A Court of Secrets and Deceptions

Alaric POV

Bum bum bum bumdtum bum BUM!!!!!! I was mentally thinking up ways to sing songs. I was taking a break from training with Cassian. Jeez I got sore. But I would never show it too much. He increased the level of intensity till I was sore every night. I wanted to relax in the city tonight.

Then I saw her. Shopping innocently. But I felt a primal instinct come over me. My mind screaming Mine Mine Mate Mine Mine Mate Mine Mine. I walked over and simply said, "have I seen you here before?"

She turned around and looked at me. She had the most beautiful eyes. Turquoise with a ring of pure gold. Her hand brushed back a piece of her white hair. She was surprised someone was talking to her. "Oh me? I've never seen you either. I definitely would've remembered if I seen you."

Oh gods was I as panicked on the outside as the inside? "Well would you want to walk around with me." She nodded with a small smile.

"So what's your name?" She didn't know me? She didn't know me. That means that she could like me without knowing my parents!

"Alaric. What's yours?"

"Elentiya." Such a pretty name. Gorgeous wasn't it? Then she rushed away once she saw the time. "Nice to meet you!" I waved after her.

When I came back home, I saw my girlfriend there. The person that I thought was my mate before this -connection happened between me and Elentiya.

Her hair looked so soft, so white, so pristine. Like an angel sent down from heaven. And her smile, that god damn smile was gorgeous. Elentiya's eyes looked like the kind that was told in legends. Blue with rim of gold around the pupil. Then I saw Sansa looking at me.

"Hun? Whatcha thinking about?" She grinned nowhere near the amazing one that Elentiya gave. I smiled back.

"Nothing."

"Yes you are. You have that goofy grin you always have on whenever you do something really romantic. Or are in love." She grinned.

"You caught me. I was thinking of you." I was thinking of Elentiya. Why did Elentiya have to be my mate? Cause she's everything you ever wanted. Your other part! My dumb mind. But it was true. She was perfect in every way. I wanted to see her again so badly. Then look for her tonight where you saw her yesterday! I had to admit. My mind was great. So I survived torture of me forcing myself to tell Sansa how beautiful she was, how lucky I was. Then when it was night I went out of the house. To where I saw Elentiya.

And there she was. Standing there like a perfect angel. She I walked up to her. She turned and smiled. Gods above I was in shit. 

"Hi Alaric!" I loved the way my name sounded on her lips.

"Hi Elentiya. I just wanted to ask you if you were going to go to starfall tomorrow?"

"Starfall... what do you do to celebrate Starfall?"

"Same as everyone else, dance, look at the falling stars, eat, dress up."

"Of course I'm going," she grinned. "I still haven't picked out an outfit though. Would you want to help me?" She paused. "I'm being stupid. Of course you wouldn't want to help someone pick out an outfit."

"I'd love to actually." MARRY MEEEE! Dumb brain. Stop thinking that stuff.

"Great! Do you know a good dress shop?" I nodded and she took my arm. I led her to all the dress shops where we found a dress that was black for a top and white, glittering and looked like stars on the bottom. The top hugged her curves a bit but she didn't seem to mind. The dress was a bit poofy. But not in a bad way, in a way that it would twirl when she span. She found a pair of flats and said she already knew her hairstyle. Then she thanked me and ran off after saying goodbye and giving my a hug.

I got a hug! A HUG!!!!! When I got home I pulled out a small notebook nobody knew I had. I drew in it. I was really good at sketching someone. I had drawn Sansa for at least 20 pages in the 3 years we dated. I drew 31 pages of Elentiya. Her eyes, hands, hair, smile, everything that was amazing about her. I even drew her in her new dress. Twirling in it while Smiling at me. I closed it and put it in a bookshelf in my room.

I was groaning on my bed. Sansa was my girlfriend of 2 years. I thought that it was an obligation to her. I thought she was going to be my mate. Sansa with her pretty black hair and blue eyes. Her cute smile she did. Then there was Elentiya. If I had to pick I felt like I should choose Sansa, but none of me wanted to. All of me would pick Elentiya. My mind, my brain, my soul, my reason for living, that stuff.

I would never tel anyone this but I had many flings before Sansa. She was the one that got me to change. I was dating her for 2 years now. And I wanted to ruin it all for a girl I barely knew. But I loved. When I saw her twirling in a dress that I picked out. I knew. Sansa had always dismissed my ideas as silly. As immature. Elentiya listsned to me. Elentiya.

Time went by slowly but surely as I waited for Starfall. Then once it finally started up it was really crowded. I headed for the spot that I always see her in and saw her with 3 boys talking with her a bit too aggressively. When I got up closer I heard them. "Cmon, whats a pretty little thing like you doing at Starfall all alone, don't you wanna hang with us?" Then she made a little motion with her hand for then to leave,

"You're dismissed." She looked them dead in the eye while saying it. A staring contest of dominance. She won, and they left. Then I saw her hair, it was curled and falling on her shoulders. Wearing the outfit that we picked out together she was radiant. Sansa would expect me to dance with her. And other girls would too. I only wanted to dance with Elentiya though. Not Sansa, not any girl, Elentiya!

Elentiya was amazing in every way. She dealt with them like a queen would. Like a true ruler. Sansa never did that. She always expected me to bail her out. Even when it came to things like simple fights with her friends. Elentiya told me to save a dance for her and she would be waiting for me to ask her to dance. So I asked her then and there. "Do you wanna dance?"

"Of course!" Then we began to dance. And dance and dance. I twirled her, held her hand, and stared into her alluring eyes all night. Then they had a slow dance playing. So I held her tight, close, and we danced. She never missed a beat or a step. A fantastic dancer, like myself U guided her across the floor. Then I looked up from her eyes and saw my family, who knew Sansa. I spun Elentiya around the other way where I saw Sansa staring at us shooting daggers at us. I turned Elentiya so I wouldn't have to see any of them.

"Are you okay Alaric?" My mate was amazing. I had to break it up with Sansa. I had to tell my family.

"Elentiya? Would you ever date me?" She stopped suddenly.

"I would very much like to. But it's not realistic. But I would if I could." She pulled away.

"Please stay, just a favor. I want you to meet some people. Please." She looked at me. In my eyes. Then walked forward when she realized this was important to me. Then I grabbed her hand and lead her right to my parents, who were wondering what the hell was going on.

".Mom! Dad! This is Elentiya." I looked my dad in the eye and pointed towards my head.

Son what are yo doing with a random girl? I thought we moved past this.

So did I! But here I am. My mate in my arm. Completely fucking clueless on what to fucking do!

My dad choked on his drink. Gave feyre a look and feyre stuck her hand.

"It's nice to meet you. I'm Feyre, High Lady of the Night Court."