Royal Time

Ray and the prince were hanging around after supper, talking about nonsense like best friends do. “Do you remember, Connie! Man she was crazy!” Ray reminisces. “She’s hard to forget! She tried to tip over the bookshelf on top of me!” Frank shouted. A lot of the ladies he met were normal but some knew that the prince wasn’t interested, so they went bazarek. Frank didn’t appreciate this, so he had the guards kindly escort the ladies out. The first time it happened Frank was terrified. He had no idea what to do, or what caused the girl to lash out. “Oh man there has been some crazy ones.” “Yes, yes there has,” they thought back, grinning about the crazy ladies.
“That’s why I’m glad to be going to this ball” “Oh I’m sure it will be very nice.”
“Ray I would like for you to travel with Mother and I to Brunsville. You are my best friend and my guide. I need someone to give me advice, other than Mother, who is trying to get me wed as soon as possible.” “I would love to Frank, thank you. However, I do not really think that is the queens intentions.” “Well I do. She wants me to take the crown soon. Which I understand I just wish I had more time,” Frank sighs. Ray gives him a gentle hand on the back, and a knowing look.
Ray goes home, and Frank sees his mother in the hallway. “Mother,” Frank calls. “Ray said he would love to join us.” “Oh how delightful. I do love Ray.” “Me too Mother, me too.” “Have you packed yet? We leave in two days.” “No I haven’t yet, I’m about to do that now.” The queen and the prince finish their conversion saying goodnight, and Frank heads to pack.
“Hmmm, where to start,” Frank says to himself out loud. He heads over to his large, black chest and pulls it out, he drags it near his bed, and opens it. He grabs undergarments and nightclothes first, folds them neatly, and sets the in the chest. He looks at his suit for the ball and decides he doesn’t want to crease it by putting it in the chest, so he leaves in on the hanger, and heads to his drawer. He pulls out some of his more comfortable clothes for the travel, and his really nice clothes for when they get to Brunsville. He folds the clothes, puts them in the chest, and gathers his hygiene items. After packing what he will need he strips to his undergarments and climbs in bed. Frank lies in bed thinking of the ball. He hopes to meet a nice girl, he truly does. In hopes of finding a nice lady, Frank rests his eyes, and falls asleep.
“Wow you are perfect. How am I so lucky to have someone so beautiful and smart in my life?” A beautiful man says to Frank. “I’m not quite sure,” the prince laughs at the man. The beautiful man climbs in Frank’s lap and kiss him. The kiss full of love and affection. When they break away and gaze into each other’s eye. The man has the most beautiful hazel eyes Frank hands down has ever seen. They smile and head into a more heated kiss. The prince grips the mans long black hair, tugging on it and in return getting a small moan. They continue to roll around making out. Then the beautiful man takes off the princes shirt, throws it, and starts kissing down his chest. He starts to undo his pants, and looks up. He pulls off the princes pants, climbs on top off him and reaches for his-
Frank wakes up panting, he looks down and has a raging boner. He laughs a little and shakes his head. Frank decides he might as well take advantage of his privacy for now, because soon he won’t have this kind of privacy. So he takes care of his not so little problem.
Afterwards, the prince tries to remember the face of the beautiful man, but his face just won’t come to his head. He can’t remember all he knows is that the man in his dream, is someone who he would like to meet in real life. He tried to go back to sleep but his mind kept racing through different types of faces. Men with different shaped heads, noses, eyes, lips especially, but he couldn’t remember anything about the man. The prince stay awake for an hour until he finally fell asleep, thinking about different types of handsome men.
Frank woke up to the sound of his mother’s voice. “Frank, Frank honey, wake up.” Frank opened his eyes to see his mother peering over him, with a little bit of concern written across her face. The prince stretched a little and groaned, “Yeah Ma?” “Honey it’s eleven-thirty. Are you feeling okay? You’ve never slept this late before.” “Yes Mother, I’m fine. Thank you for checking on me, and waking me. I don’t know why I slept so late,” he shook his head. “Well why don’t you come down for an early lunch. I’ll sit with you while you eat.” “Okay Mother. Just let me get dressed really quick and I’ll be right down.” “Okay sweetie, see you soon,” and away she went. Frank groaned and slammed back against his bed, not ready for the day. Honestly he’s kinda happy he slept in so late. It will make the travel ahead tomorrow a little easier, and considering he already packed he doesn’t really have anything else to do today. The prince reluctantly gets out of bed and gets dressed. Another day, at least he can spend today and the next day to enjoy reading. The prince does love a good book.

*** The next day

“Frank are you ready to leave,” the queen asks her son who is in the library grabbing and looking through as many books as possible. “Almost Mother, I’m looking for one more book. I want Ray to read it, but I forgot where I set it.” The queen shakes her head at her son, “Okay well hurry up or we are leaving without you. You better be on the carriage in five minutes!” “You can’t leave me here, I’m your reason for going!” But the queen didn’t hear because she had already walked out the door. Frank continued searching for the book, and ended up finding two more to read on the journey. He finally found the book and went on his way to the carriage, happy and inspired.
“There you are. Took you long enough!” Ray greeted the prince as he appeared.
“Yes, here I am. And ready to go now. Is everything set, can we leave?”
“Yes, all we were waiting for was you. Now get in the carriage!” His mother demanded. Frank got in the carriage and Ray told the coachman that they were all set to leave. Ray got in the carriage and Frank immediately shoved a book in his face. “This was the book I wanted you to read, and we have nothing better to do on this trip so here you go,” Frank nugged Ray with the book, and when he didn’t take it, the prince took the other man’s hand and place the book in his grasp. “You do know communication is a thing, we could talk.” “Yes, but I love to read. Now please enjoy that great book, and I will enjoy one of mine. Mother there are plenty here if you want to read one. I have three different kinds of love stories, that you might like.” “Thank you son, but I think I will wait a while then start on a book,” the queen smiles and looks out the window. Frank smiled and dove into his book, Ray shook his head and flipped through the book. “Why not,” he thought and started the first page.
After looking out the window, Linda grabbed one of the books to start to read. She really wished that Frank would look up from his book to see his kingdom. Even though it’s not the best looking, it still is a beautiful thing to see. All the people are lovely and kind, and it’s really nice to see them living life at their homes, happy and with their families. The queen knows Frank is content, but he is not happy. There is something missing; more like who. He meets so many girls but none of them are the one, and she thinks this also might be making the poor boy feel even more lonely. She doesn’t mean to rush him into marriage, but at his age he should have taken over the kingdom a long time ago. She does understand why some of the ladies Frank isn’t very fond of, but some of them are very sweet, and right up Frank’s alley. When he turned away ladies the queen was quite fond of this is when she figured out that her son was hiding something. She wants her son to be happy, like most mothers do, so she had to do something, because she knew her son wouldn’t.
Linda thought about the letter she sent, hoping to get a response soon. She knew that Frank would love this, but she wasn’t going to tell him about it until the time came. The queen wanted to surprise her son, and she couldn’t wait to see the look on his face. She gazed at her son, and saw him with a smile on his face, eyes wide, and completely lost in his book. He absolutely loved to read; he would read anything and everything. He loved to read about love and history especially. Which is a good thing considering he will be running a kingdom soon, and he will have to make wise choices like the people before him choose or didn’t choose to do. He could learn from other people’s mistakes from books, instead of how most do from their fathers. The queen felt more heartbreak for her son most times when it came to losing the love of her life. He never had a father to teach him how to wield a sword and shield, or have a father to son talk about growing up, or how to talk to girls (even though Frank has no problem with it), or how to rule the kingdom. At first the queen did try to give Frank a father figure, but it turned sour when the man looked to take over the kingdom instead of guiding Frank. They do not even speak the mans name anymore, but Frank soon forgot about him since they left him ignorant to the situation. However, when the man walked out of Frank and his mother’s life, Frank turned to books and stories to keep his mind curious and exploring. He did not need a man to teach him, he had many of men teach him more than one man could.
The queen smiled to at her son, and looked down to actually start reading her book.

Notes

Longer Chapter because I can. Hopefully a longer next chapter :)