The runaway princess

Chapter 3

Selecta silently ran down the steps of the old looking inn.  She made sure to hide her face as she slipped out of the inn. She walked sneakily past the common folk and the knights. She had her head turned behind her as she was trying to see if anyone was on to her.

When she finally decided to face forward she saw piles of books right in front of her face. Selecta was so surprised that she couldn't stop herself from walking in time. But the books didn't budge, Selecta let out a sigh of relief before the books came tumbling down one by one. Books Hitting her in the head causing her to fall to her knees, she looked up in terror as the books came crashing down on her. Before she knew it the mountain of books had formed a circle around her. She heard shouting from her around her until she finally realized what just happened. Her hood was pushed back by one of the books and her light pink hair was shining in the cold sunlight. The crashing of books made everyones head turn and as soon as they got one good look at her face they ran to the closest knight they could to rat her out.

Selecta got up in one swift motion and threw back on her hood. She ran down the endless streets, trying to throw the knights off her tail. As the knights got closer to her a hand reached out and pulled her by the waist. Before she could say anything a hand came over her mouth. "Its me princess, your lovely prince in shining armor!" Saylum whispered proudly. Selecta just rolled her eyes and took his hand off her mouth. "You know you say the craziest th-" Saylum cut her off as he gave her a warm hug and had his back facing the street. "What are you doing!" Selecta stammered before Saylum put his pointer finger in front of his lips vertically.

Selecta looked behind him to see the knights running past them not even giving them a glance. When the coast was clear Saylum let her go and started at her expectantly. "What? Why are you staring at me like that?" She said looking at him confused. Saylum pouted and whined "Well I did just save you y'know." "Barely, I would've made it just fine without an annoying child as yourself." She stated as her head was tilted to the side. "You do know that I'm a grown man right?" Saylum muttered to himself  "You're an idiot." Selecta sighed as she looked at him with annoyed look.

She slid pass him and started to walk towards the richer side of town. Saylum quickly grabbed her wrist forcing her to look at him "Do you really think you're going to be able to prance around town with the most finest dresses this wretched world has ever seen and think no one will notice? If that's the case then those knights will have you carried back to the castle in no time." He said before he dragged her with him to a cute looking store with an adorable looking bunny on the roof.

The walls were all a light pink and the store looked quite old and the sign read "Little Bunnies" .  They walked into the store Saylum standing in front of Selecta to make sure no one could get a good look at her face. He walked to a cute lady with bunny ears on and a light purple dress with white accents. "Hi ma'am I wanted to know if you would know-" Saylum was talking to the young lady as Selecta sat there thinking "What am I going to do?" She thought "Where am I going to go?" "Am I going to stay with Sayl-" Her thoughts were interrupted by a masculine hand waving in front of her face.

"Selecta, are you still there?" Saylum asked curiously "O-oh yes" She replied before she looked down at her feet. "Were you admiring my beauty princess?" Saylum whispered. "You have five seconds to take me to the dresses before I leave." She said angrily while folding her arms.

Saylum led her to a small section of the store that had long pastel dresses with little decoration on them. The quality of the dresses weren't half as good as the one that Selecta was wearing but she didn't care. "I can't wait to wear one of these dresses!" Selecta said in excitement as she browsed through all of the dresses in no time. "Is that so?" Saylum said as her picked out a dress that was light purple. Its sleeves sat on the side and it had a small pearl heart on the side and it was about as long as Selecta's legs but would probably stop at her ankles. It was made out of thick materiel and the sleeves were pretty long as well. "Of course!" Selecta exclaimed while admiring the dress he was holding "Why is that?" He asked while placing the dress on her arm. "Well I just always wanted to wear other dresses like these  and not just expensive royalty dresses but Father wouldn't let me. He said that other dresses are too cheap looking." She said while picking up a few more dresses.

They soon headed over to the cashier and paid for all the clothes. "Well I'm gonna go change into one of these and then we can go." Selecta said before she walked happily to the dressing rooms. Saylum just nodded in response watching her as she walked away.

Soon after a man with a green suit  and blue eyes came over to Saylum. He looked about thirty-one and his hands were wrinkled. He had a big scar over his left eye "Do you think she'll like it?" The strange man asked as if he was saying something in code "Yes, I'll be home soon." Saylum said before they both snickered sinisterly. Right after Selecta came out of a dressing room with the same light purple dress that Saylum had chose earlier. "Well there's the bride so you I think you might want to leave." Saylum said as he pointed towards the door. "I suppose you're right." The man said as he casually walked out the store glancing back at Saylum before shutting the door with a big bang.