Waking up the next day was bad from the very beginning. Demetri had William who was fussy and hungry and just as Demetri was about to feed him he started kicking and he hit the bottle right out of Demetri's hand covering me in baby formula.

Moreover, Demetri made the baby's food to hot and I was jolted out of my sleep as I was doused with close to boiling liquid. Well, that wasn't liquid, it was waaaay too thick.

I jumped out of bed and hurriedly rubbed at my burning skin trying to ease the pain while Demetri frantically apologized.

I held up a finger and told him to shut up and surprisingly, he did.

I walked into the bathroom and ran my burning arm under the cold water.

"Give him to me." I muttered grumpily reaching for William who came to me eagerly while he sniffled in discontent.

"I'm really sorry." He apologized again and I slanted him a glare.

"I'll murder you later." I snapped before directing him how to make the baby's feed. When he returned the bottle, I promptly began to feed William.

That's when I recalled my first night staying at the castle when Demetri and babysitting William.

"Are you okay?" Demetri inquired running his finger through my hair.

"I'm fine." I told him, "I remembered the night I spent here with you and the baby, the day I met your family but I was mad at you."

"I recall your anger." Demetri told me with a slight grimace.

"Why was I mad at you?"

"You'll remember in time, I don't want to shock your system by telling you anything." He said making me suspicious.

"You don't want me to remember some things, this is one of those things, yes?"

He just nodded.

William finished his bottle and after I burped him I kissed his face and blew raspberries on his fat belly making him giggle.

Demetri had just opened his mouth to say something when a knock came at the door before it flew open admitting his mother.

"Good morning." She said and I smiled at her.

"Good morning." I replied handing a giggling William to her when she held out her arms for him.

When he was successfully tucked in her arms Demetri lay down beside me and wrapped his arms around my waist.

"Jessabell, we're leaving at midday." She told me with a smile and turned and left after my brief nod.

"Good morning." Demetri said kissing my cheek.

"Morning." I mumbled laying down and turning my back to him so we were spooning.

Just as I closed my eyes and was preparing to go back to sleep Demetri said,

"You know its after eleven, right?" I jumped up so quickly that a wave of dizziness invaded my mind.

I waited a while for it to pass before slanting Demetri a look of disapproval.

"Why didn't you say something before?" I hissed climbing out of the bed and heading for the bathroom, not bothering to wait for Demetri's response.

I hurriedly hopped in the shower and showered as quickly as I could before drying off and getting dressed in a pair of black jeans and a burgundy tank top.

There was no time to comb my hair so I simply pulled a black beanie over my head before rummaging through my overnight bag for a pair of flat burgundy shoes that I brought as back up.

Finally finding the shoes, I pushed my feet into them then put on my feather necklace, rose earrings and black bracelet.

Looking at the clock on Demetri's nightstand, it read 11:55. I smirked thinking of how I had pulled off getting dressed in such a short while.

"Walk me out please." I said to Demeatri, motioning to the door with my head.

Demetri accompanied me to the throne room of the castle where his mother, sisters and monique were all congregated and appeared to be waiting on me.

"Good Morning." I chirped as I came to stand beside Monique.

"Hey," Monique responded bumping me with her shoulder.

"You're late." Freya said smirking at me, "Did Demetri make you late?" She inquired mischievously.

"Freya shut up!" Demetri snapped at her and she sniggered.

"Are we ready?" I asked thinking that we needed to go an pick up Natalie and Emelia.

"Yup." Violet said, "They're bringing the car around. By the way, Natz and Emelia said they're meeting us at Klienfield."

"Ok then." I said with a smile.

Today we're going dress shopping for both our wedding dresses and the dresses for the mating ceremony, which is on Friday.

Finally, the cars arrived and we got in. I went with Violet and Freya while the Queen went with Monique.

When we arrived at Klienfield, we were ushered into a private room by the short curly haired attendant.

I noticed that the store was completely empty of customers except for me and my bridal party.

"Aren't other customers supposed to be here?" I asked Violet who was seated beside me on the plush sofa in the show room.

"No, they had the store cleared and reserved for us." She said flashing me a smile, "We are royalty after all."

I couldn't help but chuckle at her smug expression.

After a few minutes of waiting, the KlienField staff lined up before us and were introduced individually.

I was led into the dressing room where about ten dresses were on hold for me, while the others stayed in the show room as they were served water and some small cake treats.

Two female attendants and a male who wore glasses and had slightly greying hair also accompanied me to the room.

His bubbly personality and body language would lead anyone yo believe that he's gay.

"Alright princess, you'll try on the dresses from one to ten and show them to your family and friends and see if they approve. Once these dresses are done, if you haven't found your dress, we'll pull another ten from our store room." One of the female attendants said as I began to take off my clothes.

"Okay." I responded pulling on the dress which she held in her hand.

Well I mostly stepped into it, it was a puffy white princess dress with a white lace ribbon around the waist and a corset bodice.

After setting the dress in place. Two of the females fluffed the puffy bottom of the dress as the gentleman pulled the corset strings.

At one point, he pulled too hard and I gasped as I felt my ribs being squashed by the dress.

"Too tight." I breathed in a small squeaky voice.

"Its meant to be worn tight, your majesty." He said continuing with his work.

"I can't wear it this tight, Mr......" I stopped the sentence at Mr, considering that I didn't know his name.

"McCarty." He said pulling harder on the laces at the top.

"I can't breathe." I wheezed

"You'll be fine in a second." One of the females at my feet said.

"Loosen it please."

"Your majesty its meant to be worn this way."

"Loosen the fucking thing before I make you swallow some of your teeth." I hissed shallowly because of my restricted air flow.

"Yes ma'am." The short blonde girl said noticing that my glare was directed at her.

She moved behind me and loosened the laces enough that I could breathe properly and I greedily sucked in a lungful of air.

"Thank you." I muttered as they went back to work.

It took us about ten minutes for me to be dressed properly then we walked out to the show room.

I heard the queen and Violet coo in adoration as I stepped up onto the ramp.

"Jessabell, you look lovely." Monique said.

"I don't like it." I said bluntly grimacing at the way the bodice of the dress pushed up my breasts.

They looked like they were about to fall out of the dress.

"It looks a bit tight around the top." Luna Alaine said scrutinizing the dress. "Let's try another one." She suggested and I quickly stepped down from the platform and made my way towards the dressing room.

The day continued much like this with me trying the dresses and my entourage critiquing them.

It was awful and by the sixth dress, my feet hurt and my body was already heated internally. So while I didn't sweat on the outside, my body temperature was very high and I probably felt like I had a fever.

Making my way to the plat form in the seventh dress which was a silky dress that was form fitting and clung lovingly to my body but it had a very long train which had started tripping me up the second I attempted to step out of the dressing room.

So it came as no surprise that I tripped and fell flat on my face when I was about to step up onto the platform.

A series of "Oh My God!!" Chorused around the room as everyone made their way towards me.

"Jess, are you okay?"

"Are you alright?"

"Did you hurt yourself?"

Those were the questions that came from the people around me.

"I'm alright." I said giving a thumbs up while still laying on my belly on the plush cream carpet of the show room.

"Can we take a break?" I asked raising my head to look up at Luna Alaine.

"Yes dear," she said while helping to pull me up, "you look exhausted."

"I am exhausted." I mumbled dejectedly.

"Get her something to drink." I heard Violet order someone as I was led to the coach where I promptly took a seat.

A little while later I was served a glass of water and a cream filled chocolate cake which I devoured in about half a minute.

"I don't like this dress." The Queen said, "it fits too closely, I can see everything lined out under the dress."

"Can I pick my dress from a line up?" I asked as I greedily drank my water.

"That's what we're doing." Freya said looking up from her phone

"I mean, they could let me see the dresses and I pull one and use it if I like it." I said waiting for my refill.

"That sounds alright." Monique said as she rubbed my hair.

"As you wish." Mr.McCarty said leading me to the dressing room where I took off the dress and put on a white dressing robe as he led me to the dress reserve room.

After what felt like hours of searching through the dresses, I finally found a dress that I liked.

Turning to Mr. McCarty, I shook the dress slightly,

"I want to try this." I told him.

One of the female attendants took the gown from me and we made our way back to the dressing room where I fitted the dress.

As they zipped the back of the dress, I was positive that this is what love feels like.

I made my way back to the show room- hopefully for the last time that day- and eagerly stood on the platform facing my company.

"That's the dress." The Luna said.

"Yeah, Jessy, that's definitely your dress." Violet seconded

"Hot damn." Mo said making me chuckle and turn towards the mirror.

The dress fitted my body perfectly and made me look sparklingly feminine.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!!

"This is my dress." I said looking at my reflection with my heart in my eyes.

"This is the wedding dress." Luna Alaine said "we'll take this one."

"Now we must find a dress for the mating ceremony." She said.

And just like that, in less that ten seconds, she ruined my mood and killed my excitement.

Turning to face her, I put on my puppy dog face and looked at her.

"Can't we do that tomorrow?" I asked softly.

"No no, we will be busy for the rest of the week, it'll be very hectic especially since you all have school and rehearsals and formal dinners." She said and I frowned.

"Guess I'll go change and get started then." I said stepping off the stage and back into the dressing room.

I once again began the tedious task of picking a dress while they contained my first dress in a specific room reserved for royal use only.

The process of searching for a dress, choosing a dress then getting the dress approved by my entourage took approximately three hours but felt like years.

When we were finished at Klienfield, it was after four in the evening and I was drained and starving.

Luna Alaine was not finished with us however.

I could see the fatigue on Natalie and Emelia not to mention Freya who had fallen asleep twice in Klein field, she looks like the walking dead.

The Luna took us to a Versace outlet where we spent hours choosing jewellery shoes and bridesmaids dresses.

By the time we were done I was asleep on my feet and it was approaching midnight when we made our way back to the cars the were waiting in a secluded area of the parking lot.

There were three cars due to Natalie and Emelia needing rides home.

As soon as Freya, Violet and I got in the car, we were out like lights.

I was completely dead to the world until I felt arms lifting me from the car, but whosoever it was wasn't careful enough with me because as soon as I'd been lifted off the seat my head bumped the roof of the car.

"Ow!" I growled, my eyes snapping open and locking onto Demetri as a memory slammed into me causing me to freeze, lost in my own mind as the memory of the night that I forgot Demetri came back to me.

the door banged open and Demetri stood there with my mother behind him. They both froze when they saw what I was doing.

Demetri was the first to snap out of it and he hurriedly made his way to me grabbing the syringe and pulling it from my arm.

It was too late, it was already empty.

"What was it?" He hissed, agitation and worry clear in his voice as he held my shoulders and shook me demanding i tell them what I had taken.

"What did you take?!" He barked as my mother stepped into the room and began moving bottles which were on the counter.

"Jessabell what have you done?" She asked turning to look at me with tear filled eyes.

I didn't respond, I seemed to have lost the ability to speak as everything became a blurry of sounds and colours.

My feet buckled beneath me and Demetri caught me.

"Jessabell No!!" He roared holding me to his body as my eyelids became heavy and I blinked slowly looking up at him, "keep your eyes open." He screamed patting my cheeks gently.

I briefly registered the tears that filled his gray eyes. He looked heartbroken. I feel as if I have just ripped his heart from his chest and crushed it beneath my feet.

"What did she take?" He asked my mother, his voice sounding as if I'm listening to him from under water. "What is it, what did you find?"

"Morphine, th............ she took." I barely made out half the words as the I felt my heart slow, and I mean drastically slow, one beat per minute slow.

"No!..........loose her" Was that Demetri or my mother's voice.

"Ambulance............here." another voice said as my eyes finally shut, sounds fading into silence and my mind closing in on itself.

I was floating in the abyss of darkness and silence and then I fell into nothingness.

When I finally snapped out of the memory, everything was blurry and I was laying in a soft bed.

"Demetri?" I asked attempting to sit up and feeling my head spin slightly.

"I'm here." His husky voice said from beside me as his hand came up to brush my cheek. "Don't get up."

I blinked a few times until my sight cleared.

Demetri looked at me with worried eyes And a moment of silence elapsed between us before he asked, "What did you remember?"

"You and my mom in a room with me but it felt like I was dying or something." I said scratching my head.

"That's all you remember?" He asked

"Yeah, my dad was there for a little while too, he said something about an ambulance but he was blurry and his voice sounded like he was calling me from inside a tunnel."

"You should get some sleep Darling." Demetri said "All the stress is getting to you."

"Okay." I said, not arguing because I was still tired from all the shopping we did today. "I'll just change my clothes and come."

Walking into the bathroom with a pair of booty shorts and a black tank top, I shed my clothes then donned those to sleep in.

As soon as I returned to the bed room and hit the bed, I was out like a light.