Warnings: Extreme fluff
You woke up earlier than usual the next day. You showered and dressed up on your own, feeling a bit better now and more motivated to learn.
By the time Marie and Rose came into your room to wake you up, there were met with an empty, neat room.
The bed was made, the curtains were up and there was no sign of you in the room. They both panicked, fearing that something bad had happened to you.
Only to see you already in your study, working hard.
"Your Highness, please call us should you feel like waking up early again. It's our job to attend to you," Marie scolded you after pouring you a cup of tea.
"I'm sorry. I was afraid you're all still resting. After all, it's still early."
"Your Highness, should the others know that our Master wakes up earlier than us, we'll be punished. Besides, we are already up during that time, so please do not hesitate to call us for help," Rose added.
You nodded and smiled.
These two had been helping you with adapting to royalty life from the start and you were really grateful for their help. They filled you in on information that your teachers didn't tell you. They even gave advices on things that you're not familiar with.
Now, you're more familiar with how nobles think and do.
"However, I do need to advise you on your sleeping schedule. We don't mind if you want to wake up early should you feel the need to study but please go to be early. You have been staying up lately because you want to study and it is not good for your skin, Your Highness."
"Marie is right, Your Highness. I also heard from His Highness that there will be a wedding ceremony in three weeks? Therefore, we will monitor your diet until then."
"Yes, Your Highness. And we will also monitor your condition and prepare well for your wedding dress."
"You also need to take care of your skin and your hair. And also—"
So this is what Satan meant yesterday...
By the time Marie and Rose finished explaining on things you need to do and monitor, you could only blinked blankly.
"I hope you don't run away from us, Your Highness." Rose smiled.
Is it just me or did her smile gives off some strange vibes just now?
"You look elated today. Something good happened?" Lucifer put down his cutlery and focused solely on you.
Your smiles were radiating throughout the room during the whole dinner time and it cheered Lucifer up from his stressful day. So he couldn't help but feel curious on your unusual bubbly self.
A Queen should be calm and composed all the time; never wavering or showing any emotions when they're exposed to new things or feel discomfort from anything.
Your open book behaviour was probably not what the old Lucifer would want. But he had decided to throw that excessive ideal of his away and savour these moments with you.
After all, you're his wife first, before you are the future Queen.
And having his wife being the exact opposite of him wasn't something terrible after all. It's nice to spend time with you after a full day of never ending paperwork, field trips and constant issues to be solve in the country.
"I learnt how to do embroidery today. It was fun!"
Lucifer smiled, glad that you seemed to be enjoying the lessons, at least. He heard from Madam Leela—your etiquette teacher—that you made a tremendous progress these past few days. You've also keep up with the other lessons and were now progressing further into the syllabus.
Maybe pressuring you wasn't the best choice to take. And Lucifer learnt it the hard way.
"Is that so? I hope you don't prick your fingers when you practise embroidering." Lucifer reached out to grab your left hand and rubbed your fingertips softly.
He eyed your ring finger, empty and bare of no jewellery at the moment before letting a small smile. The images of seeing a shiny ring on it after the ceremony filled him with joy.
Lucifer was too caught up in his imagination to even realise he had intertwined his fingers to yours, causing you to be completely frozen by his action. Even Jean and Marie were trying their best not to let their mouth agape from witnessing a new side of the Crown Prince.
"Your-Your Highness..." You were blushing profusely.
Upon hearing himself being called, he focused back to reality and realised what he had done.
Lucifer let go of your hand, retracted his own hand from the table and cleared his throat before saying, "Apologies for my indecency, Princess."
Now, he's blushing.
And now Jean and Marie were also slowly blushing from the second-hand embarrassment.
Oh my God! Someone stop this! Please! I'm embarrassed!
Similar to the narrator, you were still blushing profusely from Lucifer's action. Marie had helped you changed into your nightwear without muttering about the incident in the dining hall during dinner.
"Sleep well, Your Highness. You have a very busy day tomorrow. The designer is coming to get your measurements as well as the jeweller. And you also need to polish your dancing skills with Madam Leela tomorrow," Marie reminded you.
You thanked her for the reminder and lied down on your massive bed, trying to calm your pounding heart. You tossed and turned, trying really hard to fall asleep but failed miserably.
The light touches as he massaged your fingertips.
The way he traced your ring finger.
The way he squeezed his own fingers in between yours.
The warmth from his hand.
You immediately sat up, wanting to scream and throw your pillows to the wall—or more accurately, the images of Lucifer you see when you looked at the wall.
'I'm crazy! I'm going crazy!'
Sure enough, Rose and Marie nagged you about sleeping late, yet again, the next day, "Your Highness, this is an important time for you! Please ditch your studies for a while and sleep early."
In truth, you weren't actually studying last night. You were far too distracted to calm down and sleep so you decided to embroider a handkerchief.
You weren't sure if Lucifer actually wears handkerchief but you decided to just go with it anyway.
Yes, you were embroidering a handkerchief with Lucifer in mind.
At first, it was to show off on how good you've become but after the incident last week, you decided you want to give him something as a gift.
Madam Leela had showed you how to embroider emblems from the Houses in the country. According to her, in the past, women will show their embroidery skills to their potential suitors as one of their many qualities to be married into the family. If the embroidery is neat and lovely, the higher the chances of them being chosen as the partner.
Nowadays, it's more of a hobby and didn't have any hidden meanings. Though it wasn't a crucial thing to learn at such times where everything needs to be learn in a short amount of time, you were grateful to Lucifer for giving you the chance to learn this skill.
He could definitely cut the syllabus off, but he didn't. And because of that, you're going to show him your appreciation by embroidering the Royal family's emblem.
Since you wanted this to be a surprise, you didn't say anything to your maids, in fear that they might spill the news to Jean and eventually let it travel to Lucifer.
"That's brilliant, Your Highness. Your movements are sharper now. You're doing really great." Madam Leela squeezed your hand with a smile on her face.
"I can't wait to see you in your wedding dress! The public will surely love you, Your Highness." Madam Leela clasped her hands together and brought it close to her chest. Her eyes were filled with nothing but adore towards the Princess.
Who would've thought after learning from her for almost a month, you've gained a new mother figure.
Though she was strict at first, she showed true patience and care when she's teaching. Madam Leela became one of the few people that you confided into and you're glad she's proud with your progress.
"This is my last lesson with you. You've grown into a Lady, truly."
"Madam, please don't cry... I'm tearing up as well..."
"Your Highness, you have every quality to be a ruler. Please don't forget that. I will be supporting you with my whole life and you shall have my loyalty," she gave you a smile before you wrapped your arms around her, hugging her close.
"Thank you for everything, Madam. I will always remember you. And feel free to visit me again. You are not just my teacher, but also my mother. I'd love to keep in touch with you after this."
Madam Leela gave you one last smile before wishing you all the best for your future endeavors.
Watching her back turned against you made you reminisced the journey you've been through to get through today. You left your family, your home country and your comfort zone to be a princess in the neighbouring country.
It seemed crazy to believe but you're still here after all the things that happened to you.
But it didn't change the fact that you have been missing your family so much. You couldn't really keep in touch with them all the time as it's still not safe to communicate before the public announcement. You could only call them during the weekends, but it's also time constricted.
You made a mental note to ask for Lucifer's permission to visit them after the ceremony later.
The Princes had invited you for a tea time together near your private garden during the evening. Considering you're almost done with your lessons for the day, you agreed.
You arrived to the scene with all six of them already waiting for you at the table. They were still a rowdy bunch, although they've tone it down considering they were in public at the moment.
When they saw you walking towards them, they gave you a smile and all stood up to greet you but you stopped them by putting a hand up.
"It's alright. No need for formalities."
With the permission granted from the Crown Princess, no one would dare to disobey, right?
A good choice. Now everyone can have fun without thinking about etiquette!
A butler pulled a seat for you in between Asmo and Levi. Although the fifth born seemed overly excited to have you sitting beside him, the third born didn't seem so much.
You gave a glance to Levi to make sure he's comfortable but caught him shying away and looking the other direction.
"I'm sorry. Did I perhaps make you uncomfortable, Leviathan?"
"Don't mind him, he's always like that with anyone new," Asmo said, sipping his tea calmly.
"Is that so? Then, maybe I should change my seat? I wouldn't want you to–"
"Wait wait! No! That's not what I-! I mean, no, I'm okay with you sitting there. It's okay..."
"Why're ya actin' all shy anyway? She's our big sis now. It's not like she's a potential candidate for your marriage. Wait! Do you like her?"
"No! What nonsense are you talking about!" Levi glared at Mammon with seething anger.
"And there they go again." Satan shook his head in disbelief.
You couldn't help but give a smile when they started arguing with each other. They reminded you of your friends back home.
"Anyway! You don't need to call me by my full name. It'll only make me more nervous. Like I just did something wrong that needed a scolding or something," Levi said.
"Yeah, just call him Levi. You can call me Belphie too. And Beel here will be Beel to you too."
"Me too! Me too! Just call me Asmo! Cute name, right? Well, I am cute. And pretty! But my name is cute too! Can you believe that–"
"Dammit Asmo! No one wants to hear ya talk about that!"
"Hey! You take that back!"
And now it's Asmo's turn to argue with Mammon.
'Wow! What a cheerful family this is!'
You were laughing quietly when you felt a hand brushed up against your cheek and slowly tracing your skin. You quickly looked back and saw Lucifer standing behind you with his infamous expressionless face.
Again with that unreadable expression!
"The Prince Charming is finally here. I see," Satan scoffed.
The argument died down soon after as they all looked over to the eldest. It may looked like they're communicating telepathically because it was followed with a long silence after.
You started to shift uncomfortably on your seat so you hold his gloved hand that was still on your cheek and tugged it slightly, "Will you be joining us, Your Highness?"
"Yeah, have a seat Lucifer. It's been a long time since we have tea together," Beel said.
You instructed the butler to grab another chair for Lucifer without hearing his replies. To which he didn't say much and just sat between you and Levi.
"Did you just finish your work, Your Highness?"
"Yes." His reply was curt and short, very typical of Lucifer.
The atmosphere cheered back up as they all conversed with each other with the occasional reply from Lucifer himself.
You were having fun getting to know the Princes, but unbeknownst to you, someone else was not having it.
"Belphie, can you pass me the scone?"
"Satan, about that book you recommended earlier..."
"I never knew about that. Thanks for telling me, Beel!"
"But Levi said it's fine, no?"
"That's beautiful, Asmo!"
"What do you mean, Mammon?"
Lucifer's frown was getting deeper everytime you said something. He couldn't believe his ears.
"Why the scowl, Lucifer?" Asmo asked.
You quickly turned your direction to face him after Asmo said it. You blinked curiously before asking, "Are you not having fun, Your Highness?"
Your Highness...
Yet...
The sudden glare directed to you made you leaned back in surprise.
'What's wrong with him??'
The long silence was broken by Levi's cheerful laughter, "I think I know what's going on here."
Satan and Asmo followed through and soon after, all of them were laughing. The one who's not were you and Lucifer.
Although by now, Lucifer would've ceased his brothers' laughing fest, he didn't. He was still giving that glare to you. The grip on his fist tightened but you could only sit there and wonder why.
"Your Highness? Did... Did I do something wrong?"
The brothers laughed once again.
You were on edge. You're not sure why Lucifer seemed furious this evening when he's sitting right in front of you with a small smile.
Was it because he's jealous?
If he's jealous, then why did he give permission for you to join the mini tea party in the first place? Besides, he didn't seem to mind anytime his brothers came by to your waiting room just to talk.
He even once let you go horse riding with Belphie alone, without any knights supervising you two.
Lucifer seemed more complicated than you thought.
"Your Highness?" you tried speaking.
The slight downfall of his smile didn't go unnoticed by you, "About this evening–"
Lucifer waved his hand as a signal for Jean and Rose to leave the room. As soon as the door clicked, he turned his full attention to you, eyes slightly glaring at your whole being.
"Did I perhaps... Did I do something rude to you...?"
"MC."
"Y-yes?"
"Try calling me by my name."
"Huh?"
"My name."
"Lucifer?"
"Good." His resumed his eating and left you there, still confused for your own good.
"Your Highness, I don't-"
"Lucifer."
...
You finally put two and two together.
This jerk!
"You don't seem to have a problem with calling my brothers by their names, yet why is it so hard for you to call me by my real name?"
Because I'm trying to respect you, you asshole!
"I thought I've said this to you before, no?"
●●●~Flashback~●●●
"Your Highness this! Your Highness that! I have a name too!"
"Lucifer! Call me Lucifer... Please..."
●●●~End of Flashback~●●●
"You were drunk on that time! I didn't know you're being serious!" You couldn't contain your anger any longer.
"Well, I'm sober now."
This man is really driving you crazy.
After mentally checking every preparation he needed, Lucifer leaned back to his throne and listened carefully to the issues presented by the nobles in the meeting hall.
Giving his opinions and solutions once in a while, he was ready to end the meeting. The reason was mainly due to him feeling eager to break the news to the heads of the Houses.
Considering you rarely went out from your study during the day, it was easy for Lucifer to hide your existence in this huge palace. The only House who was aware of your presence was House of Gillwell, where Madam Leela was from.
They did a great job of concealing the news from spreading out so Lucifer reminded himself to grant them a reward in return.
"Your Highness," Jean whispered from behind him.
Jean approached Lucifer and leaned closer, "Her Highness is waiting for you in your waiting room. It seems like she wants to talk to you."
The more reason for Lucifer to end the meeting early.
"Entertain her for a while. I'll be there shortly."
Shortly was definitely not two hours.
Lucifer exited the meeting hall with a deep frown.
He didn't think the last issue was going to take so long to discuss. It's not fair to cut the meeting short only for his personal matter so Lucifer calmed himself down and sat through all the discussion and gave his appropriate decision. He did, however, said that he'd look further on the matter to not lengthen the time.
By the time he wanted to end it, he just dropped the news of the royal wedding ceremony in a week time before exiting the hall without further explanations.
Whatever the nobles did or said after that, he couldn't care less.
He had kept you waiting for a long time now and the guilt was gnawing at him.
"Did you make her some refreshment?" Lucifer asked Jean.
"I did. However Her Highness told me to leave her alone and do my other jobs. I insisted on companying her but Her Highness also insisted that I leave and get things done. I don't know what to do."
"So you left her alone for two hours?" Lucifer raised his voice while still walking fast to his waiting room.
"No, I did not, Your Highness. I accompanied Her Highness for about an hour before she told me to leave."
You must have felt bad for keeping Jean from doing his other work around the palace.
Lucifer fastened his pace and by 10 seconds, he was already at the door. He pushed open the door to see you, sleeping soundly on one of his couch.
You were leaning to the end side of the couch and tugging your hands under your head. You did, however, keep your feet to the ground so your sleeping pose wasn't too inappropriate to be seen by other man in the room—and by other man, it was only Jean.
Lucifer's heart clenched by the sight so he approached you slowly.
'Sorry for making you wait so long, MC.'
He kneeled down to have a closer look at your peaceful face. A smile was drawn on his lips as he extended his hand to tug your loose locks behind your ear. Lucifer then cupped your cheek softly and said, "MC?"
You didn't answer. Lucifer's grin was wider as he discovered a new cute side of you.
But, the longer he touched you, the more his joy started to disappear as fear slowly crept into his whole being.
He bit the tip of his glove and aggressively took it off with his teeth before touching your cheek once again. His heart started skipping a beat as he frantically touched your forehead next.
"Jean! Call the royal physician! Now!"
hehehe cliffhanger :)
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