Protect the Crown

16

His lips were soft.

He didn't kiss me back at first but when he did, it was like magic.

Not anything I've ever felt before. It was nothing but perfect. Our lips moved in sync never leaving each other.

Every kiss and every movement he made was slow and gentle. He treated me like I was fragile and can easily be broken.

I bring my hands up to his hair deepening the kiss and he moves my waist closer to his. I felt my skirt ride up as he did this.

I was hungry only wanting him more and more.

Before I could do anything risky, I hear a knock at the door. Theo pulls away from the kiss averting his eyes towards the door. "Ma'am your cousins are waiting downstairs whenever you're ready." Marta speaks from outside the door.

"Thank you, I'll be down in a second." I reply breathlessly and I hear her footsteps walking away from the door.

I sigh in relief and look at Theo. His eyes are still darkened and his lips are smudged with my pink lipstick.

My fingers move to his lips to wipe off the lipstick but never got the chance to.

I'm still in a daze when he quickly moves me off him and leaves the room.

I bring my fingers up to my lips. I could still feel the tingles and my heart was racing thinking about the entire moment.

I'm confused on why he left like that. Did he think it was a mistake? Now that I'm thinking about it, it probably was.

Just a small mistake.

A mistake I would love to happen again.

I go into the bathroom and notice all my make up is screwed up. My lipstick was smudged and I cried all my mascara away.

I take a makeup wipe and take off everything then going ahead and reapplying my mascara and lipstick.

I take my hair, that is now dried, out of the french braid it was in which left my hair in pretty waves.

I go to my closet. I quickly change out of my clothes and putting on a simple tight fitted black dress. I matched it with some red heels. I look at myself in the mirror thinking hopefully Theo will like it.

Why do I care if Theo likes my outfit?

I take a breath only trying to recollect myself. I have never felt like this before. It felt like his kisses put some kind of spell on me.

"Pull yourself together" I give myself a pep-talk in the mirror. "That mean't nothing. It was just the spur of the moment." I nod confirming to my reflection.

I left my room nervous to see Theo but decided to look confident anyways. I knock on his door and he comes out dressed a new suit. His face was cleaned up as well.

I kind of liked when my lipstick was smudged all over his lips.

"Hi." I say then I scolded myself for saying something stupid like that. He doesn't even look me in my eyes. He says nothing. After standing in an awkward silence I say, "Lets get this show on the road." I can't believe I said that. I mentally shake my head on how embarrassing I was.

He just nods and walks towards the stairs. Still avoiding my eyes. I noticed he didn't even offer me his arm. I walk behind him all the way down the stairs.

I shake it off. I'm just overthinking it.

Both of my cousins sat in the living room. Emma jumped up when she saw me. Ella gets up calmly and they both walk over to us.

Emma is dressed in a cute hot pink two piece outfit while Ella is in a beautiful maroon dress.

"Who must this be?" Ella asks looking Theo up and down. She must assume he is some butler or something.

"Oh yeah I forgot to introduce you guys." I was too preoccupied making out with him to notice.

Oops.

"This is Theo, my new bodyguard. Theo this is Emma and Ella, my cousins." I introduce them.

Ella smirks at him and grabs his muscular arm. "Are you sure? He so very handsome that I might want to make him my bodyguard." She comments looking up at him, fluttering her fake eyelashes.

Ella already has everything she could ever want, even the acceptance of my own parents. But I won't let her have Theo.

"Yes I'm very sure." I give her a fake smile pushing her hand off of his arm and replacing it with mine. "He is already my bodyguard so he doesn't need you." I emphasize the 'my' part to get the point across. She scoffs silently and rolls her eyes at my gesture.

Emma clears her throat. "What happen to Ernie?" Talking about my old bodyguard. Then I realized I haven't seen him in a while.

"He still works within the castle just not with me. My parents thought Theo was a better fit because of all that's happened." Emma nods. She probably has heard about the whole 'someone is trying to kill me' thing.

"What are we waiting for? I really need to get this dinner over with." Ella remarks with a slight attitude looking at her nails.

"Right. I'm very much excited to catch up with you." Emma says to me taking my hand and leads me outside.

My other hand leaves Theo arm.

This is going to be a long night.