"Princess." Cid said, not really able to say anything else.

  Yes, he loved her! Yes, he wanted to be with her!

  She smugly smiled at him then at the ring in her hand...Then suddenly frowned.

  "Right, give me your neckce too!"

  Cid blinked, a bit shocked.

  She made him bend over a bit, and he did as she wanted, and his neckce came off.

  The neckce was also what he wanted to use as something that made him look like he had money...But...It seemed the pretty Princess had a pn.

  Watching her pce, the ring on the neckce, then put it around her neck, hiding the ring in her clothes, she then looked up and said, "I'll put it on after the engagement is officially cancelled."

  With the significance of the conversation, Cid became serious once again, "How...How can such a thing happen? You are...A Princess..."

  It was rare as it was for engagements to end with normal people, let alone a Princess! How was a Princess going to get out of it!?

  “That’s right, I’m a Princess!” She stated, smiling at him.

  My…I just keep falling…

  Cid was just about to ask her what she meant by that or what she might pn on doing, when a yell came from close by.

  “Princess! Princess Bethany!”

  Cid widened his eyes and was sure that the person yelling wasn’t that far away.

  “I know, you should go.” The Princess stated, pouting.

  Looking down at her, unable to stop his eyes from turning gentle, Cid kissed her on the forehead. “I will talk to you soon, Princess. Give me a couple of days and I’ll get in touch with you.”

  The Princess moved from side to side, looking happy and then suddenly stopped, just as Cid was nearly out of the small bush, “Where? Where do I meet you?”

  The yelling came closer, stopping Cid from answering the Princess and he just ran out, quickly wanting to get back to his horse and ride out of the area.

  He didn’t want anything bad to happen to the Princess because of him!

  The Princess came out of the bush, coming directly in front of the servant that was yelling for her, and said, “Enough.”

  She then left, leaving the servant stunned to her sudden appearance…

  Having walked up the steps and back to where most of the people were, the Princess held a secret smile.

  “Where have you been, little sister?”

  Princess Bethany smiled again at her elder brother and took his hand, wanting to speak before he said another word, “Take my side, will you?”

  Before he could ask her what she was talking about, Princess Bethany walked to be in the middle of the room and cpped her hands to get everyone’s attention.

  It took about ten seconds for the music to stop, dancers to stop dancing and for everyone to look at her.

  In that time, the Princess had searched for her so-called fiancé but had not found him in the area, making her believe that what she was going to do might actually become easier.

  “I’m sorry to stop you but this will no longer be an engagement gathering as I am withdrawing myself from the marriage!” The Princess stated with a determined and loud voice.

  Gasps were heard throughout the whole area, and it took a moment for the King to come forth and speak, “What…What are you doing!? Guards, take her away, she is speaking nonsense!”

  Princess Bethany turned to her father, with the most courage that she has ever had in her whole life, and said, “I will not marry Mr Otter, Father! Instead, I would like to do something else that will grant me my husband!”

  The King angrily stepped closer to the Princess, as she got a ring out of her dress, “I just found this, as I was wondering aimlessly around. My heart soared and the ring speaks to me like it knows I will be most happy with the maker of this ring…And for the person who knows what it is and will make a copy of it in evidence, I will marry that person!”

  A sudden noise came through the crowd and a few people wanted to get in closer to have a look at the ring. The idea seemed easy, as the ring didn’t look all that different. With a small number of people there who would be able to make a ring, they started to get excited…With the rest who had no idea on how to make a ring themselves, they wondered if they could pay someone to make a ring for them, just so that they would have the chance to marry the Princess and become royalty!

  “Preposterous!” The King yelled, once again ordering the guards to take the Princess away but…

  Prince Elton stood in between the Princess and the guards, gring at his father, “Father, please reconsider…”

  “Both…Both of you are pying games!?” The King asked angrily.

  “I dare not to py games, Father. In fact, I happen to think that the Princess has done a good deed!” Elton stated, having an idea upon what the Princess was not saying at this moment.

  He guessed that the ring was from Cid and that they had even been together just before…

  To have his little sister act this way and be so determined, Prince Elton wanted to help her, especially when he was sure that Mr Stephen Otter was not someone good for her anyway.

  “It is not of the Princess choosing, I had found her a husband and so…”

  Prince Elton interrupted the King, “Then, as the next heir to the throne I must state openly my disagreement to my sister’s chosen husband and agree with her abolishing this engagement with Mr Otter!”

  “…How dare you!” The King pointed, so angry now that he was nearly stuttering with his words.

  Prince Elton then waved at the guards, to which they stepped back, and then he walked towards his father.

  Getting close now to the King, Prince Elton lowered his voice, “Father, I have news that the business that will come under Mr Otter in the future will lose out and even already shows evidence of it. Will you not reconsider?”

  The King widened his eyes and looked at his son directly, “Is it true?”

  Prince Elton nodded his head, “Yes, Father. I’ll show better results within the week!”

  The King took in a deep breath and looked around, finding Leonard Otter looking a bit panicked, showing that this may indeed be worthy of him looking into but…

  “You have guts, my son, to talk to me like this in front of everyone!”

  Prince Elton stepped back and stood firm, “I will take any punishment, Your Majesty. If knowing of what I knew, do you bme me for speaking though? Wouldn’t you regret it if I had not said anything?”

  Without further ado, the King sighed, unable to see fws in his son’s words, and then loudly stated, “For now the engagement has been put on hold!”

  Another noise came from the crowd and the Princess frowned.

  So easily she had been over voiced and now no one probably remembers of her condition! As much as she appreciated her brother’s interference and even somehow made her father change his mind somewhat, she still felt like she had to make herself clear!

  Cpping her hands in anger, making them hurt in the process, again everyone stopped and looked at her.

  The Princess again brought out the ring, and said, “To the person who makes the same ring as this one, I will marry you and no one else!”

  Then she quickly walked off, wanting to make her statement set in iron, to even that of her father, the King!

  The one being talked of, the fiancé that may no longer be a fiancé, was currently riding after what he thought was Cid!

  How could he not try and capture this pest!?

  For a time, he had been stopped by Cid’s friend and if he hadn’t gotten away when he had he might have missed Cid riding away and been unable to go after him!

  He had personally seen the Princess be taken away because of Cid but having David touch him and pull him to a popur pce and on purposely bring up the subject of him taking over his father’s business in the future, it had gotten a lot of people wanting to please him!

  After trying to end the conversation with all of those interested people trying to satisfy him, seeing that David also wasn’t leaving his side, Steven had used personal reasons to leave the lot of people.

  After going to a certain area, knowing David was still following him, Steven had used the walls, by hiding around the corner, to give David a surprise attack and had punched David as hard as he could!

  Seeing that David was slowed, that was when Steven finally got away and thought that it would be best to wait for Cid near the front of the pace, only to make it there just in time to see him leave!

  Oh, he was angry indeed!