Prompt: Write a love story based on your favorite romantic trope.

Trope: Enemies to lovers + 2nd lead syndrome

Note: these are existing ocs, from my story the prince is a yandere. A non-canon event between Riselle & Lucia who 'hate' each other. I ship them a lot lol.

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Fleeting moments are songs
  

"You heard me, I like you!"
  
Riselle was dumbfounded to hear that come out of Lucia's mouth.

"You like me as in you don't dislike me anymore. That makes more sense." Riselle replied.

"No, I like you as in I'd take you on dates and become your partner."

That, for Riselle at least, was not something you'd just randomly tell someone you'd sneer at during every occasion you'd see each other at. The disbelief almost uncurled the curls of her hair.

"But Lucia I have Rowan—"

"Do you love Rowan?"

She scrambles through arguments in her head wondering how to reply. Why couldn't she just reject her? Why did she have to dodge the question if all it took was Riselle's usual 'no, I hate you, leave me alone.'

Because the way she once detested Lucia was no longer way she felt. Since the days of being a little dependent child of house Dahlia not befriending other nobles, she's grown to spend time with others, Lucia included. And simply, they have good memories together.

"Do you still loathe me?" Lucia continues to ask.

"I don't."

Lucia sighs. "I'll give you time to think about your feelings towards me."

"You don't need to." Riselle musters up the courage to give a straight answer. "I can't be with you Lucia, because I am with Rowan."

But she couldn't answer to whether she loved Rowan or not because really, she just tolerated him. Maybe the rest was just how she pitied him over events of the past. She was trying to love Rowan, who was another soul she used to dislike just as much as Lucia, but having to work things out with someone didn't leave her enough room to try things out with someone else.

"Oh..." Lucia appears disheartened. "That's fine then."

It was just the two of them at the music hall inside Elleris' castle, where Riselle lived. It was an abrupt visit when Lucia decided on a whim she'd confess, prepared even for rejection.

She takes a deep breath, looking at Riselle sternly.

"Until you and Rowan have decided to marry, I have not given up!" Lucia remarks and rushes off, straight out of the castle almost tripping in her pointed doll shoes a few times until she was breathless and hopping into the carriage that she came to the castle with.

"I did it!" She felt relieved to have gotten it off her chest. Even if rejected, she had gotten past lying to Riselle and herself, Riselle was not someone she hated and never really was.

Although her past self would be surprised to know of her feelings towards Riselle now.

And Riselle, alone in the music hall gently presses on the keys of the piano. Fleeting moments were songs she could play once more anytime, as long as she can recall how it felt.

For now at least, she's starting off her feelings for Lucia properly as friends.
  
  

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