The Wizard's Bride

Chapter 1

"We welcome back his highness the fourth prince and his newly found bride!"

A man dressed like a butler bowed in a perfect forty-five degrees angle, with his one hand on top of his chest and the other in the back. He had a clean and slicked back brown hair with some gray strands, indicating the signs of aging. This was butler that was trained over the years and honed to be perfect, as one would expect in serving the Royal family.

I, who was an ordinary girl, couldn't believe that this kind of thing would happen to me. A bride? In the past, I promised myself not to get married, EVER. Who would have thought that at the age of eighteen, I would get married? Furthermore, it's to a prince.

If I were to tell this to my past self, even I would not believe it.

I sighed to myself and looked towards the person beside me, my groom. If there is something that I like about him, it was his face. As for personality... Let's talk about that next time.

How did this happen? I myself also wonder to that. I sighed as I look back on what happened a few days ago.

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It was already five in the evening, just a few more minutes and our teacher will let us go. I yawned boredly, listening to the teacher's blabber. It wasn't even part of the lecture but just reminiscing her past.

The old teacher would always start with "Back in the day..." and it will never end until the end of the class. Sometimes, she would overtime.

"You are lucky that you aren't suffering... blah...blah..."

It went on and on. I just scribbled on my notebook to past time, not even listening to a single word. I drew a circle first, then a straight line below the circle and another line in the middle, next I drew two slanted lines on the end of the line. Finally, the final touch. Two dots and a smile. A happy stickman.

Okay, I'm not that great of an artist.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

As soon as I heard that noise, my limp body suddenly sat straight and became energized. I happily listened to the bell chime that signals the end of the class. I waited for the old teacher to speak and say the words 'Class dismissed.'

They were my fourth most favorite words that I wanted to hear from my teacher. Of course, the first one is 'There is no class/class is cancelled.', the second is 'There is no homework', and the third is 'There is no exam/exams are cancelled'.

Although I may look like a studious exemplary student, the truth is, I don't like studying. Nobody likes studying, ah, maybe some do. All I want to do is to play all day. But it's not like I could just suddenly stopped studying and become a drop-out. I have to support myself in the future. Though I do not like it, I need to do it.

And besides, if I really do that, I won't have a home to go to. Not like there is one to begin with.

"Oh, that's the bell. I guess that's it for now. Class dismissed." The old teacher started to pack up, while the students stretched their arms and legs before starting to talk about what they would do on the way home.

Youth. How nice to have something I couldn't have. I smiled to myself as I wallowed myself in self-pity.

I started packing up my bags in a hurry. After I finished packing up, I left the classroom without looking back. I felt suffocation as I stayed there. The vibrant image of youth was too blinding for my eyes to see.