KING IN THE NORTH
chapter 7 Olive

Olives...

"Has the princess been found? "

Greet mom as soon as my dad enters the door, as if it was just the news she was waiting for the whole day.

I was still stirring the watery soup in my bowl myself, when I saw my father pull the chair at the end of the table, from the face of the lesion I could already guess it seemed like the Princess was smart enough to hide.

My father worked in the palace but don't imagine a shield or a sword that would make him look gallant, because all he took everyday was a horse-neck rope, of course because my father only worked on palace horses. Therefore even though King Roland announced to the whole people that the Princess was sick, my family knew the Princess was not sick or kidnapped she had actually run away.

I was worried that my old father would be blamed, because after all the Princess ran away using a horse that should be guarded by him.

"Olive you want some peanuts? " my mom tried to offer me some peanut soup that my dad just poured in my bowl, I shook my head.

"What do you think if the Princess is never found?" ask suddenly.

"Don't dream, even if Prince Artur doesn't get married he still won't look at a girl like you! " said Dominik as if spitting in my face.

Shit, I looked at the indifferent face of my brother who still ignored my anger.

I almost forgot, Dominik's mouth was hard to guard, only a fool would serve him. He's my older brother, I wish I had a better brother than a drunk man who might as well sell me for just a few bottles of wine.

"Why are you still looking at me, little boy?"

"Close your mouth! " i snapped, making my father begin to pay attention to our debate.

Dominik pretended to be busy again sharpening the tip of the arrow using a hand-carved knife that our father had given us when he was eighteen. I gave her that precious thing for her, and now only he used to scavenge the arrows that he would use to hunt deer that he would exchange for cheap wine and some dirty girls if he was lucky.

"Stop dreaming !" his ridicule, have not given up on starting to provoke me.

I'd almost jumped out of my seat if I didn't remember my dad at the same table. He was the only good man left on this earth, and mother gave him two children at a young age, the most impossible thing I would ever think of. Because I know all men are as bad as Dominik, except for one of course Prince Artur. In my heart I began to again condemn the stupidity of Princess Aurora who ran away from a man as good as Prince Artur.

Sometimes life is unfair after her lover dies by killing his own brother, and this time the foolish Princess runs away from her marriage.

I'm just the daughter of a horse nanny and a nobody, the girl who would only eat a bowl of diluted soup from boiled beans all her life, which I'm sure Prince Artur never even knew food like this ever existed.

Dominik is still looking at me.

"What do you see! " snuffled.

"It looks like you're old enough," without continuing his words Dominik still looks at me, watching in more detail to be exact.

"Enough, you're pissing me off Dominik! " i got up from my seat to wash the bowl and intended to head straight to my room. As I passed by Dominik, he spoke again.

"Maybe you'd be worth a little bit if you'd like to learn to dress up Olive."

He swore he was mocking me with that grin, "There might be some of my friends who would look at you."

Totally draining my patience, I unexpectedly struck Dominik's body, grabbing the small knife he had used to slash the tip of the arrow. This time the knife was already stuck between the recesses under his throat.

"You can kill me, you little bastard!!! "

"You're scared! " i've never felt this angry before, but Dominik is really outrageous, I can still remember how two weeks ago he almost harmed me if Prince Artur and his bodyguards came suddenly. Of course they did not come for me, they were just passing by and did not like the noise created by Dominik and his friends, my own brother made me a betting material.

"I don't know why God created people like you and your friends" I sighed with my teeth as I whispered in Dominic's ear.

"Stop Olive you can really hurt your brother," this time my father spoke, my father rarely rebuked me because I could not argue and chose to put my knife down.

"You're getting wild Olive," Dominik tried to fix his sitting position after being strayed when I suddenly hit him.

I left the scoundrel Dominik who would not stop mocking me.

I remember when Prince Artur helped me a few weeks ago, it was the most extraordinary event of my life. I've never seen a man as charming and as good as Prince Artur, maybe he's out of a fairyland. Oh.. No.., suddenly I shook my head Nort Kingdom is not a fairyland of course, the North is a hell filled with evil demons loyal to the cursed King.

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