If The Crown Fits (Book 2)

Chapter 20 Drunken Magic

Chapter 20

For some reason I started laughing the moment Nate and I parted. His face got all wiggly and weird that I laughed even more. I saw his brow creased as he stared at me.

"What did I do? What did I do?" I laughed.

"Damn it." Nate sighed. My vision morphed making his lips bigger as he talked. "You're too drained of magic."

"So what?" I said in a slur. "Not your problem." I snickered and threw my head back and wheezed.

"Yes it is. Everyone has a different side effect when they are drained with magic. I guess you're just...a drunken mess."

I gasped and my head immediately bounced back up. "What will I tell my mom?" I could feel my face getting paled in nervousness at the sudden realization. "It's my first time to drink and I am underaged!" I grabbed the vampire princes collar and started to shake him. "HIDE ME!" I screamed.

"No." Nate pried my fingers from his collar. "Your mother isn't here, Rose."

Another gasped escaping from my lips. My eyes started to water. "Y-you don't mean...-"

"No! No....your mom is alive, Rose. She's alive." He said. I could feel him pulling us both back up to our feet and positioned me beside him for us to walk. "Custard, I assume you can walk?" I heard his say, but I was starring at a pretty blue rose that I didn't see my familiar. But I did hear him bark. "Good. Let's get out of this place." The moment we walked, I reached out and picked the flower to place it behind Nate's ear. I chuckled.

"You're a pretty little thiiing." I dragged the words out. Nate did not speak or even try to remove the flower from his head, but I did see his teeth flash in annoyance though. I tried to poke his fangs, but he moved his head away. "Cut it out, Rose." He said.

I pouted and and decided to stay put and leaned on him as he guided us through the castle. I could vaguely remember Nate cursing and pulling me away whenever I tried to touch the armor statues in the hallway. The stingy vampire kept on scolding and nagging me to behave. I lolled my head back to block out his voice because my hands felt like jelly and are very sloppy. I felt Nate suddenly stop and the hand he has on my waist was shaking. I brought my head back to see blur images of three people in front of us.

"What are you doing here, Nathaniel?!" Someone scolded him. I did not appreciate the tone of voice so I pushed Nate back and puffed up my chest and even pulled my tube up because it was slipping a bit. "He lives here!" I yelled to the unknown person. "Who are you to yell at him if he goes home or not? YOU LEAVE!!"

Nate immediately pulled me back and whispered in my ears. "That's the king, Rose. My fath - I mean - uncle." I could vaguely see Nate directing those words to the people in front of us. I turned my head and squinted enough to make out their imagine. In front of us stood Crown Prince Adam, Queen Anya, and King Rafael. They all shared the same look of surprise on their faces.

"Nate..." Queen Anya whispered painfully. "How did you..-"

"Does it matter to you?" Nate cut her off. "I didn't come for you anyway. I came here to congratulate the only family I have. Congratulations, Adam." I saw him not to one of the figures in front of us.

I grabbed the blue rose that I put on Nate's head before and crushed the petals in my hands. Then I approached the figure that I assume was Adam's. "Congrats!" I cheered and made the petals rain around us. I felt Nate pulling me back beside him. I guess he was probably not happy about me littering.

"Are those my blue roses?" I heard the queen wonder. "Did you..-"

Nate grunted beside me. "Yes I have. When were you going to tell me that my real father is Terrence? Or were you even gonna tell me at all?" I could hear the hurt in his voice as he said it.