Celeste~

…Just from stepping foot into her

accommodation you could see the size difference immediately, the walls were higher and the whole place was just spacier as soon as you walked in. Her bedroom was similar to ours in style just like the rest of her apartment but there were certain luxury elements that were missing from ours. She had an electronic toilet that flushed automatically and a soap dispenser to match. She also had a pantry that we did not have with snacks, drinks and fruits to satisfy any late-night cravings.

The whole thing just made me wonder what the even bigger apartments looked like because if this was only tier one then I couldn't imagine what tier three would even be. I also found out that to make things a lot easier they also categorised us here based on our parent's performance when they were doing the Trials themselves, this meant that all of us had an opportunity to end up in the same place to a certain extent.

That was a good thing because I really wanted Rain, Chloe and Markan to come with me to the Academy.

Rain's mum was a business owner and a very successful one at that, she didn't get into the details but she was more than financially comfortable.

I wasn't expecting someone like her to have such a standing, not that having a business gives you status it's just that usually those closer to the top have more of that driving urge to climb even higher. An urge that Rain didn't really seem to have, at least not to an extreme extent. I wondered if her mother was the same, she was the owner of the business so she would be the main person who would want more. Maybe Rain was just rebelling or maybe just didn't want what her mother wanted for her, if anything.

Now we were here, on her heavily cushioned couch sitting and talking about what happened yesterday. "I mean he is pretty definitely, but he has had his fair share of partners," Chloe stated. "Fair enough but that's what they do sometimes you know, they hide what's going on on the inside with having hella bitches and shit. Makes it easier to cover up." Rain rebutted.

I chimed in and said "Well it's definitely a possibility considering the context, he didn’t care at all about her flirting with whoever that man was and she seemed to have a big issue with that. Maybe for all of the attention she gets from being with him still isn’t enough if he doesn’t even care about her. To everyone else, they are basically in love but she’s the one who would be miserable in a loveless and maybe sexless marriage if he’s gay. That’s sad for sure.”

“So so sad, I would definitely flirt with someone else too, maybe not in the way she does because she just wants Judias to get mad but I would for sure have a little boy toy on the side to make up for what he’s not giving me. I would never let myself get caught though, that’s a rookie mistake. But again that’s what she wants isn’t it, for Judias to care about her.”

I definitely agreed with Chloe, if I had to make do with a partner who doesn’t love me just so I could marry someone on my standing I would definitely have a boy toy on the side as well. They wouldn’t even have to be someone with notoriety just someone I wanted to fuck and that I maybe loved if it turned out that way. There have been countless affairs that have taken place this way.

When the world was a lot more rigid and structured and it was actually life or death to be with someone in your social circle many would deter all of the sad downfalls of not being able to marry who they wanted to marry through having consorts. It was a great plan and worked well Indeed.

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They simply had consorts that they well…boned and loved on while they pretended to the world as though they were in love. The Royals were happy as were the government and the press didn’t really have much to say as they were kept very secret. It was all fine and dandy until you know we all got bored of magic and r technology advanced once again. We had phones and cameras of all sizes which made keeping secrets even harder. There was also the odd consort who forgot their place and spoke up about who they were in bed with and that didn’t go well with the rest of society. Sometimes the husbands and wives didn’t even know of these consorts and that caused absolute chaos.

That didn’t stop anyone though, many still had consorts and I wouldn’t bet on that stopping any time soon.

Rain rolled her eyes at what she saw as the patheticness of the woman “And again it all comes down to no amount of attention being good enough for the princess, she has it all, why couldn’t she just shut up, get a consort and marry the rich guy like her parents want her to.” I’d wondered what made her hate Latía so much, maybe there was some bad blood there.

“Aw maybe she’s just a hopeless romantic, you know how desperate she is for love, as a princess the world already expects so much from her she probably just wants someone who’s on her side.” Yeah…her side.

“I mean her parents are barely on her side already, they hate themselves and in turn their offspring. So she’s alone for the most part. The Royals could now care less about her and her family because they were just all too desperate to be at the very top, too ungrateful for what they came out with in a fair battle.” I added.

“Yeah, I guess, anyways though enough of them, where are we off to today, you heard the news, we have nothing planned so we might as well explore.” Rain spoke.

“Yeah come, talking about them was getting kinda depressing and plus we need to network, get to know some people!”

Well, my prayers hadn’t been answered this time because like I had guessed Chloe was well and up for a peak socialising session and Rain didn’t seem too opposed either although from looking at the analytical expression on her face she was interested in more of a social examination rather than a socialising party.

I decided to use my last lucky card and message Markan while Chloe and Rain conversed about what we would be doing, or hopefully not doing.

He was downstairs and getting food when he replied to me and I suggested to Chloe and Rain that we should meet him and grab food as well as we all hadn’t eaten yet.

They agreed and we all went downstairs while I tried to figure out a plan to avoid socialising altogether. Seeing all of the people that I had a possibility of interacting with made me sick to my stomach, I didn’t wanna fake smiles or fake laughs I just wanted to take the people I liked and hide them in a little bubble with me while we got through this whole endeavour but I don’t think that would be possible for the time being considering my friends consisted of two very social butterfly’s and a self appointed social analyst who was hell bent on seeing things for what it truly was.

It was around 2:30pm by the time we got here and I was hangry and hell. I filled up my plate with whatever looked exciting to me which was just regular food I sat down on a nice table in the corner of the hall where Markan was, Rain followed and said her greetings to Markan who was stuffing his face with so much food he could barely say hi back. Her pállate was refined and had things on her plate that I didn’t even know the name of, and I thought Chloe was prestige.

While she and I both had our tries of 5-star food it wasn’t something we regularly ate and that showed blatantly in the foods we ate. While Chloe was willing to eat more Boujie foods than me it was clear that she was just trying things out and seeing what she liked while Rain was well versed in whatever she had. It seemed to follow an actual taste pállate and she seemed to know exactly what she wanted and where to get it from, something that you would only know from experiencing Michigan star restaurants all the time.