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❝ and i'll want to fight your mother about that for the rest of my life. ❞ nini says, lifting her iced latte from where it had previously sat on the table. ❝ this industry is bad enough without having the people closest to us whispering little digs in our ear. i'm really sorry you've had to deal with that. ❞
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pam isn't sure what's going on, where she is. well, she knows where she is - she's in vernon. but everything looks and seems so ... different. everyone's dressed in clothes she's never seen before and holding these weird rectangles in their hands. she doesn't even know how she'd gotten here. she'd been fiddling around with the supposed 'time machine' lauren was working on, and then - here she was. had the thing actually worked? she sees a girl nearby who appears to be around her age and finds herself approaching. "um, excuse me. what year is it?"
the princess knows she needs to keep her head held high. tonight's dinner is important, and afterward, they'll be talking strategy with a visiting king's general to discuss ricky's rescue. she feels the nerves so deep in her bones just from the weight of having to appear strong for her husband. it's harder to cope with now, knowing she still needs to keep their newly discovered pregnancy under wraps. ❝ it's not their attitudes i'm worried about. i know him best, of course, and them thinking i'm not the best person to make these important decisions regarding his safety rubs me the wrong way. it reminds me of my father. ❞ she sighs, rubbing her still-flat stomach, eyeing herself in the mirror. it had been four weeks and though she knew nobody else could see the subtle changes in her form, she was starting to see the signs. ❝ i will do everything in my power to see his safe return, but i won't back down and let them treat me as if i'm incapable of making a rational decision. i will do what i have to in order to make sure my husband comes back home to me. ❞
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❝ are you talking about anthony? ❞ nini asks, lifting an eyebrow as she looks over her blonde best friend. ❝ he seems like the kind of guy to say he's 6'2 when he's really 5'11. not that that's a bad thing, but... maybe that's the leftover fuckboy foster in him? ❞
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she adores lily. she's so thankful that someone so wonderful is at the palace with her. as she sits in front of her, eyes slipping closed, a hand resting on her belly, she can't help but feel peace for a moment. she wants nothing more than for the captain of the guard to come bursting in announcing that ricky has been found and brought home to her, to feel his arms around her once more, but while that isn't a possibility, it's nice to have a friend like lily. ❝ thank you. this is truly much more than your obligations, but i appreciate it more than i can express. ❞ she's grateful to her friend for providing such calm around her. the last thing she wants is for something to happen to the baby because she was too stressed over ricky's capture.
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❝ i am so glad to be rooming with you. the way my luck has been going, i was sure they were going to do away with convention and just have pairs skaters sharing a room. i've never been happier to be separated from the guys. ❞ she says, shaking her head as she sets her overnight bag down on the bed she's claiming for the next few days. only having to spend a few hours a day with ricky was better than the feeling of dread she'd been having when her room assignment hadn't been sent to her until yesterday morning. because, honestly, she knows he would have insisted they just get a hotel room in town together if their room assignments never came, and she was not going to do that. she couldn't. her heart was too entangled with him already.
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heart plummets, words she never thought she'd hear coming out of lily's mouth. she stops, unable to move from the spot she's standing in. ❝ is ricky okay? ❞ she whispers, eyes wide as saucers. ❝ please tell me you mean ricky's father, lily. please. ❞ the heartache settling into her voice causes her to speak barely above a whisper. it's several more seconds before she allows lily to pull her toward the passage that will take them to the safe room, knowing she needs to be safe and accounted for if something terrible has happened.
her racing heart can be heard pounding in her ears as she makes her way to the safe room, entering through a concealed door in the wall, and drops down on a chaise in the corner. ❝ someone needs to tell me immediately who's been killed. where is my husband? i want ricky. ❞ voice shakes as she speaks, not bothering to make herself comfortable. there's no way she could be comfortable until she knew what she was actually dealing with right now.
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nini can't help but blush at lily's comment. she and ricky had gotten to spend the night in the hideaway and she was on cloud nine. it was evident on her face just how happy she was. she knew everyone else could tell she and ricky had not just been talking all night and that was a little embarrassing, especially when this girl was his ex-girlfriend. his first love. that was nerve-wracking. ❝ a very good time, yeah. this has been the weirdest experience but... i think i'm falling in love. ❞ a weird conversation to be having with ricky's ex, to be sure, but she can't help but share her joy. ❝ are you, um... are you alright? ❞
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