Chapter 4 Royal Shock

Karina

I stared at the guards in front of me, blinking repeatedly hoping they would go away and all these would just turn out to be a crazy dream I just had, besides me kissing a random guy in the city of Monaco should be dream.

"Please step out of the room ma'am, so we can leave the king and the queen are not to be kept waiting." The guard who had just informed me, that I'm needed in the palace says. Okay what the heck is wrong with this bodyguard, he is really getting on my nerves.

"Sir, I think you've got the wrong person here and definitely the wrong Karina. I'm a tourist, I also do not have anything to do with the king or the queen, so I'm definitely not the girl you're looking for." The guard sighs then showed me the screen of his phone, lo and behold my picture was right there on the screen. What is going on, are they trying to kidnap me.

"Uhm, I think I would love to take my purse or my bag from inside my room, I will be right back." I said nervously going back into the room. Once I was inside my room, I closed the door behind me really quickly.

"Do you think they are saying the truth." Angel whispered from behind me, I jumped in fright. When I saw it was angel, I placed a hand on my chest glaring at her. It's not surprising that the both of them were actually eavesdropping.

"I don't know, how am I supposed to know." I whispered back.

"Well, they could be saying the truth and the only way for us to find out, is by going with them to the palace." Sylvia says.

"What!." I uttered.

"Oh geez. What Sylvia is saying, Karina, Is that we are going with you to the palace." Angel says in a bored voice. (Please note, we are still whispering)

"But what if they are not going to the palace." I asks in fright.

"What if they are going to the palace." Angel retorts.

"Karina, do you know what's like to be invited to the palace, by the king and queen. Girl, this not a chance you would want to ever miss." Sylvia whispered, a little bit loudly.

"That is the problem Sylvia, how would I be invited to the palace. This is my first time in Monaco, what possible reason would the king and queen have for summoning me to the palace." I uttered throwing my hands up in the air.

"Well, we will never know, until we go there." Angel says in a bored tone. Oh my goodness, I can't believe them right now.

I bit my lip deep in thoughts, after a while of thinking I raised my head up and said, "fine, let's go."

I walked out of my room with my friends at my back and I was shocked to see the guards still standing right outside my door. Like, what are they still doing here with all the time I wasted, I was hoping they would be gone by now. Ugh.

"I was sent to get you only, miss Karina." The guard who has been on my nerves since forever, says.

"Well, I'm not going anywhere without them." I replied with a smirk.

"Yeah, She's not going anywhere without us." Sylvia concurs. The guard frowns, I guessed he didn't expect that.

He thinks for a while with a frown on his stoic face then says, "Okay, fine. Let's go."

"Well the more girls I bring, the merrier." I imagined him saying that in his head. Oh God, I hope I'm not getting kidnapped.

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"What!!." I exclaimed. Let me do a quick rundown on what happens hours ago. Now, I was indeed taking to the palace with my friends, after that I only, was taking to see the king and queen, my friends weren't allowed. I think, that actually pained Sylvia.

Anyway, I bowed to the king and queen nervously, hoping they would be like. This is not the girl we sent you to get, blah blah blah and then I will be asked to go home but none of that happened. The king and queen had this smile on their face, they called me by name (which got me really shocked) served me nice delicacies. All in all it was a blissful feeling but everything turned sour when the king had not only showed me the picture of the guy I kissed but had also told me that random stranger is his son, the crown prince of Monaco. Now at this point my beating heart, accelerated.

"You are getting married to my son." This was how the queen has said it, in a casual manner, this is marriage we are talking about, marriage is for a life time!!

Let's forward back to the presence, I'm sitting on the damn couch having a look of shock on my face, staring at the king and queen, hoping they would start laughing and be like, we were just joking, they did not do that.

"I don't get you, your majesty. Why do I need to marry you son."

"In our kingdom here, we have a rule that whoever takes the prince first kiss would marry him." The king explain. I stared at him for a while, not blinking. What kind of rule is that. Who the heck in his normal senses would make that kind of stupid rule, so what if the prince get kissed by an animal mistakenly, would he marry the animal. Uhg.

"Your majesties, I was dared to kiss your son by my friends, actually they dared me to kiss the next guy I lay my eyes on, and your son was that next guy. I'm just a tourist in your city, I know nothing about the rules here. If I had known I wouldn't have kissed anybody." I cried out hoping they would see the fact that I'm a tourist, and their rules don't fall on me, I guessed.

"What size of shoe do you wear." The queen asked. I'm confused, I just said a speech, a heartfelt speech and she's asking me what size of shoe I wear. What the heck.

"What?." I asked confused.

"I need to know your size, so I can send it to the Royal shoemaker, he needs to make you a perfectly gorgeous shoe to match perfectly well with your wedding gown." I stared at the queen, like I really stared at her. I stared at her so hard, I won't be surprised if my eyes falls out of my socket. I'm beginning to think I do not understand English anymore, or maybe the queen is actually speaking french or Chinese. What the heck; gorgeous shoes, wedding gown. I have come to a conclusion that I'm dreaming, all I've got to do is wake up. Yeah, I definitely need to wake up.

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