flashes to ken face, to the bleak hopeless look that crosses his eyes when his father mentions meeting this beloved of his. To the barely contained anger that is always on his face anytime Fallon is nearby. To the pain that crosses his face every time he tells a lie to his mother on the issue of his beloved.

These tiny tells are not visible to other but are to him especially when ken takes a deep breathe and his facade of a happy care free prince with no worries drops for a minute and he looks so worn out emotionally and mentally.

He is doing this for his best friend because he knows that ken would do it to him too. He also knows that ken wishes he could be the one to meet with her, to search for her. To live a day without worrying about who sees him outside the palace without being completely surrounded by guards with him but he can't.

Jared pulled himself out of his thoughts as he looked around at the school before him. It is not one of the best either is it one of the worst but still he could get the reason why the owners would employ a lady to be teaching here. It is not normal for ladies to be working and although everybody knows that, Jared admires the courage it must have took Annabelle to start teaching a class with mostly male students and few females. It provided accommodation and he could see what attracted her to it. Nobody would suspect that she is here and where other elites females whose families has fallen descended to use their charms as females to survive, she uses her brain and if she is like this. He wonders how her father would be like.

He quickly stops a young maiden who was beautiful in a natural way to ask about the female scholar. When she provided him with an answer he will tell her that she shouldn't work at night because there are unscrupulous people around.

" 'cuse me missus. " he called out disguising his real tongue and taking the tone of a local person.

" yes. " she answers moving closer without a fear of being molested. He will also be adding that to the list of things he needs to talk to her about.

" I was looking for the female scholar. " he said the rushes to add when a worried glint enters her eyes.

" she won't be punished. My master told me to search for a female to educate his ward in his home."

" she won't accept. Tell your master that." The maid said as she started to move away.

" how do you know miss. " Jared asks her.

The maid breathes. ” because she I'd looking for wealth and a good life and the best way for that is a steady job. Although private tutoring pay well, it puts you out of a stable job. ”

" how do you know all these. " Jared asks confused. Not everybody knows that, most people might only see the present, they don't really think that far and not to sound like a chauvinist person but it certainly not suppose to be known by a maid.

” because I am the scholar. " the maid replies as Jared eyes widens.

When he finally proved that it was she, he told her of the plans and everything then sat in silence awaiting her decision while she thinks of what choice to make.

” I have made my choice" Annabelle said as Jared quickly sat up. " I will do it only if I get to see the prince first and we discuss the terms of this arrangement. "

" the Prince moves is watched these days, it will be impossible for him to meet you without a crowd and if people do see you together, they will assume that you are the girl and if you decide not to do it, the Prince will be in bigger trouble. " Jared explained while she just let her lips curve into a smile.

" then do the impossible. Make it happen without a crowd. " she says completely serious.