A Night With The King

The best part of everything was that they listened to her with interest, which made it easy for her to speak with more confidence, she didn’t even think about looking Lance’s way as the conversations went on and when she finally looked at him, he had a proud smile on his face.

Sophie had seen Lance smile a lot over the past months that they had been together but this smile carried so much more power, she wanted to do more to see him smile like that. After Sophie was done talking, everyone applauded her, even Patrick was clapping when she looked his way. not just clapping, he was smiling too. After they had that talk where he apologized, they have been cool with each other and now even talk to each other even when Lance isn’t present. Getting to know Patrick, Sophie realized he was a good man, just too strict sometimes. She enjoys it when he tells Lance off or nags him because of something he wants him to do. It was always fun to watch them go off.

“You did well today, I am so proud of you,”

Lance said when it was just the two of them, Sophie smiled, still amazed by how well the meeting with the elders had gone. Lance stretched out his hand for her, and she got out of her seat fast and walked to him, he got up when she got to him and hugged her.

“I am so proud of you, love, I didn’t need to say anything because you did so well,”

He said, patting shoulders, she felt relief.

“I did it, I am proud of myself too,”

Sophie replied. The door to the throne room opened again and Sophie almost jumped out of his arms but Lance refused to let her go.

“Oh, the love birds, hi your majesty, hi future queen of Otano,”

Sophie recognized the voice even before she turned around in Lance’s arms because he still didn’t let her go. The princess was waving at her when she did. She looked beautiful as always and had such a friendly smile on her face.

“My princess,”

Sophie greeted out of respect.

“Oh my God, don’t do that, your rank is about to be higher than mine, it nice to have you back, your man almost lost his mind and almost killed mine,”

The princess said. Sophie looked at her and then to Lance who was also confused by the last sentence she had made. Patrick walked in at that moment; he was holding a bag that clearly belonged to the princess.

“Wait, you two are together? Since when?”

Lance asked the question that was burning in her head, he finally eased out of the hug but he reached out for her hand.

“Oh, that came out, yes, I stole him from you, do you have a problem with that?”

The princess asked Lance who laughed.

“Not really, I am just shocked because you two weren’t getting along a while ago, and now you are together? Crazy how I find out from you and not from my supposed best friend,”

Lance directed his attention at Patrick.

“We were caught up with other things that I didn’t have time to tell you, I am sorry Lance,”

Patrick said.

“Whatever, babe, the princess is here to see you,”

Lance said, turning to her. Sophie stared at him in confusion.

“Me?”

She questioned, wondering why the princess wanted to see her.

“Yes, I figured you could use a friend, I know you have Riley but I wanted you to have someone else you could talk to and Roseline is perfect for that. Plus, I think you both have a wedding to plan, it might be two if Patrick plays his game right,”

Lance explained to her with the sweetest smile ever, when she looked in the direction of the princess again, she had a smile on her face. Sophie knew she would be a good friend, she turned back to Lance and nodded.

“Thank you,”

“Anything for you my love,”

He said and kissed her softly on the lips, an audible aww from her new friend. He let her go and she turned to the princess.

“Where can we talk? Just the two of us? I have a lot to talk to you about,”

The princess said in an excited voice.

“Hmm, I guess the emerald house, it is my favorite place in the palace,”

Sophie told her.

“Wait, not our bedroom? I thought that was your favorite place,”

Lance chirped. Sophie gave him a look.

“We are talking about a place where I can hang out with my friend, kind sir. If you don’t mind, I would like to go with my friend now,”

Sophie said in a cheery voice that got all of them laughing. She walked to the princess who collected her bag from Patrick and together they walked out of the throne room, leaving their men behind.

Sophie led the princess to the emerald house. The first thing they did was get to know each other a little more. Sophie told the princess about herself and also found out about the princess who was the last child of her family and the rebel. She also found out she moved to Otano permanently, partly because of her new business and mainly because of her man, Patrick. Sophie could see the love in her eyes when she spoke about Patrick. The princess had such cool tales to tell and she was hell of funny. There was no chance for awkwardness between them. It was as if they were met to be friends.

“I knew we would get along. I did well talking his majesty into letting us be friends,”

The princess’ words shocked her. it was surprising that she was the one who asked for them to be friends.

“You asked him to let us be friends?”

She couldn’t help asking.

“Yeah, as I said, I just moved to Otano and I intended to stay here, I find peace here, my business here is doing so well and my boyfriend lives here too, I needed someone who I could relate with and you were the only one that came to mind, I asked Patrick and he told me to speak with your man, he agreed when I did and that’s how we ended up here,”

The princess explained.

“Thank you for choosing to be my friend, I need someone who knows about this royal life because I am an amateur,”

“I might not be of much help to you but I will do the best I can, ask me anything and I will do my best to help you, thank you for agreeing to be my friend too,”

The princess replied. Sophie smiled. Everything was going so well for her, now she has a new friend too.

“Aha, now we have to talk about your photo shoot,”

The princess announced, Sophie stared at her in confusion.

“What shoot?”

“You don’t plan on having a maternal shoot? Does that mean you don’t have a baby shower planned? I am guessing you are about six months gone, that leaves just three months until the royal heir is born,”

The princess calculated. Sophie didn’t have any of those plans.

“I don’t have any plans.

“Girl, we have to change that, plus the wedding too. Since it’s a royal wedding, it has to be done before the prince or princess is born,”

“Princess,”

Sophie informed her.

“Lovely, can I be the godmother? I know we just became friends.”

The princess asked.

“Of course, Patrick is the godfather, it is only right that you be the godmother, it will be an honor, Rosy,”

Sophie responded.

“I like you a lot. So on to the maternal shoot,”

The princess said and they went into full discussion. The idea of a shoot never came to her before but while talking about it with the princess, she ended up liking the idea and they even went as far as surfing the internet for inspiration. There was a lot to choose from. For the baby shower, Sophie told her she would speak to Lance about it before making a decision, and as for the wedding, it was a national affair so she was sure once the date was fixed, everything would fall in place. In the case of the wedding, she couldn’t really decide because even if she wanted a small wedding, she knew that was not going to be possible given the man she was marrying. Having a big wedding was the little sacrifice she would make to be with Lance and she was willing to do it. She knew just how huge and how much of a big affair it had been when Roseline and Lance’s wedding that didn’t happen was planned. She didn’t get first-hand experience but she knew it had been a huge deal. She didn’t expect hers to be any different.