I walk inside and sit next to the girl.

"Excuse me. You can't sit there." She says sharply

" I said- Are you a noble?" I just laugh and ignore her

Her friend looks at me and then just goes to the back.

The class continues as normal but Wyatt, who was sitting behind me, tapped my shoulder.

I bent my back a little and he whispered in my ear,

" What are you doing? You made her angry."

" Who is she anyway?" I ask a little confused

" Oh my god, that's Anastasia DuPont. She's the Ice Princess."

" Oh shit okay well I won't make her angry anymore but I still won't move"

" Jesus." He says shaking her head

I sit correctly in my seat and continue to listen.

She kept giving me an ice-cold stare and I just kept smiling at her.

*-*

It was lunch and we'd gone through maybe half of the Royal Classes but we'd go to the normal ones next and then at the end of the day, we had another Royal Class.

" Hi, babe," Michaela said kissing me on the cheek as she sat down. Adrienne came behind her and sat next to Wyatt across from me.

We were at the Royal Table, it sounds cliche I know but it was mandatory. The school believed that the more we socialized together later when we were ruling our respective countries we would have a stronger alliance.

It isn't only for Royals though, thank god, so Michaela can sit here too.

" Where's your brother? shouldn't he be here?" She asks.

I look around the table but I stopped once I reached the princess, she was sitting with two other girls, one of them was the other noble girl other than Michaelaand Adrienne and the other was Grace Ferguson, Crown Princess of Etrus. She's the oldest heir but Etrus does have a prince, Wallace.

Her face remains the same. She looks like she's fairly enjoying their conversation yet her face doesn't show it, It's emotionless.

I snap out of my gaze and look around the rest of the table. It looks like all the "groups" had been established.

There was no Julian.

I took out my phone and nodded towards Wyatt. He turns towards me to at least try to block the view of the professor who was in the middle of the room.

" Yeah, Julian speaking." He says.

" Where are you?"

" I'm out of school. They don't care if you skip during lunch"

" They don't?"

" Wouldn't recommend doing it on the first day though, sends a bad message. ill take you with me tomorrow."

"Okay."

" Oh and Dom... Watch out for Ramsey Patridge."

"Who?" I look towards Wyatt and whisper the name to Wyatt

" Noble. House Patridge, umm they...specialized mostly in farming and stuff" he whispers back

" Yeah, he's a big son of a bitch that loves to put his hands on women, especially, the pretty ones." I subconsciously look over to the princess

" Okay, I'll watch out for him," I say and he hangs up

" If his family handles farming then his father's title maybe what? a baron at best."

Even though we receive most of our food from farming, It doesn't get a higher title because most of the south had fertile land and if we needed someone to take care of the farming or even to supervise it, Peasants would jump at an opportunity like that and I'm sure the farmers working on that asshole's land know much more about it than he does

Okay, so he's big, an asshole, and maybe the son of a baron so he's that~ way.

I look towards a table diagonally across from us, It was filled with macho men with jerseys, of course, He was the biggest one there. I recognized him immediately since he was way taller and bigger than any of them. He was maybe like 6'5 maybe even taller and not only was he tall but he was extremely built. He was bigger than my brother, Julian is 6'2 1/2 and he is fit but not like this dude but if Julian paid attention to any of his fighting classes, he could take him down so could any other Royal.

By the way, Football was very popular among nobles and peasants but the Royals thought it was all just stupid guys tackling each other and slapping each other's asses... and we were right.

Although most Royals did like sports, not all of us were allowed to play them. We were the successors to Kingdoms and we were treasured even more than we'd like.

" He's big."

" He's stupid. Look at him, he's like a monkey."

" He doesn't need a brain to slap a girl."

"Unfortunately"

*-*

I had Science with Wyatt then I had another 2 classes then I had Mathematics. Normal classes weren't for Royals only but they tried to keep it so that's the nobles they did have in our classes at least had a title, not an actual one but an honorary title which just meant their parents had a high enough title they had an honorary one as well but depending on your parent's titles and your place in succession to that title it could very well be ignored especially by a royal but not a lot of royals do that and just greet them with their honorary title to show respect.

I sat next to the princess to my right and Wyatt to my left. We were near the middle. Ramsey came into the classroom and sat in the back. It seems as though the princess saw him too because she was about to turn around to look at him.

I grab her head and stop her from turning.

" No," I say whilst shaking my head

" What are yo-"

" I'll explain later." she looks at me confused but then just ignores me.

*-*

I had had 8 classes in total and there was only one class left, art.

I walk in and I see the princess submersed in her painting. I sit next to her and she stops looking at her art and looks at me.

" What was with the guy from earlier," she says looking back at the painting.

" It's complicated just stay away from him"

" Is he your boy toy or something?"

" What?" I say laughing

" No. he likes hitting girls and- well just stay away"

" Fine," she says then finally turns to me.

" By the way, who even are you?" I laugh

" Her Royal Highness, Princess of Rodask. Dominique Heath. It's a pleasure meeting you, Her Royal Highness, Princess of the North." I say with a smirk.

" Pleasure's mine, Your Highness," she says politely then drops the act.

"Princess of the north huh?" I sigh and chuckle

"Your father is kidding himself. y'know." that seemed to get her attention because her facial expression changed for a second before changing back to the same expression she has put on for the whole day.

" What?" she says her voice ice cold and a glare that could freeze me in my place.

"Chill, Your Highness, it wasn't really meant to be a bad comment. Your father is a very clever person but he's kidding himself if he thinks just because he's not claiming the north as an official empire it means the south won't investigate it further so yeah, You're the Princess of the Northern Empire, so don't forget it." she looks at me deeply before looking straight forward and starts to ignore me again

"It was meant to be a compliment." I continue

"Fine, Baby-Bugga-Boo, I'll leave you alone"

" What did you just call me?"

" Baby-Bugga-Boo? Why? You don't like it, Your Highness"

" stop saying your highness like that."

"Why?" I ask

"Just stop. And please don't call me that." I laugh

"Very well, Your Highness"

"Thank you," she says and I just laugh.

******

Wyatt and I finally finish school and after a quiet plane ride home, we finally got home at almost 4 since all of the after school classes were canceled. I basically run up the giant staircase and into my room. I put on some music and laid in bed for 15 minutes before someone knocked at my door.

"Yes?" I yell over the music

" That's very unmannered of you."

"Mom," I say getting up and shutting the music off.

"I- I thought y-"

"I know. It's fine for now. I have to talk to you." she says

"Yeah. What's u- What's on your mind, mother?" I say as she sits down and I lean against the wall

" tea-"

" Oh no~," I say. She looks at me and I sigh.

" Sorry, mother. Who is attending?" I say in a monotone voice.

" All the princesses. And no, Michaela can't come. You should spend more time making alliances than hanging with a noble with no power."

" Mother, she's the daughter of Knight Levine."

"  she has distracted you from your responsibilities. Make alliances, Dominique, or ill make them for you in another way."

"Yes, Mother," I say as she stands from my bed and leaves my room. I clench my jaw and put my music back on full volume. I head towards my closet and go through my dresses. I sigh.

I call for Antoinette, my head maid.

" My lady?" she says as I stopped my music.

" Nette, order me a dress." she nods obediently

" Yes, My lady. Any preferences you would like?"

" No, but it's for a tea party with the princesses so make it special other than that I don't care."

" Yes, My lady. Oh uh, My lady?" she says as she's leaving

" Yes?"

" Prince Lucio is outside your door, My lady." I chuckle

" Yes, thank you. You may go." She leaves and I look at Lucio

" Hey now, don't be so cold, big sister," he says responding to my glare. He comes in and sits on my bed.

" Get off my bed" He gives me a lopsided grin and hops off my bed.

He turns serious all of the sudden.

" What's wrong?" I ask

" Have you heard about the empire?"

" Iliad? yeah. They got a new Emperor, His oldest son, Lothar as the emperor and the youngest as the King/ Grand Duke."

" Any successors as of yet?" I ask

" Both of them do. Lothar has 2, one of them is 15 and the other is 10."

"15 and 10? How old is he?" I say as I lay on my bed looking up at my ceiling, thinking.

" 31."

"16 and 21," I say

"Yeah."

"What about the brother, Rocco?"

" He has a 6-year-old boy. He isn't married and rumor is the former emperor forced him to get a noble girl pregnant so he could have an heir"

" He hadn't even risen to power yet," I comment

"Yeah."

"What about the uh cousins? The last 3 remaining parts of the empire?"

"It's all in the family. Albert Fahn, Alexander Cassidy, and George Cosby. All a part of the Kringel bloodline. All boys, all had boys, no girls in the family for over 100 years, Dom."

"Complete Patriarchy."

" yup. Albert Fahn has only one son, Zack Fahn, he's 19. George Cosby also only has one son, Garret Cosby, he's 21."

"He'll take over soon," I say

"Yeah. and Alexander Cassidy, the Marquis has 2 sons, Noah Cassidy, Oldest, 15; and Dylan Cassidy, youngest, 13."

" Keep an eye out for Noah and Louis, Lothar's oldest kid. Watch zack and Garret too. Don't worry too much about the kids." I say and he nods

" What's the other kid's name?" I ask

"His youngest is Adam."

"Lovely," I say and shoo Lucio away

"They're going to become a problem" I whisper to myself

" Who are?" I jump

" I can take care of them."

"Fuck, Amir. You scared the crap out of me." I say to the guy that just crawled up to my window

" Come in before you fall to your death," I say. He jumps inside and sits in my desk chair.

Amir Ambrose is my father's pupil. My father started teaching him how to fight since Amir was 11 when my brother, Julian, found him in a ditch half dead somewhere when he was 6.

Julian and Amir started training together from then on and Julian went on to be the prince he is and Amir became The Rose Regiment or The Knight of Roses's general. Amir is 29 and is one of the greatest generals in history.

" Who exactly do I need to kill?"

"No one. It was a slipped thought, pay no mind. Although~"

"Oh no," he says

"I need a favor."

"Of course you do."

" I need you to come to school with us tomorrow."

"Why?" he asks

" Because Mr. Stealth over there-" I say pointing outside my window and to a large tree near the forest surrounding the gigantic palace " Is not stealthy and has been getting on my nerves since yesterday morning."

" You're just too good, Dom. Too good."

" Shut up and just get me a bodyguard who I won't sense so I won't have to feel like a fly is flying around every second at school."

"S-"

"Thank you."

"I'm not going myself though, are you crazy? I have a whole army to train plus your dad would absolutely destroy me and now that I think about it so would your brother"

" all right. Get out of here, I'll see you later at practice, I need a nap" I say and watch as he jumps out the window, and it closing because of the wind.

I train with the Royal Knights most days but I'm probably going to stop going every day since I have the training at school too.

I take a 20-minute nap and then get ready for practice.

I walk up to the knights and they all greet me and smile at me before going back to practice.

I go up to Amir and he smiles at me and hands me a wooden sword. Amir was powerful, in fact, my scores are 20 wins and 101 losses. Amir possessed the fire magic attribute which was incredibly rare, in fact, magic was rare to begin with.

The concept of Magic isn't touched on a lot since there are only about 50 magicians in the entire world. There are 4 attributes, Fire, Ice, Wind, and Earth. Earth is the most common then is the Wind then its Ice and lastly is Fire. Fire was a difficult attribute to control since you felt like your body was burning it wasn't but It felt like it and most fire magic users suffered from Paranoia or other stuff.

We know that the biggest amount of magicians all together is the Ice Tower in The Northern Empire. They have different types of Magic users but they're mostly Ice magic.

Amir discovered his power when he was 19 and so he has had his power for about 11 years and it is still not as perfect as he wants it to be.

Anyway, Amir and I start going easy and casually hitting each other's swords before going strong and he eventually beats me by using his fire attribute to heat up his sword and slicing mine in half.

We finished at around 8 and I had to walk back to the Castle and take a long bath and that is exactly what I did.

After my bath, I was calmer now so I went to see mother.

"When are you planning this gathering of yours, mother?"

"It'll be this weekend when you don't have school," she says and I nod and sigh.

"Very well, mother."

"Shall I send the letters in your stead?" she asks looking back at her papers

"No... I'll take care of them." I say. I truly wanted to say yes to that but I knew she just wanted another excuse to yell at me.

I leave and tell Nette the date when she should have everything ready and to bring me paper.

I write the letters and stamp them. I give the letters to Nette and she sends them.

So troublesome...