Almost Royal (Book 2)

Chapter 23

When Alexa said girls night, she meant it. After much persuasion, she got me to agree to it. And then we went and found Rose. Rose was ecstatic to have a girls night. I guess being that she'd never had one before I can see where excitement was coming from. We now sit in Alexa's room in our bathing suits.

"So, what do we want to talk about?" Alexa asks.

"We can talk about boys. Isn't that what normal teenage girls do?" Rose wonders.

"Yup," Alexa nods.

That is the one topic I didn't want to talk about. At all.

"Okay...how's the married life treating you?" Rose asks.

"James is wonderful but can sometimes have a bit of a temper. Speaking of, where is James?" Alexa asks.

"He may have stormed off earlier in nothing but his pants," I mutter.

Both girls look at me, then at each, and then shrug.

"How about you Rose? How are you and Devon?" Alexa asks.

Really? We have to talk about the devil tonight?

"He's been kind of mean lately. Not like he was at the palace. And he sucks up to everyone his father does. 'Dad, can I help you today?', 'Dad, you want me to carry that?'. It's annoying," she breathes.

"But you still like him?" I raise an eyebrow.

"Well, yes. Just because I saw a different side of him doesn't change my view of him entirely," she shakes her head.

"You know what I think? I think he saw the way your brother was acting towards your father and thought he should be acting like that. Maybe to impress you or something. Who knows? He might just be a kiss up when his father's around," I shrug.

"Mhm, I didn't think of that," she hums.

"Camry, is there any boys you want to talk about?" Alexa's voice is hesitant, not sure if I'm going to break or not.

"Sure," I shrug.

Both of them give me shocked looks. Alexa composes herself before Rose and plasters a smile on her face.

"So? Who's the lucky guy?" she grins.

I take a deep breath. I'm going to tell them about whatever it is I have with Adam. And hopefully they won't yell at me like James did. I mean, it's my decision, right? I need to move on from Daxton and I'll do that with another guy.

"Adam," I breathe.

"What?" Alexa says at the same time Rose says, "What about Daxton?"

I sigh. You had to have known this was coming, Camry. At least they aren't yelling at you.

"Daxton asked me to leave. So with that comes moving on. I bet the other girls who've been sent home have moved on. I can't be hung up on Daxton my whole life. Adam is here and he's a great guy," I lecture them.

Alexa stares at me.

"And your sure? Like, one hundred percent sure you want to go through with it? Be in a relationship with him?" she asks.

Am I sure? I have thrown myself into this, this, whatever this is. Did I throw myself into it as a distraction or do I really like Adam? I mean, he's sweet and nice. He's funny. But we did kind of rush into this relationship headfirst. Before I can think about the matter more, Alexa changes the subject.

"So, palace or White House?" she smirks.

"Um, palace. Obviously," Rose gives her a look.

"Camry?" Rose smiles.