Don't Doubt Your Beauty

“The ball?” Elizabeth exclaimed and her face disgruntled while furrowing her eyebrows. “You’ve got to be kidding me. The queen must have not been true to her words.”

Without further ado, Nikita rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. “I am telling you. They said it,” she said. “You know the protocols. If a royalty invites you, you should not be refusing them because there will be consequences.”

“I know, but I don’t see a reason why I am also included.”

“Well, let’s just say that the queen must like you!”

“That is very impossible.”

My friend slapped her forehead as I remained confused and panicking. I suddenly remembered that the queen mentioned a ball from the other kingdom, but she shyly refused the invitation since the princesses have dismissed her.

When I approached her towards the door, she was fidgeting while telling me that the queen requires my presence in the kingdom this afternoon so we can go to the other kingdom and attend the ball with Nikita.

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