Chapter 4
This man was holding back laughter and his very handsome face reminded me of someone.
"Xavier?" I said. That's right, he looks a lot like Xavier Stephenson, my only friend from high school. He looked at me seriously as if confused by what I said.
"Ella, watch your mouth! You're talking to His Majesty King Zavier!" Whispered the girl who looked like Jane who was standing next to me.
"What? King? Bahahaha...what kind of nonsense is this? So, you're all doing an opera stage, huh?" I laughed out loud. The old woman who had previously fainted immediately woke up after hearing my very loud laughter.
"Ella, shut your mouth right now!" Said the old woman. Her face was red with anger, just like a witch.
Meanwhile, the man they called the king just smiled at me and his smile made all the women's eyes widen in this room.
"I think you hit your head when you drown, but thank goodness you look fine, Ella!"
"Hahaha..." I laughed awkwardly, not knowing how to react. They all looked very stiff.
"Don't laugh, Ella! That's rude!"
"So, what should I do?" They make me even more annoyed. Why is everything I do wrong?
"Shall we take a walk outside?" Said the man. He held out his hand to me.
"Damn, this bastard is so handsome! I want to kill him." I thought. He acts like a gentleman and it annoys me.
I didn't move because of course I didn't want to hold hands with him. But everyone here was glaring at me who was just silent with stupid faces.
"Ella, His Majesty is asking you to go outside for a walk. Go!" Jane whispered, I mean Emily. I'm sure the old lady called her Emily.
"What?" I asked Emily. We started whispering to each other.
"Go! His Majesty is interested in you!"
"But I'm not interested in him!"
"Don't talk nonsense, Ella! There isn't a woman in this world who isn't interested in him!"
"But the problem is I'm not interested in men!"
"What?"
"You don't want?" The man asked. He had waited long enough to hear my answer. Behind him, the old witch woman's face looked extremely hideous. She glared as if she would immediately kill me if I refused.
Looks like I have no choice but to follow his wishes. I gave him my hand and he immediately kissed my hand, making everyone not believe that he was that interested in me. Because my hand was kissed by a man, I spontaneously withdrew my hand in disgust.
"What are you doing? You want to die, don't you?" I said irritably while showing him the middle finger pose.
"Oh my God, Ella...!" The old woman and the other women screamed hysterically seeing what I had done. Meanwhile, the old man, who had been silent and watching, now fell unconscious.
"I can't believe this, I feel like dying because I'm too embarrassed. How could Ella act like that in front of His Majesty the King? You know not all houses will be visited by His Majesty like ours!" Said Baroness Margaretha. She sobbed in her husband's arms, who could only take a few deep breaths.
"It seems like there are problems in her head after she drowned. It's best for you not to force her to do anything for the time being. Just let her rest!"
"You have to go to the palace tomorrow to apologize directly to His Majesty, I don't want bad gossip about our family to spread before we can apologize."
"I think my head is going to be cut off!"
"Try to get him to forgive you! If you are beheaded, what will happen to our family? I will definitely be so embarrassed that I will never be able to step out of the house forever."
"Mother, I've asked Ella to rest in her room." Emily said.
"She should just be whipped! She has brought shame to the family!" Baroness Margaretha gets emotional again every time she remembers the embarrassing incident this afternoon.
They were quite lucky because King Zavier, who was known as a psychopath, did not show any angry reaction or anything like that. Even though he was quite surprised by Ella's actions, he still managed to smile. But clearly a smile is not always a good sign.
"Honey, calm down! Please calm yourself. Your Majesty definitely understands Ella's condition. It was Your Majesty who helped Ella when she drowned in the lake!" Said Baron Marcus. He seemed more stoic than his wife.
"But I'm still confused, why did Ella drown in that lake? What was she doing in the forest behind the palace?"
The two Barons and Baroness were lost in thought as if they were thinking the same thing about how could their daughter be in the forest behind the palace and fall into the lake? The last they remembered, Ella was invited as a dancer at the birthday party of Duke Aiden De Velgemegeur, the king's younger half-brother which was held at Ruven Palace, the main residence of the Royal family.
Emily seemed to be thinking very hard because as far as she knew, her sister often exchanged letters with someone who she believed was likely Ella had a secret lover.