“I’ll just eat them but I’m in,” said Prince
Adam.
“Good,” said
Edith, “Now hurry on to class.”
Prince Adam and
Princess Eva entered Celestial’s room. The
rest of the class was seated and the last two desks were at the back of the
room close to the door.
“Take a seat Prince Adam and Princess Eva, we
were just about to begin,” said the guide Celestial.
As they sat listening to the guide, talking
about the Kingdom, Prince Adam’s mind started to wander.
“Eva,” he whispered as he leaned toward Eva’s
desk.
Eva made sure
the guide was busy when she whispered back, “What?”
“I am
sick of being inside the castle studying day after day. Let’s go outside,”
“We just had our
three-day King Celebrations,” Eva whispered back.
“Yea, just three
days and everything is back to parchments and books,” grumbled Prince Adam.
“Prince
Adam, do you have something to share?”
Adam’s head snapped back to the
front of the room. Celestial, at the front of the class, was addressing him. The
whole room turned to look. Prince Adam did not like the attention, so he put an
innocent look on his cherub face and said,
“No. sorry.”
The guide and
the other royals turned back to the lesson. Adam looked out the window. He saw
trees, sun, and that beautiful water of the sea lapping against the shore near
the castle wall. He looked back to see what Eva was doing. She was watching him.
“Today we will
study about a man with two sons. The youngest wanted his inheritance,” Celestial
said.
On another
occasion, Prince Adam might have said or done something to make Eva laugh, and
then the whole class would join in. but today he wanted to get outside more
than he wanted to get attention. The door and windows were all open to
circulate the cool Northern Kingdom air. It was midsummer and warm. A fresh
cool breeze was making its way out of the south and into the windows. Light
curtains on the windows fluttered up and over the royals’ heads. It drove
Prince Adam wild as he breathed the air in deeply. He could not concentrate on
one word the guide was saying.
“Eva, let’s sneak
out,” he whispered.
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