Crown And Dirt | Janiel Fanfiction |

My Morning Routine

(Joey's POV)

Just a normal morning, just a normal view of a grey wall and the 6'o clock sun shining though my window, just a normal morning as I hear my maid walking to my room and opening my door.

"Sir Joseph, it is time to get ready for the day.."  She bowed respectfully and put my neatly folded clothes on the end of my bed to wear for the day, then she stood at the door quietly, just doing her daily routine. I sat up and let a yawn escape my mouth and got off my bed to clean up. It's the same thing I see every morning in the mirror, my hair looking like a bush and my sleepy eyes taking time to process my hideousness. I take out my toothbrush and cleaned my white 'pearly' teeth as my father would say. After all my teeth were brushed, I put my toothbrush back and and grabbed a comb and pulled back my hair into a neater style that I HAVE EVERY DAY. I really want to do a new style and experiment a bit more but apparently 'If you want to be royalty, then you have to dress like royalty', the thing is, I'm still a young prince! What about just today?! I want to do what I want for once! But that's not going to happen, so I'll just continue to dream..
I changed into my new clothes, stepped out of room grudgingly and walked down the millions of steps just to reach the dining room, my feet are never gonna get to used to this... There was mom, Jett and Nicole. My dad was away to another kingdom to sign a peace treaty after a fight broke between them, he'll be back today to tell what happened..
We all took our seats and ate today's breakfast, eggs, toast, jam, some fruits. That may sound like a lot but everything was minimised. I never look forward to breakfast because I'm still hungry as f*ck after eating it and I'm sure my siblings are too, I can see right it now.. they're starving..
"Children, why aren't you eating?" Our mother asked as she ate her meal which was WAY bigger than ours,
"Well... the things you give us for breakfast aren't enough, shouldn't we get something bigger? We still starve even if we eat every crumb and drip.." I told her. Jett and Nicole nodded in agreement,
"But whenever we gave you bigger meals, you would never finish it and everything went to waste, and besides, I always see you eating more than enough the night before, shouldn't all that food from last night be enough?!" She fought back,
"Because we're starving! Breakfast, lunch or dinner, it's never enough!" I slammed my hand on the table,
"Fine, you'll get extra but you have to finish it all, I won't care if you vomit and explode, you have to eat it all.." She growled. She called the maids over to cook more food for us, I looked over my two siblings, this was the greatest joy I ever felt ever since I was free to do anything. They were so happy..
Extra food came over to our platter and we all dug in happily. We finished eating and went back to our original routines with a bit more energy.

(Daniel's POV)

My eyes opened slowly, my dim but comfortable room starting off my morning to a normal but great day.

I got off my bed and opened the dusty curtains so the sun can shine its joyful light into my small bedroom. I walked to the bathroom to clean up, brush my teeth, brush my hair and change into my clothes. After all that, I climbed down the short wooden ladder and jumped off once I reached the kitchen floor. My mom was unlocking the door so that customers could come in. Our house was a bakery shop, and I helped bake and organise. I went to the kitchen and made myself a sandwich then began doing my daily chores. I cleaned the floor, I made the dough, organised the utensils, washed the plates, worked at the front and then went on break for 20 minutes.
I was making some bread when my mom called out to me from the front as she finished serving a customer,
"Daniel! Can you go to Mr. Feirme and get some crops then go to the fruit bushes and get some more fruits? We're running low on nearly everything!" She shouted,
"Alright! Let me just finish this bread first!" I did notice that the wheat wasn't as abundant but after I finished my loaf of bread, I got a basket, some money and walked out to Mr. Feirme's farm. His farm was a bit out in the forest that separated the castle from the town, because the town was built on dryer land, it was not really suited for good crops. The best place to grow the best quality vegetables and plants was where Mr. Feirme lived. I kept walking, one step after of another.You could tell when you had just entered the forest even with your eyes closed because the atmosphere just changes once you've stepped inside. It's calm, beautiful, rare and some may say magical. I took the time to take in all this beauty while I followed the path to Mr. Feirme's farm. I saw the very familiar fence and white building of Mr. Feirme. He was standing outside, watering the cabbages. He noticed me standing near his fence and his croaky voice shouted,
"Hey Daniel! Come in!" I smiled and opened the fence door and went towards the nice, old, Irish man.
"What ya in for today? Let me guess, the usual stuff?" He chuckled, I laugh a bit too and nodded. He smiled and pulled out the freshest batch of the usual he had.
"So, did your grand children come visit you?" I asked, maybe for a chance to start up a conversation,
"Yeah, they are learning pretty quickly on how to farm, they also got me some new shoes and clothes their parents made," He seemed so happy,
"Why didn't their parents/your children take over the farm?" I asked out of curiosity as he handed me the batch,
"They were gonna but they discovered new talents and new jobs with that talent and I certainly didn't want to ruin their fun so I just let them be," He answered,
"But you're already pretty old, what if your grand children do the same thing?" I asked once again while giving him the money,
"Then I won't stop them but someone will have to take over the farm, perhaps you!" He laughed once again,
"Well, no matter, I'm sure they will take care of your farm nicely," I smiled then waved my goodbye and left to go to the fruit bushes..