<span style="color: #00BFFF">As I looked over at Gabe brightly I noticed him looking at me and his laughed died down slowly. He was looking deep in into my eyes and I was doing the same with his perfectly sky blue eyes. Oh how I could just stair at them for hours on end like this. I Have never seen a pair of blue eyes so crystal like and clear as his, I could almost look within in and find out all the little information a secretes he kept within. Unlike any other eyes I looked into, when I looked into his I felt his strange floaty feeling that made we want to smile all the time. That every little problem I had, just went away, like they where nothing. It was a strange feeling and not one i'm quite used too. <br/><br/>In fact I have notice many strange new feelings, as i'v been out of the Castle walls. Most of them have been around Gabe too. I know that the feelings I have are ones that a Princess shouldn't be having, but when i'm with him I just can't help myself. In the very short amount of time that I have known him I feel like I have grown more as a women. I can't help myself wondering if he has any kind of the feelings that I have for him, even though i'm not 100% what my feelings towards him are. His completely different from what i'm used too and I like it. His like a breath of fresh air after a winters thunder storm or that crisp sound when you first walk in a patch of fresh snow. Something beautiful and wonderful. <br/><br/>The mention of that word 'Girly'. Each time he said that I just can't help but smile brightly. I have grown to him saying it and I wouldn't want him to call me by anything else anymore. It's funny how just a few short days ago I hated him calling me a girly, I insisted many of times for him to call me Lady or even by my name but he still chose to call me it. I'm glad now that he decided to stick to that nickname, a nickname I guessed that was only used for me. This fact made a slight tingle run though my body, a little something from him just from me. <br/><br/>I watched Gabe as he talked about what he would like to learn. More magic is understandable, even I want to know more about and I don't even have the gift too. Fly. Now that wasn't something I would of though him wanting to try and do. Fly why no one could fly, only birds could, well as far as I know. Perhaps there was some kind of Magic where people could fly like...like birds. I was distracted with my thought when I saw him raise his harms like wings. I didn't giggle, nor laugh or smirk, I simple looked at him with a warm and gently smile. When he started to change the topic a felt a slight sigh drawn upon me. I quite like the idea that he was thinking out side the box. Acting like a child and coming up with strange and wonderful things. After all half the time I myself acted in that way. I loved to think of impossible things and what if is, like I was my own story character. <br/><br/>A medic. Now that would be ideal for him. After all he did heel may hand wonderfully and my ankle was feeling slightly better without it being twice the size it once was. Though like he pointed out, magic was banned and he would be punished bad for doing something against the law. "If magic could be allowed, I think you would make a wonderful Medic." I said warmly to lighten up the mood. Son I turned my gaze back onto my ankle. It was nice to see it back at it's normal size. I was distracted from my ankle when Gabe had talked to me again. He didn't give me any chance to reply to his question so a smiled brightly instead and enjoyed the new found information that he was bout to tell me about himself. I had no doubt that this story was going to be both enjoyable and funny. <br/><br/>I watched as he come close to me and gently took hold of my ankle, for some reason I found myself looking at his eyes and face other then my ankle. I found the way his lips moved and his eyes dance with amusement was more interesting then what ever magic he was going to preform onto my ankle. A few time I couldn't help but laugh, not because I though I should but because I just couldn't contain it. The way he told his story was so care free and fun loving. I could imagine every single thing he said from him climbing the tree to get away from the butcher to him splashing into the water and having to swim his way home away from the bees and the hungry bear. Once his story finished I was laughing so much that I had tears rolling down my eyes and the brightest of smile on my lips. <br/><br/>"Your an amazing story telling Gabe." I said warmly once I had calmed down from my laughter. I hadn't even notice that he was healing my ankle when he said to me that I was all fixed up. I looked down at my ankle in shock and even moved it around a little to see if what he said was true, and it was. My ankle no longer hurt though there was a slight strange feel to it, but nothing I couldn't handle. I gave a light giggle at his joke towards me climbing trees and if I was to go swimming to start in shallow water. "Thank you. And don't worry I want do any of that till i'm all healed." I replied happily. For some reason I had the urge to huge him. I knew that I shouldn't but I just wanted to say thank in a way that I would normally. <br/><br/>As he helped me up I smiled across at him. I wonder what he would do if I was to hug him. Would he hug me back or pull me away? Would it be awkward or natural for him? I was distracted from my thoughts as he offered me help into town. "Thank you.." I said and I was about to hug him when he leaned down and collected my shoes and stockings. When he was standing strait I smiled as a wrapped my arms around his neck gently and rest against his body, pulling him into a gently hug. As we parted I smiled warmly across at him and even let out a small giggle. "Come on..." I said cheerfully as I wrapped my arm around his for support. Although there was no pain to my ankle there was no need for me to over do it by placing to much weight on it so soon. I smiled cheerfully as we walked though the forest. My bear feet meeting the earthy grand gently. It was strange but I liked the feeling of the grass and dirt between my toes. I don't get much of a chance to do this in the castle as i'm mostly being watched, so it was a nice change. </span><br/><br/><br/><span style="color: #8000FF">I stopped and stiffened so quickly when she hugged me she must have noticed even though she didnâ€™t comment. Polite proper people didnâ€™t comment on things like that anyway so I hadnâ€™t expected her to comment but I also hadnâ€™t expected her to hug me. Well-bred people didnâ€™t usually hug people they didnâ€™t know and certainly not people like me. Come to think of it no one hugged me. The closest I got to being hugged was tackled by the children in the village. Of course as far as well-bred people and hugging, I couldnâ€™t make that claim definitively. I supposed they didnâ€™t but not actually being brought up that way or ever disguised as such when a hug would be appropriate to the best of my knowledge it could be a perfectly acceptable way to say something as simple as good morning, or how are you, or farewell. It seemed that for her it was perfectly natural even if it wasnâ€™t for me. <br/><br/>She backed away from the hug so fast I didnâ€™t even have the time to decide if I wanted to pull away or not. It wasnâ€™t an automatic reaction either way. She must have realized how stunned I was considering that even after a minute I stood perfectly still and didnâ€™t start moving again until she told me to come on. As she wrapped her arm around me I was startled for a moment thinking she might hug me again but it was just so I could help support her this time. I realized I was almost disappointed that she wasnâ€™t going to hug me again. I guess that decided what I would do next time she decided to hug me if she ever did that was. <br/><br/>We started making our way almost silently through the woods. I listened fro birds and other creatures. I enjoyed listening to the woods when the animals were about. We were far enough from the road and silent enough on our feet that the animals werenâ€™t disturbed by anything. After a long while of contemplation as we walked I felt that maybe it would be better if we talked. I didnâ€™t mind the silence in fact that was the problem. I was the type of person who usually found silence almost oppressive unless I was alone. With Katherine well the silence was nice and almost comforting. I needed noise before I started to get nostalgic domestic fantasies about the two of us. People like her did not end up with people like me! <br/><br/>We walked a bit farther getting close to the road before I finally decided on a topic. â€œYou said that you thought I would make a good medic if magic was allowed.â€ I kept my voice low so no one would hear me mention magic though I could feel that no one was around. â€œDo you think I could do it without magic?â€ I had always wanted to be a healer of sorts. I knew I couldnâ€™t do it by way of magic, but even if all I could do to help people get better was food I tried. I wanted to do something useful and the most useful thing I could think of would be to help heal the people who needed it. The only way I knew how to do that right now though was magic. <br/><br/>I had a momentary vision of me in my grimy cloths and bare feet walking into a library to do some assignment on the healing properties of lilac. I shook myself back to reality. Yeah right me a real medic they would take one look at me at the schools of medicine and think I was there to be treated not to learn I would never be let into a place like that. I let a derisive laugh fall from my lips. â€œForget I asked. For a moment I forgot who I was. Schools of medicine are meant for second or third sons of well-born men. Iâ€™m the son of . . . well it doesnâ€™t matter what my parents did Iâ€™m not a gentlemen they would as soon throw me out of such a place as look at me.â€ I didnâ€™t want to hear her confirmation of what I knew would happen if I tried to get medical training. <br/><br/>I needed a new topic. Talking about myself was too dangerous I had learned that since we had started this little adventure. I wanted to tell her more about myself about things I didnâ€™t share with anyone. I wanted to tell her about my parents what my life had been like before they left and how much I missed them still. It was for this reason that I knew I had to talk about something other than myself. Wasnâ€™t it her turn to talk about herself again anyway? We really shouldnâ€™t be talking about me this close to the road anyway. I was to tempted to do and talk about magic with her since I hadnâ€™t been able to share it with anyone since my grandmother died. <br/><br/>They were about to get to the road. I pulled her behind a tree and sat her down. I didnâ€™t have a problem walking on the road in my bare feet but I had years of practice and unless I was much mistaken this was the most walking she had ever done barefoot in her life. I swiftly knelt and replaced her stocking and shoe. It might pinch her foot a bit while it continued to heal, but she couldnâ€™t very well walk down the street in bare feet like I did. She didnâ€™t know how to avoid the rocks and such that were in the road and walking barefoot wasnâ€™t dignified anyway. It didnâ€™t matter in the woods it wasnâ€™t likely that anyone would see us there and there usually wasnâ€™t anything hard one needed to avoid. <br/><br/>After she was again presentable and I was at least a bit more put together than I had been a few moments before I walked her in silence back to the market. It was later than I wanted if I was going to exchange the earrings and I had already used more magic than I really should in a day if I didnâ€™t want to be drained. I wasnâ€™t sure how long I would be able to hold the complicated glamour of a gentleman if I tried right now. Instead I lead her down the back way around the back of the stalls. I grabbed two oranges tossed her one and gave her a smile before I disappeared into the crowd. <br/><br/>I went through the motions of a thief. I made my rounds pilfering bits of bread and fruit from the assorted stands. I traded pelts and feathers from some of m kills from earlier in the week to get money for the things that were more dangerous to steal. I quickly blended into the street scene keeping my eyes on her the whole time. She probably lost track of me and that was just as I liked it but I wasnâ€™t letting Katherine get out of my sight. There was something she wasnâ€™t telling me and I was going to find out what it was in order to do that I would have to fallow her though. I can only hope I wonâ€™t regret this decision.</span><br/><br/><br/><span style="color: #00BFFF">It was quite a nice walk, even if we staid silent for the most part. It gave me the chance to think about my thoughts and enjoy the noises of nature. I was thinking about the way Gabe reacted to my hug. He didn't react, I don't know what I thought he would do, maybe places his arms around me lightly...or even push me away but he did,nothing. He just stood there froze like he hadn't a clue what I was doing. Perhaps he had never been hugged before, but surly he must have right? It wasn't like he was unattractive or even mean. He cared for the children in his village and everyone else, he was very attractive with his charming smile and sky blue eyes, many ladies must had found him appealing in way or the other. <br/><br/>My thoughts faded as soon as my eyes meet with a wild deer, it was one of the most wonderful things I had ever seen. Along side Gabe's magic. It was standing proud among the trees and bushes, with the gently suns rays that broke through the tops of the tree lighting up his figure. Within the castle walls the only bit of wildlife I get to see are birds, frogs, bugs and the odd rabbit. The walls are to big to let anything bigger in like deer, which is a shame really as I find them quite beautiful looking across the one my eyes had laid upon. As look over at the deer, Gabe started to talk and he drew my attention towards him. His voice was gently and calm, like a whisper almost, so the deer didn't shot off as he spoke. <br/><br/>I smiled at Gabe warmly, it was clear to me that Gabe had thought a lot about becoming a Medic and it seemed to be something that he would really want to do, and why not? Although he had asked me to forget about the matter I wanted to still here my opinion. "I think if you put your mind to anything Gabe you'll be able to do it. " I said in a gently voice to match his. "I myself can't why you couldn't. I think you would be quite wonderful at it, wither you was to use magic or not. After all there isn't a great difference to remedies and potions." I looked over at him more closely as I continued to talk. "Your a wonderful person Gabe, and the schools of medicine would be silly not to have someone like you in there school learning the trade." It really upset me that he thought he wouldn't get in because of his image. I hated the fact that everything was based on ones image. <br/><br/>I meant every word I said and I just hope that he knew that. He seemed to have the perfect hands for the job anyways, not just because of his magic, but because they where soft, warm and welcoming. Not to mention the fact he already looks after people and so many people trust them with there live, like me for one. Although I have just met him a few days ago, I would indeed trust him with my live, like I have done so many times already. I don't think that he has a bad bone in his body, not truly anyways. He may act sometimes that he was this be bad wolf who liked to rob people but he did it all for a good course and never for himself. In my eyes he was like some kind of Knight, hiding in the showdowns away from prying eyes. Hrm, he really wouldn't make a bad Knight. <br/><br/>I was happily daydreaming Gabe as a Knight when he had pulled me behind a tree. At first I was confused at what he was doing, but all made since when he swiftly knelt down. I had almost forgot that I was slightly barefooted. A swarm and content smile appeared on my lips that I wasn't that aware of. I loved the way he gently slid on my stocking and placed on my shoe, it was hard to explain why but I just did. Even after everything he had done for me that day, he still looked after me, making sure I was dressed the proper way and also so that I would stand on anything sharp without hurting myself. Come to think of it, he might have only done that so he wouldn't have to keep using magic on me, but either way I was grateful. <br/><br/>By the time we reached the market it was later then I thought it was. The sun was now starting to set over the castle walls and I would have to return home shortly. The fact of this made a small sigh escape my lips. I found myself not wanting to leave Gabe, I always seemed to have so much fun when i'm around him. As I looked over at him, he threw me an orange and gave me a sweet gently smile, I knew this was wear our path together would end. I looked back down at the orange smiling, I was about to say thank you for everything that he had done for me that day again but found he had gone, with as little trace as possible. I couldn't help but look around the market for him but I just couldn't seem to spot him. <br/><br/>I decided to look around the market a little longer. I brought a few books and some more of those delightful oranges. Every so often I couldn't help but look around the market in hopes to spot him again, but each time failing. About another hour later I decided it was best for me to head home, but to my life as a Princess. I sighed lightly at the thought but made my way to the path that lead me to my hole. With each step I took I want to run another six in the opposite direction. Now that I had a taste of this freedom I wanted all. Looking over the high wall where you could just see the tall towers (one in which was my very own) It seemed to look more beautiful on this side if the wall. Now that I knew I could leave when I wished, or all most when I wished, I could start see why some people loved the look of the place. <br/><br/>Not to far away from my hole my white rabbit appeared. "Hello Sir Woodville" I said to him as I bent down and picked him up. He had become a dear friend of mine . After all he had shown me my freedom and I owned everything to this little fluffy creature, so I found his name fitting for him. "Came to help me home I see, How kind" I added with a small giggle as I stroked his soft fur. There was a sudden noise in the woods and both me and the rabbit stayed still. I took a step closer to the woods and looked deep inside of it but saw no one. "Hello?" I shouted into the woods opening it was just some kind of animal. When I heard nothing call back I decided that I was only being silly and it must had been that Deer from earlier that day. "Come on, let's go home." I said to the rabbit and we walked a little further down the path. <br/><br/>Standing in front of the gap in the wall I looked around me just to make sure there was no one watching me. The last thing I needed was for something to find out who I am. God knows what they would do to me. Placing the rabbit on the floor I knelt down on my hands and knees. I pulled out my Crown and held it in my hands. I sighed as a ran my fingers across the jewels. "I guess it's time to go back. Mother and Father would be wondering where I gotten to if i'm late for dinner." I said to the rabbit as I placed my crown on my head lightly. I waited for the rabbit to hop inside the hole first before I flowed it through with the basket in front of me. As I made it back I looked around the castle grounds. It seemed so much duller now I was back on this side again. I picked up Sir Woodville and headed up the neatly tamed path. <br/><br/>"OH! there you are Princess Woodville!" My maid cried out to me when she saw me. Had I really been that late back? "I have been looking all over the castle for you Kathrine." She added with a light huff. "I'm sorry Mary, really I am. I got distracted with Sir Woodville." I replied in a cool tone as I stroked him lightly. "I was readying a book and seeing if he liked oranges" I added as I realized what else I was holding. Mary shock her had at me and told me to place Sir Woodville down and wash my hands before dinner. I did what she asked and watched as it went back though the gape to it's freedom once more. "HURRY UP!". Mary shouted which made me jump. "Coming!" I replied sweetly and quickly court up with her and headed inside. </span><br/><br/><br/><span style="color: #8000FF">I kept a close eye on her doing my best to be silent and invisible, but with all the people I didnâ€™t need magic to help me disappear. I could tell when she lost sight of me. I thought she almost saw me a few times after that, but since she looked away quickly it seemed fairly obvious that she didnâ€™t know it was me; if she noticed me at all. Years of moving swiftly and silently were paying off in a completely new way at the moment. I had never really bothered trying to hide from people who knew me as well as she did, but it was sort of gratifying to know that I could do so if the occasion ever came again where I would need to do so. <br/><br/>I watched as she made her way from the market. I tucked the last of my items in my bag and made sure no fellow thief had stolen the earrings I was still carrying in my innermost pocket. The treasures were safe and I silently fallowed her. She was keeping secrets and people might not pry in her world, but I didnâ€™t live in her world. I kept to the heavy wooded area that ran next to the road. I knew she would be traveling by the road because that was where we had crossed paths twice now. She had to either be from a neighboring kingdom that was the only thing that made sense. <br/><br/>As we neared the castle I forgot to watch my feet and stepped in a rather large patch of dry leaves. I knew she would hear it. It probably frightened off half the animals in the area. I didnâ€™t have time to duck behind a tree like I usually would. I instead cast a disillusionment spell as fast as I could. She walked towards me and held my breath. I was terrified she could hear my heart it was beating so hard. She was very close now. She called out to find out if someone was there. I was tempted to call back to her just to see her jump at the fact that I could turn invisible but then I wouldnâ€™t see where she was going. I had to know what she was keeping from me. She finally turned around and continued. I let out the breath I had been holding. <br/><br/>I was thoroughly confused. She was kneeling by the castle wall. I had used it as a backrest occasionally to watch the traffic on the road but she was facing the wrong way for that and it looked like she was searching for something. I kneeled down and moved closer to the road to try and get a better look. I still had the charm so she shouldnâ€™t be able to see me even if I was right in front of her, but no need to be that reckless. <br/><br/>It turned out to be a very good thing I wasnâ€™t right in front of her or she would have heard my sharp intake of breath. This had to be some kind of joke. Only the royal family wore crowns and she couldnâ€™t be part of the royal family I would know. She was probably some visiting dignitary the daughter of a diplomat or some such. That didnâ€™t really explain the crown, but there was no way she was royalty. <br/><br/>She slipped through a hole in the wall and I ran across the road. I had to know more. I racked my brain before I remembered the clear as glass spell. It didnâ€™t work so well on things this thick but it would allow me to see through the wall for the most part. I watched as she headed up the path. I heard clearly a maid call to her. Princess Woodville! How could I have been so stupid? My Katherine Woods and the princess Katherine Woodville were the same person. I canâ€™t remember the last time I felt so dumb. She was probably sitting in her tower after meeting me laughing about it all. The love struck peasant boy who didnâ€™t know she was the princess. Well I wasnâ€™t going to be her toy her charity case. I had been taking care of myself just fine before I met her and I would continue to do so. I had planned to forget her and now I knew why it had been a good idea. <br/><br/>~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <br/><br/>It had been ten days since I last spoke with her. I had seen her a few times, but turned before she saw me. I hadnâ€™t gone back to the market without a disguise afraid she would recognize me. I hadnâ€™t used the disguise of the young lord again either just in case. I had gotten the opportunity to trade the earrings a few days ago. I got a very good price on them as well. <br/><br/>I was pulling my hood up as I put the final touches on my disguise for today. I hadnâ€™t seen her in two days. I was hoping she had gotten over her rebellious streak and stopped venturing out, but I thought that wasnâ€™t very likely. I was getting better at ignoring her, but I couldnâ€™t keep up this act forever. I was still angry though so it would be better if I tried not to have some kind of confrontation with her. <br/><br/>I was almost done when something hit my head and broke my concentration causing the well-constructed glamour I had spent the better part of an hour on all fall away in about three seconds. I would have to reconstruct the whole thing now. I pulled down my hood and glared up into the trees. â€œHey Iâ€™m walking down he . . .â€ It was then that I realized who it was. Why was she up in a tree anyway wasnâ€™t she supposed to be in some ivory tower being waited on hand and foot? <br/><br/>I pulled my hood back up and took a few steps to put myself on the other side of the tree. I growled not sure if I was angry with myself or with her. I turned back to her tree and swept a bow. â€œExcuse me your highnessâ€ I made the title sounds like an insult as I walked away towards the market not even bothering to reconstruct my disguise I had been working on it to avoid her seeing me anyway. </span><br/><br/><br/><span style="color: #00BFFF">Throughout the last week or so I had ventured out of the castle walls a mere four times. No where as near as much I would like. Thought I had to be carful, a few times I had almost been court, but luckily manage to disguise my motives. Iâ€™ve had to pick my days perfectly, so that I know everyone would be too busy to know that I had been gone for such a long period of time. Weekends seemed to be the hardest as my parents tend to like me to spend so time with them. <br/><br/>It was a warm and beautiful Monday morning and I manage to get away from the castle and itâ€™s walls with ease. Mondays always seemed to be a busy day, for everyone. Since it was such a lovely day I thought I would enjoy the beautiful nature, instead of going to the market like I had done the last few times. All in which I hadnâ€™t seen Gabe. In fact I hadnâ€™t seen him in almost eleven days. It wasnâ€™t like I was looking out for him, ok so maybe I would keep and eye out for him but I had always thought that we would just bump into one another, like we normally did. Sadly that hadnâ€™t been the case and I found myself slightly at a loose end. It wasnâ€™t much fun being out and about freely without someone else to enjoy it with. <br/><br/>Walking along the road I headed into the forest, not to far away from the market. If I was to listen carefully I could hear the chatter of the people, and the good shouts of the market store owners yelling there offers out to the customers that walked by. It I was to take a deep slow breath in I could also get the lovely scent of freshly baked cakes and bread. Although I wasnâ€™t that far from the market I still got the chance to admire the wonderful wildlife, which I seemed to grow quite attached too. <br/><br/>Just like as if I was thirteen again I climbed up a nice looking tree at sat down on itâ€™s thick branches looking around at my view. There were lushes colours of greens and even the odd hint of pink and white blossom from some of the beautiful fruit trees that where hidden away by the greater larger trees. Happily I laid my back against the trunk of the tree and allowed my leg to hand gently over the edge of the branch and swing gently. I could feel the warm suns rays shinning through the gaps of the trees and warming up parts for my body. I allowed my hand to flutter in and out of the light for a while till something court my eye. <br/><br/>It was a small Magpie and it had only landed a few branches across from me. By the birdâ€™s size I could tell that it was this years hatchlings and it hand the cutes little feather sticking out on its head. I smiled over to it happily as I continued to swing my leg gently. Soon I found myself playing game. To see how far I could get my shoe to balance on my toes, whilst my leg every so gently. I thought I was doing quite well till I swung my leg a little to much and my shoe went flying down to the ground, though I was surprised to hear it hit something else, other then the ground below. <br/><br/>When I heard the voice I looked down from my branch I was on. There was a hooded figure below but itâ€™s voice sounded somewhat familiar, but could I had just been imagining things? As the hooded figure pulled back his hood I realized I wasnâ€™t imagining things, it really was Gabe! I was sure that the look upon my face went from confused to delight within a second or so. Before I could even get a chance to say anything or do anything he had placed his hood up and walked round to the other side of the tree. Now why would he do that? <br/><br/>I moved around the tree so that I was now facing him again. As I did I swore I heard him growl. What was the matter with him? With the way he was acting I thought he might have not wanted to bump into me. Ok perhaps being hit over the bed with a shoes isnâ€™t the best way to bump into someone but still, I thought we where friends. I was about to ask if he was alright when he took a bow. At first I thought that he was just playing around with me, liked he normally did but then he said the strangest thing to me, and it was in a tone I was used to him speaking in. It was bitter and unwelcoming, nothing like the last time he spoke to meâ€¦ <br/><br/>WAIT! What did he say? Did he just say highness? My heart stopped beating for a moment. No he couldnâ€™t have said that. Well maybe he did but still there was no way he knew I really was a highnessâ€¦right? As soon as I digested this I notice that he was no longer standing below me but walking off towards the market. Quickly I climbed down the tree with surprising elegance and ran after him. â€œWait Gabeâ€¦â€ When I finally court up with him and stood in his way of his path. â€œWhat was all that about?â€ I tried not to seem panicked or alarmed and that I was more amused by what he said then anything else, but I knew it might not look that way. â€œYou know Iâ€™m just a ladyâ€¦.?â€ That was meant to be a statement not a question but I couldnâ€™t help but wonder. My heart was panicking with worry. What if some how he did find out? What would happen then? </span><br/><br/><br/><span style="color: #8000FF">I walked away as fast as I dared. I could offend a royal, but I didnâ€™t trust myself to even be around her. It was bad enough before when I thought I was telling just some well to do lady about my life, but the princess . . . I couldnâ€™t risk telling her anything more than I already had and I couldnâ€™t risk loosing my temper; which seemed much more likely in my current mood. Her shoe hitting my head hadnâ€™t helped the matter any. I had to admit I was glad to not have to reconstruct the glamour, but it would have been worth it to avoid the confrontation I knew was coming. <br/><br/>I should have known as much. I didnâ€™t even have to turn around I could both feel and hear her getting out of the tree. It would have been so much easier if she had just stayed up there. I tried to walk a bit faster but some repressed part of me refused to walk too fast for her to catch me. I cursed myself for being so drawn to her. I had decided to forget about her and just continue as I had always been. I knew it was the right choice when I learned she was the princess, yet . . . I couldnâ€™t stay away, not really. Even when she didnâ€™t know it I would watch her in the market. I thought about her when I was at home. I imagined her face as I told her a funny story from when I was young. I dreamed about her look of rapture as I performed magic for her. She was always with me even when I was alone it was no use trying to deny that I craved her company. <br/><br/>Knowing I would never walk fast enough to really leave her behind I slowed a bit. I sort of hoped she would fall in step behind me. I might be kinder to her if there were other people around. I could act casual and play like I wasnâ€™t hurt if there was an audience, but with just the two of us I knew my anger was bubbling too close to the surface to conceal very well if at all. I was again foiled as she stood in front of me blocking the road. I could have just taken to the woods but sooner or later she would block my path in the woods as well and who knows what trouble she might get in if we ventured into the woods. I stopped reluctantly to see what well constructed lie she would give me if she denied it at all. It didnâ€™t matter what she said though I had thought of every possibility and only one of them connected the dots in a way that made sense. <br/><br/>It was a lie, but it was a bad one. I wanted to believe it but I knew better. I had found what she was keeping from me and I wish I hadnâ€™t. It would have been easier if she were just a lady. I could dress up and play the part of a gentleman courting. I could fit into that world if I tried, but nothing I did would convince anyone I was good enough for a princess. I felt the anger at her continued lie rising in me. â€œIs that what you tell everyone in the market or just the lie you use on us simple minded gutter scum? I may not have gone to the best school or had the brightest private tutors like you princess, but that doesnâ€™t make me stupid. You think all that magic can do is heal your ankle, well let me tell you something; it is **** handy to become invisible. I fallowed you that day a lady doesnâ€™t wear a crown princess only royalty do. Donâ€™t say it was a fashion choice either other people arenâ€™t allowed to wear crowns itâ€™s a law. Now if you will excuse me princess I have to go steal good from your royal subjects to feed those of your subjects who are not so fortunate.â€ I stalked off stepping around her no matter how rude it was. <br/><br/>I knew I shouldnâ€™t have had that confrontation alone. I needed the other people to prevent a scene. My anger took over and I had been cruel. I had assumed she believed all the horrible things that I secretly thought about myself. I blamed her for the poverty in my village, which she probably didnâ€™t even know about till that day she fallowed me home. I blamed her for everything that had ever gone wrong in my life. I blamed her for my parents my exile my grandmother things that even being royal wouldnâ€™t have changed. The one thing that made me mad though was that she had lied. She could have told me the truth that was completely in her power but instead she had said she was lady Katherine Woods. <br/><br/>I felt the anger turning to something more. I wasnâ€™t angry at her not really. She hurt me. I was hurt that I had told her nothing, but the truth and she had done nothing but lie for all I knew. I had played a part that day in the market but it was all in good fun she knew that by the end of the day. I had asked her though out right asked her where she was from who she was and she had flat out lied. She had snuck out of the castle and to do what? Go slumming with a street rat? Well I wasnâ€™t in the mood to be her guide to the glamorous life of the poor anymore. It was more that likely that any association I had with her would end up with me clapped in irons and in prison till I died. I did not relish the idea of never being outside again. <br/><br/>I walked slow giving her the chance to catch up with me, as I knew she would. I pulled my hood up again to hide the hurt and tears that were starting to cloud my vision. I didnâ€™t want her to know how hurt I was. I could feel her when she caught me. â€œWhat Your highness princess Katherine Woodville?â€ I said it loud hoping that someone would hear and come running to get a glimpse of the famous princess, but the universe wasnâ€™t that kind. I felt a tear fall and watched as it turned the hard packed dirt of the road a deep brown. â€œPrincess please donâ€™t insult my intelligence by trying to deny it again just tell me why? I told you nothing, but the truth why didnâ€™t you do me the same courtesy? Iâ€™m supposed the be the one with no breeding.â€ I actually had ridiculously good manners my mother had seen to that long before she was taken. The only thing that meant in this case was that I knew how rude I was being to her. <br/><br/>In order to keep busy in an effort to hide the tears now flowing a bit faster I walked back to her shoe and picked it up. I walked back to her and handed her the shoe she was missing. â€œHere youâ€™ll be needing this Iâ€™m sure. Earrings you can explain away and buy more shoes are a bit harder to come by or explain why they are missing.â€ I looked at the road noting the tell tail dots of darker dirt where my tears had fallen marking my path to her shoe and back to my current location. </span><br/><br/><br/><span style="color: #00BFFF">As I stood in front of him I waited for his answer. I was sure that he would be able to hear my heart thumbing against my rib cage. I had almost wished I hadn't followed him to find out what he really knew about me. As he spoke to me the words where harsh and unkind. It was clear he was angry with me by not just the words he used or the tone of his voice but also the look in his eyes. I didn't lie to him because I wanted to, I lied because I thought I had to. I didn't know who I could trust and who I couldn't. I knew though the more I was spending time with him the more I wanted to tell him the truth about me, about who I was. I never thought that I lied to much, just stretched the truth a little, but clearly Gabe didn't see it that way. <br/><br/>I stared at him a little taken away with his words. I just stood there still unable to more at first, not until I realized I was standing along and his footsteps where slowly drifting off. I come back to the present and surprisingly I felt angry myself. How dare he follow me home?! Quickly I turned on my heal. "Wait! What do you mean you followed me home?" The thought of him doing this made me upset. "How dare you." It was such a rude thing to do and something I wouldn't think of him doing. As I now walked next to him he placed his hood up. Why did he do that for? I wanted to speak to him face to face, not face to hood. Although I asked the question I knew the answer. For him to want to follow me he must have known I was hiding something. <br/><br/>When he spoke again addressing me by my real name I took a sharp take of breath. Doesn't he know that where close to the market? "Would you mind NOT shouting that out." I hissed over to him. I was s confused on what to talk about. I stood there in silence as I watched him collect my shoe that I had forgotten all about. "I didn't want to lie to you." My words where soft and gently. I had this wired pain inside of me, it was like anger but sad all at the same time, It felt like hurt. Though I know I was't that hurt by the fact he followed me. I think I was upset because I thought he was. I looked down at the ground not sure where I should be looking. I didn't want to look at him and see his anger in his eyes, so the ground seemed like a safe bet. "Ok. At first I did, but that was only because I didn't know what kind of person you was. I mean you robbed me the first time ever met."<br/><br/>As I continued to look down at the ground I notice that there was drop of water along the dried dirt on the ground. I frowned slightly to my self, wondering how the had accrued. I looked up from the ground as I saw my shoe in his hand. "Thank you..." Was there tears in his eyes? Was he upset with me? Oh no, this was the last thing I wanted to do to him. "Look Gabe please...I'm sorry I lied to you but you must see why I did." I took a small step closer to him. From where I was standing I couldn't really see his face all that well. "I'm a Princess that is bound within the castle walls. I'm not meant to be on this side of the wall. I didn't think that I would be able to trust anyone, I was always told that I could never trust anyone apart from the people within the castle." I took another step closer as I tried to explain. <br/><br/>I could now see more of his face but his eyes where still showed by the hood that was up. "Believe when I say this but I did want to tell you who I really was the more I got to know you. I just..." I took a breath and looked down at my hands that where playing with my shoe. "I didn't want you to act different around me. I liked the way you acted normal around me, the fact you didn't place on this person and pretend to be someone you wasn't. And I only lied to you about my name and my title, nothing else. The rest of it is true." I raised my head so he could see the truth in my eyes. <br/><br/>"You have no Idea what it is like being of Royalty." I stated, I was now starting to feel annoyed. Why is that people think because I am a Princess that my life is just perfect? "It's not as wonderful as people make it out to be or think. We may have riches and wealth but I would be happy to give it all up." I knew that the anger was now starting to show in the way I was talking but I was fed up with people thinking that my life was perfect, like I knew that Gabe was thinking. "When people looked over that wall and at the Castle Towers they see beauty and dreams come true. Me. I see a cage, where i'm forced to stay. Where I was once locked up for trying to leave the castle walls. I see hate, pain and nightmares. I hate every single stone of that awful place, that I am FORCED TO LIFE IN!" The more and more I talked about it the more my eyes watered, the more I grew angry, not at Gabe and not even at my parents who forced me behind the walls but at myself. For hurting the person that I feel the most towards. <br/><br/>All this wasn't Gabe's fault, I knew that deep down. I tried to take a breath to **** myself down but I only made myself worst. I found I was now sobbing. I turned away from him so he could see me crying. "When I first met you I was fed a load of lies. My parents tried to scare me off the taste for freedom that I wanted. I was told that there was people after me. That was why I choose to lie about my name and status. I didn't know if you was some I could trust you. If you knew from the very first moment you ever saw me I was a Princess would you have only taken my earrings? Would you have not kidnapped me and asked for more then what my earrings where worth? Would you have blacked mailed me to keep my secret?" I pause for a moment catching my breath, still facing away form him and looking down at my hands with little droplets leaving my face. I knew he could still do those very things, but I believed he was the kind of man. <br/><br/><br/><br/>"Every time I tried to escape I was told that there was nothing out here for me..." I paused for a moment, unsure where I was going with this myself. "But know or rather there was something out her for me. After we first, every time I left the Castle I wanted to see you again. Your like a fresh of breath air, something completely different and know i'v been stupid enough to lie to you and break up what ever we had." I placed on my shoe and turned around to face him. I had no idea what I was really saying or why I did say what I said. "I am really sorry I lied to you and hurt you or made you upset and angry with me." I pause for a moment, taking in what I was about to say. <br/><br/>I stood up tall, stopped my tears and held myself with elegance, like a Princess should. "My name is Princess Kathrine Woodville. Daughter of King Richard and Queen Mary Woodville. I live in the kingdom's castle, in the third tower. I had meet a wonderful gentlemen, who I have grown..." the tears I had stopped where now starting to show. "Who I have grown feelings towards... who had shown me the terrible and wonderful things in life. Who has helped me known freedom and I was foolish enough to lie to you. I am truly sorry and I hope that one day you can forgive me." My voice was starting to shake and I said my last sentence fast so I could quickly get away. "I don't wish to hurt or upset you more, so I bid you fair well, Gabe" I knew the way I said it meant that I wasn't planning on coming back to this side of the wall. I didn't want to course him any more pain and I knew if I was to come back over I would only want to see him again. I turned on me heels and in a fast walk, almost a jog, I headed home. My hand was over my mouth to try and stop the sounds of my crying reaching his ears. </span>