Evening came. The 4 of them stood woried in Iris' balcony. "Have you thought of any way?" asked Iris. The others stood in silence. Aylin pointed at the gateway. Many carriages entered the castle. "Hey, I have something in my mind!" exclaimed Eli with an excited voice. All of them turned to her. "Listen, we will now go to the entrance and we will pretend to escort the princes to their bedchambers. And tell them about it all there."

"Eli!! Have you gone insane?" screamed Aylin. "How can we, princesses, escort the princes to their 'bedchambers'? It will seem disrespectful. And what about our dignity as Princesses?"

"Hey, you care about dignity? All I care about right now is succeeding our plan. Let's do it, or you got something else in your mind?" retorted Eli reluctantly. They were a little hesitant at first but, Harlin agreed first as she had the thought of going with Erwin. She blushed hard thinking of going to Erwin's bedchamber. Imaginary butterflies flapped their wings in front of her eyes.

They proceeded towards the gateway immediately. As they reached the gateway, they met the queen and the royal consort, Iris' parents. Louis approached them and started, "The princes of Wistaria Kingdom has reached just now. I need you all to go welcome them." The four of them were astonished at their luck. It was more than they had expected. They nodded and went towards the carriages where the princes were. The princes got off their carriages. The four princesses bowed a little all at once and said,"Welcome to the royal palace of Evergarden kingdom, Prince." The princes did a neck bow. With a formal smile said Elina,"We may now escort you to your respective bedchambers." They all startes towards the guest house without spurting out a single word from their mouth. Iris led the way. Elina and Iris did an eye-communication as the entered the guest house. They entered four rooms respectively.

In the room where Aylin and Eren were,

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Aylin and Eren entered the room and Eren looked a little more joyful than usual. Aylin told the maid inside to get some snacks for them. The maid smirked a little and then went outside. Aylin turned around to see Eren's face 6 inches away from her face. She controlled her temper. She thought 'the sooner, the better' and started telling him, "So, prince Eren, I wanted to tell yo-" she got cut off by Eren's babbling,

"You told me you are going to tell me something confidential. But, I guess you should tell me after the ball dance. Because, I guess people will disturb us during this time. But, if you are willing to do it now, then I don't have any problem. Let's start now," his face came closer to her and she again said, "That's not what-", she got again cut off by Eren, " What? You are gonna ask my hand for marriage? I don't mind. You're beautiful, hot, smart-looking and on top of that, my type. So, you can jus-" "PRINCE EREN, LISTEN TO MEE!" she lost control. Eren shut his mouth finally. "I was trying to say that you don't say anything about our visit in your kingdom in front of anyone other than us. Or, we will get in trouble." Eren looked utterly disappointed. "Oh. So, that's it? Ok. But, you should reconsider my proposal." Aylin huffed, "Dream on!" She rushed out of the room and locked the door behind her. "Idiot."

Inside the room where Elina and Zen were,

They entered the room and Eli told the maid to go out. She then turned around to meet Zen's Hazel eyes. He seemed expressionless but a bit curious. His eyes fumbled as Eli came towards him.

"Prince Zen, there is something we need your help with." "Anything for you," was what Eli thought she heard but then she brushed off the illogical thought. She then explained everything to the curious Zen who looked untroubled by all that. He then gestured in agreement.

"Okay, then, Prince Zen. I will see you around," Eli slightly bowed and turned to return.

In Austin's bedchamber,

"Prince Austin, I need to tell you something," said Iris.

"Yeah, you can share anything with me," smirked Austin. Iris was a little hesitant seeing his smirk. Then, she explained everything to him. He was silently listening to every word Iris said. She felt a bit awkward as he didn't respond much but that didn’t matter.

"So, that's it," she ended. Austin was then looking at her with charming eyes, as though adoring her.

"Is that all, Princess Ris?" asked Austin.

"Ris? Is he calling me by my nickname? " Iris was flabbergasted. "Ahem, yes. That's all." Austin grinned again.

"So, we will see each other in the ball then," Iris hesitated a bit and turned around. She walked towards the door, holding her breath. She breathed again once she was out of the room.

"Why does he act like that?" she was kinda annoyed.