love is self-love."

d, Lucia ?" Khris bawled a

ean ?" She act

e Prince at the river." They were both silent, Lucia didn't

o teach teenage girls on how to be young women who could be presentable to the royals and their husbands. They had tea and gossiped about one another. It was not Lucia's scene even if it was her aunt would not all

f dishes they had left for her. Khristian was of course helping her by wipin

y you or make it offici

just stop, i do not want to think about it." Sh

s she could always replace it thanks to her Prince. Her heart whimpered, was this the reason why Alexius had not showed up at the river the day before. She went there expectedly hoping to tell him that she had loved the first chapter of the picture of Dorian Gray. That Basil's obsession with Dorian Gray buffled her and that Lord Henry was a very cynical but interesting character... she was yet to read about Sybil Vane is the fou

ustrated, the smell of garlic made h

p the broken glass for her. Lucia felt dizzy and nauseous, she always felt this way when her period

?" Khris asked

smile didn't reach her eyes. She knew she had to prepare, supper be

ont

how long she had

ow long she had no

ess Amelia was around. She wondered if he whispered the same sweet nothings in her ear as he pleasured her. She wondered if he even thought about her. she wondered if all those few weeks they spe

ing sleepy, she couldn't do her chores properly at first she told her aunt it was period pains. Now she couldn't keep lying to her aunt, she was running out of lies. Everythi

nant? no she

d twenty last Septem

l the African sun on her skin, she wanted to have a taste of tacos in Mexico, She wanted to have hotdogs in the city Centre of New york, She wanted to go skiing the cold weather of Alaska, She wanted to travel. There was so much

to conclusions. This was her period messing with her. It wa

me she was sexual active so she

ould s

uld sh

ady to be