With the way Cecelia grew up, it isn’t strange for her to try to isolate herself and take this opportunity to get lost or just explore the palace since this is probably the last place in which she wants to get in trouble. Imagine what that would look like? She just got here, didn’t even get the chance to meet her potential husband, and already everyone knows about her because she did something wrong. How embarrassing that would be? She got the opportunity to leave her hometown, her family, so she surely didn’t want to mess this up and get sent back home. Even if maybe she wasn’t so sure about being here, if it was the smartest thing, the best thing that could happen to her she… She just didn’t want to go back home. Not yet at least.
So leaving her room and trying not to bump into any other girl that in this place represents her competition, and trust me when I say Cecelia had a problem with looking at people as her competition because of the way she grew up, she found herself in the strangest places. That happens when you try to avoid people and try to be sneaky. If you get lost and need some kind of direction around this huge palace, Cecelia could probably help you… Not really but I think you know what I’m trying to say here. Eventually she did find another way to get to the garden and avoid the main entrance where she could probably see other girls and guards which… Got her thinking. What was happening with everyone else right now? Yes, she wasn’t ready to meet anyone yet but was that what they were thinking? Is that also how they felt or was it just Cecelia? Was she missing out on something important that was happening now? Or was she missing out on meeting a friend that shared her views on this very first day?
As hard as she tried it was impossible not to see anyone walking around, so the moment she stepped outside hoping to find a garden she spotted people she could only assume were guards and other selected girls or… Maids? Or… It was really hard to tell and she didn’t want to assume anything but the girls were truly beautiful. For an example, a girl she’ll later find out was named Sanura, who got her hand kissed which was like… One of those sweet scenes out of many books Cecelia likes to read. If she was a prince that girl would be on top of her list. Was… Was she really concerned about that? Maybe Cecelia didn’t want to be a princess, maybe she wanted, maybe she… maybe she didn’t know what she wanted and that was completely fine. You can’t really tell anything when this whole thing starts tomorrow and you still didn’t get the full experience. Yes, Cecelia… There were some parts of her that wanted to be chosen because it’s not something she ever experienced but maybe at the end of the day she’ll only be able to say “it is what is like”… Like she often does.
Coming here she didn’t expect to be thinking about this so much, she didn’t even know what the prince looked like. Okay, okay… She did. Kind of. Who didn’t? But it sure will be different seeing that person standing right in front of you. Only if she knew that moment would come sooner than it should… As she kept walking away from the orchard and the couple she saw there, Cecelia found herself in a very quiet and beautiful part of the garden. Only the ones who probably knew where they were going could end up here and lucky for Cecelia she didn’t care if she got lost. She was too focused on looking around to realize someone was actually there until that person spoke up. At first she froze, scared because she wasn’t expecting anyone to be there, so it took her a minute to look down at the person who was too busy reading a book to even look up. And to be honest she didn’t really care. That kind of reminded her of her so taking that opportunity of still being kind of anonymous since the person didn’t pay that much attention to her, she got closer to take a better look at him.
No, she didn’t think that was the prince, why would he be here? Now? Reading a book? It was probably another guard who got tired of his job and wanted to take a little break to which Cecelia could only respond with “I support it”. [color=“#923c1c”]”I don’t see why anyone shouldn’t be here, it’s quite nice, unless it’s-”[/color] so just imagine the look on her face when she took a couple of steps and realized who that was. You can’t really blame her for not figuring it out right away, first of all - it was getting kind of dark and second… People are different in person and this was the first time she got to see the prince like this. [color=”#923c1c”]”Oh, I’m… I shouldn’t be here, I apologize, this is…”[/color] Inappropriate? What’s the right word? ”Inappropriate.” Remember how I said it would be embarrassing if something happened and Cecelia got in trouble? Was this it? Was that really happening? And if it was why wasn’t she moving, trying to get back inside and pretend this didn’t happen?
@/Littlefeets - le prince