Logan
The town buzzed with excitement about the wedding. I grinned at Zoey. Maybe we really can turn this kingdom around. Zoey and I walked back to the castle and we found Lia in Zoey's room.
"Have you heard?" Zoey gushed. "We changed the law." She held out her hand and Lia admired the ring.
"It's beautiful, Zoey. I'm happy for you two." She smiled sadly.
"What about you and Edward? Has he proposed yet?" Zoey asked.
Lia looked down at the unfinished dress on her lap. "Edward and I aren't getting married."
"Why not?"
"The law may have changed in your favor, Princess, but it's still illegal for me to marry Edward." She concentrated on her sewing rather than looking at us. "He's a prince and I'm just the help." She must've seen our faces because she added, "I'm okay, though. We weren't ready to get married anyways. Look at me, I'm not fit to rule a kingdom. Eventually, the law will change again and we will get married. Until then, we'll just keep relying on our midnight trips to the laundry room."
"I'm sorry, Lia." Zoey mumbled.
"It's okay, really it is." She smiled but it looked forced.
"Well, Zoey thought you looked bored so she's counting on you to make the whole kingdom dresses in less than a week." I joked but Lia didn't think it was funny. Her face went sheet white and she panicked.
"A week to make the entire kingdom formal wear?" She gasped.
"We'll help you." Zoey said. "They don't have to be as ornate as the ones you make me, I just want them all to feel like royalty while they're at our wedding. Please, Lia?"
Her blue eyes darted from me and Zoey then she gulped and nodded. "I better get to work then. Can you tell Edward no more laundry room visits for a while?"
"He can come and help us too." I suggested. "I'm sure he'd be glad to see you."
She shook her head. "I love him, I really do, it's just I don't love pretending I don't every time we're near each other. It hurts less if I just don't see him. When he's here it's like everything I've ever wanted is right in front of me but the only thing stopping me are a couple of words on paper."
Zoey and I look at each other. We both desperately wanted to help her but we already bothered the congress today and going back in demanding it to be changed further seems near impossible.
"Don't look at me like I'm broken." Lia said. "Edward and I will be together eventually when the time is right. We'll be okay until then." She tossed us some silk and paper patterns. "Okay, all I want you two to do is lay the pattern on the silk. Pin them together then cut on the dotted lines. Let's make all these dresses."
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