"Tim, tu vuex du préservatif?" Zendaya said exactly what the girl from the store with him said. "Que diriez-vous d'un lubrifiant?"

She stepped forward and he stepped back.

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"So, the girl is buying a condom and lubricant for what?" She asked.

"It's just Emma, my childhood friend." He explained like a boyfriend to her. She crossed her arms.

"Did you buy those stuff?"

"No." He answered truthfully.

"Is she your first?"

"No."

"Hmm. Your second?"

"No." He stepped forward and reached her chin. "Darling, are you jealous?"

"No. I am just making sure that you aren't infected with STD."

He chuckled.

"I always use condom and I study in the United States and I just arrived here this year."

"Oh, yeah? So, your firsts are probably Americans?"

"Yes."

She shrugged.

"Okay. Are you sure that you don't want to make love with me?"

"I do. I do, but the wedding first." He winked at her. She scoffed at him and smacked his chest. "Do you want a grand wedding?" he asked. "Castle wedding?"

"I don't want any of it. I am just eighteen and I don't want to get married at that age."

"Hmm," he kissed her nose. "Well, I am willing to wait. Maybe after a year?"

"You haven't courted me yet."

"I will court you, starting at this moment." He said as his eyes gaze to hers and he smiled slowly and charmingly. "Let's go inside, I will ask your parents for your hand." He pulled her right hand using his left hand gently.

"What? Are you going to cut off my hand?"

"No, silly."

She giggled and followed him, and he swapped his hand so, he would put his left hand at the small of her back while holding her right hand with his right hand.

"My hand is so precious. I could use it with so many things." She said seductively. He froze and thought about something lewd. She could read him easily and she giggled.

"Don't tease me, Zendaya. If you only knew how that did to me."

"What? Have you been using your hand to it?" She asked just to tease him.

He chuckled and pulled her, so they proceed on walking.

"Do you want to meet my friends?"

"No."

"Why not?" He asked as he looked around to see his friends.

"Kiss me." She demanded. He smiled slowly and seductively, and he scooped her chin and kissed her. She pushed him. "That's enough."

He just smiled at her like a fool. She stared at his eyes for a while and she could see the excitement and, love? She wasn't sure if it's love and it's just crazy that he wanted to marry her.

"Are you serious about marrying me?" She suddenly asked while they are facing each other.

"I am." He gently kissed her forehead.

"Your parents won't approve of it."

He stopped as he creased his brows.

"Haven't you heard about our Empire? We could see disastrous things or even happy things."

"I—"

"Would you turn back from your parents and Empire? You are the heir of your Empire and they needed you though you have the youngest brother."

He looked like hesitating and she knew it. It's a good thing that they have to end it before it even grows. It will be more chaotic if they both insisted to be each other. She smiled at him bitterly.

"Let's end this before it even grows. I don't want you to turn back from your family. In our Empire, family comes first. That's how our parents taught us as we grow."

"Timothy," The girl named Emma is approaching them from his back. She tiptoed and pulled his cheek as she pressed her lips to him. He froze for three seconds and he wrapped his arms around her and accept her kiss.

She gently pulled out from him and she walked to the crowd as people covered her from his sight and he called her. But the music is loud, and people are loud although she heard him, she continues walking out from the crowd. She approached her little brother sitting on a bench. She sat down and sighed.

"What's up?" Luke asked and Zendy showed her hand to him. "What?"

"Give me the recordings. You've been spying me since last night and on my first kiss."

Luke laughed and gave her a small phone where he put all of the recordings. She checked it and then she sighed hopelessly.

"What's wrong?"

"Timothy and I aren't for each other."

"Why do you say so?"

"Their Empire dislike our Empire. With an addition of the Knight Empire with us, they hate us even more."

"Why?" Luke creased his brows.

"Because, little brother, their Empire was allied to the Eagle Empire years ago."

Luke froze.

"Damn, it's a bad thing." He mumbled.

"Correct." She leaned and wrapped her fur coat around her. "It's so cold but the night is beautiful." She looked up the sky with millions of stars. Luke looked up and admired it.

"You guys just started and break up that easily? That guy is a chicken."

She laughed and nudged him.

"Nah, I just tell him to back out because family should come first."

"Yes, because if he chose you, his future will be destroyed. He might not wear those kinds of suits, or have a luxury hobby, buy whatever he wanted, travel around the world if he wanted. It's a big sacrifice."

"What happened if you are in the same situation?" Zendy wandered what her brother thinks.

"If I loved a woman so much that it makes me crazy, I would go after her. But I wouldn't be blind enough or to be fooled. As long as that woman wouldn't hurt my family." He looked at her. "I would sacrifice for love as long as that person wouldn't let me choose over her or my family. It's better to be heartbroken and sucked it up for days, months, years. There is always someone to help you heal."

"Wow, that dramatic." Zendy messed his hair and he slapped her hand away. "But you are right. Because in our family, our parents let us choose and wouldn't ruin us, but protect us."

"Correct. They are the best parents although they are loudest when they are alone in the room."

Zendaya and Luke started laughing. Yes, their parents are always horny and into each other. She wondered why their relationship never faded like it was new or it was like before. She saw her nanny cam recording and her dad would put her to the walk-in closet while her parents are making. They didn't realize that their noise could be heard even from the recording.

She moved closer to Luke and leaned on his shoulder. He put his arm around her.

"They are just crazy in love at each other and we will soon realize how good it is."

*****

Timothy's heart is breaking into pieces as he started outside the window. Seeing disgusted expression from his friends and family. His father told him to never go close to a Dragon. They are their main enemy in business and everything. Emma reached his arm to comfort him, but no touch could comfort him.

He already had given the Easter Egg pendant to the woman that he wanted to marry, and his heart is clenching even more thinking of taking it back. He would never take it back from her. He gave it to her, and it only means one thing.

"You'll be engaged to Emma next month and you will get married to her next year. That's final." His father Jacque demanded. He only remained silent and stared at nowhere.

That night, he drove his car back to their house leaving Emma. He wanted to be alone that night. He drove to the hotel where their family is staying, and he watched from as the stepped out from the limo and entered the hotel and she's laughing with her brother.

Seeing her like that makes his broken heart goes back to its normal shape. He smiled back and watched her leave. After they are out of his sight, he left and went to his house. He stayed awake the whole night even his phone kept ringing. He knew that it's Emma or his father or mother. He glanced at it and just ignored it if was them. But he will never ignore if it's her.

He canceled their call and then he messaged her. He will sleep this off and he would dream about her, he will have a final decision.

When he closed his eyes, he dreamed about her, dancing gracefully through the soft music and she threw her dress on him. He laughed and pulled her to him, and he gently lay her down in bed and made love to her. After that passionate scenario, they stayed at each other's arms and talk about whatever topic it is that came into their mind. Then, they would make love again and again, like they own the world.

"I love you, Zendaya." He reached her hand and kissed it and then he stared at the Easter Egg that she's wearing.

"You better, because if not, I'm going to punch you." She kissed his lips.

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Author's Note:

Hello! This is the end of the mass release. If you still wanted to read other novels, try my new novel Mystical Academy: The Clashes of the Four Worlds and make and post an honest review!

-The Illusionist

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