After Thomas was done with placing the necklace on me, I got up from my seat and headed towards the door, but Thomas got to the door before me, opened it, and gave way for me to pass him. I stopped in front of the door in amazement at the hallway, which by the way was so large and spacious that I had no words to describe it. As I was passing through the hallway, I saw on the walls that there were so many pictures of women and men, wearing royal clothes, and in between most of them, there were nice nature paintings that had so much color and life.. Yet only one stood out to me, it was close to the spiral staircase, the painting was blue and white, yet there was this one yellow, golden light from the distance, the painting was so magnificent that…

I almost fell down the stairs, but at that moment Thomas caught me. And he spun me around to get to his other side.

Thomas: Careful miss, we don't want you to get into another accident, now do we?

From the moment he caught my hand to the moment he spun me around, my eyes were locked onto him, he saw that, and yet our eyes were following each other till the point I found myself holding still onto his hand, for a bit too long.

Emily: ahh, sorry I got distracted, shall we head downstairs?

I was a bit embarrassed. My ears got a bit red, and I quickly rushed downstairs. To the dining hall, but Thomas a few steps behind me followed me. When I got to the bottom of the staircase, I was amazed at the colors that embraced the ‘hall’ I should say but the hall was enormous it was as big as two times my old house.

Thomas got in front of me to show me to the dining room, it was only a bit further into the hall.

After a minute of walking down the hall, we got to two big doors that opened indoors. He got in front of them and…

Thomas: Miss Emily is entering the dining hall.

He pushed the doors, which both made" 'creak’

As he opened them, I could feel my heart racing. Non-stop. Yet I corrected my posture to be more straight and elegantly entered the room as I had done before. I didn't see Thomas enter after me, which scared me a bit. But I continued to walk, staring at where one of the thousands of maids in the room should sit. I sat down and saw that Alice and August had followed every move I had made since I entered the room. I sat across from them, the table was long and wide, and both of them sat from the same side, and I from the side across from them.

Alice: Good evening, child. Are you settling in ok?

Emily: I mean so far yes, I have walked through the halls, seen so many beautiful portraits of people and paintings.

August: Do you have a favorite one yet? I mean we have a two-story gallery, which you are free to visit any time you want.

Emily: Really!!

I slapped my hands on the table and pushed the chair back out of excitement. I could see that everyone in the room was a bit surprised by my sudden action. I sat back down embarrassed. But I saw both August and Alice, giggling, behind their hands.

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A butler helped me pick up my chair and I sat back down. At the same time August, hand gestured to one of the butlers behind him.

August: Alfred, can you please pour some Monsoon Valley vine, from my oldest collection?

Alfred: Yes, master coming right up..

Alfred bowed to us and walked towards a door in the corner near the doors I came from.

August: That's the way to the winery. My Juliet.

I guess he saw my eyes following him. I nodded to him that I understood.

Alfred enters the room back after a few minutes. , Alfred comes out of that door with a bottle of the wine mentioned by August.

Alfred came to my right side and poured half a full glass of the wine.

Alfred: Enjoy the wine miss.

He bowed to me went back to August's side and stood at his position. I smiled. At that moment, August snapped his fingers, and so many maids started to come all around me and started to set food on the table. So much food was at the table, from simple to complicated, and by that I mean the food was so creatively made into a piece of art that it was a shame to devour it. Yet I couldn't help myself but try everything that was laid in front of me.

Since I could reach most of the dishes, which I saw Father, I mean August paid attention to that, so he gestured to one of the servants, to put some on the plate, for ease of me.

I nodded my head to say thank you, like I always do, and you know what he gave a smile which made me smile. The smile was so bright that I felt the room because there was more room than when I entered. After the dinner I slowly laid back on my chair, full to the brim of my stomach, I laid back so that only my head was visible from the table.

Both Alice and August looked at each other and then back at me. Smiling nonstop.

Emily: Yes. Is something wrong? I don't mean to be rude but you have been smiling nonstop, is it because of me? Do you like being in my company or. Something else.

They both looked at each other, smiling, and then…

August: Well, we are really happy that we have you back. Me and your mother have been waiting for you, but due to many circumstances, we weren't able to do anything until you are in your 20s and we have secured your royal position.

I looked at them confused, and a sudden flashback hit my head, it was of my other mother’s last words before she passed.:

August: Listen to me and your mother, we are happy to answer any questions you have, but after dinnertime, more specifically after dessert, I will personally escort you to my office.

But before we even had the dessert, Thomas stormed into the room.

‘BANG’ The doors smashed into the wall. He quickly ran to August and whispered something to his ear, and I could see that it was serious because August's expression changed a few times.

August stood fast from his chair which made a ‘thud’ noise as it hit the floor.