KING at last!||Ari

[dritan sokal of albania]

Spring had come quickly and summer was even faster to approach. That meant things like Graduation and all of the summer events that filled up his social calendar. First there was a wedding to attend, a few summer parties that his parents threw, some political stuff, maybe his own wedding but that really wasn't at the top of his priorities. Actually he had resigned himself to marry her if that is how his parents still felt even after he lost the crown, but that was a low point in his life. A low point back in January that lead him to basically mope around until about Feburary when he found something more to his liking. His servant came to him and began to create a stiring in his heart that he could not explain. Why had he never noticed her before? Maybe she looked prettier now that he had been sober for longer than a few days. But she still wanted nothing to do with him and she still planned to leave him in a few short months to attend some Albanian college while Dritan would have to fight off attention while at some American Ivy university. His parents insisted that he find a new servant and pick the best college he could get into.

But then something else happened during the semester... something that he longed for more than he longed for Heidi. It happened over the spring break time period and since both Albanian children were being difficult thier parents came to visit. Dritan had been sitting with Ari in the hotel room just watching tv when she told him that she was scared about being Queen and everything. So he did what any older brother would do and he comforted her with nice words and advice so she would be strong. Apparently this impressed thier parents in some way and at dinner that night thier father announced that Dritan would get the crown afterall. Well it definately brightened up his mood for the remainer of the semester. Dritan strolled through the halls of Vineheart with a bright grin on his face and the confidence of a king. Enough confidence to convince Heidi to come to the Rose Ball with him.

So tonight he pulled out all of the stops for her, some lady to do her hair, a dress with matching jewerly, and a red rose for her. Now Heidi refused these things and told Dritan that she would be getting ready without his help so he came down early to wait for her. His suit was well pressed or at least as well at Dritan could manage with the iron but his bow tie looked nice. It was just a simple black suit with black pants and a black jacket but to spice it up he wore a bright red bow tie. Since he was waiting for people he stood at the door holding a two flowers. One red and one pink. The pink one was for his sister since he had exciting news for her.

As he stood there he twirled the end of his short mustache and tried to force the hair into the handlebar style. A future king with a mustache He thought to himself as he allowed another grin to appear on his lips. Women take forever to get dressed... i hate it. hurry up! He thought as well since he saw a few people starting to enter the event. Dritan was impatient at best so this was driving him up the wall. But he was an impatient king! who didn't have a coronation date quite yet. His father was still working out the details and he knew that the wedding might be holding up everything. Again he needed to talk to Bethany but tonight would be about him and Heidi... and Ari. He owed Ari a great deal of thanks. And he would repay her by making her a Duchess and in another way that he thought she would like better. Oh he just couldn't wait to tell her the wonderful news. Dritan looked almost giddy as he watched more people walk past him.

[ariana dorottya of albania]

can we PRETEND that airplanes
in the NIGHT sky are like shooting STARS

i could REALLY use a wish right now,
WISH right now, wish right NOW

She was feeling a sense of déjà vu, it was so weird that she would be attending the rose ball alone. She didn’t really mind, but it was just weird because of all of the chaos that had occurred over the last few months. She was glad that the end of the term was approaching, but one thing she knew was that she might not go back home right away. She had been hoping she’d be able to hide out with someone for a few weeks before she had to go back home to see her parents. She was still so mad at them, their decisions had led to so many problems for her that she just wanted to ignore them forever. The only thing that she would go back for was so that she could be there for her brother as he resumed his role as the heir to the throne. One good thing that had come out of this whole horrid situation was that she and her brother had a better relationship because of it. The whole thing during spring break had been weird, she hadn’t been afraid of the queen thing, she had just said that to placate him. She knew in the back of her head that she would have never gone along with it, even if she had to run away. What had affected her was how her parent’s decisions had managed to ruin the only relationship she had ever had.

She hadn’t even talked to him properly since the breakup, and if she was honest the only thing she had wanted to do after it was just lay in bed. Obviously she had to do all of her activities, and she hadn’t really stopped moving around since then. She was afraid that the moment she found she had nothing to do, it was when everything would come crashing into realization. At least her parents had seemed to drop the whole idea of the arranged marriage, there had been no more talk of it. She was thankful for this because she didn’t want to ruin Stefan and Aisling’s relationship over her parent’s bad ideas. But she pushed all the thoughts away as she finished getting ready for the rose ball, she left her roommates in their room, they both technically had dates so they had to put a little more effort into their appearance. She looked nice enough, as usual she didn’t go for the insane amount of make-up, and she just threw all of the things she needed into her clutch. As soon as she got to the ballroom, she spotted a chaperone and she went to retrieve the pink rose she was supposed to wear. She knew that this was their attempt at making it so everyone had a rose, but having a pink rose was depressing sometimes. Nonetheless she pinned it to her dress and she looked around for someone she knew, and she finally spotted her brother who looked oddly happy. She made her way towards him, wondering what had him looking so chipper.

“Hey, you look happy” she said with a smile.

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[dritan sokal of albania]

Why was he happy? His servant was slowly coming around to the idea of actually dating him, graduation was right there, and he was going to be made king soon. Of course he would be happy. For once his life was just falling so nicely into place that he didn't care about the fact that he was about to offend Denmark and it's future king by breaking off his engagement. Of course he assumed that since the future king had been a childhood friend that he wouldn't be too upset. After all Dritan was looking out for Bethany's best interests by letting her leave him and marry who he wanted. If anything Dritan should be knighted and given a parade... well he was going to get a parade since he was going to be king. When he told Heidi about his good news he watched as she got very excited for him but then it was like both of them realized that life was real. Reality was saying that Dritan shouldn't marry Heidi because he should follow his duty as king but now they were going to give it a shot, assuming that Dritan didn't fuck up in some way.

But one thing would be constant and that would be his sisters happiness since he was going to end her arranged marriage for her and she would no longer be Queen. Now in his opinion Ari would make a wonderful Queen but she had doubts in herself which would never work out for her. Dritan was confident even if he knew that he would probably mess up at some point during his career and he knew that it would be difficult to win back the people of Albania but with the right moves he would suceed. There would be a great amount of charity work this summer and then he would go to college and maintain his good image. Secretly he hated charity work since everyone was always sick or something and they all wanted to shake his hand but it would be his long awaited punishment since he could not longer get the belt across his butt. He smirked as he wondered if Heidi ever thought of doing that to him when he was being annoying.

But finally his waiting gave way to his sister appearing and giving him a strange look. "is it wrong that I am happy sis?" He asked as he extended her a rose. "I know that the family colored rose is yellow but I think pink suits you better." He replied and then offered her his arm to walk inside. Dritan was not subbtle in his intentions and there was something happy that he knew about so he planned to tell her after a moment. "have you spoken to father today? Him and I talked for a bit and it was a very good conversation about marriage and life." He told her. It was rare that Dritan and thier father got along but slowly he was learning to respect his father and he was secretly building up brownie points in case Heidi and him seemed to work out to more than just her allowing him to take her out for now.