53 IS INLOVE?

KNOCK! KNOCK! Ashleah turned her head around and took a deep breath. "You can come in." She said, the door inside her room opened and revealed Aziel with Nash behind him.

"Princess! Uncle Nash told me that he wants to be your..." Aziel stopped for a moment and looked at Nash and grinned at the man. "Your.. b-boyfriend? Is that right, Uncle Nash?"

Ashleah's eyes widened, as she looked at Nash. He giggled and shrugged his shoulders. "Ahhh, Aziel stop believing in what your Uncle is telling you–" Her eyes looked at Nash and glared. "–He completely is lying okay?"

"No! Everyone inside the palace is arguing about it. I heard that Nanny Riley is rooting for you and Uncle Nash–" Aziel could not even finish what he was saying when Nash picked him up and softly covered the kid's lips.

"Hahaha, my this kid knows a bit too much. Ha? Don't you Aziel?" The nervous laugh that came out from Nash's laugh made Ashleah chuckle as Aziel removed the hand of Nash away from his mouth and nodded his head.

"I am sorry, was I supposed to say that Uncle Nash?" The innocent young man tilted his head with a full of confused face. "Okay okay, I want to play with Prescott and Giulia, please do have fun talking too!"

Aziel shakes his small body so that he can go down and run his way outside Ashleah's room. They were now both left there, inside the room.

Ashleah cleared her throat and inside her mind she was already thinking of things that she would try and tell to Nash. Ever since he started courting her, she could not even look at him without her heart trying to get out of her own system.

"You can sit down Nash, I actually wanted to ask you a few things about out mission." They both sat down in front of each other, Ashleah leaned on the sofa and let her hair down. She felt relaxed that she can be herself when she's with Nash.

"What is it?" He tilted his head at Ashleah. The Princess closed her eyes and did a inhale exhale exercise for a few seconds.

"Do you think that with.. my Father's plan we can actually capture the black magicians?" Still with her eyes closed, Ashleah asked. Nash knew for a fact that even though she looked like she was having some relax time inside Ashleah's mind it was chaotic.

He knew for sure that Ashleah was already trying to create extra plans if ever that this plan won't work and the other plan won't too. "I do think that this will work. Just how long is his Majesty thinking of this plan? And why? Why did we not see it coming before?"

Ashleah was going to sit up properly, but she groaned loudly when she felt her hair got stuck on the sofa that she was leaning on. "I-I need a little help, Nash!" She groaned loudly.

Nash chuckled and shook his head. The man stood up and walked closer to Ashleah, sitting down beside her, leaning closer to her so that he can see where her hair got stuck.

Meanwhile, when Nash suddenly walked closer and EVEN LEANED! Closer to her, she already felt her blood racing up to her cheeks. Ashleah gulped slowly and tried her best not to look at Nash.

'Stupid, please Oh God. Why did I even ask help from him? No, self stop don't look at him. Ah, damn.' Ashleah's thoughts came running in as soon as her eyes tried to look at Nash who was very busy with her hair.

"Yo, we have to cut it–" Nash said, he was trying to stand up, but Ashleah's eyes widened when the word cut rewinds inside her mind.

"CUT!? WITH WHAT? Nash, you do know that we do not have sciss–" Ashleah could not even finish what he was saying when the door opened so suddenly and at the exact time Nash slipped and almost fell on top of her, but the good thing was his hands quickly held on the side of the sofa.

"Surprise! I came here to–" Axis was left there speechless, he could not even continue what he was saying. His face heated up with his ears, he nodded his head and opened the door again, and went outside.

"Wait this is a misunderstanding!" Both said in sync, Nash quickly stood up straight, Ashleah held her hair and tried to untangle it, she quickly nodded her head at Nash, giving him signals that he should run behind Axis.

Everyone was silent, Axis was still blushing even though the two tried to explain it to him what happened maybe over a million times!?

"Axis, how many times do we have to tell that nothing happened and it was all a misunderstanding?" Ashleah sighed heavily as she massaged her forehead.

"But really, I was so surprised when I saw you guys like that! Nash, you could've locked the door you do know that right? Come here, let me teach you how to lock a do–"

"Axis I do know how to lock a door, and I was helping Ashleah because her dam– I mean her hair got stucked on that sofa." Nash's finger pointed at the sofa where no one was sitting.

"Okay okay, you two calm down. I understand. HAHAHA! It's just that I love seeing you guys flustered because I saw you two having a sweet moment–"

"Axis!" Both said in sync making axis laugh. He raised both of his hands, telling that he surrenders.

After a few hours of talking with Axis, Ashleah and Nash was now inside her personal garden that was made just for her.

Both silent, sitting down at the bench that was now covered with leaves and flowers. Ashleah looked around and saw how beautiful the sky was. She giggled and took a deep breath.

"It is indeed beautiful isn't it?" Nash suddenly blurted out, looking up the sky. Ashleah nodded her head with a smile. "I do wish that in the near future this beauty will never fade away like it did before we went back to the past."

Ashleah's eyes looked at Nash and saw how this sad yet disappointed smile slowly molded on his lips. She sighed, and turned the half of her body to Nash.

"But, since we already are here.. We can change it, we can change the future. We can change the fact that we won't loose this beauty, the beauty that we lost just because of their own greed."

"It is very hard, how? We're going to stop them from creating cars?–" Nash could not even finish what he was saying because Ashleah interrupted him.

"No, we can't actually stop them from inventing those stuffs. We just have to be more imaginative, and maybe stop them from ruining the nature we always needed."

Ashleah continued talking with Nash just looking at her with a warm smile, and then it felt like there was a thunder that struck him. Nash sat down properly as his mind started to go in chaos.

He chuckled to himself for now he knew that he really was in love with Ashleah, but he also knew for a fact that there's also a chance that Ashleah won't give him a chance even if he tries to kneel down right in front of him.

Ashleah has this goal inside her mind, and she will do everything just to finish that goal. Years that he was always beside her Nash already knew that she was always like that.

"Wow, I feel like the game hasn't even started yet but I know that I would probably loose." He blurted out, Ashleah looked at him with confusion in her eyes. Nash just awkwardly laugh and shook his head. "Do not think about it that much."

The day after that, the Deoncan Mansion went into chaos. Nash unbelievably scoffed as he looked at the headlines of the newspaper that surely is going around the Empire for sure. A drawing of him and Ashleah at the Emperor's party.

The headline was..

"DUKE DEONCAN IS INLOVE?!"