Patrice woke up exhausted to the sound of the maid gently and quietly waking her up, saying:
"Your Highness, Princess Patrice...there is an emergency meeting in the royal meeting room...please wake up, this is an order from the King and Queen..."
"Ugh, alright, alright, I'm awake..."
The maid left quietly and closed the door to Patrice's suite....moments later, Patrice got up from her bed with a groan, saying as she headed towards the bathroom with a continuous grumble:
"Looks like they're going to plan the date of my big brother Mark's coronation as king of our kingdom, the Kingdom of Molania, finally....ugh, this is really exhausting."
Fifteen minutes later, Patrice was already ready for the meeting and had put on her very long, Victorian royal dress, let down her long, chestnut hair, and put on a little makeup as she didn't like to wear it much, sprayed her favorite, calm perfume, and went downstairs to the palace and headed towards the royal meeting castle....
There were two strong-looking guards standing at the door, and when they saw Patrice, they bowed to her quietly and opened the door to the hall for her, and Patrice, in turn, bowed to them gently and thanked them...
Patrice entered the hall and saw that there were many people sitting in the royal hall, and she also noticed the king of the Kingdom of Tangora, which is located in the east, named Max, sitting in the middle of the hall with her father, and when they saw her, her father, the king, motioned for her to sit next to her mother, the queen, quietly and silently...
Patrice sat in the designated place without uttering a word, feeling surprised, as she thought that they would only set the date for her brother Mark's coronation and did not think that the meeting would be about something else...
Her father, the king, spoke and said:
"In this meeting, as everyone knows, we will set the date for the wedding of my daughter Patrice, who is 20 years old, and the king of the Kingdom of Tangora, Max, who is 26 years old..."
She looked at him in shock and got up from the chair and said in protest:
"What!!!....Father...."
The king interrupted Patrice and said to her:
"And without any objection....all the girls in our kingdom get married when they reach 20 years of age, and this rule applies even to the princesses we have...and also there are many princes and kings who have proposed to you, but you have rejected them all, including King Max, but I see that King Max is the most suitable to marry you, so I chose him to be your husband..."
Her eyes filled with tears and she said in protest:
"But Father, I..."
The king interrupted her again and said:
"I am your father and I know what is in your best interest..so no more discussions...the wedding will be in two weeks..."
She sat next to the queen again and looked at King Max with hatred and whispered: "I hate you!"
I was eagerly waiting for this meeting to end, and literally the minutes were passing like hours, and this was torturing me more and more!..
And finally, after some time, the meeting ended and I got up to leave the hall quickly, and all of this was under the eyes of King Max...
I ran towards the back garden of the palace and sat behind the fountain while crying silently for minutes in the same state until I was startled when I felt a hand patting my shoulder unexpectedly!
I raised my head and looked behind me quickly after getting up to find that it was King Max!