Stuck In The Middle Ages
02| Prince Austin

Today we will have a meeting with the Emperor. Kings and queens of kingdoms still within the imperial sphere also came. They intend to discuss the development of villages in each kingdom.

On the other hand, Natasha is playing with Lucas. The two seem to enjoy it so much with the occasional Natasha who tickles her sister.

      "Sister, when do you and mom get home?" tanyanya with a sleep on Natasha's thigh.

       "Don't know, do you want us to catch up with them?" natasha asked Lucas' eyes immediately sparkled.

       "OKAY. Let's get uncle's guard to take us there."

The two got up and ran towards the horse carriage. Luckily, there was a guard there.

      "Uncle, can you take us to mom and dad? Lucas whines to meet them!" natasha's reason, at that time Lucas nodded while showing his timidity.

       "It's not that I don't want a princess, but the king asked us not to let a princess or a prince out of here considering there are a lot of dangers out there. The journey to the place of the king and queen was quite far because they would meet the emperor directly. Must pass through a forest full of strange and dangerous creatures."

Hearing that Lucas and Natasha spontaneously see each other. Suddenly they smiled strangely.

     "Okay, if uncle won't let us meet with mom and dad. We will complain to them that the uncle did not take good care of this place and instead went on a date with one of my servants!" threatening Natasha made the guard a little surprised.

      "I'm sorry princess, but the king and queen won't be that easy to believe den-"

      "Of course believe me, because the one who pitted Lucas later was not me. The wlee!"

Natasha scoffed by sticking out her tongue.

The guard seemed confused and chose to give up.

      "Alright, I will take the princesses and princes to the empire, but please explain to the queen and the king that this is your wish. I'm just scared of the d-"

      "Yes, yes."

Finally they started off with a few bodyguards on horses. They were on each side of the chariot to protect the princesses and princes of the kingdom of Beverly.

Finally they entered the forest where the guard had explained. Natasha peered and saw how the trees were towering like a sign that nature was higher than humans.

Given how humans like to casually cut down trees, damaging nature in their own way. However, all of that should be a price that is paid handsomely. Natural disasters are the answer to all human actions in nature.

Just about to sit back, Natasha was like seeing eyes peeking out from behind a tree trunk. He watched her closely to the point that one of the bodyguards asked her to come in.

      "Daughter, you better not show your face that much. The bandits fear to find out the princess' whereabouts and start attacking."

After making sure that the person who had peeked earlier had disappeared, he just sat back in his place. Lucas himself was already asleep, because it was a long journey.

Natasha stroked her sister's hair. He remembered his little cousin. They like to stick to him when college holidays arrive and he comes home.

No matter how long he had been asleep, when he opened his eyes and intended to ask where they had been, Natasha saw a lot of villagers who looked down saluting.

      "Daughter, we've arrived at the imperial gate."

      "Finally there."

She can see that the sun is almost sinking, so Natasha wakes up Lucas.

      "Lucas, we've arrived. Wake up, she says she wants to see mom and dad?"

Finally the little man woke up and yawned.

      "We're here, huh?"

After the train stopped, the two got off. A guard from the empire came.

     "This is the princess and prince of Beverly's work. The intention of arrival was to meet the king and queen!"

     "Alright, come with me. I'll show you the chamber of the king and queen Beverly."

Natasha appears to be holding Lucas' hand and they follow the guard. He himself could see how big the place was. Natasha was amazed.

      "This place is bigger than our kingdom."

Lucas just nodded, he was also the first time he had come. They finally arrived in front of his parents' room.

     "Daughter, this is the chamber of king and queen Beverly."

     "Okay, thank you!"

Traveling by the bodyguard, Lucas spontaneously opened the door to show the husband and wife were having a romance.

Natasha immediately closed Lucas' eyes, pulled him out and closed the door again.

      "Sorry to interrupt the time, we'll just wait in the park!" he shouted while carrying Lucas out by running.

      "Darling, how did the kids get here?" ask the queen, honestly she was embarrassed when she was caught by her own children.

      "Definitely Lucas asked here. Let's just keep going, there's Natasha who's gonna take care of her sister."

      "Darling, are you happy with Natasha's change now? She's become a smiley girl also obey what we say."

The man seemed to think, he also got a report from one of his confidants who was ordered to watch over Natasha's actions.

      "In school too, Natasha smiles more."

      "That's great. He can begin to be able to communicate with others and expand his connections later. If he is not going to replace you, then who else? Lucas's still too small to do a hard job."

      "You're right. Hopefully Natasha will lead our country and become a just and wise leader. I believe that Natasha is a strong boy."

      "Yes. Hope so!"

Meanwhile in the park Natasha was looking at the flowers. There are tulips, roses and so on.

      "Lucas, look. These flowers are so beautiful!"

There was no answer from Lucas.

     "Lucas!"

Natasha turned to look at the place where Lucas was standing and saw no one there.

      "Jeez, where's Lucas?"

He started to panic when he could not find his sister. The courtyard there was so vast that he had trouble finding it. Be Natasha ask some guards to help her find Lucas.

     "Uncle, can you help me? My sister who came with me was not there. Can you guys find him? I'll be exhausted if I'm alone looking for him!"

The guards understood and started to move in search. Nearly half an hour in search, a guard ran towards Natasha.

With a feeling of relief, Natasha finally followed the guard to the back garden. Once there, he could see how Lucas was laughing cheerfully with a man.

     "Daughter, it was the eldest son of the emperor Abraham. It's just that at this time he has a disability on his face. When he was a baby, where he lived there was a fire to make his left face blister."

Natasha can see how she covers next to her face with a mask.

      "Many ways did the emperor to make noble girls like princes, but all of them refused on the grounds of fearing their descendants had a prince-like face. Not even a single woman wants to be with a prince. The other two princes are married."

     "If you may know what his name is?"

     "His name is prince Austin. Princess also if you don't want to meet the prince, let me just call prince Lucas."

Natasha immediately shook her head.

      "No need, let me just go there and introduce myself to the prince of Austin. Thank you!"

After Natasha left, the guard was still faithfully staring at the beautiful woman's back.

      "Hopefully princess Natasha is destined for the prince of Austin. No one had ever thanked me before, even though it was an obligation. A good heart will definitely be met with a good soul mate as well. May God always miss you."

Natasha with a somewhat hesitant move began to approach. He was only afraid that Austin would reject his presence.

     "Greet my respects to the prince of Austin! Sorry to interrupt your leisure time, but my arrival here just wanted to call my sister."

Austin looked at Natasha. Her beautiful face was able to make her heart beat twice as fast. Unfortunately he immediately brushed off the feeling of like that, you are too insecure especially with an imperfect physique. Even the lower-class girls rejected him.

      "Is he your sister? Sorry, he lost his way so I brought him here. Well, Lucas now that your brother's here, go!"

Lucas stared at Natasha.

     "I still want to play with Austin. If you want, let's play together. Kasian Austin has no friends. We could be his friends."

Natasha smiled at the kindness of her sister.

     "Then you accompany the prince. Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Natasha Beverly, the eldest child of Harry Beverly and Alexandra Beverly!"

      "I'm Austin."

Austin can see how Natasha doesn't restrict her sister from playing with him. Let alone nobles, even the maids treated him badly.

     "Aren't you afraid that your sister will be allowed to play with me?" her question was curious, while Natasha herself was puzzled by Austin's question.

      "Why should I be afraid? I'm not going to limit my sister to wanting to be friends with anyone while it's good. We grew up from a family that didn't limit anything. Lucas can also be friends with ordinary people, as long as he knows his limits."

Austin was stunned by Natasha's reply. Just this time he came across a girl who did not even display an expression of disdain while talking to him.

      "Then, do you know why I covered a part of my face?"

Natasha smile.

     "One of the guards told me. When he was a baby, the residence of the prince burned to make the prince's face partially blistered."

Austin just nodded, gladly also talking to Natasha, his inner being.

     "Are you going to be disgusted and run away from here when you see my whole face?"

     "What's the reason for me to feel disgusted and run away?"

     "I, I'm in medical school so for what disgust," he said.

Austin finally took off his mask and showed his face. Lucas who was playing at the time was also confused to see the handsome face of Austin.

      "Well, the prince is very handsome. Why not just take off the mask?"

Austin was embarrassed by Lucas' words, so he turned his eyes to Natasha who was still staring.

To be honest, what Lucas said was very strongly approved by Natasha. Although there are burn scars, but it does not reduce the proportion of good looks of an Austin. His cheeks were red.

Austin, who felt strange, began to wear his mask again.

     "I've been licking-"

     "When the prince is so handsome, why cover it up?" natasha asked bluntly to make Austin immediately met red cheeks.

     "Oh, my mouth is hard to control!"

      "Ahaha, forgive me. Looks like it's gonna be night time, I have to go back."

Natasha immediately ran over with her face already as red as a boiled crab, while Austin just smiled looking at the girl's behavior.

     "Funny too."

In the evening they were asked to stay overnight in the empire, considering the journey was also very far. At this moment Natasha was standing in front of the window observing the stars. The next instant he was startled by the presence of someone on the balcony of the room he occupied.

Someone tapped on Natasha's window and gave her a signal to get out. Finally he opened the window and started walking towards the balcony.

     "Austin Island? What are you doing here?"

     "Just want to show you something. Do you like ruby?"

Natasha was confused and just nodded. Austin smiled and pulled out a ruby from his pocket. It was red and very beautiful.

Natasha couldn't believe it, she could finally see the one called ruby.

     "Prince, this is so beautiful."

     "You want? Takeit. I still have more if you want it."

     "Is this really for me?" ask with enthusiasm.

      "Yes." Yeah."

Natasha took it. He noticed the stone shining brightly because of the help of the moonlight.

      "I've never seen a ruby like this. Thank you, I'll keep it well!"

Austin smiled, he was happy when he saw Natasha smiling.

He knew that the smile of the girl in front of him was very sincere and beautiful.

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