I wonder what had happened in the past since the Queen and Nolan do not seem happen about the new development.

We three ride to school together in one of the limousines. Reporters run after us asking questions as soon as we alight the car. Thank God for guards. I'm so not going to get used to this new life.

Henry place his arm over my shoulders, giving me a warm smile. "I'm so happy I'm closer to you."

"Yeah, me too. I won't have to be bored in that lonely place." I smile at him. Just ahead were our friends scowling. 

"Uh oh. Here comes trouble," Henry murmurs.

"For who?" I whisper back. I gulp when I lock eyes with Vickie.

"Anna Bill and Henry Milner," Vickie greets with a cold look as she regards us. She let her arms fold across her chest. I got married to her crush. She must hate me.

"Hey guys." I fake a smile.

"Don't 'hey' us, how could you? Didn't you think we deserve to know? We're your friends." Kim fumes.

"Not here," Henry murmurs.

"Yeah and what about you? You knew and both of you kept it from us," Brianne asks, with a hurt look.

"People are watching. Let's go somewhere more private." Guilt ate at me. I take Vickie's hand in mine, giving her a pleading look.

She roughly jerks my hand away and says, "Don't bother about it. I don't know about the others but I've got a class to go to." Vicki storms away with Kim trailing after her.

"That wasn't cool l, Anna. You should have told us but you must have had a reason not to, right?" Brianne sighs heavily.

I nod and apologize, "It's been a crazy week."

"You should go to Vicki, she's really upset," She puts her arm in mine, smiling, "By the way, you owe a whole pack of gist. How's the Prince? Speaking of Prince, why were you with the royal entourage, Henry?" She eyes him warily.

He rubs the back of his neck. "Uhm- I uh- "

"Form words, Mister." She snaps her fingers in his face.

"Lemme just tell you. Henry is a Prince. He's Nolan's cousin." I slowly say.

"What?!"

I spend the rest of my day giving autographs and taking pictures with people who wouldn't have lend me a pen a week earlier. I was invited to different social parties I knew I wouldn't attend and had many fake friends. Really fake people who only want to hang out with me so as to get close to 'super hot Prince Nolan'. Talk about cheap. All they want to talk about is Nolan this and Nolan that. Ugh.

I finally have time to myself when it was lunch. I might have kind of bribed Kim with chocolate bars. I bought for two bowls of ice cream and set to look for Vickie. Kim tells me she is in the school garden.

And there she was, scribbling furiously in her sketchbook.

"Hey Vickie," I greet, sitting beside her on the bench. She ignores me and continues scribbling.

"The silent treatment, really Vickie?"

She continues to ignore me. I sigh and open the ice cream bowl. "Guess I'll just sit here eating this two bowls of ice cream by myself. Summer swirl, just the way you like it." I moan as I place the sweet creamy stuff in my mouth. "Hmm, so good. The best ice cream in the world. So delicious."

She turns and glare at me. "Really, Anna? Ice cream?" She gets up, pinching her nose.

"Your favorite ice cream," It came out like a question instead.

"You didn't tell me about your royal life and come to school in a freaking limo. I had to find out about you from the newscaster on tv that had on terrible makeup, do you think that's fair?" I shook my head but she went on pacing from one spot to the other.

"I couldn't believe it so I call your number and hallelujah, it was switched off. I texted and called like crazy trying to convince myself that it was your doppelganger but no it was you. I'm mad at you and you have the guts to bring me summer swirl?!" She stops and face me.

I gulp hard,"yes?"

She growls, "You got married to the guy I like. How could you?!"

For a moment, I thought she was going to bury me six feets under. Instead she grabs a bowl of ice cream. "If I wasn't such a sucker for this I would have killed you," She says, licking her spoon.

"Thanks, Vickie."

"You ain't off the hook yet."

I give her my best puppy eyes.

"Ugh, please stop." She sits down and sigh. "You know what's worse? That little princess in Mirror Of The Witch died. I'm so heartbroken. My bestie didn't tell me she was getting married and favorite character died." She sobs, stuffing herself with ice cream.

I pat her shoulder. "In the movie or real life?"

"Of course it's in the movie."

I fight the urge to laugh out loud but lose miserably.

"By the way," she sniffle,"tell me all that had happened and start from the beginning."

"It's been crazy-" I tell her of Guy, the mafia dude sending his men to our house, the man from the bank, how I realised I was supposed to marry Nolan, my mom not being my mom, my 'adventures' in the palace.  "Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it then I think of my dad and shake off the thoughts. My mom will always be my mom even if she's my aunt. I'm scared of finding out what really happened to my bio mom. It's been crazy."

"Wow. I'm so jealous of you. So much drama in a week."

I scoff and smile at her. She returns my smile.

"I'm sorry for being mad at you." she hugs me.

"Nah, you have every right to be mad. I'm married to the love of your life."

Her eyes are glassy but she blinks back tears and clears her throat. "Do I? Do I really?" She laughs a little and sigh. She frowns slightly then turn to me, "Why was Henry with you?"

"Ah," I say slowly, "here comes the bomb. Henry Milner, bless his soul,"I say dramatically, "is a Prince. He's sort of Nolan's cousin."

I watch as her eyes grew big. She let out a piercing scream chasing away birds. "What in the effing world did you say?"

"What you heard darling," I lick my spoon and dip it back into the bowl to scoop another.

"Oh my God. But why? When?  How? Why?"

"I don't know but we could ask Google. I don't want to go back to those archives." I shudder at the thought of reading those books again.

"Is it just me or are you like some magnet to these royals?"

"It would be very wrong for me to say 'Eww' now, wouldn't it?"

"Very." She bobs her head wide eyed. "But you know you are sort of lucky. You've got two hot guys for you. You are married to one and the other loves you."

"Vickie, this is no soap opera, besides here is another bomb."

"I'm all hears."

I look around for anyone who might want to eavesdrop but no one except Vickie and I. It seem silly leaning to her whispering in her ear but still- "Nolan has a girlfriend."

She gasped and choke, starting to cough. "Oh my.. "

I pat her back. "You okay?"

"Yeah," she nods, "Do you know who she is?"

"He called her Aubrey but I'm not sure if she's the Aubrey I think it is or not."

"Aubrey Lancaster?  The gymnast?" When I nod, she shakes her, "It can't be her, can it? Maybe it's another Aubrey. I mean he lived in Andorra for a year, right?"

"Aubrey Lancaster went to Andorra last year for some competition so-"

"Let's just keep our fingers crossed."

We walk back together to class and it feels good. I with my three best friends against the world. Okay, that kinda sounds like the movie  Assassination Nation. But then my life is sort of between adventure and horror right now.

Not as exciting as it sounds though.

Giggling, we tease each other well until Kim gasps bringing us to a stop. "Anna, look."

I couldn't believe it. I thought of it but I couldn't believe it was true. Ahead of us are Nolan and Aubrey Lancaster hugging. I pinch myself but they are still there. I know he has a girlfriend but it is more shocking to see it in person.

"Well this is going to be very, very, very interesting," Brianne says. I could practically see the wheels in her head turning.

But then again, it would be very interesting.

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